The best part of the Screen Awards was when Jaya Bachchan and her son walked home with the trophy for the man of the house. It was an emotional moment. Later there were interviews with Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Rani Mukherjee and Amitabh where they spoke to us in sign language. Wish there were more silences during, after and outside the award function.

You’ve to hand it to this guy. Manish Goswami sure knows how to boost the TRPs. Last week, there was an encore of the collective couched hysteria that we had witnessed when Mihir on Star’s Kyunki?Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi?had ‘died’. A similar hysteria eventuated this week when on Zee’s Sarrkkar, Rohit Roy’s volatile character (based on Sanjay Gandhi) died. But Goswami has reassuring words for the fans. “Rohit’s character is alive. He’ll be shown reawakening in later episodes. Such jolts are necessary to keep the TRPs healthy?like the drama surrounding Mr Bachchan in hospital.” Manish also intends to do non-fiction for television.

Sa Re Ga Ma Pa continues to be my only watchable show. After his favourite candidate Nihira Joshi was eliminated from the final rounds of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, judge Ismail Durbar walked off in a huff on camera. “It was a moment of great anguish for us. When Ismailji walked out, we at Sa Re Ga Ma Pa felt as though the show would collapse. So close to the finals, I just didn’t know what to do,” says producer-director Gajendra Singh. But now in a swift reversal of decision the emotional music composer, who ran off from Mumbai to join his mother in Surat, has agreed to return to Sa Re Ga Ma Pa.

Speaking from Surat, Ismail says, “I’m very upset by the public’s decision to oust Nihira. If she had won it would’ve been a victory for music?Just because Nihira can’t wear revealing clothes or dance on camera, are these a crime? Did we ever see Lataji as anything but a goddess wrapped in a sari? When I recently recorded with Lataji for the first time last month I had tears in my eyes. At 77, she still has so much passion. Nihira is walking in Lataji’s footsteps... I feel there’s a conspiracy afoot to eliminate my other candidate Debojit. The other judges have deliberately given him less marks on this week’s episode?.”