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  • Colors Rishtey back on DD FreeDish, bringing TV classics to the masses

    Colors Rishtey back on DD FreeDish, bringing TV classics to the masses

    MUMBAI: Hold onto your remotes, India! JioStar’s Colors Rishtey has slithered back onto DD FreeDish, popping up on channel 50. After a three-year hiatus, the channel is returning with iconic shows, all for free, kicking off on 1 April That’s no April fool’s joke.

    The channel management has lined up a string of  its hit soaps  and drama series in the hope of pulling in the eyeballs.. Expect the serpentine shenanigans of Naagin, starring Mouni Roy and Arjun Bijlaani, and Naagin – Insaaf Ki Jung,  featuring Surbhi Jyoti, Anita Hassanandani, and Karishma Tanna. Family feuds and kitchen sink dramas abound in Sasural Simar Ka, with Avika Gor and Dipika Kakar, and Sasural Simar Ka – Ek Naya Adhyay,  starring Radhika Muthukumar and Avinash Mukherjee. For a dose of social drama, there’s Doree, featuring Amar Upadhya and Sudha Chandran, and for a laugh, Khatra Khatra Khatra, with Haarsh Limbachiyaa and Bharti Singh. And for those seeking a touch of the divine, Mahakali-Ant Hi Arambh Hein and Mahaveer Hanuman are on hand to deliver some timeless devotional sagas.

    Colors Rishtey head of linear TV business Arnab Das is over the moon. “We’re thrilled to reintroduce the magic of iconic shows, all for free!” he exclaimed. “We’re bringing back the golden days of TV – full of drama, family stories, and moments that everyone in the family can enjoy.”

    The return of Colors Rishtey is a major win for DD FreeDish viewers, who’ve been missing their fix of classic television. Now, they can settle in for hours of free entertainment, proving that even in the age of streaming, good old-fashioned television still packs a punch. It’s a proper telly tale. 

  • Chef Ranveer Brar cooks up a storm with celebs on EPIC ON’s ‘Family Table’

    Chef Ranveer Brar cooks up a storm with celebs on EPIC ON’s ‘Family Table’

    Mumbai: This Valentine’s Day, renowned chef Ranveer Brar, celebrated for his culinary prowess, brings forth a cooking battle that weaves together a delightful tapestry of culinary expertise, heart-warming narratives, and the joy of shared meals.

    Chef Brar’s culinary philosophy, grounded in the idea of food as a conduit for connection and cherished memories, takes centre stage in ‘Family Table.’ The show extends an invitation to families across India to share their kitchens, offering a distinctive blend of entertainment and gastronomic delight. Beyond the realm of recipes, ‘Family Table’ explores the stories behind the dishes, delving into traditions and the moments that render a family meal extraordinary.

    Adding a touch of celebrity allure, special guests Tejasswi Prakash, Vaani Kapoor, Huma Qureshi, Shweta Tiwari, Karishma Tanna, and Fatima Sana Shaikh will bring their favorite family dishes they love sharing with their loved ones to be recreated on the show.

    Chef Brar expressed, “My association with the IN10 Media Network goes back a long way. ‘Family Table’ will present me in a new avatar, elevating the show from my previous cookery ventures.”

    He continued, “In every home, there’s a hidden recipe that can elevate the mood of your taste buds. To showcase these hidden gems, we are featuring diverse families from different parts of India, highlighting how food binds us all in love.”

    EPIC ON COO Sourjya Mohanty said, “EPIC ON aims to build a diverse library of original shows, resonating with various audience groups. ‘Family Table’ takes a step further, connecting with Indian audiences through their taste buds. Viewers can anticipate more than just a cooking demonstration, as the show seamlessly intertwines food, family, and entertainment, enriching the tapestry of cooking shows.”

    Produced by 1947 Productions, the culinary reality show ‘Family Table’ is set to stream on the EPIC ON starting 14 February 2024. The show is also available on the network’s flagship channel, EPIC.

    Get ready for a feast that goes beyond the kitchen, weaving together the threads of food, family, and entertainment.

