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Mumbai’s leading newspaper Mid-day launches Mid-day Content Services providing exclusive access to one of the largest collections of images shot by Mid-day’s award-winning photographers

India, November 1st, 2021: Mid-day, Mumbai’s homegrown newspaper that is known as the last word in local news, has launched its brand-new photo syndication services, known as ‘Mid-day Content Services’. The services offer images for content creation and distribution. Mid-day’s new property provides exclusive access to photographs taken by the brand’s esteemed and award-winning photographers, capturing the essence of the city. Over the years, Mid-day has been capturing iconic moments through its lens and now the world has access to its entire catalogue, through the portal.

The photos shot by the Mid-Day team are available across more than 14 categories. These include award-winning images, Bollywood, business, Covid-19 pandemic, crime, events at Mid-day, exclusives, festivals. Some of the other categories are food & lifestyle, international images, Mumbai centric, news & politicians, real India and sports. Many a times searching for the perfect image to meet a deadline can take hours and yet the search results often end up including uninspiring and plain images. Hence, the campaign thought was curated keeping in mind the philosophy ‘every picture tells a story’ – users across the internet can now bring alive their unique story using Mid-day’s exclusive HD images. While the first phase of the campaign is working towards building awareness of the website with a focus on the top categories, the second phase consists of video interviews of Mid-Day photographers. This will be followed by ads in Mid-Day Print, Mid-Day ePaper, posts & stories across Mid-Day’s platforms, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and web banners on mid-day.com .

Ms. Rachna Kanwar, Chief Operating Officer, Digital Media – Radio City and Mid-day said “Mid-Day has been continually pushing the boundaries of journalism. Our latest venture is an extension of our powerful and far reaching work as a news entity. Mid-day’s content services create a towering alternative for generic and emotionless images, with our best-in-class collection of photos on relevant topics that are refreshing, entertaining, and informatinal. Curated by our award-winning team of photographers, who have over the years, clicked some of the most poignant and iconic images of the city and its people. We continue to uphold our legacy as media stalwarts through this new and exciting launch.”

The world can have access to Mid-day’s photography catalogue and use these images by logging onto www.middaycontent.com.

Border director JP Dutta felicitated with the Indian Armed Forces’ Remembrance Flower on 50 years of India’s victory in the Indo-Pak war of 1971

The 1997 war film, Border, featuring an iconic cast including the likes of Sunny Deol, Suniel Shetty, Jackie Shroff and Akshaye Khanna, is considered one of the best war films ever made in India till date. It’s director, JP Dutta, reinvented the war genre and the representation of the military in the Hindi film industry with the film.

He followed the impressive military portrayal in Border with films like LOC Kargil and Paltan and his contribution towards the representation of the army on screen would always be remembered fondly in Hindi cinema’s history. So, to commemorate and recognise that, JP Dutta was recently presented with the Indian Armed Forces’ remembrance flower.

The filmmaker, who celebrated his 73rd birthday recently, has become the first civilian to be presented with the Indian’s Armed Forces’ Remembrance Flower—the Marigold. The Union ministry of Defence had taken up the proposal, put forward by the three chiefs of India’s armed services back in 2017, to adopt marigold as the flower of remembrance of martyred soldiers. Marigold was chosen as the flower of remembrance as it has a rich resonance in India’s cultural and social life, and is found abundantly in the country.

In the ceremony held on October 9 and 10 in Delhi, the armed forces celebrated 50 years of India’s victory in the 1971 war against Pakistan. At the event, Dutta’s milestone film, Border, was a part of the discussions that were held in the two-day ceremony. Talking about it, Lt Gen PJS Pannu, former Deputy Chief, IDS, says, “We have been working towards symbolising the spirit of Indian soldiers through the symbol of the Indian Marigold, as proposed by renowned Maj Gen Ian Cardozo. This year the festival is choosing to present the Marigold Flower to JP Dutta in recognition of his work to honour our soldiers by immortalising their stories on celluloid.”

Lt Gen Pannu goes on to add that even though the nation is commemorating 50 years of the 1971 war this year, it was a great victory that was largely unknown to the younger generation. “JP Dutta’s Border hit the chord among the young impressionable minds that set a wave of nationalism. The military heroes were brought to the big screen. The story was extremely powerful that carried a message. Many youngsters like Vikram Batra and Vijayan Thapar joined the military services. The wave was once again built with his movie, LOC Kargil. I have met Dutta saheb only on frontline with cameras, accompanied by his daughter Nidhi. Today Border is synonymous with the sacrifices of our heroes. It is a true ode to over 27000 Indian military brave hearts who laid down their lives fighting for the country and is also a significant contribution by Bollywood in raising the national spirit,” he says.

Filmmaker JP Dutta, whose own brother Deepak Dutta participated in the 1971 war from the Air Force, says, “I’m honoured to be chosen as the first civilian to be presented with the remembrance flower by the Indian Armed Forces. It makes me feel like I’ve done right by our boys that have laid down their lives for our better tomorrow. Fifty years of 1971… I look back and memories come rushing back of my mother sitting near the radio in our home through the nights waiting to hear a word of what was happening in the war, because my younger brother was out there, flying a MIG, fighting the enemy and protecting our motherland. So many mothers must have done the same and so many are still doing it. I hope the work I’ve done has made those mothers proud and at times like this, when I’m felicitated, I hope wherever they are, my mother and father are proud too.”

