Zee Music Company expands South footprint with film music rights
Zee Music Company is making big moves in South India, grabbing music rights for a bunch of upcoming films across Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, and Kannada.
Highlights include I'M GAME (with Dulquer Salmaan), Mega 158 (starring Chiranjeevi), NBK 111 (featuring Nandamuri Balakrishna and Sanjay Dutt), and VenkyAnil5 with tunes from G.V. Prakash Kumar.
Adds 2026-27 lineup and 'Kerala Underground'
The lineup also features Tamil's Slumdog: 33 Temple Road (with Vijay Sethupathi), Kannada's Birbal: Case 2 and Vibhrama, plus the multilingual Toxic from KVN Productions and Monster Mind Creations. All these are set for release in 2026-27.
Zee Music is branching out too: they've picked up the music rights for ZEE5 Malayalam's hip-hop reality show Kerala Underground, whose anthem brings together artists like Dabzee and Parimal Shais.
Sujal Parekh from Zee Music says teaming up with composers and production houses is key to their strategy going forward.