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Star Network's Kannada offering, Suvarna TV, will start airing a new daily soap 'Anna Thangi' (Brother-Sister) on the brother-sister bonding theme from October 3 onwards.
The show will run Monday to Friday at the 6.30 pm slot.
Suvarna claims many firsts with Anna Thangi; this is the first Kannada soap centered purely on the brother-sister relationship; yesteryear Sandalwood actor Shashikumar makes his television debut with Anna Thangi; noted film maker Mahesh Babu with film hits such as Akash, Arasu and Merevenege under his belts also makes his television debut as director of the serial, as does film music director Harikrishna; Suvarna has also roped in child actor-director Master Kishan. Kishan has found his way to the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest director.
Said Suvarna TV Business Head Anup Chandrasekharan, "Over the last few weeks, we have narrowed the GRP gap between the dominant player in the market and us in the fiction genre. With Anna Thambi and another project that we will be announcing in a couple of weeks time, we hope to narrow that further. We will be coming up with two more projects based on history sometime in early 2012 and are confident of surpassing the number one player in terms of GRPs for fiction."
Chandrasekharan, however, declined to name the future projects.
Thirty episodes of Anna Thangi have already been produced by Dr. Suresh Sharma of the London based Ruby Cine Arts. Depending upon the popularity of the show, the soap may end up as a forever-running Star saga, said Chandrasekharan
The show will run Monday to Friday at the 6.30 pm slot.
Suvarna claims many firsts with Anna Thangi; this is the first Kannada soap centered purely on the brother-sister relationship; yesteryear Sandalwood actor Shashikumar makes his television debut with Anna Thangi; noted film maker Mahesh Babu with film hits such as Akash, Arasu and Merevenege under his belts also makes his television debut as director of the serial, as does film music director Harikrishna; Suvarna has also roped in child actor-director Master Kishan. Kishan has found his way to the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest director.
Said Suvarna TV Business Head Anup Chandrasekharan, "Over the last few weeks, we have narrowed the GRP gap between the dominant player in the market and us in the fiction genre. With Anna Thambi and another project that we will be announcing in a couple of weeks time, we hope to narrow that further. We will be coming up with two more projects based on history sometime in early 2012 and are confident of surpassing the number one player in terms of GRPs for fiction."
Chandrasekharan, however, declined to name the future projects.
Thirty episodes of Anna Thangi have already been produced by Dr. Suresh Sharma of the London based Ruby Cine Arts. Depending upon the popularity of the show, the soap may end up as a forever-running Star saga, said Chandrasekharan