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  • Peps India to join Asia cup 2014 as Central Associate Sponsor

    Peps India to join Asia cup 2014 as Central Associate Sponsor

    MUMBAI: Peps India, one of India’s leading mattress manufacturers announced that it will be the Central Associate sponsor for the prestigious Asia Cup that will commence on February 25, 2014 in Bangladesh. This will be the first time in India that a mattress brand will be a sponsor for an international cricket tournament. This will include branding for Restonic and (other mattresses brands that will be advertised).

    Peps India’s involvement in the cricket scene and sponsorship of Asia Cup is about more than generating widespread exposure for its products through this globally popular sport. It is also a great opportunity to promote the company’s proven expertise when it comes to mattresses and other sleep products as they plan to expand their business in the Asian domain.

    Mr K Madhavan, Managing Director, Peps India, said, “This is a momentous occasion for us to be associated with cricket. It’s a sport that I grew up watching and continue to follow it closely and it’s an extremely proud moment for me and the company.”

    Asia Cup is a very important fixture on the international cricket calendar and the viewership across cricket watching nations is very high. As part of being the Central Associate sponsor Peps India will get to give away the sponsor trophy to the winning team at the end of the tournament apart from getting in stadium visibility and air time during the telecast of the entire tournament.

    “Cricket is like a religion in India and there have been times when the entire country grinds to a halt when there is a game being played and we know that Peps India can only gain tremendously by this association”, added Mr Madhavan. “A fit body and mind is needed to play a sport like cricket and good sleep is an essential ingredient for a healthy and fit body and by that we see a great connect between cricket and our brand”.

     

  • Star Life OK to show Asia Cup 2014 live in UK & Europe

    Star Life OK to show Asia Cup 2014 live in UK & Europe

    MUMBAI: All the cricket hungry fans across UK and Europe have reason to celebrate. Star Life OK for the first time will be showing live cricket in the region.

     

    This move comes as an effort to offer cricket as a live experience to the large Asian population in the UK and Europe and build a strong viewer connect.

     

    The Asia Cup 2014 tournament will be exclusively televised on Star Life OK starting 25 February at 8:00 am.

     

    A total of 11 matches will be played with the opening game on 25 February and the final on 8 March 2014, scheduled to be held in Bangladesh.

     

    Star UK & Europe sr. VP Yeshpal Sharma said: “Given the passion for cricket amongst Asians worldwide, we are very proud to bring the Asia Cup 2014 to our viewers in the UK and Europe, and offer them live cricket on television.”

     

    This tournament certainly holds promise to be one of the most competitive cricket played in the Asian sub-continent for some time now.

     

    It will feature one day internationals played between leading Asian countries – India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh along with Afghanistan. Afghanistan will be participating in a major ODI tournament for the first time.

  • Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Foundation brings eight rare films to Hulu

    Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Foundation brings eight rare films to Hulu

    MUMBAI: Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Foundation (WCF) has been restoring rare films from around the globe since 2007. But while the foundation has saved 21 movies in that time, the product of its efforts haven’t been made available to the public until today.

     

    Recently, Scorsese announced that eight of the foundation’s restorations are coming to the streaming-video service Hulu, by way of a partnership with the Criterion Collection. Like the WCF, Criterion is a group that collects and restores historic and influential films. But Criterion sells its collection on disc and online, and streams exclusively on Hulu. The first WCF movie to make to Hulu is The Housemaid from South Korea and it’s available for streaming now.

     

    In the coming days, Criterion will add Senegal’s Touki Bouki, Turkey’s Law of the Borderand Dry Summer, Morocco’s Trances, India and Bangladesh’s A River Called Titas, Kazakhstan’s Revenge, and Mexico’s Redes from the WCF’s vaults to Hulu. Through 24 August the eight films – which have never before been available for streaming in the US – can be seen for free with ads. After that, only paying Hulu Plus subscribers will be able to watch the WCF movies, and they’ll do so ad free.

  • Star India in deal for Olympic Games coverage

    Star India in deal for Olympic Games coverage

    MUMBAI: Star India has scored the rights to carry the upcoming 2014 Winter Olympics from Sochi and the 2016 Summer Olympics from Rio across seven South Asian countries.

     

    The deal with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) also covers the Summer Youth Olympic Games, taking place next year in Nanjing, China. Star India has the free to air, pay TV, Internet and mobile rights for Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. In 2012, the Olympics were broadcast in India on state broadcaster Doordarshan.

