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  • MX Player announces 20 new originals by March 2020

    MX Player announces 20 new originals by March 2020

    MUMBAI: Bringing viewers stories that matter, stories that are authentic and powerful narratives that evoke emotion – the brand has now announced 20 new originals by March 2020, making it a colossal 35 originals by the end of the business year.

    Hosting one of the largest collections of premium content available for video on demand in India, the platform has 1,50,000 hrs of “Everytainment” including content from their partners like SonyLIV, Applause, HoiChoi, SunNxt, TVF, Radio Mirchi, Dice Media and Arre amongst others.

    Elaborating on the same, MX Player  CEO Karan Bedi said, “To bring alive our next slate of amazing originals, we have collaborated with writers and directors par excellence, a stellar talent pool of superlative performers and stories which are a class apart! With our scale and penetration that is unparalleled in India, we truly have succeeded in building an entertainment ecosystem with widespread appeal.”

    Here’s a look at some of its marquee properties for the year.

    This November, fans will be treated to a musical extravaganza like none other with the launch of Times of Music which features the who’s who of the music world as a part of the show – including Vishal-Shekhar, Bappi Lahiri, Salim-Sulaiman, Pyarelal-ji, Amit Trivedi, Rajesh Roshan, Agnee, Euphoria, Indian Ocean, Shantanu Moitra and Amaal Malik just to name a few. This series heroes a never-seen-before concept where each episode features two legends – veteran composers and new age artistes – performing their renditions of each other’s most celebrated songs.

    An ode to Indian weddings and the shaadi season is an MX Original Series ‘Shaadi Fit’ that traces the journey of 4 young couples who are put through an intensive journey to turn into the best shape of their lives physically, mentally and emotionally for their wedding day.

    Investing in regional content across genres and languages, MX Player adds ‘Ek Thi Begum’ and ‘Samantar’ to its Marathi slate. The former is a thrilling revenge drama where a woman, pushed to the brink emerges as a dominant force to avenge her lost husband while ‘Samantar’ is another ambitious regional project featuring the superstar of Marathi cinema – Swapnil Joshi in the lead. The brand is also dabbling with 2 Bhojpuri shows – ‘Madhuri Talkies’ and ‘Runaway Lugaai’, while the Tamil slate brings you the most awaited series by National Award-Winning Director – Gautham Vasudev Menon – ‘Queen’.

     ‘Call it Magic’ is a crime thriller which stars acclaimed performers like Ranvir Shorey, Akshay Oberoi, Shweta Basu Prasad and Mrinmayee Godbole as the leads and its next is a relationship drama about love in your 20s, 40s and 60s – ‘Pawan and Pooja’ which features an ensemble cast including Mahesh Manjrekar, Deepti Naval, Gul Panag and Sharman Joshi amongst others.

  • Pocket Aces partners Ola & Play

    MUMBAI: Pocket Aces, one of the country’s leading digital entertainment companies running channels FilterCopy, Dice Media and Gobble, has partnered with Ola, India’s most popular mobile app for transportation, to provide a wide range of digital content to Ola’s connected ridesharing platform, Ola Play.

    The premium content from Pocket Aces will include short videos from their flagship channel FilterCopy, hugely popular web series Little Things and Not Fit from Dice Media, and food videos from Gobble. Not Fit was also the first web series to play on television – it did three successful runs on NDTV Prime earlier this year.

    Pocket Aces co-founder Aditi Shrivastava said, “Our goal is to give our content and our brand partners as much reach as possible, and are in conversations with several global OTT players and television channels to syndicate our content. ”

    Ola Play sr. director & head Ankit Jain said, “The possibilities that Play offers allows us to discover and aggregate content as music, web series, discover apps and much more to be made available to customers at the push of a button. We are extremely excited to partner with Pocket Aces to enable Ola Play users’ access to high quality content.”

  • Dice Media unveils Little Things’ third episode

    Dice Media unveils Little Things’ third episode

    MUMBAI: Dice Media has released its third episode titled ‘Good Night’ of its new original web series, Little Things. The 5-episode romantic comedy web series beautifully portrays the little things in the life of an everyday couple starring Mithila Palkar, one of the most popular digital stars in India today, and the talented writer-actor Dhruv Sehgal. 

