With the ongoing festive season, Zee TV has been packing one exciting surprise
after another for its audience by way of 3 new fiction shows in October and another
exciting supernatural fantasy thriller ‘Brahmarakshas’ on its way in November.
Things are only going to get bigger and better in the coming year as the channel is
all set to revolutionise the face and sound of music on television in early 2021. In
what will be a clutter-breaking format innovation on reality TV, Zee TV in
collaboration with FATHOM PICTURES will present audiences with the world’s first
ever music league, the ‘Indian Pro Music League’ (IPML).
While the world of sports has seen several league competitions, be it in India or
abroad, this first-of-its-kind music league will have six teams owned by the likes of
Shraddha Kapoor along with her father and brother – Shakti Kapoor and
Siddhant Kapoor, Govinda along with wife Sunita, Rajkummar Rao, and Riteish
Deshmukh along with wife Genelia D’Souza Deshmukh, representing different
regions of India, battling it out against each other in a musical championship. Each of
these teams will have celebrated playback singers, one male and one female
vocalist as their captain. Additionally, every team will also have reality stars and to
add to this pool of talent, 6 fresh voices from various regions of the country, one for
each team, will get a chance to be a part of this league! To be hosted by two top
anchors, the Indian Pro Music League will be launched in early 2021. Akin to the
format of a sports league, the show will have 5 innings comprising the league
matches and a super match where audience votes and umpire points will decide the
outcome of the league and declare one of the teams as the league champions.
About the format breakthrough, Zee TV Business Head, Aparna Bhosle said,
“At Zee TV, we constantly endeavour to provide audiences with new, unique and
cutting-edge content that gives them a sense of novelty alongside engaging
entertainment for the entire family. Over the years, we’ve seen how league formats
have become immensely popular amongst sports viewers and as a country where
Cricket is nothing short of a religion, audiences at large, have embraced and
internalised this exciting format. With the Indian Pro Music League, the idea is to
infuse the space of music reality television with the same energy and competitive
spirit that is typical of a sports league. The quotient of excitement and anticipation is
enhanced by top Bollywood stars and sports celebrities owning the six teams that
will compete in the championship. While we have the top playback singers of the
country as our team captains and rising reality stars on board to ensure the highest
bar of excellence in the music the show will produce, we’re on a quest to find some
new talented singers from across the country through an intensive scouting initiative
as Zee TV has always believed in leveraging the strength of its reality formats to give
the common man an opportunity of chasing his dreams.”
Zee Studios will be the creative and production house on the show.