Sreekandan Nair aka SKN is a media personality, television anchor, veteran journalist and Managing Director of Flowers TV and 24 News.

R. Sreekandan Nair
Born
R. Sreekandan Nair

NationalityIndian
Occupations
Years active1983–present
Parent(s)N. Raman Pillai (father)
Janaki Amma (mother)

He has hosted several Malayalam TV shows, including Oru Nimisham, Nammal Thammil, 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 has hosted a talk show called the 'Sreekandan Nair Show'[1] on Flowers TV in which he achieved Guinness World Records along with Flowers TV for hosting a TV talk-show for 6 hours and asked 674 questions on 18 March 2018 .[2][3]

Career

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In 1984, Sreekandan Nair started his career as a programme executive at All India Radio. There, he penned and staged over 1500 satirical radio plays, radio dramas, and documentaries. He also anchored the program Oru Nimisham on Doordarshan. He wrote a screenplay for malayalam movie Raajathanthram.

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.[4] 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.[5] He later launched another talk show called 'Oru Nimisham' on the same channel.

Sreekandan Nair launched a show called Flowers Oru Kodi, which allows participants to win 1 crore through a quiz session. The show is live since 2022.[6]

year Program Channel Role Notes
1990's Oru Nimisham DD Malayalam Host
1995-2011 Nammal Thammil Asianet Host Replaced by John Brittas
2011-2012 Kathayile Rajakumari Mazhavil Manorama Producer Serial
2012 Samadooram Host
2013-2014 Sreekandan Nair Show Surya TV Host
2015-2016 Smart Show Flowers TV Host
2016 – 2019 Sreekandan Nair Show Host
2016-2017 Oru Nimisham Host
2016 Anavaranam Host
2019 Anantharam Host Replaced by Govind Padmasoorya
2019 – present Good Morning Twentyfour News Co-Host
2020–present Encounter Host
2020 Covid Commerce Host
Break the chain Mentor Awareness program
Koodathayi Flowers TV Story, Script , dialogue Serial
2020-2021 Nandanam Producer
2021–Present Flowers Oru Kodi Host
2022 Oru Kodi Kilukkam Co-Host 12 hour live event
2022 Chirikkarude Samsthanasammelanam Co-Host

Films

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• Kalimannu Tv Anchor

• Arjunan Sakshi Tv Anchor

References

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  1. ^ "sreekandan nair show latest episode Archives - Flowers TV".
  2. ^ Manalethu, Biju Cherian (31 December 2015). "Sreekandan Nair Talk Show on Flowers Television - Saturdays at 10 PM".
  3. ^ "Most questions asked by a TV talk show host in 6 hours". Guinness World Records.
  4. ^ "R Sreekandan Nair" (PDF). leadrsofkerala.com. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
  5. ^ Vinodadarshan. "VINODADARSHAN: SreeKandan Nair Show on Flowers TV from January 2, 2016".
  6. ^ News Desk (27 July 2021). "'Flowers Oru Kodi'; How to apply and be a part of the extravagant show". Twentyfour English. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
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Sreekantan Nair to Break Guinness World Record - TOI

Sreekantan Nair achieves Guinness World Record - Times of India