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January 31, 2019

BARC TV Ratings (Impressions)- Week 4, 2019

Top 10 Hindi GEC Channel
  1. Zee Anmol : 751727
  2. Zee TV : 670312
  3. STAR Plus : 660831
  4. STAR Bharat : 657509
  5. STAR Utsav : 636782
  6. Colors : 601403
  7. Sony Entertainment Television : 588888
  8. Sony Pal : 484160
  9. Dangal TV : 479376
  10. Rishtey : 430435

January 30, 2019

Manoj Joshi gets into Retro zone in Mangalam Dangalam

Mangalam Dangalam has continued to amuse viewers with interesting twists and turns, portraying a hit and miss relationship between a father-in-law and his son-in-law. In the upcoming episodes Sanjeev Saklecha (Manoj Joshi) gets into the zone of 1970s, after consuming the soup made by Arjun (Karanvir Sharma).

How will Aladdin stop Zafar from acquiring the Ginnie?


Making a special place in the hearts of its viewers, Sony SAB’s Aladdin: Naam Toh Suna Hoga has been entertaining them with great performances and interesting storyline. The coming episodes will leave Aladdin (Siddharth Nigam) in a tough situation with lot of people stuck inside the pyramid.

Ahan Shetty to gain weight for his debut

The big announcement about Ahan Shetty’s film debut came about a few months ago. Now, the newbie has also started gearing up to look his part for the movie, which is an official remake of South film RX100.

January 29, 2019

Alvida George Fernandes..

He was the novice priest, who later became firebrand leader. He was the dude, who had the courage to call then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi a 'congenital liar' during emergency.

January 28, 2019

Jaya Bhattacharya to visit Lucknow to create awareness about environment change

Jaya Bhattacharya, who is currently seen in 'Silsila Badalte Rishton Ka' never ceases to create awareness in the society. Despite her hectic shooting schedule, the actress is contributing a lot of time to 'India Green & Wild' a Citizens Movement, which was launched on 19th January all over India.

January 24, 2019

Tanushree Dutta's soul is suffering..lets pray for her speedy recovery!

Actress Tanushree Dutta, who created lot of hullabaloo recently with her #MeToo story has now returned to US. Last year, the actress has spoke on her experience of being sexually harassed by Nana Patekar 10 years ago on the sets of 'Horn Ok Pleassss'. She gave a lot of statements against Nana, Rakesh Sarang, Sami Siddiqui and Ganesh Acharya, who were present on set at the time.

We cannot deny the fact that some of her statements were strong yet most of them were meaningless, which were given with the 'pure' intention to grab the eyeballs.

BARC TV Ratings (Impressions)- Week 3, 2019

Top 10 Hindi GEC Channel
  1. Zee Anmol : 757413
  2. Zee TV : 665067
  3. STAR Bharat : 614551
  4. STAR Plus : 608526
  5. STAR Utsav : 599682
  6. Colors : 593812
  7. Sony Entertainment Television : 579683
  8. Sony Pal : 510981
  9. Dangal TV : 481266
  10. Rishtey : 474457

January 23, 2019

Sonyaa aka Ruby to be back with a bang in 'Nazar'

To bring more twist and turns in the show, the makers of 'Nazar' decided to bring back Dayaan Ruby.  A couple of episodes ago, Ansh's (Harsh Rajput) wife Ruby (Sonyaa) died while trying to save him. Now, as per the latest buzz, she will be reborn from the ashes.

असमंजस..

भी कभी समझ नही पाता हूँ...

January 19, 2019

Namish Taneja saved Neelu Vaghela in the nick of time

It seems Namish Taneja is accident prone. During 'Swaragini' days he injured his right hand because of a nasty fall. Later he got trapped inside his car after it caught fire and while he was doing 'Ikyawann', a huge kino light fell on the seat where he was about to sit. Now he again had a narrow escape on the sets of  'Main Maike Chali Jaungi Tum Dekhte Rahiyo'.

January 17, 2019

BARC TV Ratings (Impressions)- Week 2, 2019

Top 10 Hindi GEC Channel
  1. Zee Anmol : 825917
  2. Sony Entertainment Television : 631520
  3. Zee TV : 621026
  4. STAR Bharat : 613744
  5. STAR Utsav : 602723
  6. STAR Plus : 598561
  7. Colors : 592489
  8. Sony Pal : 521011
  9. Rishtey : 484384
  10. Dangal TV : 479688

Saheb Tu of 'Thackeray'..an emotional sojourn!

