Colors Cineplex

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Colors Cineplex
Country India
Headquarters Mumbai, India
Programming
Picture format 1080i HDTV
(downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner Disney Star
Key peopleRockteem Bhattacharjee
Sister channels
History
Launched8 May 2016;8 years ago (2016-05-08) (India)
29 September 2016;8 years ago (2016-09-29) in (UK)
5 October 2016;8 years ago (2016-10-05) in (USA)
Former namesRishtey Cineplex (2016-2019)
Links
Website colorscineplex.com
Availability

Colors Cineplex (formerly Rishtey Cineplex) is an Indian pay television channel owned by JioStar It was launched on 8 May 2016.

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History

In June 2016 Viacom18 decided to launch the channel in the UK as Rishtey Cineplex. [1] It launched on 29 September 2016 on Sky, replacing UMP Movies. [2] The channel also launched in US in October 5, 2016 on Dish Network.

The channel was launched on Freeview on 17 January 2017. [3] However, it was later removed on 1 July 2017. [4]

In 2017, Viacom18 launched HD movie channel Cineplex HD and it was rebranded as Colors Cineplex HD in 2019.

In October 2017, the channel was launched in Virgin Media. [5]

On 1 March 2019, Rishtey Cineplex was rebranded as Colors Cineplex and Cineplex HD as Colors Cineplex HD. [6]

Viacom18 relaunched Rishtey Cineplex on 5 June 2020 on DD Free Dish. Viacom18 launched another Hindi movie channel Colors Cineplex Bollywood on 1 April 2021. [7] The channel broadcasts Bollywood and the Hindi dubbed South Indian movies.

Sister channels

Colors Cineplex Superhits

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Colors Cineplex Superhits is a Hindi language movie channel in India, owned by JioStar It was launched on 1 April 2022. It replaced the movie channel Rishtey Cineplex.

Earlier, the channel broadcast both Bollywood and South Indian movies dubbed in Hindi. After the launch of Colors Cineplex Bollywood on 1 April 2021, the channel broadcast only South Indian Hindi-dubbed movies while the latter is a dedicated Bollywood movies channel. [8]

Colors Cineplex Bollywood

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Colors Cineplex Bollywood is a Hindi language movie channel in India, owned by JioStar. The channel primarily focuses only on Bollywood movies [9] [10] and it became the third movie channel after Colors Cineplex and Colors Cineplex Superhits from the same parent company.

Original shows

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