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  • Dish TV India launches female-centric service ‘Women’s Active’

    Dish TV India launches female-centric service ‘Women’s Active’

    Mumbai: Expanding its portfolio of value-added services, Dish TV India Limited has launched a new ‘Women’s Active’ service in partnership with FTC Talent Media and Entertainment. 

    Aimed at today’s women who play multiple roles, ‘Women’s Active’ has specially curated programming centered on fashion, beauty, home décor, health, and wellness, said the statement.

    “In today’s fast-paced and demanding lifestyle, there is a growing need amongst our women audience, to find holistic and convenient solutions that help manage their day-to-day challenges,” said DishTV India Ltd executive director and group CEO Anil Dua.  “Keeping this in mind, we have launched the ‘Women’s Active’ service with carefully selected content. We are confident that the new service will be well received on both the DishTV and D2H platforms.”

    “The demographics have changed; with more and more women driving content consumer markets, influencing advertising and forcing content providers to think out of the box to keep them engaged,” said FTC Talent Media & Entertainment CEO Omar Qureshi. “With the marriage of FTC Talent Media & Entertainment along with the outreach of DishTV & D2H, the four ‘E’s of cutting edge, targeted content have been addressed – Entertainment, Education, Empowerment, Engagement. FTC has always focussed on edutainment as a powerful means of targeted content creation and it stays true to owner/ promoter Suniel Shetty’s vision of empowerment. Yes ‘Women’s Active’ will be just that – stories of and for women.”

    The ad-free service will be accessible on channel number 117 on both DishTV and D2H.

  • Viiking appoints Omar Qureshi as CCO & biz head

    Viiking appoints Omar Qureshi as CCO & biz head

    MUMBAI: Viiking Media & Entertainment has appointed Bollywood & media expert Omar Qureshi as chief creative officer (CCO) and business head.

     

    With Qureshi’s appointment, the Group will now enter the digital media and creative content market.

     

    Viiking Ventures and Viiking Media & Entertainment chairman Sachiin Joshi said, “This is the most fabulous handshake to happen in the business of media and entertainment in a long time and will remains so for a long time. We, as a Group, are expanding in the areas of movies, movie content, short and long form content for digital. And who better than Omar – with his immense experience in all these zones – to spearhead these areas. He is a household name with Bollywood and a known face with TV, media and even the audiences. His experience and expertise shall only add greater value to Viiking as a company.”

     

    Joshi further added, “We intend not only to become the biggest players in the digital content space out of India, we will also have the in-house expertise to select and make the best possible content for movies and the music space, that seem to be suffering from dearth of enough creativity. Omar is a master of that territory and we are very excited.”

     

    Qureshi said, “When smart business meets smart content, the result is a spark that can set benchmarks and blaze new trails. With the kind of Group support and resources at the disposal of the Viiking Group, the ventures we are looking at shall be the place to visit, for sampling any kind of content across genres. With a focused eye on Bollywood and entertainment, we shall also foray into other genres.”

     

    “With niche TV viewing going through asphyxiation by the larger GECs, and with content suffering from scarcity of originality, we hope to create shark tanks of expert teams, the best of breed in their domains, who will create businesses that will become a landing page for most consumers. With the Group’s interest in Bollywood and Tollywood movies, also looking internationally, I see a beautiful synergy and an exciting new zone that shall be the mother of all digital content, hopefully, sooner than we think. With the kind of vision, 70mm foresight and drive that Sachiin Joshi has, this seems immensely doable,” Qureshi concluded.

  • Omar Qureshi bids adieu to Zoom

    Omar Qureshi bids adieu to Zoom

    MUMBAI: Times Television Network (TTN) has announced the official departure of Zoom TV’s editor in chief and creative head Omar Qureshi. He was part of Zoom for over six years and had played a role in building its unique properties. Qureshi also hosted Zooming with Omar which was a movie review based show.

     

    Speaking on the move, Zoom vice president and product head Sunder Venketraman said, “Omar has constantly driven the team to showcase compelling Bollywood content for our audience. His contribution has been exemplary and we wish him luck and all the very best in his future endeavors.”

     

    Recently the channel celebrated a decade of its existence. The channel conducts entertainment news, features, countdowns, music, trends, celebrity interviews and reviews. The Bollywood channel is available across 58 countries worldwide besides heavy presence in the social media space on platforms like facebook and twitter making it a one stop shop for everything related to Bollywood.
     

     

  • ‘Zoom Review Show’ completes 200 episodes

    ‘Zoom Review Show’ completes 200 episodes

    MUMBAI: Zoom, the Indian glamour and entertainment channel is high on the heels again. The channel which recently, crossed an unprecedented five million likes on Facebook has added one more success to its tale. The channels’ ‘Zoom Review Show’ crossed the 200 episode milestone on 20 September.

    Hosted by journalist and noted Bollywood expert Omar Qureshi, the show was launched in 2009. This most viewed movie review show on TV now has also become the longest running one.

    Talking about the success, Zoom TV editor-in-chief Omar Qureshi said: “It’s gratifying to reach the daunting milestone of 200 episodes of a weekly show. But all thanks to an amazing audience and a supportive industry who’ve been open to sometime not-so-flattering reviews, since fairness has been the benchmark set. We have always endeavored to give the first complete review and keep the viewing public in mind. And it’s gratifying that the people have given a ‘thumbs up’ to a continually top rated show. Here’s thanking all and cheers to another double century.”

    The show focuses on the regular movie-goer, who is keen on knowing if a movie is value for money or not. The star-cast of the movie, their performances, its musical score, item numbers, most impactful scenes, interesting or funny screenplay, the quality of its visuals – are some of the many factors that come together in determining the movie’s entertainment value. Rather than just giving a critical discourse about a movie, the show sets things into perspective by breaking down the movie for the audience around these aspects and gives a very relatable and believable analysis.

    The programme looks beyond Bollywood releases and also reviews the big Hollywood releases of the week. Acknowledging the importance of music in a Bollywood flick, it also features a dedicated section where the music of upcoming releases is reviewed.

    The completion of 200 episodes got the Bollywood fraternity congratulating the team on its success. Actor Ileana D’cruz said, “I congratulate Omar Qureshi and ‘The Zoom Review Show’ on its 200 episode.”

    Sonakshi Sinha in a message sent to all Zoom viewers said, “It is the one show where I get my reviews and the honest ones, so keep watching!”

    Ajay Devgn in his signature light-hearted style quipped to Omar, “It’s been 200 episodes of ‘Zoom Review Show’ and nobody’s killed you yet. So you’re living through it and I hope you keep surviving. You do a great job; just give a few more stars to my films.”