Advance Entertainment Ltd. has carved out a niche for itself in producing quality product. In the last 8 years, the organization has put on air four Hindi shows on various channels and three regional language shows. Three more shows have been approved and are awaiting telecast dates from the channels.

Shows telecast:

Inspired by the stupendous success of the first season, Idhar Udhar (Season 2) was launched in 1998. Invoking nostalgic memories of the glory days of Indian television, Idhar Udhar is a lovely comedy about two madcap women who find they have been given the same flat by an estate agent. Idhar Udhar is a slice of life comedy that peeks into the lives of these two women, their old friend Sudhir who is now a filthy rich builder and their kids. Mounted on a lavish scale with fabulous production values, Idhar Udhar enjoyed its first run on Doordarshan (National) and a second run on Sony Entertainment Television.

DADDY SAMJHA KARO

A sitcom about a widower, who is trying his best to bring up his three teenage daughters with the help of his sister from Bilaspur. While traditional Bilaspur values propagated that girls should oil their hair and wear shapeless clothes, modern cosmopolitan values demanded parties, boys and fun. The tussle between the two was treated in a funny manner but with an underlying thread of caring and warmth touched the hearts of young and old. First telecast in 1999, the show has been rerun on prime time,and in its third rerun enjoyed top rating on its channel of telecast.

AAN

A daily soap about a girl who fights for what her values and what she believes is right, and her ultimate realization of self. Through a loveless, unconsummated marriage Shivani discovers that life is about giving and she spends her energies fighting for those who cannot fight for themselves. How Shivani finally becomes the person who re-unites her own husband with his true love and in doing so discovers her own self is the story of AAN.

BADE MIYAA CHOTTE MIYAA

The two masters of comedy came together after 12 years – Aanand Mahendroo and Shekhar Suman – to create a rib-tickling comedy about a dysfunctional individual in a normal happy family. The story revolves around a pair of twins, Rajesh a crabby but lovable man and the Ramesh a cool, collected and very together person. The biggest bane of Rajesh’s life is that though he is older than Ramesh by a full 5 minutes, everyone seems to give Ramesh more importance than him. He spends his life in a game of one-upmanship with his own brother and invariably falls flat on his face. The beautiful thing about the story is that the character remains lovable and the audience always empathises with him. Telecast in 2003, the show in its second telecast on prime time is within the top three programs on the channel of telecast.

AGNI PAREEKSHA

The story is a bold one of a man who fell in love with a woman, but married her sister because of circumstances. In his waning years, a heart attack brings focus back into the man’s life and he decides that he does not want to die without acknowledging his true love and his daughter. How the announcement sends the entire family into disarray and how the girl brings the family and the business together is the story of Agnipareeksha.

ARRECHYA KAMAAL AAHE

A daily sitcom in Marathi, Arrechya Kamaal Aahe centres around the lives and eccentricities of the various members of a joint family. They have their fights, their egos, their slyness but they all love one another. The sitcom has a big star cast and embodies all the family values that have been the trademark of any show produced by Advance Entertainment Ltd.

BHALE PADHARYA

A daily soap in Gujerati, the story is a powerful one of a rich tycoon who realizes that his entire family is around him only because he is a wealthy man. He decides to leave his home and go and live with his childhood friend to try and find true affection. In the middle class household of his friend, he no doubt finds love and affection, and decides to show his gratitude by giving his adopted family riches and a good life. How his wealth once again poisons a happy family leads us to wonder why we spend so much of our time running after the material… A powerful and moving story, the show was telecast on ETV-Gujerati.

Shows awaiting telecast:

MAUSI KA AANGAN

An extremely evolved stand up comedy show, Mausi Ka Aangan is different in that it uses a character not a celebrity as the anchor. Mausi is a middle-aged Punjabi housewife, who has lived 13 years of her life in Birmingham. With her native wisdom and caustic tongue, she passes satirical comments at everything and everybody. No one is safe from Mausi’s sharp wit, be it the neighbourhood beaten-up wife, or Amitabh Bachchan. The show is scheduled to be telecast on a leading satellite channel this year.

BANNE MIYAN

A comedy about a Nawab in Lucknow, his huge old haveli, his nubile young begum and his several kids. The series is inspired by Imtiaz Ali Taj’s stories of Chacha Chakkan. Banne Miyan is bumbling character who manages to get the entire neighborhood involved in the smallest chore and ultimately ends up messing it up anyway! Shot in authentic locations, the show is scheduled for telecast on a satellite channel in this year.
 

VANSH

An inspiring story of a woman who decides to take on the patriarchal society that places so much importance on a woman bearing her husband’s heir and fights back. She marries the man who has thrown her own sister out for being barren and then avenges her sister’s humiliation by refusing to bear his child, even though it is medically proven that she can be a mother. A daily soap, the serial is scheduled for telecast in this year.
 

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