Bollywood

Apple To Formally Launch iTunes In India - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Tue 26 Aug 2008 02:12 PM PST

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is close to formally launching its iTunes store in India states this BS report. A truncated version of the India store, featuring only iPhone apps has been…

Babelgum Launches Bollywood Channel With WEG India Pictures - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Fri 18 Jul 2008 03:23 AM PST

P2P TV platform Babelgum is adding what it says is the largest collection of online Bollywood films to its catalogue. Its Colours Of Bollywood channel includes over 100 hours of…

Valuable Group Acquires MovieBeam; To Integrate with BOX Networks? - 1 Comment
Posted By Cerius Shah - Mon 14 Jul 2008 11:47 AM PST

The Sanjay Gaikwad led Indian tech-media group Valuable Group has announced the acquisition of MovieBeam. The release claims the acquisition includes all assets, including trademarks and intellectual property rights which…

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BigAdda Launches Mobile Blogging Application With Big B(eta) - 3 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Thu 26 Jun 2008 09:32 AM PST

Its hard to resist a headline like that. Reliance ADAG’s love affair with the Bachchan’s continues, this time in the form a mobile blogging application called MoBlog developed especially for…

Eros New Media Revenues Up 16.9% To 113.8 Crores - 0 Comments
Posted By Cerius Shah - Thu 26 Jun 2008 07:56 AM PST

Eros International, the film production and distribution giant, posted 47% rise from 2007 in pre-tax profits $45.5 million. Its sales were 70% higher in the last financial year to 113…

Eros Does 100 Movie Streaming Deal With Jaman - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 16 May 2008 02:00 AM PST

Jaman, the international online and video service which is trying to develop a niche in Bollywood/Indian content, has done a large size content deal with Eros Intl., the biggest distributor…

Kolkata Knight Riders Ties Up WIth Contests2Win; Shah Rukh Khan To Blog
Posted By Cerius Shah - Tue 13 May 2008 09:40 PM PST

Kolkata Knight Riders has tied up with Contests2win.com for its website, Kolkataknightriders.com. According to the release, 6 contests are currently live and another 5 are in the pipeline. I tried…

Jaman To Open Mumbai Office; To Launch Ad-Supported Video Streaming - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 23 Apr 2008 06:23 AM PST

I met Gaurav Dhillon, Founder and CEO of Jaman, on the sidelines of FICCI Frames last month. Jaman (named after an Indian fruit) is a community site around World Cinema…

TinselVision.com To Target India - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 15 Apr 2008 11:31 PM PST

Video streaming co TinselVision has expanded its online content distribution arrangements with STAR India and other licensors to include streaming content to India as well. Tinselvision had deals with STAR,…

Race On YouTube; Om Shanti Om On Google Video - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 03 Apr 2008 07:55 AM PST

While writing the previous story on Saavn providing content to Verizon (NYSE: VZ), I did a search on YouTube for the UTV channel, looking for promos of the movie Race.…

Saavn Provides Bollywood Content To Verizon Wireless - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 03 Apr 2008 07:42 AM PST

Saavn is providing Bollywood content to Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ), as a part of their V Cast Video service in the US. Content includes full length music videos and pre-release…

Yet Another Bollywood Site: STAR Launches Starboxoffice.com - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 31 Mar 2008 03:57 AM PST

This appears to be a day for entertainment websites - and I wonder if we’re headed for a glut of some sort: It appears that STAR TV has launched an…

Onyx Takes Hungama, YRF To Court Over IPR Claims
Posted By Cerius Shah - Wed 26 Mar 2008 12:25 PM PST

The Kareena Kapoor - Saif Ali Khan starrer Tashan (English: Style) appears to be running into hot water with Onyx dragging Hungama and Yash Raj Films (YRF) to court over…

Jaman Screens Short Films From Bollywood Directors; How Are Short Films Doing Online? - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 18 Feb 2008 10:53 PM PST

Jaman, a World Cinema community, has launched Jaago, a compilation of four short films - Migration, Blood Brothers, Positive and Prarambha - from directors Vishal Bhardwaj, Farhan Akhtar, Santosh Sivan…

Eye On New Media Revenues, Indian Producers Want Copyright Life Extended - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 11 Feb 2008 01:21 AM PST

Eying revenues from new revenue streams like the Internet, mobile and with the advent of multipleses, FICCI and Bollywood production companies are pushing to get the copyright of films extended…

VSNL, YRF To ‘Premiere’ Chak De On Web - 5 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 28 Jan 2008 09:54 PM PST

[by Cerius Shah] Yash Raj Films (YRF) and VSNL (now Tata Indicom Broadband) have tied up for the web premiere of the SRK starrer Chak De India. Tata Indicom apparently…

After Tinselvision, Shemaroo Provides Content To WatchIndia - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 10 Dec 2007 07:48 PM PST

Shemaroo Entertainment will provide its library of film content to WatchIndia on pay-per-view, a video content startup targeting the Indian diaspora starting with 15 films at $4.99 each. The content…

On Saregama’s Music Store; Need For An Independent Aggregator; Meta Search For Music? - 5 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 09 Dec 2007 10:20 PM PST

Saregama’s online store has gone live, with an initial database of 40,000 songs. The tracks are priced at Rs. 12 each, and Saregama has plans to scale up to 4.76…

Earnings: New Media Accounts For 11 Percent Of Eros’ Revenues For H1 2007 - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 30 Nov 2007 05:42 AM PST

London AIM listed Eros International has reported a turnover of $34.6 million for the six months ending 30th September 2007 (H1 2007), up 58.7 percent from $21.8 million for the…

Shemaroo And B4U Provide Content To Tinselvision; Non-Exclusive Content As A Differentiator - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 25 Nov 2007 09:16 PM PST

After a tie-up with Yash Raj Films, video-on-demand startup Tinselvision has inked a distribution deal with Shemaroo Entertainment. The deal gives Tinselvision non-exclusive rights to distribute around 100 films (including…

Tinselvision Gets Second Round Funding Of Over $3 Million - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 19 Nov 2007 09:08 PM PST

A fresh influx of more than $3 million in funding for Tinselvision, a video-on-demand (VoD) service targeting South Asian communities in the US, UK and Canada, has been led by…

Nokia Preloads Sholay In N81, N95 8GB; Ties Up For Om Shanti Om Content - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 11 Nov 2007 09:27 PM PST

We’ve mentioned before that content appears to be emerging as a differentiator among handset manufacturers in India; Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has launched the N81 and N95 8GB preloaded with one…

SingTel’s mioTV adds EROS Movies To Its On Demand Portfolio - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 06 Nov 2007 10:21 PM PST

We’d written a few days ago about the deal between SingTel’s mio TV and Indian broadcaster NDTV. mio TV has also just announced a content deal with EROS International for…

Virgin Comics Signs Up Actress Priyanka Chopra For Comics, Films, Games - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 06 Nov 2007 03:37 AM PST

After signing up cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, Virgin Comics has now signed up Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra for a new superhero character, for comics, live-action films, animation and games. Concept images…

Xbox Live With Local Indian Content To be Launched On Nov 5 - 1 Comment
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Wed 24 Oct 2007 06:25 PM PST

Come November 5 and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) India will launch its xBox Live with local content thanks to a tie up with UTV. [via Business Standard] Users will be able…