Star Maa Movies is a Telugu movie channel in India owned by the Star TV network, which acquired the Telugu-language Maa network of channels in 2015. Along with fellow movie channel Star Maa Gold , it competes with Gemini Movies , Zee Cinemalu and ETV Cinema .
Maa Movies [ ]
2011–2017 [ ]
Maa Movies was launched on 4 February 2011 along with Maa Junior (now Star Maa Gold ).
Prelaunch HD logo, until 25 June 2017.
Star Maa Movies [ ]
2017–2020 [ ]
Maa Movies rebranded on 25 June 2017 along with Maa Music and Maa Gold ; Maa Movies also launched an HD feed. Later that day, Tamil sister channel Star Vijay introduced a new logo after 16 years.
All the Maa channels changed their logos to match that of Star Maa , which had rebranded from Maa TV on 13 February 2017, and added the Star prefix to their names (though this was not reflected in the logos of the Maa channels, or Star Vijay for that matter, as it is for Star Suvarna , Star Jalsha and Star Pravah ). This is in contrast to Bengali sister channel Jalsha Movies , which is never referred to as Star Jalsha Movies.
Logo of the HD version, launched on 25 June 2017.
2020–present [ ]
On 6 September 2020, during the inauguration of the fourth season of Bigg Boss Telugu (the Indian version of Big Brother ), another rebrand of the Star Maa channels took place, with new logos and graphics for all the channels. The Star wordmark has been added to the logos (set in the Foco font, as it has been borrowed from the Star Plus logo), and the word Maa is now written in Telugu, replacing the wordmark from 2008.
For Star Maa , the star symbol has also been changed (similar to Star Plus), while the other three channels retain their existing symbols, but with the wordmarks modified.
Part of Disney India (The Walt Disney Company )
Television channels:
Hindi: Entertainment: Star Plus | Star Bharat | Star Utsav | Movies: Star Gold | Star Gold 2 | Star Gold Select | Star Gold Romance | Star Gold Thrills | Star Utsav Movies | Youth entertainment/music: Bindass 1
English: Entertainment: Disney International HD 1 | Movies: Star Movies | Star Movies Select | Knowledge and infotainment: National Geographic | Nat Geo Wild | Lifestyle: Star Life | Kids: Disney Channel 1 | Hungama 1 | Super Hungama 1 | Disney Junior 1 | BabyTV
Regional-language TV channels:
Entertainment channels: Tamil: Star Vijay | Telugu: Star Maa | Kannada: Star Suvarna | Malayalam: Asianet and Asianet Plus | Bengali: Star Jalsha | Marathi: Star Pravah | Odia: Star Kiran
Movie channels: Tamil: Vijay Super | Telugu: Star Maa Movies and Star Maa Gold | Kannada: Star Suvarna Plus | Malayalam: Asianet Movies | Bengali: Jalsha Movies | Marathi: Pravah Picture
Music channels: Tamil: Vijay Music | Telugu: Star Maa Music
Youth channel: Tamil: Vijay Takkar
Star Sports :
English: Star Sports 1 | Star Sports 2 | Star Sports 3 | Hindi: Star Sports 1 Hindi | Star Sports First
Regional languages: Star Sports 1 Tamil , Telugu , Kannada , Bangla and Marathi
Star Sports Select : Star Sports Select 1 , Star Sports Select 2
Planned channels:
National channels: 'Kids:' Hungama 1
Regional languages: 'Bengali:' Jalsha Josh
International channels:
United Kingdom and Europe: Utsav Plus , Utsav Gold and Utsav Bharat
Middle East and Southeast Asia: Vijay TV , Asianet Middle East
Africa: Star Life , Star Select
Other assets:
Video-on-demand service: Disney+ Hotstar (Originals | Specials ) | Film production: Star Studios (Other )
Satellite TV, broadband and OTT: Tata Play 2 (Tata Play+ | HD | + HD | UHD 4K | Binge/Binge+ | Fiber )
Former channels and properties:
Indian channels:
Defunct: Life OK /Star One | Star Movies Action | FX | Fox Crime | Channel V | ESPN | Movies OK | Nat Geo Tamil and Nat Geo Telugu | ESPN Star Sports | UTV World Movies 1 | UTV Stars | Bindass Play 1 | UTV Action Telugu 1 | Star World | Star World Premiere HD | UTV HD 1 | UTV Movies 1 | UTV Action 1 | UMP Movies 1
Divested: News network 3 (Star News | Star Ananda | Star Majha ) | Star CJ Alive 4 | MTV (India) 5 | Bloomberg UTV/UTVi 1
International channels discontinued in India: Nat Geo Music | Nat Geo People | BabyTV (SD only)
Unlaunched: Star Sports 1 Gujarati | Star Sports 1 Malayalam
Non-Indian channels:
Star China Media 6 (Star Sports (China) | Xing Kong | Channel V (China) | Fortune Star ) | Antv 7 | Film Indonesia | MTV Asia 5 | Star World Asia 8 , Star Movies8 (Asia , Philippines and Taiwan ) | Viva Cinema 9 | Channel V (Korea)
Notes
1
Originally owned, sold or discontinued by The Walt Disney Company India before its acquisition of Star.
