Articles| Star Plus to replace Wife Bina Life with Comedy Ka Maha Muqabala |
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| Indiantelevision.com Team |
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| (5 March 2011 7:00 pm) |
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| MUMBAI: Star Plus is set to replace its weekend reality show Wife Bina Life with Comedy Ka Maha Muqabala.
Starting 19 March, Comedy Ka Maha Muqabala will be aired every Saturday-Sunday at 9 pm.
The show will see Raveena Tandon, Arshad Warsi, Shekhar Suman and Shreyas Talpade as the four captains, who will be performing with their teams.
This season, each team will comprise well-known television celebrities, stand-up comedians and a debutant to the industry. The captains will also double up as judges where they rate the performance of opposing teams. Star Plus senior creative director Monika Shergill said, "With Laughter Challenge, Star TV introduced the stand-up comedy genre to the Indian audience and changed the way we saw comedy on television. At Star Plus, we have always challenged the status quo and brought innovative and entertaining formats for the viewers. Comedy ka Maha Muqabala on Star Plus will once again bring the biggest names in the comedy genre to outwit each other in the battle of humour. It will provide a much needed dose of laughter over the weekends."
The four teams are as follows: Raveena Ke Mohre: Aashka Goradia, Sudesh Lahiri, Parul, Vibha; Arshad Ke Punters: Supriya Pilgaonkar, Kuldeep, Nikhil, Ishtiyak; Shreyas Chi Mandli: Roshni Chopra, Raju Srivastav, Arhaan, Balraj; and Shekhar Ke Movers: Rashmi Desai, Sunil Grover, Rehman and Sahil Khattar. |
Comedy ka Sartaj - Shreyas Talpade!! |
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Comedy Ka Maha Muqabla has started off with a bang! Though every team has talented actors and comedians, there can be only one Amul Comedy ka Sartaj. It's superb that my team "Shreyas Chi Mandli" was the winner in this week with a remarkable 109 points. |
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Temperatures soared in the second week of the competition, and the applause got bigger and louder by the hour! All four captians - Shekhar Suman, Arshad Warsi, Raveena Tandon and I, performed on stage in front of a live audience to cheer up our teams and prove our mettle as captains of the highest order.
Our team is thrilled to literally be crowned the king of comedy, a.k.a. Amul Sartaj of the week. We had two rocking acts - one being Shreyas Chi Madli ki AAG, and the other revolved around a do or die situation on the railway track.
The open challenge round was the make or break round. The idea was to win the bonus 10 points. The stand up act by Raju too, won us brownie points but with all teams neck to neck, the bonus marks made all the difference. And "Shreyas Chi Mandli" won! The act that belled the cat - I mean won us the crown was the one on the railway track.
I played an honest railway guard, who tries to commit suicide on the tracks. He meets a bandwalla, Raju Srivastav who comes to the tracks to relive himself. Both start conversing and one thing leads to another. Through comedy, we sent a message to the audiences that no matter what adversity, suicide isn't the answer.
Raveena, Shekhar and Arshad loved the act and found the energy tremendous. I credit this win to team work. While at times the creatives give us an idea, or even if we come up with one ourselves and get the writers to work on it, it is the team's contributution which results in the final version. We try to meet at least twice a week and have endless phone conversations regarding the plot, theme and even dialogues at times.
Though I was shooting in Chandigarh, we all ensured that we would rehearse no matter what. I stayed connected with the team via Skype and we fine tuned our script, reading and rehearsals. The team would meet in the studio and I would connect with them via the marvel of technology.When we finally shot, it worked like magic. Raju's stand up act too gave us a big boost as he got full marks for his stand up act.
We all shared the gift hamper our team won. There were loads of goodies including lots of chocolates. Can't wait for next week!
Catch Comedy Ka Maha Muqabla on Sat- Sun at 9 pm only on Star Plus!!!
http://starplus.startv.in/news/1522/comedy-ka-sartaj--shreyas-talpade.aspx
Bobby Darling-Anupam Shyam on Comedy Ka Maha Muqabla
Next week on Comedy Ka Maha Muqabla on Star Plus will see special performances by Bobby Darling and Anupam Shyam who is currently doing Pratigya.
A source reveals, "Bobby Darling has always shown interest in participating in Comedy Ka Maha Muqabla. But since the teams were already in place all that the channel could do was include him in one of the episodes. Bobby and Anupam were the celebrity participants this week and they performed with the other contestants."
As for this week's episode the theme is costume drama and power play. Raveena Tandon performed as Duryodhan, Shakti Kapoor style. Sudesh Lahiri played Dhritarashtra, Parul Yadav was the eye doctor and Vibha Bhagat, Gandhari. Meanwhile, Supriya Pilgaonkar shocked everyone with her Veena Mallik act. Shreyas Talpade's team was not far behind as he played Yamraj while Raju Srivastava played his multi-faceted mummy. Roshni Chopra bowled everyone with her performance as the wife of a drunkard, hassled man."
Bobby and Anupam remained unavailable for comment.
Edited by SaacheeSyna - 14 years ago
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