Colors Cineplex

Colors Cineplex (formerly Rishtey Cineplex) is an Indian pay television channel owned by JioStar It was launched on 8 May 2016.

Colors Cineplex

Country	India
Headquarters	Mumbai, India
Programming
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	Disney Star
Key people	Rockteem Bhattacharjee
Sister channels	List MTV VH1 Comedy Central Colors Rishtey Colors Cineplex Superhits Colors Marathi Colors Gujarati Colors Gujarati Cinema Colors Bangla Colors Bangla Cinema Colors Kannada Colors Kannada Cinema Colors Odia Colors Marathi Cinema News18 Odia News18 India News18 Bihar-Jharkhand News18 Bangla Nickelodeon Nick Jr. TeenNick Nickelodeon Sonic MTV Indies CNN-News18 Colors Infinity Colors Colors Cineplex Bollywood Colors Super Colors Tamil News18 Lokmat
History
Launched	8 May 2016; 8 years ago (2016-05-08) (India) 29 September 2016; 8 years ago (2016-09-29) in (UK) 5 October 2016; 8 years ago (2016-10-05) in (USA)
Former names	Rishtey Cineplex (2016-2019)
Links
Website	colorscineplex.com
Availability

History

In June 2016 Viacom18 decided to launch the channel in the UK as Rishtey Cineplex.^[1] It launched on 29 September 2016 on Sky, replacing UMP Movies.^[2] The channel also launched in US in October 5, 2016 on Dish Network.

The channel was launched on Freeview on 17 January 2017.^[3] However, it was later removed on 1 July 2017.^[4]

In 2017, Viacom18 launched HD movie channel Cineplex HD and it was rebranded as Colors Cineplex HD in 2019.

In October 2017, the channel was launched in Virgin Media.^[5]

On 1 March 2019, Rishtey Cineplex was rebranded as Colors Cineplex and Cineplex HD as Colors Cineplex HD.^[6]

Viacom18 relaunched Rishtey Cineplex on 5 June 2020 on DD Free Dish. Viacom18 launched another Hindi movie channel Colors Cineplex Bollywood on 1 April 2021.^[7] The channel broadcasts Bollywood and the Hindi dubbed South Indian movies.

Sister channels

Colors Cineplex Superhits

Colors Cineplex Superhits is a Hindi language movie channel in India, owned by JioStar It was launched on 1 April 2022. It replaced the movie channel Rishtey Cineplex.

Earlier, the channel broadcast both Bollywood and South Indian movies dubbed in Hindi. After the launch of Colors Cineplex Bollywood on 1 April 2021, the channel broadcast only South Indian Hindi-dubbed movies while the latter is a dedicated Bollywood movies channel.^[8]

Colors Cineplex Bollywood

Colors Cineplex Bollywood is a Hindi language movie channel in India, owned by JioStar. The channel primarily focuses only on Bollywood movies^[9][10] and it became the third movie channel after Colors Cineplex and Colors Cineplex Superhits from the same parent company.

Original shows

• Road Safety World Series is a T20 cricket competition organised by the Road Safety Cell of Maharashtra to raise awareness about road safety.^[11][12] In the Road safety world series, Cricket world Legends will match against each other for a noble cause. It will be a series of 11 matches that will be played in the T20 format. The series features some big names in cricket from India, Australia, Sri Lanka, West Indies and South Africa like Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan, Brian Lara, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, etc.^[13] and Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar is the commissioner of the series.^[14] The series was aired from 7 to 22 March 2020 on Colors Cineplex. Ravi Gaikwad, Chief of RTO, Thane (Konkan Range), Government of Maharashtra, is the founder of the Road Safety World Series, who integrated concept of Road Safety with sports to save lives on Indian roads and across the globe.^[15][16][17]

The man who has been supporting for the cause of road safety is Ravi Gaikwad, Senior Member of Road Safety Cell, Government of Maharashtra.^{[15][18][19][20][16]}

Ravi Gaikwad, Chairman of Shant Bharat Surakshit Bharat appreciated Yohan Blake's visit to India and his efforts for road safety campaign, which required the need to educate the people and make them aware of their responsibilities so as to save as many lives as possible on Indian roads.^[21]

• T10 League – Abu Dhabi T10 League season 5 was broadcast on the channel along with Rishtey Cineplex and Voot.^[22][23]

References

1. "UK to replace existing film channel". BizAsia. 26 June 2016. Archived from the original on 24 July 2016. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
2. "Rishtey Cineplex makes launch on Sky platform". BizAsia. 29 September 2016. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
3. Baddhan, Raj (16 January 2017). "Rishtey Cineplex set for launch on Freeview". BizAsia. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
4. "Rishtey Cineplex leaves Freeview line-up". BizAsia. 1 July 2017. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
5. Baddhan, Raj (3 October 2017). "Rishtey Cineplex & MTV Beats officially launch on Virgin Media". BizAsia. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
6. "Rishtey Cineplex and Rishtey get rechristened as 'Colors Cineplex' & 'Colors Rishtey'". www.adgully.com. Adgully Bureau. 25 February 2019.
7. "Viacom18 to launch Colors Cineplex Bollywood". The Hindu BusinessLine. 17 March 2021. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
8. "Viacom18 launches Colors Cineplex Bollywood". CampaignIndia.in. 18 March 2021. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
9. "Viacom18 expands its Hindi Movies cluster with the launch of COLORS Cineplex Bollywood". Viacom18. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
10. "viacom18 gears up for launch of COLORS Cineplex Bollywood on April 1 - Exchange4media". Indian Advertising Media & Marketing News - exchange4media. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
11. Safety World Series cricket 01-30-2020
12. Tendulkar versus Lara in Road Safety World Series opener 02-13-2020
13. Road Safety World Series 2020 02-18-2020
14. Tendulkar, Lara to face each other in Road Safety World Series opening match 02-13-2020
15. "Ravi Gaikwad: Man with a mission". The Economic Times. November 2019.
16. "Colors Cineplex on Facebook Watch" – via www.facebook.com.
17. "Road Safety World Series: Here's how cricketers drove home the point on road safety before COVID-19 lockdown". Asianet News Network Pvt Ltd.
18. "Road Safety Cricket series gets boost". Free Press Journal.
19. "Special conversation with Ravi Gaikwad, who connects cricket with road safety campaign - रोड सेफ्टी मुहिम के लिए सचिन फिर उठाएंगे बल्ला वीडियो - हिन्दी न्यूज़ वीडियो एनडीटीवी ख़बर". khabar.ndtv.com.
20. "Tweet". twitter.com. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
21. "Yohan Blake to promote road safety in India". Mathrubhumi. Archived from the original on 26 March 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
22. "Viacom18 Bags exclusive TV and digital rights for Abu Dhabi T10 series". News18. 17 August 2021. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
23. "We Welcome Viacom18 as our TV Broadcast and Digital Media Partner in India #IndiaBroadcast #ADT10News #InAbuDhabi #AbuDhabiT10". Facebook.com. 18 August 2021. Retrieved 5 October 2021.