Earshot

After the Flood
It’s a fact that all good things do come to an end. Finally, Ajai Sinha’s Hasratein which ruled the TRP charts although it’s run of four years comes to an end this week with its 208th episode. While we’ve been hearing that his new serial Kal Aaj Aur Kal would replace Hasratein, there seems to be some delay. Now Raman Kumar/Vinta Nanda’s new soap Raahein comes in place of it. It stars Shefali Chhaya (again!) playing the protagonist – Preeti – a woman caught between her career and love life, Along with Smita Jaykar, Akshay Anand, Akash Khanna, Grusha Kapoor, Lilette Dubey.

Trading Places
Dinesh Bansal must be a happy man now. His sitcom Ghar Jamai with Satish Shah and R Madhavan in the lead, directed by Ananth Mahadevan which started off almost 10 months back on the Wednesday 8.30 pm slot is being shifted. It has been changed to Monday 8 pm that means it replaces Gajendra Singh’s show Sa Re Ga Ma. And no, never fear, Sa Re… doesn’t go off the air, but shifts to Sundays 8 pm. In place of Ghar Jamai on Wednesdays is Anuradha Prasad’s sitcom Do Aur Do Paanch, with Jatin Kanakria, Reema Lagoo, Dilip Joshi, Tanaaz Currim, directed by Rajan Waghdhare.

No Problems
The sacking of top officials at Zee TV has been the talk of the town over the week. And everyone was wondering which producer would be in trouble or which programme would face the axe. But till now all is well except for Kalpana Lajmi’s serial Aakrosh which was to premiere last Saturday. It never saw the light of the day. But if sources are to be believed, it’s not run into trouble, it’s just been postponed.