ATN Canada to Produce and Broadcast 100 Episodes as a Tribute to 100 Years of Indian Cinema

ATN Canada to Produce and Broadcast 100 Episodes as a Tribute to 100 Years of Indian Cinema


TORONTO, Sept. 5, 2013 /CNW/ - Asian Television Network International
Limited (ATN) (TSX-SAT), Canada's largest South Asian Broadcaster, is
pleased to announce that it will produce a Canadian television series
of 100 Episodes as a tribute to 100 Years of Indian Cinema. The series
will feature 100 celebrities from the world's largest film Industry
with an International perspective. The series will feature exclusive
interviews with stalwarts of the Indian Film Industry including Movie
Stars, Producers, Directors, Music Composers and Playback Singers.



ATN Canada has reached into the depth and breadth of its own massive
archives to enable it to embark on a deep nostalgic dive into the
memory-land of Indian cinema. The forthcoming new series is planned
with a special Canadian flavor as most of the icons and glittering
stars of the Indian cinema have at some time or the other during the
past 3 decades, either visited ATN in Canada or have been interviewed
by ATN on location. The names of these icons and the mega stars are
numerous and each one is in some case immortalised and treasured in our
collective memories, in the films and recordings and in other cases are
still with us as glamorous and as larger than life as ever.



The production is based on the interviews and shared moments with the
icons of the Indian cinema who, while on foreign soil and away from the
film studios, have dropped their guard and opened up to show their real
personal warmth and their real personal charm that, amongst other
things, makes the production very unique and original. It is a labour
of love, as the archives and the library go back in history when the
concept of ATN as what it is to-day was a mere hope in the future.  The
series will be produced at ATN's new High Definition Studios and
Broadcast centre. The series will use precious footage from its vast
original Canadian Production Archives, some of which may not be
available anywhere else in the world.



ATN's Tribute to 100 Years Of Indian Cinema will include Exclusive
interviews with Mega Movie Stars from the Hindi Film Industry such as
Raj Kapoor, Devanand, Dilip Kumar, Sunil Dutt, Amitabh Bachchan,
Dharmendra, Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini, Rekha, Sridevi, Shahrukh Khan,
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra, Sunny Deol and Producers &
Directors like Yash Chopra, V. Shantaram, Ramanand Sagar, B. R Chopra,
Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Mira Nair & Manmohan Desai to name a few.



It will also include Mega stars from the Southern film industry such
as Dr. M.G. Ramachandran, Shivaji Ganesan, Gemini Ganesan, Rajanikant,
Kamala Hassan, Prabhu Deva, Jaya Pradha, and more and artists from the
Punjabi Film Industry such as Gurdas Mann, Aryan Babbar, Om Puri, Sonu
Sood, Diljit Dosanjh, Narender Chanchal, Rupinder Handa & Divya Dutta



ATN will pay its tribute through outstanding Singers such as the
Nightingale of India Lata Mangeshkar, Kishore Kumar, Mohammad Rafi,
Oscar winner A R Rahman, Mukesh, Asha Bhosle, Ghulam Ali, Jagjit Singh,
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and others. ATN will also showcase Canadian
success stories' contribution to Indian Cinema such as Deepa Mehta,
Jaspinder Narula, Harbhajan Mann, Lisa Ray, Adnan Sami, Raghav and many
more.



"It has been a privilege to have been involved with the Canadian
Broadcast Industry and the Indian Film Industry. My Father, a lawyer
turned film producer was a Pioneer in Indian cinema. He was one among
the first in Southern India to Produce a Feature Film with sound. Based
on his tremendous Goodwill, I have had the honour of interviewing
several of the above mentioned Extraordinary Celebrities from the
Indian Film Industry. As the Founder of ATN in Canada I am delighted to
be blessed with this opportunity to be associated with the Centenary
Celebration of Indian Cinema" said Dr. Shan Chandrasekar President and
CEO of ATN.



The series will commence in September 2013 and run for 52 weeks at prime
time on ATN HD and other selected ATN affiliated Channels. ATN will
deploy close to 100 staff members for this project at different levels
including Programming, Script Writing, Production, Post Production,
Graphics, Marketing and Sales. ATN may also be syndicating selected
shows internationally.



About ATN - Asian Television Network International Limited: ATN serves
Canada's diverse cultural communities with 44 specialty television
channels with about 800 Indian Movies per month. The Company offers its
flagship ATN-HD general interest service, 4 Bollywood movie channels
and a variety of channels that include 3 sports Channels, 3 news
Channels, 3 music Channels, 3 lifestyle Channels, 3 Chinese Channels, 6
Punjabi channels, and several regional language channels. ATN operates
a South Asian Radio Service on Satellite Radio across The United States
and Canada. Some ATN content is also available on any Bell mobile phone
that supports video. ATN has programming alliances with leading
international broadcasters like Star Network (News Corp), Sony
Entertainment Television, Viacom, Times Television Network, B4U
Network, NDTV, Doordarshan and many more. ATN channels are available on
various Cable, Satellite and IPTV Platforms across Canada like Shaw
Cable, Bell TV, Rogers Cable, Bell Fibe TV, TELUS Optic TV, Cogeco
Cable, East Link, ViaNet and Others.


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Vice President - Marketing
Asian Television Network International Limited
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