As the music launch of the film Thackeray that heralds the arrival of the Roaring Tiger Thackeray on the marquee is all set to take the nation by storm, Sanjay Raut, MP- Rajya Sabha, Editor Saamana and Filmmaker, reveals the song that took Uddhav Thackeray, Aaditya Thackeray and him on a soulful journey.

With powerful lyrics that speak of the contagious energy of the Sena Supremo who transformed the common man into superman, the song is Saheb Tu Sarkar Tu.

January 16, 2019

Tulsi Kumar Reigns The Acoustic Space with ‘Dil Mein Ho Tum’

Her versatility is only increasing with every new performance and the breadth of her singing widening with every new song. Tulsi Kumar has started 2019 on a confident chord. If it was folk music last week with Ta Chuma, it's an acoustic number that's getting her fans humming the all-new song ‘Dil Mein Ho Tum’.

#MumbaiLocal..a little home away from home!

Today I realized something interesting. Well I work 5 days in a week, that's means 20 days in a month and 240 days in a year. To and fro, I spend at least two hours' per day in local train. Gosh! That means, I on an average 480 hours in a year.😱😜Anyway..

January 15, 2019

'My Name Ijj Lakhan' is 1 hour comic fiction series : Archana Puran Singh

What is the concept of the Show My name Ijj Lakhan?
My Name Ijj Lkahan is about fight between the good and the bad depicted through the story of a son and his father where the son is ‘bad’ and the father is ‘good’. And then there is a  ‘grey area’ which is me, the mother, who sees the point of view of both the son as well as the father. The series demonstrates whether it’s the good that wins at the end, or the bad.

Tenali Rama completes 400 episodes milestone..

Sony SAB’s historical comedy drama Tenali Rama has successfully completed a milestone of 400 episodes. Having impressed viewers with intelligence and wit demonstrated by Rama (Krishna Bharadwaj) and the comically evil intentions of Tathacharya (Pankaj Berry), the show continues to be a favorite amongst its audience. The characters of this show have managed to find a space in the hearts and minds of viewers, right from kids to adults.

January 14, 2019

'Dil To Happy Hai Ji' will bring smile on your face: Karan Taneja

Newbie Karan Taneja will be making his TV debut with Gul Khan and Nilanjana Purkayasstha’s forthcoming show 'Dil To Happy Hai Ji'. We heard, the actor has been roped in to play Jasmin Bhasin's brother in the show.

January 11, 2019

Translation and Lyrics of Van Van Bhatke Ram/बन बन भटके राम In Hindi and English


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आश्रम देखि जानकी हीना। भए बिकल जस प्राकृत दीना।।

#RxJava Part 5 : map() vs flatMap()

What is the difference between map() and flatMap()?
The map() method works well with Optional if the function returns the exact type we need. e.g:

Optional s = Optional.of("employee");

But in more complex cases we might be given a function that returns an Optional too. In such cases using map() would lead to a nested structure, as the map() implementation does an additional wrapping internally.

assertEquals(Optional.of(Optional.of("STRING")), Optional.of("string") .map(s -> Optional.of("STRING")));

#RxJava Part 4: Operators in RxJava

An operator is a function that takes one Observable as a source as its first argument and returns another Observable as the destination. For every item that the source observable emits, it will apply a function to that item, and then emit the result on the destination Observable.

When we want to create complex data flows that filter event based on certain criteria, we can chain the operators one after another. i.e we can apply multiple operators to the same observable.

#RxJava Part 3 : from(), just(), range(), interval(), timer()

Observable.from() Example
In the below example, the from() method dissolves the list/array and emits each value one at a time.

GIT URL: RxJavaDemoFrom.java
Observable.just()
The Observable.just() will emit whatever is present inside the just function. It can take between 2 to 9 parameters, we can pass a List/Array in it and it’ll emit the List/Array only.

GIT URL: RxJavaDemoJust.java

Observable.range()
Observable.range(start,n) methiod is used to emit 'n' number of values starting from and inclusive of start. e.g:

Observable rangeObservable = Observable.range(3,5);
rangeObservable.subscribe(intSubscriber); //emits 3,4,5,6,7
Observable.empty() //creates an empty observable that emits nothing. It just completes.
Observable.error() //creates an error. The onError() of all the subscribers would be called.
Observable.never() //does nothing. Neither emits a complete nor an error.

Observable.interval()
Observable.interval() emits constant sequences of integers in ascending order which are evenly spaced by the interval specified. e.g: Below code will emit 0 to 4 each second. We’ve set the thread to sleep to prevent the main function from returning immediately.

