Abhijeet & Alka Yagnik gives a kick start to the special evening with the Golden oldie ‘Khullam Khulla Pyar Karenge‘ as the evergreen couple joins them on stage & shares the secret of their vigor & verve and their successful married life. This sets the stage for the Amul Star Voice of India finalists to carry on with their singing rally. Ishmeet as usual with his sweet voice presents the song ‘Main Shayer to Nahin‘ while Rishi comes on stage & tries to create his singing spell on Neetu by singing with Ishmeet. Neetu finds Ishmeet‘s voice very adorable & perfectly suitable for their debutant son Ranbir. Lucknow ke Meet, Harshit sings Rishi‘s very popular number ‘Bachna E Haseeno‘. The couple likes his performance & Rishi shares some of his industry experiences. Abhilasha wins over accolades from both Rishi & Neetu with her energetic performance on the peppy song ‘Ek Mai Aur Ek Tu‘. The couple gets nostalgic recollecting their shooting days on the sets of this song.
The wonder boy Abhaas overwhelms the entire crowd & receives standing ovation from Neetu Singh on his excellent performance of the famous quawaali ‘Hai Agar dushman‘. It brings tears to Rishi‘s eyes as the song brings back many sweet memories to his mind. Irfan sings ‘Parda Hai Parda‘ while he gives a rose to Neetu & bring her on stage & makes her dance with him. Neetu dances to Irfan‘s tune with a dupatta on her head which gears up Irfan‘s enthusiasm & the rhythm of the song. Last but not the least Sumitra dresses up exactly like Neetu Sing in the song ‘Lekar Hum Deewana Dil‘ & performs to that song with equal enthusiasm & expression.. Neetu & Rishi like her performance a lot. And those ‘Once More?. Once More‘ cheers compels Neetu to shake a leg while the young performers of Amul Star Voice Of India could not take their eyes off her stupendous performance.
CNN‘s Jenny Harrison gives chocolate another think. From its discovery more than 3,000 years ago to the present day the cocoa bean has been a highly prized commodity. Recently, chocoholics have developed a taste for high-quality cocoa beans and so-called single-estate vintage chocolates. In Europe, the Valrhona name stands out among chocolatiers as the ultimate in chocolate cachet. Art Of Life takes a trip to their chocolate making facilities in the Rhone Valley and experiences every chocoholic‘s dream as a fine chocolate taster.
The black Perigord truffle is so valuable and so rare that it‘s earned the nickname, ‘The Black Diamond‘. ART OF LIFE follows its journey from the earth to the plate with premier truffle restaurateur Clement Bruno. The program also examines why this small part of the gourmet food industry remains so shrouded in secrecy.
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Animal Planet presents 'Mission Impossible'
MUMBAI: Have you ever heard of reptiles that wander entire oceans, mammals that traverse continents and birds that almost never come to earth?Animal Planet presents the action-packed missions from the animal kingdom with animal expert Steve Leonard on a drive to find out about some of the toughest missions that animals undertake in ‘Mission Impossible‘.
For us traveling enormous distances is nothing, we let the plane take the strain. We take a trip to Australia and fly 20,000 miles and then come back. Yet some exceptional animals can match these sorts of unbelievable distances with natural power. Sharing his experience in the programme, Steve Leonard said in the programme, "this show gives you a clear insight about which animals are the hardest, which go the furthest, the longest and the most extreme. Here even I am also on a mission to explore some of the impossible yet possible missions for few species set by themselves".
Steve highlights the extreme challenges and fascinating mystery attached to each species that he follows while making of this programme. Some of which are -
- 12 millions sockeye salmon fish are heading for home from all over the north-pacific ocean. With unbelievable accuracy they are returning back to the individual rivers with their breeding hats on and the only thing they can think about is reaching their spawning ground. The target is over 700 miles inland from where they are now and with ospreys, bears, fisherman, everyone waiting for a piece of action, the salmon needs every ounce of energy and unbelievable determination. All the way upriver they change into spectacular mating display colours and finally on reaching the target, while the females lay eggs, the male fertilizes them. But at the end of their mission, it is really hard to digest the fact that, the exhausted fish goes literally belly up and of the millions of fish that start the journey every single one of them will die.
- Sea turtle numbers are tumbling all around the world. The Loggerhead, one of the biggest turtle is certainly the furthest traveled of them all. By checking the tags and analyzing the DNA of Loggerheads researchers have discovered something almost unbelievable. Loggerhead turtles born in Australia have turned up on the other side of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, 7,000 miles away. Some turtles even swim right across the Pacific Ocean, which is one-third the way around the world. After reaching the target, the Loggerhead gets even more extreme and decides to come all the way back home. In this programme, Steve gets hold of a turtle in Australia and says that, it might have swum to California and back. Imagine the sort of navigational accuracy they have to swim a round trip of 15,000 miles and hit the same beach they have started 30 years earlier.
- On his mission to find similar exciting animal adventures, Steve then arrives on the Gold coast, Australia, Southern ocean where he meets the legendary Albatross. These birds have got 11-foot wingspans and people write poems about them. Albatross get 98 percent of the energy for flight from the wind. They don‘t really need the land at all, but if there iss anywhere the wandering albatross calls home is then it‘s the Bird Island, South Georgia. The tiny island is the home for about 2,000 wandering albatross as they appear every year to nest. But one fact about albatross is, they have got to be the most faithful animals in the whole world. One they finish nesting they separate and fly around the oceans of the world for up to two lonely years before they rendezvous again on this tiny island as if they would never been apart.
- Now Steve finally travels to Willow, Alaska to understand what makes the Husky the ultimate endurance machine when someone got to ride with them. He finds that these dogs are capable of running four full marathons every day for ten days in a row. Huskies just don‘t stop for anything they do everything on the move, even snatching a drink. They are super fit athletes with hearts and lungs bigger than a wolf. Steve says, they don‘t even stop when it‘s dark, the extreme cold keeps them cool and they actually run faster in the night. At distances over ten miles the Alaskan Husky is the fastest runner on the planet. There is nothing alive than can beat the Alaskan Husky in terms of speed and endurance. Strange mixture really, soft as butter, but hard as nails.
To catch up with similar kind of daring adventures by animal experts, watch Animal Planet Personalities series, airing every Wednesday at 10pm only on Animal Planet.
