Sukesh Motwani
Exclusive: Nandish Singh Sandhu to feature in Netflix’s Elite India?
Netflix is churning out interesting content for a loyal audience. The OTT platform is all set to launch another high-impact web series on its platform. Netflix is all set to bring an Indian remake of Elite, the Spanish thriller teen drama, created by Carlos Montero and Darío Madrona. As per reports in media, the show has been commissioned and Sukesh Motwani will be helming the show under his banner Bodhi Tree Multimedia. We had earlier exclusively reported about Chandan K Anand being part of the project. Now, we hear actor Nandish Singh Sandhu, who has been missing from TV, m | Click Here...
Exclusive: Chandan K Anand in Netflix’s Elite India
Netflix is all set to bring an Indian remake of Elite, the Spanish thriller teen drama, created by Carlos Montero and Darío Madrona. As per reports in media, the show has been commissioned and Sukesh Motwani will be helming the show under his banner Bodhi Tree Multimedia. Now, coming to the cast, we have exclusively learnt that versatile actor Chandan K Anand, who has entertained masses in shows like Prem Ya Paheli: Chandrakantha, Khoob Ladi Mardaani Jhansi Ki Rani and Barrister Babu, will play a pivotal role in the project which will stream on Ne | Click Here...
Shakti Anand and Juhi Parmar to play leads in Bodhi Tree’s next for Zee TV?
Bodhi Tree Multimedia the renowned production house helmed by Sukesh Motwani and Mautik Tolia will soon come up with an interesting concept for Zee TV. The show will speak about a unique relationship of a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, something that has not been touched upon till now. News coming to our desk at IWMBuzz.com is that proficient actors Shakti Anand and Juhi Parmar will in all probability play the leads in the show. Shakti Anand who is a power-packed performer was last seen in Tenali Rama. Juhi who is known for her amazing acting prowess was part | Click Here...
Airlift fame child actor Adiba Hussain to enter Colors’ Naati Pinky Ki Lambi Love Story
Naati Pinky Ki Lambi Love Story the Colors show produced by Sukesh Motwani and Mautik Tolia’s Bodhi Tree will see a new entry!! The show will see a new child artist playing the role of Nandu, Arjun’s (Puneett Chouksey) daughter. Yes, the girl Aadhya who was playing the role earlier is under the 10 years age group and cannot be shooting for the show. Hence the channel and makers have come up with a replacement. Now, child artist Adiba Hussain who was seen in the film Airlift with Akshay Kumar will be playing the role. She has featured in films Indusarkar, Yaml | Click Here...
My first experience on the medium of web with The Raikar Case has been great: Ashvini Bhave
Ashvini Bhave, the prolific actress will always be remembered for her adorable role in the Rishi Kapoor starrer film, Henna. Ashvini who has had a great body of work with Hindi, Marathi and Kannada films, is now back to facing the camera after a long gap with the web-series The Raikar Case. The Raikar Case, the who-done-it mystery saga is produced by Sukesh Motwani and Mautik Tolia and directed by Aditya Sarpotdar for Voot Select. Ashvini plays the role of Sakshi Nayak Raikar, the petite, silent and brooding housewife of the Raikar family who springs up to become the unpredict | Click Here...
Our success mantra lies in integrity, honesty and innovation: Sukesh Motwani, producer of The Raikar Case and Marzi
Sukesh Motwani, Chief Content Officer and Director, Bodhi Tree Multimedia, producer of shows like Yeh Hai Aashiqui (Bindaas), Nisha Aur Uske Cousins (Star Plus), Big F (MTV), Aap Ke Aa Jane Se (Zee TV), Naati Pinky Ki Lambi Love Story (Colors) and Fear Files (Zee TV) among others are also producing shows for OTT networks. They recently launched The Raikar Case and Marzi on Voot Select which were appreciated by critics and viewers alike. The stories kept audiences hooked, thanks to a thrilling plot and storyline. | Click Here...
Review of Colors’ Naati Pinky Ki Lambi Love Story: Naati Pinky aka Riya Shukla steals the show
Colors’ latest offering Naati Pinky Ki Lambi Love Story by Producer Sukesh Motwani and Mautik Tolia's banner Bodhi Tree Multimedia, is a short and sweet love story of the Naati Pinky, who is just 4 feet 8 inches but she stands tall to inspire people to live life wholeheartedly. All about the show: The show will trace the journey of Pinky who is short but feisty, a fighter but also a dreamer, perceived as flawed but hope to find her true love. A typical Delhi girl, Pinky Kashyap (pl | Click Here...
Bodhi Tree to produce Girl In The City for Hotstar?
