Film Production
GV Films signs MoU with I-Net Singapore for streaming of movies
MUMBAI: Chennai-based GV Films Ltd will soon offer web streaming of 6000 movies, aimed at overseas markets.
The company has signed an MoU with I-Net Singapore, a leading infocomm technology solutions provider, for this purpose. I-Net Singapore will provide the backend mechanism and act as a hub hub for GV Films to stream movie content from its portals.
“We plan to go commercial within two months. We have a revenue share arrangement with I-Net Singapore,” says a source in the company.
GV Films has acquired Internet rights to 6000 movies for Rs 900 million, the source adds. These include around 4000 Hindi films and 2000 movies in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada languages, a deal it had struck four years back.
GV Films has two Portals – gvtamilfilms.com and telugupictures.com – which will be hosted by 1-Net Singapore, who have invested huge resources for content distribution. This is in line with Singapore’s digital exchange strategy to encourage more digital content to be hubbed, processed, managed and distributed from Singapore.
“We will be offering five portals for web streaming. The aim of the MoU is to stream and distribute films to the Indian community worldwide,” says the source.
GV Films is currently working on the subscription and pay-per-view prices. The company also plans to acquire more Internet rights for the latest films.
1-Net is a wholly owned subsidiary of MediaCorp, Singapore which has a complete range of media businesses spanning TV, radio, movie Productions, newspapers, magazines, electronic media and other broadcasting services.
GV Films, a listed company,burst into the Indian film market in the year 1989. The main object of the company was production and distribution of feature films in various languages.
Film Production
Priyanka Kaur Dhillon joins SVF Entertainment as lead for music distribution
A seasoned content dealmaker with 16 years in digital and satellite media joins the Bengali entertainment powerhouse as it pushes into the pan-India music market
Mumbai: Priyanka Kaur Dhillon has made her move. The content acquisitions and commercials veteran, most recently commercial manager at Sony Pictures Networks India, has joined SVF Entertainment as lead for music distribution, stepping into one of the more interesting briefs in regional entertainment right now.
SVF is no ordinary regional label. Over 30 years it has built a formidable legacy in Bengali cinema and music, driven by culturally resonant storytelling and a catalogue that consistently punches above its weight. Its recent success with Chiraiya underlines the point. But the Kolkata-based powerhouse now has its sights firmly set beyond Bengal, most visibly through Legacy, a rap reality series produced in collaboration with hip-hop label Kalamkaar that signals a deliberate push into the pan-India music ecosystem.
Dhillon brings precisely the kind of muscle SVF needs for that expansion. At Sony Pictures Networks India, she led film acquisition and commercials and handled music licensing across the entire satellite network. Before that, she spent nearly 15 years at Hungama, rising to assistant general manager and leading strategic content licensing for the platform’s digital entertainment business, with a particular focus on international markets. Her label relationships span the full roster: Sony Music, Universal Music, Warner Music, Believe International, Tunecore, The Orchard and a clutch of smaller aggregators. She has negotiated and closed deals with Hollywood studios, Bollywood production houses and regional content players alike, building pricing models and deal structures off data analysis rather than instinct.
Announcing the appointment, Dhillon said she was “thrilled to begin this journey with an iconic Bengali music label and content powerhouse,” adding that SVF’s “constant drive to push boundaries” was what drew her to the role.
SVF has spent three decades proving that regional does not mean limited. With a sharp commercial operator now steering its music distribution, its bid to go national just got a good deal more serious.
