MUMBAI: Colors has brought on board Star Plus creative director Deepak Chhabria as fiction programming head. 

It was in October last year when Indiantelevision.com first reported about Colors weekday programming head Prashant Bhatt putting in his papers and non-fiction head Manisha Sharma being awarded with extra responsibilities of the entire programming department of the channel. 

Chhabria joined Colors almost a month back and reports directly to Sharma. 

When contacted, Colors CEO Raj Nayak as well as Chhabria confirmed the development. 

Chhabria, who had been associated with Star for eight long years, was heading the creative aspect at Star Plus.

For the record, in the year 2012, Colors had split its programming unit into two separate teams to bring more focus on content for weekdays and weekends. Wherein, Bhatt was in-charge of the weekday fiction programming and Sharma was responsible for non-fiction content.