Jam8 India’s beloved musical platform for budding artists celebrates its work on newly released emotional chartbuster ‘Mere Yaara’ for star-studded action film Sooryavanshi

October 29th, 2021: Jam8, India’s new age musical platform, which is home to some of the most talented upcoming artists in the country, is celebrating its successful work on the newly released song ‘Mere Yaara’ for Sooryavanshi. The song is slated to be the romantic chartbuster of the year and features the superhit pair of Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif. Jam8 was responsible for developing and delivering the entire song.

The music of ‘Mere Yaara’ has been composed by the Kaushik-Guddu-Akash trio of Jam8 and was sung by soulful artists Arijit Singh and Neeti Mohan. Lyricist Rashmi Virag, music supervisor Azeem Rdayani, music producers Kaushik Das and Abhijit Nalani, sound designers Kaushik Das and Zafar Iqubal Ansari, with the help of additional programming and shootmixing by Zafar Iqubal Ansari, song mixing and mastery by Eric Pillai and mix assistant Michael Edwin Pillai helped bring the song to life. The live artists for the song included Aditya Shankar on the acoustic and electric guitar, Raj Kumar Dewan on the bass guitar, Harpinder Singh Kang on the saranga, Dilshad Khan on the sarangi, Ishteyak Khan and Mustak Khan on the dholak and Hanif Khan on the tabla.

Speaking about the latest hit soundtrack developed by the team, founder of Jam8 & ace composer Pritam Chakraborty said, “Since we started our memorable musical journey, Jam8 has continually done interesting work. Every musician has brought his unique quality and added to the studio. Now kaushik akash guddu’s latest hit Tere Yaara is an extension of studios artistic beliefs and creations. Its our continuous effort to remain a studio that is dedicated to bringing unique art and great melody to the audiences and contribute to one of the most important elements of cinema- songs.”

For the last five years, Jam8 has been pushing artistic boundaries with its spirited and passionate approach towards music. Its first work in mainstream Indian music was the 1920 London soundtrack, which released in 2016. Jam8 was one of the composers for the soundtrack of the film Raees in 2017. Its composition ‘Zaalima’, which has over 500 million views on YouTube, was a huge hit from this album. Continuing its work for many more blockbuster Bollywood films, the studio also worked in Telugu film Touch Chesi Chudu and Bengali films like Crisscross, Villain.

About Jam8:
Jam8 was comprehended and founded by Pritam Chakraborty -India’s biggest music composer/director. It is one of the rare studios not only in India but in Asia that has been formed to incubate new and young talent of our country.Pritam came up with the idea of bringing together upcoming musicians across the country under a roof by providing modern amenities & equipment to nourish & enhance their talent, showcase their work and flourish them to dent the future of Bollywood Music.He later collaborated with Prime Focus Limited (PFL), the world’s largest independent integrated media services powerhouse and Collective, a multi-faceted talent management powerhouse with unparalleled access to India’s leading talent across categories, with an aim to expand and branch out by establishing its foothold in music industry.

Ankita Lokhande looks resplendent in the latest poster of Pavitra Rishta on ALTBalaji

Actress Ankita Lokhande is going to reprise the character of Archana around 7 years later in ALTBalaji’s Pavitra Rishta… It’s Never Too Late! The actress will play the character in the digital redux of Pavitra Rishta, a soap opera that ran for over 5 years. ALTBalaji the streaming platform that will stream the digital remake, recently dropped the poster of Ankita as Archana. In the poster, we see Archana dressed as a traditional Maharashtrian bride.

Ankita looks resplendent, to say the least in the poster. From the nath to the mundavalya Ankita’s look will resonate with every Marathi mulgi. The heavy golden jewellery, subtle makeup, and the chandrakor enhance the look. Definitely, the poster and the look are a winner for so many reasons. The poster will take you back to the good old days of Archana.

While sharing the poster, the makers wrote Archana ke liye sabse important hai rishton ka connection, and she is coming back to bless our screens, once again!

Pavitra Rishta, at its core, is the story of star-crossed lovers Manav and Archana. They bump into each other again & again due to destiny’s mercy. However, what happens when their castle of love is built based on lies? That’s what the digital redux is going to focus on primarily.

Actor turned producer Bhairavi Raichura’s 24 Frames Production helms the digital series, which will soon stream on ALTBalaji. Directed by Nandita Mehra and written by Nikita Dhond, Gautam Hegde, and Ritu Bhatia the show stars Shaheer Sheikh, Ankita Lokhande, Pooja Bhamrrah, Asheema Vardaan, Piyush Ranade, Randeep Rai, and Usha Nadkarni in primary roles.

Pavitra Rishta will soon stream on ALTBalaji from November and the trailer is on 30th October. Stay Tuned!