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‘Fuzon’ rocks the MTV session
MUMBAI: The crowds had a blast at the MTV studio, last Tuesday. The Pakistani music band Fuzon performed at the MTV Session.
The band reportedly entralled the audience with their blend of eastern classical melodies fused with western rock.
Fuzon debut in the year 2001 with album Saagar with guitarist Shallum (Shallum Asher Xavier) and keyboardist Immu (Imran Momina) as the founding members, says a press release.
Later they included vocalist Shafqat Amanat Ali, son of legendary Ustad Amanat Ali Khan, to their band to create music that appealed to their senses by mixing modern arrangements with traditional melodies. Saagar contains stuff as diverse as the mellow Dooriyan to Mora Saiyaa.
According to the band, “the album is about lost love, pain, inner strength”. Just one album old, hit songs like Mora Saiyaan and breezyTere Bina are making big time hits.
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Zee scales syndication with global tie-ups, 350 plus channel MCN
Vertical, dubbed and audio formats boost digital reach
MUMBAI: Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. is giving its content library a fresh passport. The company has stepped up its syndication push, signing global partnerships, experimenting with new-age formats and building a multi-channel network that now spans more than 350 channels.
With the newly secured MCN licence, Zee can manage, distribute and monetise content across leading digital platforms at scale, strengthening its presence in the fast-growing creator and short-form ecosystem.
To keep pace with changing viewing habits, the company is also reshaping its content into formats built for the small screen in your hand. In a tie-up with micro-drama platform Story TV, select titles are being reworked into vertical, short-duration episodes tailored for mobile-first audiences.
Beyond India, the syndication team is widening its global footprint with foreign-language dubbing and regional partnerships across Europe, Africa and Latin America, opening up fresh markets for Indian stories.
Zee is also tapping into the audio boom. It has begun licensing audio remake rights for legacy properties such as Zee Horror Show, with several more titles lined up for audio-first adaptations.
On the digital front, the company has made progress in monetising non-exclusive rights for library films, while converting select shows and movies from horizontal to vertical formats to improve discoverability on short-form platforms.
Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. business head syndication Vinod Johri, said syndication has emerged as a strong growth lever for the company. He noted that the combination of a large MCN network, global partnerships and new formats such as vertical video and audio is helping build a future-ready engine that extracts more value from the content library.
Together, these moves signal a platform-agnostic approach to storytelling, as Zee repackages, localises and redistributes its IP across geographies, formats and screens, ensuring its catalogue keeps working long after the first broadcast.
