Weekend with Ramesh


Weekend with Ramesh is an Indian talk show hosted by actor, film director and inspirational speaker Ramesh Aravind on Zee Kannada. The first season of the show began airing on 2 August 2014, and ended on 26 October 2014, after airing 26 episodes. The second season of the show aired from 26 December 2015 to 16 April 2016. The third season aired from 26 March 2017 and 2 July 2017. Pradyumna Narahalli was the script writer for season 2 and season 3.

Overview

The format of the show involves achievers on various fields, primarily from Karnataka, being invited and the story of their life being told. It involves appearances of various people associated with the "achiever" who narrate incidents from their association with the person. The show is being taped at Abbaiah Naidu Studio in the Chikkalasandra locality of Bangalore. The first season began airing on 2 August 2014, with actor Puneeth Rajkumar as the first invitee. Season 1 ended on 26 October, with the host Ramesh Aravind on the "achievers' seat", with film director and lyricist Yogaraj Bhat as the host.
The second season saw invitees mostly the giants of Sandalwood like Vijay Prakash, Rajesh Krishnan, Ambareesh, Darshan, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Anant Nag, Raghu Dixit, Kiccha Sudeep. Season 3 saw a mix of professions with achievers from entertainment industry like Arjun Janya, Gangavathi Pranesh, Bharathi Vishnuvardhan; poet, writer, lyricist Jayanth Kaikini; former judge of the Supreme Court Of India, former Solicitor General of India and Lokayukta for Karnataka State of India N. Santosh Hegde; Police officer ; business man Vijay Sankeshwar; litterateur, priest, writer Hiremagaluru Kannan and some politicians.
Currently airing Season 4 from the 20th of April 2019, inspiring people like philanthropist and the Dharmadhikari of the Dharmasthala Temple Veerendra Heggade, industrialist and co-founder of Infosys N. R. Narayana Murthy and an inspirational writer, speaker, philanthropist, chairperson of the Infosys Foundation Sudha Murthy.

List of episodes

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4

Episode NoGuestOriginal air date
Episode 1Veerendra Heggade20 April 2019
Episode 2Veerendra Heggade21 April 2019
Episode 3Raghavendra Rajkumar27 April 2019
Episode 4Raghavendra Rajkumar28 April 2019
Episode 5Prema4 May 2019
Episode 6Prakash Belawadi5 May 2019
Episode 7Shashi Kumar11 May 2019
Episode 8Vinaya Prasad12 May 2019
Episode 9Sriimurali18 May 2019
Episode 10Sriimurali19 May 2019
Episode 11N. R. Narayana Murthy1 June 2019
Episode 12Sudha Murthy2 June 2019
Episode 13Sumalatha8 June 2019
Episode 14T. S. Nagabharana9 June 2019
Episode 15Sharan15 June 2019
Episode 16Sharan16 June 2019
Episode 17Vaijanath Biradar21 June 2019
Episode 18Chikkanna22 June 2019
Episode 19Shankar Bidari29 June 2019
Episode 20B. B. Ashok Kumar30 June 2019
Episode 21Rajendra Singh Babu6 July 2019
Episode 22Chandrashekhara Kambara7 July 2019