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  • Bengali OTT platform Mukti Prime to launch on 8 March

    Bengali OTT platform Mukti Prime to launch on 8 March

    Mumbai: Mukti Production LLP is set to launch a new Bengali OTT platform Mukti Prime on 8 March. Interdisciplinary artist Sujoy Prasad Chatterjee will oversee the content on the app, which has been created by Partha Chatterjee.

    The app will be available for download on the Google Play Store for Android users and App Store for iOs users. “It will showcase content such as web series, Bengali films, short videos, short films and other original content across genres,” said the statement. 

    The platform has already announced a slew of Mukti Prime originals including the series “Condom Kelenkari,” “Ganesh Murti,” “Morichika” and “Chittorgarh Murder Case.” 

    “Mukti Prime is offering subscribers three plans – basic, standard and premium that give access to all its content for a period of 12 months. The basic plan priced at Rs 199 can be accessed using a single device, the standard plan priced at Rs 299 can be accessed by up to three devices and its premium plan at Rs 599 can be accessed by up to six devices,” according to the statement.

    India’s regional OTT space is increasing in competitiveness with the share of regional language consumption on OTT platforms expected to cross 50 per cent of time spent by 2025 from 30 per cent in 2019, overtaking Hindi at 45 per cent as per FICCI-EY report. There are more than 45 OTT platforms in the country.

  • Infocom 2013 kicks off in Kolkata today

    Infocom 2013 kicks off in Kolkata today

    KOLKATA: The twelfth edition of Infocom, a three-day annual Information Technology (IT) conclave from the Kolkata-headquartered media company, ABP group, kicked off in the city today.

     
    Driving IT awareness and envisioning organisations and individuals to be IT enabled has been of prime focus of the conclave every year. Now in its 12th edition, Infocom has chosen “Empowerment” as the theme for 2013. The focus of the conclave this year would be on digital empowerment and also on empowerment with innovation and creativity.

     

    ABP managing director and CEO DD Purkayastha on the sidelines of the event said that with India envisioning to become a developed nation in the next few years, there is a growing need to incorporate the concept of creativity in our developmental planning. “And with the aid of technology we also have to drive innovations. These would be areas under focus this year,” he said.

     

    “When we talk about empowerment, the emphasis is on the fact that we want to empower individual consumers, citizens of the country as well as organizations digitally, technologically, socially, gender-wise, educationally, occupationally and many more ways. India needs young entrepreneurs,” he said.

     

    West Bengal IT minister Partha Chatterjee, who inaugurated the event said, “Despite economic downturn, the IT exports from the state stood at Rs 11,200 crore in the last fiscal year 2012-13 as compared to Rs 9,500 crore achieved in the financial year 2011-12. The IT industry gives direct employment to around 1.30 lakh IT professionals and an indirect employment to around 6 lakh people in the state.”

     

    The event is expected to bring together over 1,200 delegates, 75 speakers and 40 sponsoring companies. Besides, more than 100 exhibitors from across the globe would display their products and services.