Zee Entertainment Rolls Out Celeb Chat Show Starry Nights

MUMBAI: Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL) has launched a new celebrity chat show titled Starry Nights exclusively for international territories.

Produced in-house, Starry Nights will premiere on ZEE’s international channels beginning the first week of January. Hosted by trade analyst Komal Nahta, the show will feature conversations with Bollywood celebrities, including Arjun Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Farah Khan, Aditya Roy Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor, Zoya Akhtar, Imtiaz Ali, Tiger Shroff and more.

Amit Goenka, the CEO of international broadcast business at ZEEL, said, “With a presence in 171 countries and content available in nine foreign languages, ZEE has emerged as a truly world-scale player, offering rich, innovative and engaging content to a wide cross-section of audiences. Bollywood’s popularity is growing across continents and with Starry Nights, it will be the first time that a celeb chat show of this stature has been produced. Featuring the best of Bollywood, the show aims to reach over 332 million viewers across all international territories.”

Host Komal Nahta added: “I was thrilled at the offer to host Starry Nights as it was outside my comfort zone. All these years I have spoken of box-office collections but this show has given me an opportunity to be associated with the glamour instead of the grind.”

Rajeev Kheror, the president of content and strategy for international business at ZEEL, commented, “Starry Nights is about the journey of our favorite film celebrities. It is different from other chat shows where celebs talk about their films and latest releases. Here we come closer to the individual personality of the celebrity, their true character and their desires. The 40-episode series will feature the best of the industry, including global superstars like Aamir Khan, Karan Johar, Hrithik Roshan, Anushka Sharma, Kangana Ranaut, Alia Bhatt, Anil Kapoor, Sushant Singh Rajput, Vidya Balan and Manish Malhotra, among others. While the show has been shot in English, to reach local audiences across the globe, it will be dubbed or subtitled in several languages, including German, Spanish and Arabic.”

Starry Nights was conceptualized and produced by Fatema Contractor, the programming head of ZEE International. Contractor remarked: “We are honored to be creating a celeb chat show at a global level in association with Komal Nahta. Starry Nights manages to go beyond the reel and reveal the real side of celebrities.”