Observable intervalObservable = Observable.interval(1, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
intervalObservable.subscribe(System.out::println);
Thread.sleep(5000);

Observable.timer()
Unlike interval, an Observable.timer() emits value only after a certain time/delay. e.g: below code will emit only a single value after the delay.

Observable intervalObservable = Observable.timer(2, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
intervalObservable.subscribe(System.out::println);
Thread.sleep(5000);

Observable.defer()
The Observable.defer() is similar to create() except that it postpones the actual creation until an Observer subscribes. Each subscription would recall the Observable creation. This ensures that the Observer would always receive the latest data. It also ensures that no API call occurs until Subscription. The data would be only fetched when required by the observer. e.g:

Observable deferObservable = Observable.defer(() -> Observable.just(1, 2, 3));

-K Himaanshu Shuklaa..

#RxJava Part 2 : Creating Observable, Observers and Subscribers

Creating Observers and Subscribers
While creating Observers and Subscribers, we need to override three methods:
  • onNext(): It gets the current value. It is called on observer each time a new event is published to the attached Observable. This is the method where we'll perform some action on each event.
  • onComplete(): It gets triggered when there is no more data left to be sent by the observable. This method indicate that we should not expect any more onNext calls on our observer
  • onError(): It gets triggered in case an exception  is thrown during the RxJava framework code or our event handling code.
FYI, the Iterator does have the equivalents for onNext() and onComplete() (hasNext()). It doesn’t have one when an exception is thrown. This is another advantage of Reactive code.

#RxJava Part 1

Reactive Programming
  • In reactive programming, we react to changes in the state instead of actually doing the state change.
  • The reactive model listens to changes in the event and runs the relevant code accordingly.
  • e.g if in an excel file we have three columns A, B and C. In the C column we added a formula because of which value in C is A+B. All the rows of column C is populated with the summation of values in A and B. Now if we change the formula from A+B to A-B, it will automatically change the values in all the rows of column C.
  • Reactive Programming is a programming paradigm that’s concerned with data streams and propagation of change.
  • Assume the data streams are in the form of a river that flows continuously. Any observer/subscriber attached listening to the stream would receive the data. The data received can be further transformed using functions and this is where Functional Programming joins the already so powerful Reactive Programming.
  • In reactive programming, the flow is asynchronous thereby preventing any blocks on the main thread.

#Ramayan: Lyrics and Translation of नवधा भक्ति/ Navdha Bhakti


नवधा भक्ति क्या है?

‘नवधा’ का अर्थ है नौ प्रकार से या नौ भेद। अतः ‘नवधा भक्ति’ यानी ‘नौ प्रकार से भक्ति’। कहते है इस भक्ति का विधिवत पालन करने से भक्त भगवान को प्राप्त कर सकता है।  

नवधा भक्ति दो युगों में दो लोगों द्वारा कही गई है। सतयुग में, प्रह्लाद ने पिता हिरण्यकशिपु से कहा था। फिर त्रेतायुग में, श्री राम ने माँ शबरी से कहा था। 

रामचरितमानस के अरण्यकाण्ड में, श्री राम ने माँ शबरी को नवधा भक्ति समझाते है। आइये जानिए नवधा भक्ति की चौपाई एवं उनके अर्थ


श्रीरामचरितमानस से अवधी भाषा में नवधा भक्ति..

Lord Ram explained, the nine types of devotion/ penance in form of Navdha Bhakti to Param Tapasvini Shabri.

