By means of these terms and condition set forth herein (hereinafter referred to as Terms and Conditions),
Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited
(hereinafter referred to as "Company")
is conducting a promotional activity / platform for Screenplay writers to showcase their talent of writing screenplay. The writers needs to share their story and screenplay with us through
prescribed mediums in the contest named
"Talkies Kathayan", which is an initiative by ‘Zee
Talkies’ channel which
brings/provides a platform to the aspiring
screenplay
writers to showcase his/her
best content ideas for Satellite TV/Ground TV
/ films / digital / live –
movie by way of submission of contest for screenplay
writers and this would be promoted as Talkies Kathayan.
The writers needs to share their story, and screenplay script
through prescribed
mediums. The Company is providing an
opportunity to the interested participant
(hereinafter referred to as "Participant")
to submit their entries on the Company’s
email id:
talkieskathayan@zee.com
(hereinafter referred to as "Entry Platforms") and
get a chance to showcase their talents in their respective fields of screenplay
writing and to win prizes in different categories (as defined hereunder) (hereinafter referred to as "Activity") on terms more
particularly described herein below which you agree to be
unconditionally bound by:
I.
PROCEDURE FOR PARTICIPATION AND SELECTION
1.
In order to the participate (to participate) in the Activity, each
Participant shall be required to follow the mechanism defined herein
under :
(i)
make himself/herself to participate through designated platforms via
email during the Activity Period.
(ii)
register themselves by submitting their entries via email, along with
their personal details more particularly being
(a) name
(b) surname
(c) Age,
(d) City /Town,
(c) email id and
(e) mobile number /alternate contact number
(iii)
Modalities:
STEP 1
‘Entry Submission’ process will be initiated from 15th August, 2024 promotion for the same will be initiated via on-air and digital channels which will continue till the end of step 2.
STEP 2
Participants needs to submit the story (not more than 2000 words) along with a detailed screenplay story by 15th October’2024 in PDF format on the contest Email address talkieskathayan@zee.com. It is made abundantly clear that the Story and screenplay need to be in Marathi along with Genre as specified under this terms and conditions. This to mention here that a participant can submit multiple entries.
STEP 3
Internal team will go through each story & screenplay and post
primary checking, it will be shared with an external jury. External
jury will select final 5 winners of the contest by 10th
January’2025.
STEP 4
1st and 2nd winning entries will get INR
3,00,000/- Lacs and INR 2,00,000/- Lacs respectively while 3
consolation prize winners will get INR 50,000/- each.
|
Winners |
Amount in Rupees |
|
1st Winner |
₹ 3,00,000/- |
|
2nd Winner |
₹ 2,00,000/- |
|
3rd Winner |
₹ 50,000/- |
|
4th Winner |
₹ 50,000/- |
|
5th Winner |
₹ 50,000/- |
The Participant Winners agree and acknowledge that the winning
Screenplays shall not be pitched to any other company for 2 years
from the date of winning, and the Company shall be at liberty to use/exploit the Screenplays
for its purposes while giving writing credit to the winner. In an
event the Company fails to use/exploit such Screenplays within 2
years, the Winners shall be at liberty to use the same. -
2.
Entry shall be accepted from 12 am IST on 15th
August, 2024 and continue till _11:59:59
IST on 15th October, 2024 (hereinafter referred to as "Entry Period/ Activity Period"). Entries can be accepted from current date till _15th
October, 2024_
3.
The Company may promote this Activity through the medium of the
Company’s channel, Website, print media (newspapers), television
(promos, astons, bugs etc.), on ground
promotions, Activities for promoting Talkies Kathayan
and (including Mumbai), sms, radio, digital media/ online and any other manner as shall deem fit
by the Company, at its sole discretion, stating the mechanism in which
the Participant(s) can participate in the Activity.
4.
It is further clarified that the details of the Entry may be
publicized on the Company’s FB/Insta/Twitter page being https://www.instagram.com/zeetalkies and Facebook page being
https://facebook.com/zeetalkiesofficial/_(
hereinafter
referred to as "Platform")
owned or operated by the Company and /or any other platform/medium
other than the Entry Platforms.
