Some people recall the faces and some people recall the names. Here are images of some of the famous readers and presenters of Doordarshan down the years. If you recognize any of them, leave a comment. [ Update 1 : Most of the faces now have names thanks to helpful comments by olio-gallimaufry ] [ Update 2 : Included image of one of the earliest presenters, Gopal Kaul. Send in generously from personal collection by son, Ashutosh Kaul. Sept, 2010.] [ Major Update 3: Got a tip-off about a documentary about the famous faces of Doordarshan from the makers of “The Golden Trail , DD@50 :Special feature on Golden Jubilee of Doordarshan ” from which these caps were taken. I managed to catch the incredible documentary and am adding some more faces/name and part of the docu here. New ones can be found after the image of Narotam Puri. 30th Oct, 2010] Pratima Puri. Believed to be the first Doordarshan reader.
i like this. liril was a right of passage for a lot of familiar faces. much like rasna kids.
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ReplyDeleteI read an article in Times of India on Karen Lunelsome 2 years back.. It had a good content on how Liril ads came up and some trivia about Karen Lunel as well. In fact one of the youtube videos of Karen Lunel has a comment by his son also.
ReplyDeleteYes. I remember that article and I remember the Economic Times article that starts with mentioning the youtube video. Here' the link to 'The hunt for Karen Lunel'
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