नवधा भगति कहउं तोहि पाहीं। सावधान सुनु धरु मन माहीं॥

January 10, 2019

BARC TV Ratings (Impressions)- Week 1, 2019

Top 10 Hindi GEC Channel
  1. Zee Anmol : 823945
  2. STAR Plus : 670747
  3. Zee TV : 648320
  4. STAR Bharat : 611114
  5. Sony Entertainment Television : 598328
  6. Colors : 584887
  7. STAR Utsav : 564417
  8. Sony Pal : 533528
  9. Dangal TV : 463740
  10. Rishtey : 460052
Top 10 Hindi Rural GEC Channel
  1. Zee Anmol : 663446
  2. STAR Utsav : 373175
  3. Sony Pal : 371016
  4. Dangal TV : 363543
  5. Rishtey : 337711
  6. STAR Bharat : 294999
  7. Zee TV : 256216
  8. Big Magic : 200818
  9. STAR Plus : 199855
  10. Colors : 183652
Top 10 Hindi Urban GEC Channel
  1. STAR Plus : 470892
  2. Sony Entertainment Television : 439441
  3. Colors : 401236
  4. Zee TV : 392103
  5. STAR Bharat : 316116
  6. SONY SAB : 296948
  7. STAR Utsav : 191243
  8. Sony Pal : 162512
  9. Zee Anmol : 160499
  10. &TV : 134017
Top 20 Hindi Programs (Urban+Rural) Impressions ('000s)
  1. Zee Anmol's KUMKUM BHAGYA : 14449
  2. STAR Plus's STAR SCREEN AWARDS 2019 : 11839
  3. Sony Entertainment Television's SUPER DANCER CHAPTER 3-AUDITIONS : 11185
  4. Zee TV's KUNDALI BHAGYA : 10910
  5. Sony Entertainment Television's THE KAPIL SHARMA SHOW : 10542
  6. STAR Bharat's RADHAKRISHN : 10422
  7. Dangal TV's RAMAYAN : 9889
  8. Zee TV's TUJHSE HAI RAABTA : 9839
  9. Zee Anmol's MAHEK : 9423
  10. Zee TV's KUMKUM BHAGYA : 9273
  11. Colors's NAAGIN-3 : 9111
  12. STAR Bharat's NIMKI MUKHIYA : 8819
  13. Zee TV's GUDDAN TUMSE NAA HO PAYEGA : 8814
  14. Zee Anmol's EK MAIN AUR EK TU : 8450
  15. Colors's BIGG BOSS : 8386
  16. Sony Pal's TAARAK MEHTA KA OOLTAH CHASHMA : 8358
  17. SONY SAB's TAARAK MEHTA KA OOLTAH CHASHMA : 8329
  18. Colors's SHAKTI-ASTITVA KE EHSAAS KI : 8105
  19. STAR Plus's YEH RISHTA KYA KEHLATA HAI : 7980
  20. Dangal TV's MAHIMA SHANIDEV KI : 7650
Top 20 Hindi Programs (Urban) Impressions ('000s)'s
  1. STAR Plus's STAR SCREEN AWARDS 2019 : 9109
  2. Sony Entertainment Television's THE KAPIL SHARMA SHOW : 8123
  3. Sony Entertainment Television's SUPER DANCER CHAPTER 3-AUDITIONS : 7678
  4. Zee TV's KUNDALI BHAGYA : 6763
  5. Colors's BIGG BOSS : 6245
  6. SONY SAB's TAARAK MEHTA KA OOLTAH CHASHMA : 6118
  7. Colors's NAAGIN-3 : 6036
  8. STAR Plus's YEH RISHTA KYA KEHLATA HAI : 5997
  9. Zee TV's KUMKUM BHAGYA : 5701
  10. Colors's SHAKTI-ASTITVA KE EHSAAS KI : 5628
  11. Zee TV's TUJHSE HAI RAABTA : 5608
  12. STAR Bharat's RADHAKRISHN : 5542
  13. STAR Plus's KULFI KUMAR BAJEWALA : 5282
  14. STAR Plus's STAR SCREEN AWARDS 2019-RC : 5245
  15. Zee TV's ISHQ SUBHAN ALLAH : 4889
  16. STAR Plus's KASAUTI ZINDAGI KAY : 4870
  17. Zee TV's GUDDAN TUMSE NAA HO PAYEGA : 4859
  18. STAR Plus's DANCE PLUS 4 : 4614
  19. STAR Bharat's NIMKI MUKHIYA : 4515
  20. Colors's ISHQ MEIN MARJAWAN : 4265
Top 20 Hindi Programs (Rural) Impressions ('000s)
  1. Zee Anmol's KUMKUM BHAGYA : 11888
  2. Dangal TV's RAMAYAN : 8101
  3. Zee Anmol's MAHEK : 7553
  4. Zee Anmol's EK MAIN AUR EK TU : 7068
  5. Sony Pal's TAARAK MEHTA KA OOLTAH CHASHMA : 6525
  6. Dangal TV's MAHIMA SHANIDEV KI : 6091
  7. Zee Anmol's PATI PARMESHWAR : 4995
  8. STAR Bharat's RADHAKRISHN : 4879
  9. Rishtey's MADHUBALA EK ISHQ EK JUNOON : 4620
  10. STAR Bharat's NIMKI MUKHIYA : 4304
  11. Zee TV's TUJHSE HAI RAABTA : 4231
  12. Zee TV's KUNDALI BHAGYA : 4148
  13. Sony Pal's BAALVEER : 4046
  14. Zee TV's GUDDAN TUMSE NAA HO PAYEGA : 3955
  15. STAR Utsav's EK HAZARON MEIN MERI BEHNA HAI : 3747
  16. Zee TV's KUMKUM BHAGYA : 3572
  17. Sony Entertainment Television's SUPER DANCER CHAPTER 3-AUDITIONS : 3508
  18. Zee Anmol's BANDHAN JANAM JANAM KA : 3353
  19. Dangal TV's BANDINI : 3339
  20. STAR Bharat's MUSKAAN : 3178

 -K Himaanshu Shuklaa..

