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  • Partha Thakur appointed as Essel Vision non-fiction head

    Partha Thakur appointed as Essel Vision non-fiction head

    MUMBAI: Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (Zeel) has announced the appointment of Partha Thakur as non-fiction programming head for Essel Vision Productions. He will take charge from 3 November.

    Zeel is looking at strengthening its content and develop different genres of production. Thakur will report to Essel Vision Productions business head Akash Chawla. With over 15 years of experience in media and entertainment, he has produced content for broadcasters such as Zee TV, Star plus, Star World, Sony Entertainment Television, Colors, MTV, Sun TV, Vijay TV, NDTV, Pogo, Disney Network, UTV and Fox Traveler.

    He has worked with Wizcraft Television, Miditech Productions, Optimystix Entertainment, Searchlight Productions and MTV India. He has worked on multiple seasons of shows such as Entertainment Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega, Indian Idol, Fame Gurukul, IIFA Awards, GIMA Awards, Apsara Awards, Zee Rishtey Awards, Dare to Dance, amongst others.

    Thakur has also worked on shows in South Africa, Dubai, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Sri Lanka. His last assignment was at Sol Productions as the non-fiction head and creative director.

    Essel Vision’s objective is to be a one-stop shop for all film, television, digital, events and IP creation related services where it will produce, co-produce, market and distribute.

     

  • Colors elevates Manisha Sharma; Prashant Bhatt to move out

    Colors elevates Manisha Sharma; Prashant Bhatt to move out

    MUMBAI: The Hindi general entertainment channel (GEC), Colors, has been witnessing many exists lately.

     

    Late last month, came the news of the channel’s commercial and digital head Vivek Srivastava quitting and moving to Times Television Network to head the English Entertainment channels.

     

    Now, highly reliable sources within the industry have confirmed to indiantelevision.com that Prashant Bhatt, who heads the weekday programming head, has been asked to put down his papers. Meanwhile, the current non-fiction head Manisha Sharma has been awarded extra responsibilities of the entire programming department of the channel.

     

    In the year 2012, Colors had split its programming unit into two separate teams to bring more focus on content for weekdays and weekends.

     

    The official spokespersons of the channel were unavailable for comment.

     

    With inputs from tellychakkar.com