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Penguin Random House India and FremantleMedia India join hands to create a first-ever web series based on the bestselling author Durjoy Datta’s novel World’s Best Boyfriend
New Delhi, 19 July, 2017: Penguin Random House India, India’s largest English language trade publisher is thrilled to collaborate with FremantleMedia India to produce a brand new web series, World`s Best Boyfriend written by Durjoy Datta. World’s Best Boyfriend is a heart-touching story about love, friendship, betrayal and hatred that exists between the two central characters. This is the first web series partnership between FremantleMedia India and a publishing house in the country.
The web series will launch in December on FremantleMedia’s YouTube and Facebook simultaneously.
World’s Best Boyfriend is an interesting story spread across the world of two teens, Dhruv and Aranya and is a complete package defining love, friendship, betrayal Commenting on the launch, Durjoy Datta said, “I’m super stoked. The book resonated with a lot of my readers and I am sure this series would make the story reach out to a lot more people. I am positive that FremantleMedia will do a great job of it.”
Ron Crasto, SVP, Branded Entertainment & Digital Partnership, FremantleMedia India said, “We are delighted to be working with Penguin Random House and Durjoy Datta to bring this coming of age story about the emotions of young love to life. With captivating characters and relatable themes, we’re looking forward to attracting fans of the bestselling novel to our series as well as engaging new digital audiences.”
Rukun Kaul, Head – Digital, Penguin Random House India said, “We’re thrilled to be partnering with FremantleMedia on one of Durjoy’s bestselling books. We’re hopeful that his work will speak to the digital audiences just as poignantly as it speaks to his readers.”
FremantleMedia India, which is responsible for producing shows such as India’s Got Talent and Indian Idol, recently ventured into the digital space with its web series Confessions – It’s Complicated.
About Penguin Random House India
Penguin Random House India is the subcontinent’s largest English language trade publisher. The company publishes over 250 new titles every year and has an active backlist of 3000 titles. With a strong fiction and nonfiction list, we publish across every segment including biography, travel, business, politics, history, religion and philosophy, lifestyle, cookery, health and fitness, sports and leisure, visual books and children’s books. The children’s titles are published under the Puffin and Ladybird imprints.
Our illustrious author list includes three Booker Prize winning novels (The God of Small Things, The Inheritance of Loss and Life of Pi) and virtually every major literary prize, including the Nobel Prize, the Magsaysay Award, the Jnanpith Award, the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Several of our authors are also recipients of the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan, India’s highest civilian honours.
Penguin Random House India has a co-publishing partnership with Manjul Publishing House for local language translations across adult and children’s fiction and nonfiction titles that are available in Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu and Marathi. Further, we are also the exclusive distribution partners for some of the leading publishing houses – Faber, Granta, Short Books, Atlantic Books UK, Canongate, Ingram Publishing Services, Pushkin, Sterling US, Egmont, Walker Books, Icon, FW Media, Guinness, Hay House, Wiley Business India, Zubaan, Black Ink and Fun OK Please – in India.
About FremantleMedia
FremantleMedia creates, produces and distributes some of the best known and loved content in the world including: American Gods, The Young Pope, Deutschland 83, Got Talent (co-produced with Syco in the UK and the US), The X Factor (co-produced with Syco in the UK), Take Me Out, Family Feud, Match Game, Gute Zeiten Schlechte Zeiten, Wentworth, Neighbours, Grand Designs, Jamie Oliver, Danger Mouse, Munchies (with VICE Media), and The Football Republic. We have an outstanding global network with operations in 31 countries, producing over 11,000 hours of programming a year, rolling out more than 60 formats and airing more than 420 programmes a year worldwide. The company also distributes more than 20,000 hours of content in over 200 territories. We are part of RTL Group, a global leader across broadcast, content and digital, and a division of the international media company Bertelsmann. For more information, visit www.fremantlemedia.com, follow us @FremantleMedia and visit our LinkedIn and Facebook pages.
Penguin Random House India
Neha Punj – npunj@penguinrandomhouse.in – 0124 – 4785682
Megha Nath, mnath@penguinrandomhouse.in – 0124 – 4785720
FremantleMedia
Hephzibah Kwakye-Saka – hep.ksaka@freuds.com – +44 (0) 203 003 6482
Amanda Hearn – Amanda.hearn@freuds.com – 07540 745 492
