Bigflix.com, the video-on-demand and video rental service from the Reliance ADA Group, today named Preetam Shah as vice-president for international business development. Shah is currently VP for US venture operations at group firm Reliance Capital. His responsibilities at BigFlix will be in addition to those at Reliance Capital, the company…

Distribution is seemingly the magic sauce of the movie rental business as both Seventymm and Moviemart expand their footprint. Moviemart, earlier relegated to Delhi and the National Capital Region, has expanded its services to 300 cities in India reports Afaqs. Interestingly it has tied up with TNT, the logistics company.…

Nimbus Communications has officially launched its home video entertainment rental and sale business called Showtime. The stores, which distribute DVD, VCDs and Game CDs, are currently only Bombay centric with 8 distribution centres. The release states an investment plan of over Rs 1.5 billion in the next 3 years with…

I’d gone to a Reliance WebWorld to pay the bill for my data card connection today, and noticed a BigFlicks shop-in-shop store, so took a photo (pictured above). It’s taking up quite a bit of space - they could comfortably fit around a 4 PC console there and still have…

An interesting insight from Kamal Gianchandani, COO of BigFlicks on content acquisition by the Reliance Entertainment. Gianchandani tells Indiantelevision.com in an interview that Reliance Entertainment has a central acquisition team, which acquires films for all platforms, keeping in mind the interests of all departments; however, if the rights are sold…

BigFlicks.com has added Tamil Content to its online video streaming portfolio via an alliance with Raj TV Networks. BigFlicks.com is the Reliance ADA Groups video rental and online video streaming co. They’ll be offering Raj TVs content for free streaming, probably looking to offset the cost of streaming with advertising.…