To make the occasion even more special, the senior most member of the Virani family- ‘Ba‘ , has also invited some other family members of the STAR Parivaar including Saksham & Aarti (Kasauti Zindagi Kay), Daksha (Kyunki), Karan & Sudha (Meri Awaaz Ko Mil Gayi Roshni), Kasturi and many others. All the guests will express their devotion by their performances. The love birds Karan & Sudha will showcase the love of Lord Krishna & Radha by dancing to the tune of ‘Maduban Me Jo Kanhaiya‘ . Likewise Saksham, Aarti & Daksha will enhance the festive mood by performing on the song ‘Dholi Taro Dhol Baje‘. Ba has also invited some special guests who will be dancing & singing to the tunes of Lord Krishna. 
The Sahara Shri has been hailed and accepted as a visionary by one and all but he says his secret lies in living for the present. "I want to say again that I wasn‘t one to dream. I always lived in the present. If you ask me about today then I can tell you everything about what we are doing, but if you ask me what are plans are for ten years down the line, I won‘t be able to tell you anything," is his candid confession.
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CNN special investigations unit documentary: Afghanistan - Lifting The Veil
MUMBAI: Six years after CNN broadcast the groundbreaking and award-winning documentary ‘Beneath the Veil,‘ the international network returns to Afghanistan and discovers that women still face dangerous and harsh living conditions even after the U.S. and coalition forces invaded the country following the September 11th attacks.
In Afghanistan ? Lifting the veil celebrated journalist and filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy criss-crosses the impoverished country, meets with ordinary Afghans and witnesses firsthand the struggles women face in a nation trying to rebuild amid continued war, corruption and chaos. Obaid-Chinoy learns that stalled foreign aid, repressive clerics and a dysfunctional government stymie progress.
Despite Afghanistan‘s new democracy, little appears to have changed for the better, particularly for women. Six years after the Taliban was overthrown, many women are still forced by their husbands and families to wear burqas. Only two out of five Afghan girls attend school and since most women lack the skills and training to work, begging is often the only option even for a bleak life.
With such limited options, many women have chosen a devastating route of escape from their brutal oppression: self-immolation. Obaid-Chinoy speaks with suicide survivors in hospitals to try to understand what drives them to such desperate actions as setting themselves on fire.
In a country of nearly 32 million, more than one million are widows ? a consequence of 20 years of wars and conflict. Without husbands, the widows are essentially condemned to a life of abject poverty. Even married women do not appear to fare much better. In a culture in which most marriages are arranged and young girls are often sold into marriage by their early teen years, women are frequently doomed to lives of abuse by their husbands and in-laws.
But Obaid-Chinoy does find some faint signs of hope as well. In the northern town of Taloqan, she finds a girls‘ school which seems to embody the promise of the "new Afghanistan." A fiercely courageous teacher, who once risked her life to teach girls in secret, now teaches in a modest facility that educates 4,000 girls. Despite this progress, the school has not received the aid it needs to build new classrooms and the girls say they face strong resistance to study at home.
In 2001, Beneath the Veil introduced viewers to one family devastated by the Taliban. The father had been kidnapped, the mother executed and their young daughters were left alone in a house with Taliban fighters for days. Obaid-Chinoy returns six years later to find out how the father and two daughters have fared since liberation, finding a mixed message of Afghanistan‘s pain and progress.
In a nearby village, Obaid-Chinoy speaks with a cleric who also speaks hopefully. He tells her that despite the crushing poverty, he is optimistic for the reconstruction of his war-ravaged village ? perhaps a health center might open someday and more food may become available for the people.
Obaid-Chinoy concludes: "I have found joy and hope in places I least expected it, but I have also learned that progress is slow. Afghanistan‘s problems were not fixed by the invasion?hanging in the balance, are the future of Afghanistan and the lives of its people, people desperate for peace?and for hope."
Airtimes: Indian Standard Times
Saturday, September 15 at 1130 & 1930
Sunday, September 16 at 0030 & 1130
Monday, September 17 at 0030
