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Sasneham (TV Series)
''Sasneham'' is an Indian Malayalam-language television soap opera that aired on Malayalam entertainment Channel Asianet and also streams on Disney+ Hotstar, starring Rekha Ratheesh and K. P. A. C. Saji in lead roles. This series focuses on the trials and tribulations of an older generation who are thrown into old age homes. The show launched on 8 June 2021 and ended on 25 March 2023. Plot ''Sasneham'' depicts the story of Indira and Balachandran, past lovers, who reunite in an old age home. They two are neglected by their own family. Indira has two children, Manu and Mini. After her husband's death, Indira lives with her daughter and gives her land in the name of Manu and his cunning wife Priya. As Mini and her family leave to the United States for a better career, Indira is forced to shift to Manu's home. Priya hates Indira extremely and taunts her. Much to Indira's dismay, Manu also supports Priya and behaves like a puppet at Priya's hand. Priya tries to get rid of Indira ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soap Opera
A soap opera, or ''soap'' for short, is a typically long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term "soap opera" originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored by soap manufacturers.Bowles, p. 118. The term was preceded by " horse opera", a derogatory term for low-budget Westerns. BBC Radio's '' The Archers'', first broadcast in 1950, is the world's longest-running radio soap opera. The longest-running current television soap is ''Coronation Street'', which was first broadcast on ITV in 1960, with the record for the longest running soap opera in history being held by ''Guiding Light'', which began on radio in 1937, transitioned to television in 1952, and ended in 2009. A crucial element that defines the soap opera is the open-ended serial nature of the narrative, with stories spanning several episodes. One of the defining features that makes a television program a soap opera, according to Albe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asianet (TV Channel)
Asianet is an Indian Malayalam language general entertainment pay television channel owned by Disney Star (formerly ''Star India''), a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company India. Asianet and its channels are operated by Asianet Star Communications, Wholly owned by Disney Star, the channel is headquartered in Kochi. Asianet HD is the first HD television channel in Malayalam. Establishment by Dr Raji Menon The channel was originally promoted by Dr Raji Menon in the mid 1990s. In late 2006, he partially pulled out of Asianet Communications, turning over control to Rajeev Chandrasekhar (Jupiter Entertainment Ventures). Star India bought a 51% stake in Asianet Communications and formed a joint venture with JEV in November 2008. In 2014, Star India took full ownership of Asianet Communications. History Asianet’s story starts much earlier than in 1993, it starts in Moscow . Dr Raji Menon was a student there and Mr P.Unnikrishnan was the correspondent of PTI in Moscow. Dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disney+ Hotstar
Disney+ Hotstar (also known as Hotstar) is an Indian brand of subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service owned by Novi Digital Entertainment of Disney Star and operated by Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution, both divisions of The Walt Disney Company. The brand was first introduced as Hotstar for a streaming service carrying content from Disney Star's local networks, including films, television series, live sports, and original programming, as well as featuring content licensed from third-parties such as HBO and Showtime among others. Amid the significant growth of mobile broadband in India, Hotstar quickly became the dominant streaming service in the country. Following the acquisition of Star India's parent company 21st Century Fox by Disney in 2019, Hotstar was integrated with the company's new global streaming brand Disney+ as 'Disney+ Hotstar' in April 2020. The co-branded service added Disney+ original programming, and films and television s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malayalam
Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry ( Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India. Malayalam was designated a " Classical Language of India" in 2013. Malayalam has official language status in Kerala, and Puducherry ( Mahé), and is also the primary spoken language of Lakshadweep, and is spoken by 34 million people in India. Malayalam is also spoken by linguistic minorities in the neighbouring states; with significant number of speakers in the Kodagu and Dakshina Kannada districts of Karnataka, and Kanyakumari, district of Tamil Nadu. It is also spoken by the Malayali Diaspora worldwide, especially in the Persian Gulf countries, due to large populations of Malayali expatriates there. There are significant population in each cities in India including Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi, Kolkata, Pune etc. The origin of Malayalam remains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rekha Ratheesh
Rekha Ratheesh is an Indian television actress who has worked in Malayalam productions. She is better known for playing the role of ''Padippura Veettil Padmavathy'' in '' Parasparam , ''Madathilamma'' in Ayirathil Oruval and ''Mallika Prathap'' in'' Manjil Virinja Poovu, establishing herself as the most bankable actress in the Malayalam television industry. Personal life Rekha was born to Ratheesh, who was a dubbing artiste and Radhadevi, who was an actress and dubbing artiste in 1982. Her father hailed from Thiruvananthapuram. She grew up in Chennai. Her parents got separated when she was 10 years old and she chose to stay with her father. In April 2000, she got married and in December 2000, they got separated. She has married and separated three more times after this. Currently she is staying in Thiruvananthapuram with her son Ayan (born in 2011). Career Rekha made her debut at the age of four, playing the childhood of Revathi in Unnai Naan Santhithen. At the age of fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Retirement Home
