BY
Tricitynews
Chandigarh
01st August:- Punjabi cinema lovers have a cause to celebrate. The Number One channel
of Punjab, PTC Punjabi is launching PTC Box Office. Every Friday, the PTC Box Office
will bring a new movie at 8:30 pm.
The especially made-for television movies, PTC Box Office will craft your weekend with emotions
drama, action, romance, thrills and nostalgia and give you another reason to
sit with the family with a bowl full of popcorns!
With PTC Box Office, we give a chance to the new talent of Punjabi cinema so they can
showcase their best without having to worry about the needs of the silver
screen like -tickets, theatre box office and lakhs to invest. It’s an
initiative through which the untapped talent will get a window to the world of
discerning audience.
Rabindra Narayan, Managing Director & President
of PTC Network, said that we wanted to bring in powerful stories in a touching
manner to all Punjabi movie lovers across the globe. He said further that PTC
Box Office will not only give chance to the fresh cinema talent but also give
fresh stories and fresh feel to the routine of television viewing for Punjabi
audiences.
Rabindra Narayan added that as the world
has witnessed, PTC Network never takes itself for granted and loves working on
creative and novel plans, be it programming, sprucing up its ideas, finding new
challenges or a whole hearted effort to keep its audience entertained and
happy.
Rabindra Narayan said that this is the
first time that a television channel has gone to villages in search of real
folk singing talent of Punjab and has given them a platform to launch their
career in singing.
PTC Punjabi is also proud to launch the “Mera
Swaraj Young Star Akhada’, a unique singing talent hunt show where the channel
travelled to different villages of Punjab to find folk singing talent in a
unique village Akhada setting. The folk singers sourced from auditions all over
will then compete in quarter-final, semi final and final rounds so that viewers
can find the winner of this unique talent hunt.
He also added that we are highly grateful
to Swaraj Tractors for partnering us in the unique exercise as it proved to be
an excellent brand-fit to create awareness about their tractor while promoting
the real talent of villages.
Voice Of Punjab, Mr Punjab & Miss PTC
Punjabi, besides the esteemed PTC Film Awards, PTC Music Awards & much more
are some of the feathers to the hat of PTC
Network. Now to take it a step forward, we present to you PTC Box Office.
In simple words, it is PTC’s
mini cinema series in Punjabi served hot from the PTC Production
House.
These films are not merely designed to
entertain & tell stories of home & abroad, showcasing beautiful
writing, direction and acting talent besides wonderful landscapes across the
globe; but are essentially designed to offer a platform to filmmakers, writers,
actors, musicians, technicians and others who otherwise keep waiting for
that one golden chance to shine!
PTC Box Office is bringing in a very
emotional story on this Friday, August 3, about a naughty
village boy’s coming of age in “Addhi Chutti Saari” directed by
well-known Sumit Dutt. Subsequent weeks will see films by Dr Sahib Singh, Mukesh
Gautam, Jasraj Bhatti, Pali Bhupinder and much more.
In subsequent weeks, viewers will get to
see the best of small screen Punjabi cinema in movies like Rajneeti, Raavi
Paar, Yudh Da Antt, Makhna, Lucky Kabootar, Maat, Rihaa, Zameer and many more.
The winners will get exclusive contract to
record their folk songs with PTC Records label and be featured in Akhadas on
PTC PunjabiI.
Kudos to PTC PUNJABI to have taken the pain
of going to villages and hunt the real and hidden folk talent of Punjab which
otherwise had no platform. “Mera Swaraj Young Star Akhada’ debuts on August 5
at 10:00 am on PTC Punjabi.
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