Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd. partners with Ola’s connected car platform, Ola Play
Mumbai, November 14th, 2017: Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd, one of India’s leading content houses joins hands with Ola Play, the world’s first connected car platform for ride-sharing, a proprietary platform of Ola, India’s most popular mobile app for transportation. The association brings for its audience a hand-picked catalogue of videos to choose from and make their trip an immersive and entertaining one. Bollywood music, comedy clips, and much more will be now available inside a cab at the click of a button.
Shemaroo currently entertains its audience through their mobile apps such as Gods, Filmi Gaane, YouTube Channels such as Filmi Gaane, Bhakti Songs, Indian Comedy, Shemaroo Kids and various DTH channels. A large pie of this content will now be available on Ola Play. This will also include original content produced by Shemaroo’s brand - Comedy Walas. Sughanda Mishra, Dr Sanket Bhosale, Sahil Khattar and others are all brought together in these videos to tickle your funny bone. Commuters can also enjoy Bollywood classics of Kishore Kumar, Mohd. Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, and R. D. Burman among others. Famous melodies such as ‘Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas Tum Rehti ho’, ‘Aane Wala Pal’, ‘Gulabi Aankhen Jo Teri Dekhi’, ‘Kaun Hai Jo Sapnon Mein Aaya,’ among several others will accompany you in your ride. The range of content on Ola Play also caters to commuters who want to listen to devotional music.
Jai Maroo, Director, Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd, shared his thoughts on the occasion, “We are excited with our association with Ola and Ola Play as it has given us yet another opportunity to connect with our audience while they are on the move. With the idea of offering entertainment during commute for a better in-cab experience, Ola definitely has moved the bar higher for other players. Shemaroo owns one of the largest content libraries in the country and we are glad to have been able to showcase few of our videos on the platform.” He also added, “As team Shemaroo, we target to reach out to maximum audience at their convenient time and place. The tie up aligns to our strategy.”
Abhishek Agrawal, Senior Director and Head of Product, Ola Play, said “With Ola Play, we are consistently working towards enhancing customer experience to ensure an immersive and productive experience for them while they are traveling to their destination. In this endeavour, we are excited to partner with Shemaroo and bring their wide range of comedy, music and other videos to Ola Play. With this association, we are offering our consumers premium entertainment content aligned with our strategy to transform the consumer’s ride experience to one that is intelligent, contextual, and unique.”
Currently, Ola Play is available in seven cities in the country; Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Kolkata, and Hyderabad. Powered by proprietary in-car and cloud technologies from Ola, Ola Play brings advanced car controls, choice of personalized content and a fully-connected interactive experience through several partnerships across categories to build a high quality interactive experience for users.
