10th Annivesary of Saade Naucha Batmya (9.30pm Marathi News) on DD Sahyadri

How many of us in Maharashtra remember , the news at 9.30 pm on DD Sahyadri completes 10 years today. It was on 15 th August 2000, a new Marathi news bulletin was added to the programming of DDK Mumbai. The brain child was Mukesh Sharma who took over as the Director of the TV station on 4th May 2000.

The Guest for the inaugural bulletin was non other then NanaPatekar, who was specially invited by Mukesh Sharma and he obliged. This was also the beginning of Bollywood stars flocking back to Doordarshan Mumbai.

For the next five years DDK Mumbai saw Devanand, Hemamalini, Shabana Aazmi, Prem Chopra, Rakesh Roshan, Subhash Ghai, Shatrughan Sinha, Kumar Saanu, Yukta Mukhi, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Shreya Ghoshal, Jitendra, Shekhar Suman, Raza Murad, Kabir Bedi Anuradha Podwaal,Nashaad, tinu Anand, Anupam Kher, Jaaved Akhtar, Jatin Lalit, Pandit Jasraaj, Aamir Khan, Manoj Bajpai and the list is endless......

Altogether more then 250 Bollywood artiste and technicians came to Doordrshan Mumbai between 2000 to 2006. Why where they so keen to visit the TV station , thats another Story.

As a former Director of DDK Mumbai, I congratulate all my past colleagues for successfully completing 10 years of Saade Naucha Batmya. Happy Independence Day......