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Shekhar Suman recalls National Awards live telecast as ‘huge disaster’
Shekhar Suman recalls National Awards live telecast as ‘huge disaster’
Actor and television personality Shekhar Suman has revisited his association with Jaya Bachchan, recalling how she brought him to the hit sitcom 'Dekh Bhai Dekh' and later roped him in for the…
Actor and television personality Shekhar Suman has revisited his association with Jaya Bachchan, recalling how she brought him to the hit sitcom 'Dekh Bhai Dekh' and later roped him in for the first live National Awards show. Speaking on SCREEN Spotlight, Suman described the awards broadcast as a 'huge disaster' due to an electrical failure and technical chaos, including abuses from the OB van that went on air.
Suman said he was initially reluctant to return to television for 'Dekh Bhai Dekh' but changed his mind after learning that Jaya Bachchan's company was producing it. He praised her hands-on approach, noting that she regularly visited the set and took personal interest in the show, which became a 1990s classic. Despite the awards show fiasco, Suman recalled spending hours ideating with Jaya and Amitabh Bachchan at their Delhi home.
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The National Awards ceremony is a government-run event, and a live broadcast going wrong with technical glitches and abusive audio being aired is a producer's nightmare. For Jaya Bachchan's ABCL, which was then branching into event management, this would have been a costly reputational hit. Suman's light-hearted recounting decades later underscores how much has changed in live television production since the 1990s, when such risks were far higher. The anecdote also offers a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of the Bachchans' professional ventures outside films.
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