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  • An independent content studio to produce premium original content across languages and genres for all digital platforms

    Zee Studios launches digital content studio arm

    By A Correspondent

     

    Zee Studios has announced the launch of an independent digital content studio, Zee Studios Originals, that will produce a original content and create new IPs for all digital platforms globally.

     

    Zee Studios has appointed Ashima Avasthi from BBC Studios to head the digital content studio. With over 20 years of experience in the media and entertainment industry, Avasthi has worked across diverse genres and regions with brands like MTV and Turner International. Prior to joining Zee Studios, she was with BBC Studios as a Senior Creative Director and Head of branded content.

     

    Speaking on the launch of the new business unit, Shariq Patel, CEO, Zee Studios, commented: “Zee Studio Originals furthers our vision of becoming a holistic content studio with its offering across platforms and screens to meet the insatiable hunger of today’s consumers for premium content. We are working with leading directors and writers to develop and show run our digital slate and will announce the same very soon. I welcome Ashima on board and I’m sure with her varied experience, she and her team will make great content and set newer benchmarks”.

     

    Added Avasthi: “The game has only just begun. Zee has been a pioneer in producing compelling content for decades in broadcast and films, and it is absolutely the correct time for Zee Studios to move into digital production. I am looking forward to creating content that is distinct, unexpected, relevant, cutting-edge and truly world class. Zee Studio Originals will ride on the legacy and experience of Zee but will strategically move ahead in the new age direction that the studio has been set up for, independently.”

     

     

  • Patel will report to Punit Goenka, MD & CEO, ZEEL

    Shariq Patel assumes charge as CEO of Essel Vision

    By A Correspondent

     

    Shariq Patel

    Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL) has announced the appointment of Shariq Patel as the Chief Executive Officer, Essel Vision Productions Ltd. Patel will report to Punit Goenka, MD & CEO, ZEEL.

     

    Patel, it may be recalled was CEO of the Zee group’s Indian Cricket League (for a year and a half) and after which he worked with Studio18 for around two years. Before joining ICL, he worked with Radio Mid-Day as VP and Station Head for four years. He has also worked with Airtel, Indya.com and Exim Bank after completing an MBA from NMIMS, Mumbai. According to his LinkedIn profile, he is Founder of Versus Sports and Trigno Media, two ventures that Patel founded in 2011.