Reliance BIG TV announces Diwali Movie Festival

Watch What’s Your Rashee?, Rock on and Black Friday
only on Reliance BIG TV

October 9, 2009: As part of its on-going festive celebrations, Reliance BIG TV has announced the showcase of 3 Blockbuster Bollywood movies on their Pay-Per-View channels. The recently released Aushotosh Gowariker movie What’s your Rashee?, Abhishek Kapoor directed Rock On and Black Friday by Anurag Kashyap will be available only on Reliance BIG TV from 12 October,09 onwards for a month. The content offering is presented keeping in mind the festive period, for wholesome family viewing experience by Reliance BIG TV.

“Reliance BIG TV has always offered great content and value to its subscribers. With this initiative we’re ensuring that our subscribers enjoy the festive period by watching movies on our Pay-Per-View channels. Reliance BIG TV is wishing it’s subscribers a prosperous Diwali by offering a bouquet of movies like What’s Your Rashee? Rock On and Black Friday” said Mr. Umesh Rao, Senior Vice-President, Reliance BIG TV.

This latest Bollywood flick, What’s Your Rashee? is directed by well-known director, Aushotosh Gowariker featuring Harman Baweja and Priyanka Chopra. Harman plays an eligible bachelor who has to save his family from calamity of loans and must find a bride in 10 days. The story takes an interesting turn when he decides to meet one girl from each horoscope to find the one who fits his horoscope.

Rock On, a movie of four friends namely Aditya (Farhan), Joe (Arjun), KD(Purab) and Rob (Luke Kenny), fight hard to take their band ‘Magik’ to the position of number one. But no victory comes without its different effects. The story rolls for ten years and fate conspires to bring them together again and sets them on a journey back to where they left off. The reunion gives a rebirth to the band – Magik. Anurag Kashyap’s, Black Friday is a movie about the conspiracy and conspirators, the people who engineered the heinous and monstrous crime and the aftermath of 1993 Mumbai Blasts.

This is a part of Reliance BIG TV’s effort to showcase new releases on its DTH platform especially during the festive season and offer innovative content to its subscribers. This festive offering gives the entire family an opportunity to view the film together on Reliance BIG TV at an attractive price of only Rs 75/-, 50/- and 25/- for What’s Your Rashee? Rock On and Black Friday respectively.

Reliance BIG TV DTH:

A wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Communications, India’s largest integrated telecom service provider, offers India’s first fully Digital Home Entertainment Service using MPEG-4 platform, under BIG TV DTH brand. The world’s most advanced MPEG4 DTH technology platform enables BIG TV DTH to offer over 200 TV, Cinema and Audio channels, the highest by any other DTH operator in the country. With 32 exclusive movie channels in English, Hindi and Regional languages, BIG TV DTH offers a choice of 600 new movies every year, unmatched by any DTH or cable operator in the country.

The country’s largest on-ground infrastructure for a Home Entertainment created by TV DTH would enable the company to serve over 5 million new customers every year and will offer multiple price points and packaging BIG offers to suit needs of all customer segments. The state-of-the-art Customer Service mechanism is fully functional and ready to serve a minimum of 50,000 customers every day in 11 Indian languages. Available at launch at 1 lakh retail outlets across 6500 towns, over 2000 exclusive Reliance branded stores, BIG TV DTH is the largest retail rollout of a Home Entertainment Service in India. BIG TV DTH Toll Free Number: 1-800-200-9001; Website: www.BIGTV.co.in SMS BIGTV to 55454.