  • Dazzle this new year with Caprese: Malaika Arora and Karishma Tanna showcase party clutches

    Dazzle this new year with Caprese: Malaika Arora and Karishma Tanna showcase party clutches

    Mumbai: – Caprese, a fashion handbag brand, unveils the #DazzleWithCaprese campaign, featuring renowned fashion icons Malaika Arora and Karishma Tanna. These celebrities bring a touch of elegance to the exclusive Party Clutches collection, making them the perfect accessory for the upcoming season of celebrations.

    The #DazzleWithCaprese campaign encourages fashionistas to add a glamorous touch to their New Year party looks with Caprese, inspired by the styles of these celebrities. Seamlessly blending with the essence of the campaign, their styles add an extra layer of allure to year-end celebrations. The celebrities share their excitement, expressing how Caprese’s Party Clutches make them feel like divas, drawing attention with their allure at every party.

    Presenting a meticulously curated range of Party Clutches, each designed to make a bold statement, the campaign showcases these exquisite accessories adorned with chic and detachable chain handles. Crafted from high-quality materials, the Clutches deliver a luxurious touch, ensuring a sophisticated addition to any ensemble.

    Beyond their captivating design, these clutches boast impeccable practicality. With a spacious interior, they offer ample room for essentials, while thoughtfully organised pockets enhance functionality. This harmonious blend of style and utility positions them as the perfect adornment for various occasions, demonstrating how an accessory can seamlessly infuse notable elegance into one’s look. With the Clutches, Caprese encourages individuals to embrace confidence and make a striking fashion statement at every celebration.

    Caprese business head Pushpita Gaur remarked, “The #DazzleWithCaprese campaign epitomizes our dedication to offering statement pieces like the exclusive Clutches. We aim to infuse glamour and elegance into the New Year’s celebrations, providing fashion enthusiasts with the perfect accessory to celebrate the season.”

    Available In Caprese’s retail stores, on their website and through various e-commerce platforms, including Myntra, Nykaa, and more.

  • 2 Crore Users Celebrate Diwali and 11.11 Shopping Fest with UCWeb

    2 Crore Users Celebrate Diwali and 11.11 Shopping Fest with UCWeb

    MUMBAI: Around 2 crore UC users celebrated Diwali and 11.11 UC Shopping Fest with UCWeb over the past 3 weeks. This year, the UC Shopping Fest in India, as a part of Alibaba’s 11.11 Global Festival, offered Diwali surprises with Paytm. In the 20-day campaign, lucky users have won gifts and Paytm coupons worth 1.2 crores in total.

    Diwali is the peak shopping season for Indians throughout the year with as much as 45% of the annual sales of some consumer goods are made during Diwali. To help its vast user base shop better this Diwali, UC set up a new channel “Shopping”, where users learned to make smart shopping choices. UC also invited its 130 million users to participate in the in-app card collecting game. Sponsored by Paytm, lucky users got their Diwali shopping wish lists come true and shared the Paytm coupons worth 1 crore in the elated festival.

    “The 11.11 online carnival is an example of UC’s glocalisation strategy for its business,” said Damon Xi, General Manager of UCWeb India and Indonesia, Alibaba Digital Media and Entertainment Group, “Taking local user habits and demands into consideration, we launched this online festival for Indian users.”

    Apart from extravagant presents from UC, users learned practical shopping tips from two Bollywood stars. Karishma Tanna and Bharti Singh, who were invited by UCWeb as Diwali shopping icons, were engaged in an online battle since October 22. Bharti Singh took the crown and claimed the title of “UC Shopping Queen”. In their last Live Chat battle on November 9, they competed fiercely to win Honor 8X phones for their fans. Before the crown fight, Karishma Tanna was in for a pleasant surprise when renowned astrologer, Acharya Indu Prakash Ji, predicted her to get married between December 2018 and February 2019 during the astrology live chat. Meanwhile, Acharya gave a charm to Bharti to help give birth to twin boys and maybe more!