January 09, 2019

Within two minutes I decided to cast Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Balasaheb Thackeray : Sanjay Raut

Thackeray, based on the life of the Shiv Sena Supremo - Balasaheb Thackeray, saw its newly released trailer trending on YouTube, with over 10 million hits. Firebrand Journalist-MP and man behind the film, Sanjay Raut, divulged that the casting for the role of Balasaheb took barely two minutes.

January 07, 2019

Harsh Rajput celebrated his birthday with 'Nazar' co-stars.

Harsh Rajput, who is currently seen playing half-human-half-devil Gul Khan's popular show 'Nazar' recently turned a year older. To celebrate the occasion, he threw a party which was attended by his co-stars of supernatural drama.

January 06, 2019

Television has taken a long time to come to me with a show like 'My Name Ijj Lakhan': Shreyas Talpade



What is the concept of the show ‘My Name Ijj Lakhan'? Can you give us a background of the show?
It is about a guy, Lakhan, played by me, who is a local gunda working for a bigger don. He is completely convinced with the fact that this is the way to live his life. However, due to a sudden incident in his life, that completely changes.  From there on, it’s the journey of how he starts to change as a person, along with the things he has to go through and the people he meets during the entire change over. So that journey of how he deals with things in his own manner, is extremely fascinating and that is what really appealed to me, making it the reason I agreed going ahead with the show. 

January 04, 2019

BARC TV Ratings (Impressions)- Week 52, 2018

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Top 10 Hindi GEC Channel
  1. Zee Anmol : 783610
  2. Zee TV : 667580
  3. STAR Bharat : 650558
  4. STAR Plus : 621686
  5. Sony Entertainment Television : 581218
  6. STAR Utsav : 567006
  7. Colors : 551962
  8. Sony Pal : 538666
  9. Rishtey : 464947
  10. Dangal TV : 459737

January 02, 2019

When 'Nazar' actress Sonyaa recreated Sridevi's iconic dance in freezing −37°C

Model-turned-actress Sonyaa recently got a break from Gul Khan's popular supernatural thriller 'Nazar' in which she was playing the role of daayan Ruby. The former 'Miss India New Zealand' decided to utilize the break and went for a aborad trip to spend quality time with her family. "For a daily soap actor sometimes it's hard to get a break for even a single day, but thankfully I got a long break that's why I went to USA for the holidays.," Sonyaa said.

Singer Soumita Saha calls for mandatory Period Leave to Women Employees

We have 5,000 euphemisms for menstruation, still people hesitate to talk about it openly. While half of population undergoes this physio-mental trauma every month, the other half remains literally unaware, unperturbed. This creates a giant wall of gender divide, which restricts our evolution as a civilized society. Working Women suffer the most, as their employers expect them to work and remain productive despite them being in severe agony and stress.

Recently, a Kolkata based start-up has come up with the idea of Period Leave for its female employees. FlyMyBiz, a company which deals in Software and Digital Marketing, has announced that all its women employees shall be granted one-day period leave every month from 2019.

Mukesh Tiwari roped in to play ghost in 'Band Baja Bandh Darwaza'

Sony SAB is set to kick-start 2019 on a high note with its newest show – Band Baja Bandh Darwaza. This Horror-Comedy show starring Mukesh Tiwari will take viewers on a roller-coaster ride with a bhootiya twist. Known for his brilliant performances in movies, he will now be seen in a new avatar, that of a ghost! Mukesh, who plays the character of Sanjeev Sharma haunts a family for his personal vengeance and to prove that ‘revenge is a dish best served cold’.

Rama about to get arrested in 'Tenali Rama'

Sony SAB’s Tenali Rama has got Pandit Ramakrishnan (Krishna Bharadwaj) winning the hearts of viewers with his wit and intelligence. The upcoming track leads to Rama getting arrested after leaving Vijayanagar, as he competes with Birbal (Bhavesh Balchandani) for the post of Ashtadiggaj.