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  • ixigo associates with The Movie ‘Mission Mangal’ As Official Brand Partner In The Travel Segment

    ixigo associates with The Movie ‘Mission Mangal’ As Official Brand Partner In The Travel Segment

    MUMBAI: India’s leading travel platform, ixigo has tied up with upcoming multi-starrer movie, Mission Mangal, becoming their official brand partner in the travel segment. The movie, directed by Jagan Shakti, is based on real-life scientists, who contributed to India's first interplanetary expedition, Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), launched by Indian Research Space Organisation (ISRO) in 2013.

    As a part of the association, ixigo is running a special campaign offering its users a discount of Rs.1000 on flight bookings by using code ‘MANGAL1000’. The travel platform is also running a contest on its social media platforms, where 50 couples get a chance to win free movie tickets. 

    Speaking on this, Shuchi Chawla, Head Brand Marketing, ixigo said, “We are delighted to tie up with an inspirational movie like ‘Mission Mangal’ which depicts an incredible true story of India’s mission to Mars. We actively experiment with in-film branding and believe it is a good opportunity for brands to create high recall in a cost-effective way.” 

    ixigo is India’s largest and most trusted travel app. The platform is a one-stop-shop for travellers enabling them to search, book and discover the best deals for trains, flights, hotels and travel packages. 

  • Planetcast to launch it’s new and improved cloud platform (cloud.x turbo) for sports & live events at IBC 2019

    Planetcast to launch it’s new and improved cloud platform (cloud.x turbo) for sports & live events at IBC 2019

    MUMBAI: Planetcast media services limited, a global leader in Digital Media technologies announced the launch of its brand new cloud platform CLOUD.X TURBO, which simplifies the roll out of a TV channel in just 48 hours. The Planetcast design team has consolidated the experience of more than two decades of digital media origination in its latest version CLOUD.X TURBO. Planetcast will hold an exclusive preview of CLOUD.X TURBO at its booth number 1.F65 in hall 1 at IBC 2019 along with a live demo for the visitors at the show.

    CLOUD.X TURBO offers complete visibility of the entire digital media origination process to all the stakeholders in the digital media value chain.  CLOUD.X TURBO has developed an intuitive common template that enables users to control storage, media, playlists, graphics, playout and even the cloud delivery. Planetcast has outshone the capabilities as true cloud solutions for complex workflow for digital and legacy media technologies.  It provides a complete eco-system for Digital Media direct to the customers.  The highly sophisticated software product CLOUD.X TURBO is the first on the planet to support live sports TV channels and various other formats for other mobile and device application.

    Commenting on the development Sanjay Duda, Chief Operating Officer, Planetcast said “Our Cloud platform has been designed to help Digital Media transition to cloud with ease.  CLOUD.X TURBO empowers Digital Media and broadcasters to expand into new markets and makes the best use of the cloud technology”.

    Planetcast provide Infrastructure as Services, Platform as Services (cloud playout, cloud OTT, Cloud Recaster) for distribution and service delivery platform specifically designed for Digital Media.  Planetcast provide media transits in various formats SDI/ASI, IP, Satellite etc.

  • B4U Bhojpuri YouTube channel has crossed 2 million likes in 2 days on Kanwariya Song

    B4U Bhojpuri YouTube channel has crossed 2 million likes in 2 days on Kanwariya Song

    MUMBAI: Bhojpuri, which is being spoken among more than 55 crore people, has its own identity. Bhojpuri songs, whether it is DJ songs or religious ones, have made its popularity in every corner of our country. The craze of Bhojpuri channels are increasing day by day among the viewers. The most popular name among them is B4U Bhojpuri, which have won the love of viewers in the BARC ratings last week, and became No.1 Bhojpuri Entertainment Channel of the country.

    In the sacred month of Shravan, B4U Bhojpuri is playing a special show “Kanwariya Bole Bam Bam” which is gathering devotees of Lord Shiva in one place. The show has gained its popularity among the followers with it soulful bhajans and songs on Lord Shiva. At the same time, the Kanwariyas, who have gone on the journey to Kanwar, are also getting an opportunity to join the famous songs of Bhole Nath through this show.The show is being organized especially to commemorate the Shravan Fair in Deoghar, the holy abode of Kawariyas. People enjoy listening to the famous Shiva bhajans on B4U’s Bhajan Sagar Show which is telecasted everyday from 5am to 8 am. Kanwariya Bole Bam Bam comes with a long list of Famous Bhojpuri religious songs. In the last few days, the show has accumulated a lot of love from its viewers. Apart from that, the channel shows the live streaming from the fair of Kawariya’s holy abode, Deoghar and telecasts famous Kanwariya bhajans like “Bole Kawariya bam bam re” and “Bhauji chalal na jaala”.

