2016

2016 (MMXVI) is the current year, and is a leap year starting on Friday (dominical letter CB) of the Gregorian calendar, the 2016th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 16th year of the 3rd millennium, the 16th year of the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2010s decade.

2016 has been designated as:

Events

January

ETV Telugu

ETV Telugu is the first 24-hour general entertainment Telugu channel. It revolutionised the regional television industry with its programming quality and broadcasting standards.

Popularity

Established in 1995, ETV channels cater to the regional requirements from the Indian States of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and have gained tremendous popularity among the Telugu language speaking population across the world.

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Jabardasth

Jabardasth may refer to:

Telugu cinema

Telugu cinema, also known by its sobriquet Tollywood, is a part of Indian cinema producing films in the Telugu language, centered around the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, based in the Hyderabad neighbourhood of Film Nagar. Since 1909, filmmaker Raghupathi Venkaiah Naidu was involved in many aspects of Indian cinema's history, like producing short films and travelling to different regions in Asia to promote film work. In 1921, he produced the first Telugu silent film, Bhishma Pratigna. He is cited as the father of Telugu cinema.

In 1933, East India Film Company produced its first Indian film, Savitri, in Telugu. Shot in Calcutta on a budget of ₹ 75 thousand, and based on a popular stage play by Mylavaram Bala Bharathi Samajam, the film was directed by father of the "Telugu Theater Movement" Chittajallu Pullaiah and cast stage actors Vemuri Gaggaiah and Dasari Ramathilakam as "Yama" and "Savithri" respectively. The blockbuster film has received an honorary diploma at Venice Film Festival. Multilingual actor Vuppaladadiyam Nagayya was known as the Paul Muni of India, and one of the influential actors of Telugu cinema.

Extra Jabardasth (comedy show)

The "Extra Jabardasth" Katharnak Comedy Show is an extended version of the Jabardasth comedy show, broadcast on the ETV channel, in Telugu States, India. The show was first telecast on ETV on 10 October 2014, featuring popular Telugu film industry actor and producer Nagendra Babu and Telugu film actress and politician Roja and hosted by Rashmi.

Episode concept

The concept was primarily a competition between five different teams, who on a weekly basis compete with each other by performing a comedy skit. At the end of the show all teams will be scored on a 10 point scale by judges Nagababu and Roja. Finally winners will be announced and rewarded with a 10,000 rupee cash prize, and poster of the week will be decided based on the skit performed by the winner.

In addition to the comedy skits, all team leaders play a small skit which should be spontaneous and would be rewarded with a 10,000 rupee cash prize for the best joke of the day.

Teams

The teams were