2
Joint venture with Tata Group .
3
Sold to ABP Group .
4
Sold to CJ ENM .
5
Joint venture between Star and Viacom . Dissolved in 1994 with the launch of Channel V and Channel V India .
6
Sold to China Media Capital.
7
Sold to Visi Media Asia , which had owned 80% of the channel (Star formerly owned 20%).
8
Rebranded from Star to Fox channels in 2017. Defunct since 1 October 2021.
9
Relaunched as Pinoy Box Office, later known as PBO .
Part of The Walt Disney Company
Part of Disney India (The Walt Disney Company )
Television channels:
Hindi: Entertainment: Star Plus | Star Bharat | Star Utsav | Movies: Star Gold | Star Gold 2 | Star Gold Select | Star Gold Romance | Star Gold Thrills | Star Utsav Movies | Youth entertainment/music: Bindass 1
English: Entertainment: Disney International HD 1 | Movies: Star Movies | Star Movies Select | Knowledge and infotainment: National Geographic | Nat Geo Wild | Lifestyle: Star Life | Kids: Disney Channel 1 | Hungama 1 | Super Hungama 1 | Disney Junior 1 | BabyTV
Regional-language TV channels:
Entertainment channels: Tamil: Star Vijay | Telugu: Star Maa | Kannada: Star Suvarna | Malayalam: Asianet and Asianet Plus | Bengali: Star Jalsha | Marathi: Star Pravah | Odia: Star Kiran
Movie channels: Tamil: Vijay Super | Telugu: Star Maa Movies and Star Maa Gold | Kannada: Star Suvarna Plus | Malayalam: Asianet Movies | Bengali: Jalsha Movies | Marathi: Pravah Picture
Music channels: Tamil: Vijay Music | Telugu: Star Maa Music
Youth channel: Tamil: Vijay Takkar
Star Sports :
English: Star Sports 1 | Star Sports 2 | Star Sports 3 | Hindi: Star Sports 1 Hindi | Star Sports First
Regional languages: Star Sports 1 Tamil , Telugu , Kannada , Bangla and Marathi
Star Sports Select : Star Sports Select 1 , Star Sports Select 2
Planned channels:
National channels: 'Kids:' Hungama 1
Regional languages: 'Bengali:' Jalsha Josh
International channels:
United Kingdom and Europe: Utsav Plus , Utsav Gold and Utsav Bharat
Middle East and Southeast Asia: Vijay TV , Asianet Middle East
Africa: Star Life , Star Select
Other assets:
Video-on-demand service: Disney+ Hotstar (Originals | Specials ) | Film production: Star Studios (Other )
Satellite TV, broadband and OTT: Tata Play 2 (Tata Play+ | HD | + HD | UHD 4K | Binge/Binge+ | Fiber )
Former channels and properties:
Indian channels:
Defunct: Life OK /Star One | Star Movies Action | FX | Fox Crime | Channel V | ESPN | Movies OK | Nat Geo Tamil and Nat Geo Telugu | ESPN Star Sports | UTV World Movies 1 | UTV Stars | Bindass Play 1 | UTV Action Telugu 1 | Star World | Star World Premiere HD | UTV HD 1 | UTV Movies 1 | UTV Action 1 | UMP Movies 1
Divested: News network 3 (Star News | Star Ananda | Star Majha ) | Star CJ Alive 4 | MTV (India) 5 | Bloomberg UTV/UTVi 1
International channels discontinued in India: Nat Geo Music | Nat Geo People | BabyTV (SD only)
Unlaunched: Star Sports 1 Gujarati | Star Sports 1 Malayalam
Non-Indian channels:
Star China Media 6 (Star Sports (China) | Xing Kong | Channel V (China) | Fortune Star ) | Antv 7 | Film Indonesia | MTV Asia 5 | Star World Asia 8 , Star Movies8 (Asia , Philippines and Taiwan ) | Viva Cinema 9 | Channel V (Korea)
Notes
1
Originally owned, sold or discontinued by The Walt Disney Company India before its acquisition of Star.
2
Joint venture with Tata Group .
3
Sold to ABP Group .
4
Sold to CJ ENM .
5
Joint venture between Star and Viacom . Dissolved in 1994 with the launch of Channel V and Channel V India .
6
Sold to China Media Capital.
7
Sold to Visi Media Asia , which had owned 80% of the channel (Star formerly owned 20%).
8
Rebranded from Star to Fox channels in 2017. Defunct since 1 October 2021.
9
Relaunched as Pinoy Box Office, later known as PBO .
Other assets:
Disney+ Hotstar | UTV Software Communications (UTV Motion Pictures )
Defunct assets:
UTV Indiagames | UTV Ignition Games