MUMBAI: UTV Motion Pictures regional head – India distribution (West) Rajender Singh Jyala has put in his papers at the company.

Jyala will be joining multiplex chain Inox Leisure as head of programming and distribution in the third week of June. He will report to Inox Leisure CEO Alok Tandon.

It may be recalled that last month Inox Leisure vice president programming, distribution and production Utpal Acharya quit the company and is slated to join Reliance BIG Pictures as head of distribution. Jyala will be replacing Acharya.

When contacted, Jyala confirmed the development to Businessofcinema.com.

Jyala joined UTV in January this year. Prior to this, he was with Reliance ADAG’s BIG Cinemas as head – programming from June 2007 – January 2010.