     

    “We welcome the opportunity to work with Star India for the upcoming editions of the Olympic Games and Youth Olympic Games,” said IOC president Jacques Rogge. “We are confident they will do a great job providing the best possible broadcast coverage of the Games, on a variety of platforms, to the largest possible audience in the seven different countries.”

     

    IOC chairman finance commission Richard Carrión, said, “The Star India deal marked a shift in the organisation’s handling of broadcast rights in Asia. Traditionally the IOC has negotiated broadcast rights on a pan-Asian basis; however, the media landscape is changing and we have adapted our approach recently by negotiating directly in certain markets. We are very pleased to have reached this agreement directly with Star India.”

     

    For the 2012 games, the IOC had a pan-Asian free-TV deal with the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union and a pay-TV deal with the now defunct ESPN Star Sports.

     

    Star India head of sport business Nitin Kukreja added, “The Olympic Games remain the pinnacle of sporting achievement where the world’s best in various disciplines face off for the title of Olympic champion. Indian athletes have also performed admirably over the last few editions, which is evident in the medal-winning performances that we have come to admire. We value our partnership with the IOC and feel that this spectacular extravaganza can be taken to even greater heights in India on both television as well as on digital platforms.”??

     

    Elsewhere in the region, deals for the 2014 and 2016 games were previously concluded with CCTV in China, SBS in Korea and a consortium of broadcasters in Japan.

  • ICC World Cup 2015 launched: India and Pakistan grouped together

    ICC World Cup 2015 launched: India and Pakistan grouped together

    MUMBAI: Co-hosts of the 2015 Cricket World Cup, Australia and New Zealand, have been drawn in the same group for the tournament, while title-holders India will face off against arch rival Pakistan, it was announced on Tuesday.

     

    The first match of the prestigious one-day tournament will be held in Christchurch, the New Zealand city devastated by an earthquake in 2011, when the locals take on Sri Lanka on 14 February.

     

    The day-night final match will be at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 29 March.

     

    Australia and New Zealand are grouped with England, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and two qualifiers.

     

    Title-holders India are pooled with Pakistan, South Africa, West Indies, Zimbabwe, Ireland and one other qualifying team.

     

    The top four sides from each group will move on to the knockout stage.

     

    49 matches will be played in 14 venues across the two host nations, with Australia staging 26 games at grounds in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney.

     

    New Zealand will host 23 games in seven cities, including Christchurch where international cricket is set to return for the first time since the 6.3-magnitude quake which killed 185 people in 2011.

     

    Other New Zealand cities to host games are Auckland, Dunedin, Hamilton, Napier, Nelson and Wellington.

     

    Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who launched the tournament in Melbourne, said the contest would likely be watched by a global television audience of one billion.

     

    Pool A

     

    England, Australia (co-host), Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, New Zealand (co-host), Qualifier 2 (TBD), Qualifier 3 (TBD)

     

    Pool B

     

    South Africa, India, Pakistan, West Indies, Zimbabwe, Qualifier 1 (Ireland), Qualifier 4 (TBD)

  • Star Jalsha and Star Utsav launch on ATN Canada

    Star Jalsha and Star Utsav launch on ATN Canada

    MUMBAI: It’s Canada Ahoy for Star Jalsha and Star Utsav, two channels from the Star Network India stable. Asian Television Network (ATN), Canada‘s largest south Asian broadcaster, has signed licensing agreements under which it has been granted exclusive rights to the two channels. STAR Utsav will complement ATN‘s five Hindi general entertainment channels and STAR Jalsha will complete its four channel strong bouquet of Bangla language channels from India and Bangladesh.

    The Canadian premiere of these two channels commenced last week on Bell Fibe TV in Metro Toronto and Montreal. The two channels will have a free preview for 60 days. In addition to the existing subscriber base, with the launch of these new channels, ATN expects to gain new subscribers through cable, satellite and IPTV platforms across Canada.

    This will expand channel bouquet that ATN Canada delivers to South Asians across the land of the maple leaf to 39.

  • B’desh and West Bengal film industries join hands

    B’desh and West Bengal film industries join hands

    MUMBAI: The film industries of Bangladesh and West Bengal have come together in their zeal for mutual cooperation for co-production and exhibition of Bengali movies.

    In the presence of Bangladesh information minister Hasanul Hoque Inu, members of the two film industries announced that a memorandum of understanding (MoU) would be signed by them in the next few days.

