Star Gold Acquires Jai Ho, Kick, Singham 2 And More

Star Gold Feature ImageStar GOLD, the Hindi Movie Channel from Star INDIA, has acquired the telecast rights of Jai Ho, Kick, Action Jackson and Singham 2.

Along with this, Star GOLD has also accrued about fifteen more titles for eleven years with a clause of unlimited runs across the network.

The other movies which are a part of the fresh (2014) deal are Bombay Velvet (Ranbir Kapoor, Karan Johar and Anushka Sharma), Bang Bang (Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif), Roy (Ranbir Kapoor, Jacqueline Fernandez and Arjun Rampal), Hamshakals (Saif Ali Khan, Riteish Deshmukh, Ram Kapoor and Bipasha Basu), Bobby Jasoos (Vidya Balan), Creature (Bipasha Basu and Imran Abbas Naqvi), Gang of Ghosts (Sharman Joshi and Mahi Gill), Traffic (Manoj Bajpayee, Jimmy Shergill, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Parambrata Chatterjee and Divya Dutta), Sonali Cable (Rhea Chakraborty and Ali Fazal), O Teri (Pulkit Samrat, Sarah-Jane Dias and Sara Loren), Bhaag Johnny (Kunal Khemu and Zoa Morani) and last but not the least Hawaa Hawaai (featuring Partho Gupte and Saqib Saleem).

The network had signed output deals with Salman Khan and Ajay Devgn for Rs 5000 million (500 crore) and Rs 4000 million (400 crore) respectively, which gave the broadcaster the satellite rights for the movies released till 2017. With the new deal, all these movies will stay with the network for eleven years for unlimited runs.

The network had also bought a library of over five hundred movies from Viacom18 when the latter dropped its plan to launch a Hindi movie channel. With this, the channel has got enough movies to sustain its line up for this year.

After Yaariyaan, Jai Ho will be the first one to be premiered, in about a month. Like Bullet Raja, many movies will be premiered on Star GOLD.

Recently, movies such as Singham, Bodyguard, Ra.One, Bol Bachchan, Son of Sardaar, Housefull 2, Dabangg 2, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, Chennai Express, R…Rajkumar, Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela, Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani and Ramaiya Vastavaiya have premiered on television with good numbers.

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