MORE ABOUT NARADAA TV CHANNEL

Shish: What happened about your channel? I am eagerly looking forward to the announcement from you about starting the channel and appointing me as director or whatever….

Naradaa: Shish, these are not things one should jump into without thinking many times. There can be many problems.

Sh: Of course, those (the problems) would be there even if you think many times. In fact, if you think more times, the problems could also multiply.

N: So, what do you suggest? Just go ahead and start?

Sh: If you do not start, you will keep on having imaginary problems. You will know real problems only when you start…. That is why you should make me a director, as I was telling you.

N: So that I can have all the problems, you mean?

Sh: No, no….. In fact I had been practicing being an anchor for the hot debates that we are going to have. I have already devised strategies to deal with the panelists.

N: What do you mean, to deal with the panelists?

Sh: I am going to strictly make sure that only one of them talk at a time. The microphone of others will be switched off. Yes, those switches will be controlled by me.

N: I do not think it is a good idea. You know, in some of the channels that I have seen, a few panelists speak only because they know they cannot be heard properly.

Sh: You see, that is the point. This will discourage them to talk unwanted things. And I will make sure that everybody is heard.

N: So boring the debates are going to be.

Sh: I do not agree. Some of the answers, when you can hear them properly and understand them will be quite hilarious. That is the real entertainment.

N: Then, who is going to interview celebrities?

Sh: I am thinking it should be done by both of us. Depending on the status of the celebrities, some will be interviewed by you and some by me.

N: What status? A celebrity is a celebrity –

Sh: No, no. We will grade them into A and B. A category people are yours and B category are mine. The other day, I was practicing interviewing an engineer.

N: Why engineer?

Sh: Why not? I do not want to interview only politicians, industrialists and sports persons. There are many other professionals to be interviewed.

N: So, what happened when you interviewed the engineer?

 Sh: Oh, we were doing well, I asking this and that questions and he replying accordingly. We were quite cosy. He talked about his hardships, the problems he face etc.

N: What problems? Engineers have problems?

Sh: He says yes. Far too many problems, he has. He makes machines and for that he has to use other machines. And the machines – the first ones – are old and they are out of tolerance and so the machine he makes are not upto the mark?

N: My God! Even the Machines? Did he say that the machines are intolerant?

Sh: I asked him that. He said he does know only tolerance. He said when he machined a shaft, he had to get a tolerance of ‘plus or minus 1 micron’. With the machines that he has – he cannot get that. He says that these tolerances are engineering norms given in the drawings. I do not know what a micron is and so I do not know where to get it for him. So, we stopped there. I will call him again when Naradaa TV starts.

N: See, this is why I said we have to think many times and learn many things before getting into TV channel business. There are a few more things we have to discuss before we venture into it.