Manohar Mahajan has been a popular announcer of the Hindi Service of Radio Ceylon, the oldest radio station in South Asia. Millions of listeners in India would turn on their radio sets to hear Mahajan's radio programs on Radio Ceylon.
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Manohar Mahajan helped to establish Radio Ceylon as the leader of the airwaves in South Asia. He brought numerous, innovative and yet very popular concepts to Radio Programming, while working as the Chief Announcer for Radio Ceylon, which unarguably was the harbinger of the very concept of Radio in India. Radio Ceylon is now known as the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation. The station celebrated eighty years in broadcasting in December 2005.
He returned to India in 1975, and has been a freelance broadcaster since, for radio and television.
He is the ‘+A’ Grade Voice and Writer on the “Films Division” (Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, India) Panel of Voices and Writers since the last 25 years and spoken and written more than 500 Documentaries and News Reels.
He brought the concept of Compering Fashion Shows and Beauty Contests / Trade Shows (in Hindi) in India.
He has voiced more than 10000 Radio Programs, 7000 Radio Spots, Audio-visuals, Van Publicities, Jingles and V.O.s for Ad Films.
He has compered Stage Shows in Hindi and interviewed some of the top personalities of all times such as Pandit Ravi Shankar, Dilip Kumar, George Harrison, Neil Armstrong, Indira Gandhi, Amitabh Bachchan, Sunil Gavaskar, Mohd. Rafi, Bhimsen Joshi, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle, Kishore Kumar, Ustad Allarakha Khan, Mukesh, Mannadey, Talat Mehmood, Ustad Allauddin Khan, Dr. Jayant Narlikar, Mehndi Hassan, Noor Jehan, Sitaradevi and many more.
He presented Bombay Doordarshan’s most popular request program “Phir Wohi” for 3 years. He presented Bombay Doordarshan’s popular children’s’ program “Khel Khilone” for 5 years.
He has written and presented “Music Millennium” for Zee Music, a T.V. Program which depicted the History of Indian Film Music.
He has dubbed more than 300 Episodes for the “Discovery Channel” and over 150 episodes for the “National Geographic Channel” in Hindi.
He has done Film Publicity for more than 600 Feature Films on radio, some of which are Sholay, Roti Kapda aur Makaan, Kasauti, Qurbani, Main Inteqaam Loonga, Pratigya, Dostana, Alibaba Chaalis Chor, etc.
He has been the President of Association of Voice Artistes (AVA) affiliated to Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) for 2 consecutive terms.
He recently compered 'Malhar Festival' (7 day program) & 'Jugalbandi' (4 day program) organized by Indo Occidental Symbiosis at Kalamandir & Science City Auditorium, Kolkatta. Imminent music personalities like Pandit Jasraj, Kishori Amonkar, Ustad Shahid Pervez, Parveen Sultana, Amjad Ali Khan, Pandit Shankar Ghosh, Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, Pandit Anindo Chatterjee, Pandit Ulhas Kashalkar, Pandit Kumar Bose, Pandit Kartick Kumar, Ustad Rashid Khan, Subhankar Banerjee, Pandit Tejendra Narayan Majumdar, Pandit Ramesh Mishra, Rakesh Chaurasia, Purbayan Chatterjee, Roshan Ali, Nayan & Ishan Ghosh, Pandit Bhawani Shankar, performed at these classical music shows.
He has conceived, written and presented the following radio programs:
He has conceptualized, written and produced radio commercials for the following: