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UTV, India's leading integrated Media & Entertainment Company announces the launch of Brand Bindass! A celebration of being young in India - Bindass is all about being Fun, Frank, Fearless and valuing Freedom in all its forms. It is India's first 360 degree entertainment venture across television channels, mobile channels, web, gaming, merchandising, retail & nation wide ground events

A youth entertainment channel for Young India, the channel reflects Bindass brand values. It's a mix of fun, youthful entertainment across genres- comedy, action and thrillers! Bindass is not just another channel; it is a platform for like minded people to come together on tv, the web, mobile and at cafes. Targeted at the young at heart - Bindass is all about the attitude -

FUN. FRANK. FEARLESS. FREE!

corporate profile

UTV Software Communications Ltd. is India's foremost Media & Entertainment Company with leadership position in 4 verticals including Motion Pictures, Broadcasting, TV Content and Interactive (i.e. Animation and Gaming). The company is listed on the Mumbai Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange, India. Walt Disney Inc holds a strategic stake in UTV. It has subsidiaries with offices across India, the UK and USA.

UTV Motion Pictures pioneered the Studio Model in India with operations encompassing Production, Marketing, Distribution and International Co-Productions. The subsidiary was listed at the AIM stock exchange, London in July, 2007. Strategic relationships with 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney and Sony Pictures along with Will Smith's Overbrook have positioned UTV as the only South Asian Company in the International Movie Space! Recent releases include Mira Nair's "The Namesake" and the still-under-production M. Night Shyamalan's "The Happening." Its Indian slate includes the BAFTA nominated "Rang De Basanti!" Over 12 movies on the floor, plus several international co-productions, make UTV the largest Movie Studio in South Asia!

In New Media, UTV has one of the largest 3D Animation facilities located in Mumbai. After acquiring controlling stakes in two Gaming Companies i.e. India Games (India's largest Mobile Gaming company) and Ignition UK (Console Gaming) plus with production underway for three of the largest Animation movies to come out of India in the next 2 years; UTV makes it to the ranks of a premier New Media Company in South Asia.

In Television Content, a business with which UTV was founded, the company produces and markets over 20 hours of Television programmes a week, in multiple languages.

In Broadcasting, UTV boasts of the roaring success of its Kids Channel - Hungama TV that rose to the Number 1 position in 18 months. UTV will launch a bouquet of 8 Channels in the next 18 months including India's first Youth Entertainment Brand and related channels 'Bindass,' a channel dedicated to world cinema and several others. UTV will also create its own Distribution Bouquet for its channels.