BigFlicks inks deal with UTV Motion Pictures for popular titles

More than 45 of UTV’s premium titles are now available on India’s first online Movie on Demand service BigFlix plus

BestMediaInfo Bureau | Delhi | January 31, 2012

BigFlicks a part of Reliance  Group’s, Digital Entertainment Business  has announced a license deal between India’s first online Movie on Demand service – BigFlix plus and India’s leading Studio UTV Motion Pictures to bring the best of UTV’s titles to movie buffs across India. This deal will make available select blockbuster UTV titles to BigFlix plus subscribers to help further expand their personal movie collection whilst simultaneously adding popular titles to the user’s Personal Blockbuster Theatre.

Jodhaa Akbar, Wake up Sid, Raajneeti, I Hate Luv Storys, No One Killed Jessica, Dev D, Udaan, Fashion, Race, and Kaminey amongst several others will now be available on BigFlix.

BigFlix plus subscribers can now enjoy best of movies from the UTV Banner via a high quality movie viewing experience at the users preferred time, sans the advertisements, across all devices such as desktop, tablets, smartphones & connected TVs. This deal gives audience access to their favourite films at their convenience and provides the user with an ever increasing High Definition (HD) blockbuster movie bouquet.

Says Amrita Pandey – Senior Vice President, International Distribution and Syndication, UTV Motion Pictures, “Pay per View (PPV) and Subscription Video on Demand (SVOD) options on internet platforms like BigFlix is a great way for audience to watch movies at their convenience. This is the one of our first internet deals in India. BigFlix is one of the first players in this space in India and we are happy to have our movies available for their vast subscriber base.”

Commenting on this deal,  Pankaj Chandra, Chief Operating Officer(COO) – BigFlicks.Pvt.Ltd, said, “BIGFlix plus is India’s 1st movie on demand subscription service, which offers an exhaustive choice of HD Quality movies to the net savvy Movie Buffs in India, at their convenience, across all internet connected devices. It is our constant endeavor to equip consumers with latest blockbuster movies and our partnership with UTV is a step closer to enhance, strengthen and expand the VOD (Video on Demand) service in India. It gives me great pleasure that UTV has partnered with us and is supporting our subscription based initiative and we are confident this partnership with UTV Motion pictures will add significantly to our movie offering.”

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