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Trivandrum, August 13, 2009
Come August, on a certain day, every patriotic Indian recalls a moment in History that took place on the stroke of the midnight hour, when a new born nation began to breathe the sweet air of freedom - Independence day, when we succeeded in throwing off the foreign yoke that had subjugated us for 2 centuries. To celebrate the hard won freedom that transformed us from a ‘colony’ to a ‘country’, Amrita TV has put together a host of programmes on the 15th of August.
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‘Music Mix’ at 6.30 is a compilation from Malayalam & Hindi movies, a string of well-chosen songs that brim over with patriotic fervor and evoke flashes from the past – of a colonial force that tried to break a country’s spirit, a subject nation that refused to surrender its self-respect, a generation who faced the lathi-blows of imperial fury without flinching so that the next generation may walk with head held high, of a lone khadi-clad figure who brought an empire crashing to its knees- songs that nudge awake the latent sense of nationalism in us and send it surging proudly through our veins.
At 7.00pm, in ‘Lieutenant Colonel Mohanlal’, we spend a half hour with Mohanlal in which he narrates his war-field experiences during the making of Malayalam’s best known war movies Kurukshetra & Kirthichakra, that were shot on location. The Lieutenant Colonel describes the frozen landscapes of Kargil; the courageous men in khakhi who patrol our frontiers; the hardships they face in the sub-zero temperatures of the inhospitable terrain; how they maintain a ceaseless vigil through the long months so that their country men may live in peace, all interspersed with realistic footage from the films.
For further information, please contact:
Amrita TV
Smitha Sivaji
Mob:9895806303
Email: smithas@amritatv.com