5.
For purposes of the Activity, "receipt" of the Entry shall be
considered by the Company only when the Entry submitted by
Participant(s) is received by the Company (in the specified format)
and visible on the Entry Platforms.
6.
For the purposes of the Activity, a complete and valid Entry will
constitute of
(i) logging onto the Entry Platform;
(ii) registering themselves by sending email to
talkieskathayan@zee.com. and
(iii) If the Participant(s) fails to make the Entry in the manner as
stated in Clause I(1) and hereinabove
and/or has violated any guidelines published by the Entry Platforms,
then his/her Entry shall be considered incomplete and the
Participant(s) shall not be eligible for the Gratification. For the
avoidance of doubt, it is hereby clarified that by submitting the
Entry, the Participant(s) is representing that the Entry or contents
thereof are not confidential or comprise any sensitive personal
information.
7.
Each Participant shall be allowed to submit multiple Entries on the
Entry Platforms in accordance with Clause I (1) during the Activity
Period. Entry received from the Participant(s) which is contrary to
the terms mentioned above on the Entry Platforms during or after the
Activity Period shall be considered null and void.
8.
The Participants shall ensure that the Entry submitted
is decent, in compliance with applicable laws, and is free of all and any liens, claims or encumbrances whatsoever and is not immoral, defamatory, abusive, offensive, insensitive, libelous
or blasphemous to any person, religious sect or section of the
society, or infringe the rights of any third party including intellectual
property and/or moral right of a third person
. and/or shall not be copied, wholly or in part from any other work / or based upon any other work. and shall not infringe or violate any copyright, or any other right,
of any nature, of any third person and the
Participant shall not host, display, upload, modify, publish,
transmit, update or share any information that —
(a) belongs to another person and to which the user does not have any
right;
(b) is grossly harmful, harassing, blasphemous defamatory, obscene, libelous,, slanderous, pornographic, paedophilic, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically
objectionable, disparaging, relating or encouraging money laundering
or gambling, or otherwise unlawful in any manner whatever;
(c) harm minors in any way;
(d) infringes any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary
rights;
(e) violates any law for the time being in force;
(f) deceives or misleads the addressee about the origin of such
messages or communicates any information which is grossly offensive or
menacing in nature;
(g) impersonate another person;
(h) contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or
programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of
any computer resource;
(i) threatens the unity, integrity,
defence, security or sovereignty of India, friendly relations with
foreign states, or public order or causes incitement to the commission
of any cognizable offence or prevents investigation of any offence or
is insulting any other nation.
(j) will violate or infringe including but not limited to any trade-mark,
trade-name, copyright, patent, registered design, title, literary,
performance, merchandizing, artistic, property, privacy statutory
rights, common law rights and personal rights etc. of any person,
firm, corporation, association or entity whatsoever
and/or any other right of any person and that neither any part of the Entry
including but not limited to literary, dramatic and/or attract
contempt of court and/or breach of contract and/or breach of
privilege, violation of any provisions of the statute, nor hurt the
sentiments of any religious group/s and/or breach or be against any
declared public policy of any nation or state
For avoidance of doubt, the Participant(s)
agrees that the Company
in addition to the rights and remedies available to the Company
under the laws of the land has the right to remove any such material/Post which may not be in
consonance with applicable law.
In event, any claims are raised against
the Company
due to use of such
Entry by the Participant, the Participant
shall indemnify the Company
and shall ensure to resolve all such claims at its sole cost and
expense, without any recourse from the Company
in any manner whatsoever.
9.
The Company shall not be responsible in the event Entry is not
received due to any technical error and/or connection failure and/or
electricity failure and/or for any reason whatsoever.
10.