    Few of the Kanwariya song sung by Khesari On which B4U Bhojpuri YouTube channel has crossed 2 million likes in 2 days.

    One can enjoy Kanwar special superhit songs on the show Kanwariya Bole Bam Bam every morning at 5 am. Recently, the channel has also included a collection of the latest bhajans like 'Kaise Jaile Ho Ekle Apan Ghar O Baba', 'Bole Kawariya Bum Bum Re' and 'Bhauji Chalal Na Jala' of famous Bhojpuri singer Khesari Lal. Also, the promotional activities of the show are going on in full swing. More than 500 rickshaw drivers have been engaged in the promotion process to connect more people with the show, who are motivating people to join the show as campaigners from different areas of the district.
     

  • Embark on a never seen before adventure with PM Narendra Modi and Bear Grylls in Discovery’s iconic and hugely popular franchise ‘Man Vs Wild’

    Embark on a never seen before adventure with PM Narendra Modi and Bear Grylls in Discovery’s iconic and hugely popular franchise ‘Man Vs Wild’

    MUMBAI: Bear Grylls uncovers PM Modi’s adventurous side on Discovery’s Exclusive show, ‘Man Vs Wild with Bear Grylls & Prime Minister Modi’ as they take an off-track journey across India’s Jim Corbett National Park situated in the state of Uttarakhand. Select excerpts of the show: –

    The adventurous Indian Prime Minister: 

    Through the episode viewers will get a glimpse of the Indian Prime Minister’s love for the environment, as in freewheeling chat, he shares little known childhood incidents spent amidst nature. Some interesting anecdotes revealed through the episode include how he used to create bathing salts from dew as a child, or his encounters with wildlife in his childhood, or the simple yet profound reason behind sending postcards across the country to celebrate the first rains!PM Modi’s keen interest in environmental conservation and values of respecting nature, is sure to inspire generations of Indians to do the same.

    The Indian Prime Minister also shines spotlight on important issues like the need to preserve and embrace nature. Responding to Bear, when he points out evident dangers lurking in their vicinity (on account of wild animals), PM Modi fearlessly says, “We should not take this place as a danger zone. When we go against nature then everything becomes dangerous; human beings too become dangerous. On the other hand, if we co-operate with nature, then she also co-operates with us.”

    This fearlessness was also observed when Bear Grylls gives PM Modi an improvised version of a spear as a safeguard against potential attack from a Tiger. To which, PM Modi replies, “My upbringing does not allow me to take a life. However, I will hold on it (the spear) since you insist!” 

    When asked by Bear Grylls about the need and efforts towards cleanliness of India, the Prime Minister, said, “Someone from outside cannot clean my India, the people of India make India clean. Personal hygiene is in the culture of the Indian people. We need to develop the habit of social hygiene. Mahatma Gandhi has done lot of work on it and recently we are getting good success in this. I believe India will succeed in this very soon.”

    Bear Grylls shared an interesting anecdote about his Mount Everest expedition, “I stood on the top of Mount Everest; when I got home, I showed my mother the photo. You know what she said? ‘Why did you not comb your hair? Mothers. Mothers. It's the same all over the 

    world, eh? Mothers.” To which PM Modi smiled and nodded wholeheartedly, perhaps thinking of his own mother. 

  • GOQii kickstarts ‘India Health Quiz 2019’ – a first-of-its-kind initiative led by Akshay Kumar and his team of expert coaches to make India Healthy

    GOQii kickstarts ‘India Health Quiz 2019’ – a first-of-its-kind initiative led by Akshay Kumar and his team of expert coaches to make India Healthy

    MUMBAI: GOQii, India’s leading preventive digital healthcare company, today announced ‘GOQii India Health Quiz 2019’ – a first-of-its-kind, nationwide initiative to educate the masses with the right information on health. The GOQii India Health Quiz (IHQ)  2019 will be led by Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar with a team of expert health coaches that include Sardar Singh, Olympian and ex-India Hockey Captain, Youtube fitness experts-Jeet Selal, Abhinav Mahajan and Ranveer Allhabadia, Luke Coutinho-Master Coach at GOQii just to name a few.  

    The India Health Quiz, is a 100-day live quiz challenge on the GOQii app, available on Android and iOS for free.  

    Given the current abundance of unverified health advice available on the internet, GOQii’s endeavour with the India Health Quiz is to make Indians aware and informed with the correct information regarding Health & Fitness.

    Partnered by Times Network for this initiative, in this 100-day challenge, participants must watch LIVE GOQii Play videos and participate in hourly quizzes, which will earn them points. These points can then be redeemed to win exciting prizes* like GOQii Activity trackers, OnePlus 7, iPhone XR and the top cash prize of Rs. 5 lakh. The questions for this 100 day quiz challenge have been prepared by GOQii’s Health coaches & have been verified by its health experts.

