It was perhaps one of the most awaited television programs ever to be produced in India. The top billing was because it is being hosted by India’s number one Bollywood star, Aamir Khan, who appears able to produce both blatantly commercial and meaningful cinema with equal élan.
Aamir is thus the latest to join a growing cadre of Hindi movie stars who over the past few years have joined the gold rush for a transition to television, attracted by the large audience reach and the big profits that can be raked in.
However, he has done it in a new way that has caught the attention of social commentators and critics, shining the spotlight in his first episode last Sunday on female infanticide, a horrifying problem that has skewed India’s sex ratio, turning many North Indian populations into only-male settlements. The second this weekend was on child abuse, another sensitive issue.
What’s more, he ordered the full episodes uploaded onto high-definition YouTube within hours of the broadcast, so far unheard of in India. Full story...
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