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ACK Media, which owns the Amar Chitra Katha brand, has acquired India Book House (IBH) to emerge as one of the largest integrated publishing and distribution firms in India. This buyout will help ACK Media to bring more content, better distribution and delivery capabilities for family entertainment.
Education and entertainment company ACK Media has announced acquisition of India Book House as part of its strategy to develop 'end-to-end' content, distribution and experience delivery capabilities for family entertainment.
ACK Media, which owns titles such as Amar Chitra Katha, Tinkle and Karadi Tales, today announced the acquisition of book distribution firm India Book House (IBH) for an undisclosed amount.
ACK Media CEO and co-founder Samir Patil talks to MediaNama about the right content for mobile platforms, issues in the animation sector, competition and e-books. Earlier, in Part 1, he talked about various segments, challenges and why he feels the promise of new media has not worked. Read on for the second half of the interview.
ACK Media, the owner of Indian comic content such as Amar Chitra Katha, Tinkle and Karadi Tales, has a slew of projects lined up for the year: online games (one called Suppandi World), two animation movies, a Facebook application for Amar Chitra Katha Story Of the Week, and mobile games for the Android. ACK Media CEO and co-founder Samir Patil, in the first half of a two-part interview with MediaNama, talks about the various segments, challenges and why he feels the promise of new media has not worked.
Amar Chitra Katha has organised a School Workshop "ACK Heroes Programme' for the children of classes 5, 6 and 7; The workshop is being conducted across the four metros Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and Kolkata in the top 85 schools with 40,000 students participating
One of the loved toons from the Amar Chitra Katha (ACK) comics’ series, Suppandi, is set to jump out from comic strips to the silver screen. ACK Media is producing a stereoscopic three-dimensional animation film, with Suppandi as the main character. The film would hit cinema halls in November 2010.
Suppandi is one of India's most beloved characters and is a part of every Indian's childhood. Its the character with the goof, whose antics leave his bosses bothered and bewildered. The Cute, Silly and Thoroughly entertaining Suppandi - You are caught wondering how the world would be from Suppandi's eyes.
He’s bought up the classic kids comic imprints Amar Chitra Katha and Tinkle, as well as Karadi Tales. Raghu Karnad asks Samir Patil about his designs on India’s children.
If our favourite Tinkle character Suppandi were to don a Bollywood avatar, who do you think would fit the bill? Ranbir Kapoor, perhaps? Animation and VFX veteran Biju D, who is all set to direct a stereoscopic 3D animation on Suppandi, disagrees. “The work doesn’t end at finishing the voice-over for Suppandi,” Biju says. “The character would demand a lot more. Bollywood stars may not be able to give me that kind of time.”
Mumbai: Fans of the popular Tinkle toon `Suppandi`, the lovable goof who gets into trouble all the time, have a reason to rejoice as they will soon be able to see their favourite character on the big screen. City-based ACK Media has announced its new venture to make the first stereoscopic 3D animated film based on the misadventures of Suppandi.
MUMBAI: India's first stereoscopic 3D animated film based on the popular Tinkle Toon Suppandi is set to invade the silver screen.
