SonyLIV extends its content portfolio with a slew of Tamil originals -7 new shows announced
Keeping its promise of taking Indian stories across regions and to global audience, SonyLIV diversifies its content library with a slew of Tamil originals. The platform announces seven new shows Meme Boys, TamilRockerz, Kaiyum Kalayum, Victim, Journey, Accidental Farmer & Co., and Irur Dhruvam 2.
Premiering on 22nd July, Meme Boys is a story of four unassuming college kids who run an anonymous meme page that takes on their oppressive college administration, a movement that later, accidentally, turns out to be a college-wide revolution. Created by Rajiv Rajaram and Drishya Gauta, the show is directed by Arun Koushik. Meme Boys features Guru Somasundaram, Badava Gopi, Aadhitya Bhaskar, Siddharth Babu, Jayanth, Namritha, and Nikhil Nair in prominent roles. The showrunner is Gokul Krishna.
Tamil Rockerz, meanwhile, follows the story of Rudra, a cop with a scarred past, who must fight against time, unruly fans, and an anonymous network of cyber pirates to secure the massively budgeted and highly anticipated, ‘GARUDA’, ‘Athiradi Star’ Adithya’s next movie, from the notorious piracy group, Tamilrockerz. Headlined by Arun Vijay, the show will feature Vani Bhojan, Ishwarya Menon, Azhagam Perumal, Vinodhini Vaidyanathan and MS Bhaskar in pivotal roles. Directed by Arivazhagan, the show is written by Manoj Kumar Kalaivanan and produced by AVM Productions.
Starring an ensemble cast of Sanchana Natrajan, Rohit Nandakumar, Madonna Sebastian, Senthil, Karu. Pazhaniappan, Ramya Nambeesan, Chaams, Vivek Prasanna, and Vijay Adhiraj amongst others, Kalyum Kalayum is an episodic series of serendipitous events that bring together a compulsive thief and an unlucky pickpocket, who inch closer to falling in love with every act of theft they commit. Created by Rohit Nandakumar, Karthik Subbaraj will serve as a showrunner for this one.
However, the fun doesn’t end here. The robust line up will also boat of ‘Victim’, helmed by Venkat Prabhu, Chimbudeven, Pa.Ranjith & Rajesh M. It is an anthology about how a section of people are becoming the victims of society. The show will feature Amala Paul, Priya Bhavani Shankar, Guru Somasundaram, Lizzie Anton, Prasanna, Nataraja Subramanian, Thambi Ramaiah, Kalaiarasan Harikrishnan and Nasser M.
In addition to these, SonyLIV will soon be launching Cheran Pandian’s directorial Journey, Accidental Farmer & Co by showrunner Balaji Mohan and Applause Entertainment, and director Arun Prakash’s Iru Dhuruvam 2.
About SonyLIV:
SonyLIV is an Indian OTT platform by Sony Pictures Networks’ (SPN) providing multi-screen engagement for users on all devices. The digital streaming player is home to 24 years of rich content from the library of Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN) with over 40,000 hours of programming. SonyLIV subscribers get exclusive access to key sporting events from across the globe, the latest Hollywood Shows, Originals, 18,000+ hours of TV Shows and LiveTV.
With 100 million+ app downloads, the platform has series and movies from across Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu languages. SonyLIV recent originals include Tabbar, Avrodh, Your Honor season 1&2, Undekhi, Scam 1992 – The Harshad Mehta Story, Maharani, Gullak season 1, 2 &3 amongst many more.
Apart from being the official Indian streaming partner for Global Sporting events, SonyLIV keeps its viewers entertained throughout the year with Live action Cricket, Football, Tennis, Basketball, eSports, Racing and Fight Sports. The platform has been offering its subscribers a host of premium International tournaments like the UEFA Champions League, Australian Open, Bundesliga, WWE, UFC, FA Cup, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Euro 2020, Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, Impact Wrestling and The Ashes to name a few. SonyLIV also has exclusive rights to tournaments of Cricket Boards including Cricket Australia, Pakistan Cricket Board, Sri Lanka Cricket, England and Wales Cricket Board & Cricket Ireland. In 2019, the service launched in the Middle East and has plans to expand its complete bouquet of services in several Southeast Asian countries.
SonyLIV has partnerships with key International studios – SPE Films, Lionsgate and iTV, which allows its subscribers exclusive access to award-winning shows like, Seinfeld, Power, The Good Doctor and Mr. Mercedes. The platform recently added a host of celebrated Hollywood shows to its library like LA’s Finest S2, On Becoming a God in Central Florida, Alex Rider, For Life, Lincoln Rhyme, War of the Worlds, Commons and Indebted amongst others., On Becoming a God in Central Florida, Alex Rider, For Life, Lincoln Rhyme, War of the Worlds, Commons and Indebted, 1917 amongst others.
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Sony Pictures Networks is the consumer-facing identity of Culver Max Entertainment Private Limited, which is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, Japan.
The Company has several channels including Sony Entertainment Television (SET and SET HD), one of India’s leading Hindi general entertainment television channels; MAX, India’s premium Hindi movies and special events channel; MAX 2, another Hindi movie channel showcasing great India Cinema; MAX HD, a high definition Hindi movie channel airing premium quality films; WAH, the Hindi movies channel for rural markets; SAB and SAB HD the family-oriented Hindi comedy entertainment channels; PAL, a genre leader in rural Hindi speaking markets (HSM) showcasing the best of Hindi general entertainment and Hindi movies from its content library; PIX and PIX HD, Sony BBC Earth and Sony BBC Earth HD, the premium factual entertainment channels, Sony AATH, the Bangla entertainment channel; YAY!, the kids entertainment channel; Sony Sports Network – SONY SIX, SONY SIX HD, SONY TEN 1, SONY TEN 1 HD, SONY TEN 2, SONY TEN 2 HD, SONY TEN 3, SONY TEN 3 HD; SONY TEN 4, SONY TEN 4 HD; Sony मराठी, the Marathi general entertainment channel; SonyLIV – the digital entertainment VOD platform and Studio NEXT the independent production venture for original content and IPs for TV and digital media. The Company reaches out to over 700 million viewers in India and is available in 167 countries.
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The Company is in its 27th year of operations in India. Besides having overseas subsidiaries, it has a subsidiary MSM-Worldwide Factual Media Private Limited and an affiliate, Bangla Entertainment Private Limited in India
