Sancharam

Sancharam (Malayalam: സഞ്ചാരം, English: The Journey), is the first telecast of a visual travelogue in Malayalam television. It is being aired at prime time, 10:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. (IST) on every Sunday in Asianet news television channel and re-telecasted three times in a week by Asianet’s main and subsidiary channels. It is presented by Santosh George Kulangara, and is based on his travels. The program has completed over 300 episodes and has been shot in more than 55 countries during the last 10 years.

An internet edition of Sancharam is also available for free of cost. In the website, viewers may choose the countries they wish to watch by using drop-down list with audio by commentator currently available in Malayalam. It claimed to be the first Internet television in Kerala.

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.

The editing of Sancharam is done by Labour India Publications Ltd..

Awards

Sancharam has won many awards by this time. Some of the awards includes:

Best TV serial award
Vivekananda Awards
Limca Book of Records, added in its 2007 edition
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.