The popular bindass series Girl In The City, earlier produced by Still and Still Media helmed by Anand Tiwari, Amritpal Singh Bindra, will soon be back, but with the change of guard, is what our sources inform us. IWMBuzz.com has exclusively learnt that the series will see a change in the production house. Now, the series will be produced of Bodhi Tree helmed by Sukesh Motwani and Mautik Tolia, and will be streamed on Hotstar, a credible source informs. Girl in the City traces the journey of the small town girl Meera Sehgal played by Mithila Palkar, who comes to the big | Click Here...
Aap Ke Aa Jane Se: Yajuvendra Singh and Manisha Rawat to enter
Zee TV’s Aap Ke Aa Jane Se (Sukesh Motwani and Mautik Tolia’s banner Bodhi Tree) will see a revamp that will bring a new love story to the fore. This time around, the love story will revolve around a guy and a girl who has gone through divorce in Aap Ke Aa Jane Se. As reported by IWMBuzz.com, the show will have Karan Jotwani and Suhasi Dhami playing the leads in the reincarnation phase. We now hear of many new actors joining in to form the family of the protagonists. | Click Here...
Ding Entertainment and Bodhi Tree to produce episodics for Voot series Fuh Se Fantasy
Voot’s new presentation ‘Fuh Se Fantasy’ which will present quirky and edgy love stories will stream on 5 April. The episodic series will see many popular actors playing integral roles. Actors Satyajeet Dubey, Plabita Borthakur, Sanaya Pithawalla, Anshuman Malhotra, Naveen Kasturia, Anupriya Goenka etc have been roped in. The series Fuh Se Fantasy will have episodics produced by two production houses, in Tanveer Bookwala’s Ding Entertainment and Sukesh Motwani and Mautik Tolia’s banner Bodhi Tree Multimedia. Ding Entertainment has earlier produced the series, | Click Here...
Atul Kulkarni and Ashwini Bhave join Kunal Karan Kapoor & Parul Gulati in Voot series
Voot, the digital arm of Viacom 18 is presently working on quite a few Originals which will touch interesting subjects. While Season 2 of Silsila Badalte Rishton Ka will soon go on floor, work has begun on the edge-of-the-seat family thriller which will be produced by Sukesh Motwani and Mautik Tolia’s banner, Bodhi Tree. Yesterday, IWMBuzz.com had reported exclusively about this Bodhi Tree series roping in popular actor Kunal Karan Kapoor as the lead. Parul Gulati will join him as the female protagonist. News coming in is that Atul Kulkarni, the prolific actor who has | Click Here...
Review of Viu’s Banned: A pacey and gripping tale with music meeting politics
Freedom of Speech has always been a contentious issue in India. Governments of all stripes have charged artists with sedition. Upcoming OTT platform, Viu, has tried to address this issue in a humorous way, through its new web series, Banned, produced by Mautik Tolia and Sukesh Motwani’s Bodhi Tree Productions. It traces the journey of a musical group, nicknamed Swag Busters, who get hauled over the coals for a song which exhorts the Brits to regain control over India. Interestingly, till the fourth episode (first four were uploade | Click Here...
It is fallacious to justify rampant web abuse by saying this is how youth converses: Producer Sukesh Motwani
Well-known channel guy (Zee TV and UTV) and now Producer, Sukesh Motwani (Bodhi Tree), is also toying with the new digital format. “We had made a couple of shows in 2017. This year too, we have a few projects lined up; some have gone on the floors as well. We are in talks with all the players,” says Sukesh, who currently produces Aap Ke Aa Jaane Se, for Zee TV. “As makers, we always love the challenge to make different kinds of content. Here, not only is the story grammar varied, but we also need to complete the story in 12 episodes. Remember, we are mostly used to making long- | Click Here...
Aap Ke Aa Jane Se fans don’t expect Vedika and Sahil to get married any time soon: Producer Sukesh Motwani
Well-known Producer Sukesh Motwani is quite happy with the journey of his latest Zee TV show, Aap Ke Aa Jane Se. “For the last couple of years, the 10.30 pm slot has been facing reach issues across all platforms. Despite that, this older woman (Suhasi Dhami)-younger man (Karan Jotwani) show is doing 1.4, which is quite good; in fact, it is now the slot leader. We have given Zee huge growth for the same time band which was doing 0.8 before we came along. Also, at first, some people were afraid whether the above non-conformist storyline will get good enough viewership.” What is the | Click Here...
Mrinal Dutt joins Shriya and Viraf in Viu India’s web-series
Talented actor Mrinal Dutt of Private Investigator fame will soon be seen on the ever-blossoming digital platform in a meaty role. News coming in is that Mrinal has joined Shriya Pilgaonkar and Viraf Patel in Viu India’s upcoming thriller web-series with the tentative title ‘Sins of a Father’. We already know that this web-series is being produced by Bodhi Tree (Sukesh Motwani and Mautik Tolia) with actors Naved Aslam and Teena Singh being part of it. As per a credible source, “Mrinal will play a very challenging character, important in the storyline.” | Click Here...