    Live chat is a fraction of the online Diwali carnival and 11.11 Shopping Fest on UC. In sight of more than 9 million users in the live chat in Asia Cup 2018, UC deems live chat as one of the most preferredways for its users to engage in trendy topics. This time, UC converged Diwali, shopping, astrology, and celebrities into the live chat. This interactive and entertaining session has generated millions of engagement and become a social buzz. During the live chat, viewers also got astrology predictions from Acharya Indu Prakash Ji. At the same time, users got their astrology report via the in-app activity called “Test Your Luck”.

    “We are impressed by the active turnout rate of users. UC users enjoy casual, entertaining contentalong with keeping abreast of trendy topics,” said Damon Xi. According to a joint report by Cheetah Lab and UC Media Lab, entertainment is the most consumed category on UC. “As a content platform, we are leading with providing tailor-made content in the Indian market. We will continue to connect users to quality content and enhance their browsing experience.”

  • Disney India’s Broadway Style Musical Beauty and The Beast Red Carpet

    Disney India’s Broadway Style Musical Beauty and The Beast Red Carpet

    MUMBAI: Disney India brought back the magical experience of Beauty and the Beast live on stage at NSCI dome Worli with its second weekend of shows. The locally produced musical theatre extravaganza attracted a huge crowd of celebrities and once again left everyone mesmerized with their breath-taking performances.

    The show spotted Varun Dhawan, Boman Irani, Terrence Lewis, Vishal Dadlani, Karishma Tanna and others attending the grand musical.

    The highly anticipated show boasts of world class production values, extravagant sets, stunning costumes and over 100 of the finest musical theatre performers bringing alive the magical love story live on stage. Some of the prominent people who worked with Indian production include – Vikranth Pawar (Show Director and Creative Head, Live Entertainment at Disney India), Lesle Lewis (Music Direction), Terence Lewis (Choreography), Varsha Jain (Set Design), Gavin Miguel (Costume Design), Pallavi Devika (Hair & Make-up) and Suzanne D’Mello (Vocal Training). Most outstanding is the fact that this production of the Beauty and the Beast musical has been entirely developed locally but retains the original script and memorable music of the Broadway show.

    The show (in English) runs for 130 minutes in duration and has only select shows in Mumbai.

     

  • Disney India’s Broadway Style Musical Beauty and The Beast Red Carpet

    Disney India’s Broadway Style Musical Beauty and The Beast Red Carpet

    MUMBAI: Disney India brought back the magical experience of Beauty and the Beast live on stage at NSCI dome Worli with its second weekend of shows. The locally produced musical theatre extravaganza attracted a huge crowd of celebrities and once again left everyone mesmerized with their breath-taking performances.

    The show spotted Varun Dhawan, Boman Irani, Terrence Lewis, Vishal Dadlani, Karishma Tanna and others attending the grand musical.

    The highly anticipated show boasts of world class production values, extravagant sets, stunning costumes and over 100 of the finest musical theatre performers bringing alive the magical love story live on stage. Some of the prominent people who worked with Indian production include – Vikranth Pawar (Show Director and Creative Head, Live Entertainment at Disney India), Lesle Lewis (Music Direction), Terence Lewis (Choreography), Varsha Jain (Set Design), Gavin Miguel (Costume Design), Pallavi Devika (Hair & Make-up) and Suzanne D’Mello (Vocal Training). Most outstanding is the fact that this production of the Beauty and the Beast musical has been entirely developed locally but retains the original script and memorable music of the Broadway show.

    The show (in English) runs for 130 minutes in duration and has only select shows in Mumbai.

     

  • Lalitya Munshaw Album Indian Chill Harmonics launched by Grand Mast Team

    Lalitya Munshaw Album Indian Chill Harmonics launched by Grand Mast Team

    MUMBAI: The music launch of Lalitya Munshaw New Age Album Indian Chill Harmonics was a fun affair which was attended by several famous personalities from Bollywood and industrialist circle. It was unveiled by Bollywood actors Vivek Oberoi, actress Brunna Abdulla, Kainaat Arora, Manjiri Fadnis, Karishma Tanna, Sonali Kulkarni and Maryam Zakariya. The first to arrive was actor Vivek Oberai who was seen cutting the cake along with Lalitya Munshaw and Grand the Mast team who were eager to eat it. They were all in masti mood and managed to bring the audiences to splits with their naughty acts. Vivek Oberoi was seen praising Lalitya’s Album he said, “Indian Chill Harmonics album music is fantastic and it has International flavour and it is a different Kind of Album and I like it very much. I wish Lalitya a great Success.”