    Good Night unfolds the incident of a sleepless night of the duo. Thanks to the mosquitoes, this night turns into a discovery of Kavya’s ex-boyfriend getting married and a long conversation about exes follows. Every relationship has some sort of power struggle in it, and Dhruv and Kavya’s is no different.  Will Dhruv realize the importance of Kavya in his life? Watch the episode to find out how Dhruv and Kavya value each other’s existence in their lives.

    The 5-part series is directed by Ajay Bhuyan, written by Dhruv Sehgal, with music by Neel Adhikari. Little Things will release every Wednesday on Dice Media’s Facebook and YouTube pages. All the episodes can be watched at 

    Released on Oct 26, following is the stunning response received for the series so far: 

    · Episode 1 has already crossed 2.2 million views (>1.2 million on YT, >1 million on FB) with over 19k shares and 4,700 comments.

    · Episode 2, which released five days back, has already received 2 million views (~1 million on YT, >1 million on FB) with over 13k shares and 3,500 comments.

    Pocket Aces conceptualizes, creates, and distributes engaging original content for millennial audiences through its channels Dice Media (sketches and web-series), FilterCopy (sharable and snackable short-form content), and Gobble (everything food). 

    Dice has created several experimental and edgy pieces of content such as the satirical sketch, Ban Ban, India’s first mockumentary series Not Fit, and most recently, an absurd-humour sketch titled Offline.

  • Dice Media unveils Little Things’ third episode

    Dice Media unveils Little Things’ third episode

    MUMBAI: Dice Media has released its third episode titled ‘Good Night’ of its new original web series, Little Things. The 5-episode romantic comedy web series beautifully portrays the little things in the life of an everyday couple starring Mithila Palkar, one of the most popular digital stars in India today, and the talented writer-actor Dhruv Sehgal. 

    Good Night unfolds the incident of a sleepless night of the duo. Thanks to the mosquitoes, this night turns into a discovery of Kavya’s ex-boyfriend getting married and a long conversation about exes follows. Every relationship has some sort of power struggle in it, and Dhruv and Kavya’s is no different.  Will Dhruv realize the importance of Kavya in his life? Watch the episode to find out how Dhruv and Kavya value each other’s existence in their lives.

    The 5-part series is directed by Ajay Bhuyan, written by Dhruv Sehgal, with music by Neel Adhikari. Little Things will release every Wednesday on Dice Media’s Facebook and YouTube pages. All the episodes can be watched at 

    Released on Oct 26, following is the stunning response received for the series so far: 

    · Episode 1 has already crossed 2.2 million views (>1.2 million on YT, >1 million on FB) with over 19k shares and 4,700 comments.

    · Episode 2, which released five days back, has already received 2 million views (~1 million on YT, >1 million on FB) with over 13k shares and 3,500 comments.

    Pocket Aces conceptualizes, creates, and distributes engaging original content for millennial audiences through its channels Dice Media (sketches and web-series), FilterCopy (sharable and snackable short-form content), and Gobble (everything food). 

    Dice has created several experimental and edgy pieces of content such as the satirical sketch, Ban Ban, India’s first mockumentary series Not Fit, and most recently, an absurd-humour sketch titled Offline.

  • TVF launches mockumentary titled ‘Not Fit’

    TVF launches mockumentary titled ‘Not Fit’

    MUMBAI: The Viral Fever (TVF) founded by Arunabh Kumar, has released an original mockumentary series titled Not Fit. The trailer and the first episode of the web series was aired on 16 December, 2015 on TVF Play. The series is created by Dice Media.

     

    The new series follows the path of the popular web series Pitchers, which was a success. The series is written and directed by Sudev Nair and is a tongue-in-cheek look at the world of aspiring actors and the weird and wonderful environment they inhabit.

     

    Talking about the new series, Kumar says, “The fabulous team of Dice Media led by Ashwin Suresh and Anirudh Pandita along with Sudev Nair have been able to create an original series that is akin to our TVF mantra and we are happy to have them as our partners.”

     

    “We are extremely proud to have created Not Fit, soon after the tremendous success of our previous videos,Ban Ban, and Neta Sabki Leta. We are working hard to bring more engaging and entertaining content to young Indian audiences and look forward to collaborating with Arunabh and his team,” added Dice Media co-founder Ashwin Suresh.

     

    Speaking about the new initiative Dice Media co-founder Anirudh Pandita said, “We’re happy to partner with TVF on this series. We believe the company has the right audience for this show and this partnership allows us to showcase our content to them. The two brands have a common mission, which makes us natural partners as we push the envelope when it comes to content formats in India.”

     

    The prequel of to the series is already out on YouTube.