    Commenting on the initiative, Akshay Kumar, Brand Ambassador of GOQii said, “ Today, most people turn to the web for health information. But it is always best to get all your health-related queries addressed by health experts and trainers. Hence, I am glad I am associated with a health initiative such as India Health Quiz that is aimed at educating and busting myths and learning facts about health that will go a long way in making people healthy”.

    Speaking about the GOQii India Health Quiz 2019, Vishal Gondal, Founder & CEO, GOQii said, “GOQii India Health Quiz is our mass health education initiative led by Akshay Kumar who was recently voted among the top 30 Health Influencers of India. Fake news and health myths can negatively impact a person’s physical and mental health. India Health Quiz initiative will help change this and get 130 crore Indians get the right information from the right source thereby making them healthier and happier“

  • This Raksha Bandhan, celebrate the love for your siblings with ‘The Gifting Carnival’ powered by Qwikcilver

    This Raksha Bandhan, celebrate the love for your siblings with ‘The Gifting Carnival’ powered by Qwikcilver

    Raksha Bandhan, the celebration of sibling love has come a long way and so has the tradition of exchanging gifts on this auspicious occasion. Considered as an expression of love, joy and celebration, selecting a gift on Raksha Bandhan for the sibling can prove to be a difficult task. A gift card thus provides an opportunity to give your sibling the power to choose their gifts – a nice perfume, a beautiful dress, a classic watch, a planned trip to an exotic location, or an OTT subscription, as they would prefer.

    Starting today, Qwikcilver, the end-to-end gift solution provider is launching “The Gifting Carnival” till August 18, 2019.

    A close up of text on a white surface Description automatically generatedThe Gifting Carnival is an omni-channel carnival that brings together more than 200 brands across 20+ categories on one platform, thereby giving consumers the power to shop as per their choices and avail benefits of exclusive Gift Card Offers.

    The gifting carnival is live across a range of categories including e-commerce, large format stores, travel & hospitality, specialized retail, fashion & apparel, entertainment, and food & beverages. Some of the brands participating in this carnival are Myntra, Lifestyle, Croma, Levi’s, The Raymond Store, Central, Titan, Zomato, Zivame, Big Bazaar, BookMyShow, PC Jeweller and Zee5.

    The gift cards can also be gifted through www.woohoo.in & the Woohoo app. Woohoo is a gift card superstore for personal and occasion-based gifting. With Woohoo app and Woohoo.in, consumers can gift their loved one’s apparels, jewelry, a meal at a restaurant, a movie, spa outing or even a holiday at a resort or a luxury hotel. To enhance the experience, the gift card can be personalized with photos, GIFs, voice messages and more, with the ease to gift directly through WhatsApp or e-mail.

    The recipient of the gift cards can also store the gift cards on woohoo.in or Woohoo app so that there are no concerns about the card getting stolen or lost. Woohoo is India’s largest gifting platform.

    The gift card holder can either redeem the card online on the brands’ portals, or can walk into a participating brand store, across 2000+ cities in the country to redeem their gift card.

    It can’t get better than this! This Raksha Bandhan, surprise your sibling with a new age gift and make him/ her smile!

    “The Gifting Carnival…where Gifting meets Gift Cards”

  • Sony YAY! celebrates World Cat Day with their funny feline duo Honey Bunny

    Sony YAY! celebrates World Cat Day with their funny feline duo Honey Bunny

    MUMBAI: “I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.” As rightly put by Hippolyte Taine, cats truly hold a very special place in every family. No wonder every year the world fondly celebrates World Cat Day on 8th August. This year Sony YAY! too celebrated their own goofy cats – Honey and Bunny. The feline duo are immensely loved by their young fans for their wacky and comic antics.The combination of Honey’s goofiness and Bunny’s over smartness from the popular show ‘Honey-Bunny ka Jholmaal’ leaves everyone in splits. Through their adventures, their camaraderie and their trippy dance moves, the adorable cat duo brightens the day for everyone.

    The love and fan following that Honey and Bunny enjoy is also due to the way they connect with the kids whether it is through their unconditional friendship or how they help each other get through tricky situations. Given how Honey and Bunny make the kid’s TV viewing experience special for them, Sony YAY! decided to make them feel special on a day dedicated towards cats. The channel celebrated Honey & Bunny and called upon all feline lovers to celebrate their cats together with them. Making it an all-cat affair, Sony YAY! hosted Honey-Bunny and all the cat lovers at Cafe Pefe,  a feline-theme restaurant in Mumbai. It was a fun themed party hosted by RJ Karan from Radio City 91.1 FM with a specially crafted Honey Bunny-themed menu, Jholmaal themed games and the title track of Honey-Bunny ka Jholmaal on loop for kids to have unlimited fun.

    With lots of pictures, selfies, dance and masti, the day truly belonged to Honey-Bunny!

