MUMBAI: Zee News is launching a travel show Raahi Matwale. The programme will show homemade videos of the viewers.
"Aapki baari" is the tagline of the show, which will invite people to send in their home video footage. Zee News will select one or two good home videos and re-edit them as per program needs. It would make the program more interactive.
The effort is to make its viewers endeavor to explore their surrounding to know and to feel one with the world outside. This show will give it's viewers a boost to do a better videography which means now they will be able to see on Zee News the scenes captured by handycam on their leisure visitsBy a rough industry estimate, almost one million Indians use a handy-cam.
Commenting on the initiative, Zee Telefilms director News Group Laxmi N.Goel says, "Zee News is now presenting this unique show with a big difference from other travel shows. Zee News, in a bid to increase interactivity with its viewers, will delight it's viewers by showing their home videos which they have shot while traveling to a place that is yet unexplored."
Raahi Matwale will be having different segments to make the viewers enjoy every moment of it. The Big Bara Break will focus on a known tourist destination, be it a hill station, some religious centres, some seaside locations or some historical towns. Choti Chutti will take the viewers through to some lesser-known locations.
Top Stay - information about the prominent hotels. Local Bazar - showcase the local markets, the local food, handicrafts etc. Travel Tips - help the viewers in selecting things to take to the travel location like medicine pouch, playing cards. The quiz section Sawaal ek Chutti Ka for the viewers offers opportunity to answer and win prizes. Travel Facts will reveal some lesser-known facts of the known Indian travel sector, informs an official release.
The series will begin Sunday 3 April at 12:30 pm and repeat on Saturday at 2:30 pm only on Zee News.