A retirement home – sometimes called an old people's home or old age home, although ''old people's home'' can also refer to a nursing home – is a multi-residence housing facility intended for the elderly. Typically, each person or couple in the home has an apartment-style room or suite of rooms. Additional facilities are provided within the building. This can include facilities for meals, gatherings, recreation activities, and some form of health or hospital care. A place in a retirement home can be paid for on a rental basis, like an apartment, or can be bought in perpetuity on the same basis as a condominium. A retirement home differs from a nursing home primarily in the level of medical care given. Retirement communities, unlike retirement homes, offer separate and autonomous homes for residents. Retirement homes offer meal-making and some personal care services, according to ARCO. Assisted living facilities, memory care facilities and nursing homes can all be refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aparna P
Aparna may refer to: *One of the names of the Hindu goddess Parvati People *Aparna Bajpai, Indian actress *Aparna Balamurali, Indian actress and singer *Aparna Balan (born 1986), Indian badminton player *Aparna Brielle (born 1994), American actress * Aparna Chandra (born 1971), Indian fashion designer *Aparna Dixit (born 1991), Indian television actress *Aparna Ghosh, Bangladeshi actress *Aparna Gopinath, Malayalam film actress *Aparna Dutta Gupta, Indian biologist *Aparna Higgins, Indian-American mathematician *Aparna V. Huzurbazar, American statistician *Aparna Jain (born 1970), Indian marketing consultant and author *Aparna Karthikeyan, Indian journalist and author *Aparna Kumar, Indian mountain climber *Aparna B. Marar, Indian classical dancer *Aparna Nagesh, Indian dancer and activist *Aparna Nair (born 1989), Malayalam film actress *Aparna Nancherla (born 1982), American comedian and actress *Aparna Panshikar, Indian classical singer and composer *Aparna Pillai, Tamil film a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gayathri (Malayalam Actress)
Gayathri Varsha is an Indian actress best known for her work in Malayalam cinema and television serials. She is most popular for the role of ''Sarasu'' in the 2002 movie Meesa Madhavan. Acting career Gayathri is an actress popular from her role in Meesa Madhavan and she appeared in many television serials, too, and acted in many Malayalam movies and serials mainly in supporting roles. Filmography Television career Acting credits ;Telefilms * Nanmayude Nakshathrangal (Kairali TV Kairali TV is an Indian Malayalam-language general entertainment television channel owned by Kairali TV Network (Malayalam Communications Limited). It is headquartered at Thiruvananthapuram. It was launched on 17 August 2000. The channel is b ...) * Monoottante Onam (Surya TV) ;TV serials Anchor * Sthreeparvam * Ente Koottu * Veettamma * Thararuchi * Akathalam Contestant/Participant * Smart Show * Onaradham * Snehitha * Comedy Sthreekal * Celebrity Budget * Shubharathri * Nammal Thammil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seetha Kalyanam (TV Series)
''Seetha Kalyanam'' was an Indian Malayalam-language television soap opera drama. The show premiered on general entertainment channel Asianet channel and streaming on Disney+ Hotstar from 10 September 2018. Malayalam film actress Dhanya Mary Varghese played the title role in the show. The show is the official remake of Telugu soap opera Lakshmi Kalyanam which aired on Star Maa. The show aired its last episode on 10 September 2021. It replaced Parasparam, the longest running serial in Malayalam, which completed 1524 Episodes. Plot Seetha and Swathi are sisters from a poor household supported by their mother. Their mother dies and leaves Swathi in Seetha's care telling her that Swathi is now like her daughter. Seetha works to fund Swathi's education, remaining illiterate herself. Years later A grown-up Seetha and Swathi meet Rajeshwari, a bad-tempered and arrogant woman who hates poor people. Seetha gets into a fight with Rajeshwari and later apologises to her driver Kalyan. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. The disease quickly spread worldwide, resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic. The symptoms of COVID‑19 are variable but often include fever, cough, headache, fatigue, breathing difficulties, loss of smell, and loss of taste. Symptoms may begin one to fourteen days after exposure to the virus. At least a third of people who are infected do not develop noticeable symptoms. Of those who develop symptoms noticeable enough to be classified as patients, most (81%) develop mild to moderate symptoms (up to mild pneumonia), while 14% develop severe symptoms ( dyspnea, hypoxia, or more than 50% lung involvement on imaging), and 5% develop critical symptoms ( respiratory failure, shock, or multiorgan dysfunction). Older people are at a higher risk of developing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Target Rating Point
A target rating point (TRP) (or television rating point for televisions) is a metric used in marketing and advertising to compare target audience impressions of a campaign or advertisement through a communication medium relative to the target audience population size. In the particular case of television, a device is attached to the TV set in a few thousand viewers' houses to measure impressions. These numbers are treated as a sample from the overall TV owners in different geographical and demographic sectors. Using a device, a special code is telecasted during the programme, which records the time and the programme that a viewer watches on a particular day. The average is taken for a 30-day period, which gives the viewership status for the particular channel. This has an average limit between 0-3.0. Target rating points construction Target rating points quantify the gross rated points achieved by an advertisement or campaign among targeted individuals within a larger populatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asianet (TV Channel) Original Programming
Asianet may refer to: Disney Star channels *Asianet Communications, an Indian media company wholly owned by Disney Star ** Asianet (TV channel), a Malayalam language general entertainment channel ** Asianet Plus, a Malayalam language general entertainment channel ** Asianet Movies, a Malayalam language movies channel Asianet News Network (ANN) channels * Asianet News Network, an Indian news media company wholly owned by Jupiter Capital ** Asianet News (formerly Asianet Global), a Malayalam language news channel ** Asianet Suvarna News (formerly Asianet Suvarna), a Kannada news channel Asianet satellite communications * Asianet Satellite Communications Limited, business name Asianet Digital TV, Indian cable and media company **Asianet Mobile TV Asianet Mobile TV + is the over-the-top content segment of Asianet Satellite Communications Ltd. A S C L partnered with Xperio Labs to develop the service in 2015. Asianet is the first MSO in India to launch an OTT service. The comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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