    “We have always felt that the film industries at both places have been kept divided. If we can unite the two industries as one, then the resultant market would be a huge one,” said Bengali actor-producer Prosenjit Chatterjee.

    The West Bengal film industry has proposed to release all current Bengali films produced this year in Bangladesh. They also want to join hands in creating and developing cinema halls together on both sides of the border. Besides exhibition, the MoU will also harp on increasing joint venture production of films.

    “Our final target is to ensure that Bengali films get releases in both places on the same day,” Prosenjit said.

  • Six films on 1971 liberation war in Bangladesh film fest

    Six films on 1971 liberation war in Bangladesh film fest

    NEW DELHI: Six films based around the war for Bangladesh with Pakistan rule are to be screened in a special festival being held here to mark 40 years of liberation.

    The ‘Bangladesh War of Liberation in Celluloid’ Festival will be inaugurated tomorrow by Bangladesh High Commissioner Tariq A Karim and Information and Broadcasting Secretary Uday Kumar Varma. The opening film is ‘Matir Moina’ by Tareque Massud which won the Critics Award in Cannes in 2002.

    Morshedul Islam, who has directed the films ‘Khelaghar’ (Dolls House) and ‘Amar Bondhu Rashed’ (My Friend Rashed) which are being screened, will be here along with Joya Ahsan, actress of the award-winning film ‘Guerrilla’ by Nasiruddin Yousuff which will close the three-day Festival on 25 March.

    The other films are: ‘Joyjatra’ by Tauquir Ahmed, and ‘Khondo Golpo – 1971’ )1971 – A few Shattered Tales’).

    Addressing a press meet here, Deputy Bangladesh High Commissioner Mahbub Hassen Saleh said a review committee had selected the six films which were also shown earlier in Kolkata and Agartala. He said those cities had been chosen because of their proximity to Bangladesh and mentioned that Tripura which had a population of 1.2 million in 1971 had received fleeing Bangladeshi population of 1.6 million, which is something that has never happened anywhere else. India had given refuge to ten million refugees.

    Answering a question, he said attempts would be made to take the films to other parts of India.He recalled that the last Bangladesh film festival held in April 2010 had played to full houses.Answering another question, he said several Indians who had contributed to the liberation effort were being honoured in Dhaka on 27 March.

    Film Festivals director Rajiv Kumar Jain said the festival was being as part of the Cultural Exchange Programme aimed at increasing people to people contacts.

  • SAFF gets going in Goa

    SAFF gets going in Goa

    MUMBAI: The South Asian Film Festival (SAFF) got going in Goa yesterday with the screening of the Shammi Kapoor and Sharmila Tagore-starrer Kashmir ki Kali, screened as a special tribute to the late star.


    The festival was declared open by Goa chief minister Digambar Kamat in the presence of Randhir Kapoor and Rajeev Kapoor, the scions of Kapoor family among representatives of South Asian Countries who were present at the ceremony.


    Randhir Kapoor was felicitated by the state chief secretary Sanjay Srivastava in honour of the contribution of the Kapoor family to Indian Cinema. “Cinema knows no boundaries. Its just an emotion that we create. We should have lot of cultural exchange amongst the south Asian nations,” said Kapoor responding to the felicitation.


    The festival‘s theme is ‘Dissolving Boundaries‘ – spreading the message of togetherness and oneness amongst the South Asian Countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.


    Bhutan is the focus country for SAFF 2011. The annual festival will also pay tribute to Bangladeshi film maker Tareque Masud who was one of the two prime witnesses of the International War Crime Tribunal. Incidentally, Tareque was killed in a fatal bus accident near Dhaka on 26 August.

  • Independent TV gets new ops head

    Independent TV gets new ops head

    MUMBAI: The NDTV Worldwide and Beximco-owned Independent Television has found a new operations head as it readies to get going in Bangladesh.

    Biswajit Borkataky, who earlier had launched NDTV Profit and Bloomberg UTV, is taking up the position and will shift base to Dhaka beginning July.

    Sources indicate that the duo want the channel to be up and running by the end of year with NDTV Worldwide looking after the technology and operational setup.

    Currently, Borkataky is associate executive producer at Bloomberg UTV.

    Borkataky has nine years of broadcast experience and is known to specialise in new setups and process building. In his new capacity, he will be responsible for setting up and running all functions excluding content, at Independent Television.

    The NDTV and Beximco alliance includes channel planning and execution as well as NDTV assisting the Beximco Group with the operational and business management of the venture.