Sancharam (TV series)

Sancharam (Malayalam: സഞ്ചാരം, English: travel), is the first telecast of a visual travelogue in Malayalam language television. The program has been shot, edited and directed by Santhosh George Kulangara. It is being aired on 09:30 pm and 10 pm (IST) every weekday in Safari TV channel and re-telecasted the next day (weekdays only) four times. The program has been shot in more than hundred countries, spanning the seven continents since Santhosh George Kulangara started his solo journeys outside India in 1997 . Originally aired on Asianet on Sundays, it has been then started airing on Safari TV, which is owned by Santhosh George Kulangara.[1]

Sancharam
Sancharam new logo
Created bySanthosh George Kulangara
Presented bySanthosh George Kulangara
Narrated byAnish Punnen Peter
Country of originIndia
Original languageMalayalam
No. of episodes1,639, as of 22 January 2020
Production
ProducerSafari Multimedia Pvt.Ltd
Running time30 minutes
Release
Original networkAsianet (2001–2013)
Safari TV (2013–)
Original release2001–present
External links
Website

An internet edition of Sancharam is also available free of cost. It claimed to be the first Internet television in Kerala.[2]

Sancharam is about to be shot in space by Santhosh George Kulangara who has been selected for the Virgin Galactic's next space tourism programme, SpaceShipTwo. With this space journey, he is slated to be India's first space tourist.[3][4]

The episodes which are being telecasted presently were shot in Georgia.

Places shown in Sancharam (since January 2018)
Country Places Date
Ethiopia Addis Ababa, Mek'ele, Danakil desert, January 2018
Philippines Manila, Corregidor, Cebu February 2018
Austria Vienna, Wienerwald March 2018
Slovakia Bratislava March 2018
United States (Florida) Miami, Orlando, Key West, Miami Beach April 2018
Bahamas Grand Bahama April 2018
Jordan Amman, Al Karak, Petra, Wadi Rum, Aqaba, Dead Sea May 2018
Nepal Kathmandu, Pokhara June 2018
Ukraine Kiev, Chernobyl, Zhytomyr, Berdychiv, Vinnytsia, Odessa July 2018
Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, Batu Caves, Genting Highlands August 2018
China Guangzhou, Lhasa August 2018
Serbia Belgrade September 2018
Montenegro Bar, Kotor, Budva, Sveti Stefan October 2018
United States (California),(Arizona),(Nevada) Los Angeles, San Diego, Sedona, Las Vegas, Grand Canyon, Death Valley November 2018
India (Rajasthan) Jaipur, Ajmer, Pushkar December 2018
Indonesia (Yogyakarta) Prambanan, Kraton Yogyakarta, Boro Budur December 2018
Fiji Nadi, Suva, Tuvala, Yasawa January 2019
United States New York, Washington D.C. February 2019
Djibouti Djibouti City, Lake Abbe, Lake Assal, Tadjoura March 2019
Thailand Phuket April 2019
Armenia Yerevan, April 2019
Maldives Malé, May 2019
Norway Oslo, Bergen, Fjord June 2019
India (Rajasthan) Udaipur, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur July 2019
Vietnam Hanoi, Ha Long Bay July 2019
Romania, Bulgaria Bucharest, Brasov, Sighisoara, Veliko Tarnovo August 2019
France, Belgium, Netherlands Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam October 2019
Tanzania Dar es Salaam, Lake Manyara, Arusha, Ngorongoro, Mount Kilimanjaro Zanzibar November 2019
Germany Munich, Berlin, Nuremberg December 2019
Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan,Floating Villages January 2020
Greece Athens, Mykonos, Santorini February 2020
Thailand Bangkok, Pattaya March 2020
Austria, Slovenia Vienna, Ljubljana, Ptuj, Bled, Postojna Cave, Piran, Koper, Graz April 2020
India (Ladakh) Leh, Lamayuru Monastery May 2020
India (Punjab), (Himachal Pradesh) Amritsar, Atari, Dharamshala June 2020
Mexico Mexico City, Cancun, Isla Mujeres, Tulum June 2020
Albania Tirana, Durres, Gjirokaster, Sarande, Apollonia, Berat, July 2020
United States Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Niagara Falls, Buffalo August 2020
India (Gujarath) Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Dwarka, Jamnagar, Porbandar, Rann of Kutch September 2020
Jordan Amman, Al Karak, Petra, Wadi Rum, Wadi Musa, Aqaba, Dead Sea November 2020
Indonesia(Bali) Kuta, Batuan, Batur, Denpasar, Pura Taman Ayun, Tanah Lot, Uluwatu, Ubud, Pura Taman Saraswati, Garuda Wisnu Kencana Cultural Park December 2020

Awards
Old logo

Sancharam has won many awards by this time. Some of the awards includes:[5][6]

  • Best TV serial award[7]
  • Vivekananda Awards[8]
  • Limca Book of Records, added in its 2007 edition[9]
  • Kerala's Film Critics Award: for the best Television program telecasted in 2005.
  • Souparnikatheeram State Award: Television Award for the best director of a non-fictional program.
  • All India RAPA Award-2004: award of 'best non-fiction television program' given away by Radio and TV Advertising Practitioners Association (RAPA)
  • National Film Academy Award: program has been declared eligible for the award instituted by National Film Academy for the section 'Other than Fiction'
  • Kerala Film Critics Association Award-2003
  • All India Akshaya National Award-2003
  • National Award: This is one of the awards given at National level in the Radio-Mini screen field. This program selected for the award from the TV programs of about 20 different languages.

References
  1. "SAFARI TV - ABOUT US". www.safaritvchannel.com. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
  2. "Internet Television Channel Sancharam inaugurated". Mathrubhumi. 2 January 2007. p. 7.
  3. Tuning "Sancharm to be in space" Check |url= value (help). Fine Tuning the World.
  4. "Santosh George to become first Indian space tourist". Chennai, India: The Hindu Online. 16 March 2007.
  5. "TV megaserial Awards". Chennai, India: The Hindu Online. 17 February 2004.
  6. "Sancharam video, awards". sancharam.com.
  7. "TV megaserial Awards announced". Music India Online. Archived from the original on 23 September 2007.
  8. "Vivekananda Awards for Santhosh George Kulangara". New Indian Express.
  9. "First telecast of a visual travelogue in Malayalam". Limca Book of Records. Archived from the original on 23 July 2008. Retrieved 8 August 2006.
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