     

    Actress Bruna Abdulla raised the temperature of party and was seen bonding and discussing with beautiful actress Manjari Fadhnis and Producer Satish Reddy about the latest trend in Bollywood. Charming actress Maryam Zakariya spread her magic on people and everyone was stuck to get a glimpse of the beautiful actress. She said, “The Music of Indian Chill Harmonic is a very beautiful and Lalitya has done a great job in this album. I wish Lalitya the great success for her album. Actress karishma Tanna was seen chatting with Kainaat Arora and Sonali Kulkarni about the album and the masti they did in their movie. Industrialist Dilip Piramal walked with his beautiful wife Shalini Piramal and was seen Bonding with Lalitya Munshaw, Gokul Indani and Industrialist Rubeen Malkhani. Lalitya was looking very gorgeous in black dress and she sang a beautiful song where everyone was stuck at one place for her enthralling performance. She said, “Its great pleasure to launch my Album Indian Chill Harmonics by Grand Masti Team. Indian Chill Harmonics has all the music breaks, infused drums and bass with classical melodies with fusion world and I thank Vivek Oberoi and all Grand Masti team for making it big day.”

     

    Diya Sharma, Ankit Narayanan, Kannada actress Reshma D’souza, Mexican actress Rebbeca Mayouga and Ukrainian actress, Supermodel Nataliya Kozhenova who were seen shaking their legs on beautiful song  And everyone was seen enjoying overall the saying says music and singer rules the hearth of the people.

  • Indian Telly Awards to honour technical finesse

    Indian Telly Awards to honour technical finesse

    MUMBAI: They are the faces behind Indian television, the ones that make sure that the impact is registered in a news story, the glamour quotient high in your daily soap, the finishing touch, the right music, the maximum intensity. They make television viewing an experience and most often you don’t even see them.

    But at Indian Television we understand the need for perfection that makes these technical experts the best in their field. And so at the Sixth Indian Telly Awards – Trade, Technical, Channel & Programming Nite we honour them and their work.

    The sixth edition of the Indian Telly Awards- Technical will be held on 6 February at the St. Andrew’s Auditorium, Bandra. What began as a germ of an idea in 2001 has progressed to fruition thanks to support from the industry.

    This year the awards will be anchored by telestars Pawan Shanker, Karishma Tanna, Rajesh Kumar and Barkha Bisht.

    Some of the categories for the awards function include : Current Affairs Programme , Business Programme , Music Programme , Non-fiction Programme, Non Fiction Prorgamme on news Channel, TV Documentary , Special/Visual Effects for Television, Art Direction, Videography (Best TV Cameraman), Costumes for a TV Programme, TV Show Packaging (Fiction), TV Show Packaging (Non Fiction), TV Channel Packaging (Including Channel Ids & Generic Promos), Editor (Fiction/Non Fiction ), Background Music for a TV Programme , Director (Thriller/Sitcom/Soap & Drama) Screenplay Writer, Dialogue Writer, Media Innovation, The BIG Idea Award , Interactive Show and Cable operator /MSO (Multi Systems Operator of the year).

    And if it’s about television, then it must also be about high octane entertainment. Fusion dancers Vrajesh and Kalyani present a unique Jazz meets Kathak performance while Pandit Ravindra Chary on sitar and Merlin round up the nite with some jazz, rock, blues and divine music.

    The event partners include Zee Networks Aaj Tak, CNN IBN, IBN 7 , Times Now Zee Cinema, Radio City , Bright Advertising , Rajasthan Patrika, & Mid Day, Fun Cinema , CMCG India , Tellychakkar.com & Animation Xpress .com.

    So starting at 6:30 pm this evening you have a date with the very best in Indian television.