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He went on to directing films as well and his filmography as director includes such gems as Hawas, Girlfriend, Souten вЂ“ The Other Woman and Eight-Shani.] He also wrote and directed the show Rajani and was married to its star Priya Tendulkar for some time. If the name doesnвЂ™t ring a bell, hereвЂ™s a visualвЂ¦ But what you probably havenвЂ™t given any thought to, is the fact that Tehkikaat was actually written and directed by Karan Razdan. As you all know, this 13 episode whodunit starred the director of Guide, Teesri Manzil and Jewel Thief alongside the future director of Mudda вЂ“ The Issue, Pappu CanвЂ™t Dance Saala and I M 24. [Totally Irrelevant Aside вЂ“ While we are talking of DD shows that I only have second hand knowledge of, let us veer for a moment towards Tahkikaat. But I had only second hand knowledge of stuff like Shaktimaan (all you need to know вЂ“ Tamraj Kilvish, вЂњAndhera Kayam RaheвЂќ and вЂњSorry Shaktimaan!вЂќ), Raja Aur Rancho (all you need to know вЂ“ Rancho is a monkeyвЂ¦or was it Raja?) and all the rest of DD Metro (all you need to know вЂ“ Super Hit Muqabla). And I did watch Chandrakanta, Alif Laila, Jungle Book and all the other Hindi dubbed anime (yes they were all Japanese) with title tracks by Gulzar and Vishal Bhardwaj (credited only as Vishal). We still watched Chitrahaar for some time, before Philips Top 10 happened. I pretty much missed out on a lot of the 90s Doordarshan experience.

I went into all of this to make one short point.

#SHAKTIMAAN EPISODE 500 TV#

The reason was that my father was an early adopter of technologyвЂ¦I had a computer at home when вЂComputersвЂ™ wasnвЂ™t even a subject at school (IвЂ™m talking about the BW eraвЂ¦Before Windows, not Black and White вЂ“ the display was neon green like the Matrix) and we got cable TV in 1992 (when it had around 5 channels, I donвЂ™t really remember very clearly).

As a double-digit kid (just because I hate the word tween) in the early 90s, my pop culture started diverging from most of my peers.

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