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- ↑ "Popular countdown show Colgate Top 10 comes back a full circle".
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- ↑ "BPL Oye!". IMDb .
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- ↑ "Best of TV | Outlook India Magazine".
- ↑ "Satish Shah feels Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai was the first failure of his TV career". Daily News and Analysis. 5 November 2016.
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