Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Chandragupta Maurya's fans rewriting history like him


Around 323 BC when India was handcuffed at the hands of tyranny, divided into 16 kingdoms each fighting for power a mighty king named Alexander was racing with his large army towards India. During this time a teacher named Chanakya aka Vishnugupta aka Kautilya sensed this king as a potential threat to India and so he came up with an idea of “One united India” or “Akhanda Bharat”. So he went to seek help from the most powerful kingdom “Magadha” whose king Dhanananda insulted him and threw him out of his court. After bearing this insult Chanakya took oath of destroying Dhanananda and his kingdom and said that he will bring a king to this throne who will first think of the nation and will fulfil his dream of “Akhanda Bharat”.Soon Chanakya found a boy who was a born leader and had equivalent qualities to that of a king. Chanakya then trained this boy at Takshashila University and few years later with coordinated tactics of Chanakya the kingdom of Magadha was defeated and this boy became the first emperor of “Akhanda Bharat” who is none other than Chandragupta Maurya.2,335 years later i.e. 2012 A.D. a show named “Chandragupta Maurya” was been telecasted on the channel Imagine Tv which had to be shut down because it cannot gather the required GRP (Gross Rating Point). Soon after this channel was shut fans of this very popular show started their protest on social networking sites to bring back the show on other channels.It is very interesting to note that in those times Chanakya and Chandragupta created history and the scenario hasn’t changed since that time. Today followers of Chanakya and Chandragupta have already created history by showing support for this historical show. Never in television history has any show received so much support of fans. The facebook group titled “Save Chandragupta Maurya” has so far 77,290 members which is just a week’s effort. A twitter account has also been created: @JaiMaaBharati which also has more than 250 followers. A youtube video has also been created: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5NY-MVstPMIt seems that with so much support and enthusiasm of fans the producers and channel will have a tough time to decide on this historical show.

Friday, April 20, 2012

Support increases for Chandragupta Maurya


With the sudden shut down of Entertainment channel Imagine Tv on thursday for failing to gather the required TRP's (Television Rating Points) the actors and the crew members are in a complete shock.
But this shut down not only affected the actors or the employees of the channel, instead it affected a large viewer of this channel's most popular show Chandragupta Maurya which is telecasted every Saturday from 9 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Within no time the fans of this popular show bursted in anger and rage and cursed Imagine Tv and Turner Broadcast. Turner Broadcast was the one who has cancelled the licence of Imagine Tv due to which it has shut down.
The fans of Chandragupta Maurya then created a facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/savecgm/. In no time the group was over flooded with many fans of this show. The group so far has 57,363 members. All the members of this group want their favourite show Chandragupta Maurya to be resumed on a different channel. For this the group members have mailed many Tv channels and requested them to resume the show once again. It is learnt that the group mails one channel at a time so that the channel receives united support of all the fans and ultimately gets convinced to resume the show. Many posts are seen throughout the day and the support is increasing day by day. A twitter account has also been started on Sunday to support this cause:  https://twitter.com/#!/JaiMaaBharati. So far this account has 171 followers. It seems that the increasing support of Chandragupta Maurya's fans will give a tough time for different channels to consider this show for telecasting it on their channel.
The group on facebook is flooded with messages from the show such as "Jai Ho" and "Jai Maa Bharati".