Mumbai, January 23, 2019: Anil D. Ambani owned Reliance Entertainment’s content development and production company, Big Synergy, is all set to produce the new season of the much-loved show Savdhaan India. This has been airing from 21st January on Star Bharat.
The Star Network has appointed Reliance Entertainment’s Big Synergy as one of the preferred producers to create a thrilling new season of their successful show Savdhaan India that unleashes the ever-evolving face of crime across our country. Based on episode count, Savdhaan India is the second longest running scripted Hindi crime series on Indian television. The show deals with crimes stories of murder, kidnapping, domestic violence, fraud, robbery, forgery, rape, sexual assault and many other crimes.
The new episodes of the show will focus on intriguing and engaging crime stories committed in the country, making the viewers alert and aware about the kind of crimes happening around them.
For over last three decades, Big Synergy has produced some of India’s most impactful and top rated non-fiction series along with entertaining fiction series for both Broadcast and OTT platforms.
Rajiv Bakshi, CEO, Reliance Entertainment’s Big Synergy shares, “We are thrilled to produce one of Star Bharat’s marquee television series, Savdhaan India, which has been successfully entertaining millions of viewers across India since 2012. Through this year, we are on path to produce an equal measure of fiction and non-fiction series for broadcasters as well as the OTT platforms, across Hindi and several regional languages. We deeply value the trust broadcasters and OTT platforms repose in our creative and production capabilities, and we stand committed to continue creating compelling content.”
The host of the show, Ashutosh Rana, shares, “It is a delight to associate with one of the the finest production houses in the country widely regarded for its amazing storytelling and impact on viewers.”
Tisca Chopra, also hosting the show, says, “I am delighted to be on Savdhaan India. It is wonderful to witness Big Synergy’s strong journey in the fiction space.”
Umesh Bist, an acclaimed film & TV director and writer, who in the past has written several successful episodes of Savdhaan India, has recently partnered with BIG Synergy as the show runner and creative producer for the show. He shares, “Savdhaan India has been an entertaining show focused on narrating heart wrenching crime stories from across India with an aim of informing audiences to stay alert. It is truly an enriching experience for me to be a part of such a successful show and I eagerly look forward to increasing both the entertainment and engagement quotients of the show by narrating topical every day crime stories that would help further increase the awareness of innocent citizens about such crimes.”
About Reliance Entertainment:
Reliance Entertainment is the media and entertainment arm of Reliance Group and is engaged in the creation and distribution of content across film, television, digital and gaming platforms. Internationally, Reliance Entertainment has partnered since 2009 with iconic film producer and director, Steven Spielberg, in the formation of DreamWorks Studios, and thereafter, Amblin Partners. This relationship has produced several successful films such as The Help, War Horse, Lincoln, The Hundred Foot Journey, The Girl on the Train, A Dog’s Purpose, Bridge of Spies, The Post and the most recent Golden Globe award winning and Oscar nominee, The Green Book.
About Big Synergy
Since 1988, Big Synergy has been at the helm of producing India’s most critically acclaimed television & OTT series and franchises. Over the last three decades, it has produced over 4,500 hours of original content across all genres for leading national and regional broadcasters, and in recent years with top international and domestic OTT platforms as well.
Over the years, Big Synergy has delivered both critically and commercially successful shows including Kaun Banega Crorepati, 10 Ka Dum, India’s Got Talent, Sach Ka Saamna, India’s Child Genius, Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain and Aap Ki Kachehri. Some of popular web-series it has produced include Bose-Dead or Alive with ‘Alt Balaji’, Yay Kay Hua Bro with ‘Voot’, Kaushiki with ‘VuClip’, and has multiple shows under development with premium international SVOD & TV platforms.
HQ out of Mumbai, Big Synergy produces content for TV and OTT platforms across seven cities in India in Hindi, English, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Bengali and Bhojpuri languages.