page_title: Sahara India Pariwar
section_title: Media and entertainment
hierarchical_section_title: Sahara India Pariwar / Businesses / Media and entertainment
context_page_description: Sahara India Pariwar is an Indian conglomerate headquartered in Lucknow, India. The group operates business sectors like finance, infrastructure & housing, media & entertainment, health care, education, hospitality and information technology. The group has been a major promoter of sports in India and was the title sponsor of the Indian national cricket team, Indian national hockey team and Bangladesh national cricket team, Force India Formula One team among many other sports.
context_section_description: The group owns the national Hindi news channel Samay and 36 city-specific regional news channels Sahara Samay. It also owns Sahara One, a general entertainment channel; Filmy, a Hindi movie channel; and Firangi, an entertainment channel. Sahara Samay received the "Broadcast Engineering Excellence Award" in 2008 for its network newsroom technology.
  The group owns publishes and sells one magazine in English, seven editions of the Hindi daily newspaper Rashtriya Sahara, nine editions of Urdu Daily Newspaper Roznama Rashtriya Sahara and one International Urdu Weekly, Alami Sahara.
  Sahara had produced, marketed, and distributed Hindi and other regional language films. Well known films produced by the company include Bewafaa, Page 3, Sarkar, No Entry, and Wanted. In September 2010, the company was in talks to acquire MGM Studios, but the deal collapsed. Sahara is willing to try again to take over MGM.
caption: The Plaza Hotel in New York City
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