From news to views
SANGEETA BAROOAH PISHAROTY
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Starting off with the chat show "Aap Ka Mat" on SABe TV's latest offering Janmat from this week, host Alka Saxena promises to be `different' from the herd.
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MOVING ON: TV personality Alka saxena quits Zee News to host a chat show on Janmat, the just-launched current affairs channel of SABe TV.
She has no doubt turned into a prominent face of Zee News over the years. Her delivery of news, her pointed remarks on the `specials', her quick responses to the guests' comments, even her reluctant half-smile, all have certainly made Alka Saxena a successful name on television. In this age of `non-stop breaking news' bulletins and staging of news stories, you can grant her a few marks any day on sustaining the on-screen decorum that delivering developments of the day typically asks for.
A live chat show
And now that Alka has just finished her innings with Zee News as its Editor, to don the role of a chat show host on SABe TV's news and current affairs channel Janmat, formally launched this week, you wonder why, after all, she decided to jump from a steady wagon to a cart with a learner's license. Is conveying Haqeeqat Jaise Khabar Aise not all that exciting any more?
"The long hours at Zee had suddenly become too much for me. I was generally getting bored too, with whatever I was doing there. Also, news anchoring no more excites me. I wanted to move on," says Alka without mincing words.
Excited about her new venture, she says, the chat show, "Aap Ka Mat" is meant to be the flagship show of Janmat channel.
"It is a live show aired between 10 and 11 p.m. from Monday to Thursday. Perhaps this will be the first chat show that will have no post-production work. Whatever happens on it is aired live," she declares. Launched this past Monday, the show, besides having two guests and a special invitee to discuss a topic hitting the headlines, has a 100-strong audience at the studio to put forth their queries to the guests.
"Also, we will keep feeding in the sound bytes of viewers from across the country on the particular topic of the day. The idea is to make the show a little different from the herd, the challenge is to bring quality into it," states the former Newstrack reporter.
While in Zee News, the thrust was more on news, in Janmat, presenting views is projected as its strength. And understandably, the channel has lined up an array of chat shows with hosts like Vir Sanghvi, Karan Thapar and even Shekhar Suman besides Alka and others.
"Janmat so far is the first channel in India in this genre of collecting views on news," she states. And since views on news in the end lead a voter in stamping the ballot, Janmat, as a concept, is indeed interesting. Though one hopes it steers clear of the militant manner of view-mongering that has seized many a news show these days.
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