Yes was different !

It is said that stars die off eventually and sometimes they die-off right after they’re born(Now don’t ask me who said that …LOL).Yes Indiavision,the youth channel  had a similar story. i am not sure how many of you may have heard of such a television channel. Yes was different ! Not just for the sake of saying, you could watch my YouTube videos and you will know what i mean. The team YES consisted of hardly 30 professionals and all of them had one thing in common:- Campassion towards what they’re doing. i would bet that there wouldn’t have been such a team ever created in any other television entities. More than a job, we all were like a family but a family unguided or may be one with a lack of leadership or vision. It’s hard to explain what went wrong but i would like to talk more on what went right.

i had never dreamt of having my hands on such a sphere even in my wildest imagination but then somehow it happened that one day i found myself at the Indiavision studio for audition as a VJ. The audition if i am right was taken by Sajith Lakshman a.k.a the ‘chief’ guy and everything went according to he script then on. i was selected by the panel which were the then program heads Mr.Prakash menon and Anil Ayroor. From there on i was made to feel that television is where i belong. Anyway YES did make its own cult that by the time we had our soft launch other television channel’s immediately started to copy the layout,the style, the edit pattern to even the camera frames.

Anyway YES wasn’t all that a failure for people involved with it. Asif Ali(RITU fame) & Archana Kavi(Neelathamara fame) did make their career out of it.I very much miss the old days with YES and wish those days will be back some day.Asif,Me n Archana was  the “3 A’s” of YES(like “3idiots”..LOL).VJ Rakesh now RJ Rakesh at club FM,VJ Andrine now writing this blog that you are reading..LOL are some other names that could be accounted.

i always wanted to share the tales of “Asif Ali” & now that i have a way to do it i must say how happy i am for him. When i met him,he was doing 1′ st year BBA at Marian college.You would rarely meet guys with such strong will and strong dreams and fortunately i had the honor to meet such a person. i was already in YES as a VJ when my friend Ajeesh introduced me to Asif who would then very openly tell anyone that he wanted to be an actor. People never talk out about their dreams because they’re scared. Asif wasn’t among them;he knew that saying it out openly only make it a step closer to his dream.His friends in college would mock him when he said that his movie would release is Ernakulam Sarita theatre and I was very surprised to see this guy still say it loud and open. But see the power of dreams,his first movie – Ritu was released at Saritha theatre.

God’s grace he will be bigger than he want to be ! “Insha Alla” as he would say.

Asif was the program producer and VJ of a very unique and exciting program called “BULB”. The shooting process was very interesting that we’ll have a million stories to tell if anyone among our crew starts to speak about this program. it was one of the masterpieces tha YES created.

Unlike Asif, Archana wasn’t all that convinced about her inner actor ! she never had the plan to be a part of the film fraternity. she was just a normal “Paagal Si Ladki” as she would then say.But fate and yes, some of her decisions that she took simply turned Life upside down.

Archana was the Love guru and her program “Bloody Love” was quite a hit.(i know you would be thinking about the program names we come up with…LOL…Bulb..now Bloody Love…well ask our RD that ! He used to name the programs.)But i would like to show you a crazy video we did…it’s fun

Me a.k.a Vj Andy was the Gup-Shup guy at “Cocktail”,where we used to talk about anything under the sky.Sajith a.k.a “The Chief” was the producer of the program and like Bulb the shoot process is always fun here. Find out…

i was also the program producer and went on to do many a programs,Bloody Love being one among them.You would find my program promo’s on my YouTube page.

As for me the journey is still not over,may be ! There is a time for everything they say ! I Agree !

Looking forward for comments from some fans of YES ! Anyone ???

Originally posted 2009-12-04 23:11:10. Republished by Blog Post Promoter