
“So film makers entered a zone which was alien to them in terms of grammar and format. He informed that till that year, the content was moderated by people who worked in the Doordarshan. “There were Asian Games in New Delhi and in the same year with the introduction of the Color television, the government decided to commercialized the television content to outsiders,” Mahadevan explained. Speaking about the journey of the Indian television, Mahadevan stated that in the year 1983, two important events took place. In ‘Once Upon A Prime Time’, Mahadevan has penned down his memories and experiences of his journey on the Indian television over the period of last four decades.“I earlier thought of making an autobiography on my journey, and then I thought it would be grossly unfair as my journey coincided with the journey of Indian television,” he said. The digital session with a massive line up of more than 100 Indian and International authors such as Jeffrey Archer, Douglas Stuart,Tom Holland, Elif Shafak, Salman Rushdie, Devdutt Pattanaik, Dr Shashi Tharoor, Gaur Gopal Das, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Amish Tripathi, Shobhaa De, Anita Nair, with 70+ sessions, this year’s Times Litfest is bigger than ever. Open culture across its campuses in India.

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This year Times Litfest partnered with Brookfield properties to curate offline sessions to offer unique experiences and engagements that promotes a pervasive and The book reading session was a part of the Times Litfest which has over the last many years become a platform for the exchange of views on literature and books attracting prominent authors, film makers, theatre artists and thinkers from across the country and the world. It was approved unanimously and the rest as you say was history,” he said. He narrated almost four episodes of the show to a mesmerized audience. “All the officials were stunned at the finesse that Raza sahab had brought to the epic story. Chopra even assured that he would scrap the show, if the officials did not like the narration. He also requested the senior management for the narration for the show,” stated Anant Mahadevan, noted screenwriter and actor at the book reading session of his book – ‘Once Upon a Prime Time’. Chopra was adamant about having only Raza Sahab as the script writer if the show was to be made. “Many found it offensive that a non-Hindu who may have limited knowledge of a major Sanskrit epic of Ancient India like the Mahabharata should be writing its script.