  • Make this august action-packed with Star Movies, movie of the month

    Make this august action-packed with Star Movies, movie of the month

    MUMBAI: India's highly acclaimed and multi-award winning English movie channel, Star Movies, brings the action-packed fare with their movie of the month, Kill Zone 2. Released in 2016, the incredible thriller grossed over 94 million worldwide.

    Directed by Soi Cheang, it is a pulsating and gripping action-thriller movie. It stars legendary actors, including Tony Jaa, Jing Wu, Simon Yam and Zin Zhang.

    The movie is about an undercover cop who gets very close to revealing a drug syndicate when his cover gets blown by one of the syndicate members. Being a super star in South East Asia and 

    A part of franchises like Furious 7, Ong Bak – The Thai Warrior, Triple Threat, XXX: Return Of Xander Cage, Paradox and many more, Tony JAA’s characterization and performance gives tough competition to the Super Hero films. In this lightheadedly frantic follow-up to modern martial arts epic Kill Zone (Sha Po Lang), action icons Tony Jaa (Ong-Bak, The Protector) and Zhang Jin (Ip Man 3) team up with Hong Kong megastars Simon Yam, Wu Jing, and Louis Koo for a swift story of dirty cops, prison riots, and black-market organ transplants, all brought together by a non-stop series of imaginative, bone-crunching set pieces.

    Star Movies never fails to bring quality entertainment to our television screens. Explore the journey with Kit as he enters the world of dark crime and unveils the organ trafficking racket.

  • Sony Pictures Sports Network partners with INOX, PVR Cinemas and Cinépolis to showcase the highly anticipated UEFA Super Cup 2019 match LIVE on the big screen

    Sony Pictures Sports Network partners with INOX, PVR Cinemas and Cinépolis to showcase the highly anticipated UEFA Super Cup 2019 match LIVE on the big screen

    MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Sports Network (SPSN), the official broadcaster of the UEFA events in the Indian Sub-Continent, announces special screenings for the upcoming UEFA Super Cup on 14th August 2019 in association with India’s leading multiplexes, INOX, PVR and Cinépolis. In a first of its kind collaboration with three leading multiplexes across India, Sony Pictures Sports Network, will provide fans with a larger than life experience by screening the UEFA Super Cup Finals at various multiplexes in 10 cities across the country – Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Kolkata, Bangalore, Goa, Jaipur, Guwahati, Bhubaneshwar and Ahmedabad.

    UEFA Super Cup is set to captivate millions of fans across India in another action-packed match as Liverpool and Chelsea, battle it out for one of the most coveted trophies under the UEFA banner. This is the first time in the history of the UEFA Super Cup that two English heavyweights will face each other in the finals for the title at the BJK Vodafone Park in Istanbul. For the theatrical screening of the UEFA Super Cup, leading multiplexes will be using the LIVE feed of SONY TEN 2 channels of Sony Pictures Sports Network. 

    The 2019 UEFA Super Cup will be the 44th edition of the UEFA Super Cup, an annual football match organized by UEFA and contested by the reigning champions of the two premium European club tournaments, the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League. Both teams have participated in this tournament with Chelsea winning this title once and Liverpool winning the title three times. The last time Liverpool played a UEFA Champions League final in Istanbul, they beat AC Milan in a historic comeback back in 2005.

     

  • Two successful lives, two friends, and yet a bunch of regret on the table. Watch the premiere of Youth only on &PrivéHD

    Two successful lives, two friends, and yet a bunch of regret on the table. Watch the premiere of Youth only on &PrivéHD

    MUMBAI: You will always come across people who have achieved everything in life and yet regret decisions made in the past. &PrivéHD, premium destination of nuanced cinema brings to you a delightful story of a retired orchestra conductor as they come across series of repent in spite of a successful life. Watch the Academy Award Nominee movie, Youth as it premieres on Saturday, August 10, at 1 PM and 9 PM.

    Directed by BAFTA award winner Paolo Sorrentino, the movie features the Academy Award Winning stars like Michael Canine, Rachel Weisz, and Jane Fonda who essays the roles of Fred Ballinger, Lena Ballinger and Brenda Morel respectively. Amongst the stars, Academy Award Nominee Harvey Keitel dawns the role of Mick Boyle. Two old friends, Fred Ballinger and Mick Boyle visit a hotel at the foot of the Alps for a vacation with their family. Mick entertains the guests while he gathers upon his thought to finish the screenplay for what he imagines to be his last movie. Fred has no intention of resuming his musical career, but someone wants at all costs to hear him conduct again.

    For those who appreciate nuanced cinema, &PrivéHD brings riveting and award-winning films that stimulate the minds and bring alive the other side of cinema with Zee Prime English HD Pack comprising – &PrivéHD, Zee Café HD, &flix HD, LF HD is priced at Rs 25/-.