Amitabh Bachchan Birthday special on Zee Aflam during October

Press release

Published October 4th, 2011 - 09:06 GMT

Amitabh Bachchan

Zee Aflam is the first Pan-Arab free-to-air movie channel dedicated to Bollywood movies, packaged in Arabic will celebrate the birthday of Amitabh Bachchan which falls on October 11^th in a special way through airing more than 23 movies for Bachchan who is considered to be the most prominent figure in the history of Indian Cinema. Amitabh movies will be showing on Zee Aflam from Saturday to Wednesday.

Beauty has a space this month also on Zee Aflam, “Jameelat Bollywood”or “Bollywood Beauty”will be showing five of the best movies for super actresses in Bollywood including Priyanla Chopra in film Fashion and Manisha Koirala from Bombay Movie, an award winning movie. The five movies are shown every Monday on Zee Aflam at 22:00 KSA.

Blue, a Bollywood film directed by Anthony D’Souza release on October 16 October 2009 and shown as a premiere at Abu Dhabi Film Festival in 2009, will be another hit on Zee Aflam during on October 14^th. The movie starring Akshay Kumar, Sanjay Dutt, Lara Dutta and Zayed Khan with a cameo appearance by Katrina Kaif. It is an action film centered around an underwater treasure.

Background Information

Zee Aflam

Zee Aflam is the first Pan-Arab free-to-air movie channel dedicated to Bollywood movies, packaged in Arabic. Predominantly catering for the Arabic audience, the channel is available on Nilesat.

Zee Aflam has a unique 24-hour film programming showcasing different genres of Bollywood including romance, comedy, action and drama – from the latest blockbusters to timeless classics.

Apart from Arabic sub-titles, selected movies in Zee Aflam are dubbed in Arabic to perfection further enhancing the appeal of the channel to the region’s audience.

The channel’s bouquet of movies including several fresh titles, with the movies selected and customized in line with the cultural sensitivities of the region and packaged in a two-hour format.

Zee Aflam has a woman band featuring movies by Bollywood’s leading actresses; a dedicated segment on Amitabh Bachchan, the Indian legend and a favourite of Arab audiences; and several other specials.

The channel is part of Zee Network, the largest producer and aggregator of Hindi programming in the world, with more than 100,000 hours of original material in its library. Zee has 500 million viewers in over 185 countries globally.