Sreekandan Nair

R. Sreekandan Nair is an Indian television anchor. He has hosted several Malayalam TV shows, including Oru Nimisham, Nammal Thammil, Janata Ki Adalath, and Samadooram. He was formerly a presenter on Doordarshan, the content head and senior vice president of Asianet in the Kerala sector of India, and a consultant to the entertainment television operations of Mazhavil Manorama. He currently hosts a talk show called the Sreekandan Nair Show on Flowers Television.^[1][2]

Career

Sreekandan Nair was born in 1959 in Melila in Kollam district, as the younger son of Raman Pillai and Janaki Amma. He started his career in 1983 as a lecturer at the Sree Kerala Varma College in Trichur. In 1984, he joined All India Radio as a programme executive. At All India Radio, he penned and staged over 1500 satirical radio plays, radio dramas, and documentaries. He also anchored the program Oru Nimisham on Doordarshan.

He later joined Asianet as the head of its TV content division in Kerala. While working there, he launched the Malayalam television talk show Nammal Thammil, which spanned 750 episodes over 17 years. He eventually became the Show Director of the event management division of Asianet. In 2003, he became the Senior Vice president of Asianet.^[3] He simultaneously worked for Mazhavil Manorama as a consultant and founded the company Magic Media Infotainment Private Limited. Under its banner, he produced and anchored the talk show Samadooram and the television serial Kathayile Rajakumari, which was broadcast on Mazhavil Manorama.

On 4 January 2016, he launched a talk show called the Sreekandan Nair Show on Flowers TV, of which he is the managing director.^[4] He later launched another talk show called 'Oru Nimisham' on the same channel.

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