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Bollywood Hungama

Indian entertainment website

Field	Value
name	Bollywood Hungama
logo	Bollywoodhungamalogo.png
screenshot	Bollywoodhungamascreenshot.jpg
screenshot_size	200px
caption	Bollywood Hungama homepage screenshot on 23 August 2023
url
commercial	Yes
type	Entertainment news, reviews
registration	Free/subscription
owner	Hungama Digital Media Entertainment
launch_date
language	English, Hindi

Bollywood Hungama (lit. "Bollywood Madness" in Hindi), previously known as IndiaFM (or IndiaFM.com), is an Indian entertainment website, owned by Hungama Digital Media Entertainment, which acquired the website in 2000.

The website provides news related to Indian cinema, particularly Hindi cinema, film reviews and box office reports. Launched on 15 June 1998, the website was originally named "IndiaFM.com". It changed its name to "Bollywood Hungama" in 2008.

Hungama.com

Hungama Digital Media is an Indian digital entertainment company, headquartered in Mumbai, India. The company was first launched in 1999 by Ashish Kacholia, Hiren Ved, Lashit Sanghvi, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, and Neeraj Roy as an online promotions agency. The company has since grown to also serve as an aggregator, developer, publisher, and distributor of Bollywood and Asian entertainment.

The company first launched in 1999 as "Hungama.com", a promotional marketing portal. In 2000 the company acquired Indiafm and in the following years began to work marketing campaigns for companies such as Coca-Cola and Nike. In 2007 Hungama launched their gaming portal and in 2009, the company re-launched their website and company name, changing it to Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. In 2012 Hungama Digital Media Entertainment launched Artist Aloud!, a digital platform for artists and independent music fans. It won a gold award for Best Digital Communications Campaign from the Promotion Marketing Awards of Asia (2009).

References

(10 December 2007). "Online piracy is new threat for film industry". The Economic Times.
(23 December 2003). "Bollywood's Internet download deal". CNN.
Sen, Swagata. (25 June 2009). "Hungama Digital Media bags Meffy for 'Tata Sky Active Mall' service". India Today.
Bagchi, Subroto. (13 July 2009). "Value before Valuation". Forbes India.
Farooqui, Javed. (29 January 2021). "Hungama Digital Media FY20 net loss widens due to increased content cost".
Jha, Sneha. "Cloud Platform Helped Hungama Digital Media Lower Its Cost By 50 Percent". CIO.
(7 January 2010). "Artist aloud!". The New Indian Express.
"Best Digital Communications Campaign". Promotion Marketing Awards of Asia.

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