Colors Cineplex (formerly Rishtey Cineplex from 2016 to 2019 in SD and the HD version formerly known as Cineplex HD from 2017–19) is an Indian

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channel owned by

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. It was launched on 29 March 2016.

History

In June 2016

decided to launch the channel in the UK as

Rishtey Cineplex Colors Cineplex Superhits launched on 1 April 2022. Rishtey Cineplex got rebranded into Colors Cineplex Superhits. Earlier, the channel used to broadcast both Bollywood and South Indian movies dubbed in Hindi. But after the launch of Colors Ci ...

. It launched on 29 September 2016 on Sky, replacing UMP Movies. The channel was launched on

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on 17 January 2017. However, it was later removed on 1 July 2017. 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. On 1 March 2019, Rishtey Cineplex was rebranded as Colors Cineplex and Cineplex HD as Colors Cineplex HD. 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. The channel broadcasts

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and the hindi dubbed South Indian movies.

Original shows

* ''Road Safety World Series'' is a T20

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competition organised by the Road Safety Cell of

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to raise awareness about road safety. In the Road safety world series, Cricket world Legends will match against each other for a noble cause. It will be a series of 11 matches that will be played in the T20 format. The series features some big names in cricket from India, Australia, Sri Lanka, West Indies and South Africa like

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Virender Sehwag Virender Sehwag (born 20 October 1978) is a former Indian cricketer who represented India from 1999 to 2013. Widely regarded as one of the most destructive opener, he played for Delhi Capitals in IPL and Delhi and Haryana in Indian domestic c ...

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, Zaheer Khan,

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, etc. and Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar is the commissioner of the series. The series was aired from 7 to 22 March 2020 on Colors Cineplex.

Ravi Gaikwad Ravi Gaikwad is an Indian civil servant and officer in the Government of Maharashtra cadre. He is senior member of Road Safety Cell of Government of Maharashtra formed by Supreme Court of India and chief of Regional Transport Office, RTO, Thane ...

, Chief of RTO,Thane(Konkan Range),Government of Maharashtra, is the founder of the Road Safety World Series, who integrated concept of Road Safety with sports to save lives on Indian roads and across the globe. The man who has been supporting for the cause of road safety is Ravi Gaikwad, Senior Member of Road Safety Cell, Government of Maharashtra. Ravi Gaikwad, Chairman of Shant Bharat Surakshit Bharat appreciated Yohan Blake's visit to India and his efforts for road safety campaign, which required the need to educate the people and make them aware of their responsibilities so as to save as many lives as possible on Indian roads. * T10 League – Abu Dhabi T10 League season 5 was broadcast on the channel along with

and

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References

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