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MUMBAI:
Zee Studio has partnered with Palador Pictures to showcase
26 of its acclaimed films on their channel.
From
April, 26 films made by master filmmakers like Ingmar Bergman,
Akira Kurosawa, Wong Kar-Wai, Francois Truffaut, Krzysztof
Kieslowski and Jim Jarmusch will be showcased on Sundays.
Last
year, the channel had tied up with Palador for the Olive Collection.
Speaking
about the new deal, Palador Pictures founder-MD Gautam Shiknis
said, "We had promised to take world cinema to the masses.
We fulfilled the promise first with the box sets and then
with a DVD deal with Moser Baer. The final frontier was TV
and that has been conquered today with this deal."
On
the home video front, Akira Kurosawa box set, Wong Kar Wai
box set and a world cinema assorted box set are already on
sale on indiaplaza.in while individual DVDs will soon be available
pursuant to a deal with Moser Baer.
Zee
Studio business head Neil Chakravarti said, "We were
the first channel to consistently showcase world cinema and
our most recent endeavour, the Satyajit Ray festival last
December, was received very well by our viewers. The team
at Zee Studio has always worked hard to keep up with viewers'
tastes, and to innovate and stay true to our vision of sourcing
and bringing the best movies to Indian viewers.
"We
are very happy to partner with Palador for this initiative
to showcase great films from their library. The previous festival
with Palador's films generated lots of buzz among film lovers
and we are confident that they will truly enjoy this collection
of masterpieces as well."
Palador
co-founder and joint MD Mohan Polamar says, "Palador's
quest is to bring the language of cinema into India. Our catalogue
contains the works of cinema's founding fathers and their
prodigies. Our focus is to generate popularity to this content,
and therefore, our philosophy is to be agnostic to the medium
and partner.
"We
have a large body of content and we will work untiringly to
popularise the same, Neil and his team at Zee have always
been supportive of Palador's passion. Zee Studio's programming
direction and Palador's journey make us ideal partners."
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