By 2006 DDK Mumbai had become a force to reckon with.It had withstood the storm of the regional satellite channels Film personalities and celebrities alike paid a visit to Doordarshan as and when invited.
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| Aamir Khan offers a hand shake to Mukesh Sharma (Director) during his visit to DDK Mumbai |
I remember it was 14th April 2006, just after a month of his 41st birthday, when Aamir khan visited the Anti-Narmada dam agitators, sitting on Dharna and hunger strike at the Jantar Mantar Road in New Delhi, demanding that the height of the dam not be raised. This was a shot in the arm for the agitators. Just after a week on a Friday when DDK Mumbai use to produce a topical, very popular LIVE program Mahacharcha, in Marathi, that I invited Aamir khan to participate. He readily obliged, since I had chosen Anti Narmada Dam Agitation as the subject.
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| A googly from the audience in the studios at DDK Mumbai |
Though the live show was in Marathi, but once on Air, Aamir Khan slipped into the skin of the topic with ease and was at his best during the Q&A session.
"I do not know about the technicalities involved in raising the height of the dam. What I do know is that farmers have been displaced from their land and they have lost their livelihood. Till the people who have already been displaced by the dam are not rehabilitated, the height of the dam should not be raised.""Last week when I was in Delhi, I passed by Jantar Mantar and I decided to come back and learn more about their problems," he told the viewers.
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| Aamir Khan with the audience |
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| Seems to be impressed .. |
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