Viraf Patel replaces Harman Singha in Bodhi Tree’s web-series for Viu India
Handsome hunk Viraf Patel will be seen on the digital space soon!! We hope this piece of news will make the huge fan base of Viraf extremely happy!! As per news coming in, Viraf Patel has joined the cast of Bodhi Tree’s (helmed by Sukesh Motwani and Mautik Tolia) upcoming web –series for Viu India. Yes, you heard it right!! As we know, the elegant and beautiful Shriya Pilgaonkar will play the lead in the thriller web-series, Sins of a Father (tentative title). The series also has senior actor Naved Aslam in a crucial role with Teena Singh (Tere Liye Bro) also | Click Here...
Aap Ke Aa Jane Se transports viewers into the past with its Maha-Movie
Aap Ke Aa Jane Se the very contemporary show that depicts the unique love tale of a younger guy and a relatively elder woman will take viewers into a completely different zone this weekend... The Zee TV show produced by Bodhi Tree Entertainment (Sukesh Motwani and Mautik Tolia) will take the story of Sahil (Karan Jotwani) and Vedika (Suhasi Dhami) into a new zone, that will head in to show a past life regression where an astrologer will help Sahil know that not only in the current life but in past as well their love could not meet the fate. The movie has some | Click Here...
Zeishan Quadri in Bodhi Tree’s web-series for Viu India
Bodhi Tree Productions, helmed by Sukesh Motwani and Mautik Tolia is surely in for a fabulous time on the web space!! With four web-series being planned, work is happening in full swing for the first-to-come Viu India series. IWMBuzz.com has exclusive news that Zeishan Quadri, the acclaimed Writer, Actor, Director and Producer will be part of the web-series in the capacity of one of the lead cast. Yes, you heard it right!! As we know, | Click Here...
Review: Aap Ke Aa Jane Se on Zee TV
The older-woman-younger-man romance is one TV theme that has not been overdone yet. After Na Bole Tum Na Maine Kuch Kaha (Colors), it was tried on Sony’s Kehta Hai Dil Jee Le Zara. Now the theme sees its next variation in the Zee TV show, Aap Ke Aa Jane Se. We hope a time comes when we can show divorcee women getting a second shot at love; until now, either the woman is shown to be unmarried, or, as shown here, a widow. We have a very sacrificing Vedika (Suhasi Dhami), who lives with her mother and a 15-year-old daughter. She has family issues, with her bro-in-law demanding | Click Here...
Bodhi Tree Multimedia to produce ‘The Interns’ for Times Internet
IndianWikiMedia was the first to report about Times Internet working on a number of web originals for its soon to be launched OTT platform. The first one we wrote about was a show called Dulha Wanted (read here more about it: Tridha Choudhury, Surekha Sikri to lead the cast of Times Internet’s web-series ‘Dulha Wanted’) Now, we have been told established content creators Sukesh Motwani and Mautik Tolia, heads at Bodhi Tree | Click Here...
Sukesh Motwani Writes: ‘Finding beauty amidst (TV) Madness’
Recently, after a conversation with Siddhartha Laik, Editor at IndianWikiMedia, regarding how one could stay 'sane', 'productive', 'at peace'... within this extremely tough, competitive Television Industry that thrives on 18 hour days, Television Ratings Pressure, Politics of creativity-quality-individuality and personal vanity amidst the desire to churn out an episode every day, the pressure to be 'heard' and remain relevant, the pressure for actors and other freelance technicians to be constantly 'seen' or 'talked about' or the plain pressures of just finding employment , the pressure of | Click Here...
Get ready for fright night with Zee TV’s Fear Files
Do you believe in the existence of supernatural powers, spirits, ghosts? Have you or any of your friends ever experienced paranormal activities or the presence of a spirit near you? Ever wondered where departed souls go after death? Zee TV brings fear back on television as it returns with the next edition of its immensely popular franchise - the first-of-its-kind horror docudrama ‘Fear Files – Darr Ki Sacchi Tasveerein’. Following the spectacular success of its previous seasons, the new edition of Fear Files will re-define fear as it narrates real life accounts that will send a chill | Click Here...
Bodhitree exits; Lost Boy to produce MTV BIG F
In the content ecosystem, it’s all about syncing of energies to paint a beautiful picture on screen. In case of any discrepancy, fissures emerge impacting innovation, in turn blotting the overall creative art. The opening lines intend to draw parallel to a development pertaining to the youth show MTV BIG F. Indianwikimedia has learnt that the initial arrangement was between the channel and Bodhitree Productions to helm affairs. However, as per sources, the relationship cord has snapped. “Bodhitree is no longer a part of the project. After initial round | Click Here...