Star Indian cricketer Rohit Sharma is moving into leisure for the primary time, fronting a brand new present set to launch in September on Sony Leisure Tv and streamer SonyLIV, as Sony Pictures Networks India unveiled an expansive content material slate spanning fiction, actuality, sports activities and regional programming.
“We now have introduced a present with energetic India cricket star Rohit Sharma. And Rohit will begin anchoring and presenting his personal present on SET and SonyLIV in September,” mentioned Gaurav Banerjee, managing director and CEO of Sony Photos Networks India.
The slate’s marquee title is “Kaun Banega Crorepati” Season 18,” which premiered on Sony Leisure Tv and Sony LIV underneath the brand new marketing campaign line “Sochna Padega.” As revealed by Variety, the brand new season, hosted by Indian cinema legend Amitabh Bachchan, is the franchise’s first to be crafted with synthetic intelligence, shifting the present’s focus from trivia recall towards reasoning underneath stress.
Prime Bollywood star Ajay Devgn will host true-crime sequence “Crime Patrol 2026,” bringing real-life instances to viewers by means of the franchise’s established storytelling format. Bharti Singh and Harsh Limbachiyaa will host comedy format “Indian Recreation Present,” bringing celebrities collectively for a sequence of challenges.
Bollywood icon Madhuri Dixit Nene will entrance “Kon Honar Crorepati,” the Marathi-language version of the “Kaun Banega Crorepati” format, which is the Indian adaptation of “Who Desires to be a Millionaire?” Banerjee mentioned Dixit Nene “has damaged the glass ceiling greater than as soon as, and we’re actually assured that she will and she’s going to be capable of do that once more.”
Oscar-winning composer A.R. Rahman will lead “Tamil Idol,” the primary Tamil-language model of the singing competitors format, looking for Tamil Nadu’s subsequent main vocal expertise. SonyLIV will even stream “MasterChef Tamil,” that includes star Samantha Ruth Prabhu.
Additionally becoming a member of the lineup is “Rip-off 2010,” a manufacturing from Birla Studios, Applause Leisure and SonyLIV, helmed by Indian Nationwide Movie Award profitable director Hansal Mehta and starring Pratik Gandhi, which has begun capturing. The present had drawn a legal challenge from Sahara India Pariwar following its announcement in Might 2025. Requested by Selection whether or not the dispute had been resolved, Banerjee mentioned, “I consider so.” Sony LIV will moreover carry the digital and tv premiere of “Haiwaan,” Priyadarshan’s upcoming movie starring Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan, following its theatrical launch.
Sony Sports activities Community will complement the leisure providing with its Pageant of Sports activities, an Aug. 15-Dec. 1 window overlaying India’s cricket tour of Sri Lanka, the Ladies’s T20 Asia Cup cricket, the Asian Video games and India’s all-format cricket tour of New Zealand.
SPNI, which Sony Group Company owns not directly and in full, runs 29 premium channels spanning Hindi, Marathi, Bangla and English basic leisure, motion pictures, youngsters and factual programming, alongside Sony Sports activities Community and streaming platform SonyLIV, reaching greater than 700 million viewers throughout India with distribution in over 150 international locations.
