Veteran Hindi tv presenter and actor Manju Singh has handed away. Lyricist, singer, and screenwriter Swanand Kirkire took to Twitter on Friday to mourn Singh’s dying and reminisce his time working along with her for Doordarshan.
Swanand shared how she was the one who introduced him to town of desires and gave him his first writing alternative. He wrote, “Manju ji brought me from Delhi to Mumbai to write her show Swaraj for Doordarshan!”
मंजू सिंह जी नहीं रही ! मंजू जी मुझे दिल्ली से मुंबई लायी थी दूरदर्शन के लिए उनका शो स्वराज लिखने ! उन्होंने DD के लिए कई नायब शोज़ एक कहानी, शो टाइम आदि बनाए थे . हृषिकेश मुखर्जी की फ़िल्म गोलमाल की रत्ना हमारी प्यारी मंजू जी आपका प्यार कैसे भूल सकता है .. अलविदा ! pic.twitter.com/aKFvMJeFYF
— Swanand Kirkire (@swanandkirkire) April 15, 2022
Manju Singh was one of many pioneers within the Indian tv trade who produced exceptional reveals Swaraj, Ek Kahani, Show Time amongst others. Fondly referred to as ‘didi’, she was the anchor of the youngsters’s present, Khel Khilone which ran for seven years. Singh had additionally appeared in Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Gol Maal, the place she performed the position of Ratna.
Singh highlighted nationwide, social and cultural points on her reveals. She began as a tv producer in 1983 with Show Time. Her present Ek Kahani was based mostly on literary brief tales from a number of regional languages. Another present which was fairly favored by the audiences throughout the nation was her docu-drama collection Adhikar, which was based mostly on girls’s authorized rights. She additionally dabbled with a present on spirituality referred to as Samyaktva: True Insight.
In the latest previous, Singh was related to a number of worldwide movie festivals for kids and younger adults. In 2015, she acquired recognition for her contribution to the inventive arts and the training subject and was nominated as a member to the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) by the federal government of India.
