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  • UTV Stars brings Superstar Santa

    Submitted by ITV Production on Dec 22, 2011
    indiantelevision.com Team

    MUMBAI: UTV Stars will launch an all new show titled Superstar Santa where superstars will step into the viewers? life to help solve their woes.

    The show is being produced by Red Chillies Idiot Box and will premiere on 1 January and will air every Sunday at 7 pm. The first episode will feature actor Sonam Kapoor.

    The show deals with human relationships and its complexities. Spanning over 10 episodes, the show will feature one celebrity each week giving it all to solve the issue at hand. Each of these cases would deal with issues relating to friends, families and even romantic relationships.

    Each one hour episode will see a celebrity choose between two or three cases. Each case has at least two parties involved and one among these parties expresses the desire to resolve an impeding issue with the other party along with the presence of a ?confidante? or a common link between both parties.

    These cases have been selected through a rigorous research and also through seeking entries from people on social networking and micro blogging websites, the channel said in a statement.

    Playing the mediator and anchoring the show would be Dilkhush Reporter.

    UTV Stars business head Nikhil Gandhi said, "Superstar Santa is another endeavour to bring the fans close to their favorite superstars. Its true to our brand UTV Stars? attributes and personifies what we stand for."

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    Sonam Kapoor
  • UTV secures injunction on a fake film casting agency in Noida

    Submitted by ITV Production on Dec 15, 2011
    indiantelevision.com Team

    MUMBAI: After a civil suit filed on 12 December by UTV Software Communications for infringement of registered trade mark, passing off and indulging into unfair trade competition, the Delhi High Court has passed an ad-interim injunction against a fake casting agency running under the name of UTV in Noida, UP.

    Pursuant to a search conducted on the internet by UTV, it was revealed that there was a page displayed on the social networking site Facebook by the name ?UTV Entertainment Media Pvt. Ltd?. Vide a notice dated 1 December, UTV duly lodged a complaint with Facebook notifying them that the logo appearing on the Facebook page of ?UTV Entertainment Media Pvt. Ltd? was deceptively similar to the registered logo of UTV.

    On receipt of the complaint, the said platform discontinued access to the page of ?UTV Entertainment Media Pvt. Ltd?.

    Speaking on the development, UTV Motion Pictures CEO Siddharth Roy Kapur said, "There are many legitimate casting agencies that follow a strict code of conduct.

    "But cases like these, where the names of reputed studios are used to dupe unsuspecting aspirants, unfortunately lead to suspicion in the general public about all casting agencies. We have taken the strongest action available to us and we appeal to the authorities to take a strong stance to ensure such incidents do not take place in the future."

    The similarities in the two logos used by the Plaintiff and Defendants respectively were also pointed out to the Court which was also informed about the fact that unlike the Plaintiff, who were well-reputed in the entertainment field, the Defendant company was not even a registered company and was passing its business off as that of the Plaintiff.

    The Court issued notice in the matter and further granted ad-interim injunction sought by the Plaintiff (UTV) against all defendants including the unknown defendants thereby restraining them from Using the trademark/tradename of the Plaintiff, Passing off their services for those of the Plaintiff and Disposing off or dealing with their assets, in a manner which may adversely affect the Plaintiff?s ability to recover damages.

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    Siddharth Roy Kapur
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