At the end of the Activity Period, on the basis of the Participant(s)
having made a valid Entry on Entry Platform(s), the Company at its
sole discretion shall select as
many numbers of Participants
with the best creative ideas for (this will be a movie, which may have
theatrical or satellite release) TV / films / digital / live, who
shall receive a credit for their
write up as and when their
write up is used by the
Company in the content produced by the Company, as the gratification
towards shortlisted in the
Activity (hereinafter referred to as "Gratification"). Notwithstanding anything contained herein these Terms and Conditions,
the Company shall have the sole discretion to choose and finalize the
form and/or value and/or brand of the Gratification and the
Participant shall have no claim in any manner whatsoever in this
relation and the Participant waives all his / her rights in this
regard. The Participant understands and agrees that the Company shall
have full discretion, without informing the Participant, to change the
form of Gratification and the Participant shall abide by the Company’s
decision to this effect.
11.
For
avoidance of doubt, it is clarified that the Company’s decision and prerogative
in regard to the selection and declaration
of the shortlisted candidates shall be final and binding. It has been made abundantly clear to the Participant that under no
circumstances participation in the promotional activity / mere submitting an Entry on the Entry Platform entitles the Participant to win any award and/or confirms his/her
elevation in the next round / next stage of the promotional activity
and such decisions are solely based upon the discretions of Judges,
Special Judges and/or any other person as may be deem fit and proper
by the Company from time to time in its absolute discretion during the
subsistence of this promotional activity.
The Company at any time during or after the expiry of the Activity
Period shall at it sole discretion increase or decrease the number of
shortlisted candidates to be selected by the Company at its absolute
discretion, however only the winners will be entitled to receive the
certificate(s).. For the sake of clarity,
it is made abundantly clear to the Participants that mere submitting
an Entry on the Entry Platform does not entitle the Participant(s) to
receive the certification.
12.
On selection of the shortlisted candidates by the Company, they shall be intimated by the Company and /or by any other agency
on behalf of the Company by directly emailing on the email address
provided by the participants while participating and submitting on the
Entry Platform (hereinafter referred to as "Intimation Email"). The shortlisted candidates will be required to connect with the
Company on the contact number/email id that shall be mentioned in the
Intimation Email within 2 (two) days from the delivery of Intimation
Email on the email id.
13.
In case
the shortlisted candidates fails to revert
to the Company within the aforesaid timelines, the selection of that
particular candidate shall be invalidated and the Company at its sole
discretion may select another candidate from amongst the eligible
Participants.
The Company shall not be responsible or liable for any technical
disruption and/or failure and/or any other difficulties of such
nature, due to which the Participant is un-reachable, due to which
the Company is unable to intimate the Participant.
14.
In case
the shortlisted candidates reverts to the
Company in a manner as said forth in Clause I (13) above, the
Participant shall be required to adhere to the verification process of
the Company which
inter alia shall include
sharing
(i) the personal information ("PI") of theParticipant
such as name, contact number,
email address, age, gender, name of parents, residential
address etc. and
(ii) identification documentation such as age proof, residence proof,
their nationality proof (i.e., Adhaar card, cancelled cheque of the
active savings bank account, pan card, driving license, passport,
election card, electricity bill, ration card). The above referred
activity is only allowed to the Indian nationals who are residing in
India only. (hereinafter referred to as "Documents").
For the sake of clarity, such Intimation Email received by the
candidate from
the Company does not entitle the candidate
to receive certification
unless the Participant
completes the entire program and
furnishes all requisite PI and the Documents in a form and manner
desired by the Company. Post receiving the PI and Documents of the Participant ,
the Company shall verify the necessary PI and the Documents at its end.
15.
Once
the PI and/or the Documents have been verified by the Company, the
Company and /or any other agency on behalf of the Company shall inform
the Participant about the selection as for the main Activity.
16.
The certificate given to the shortlisted Participant by
the Company is non-transferrable and non-exchangeable. Each shortlisted candidates agree and undertakes that no cash equivalent or alternative /
opportunity will be given to the shortlisted
Participant and
theParticipant cannot exchange the
opportunity given for any kind of gift with value.
Further, the opportunity given to each shortlisted Participant s is personal in nature, hence the shortlisted candidates cannot transfer the opportunity to any other person and that he/she shall not appoint any person as its proxy/replacement
to fulfil the obligations as undertaken herein.
17.
The
shortlisted candidate shall not in any circumstances make any claims
against the Company entities arising out of or relating to
any and all costs, injuries, losses or
damages of any kind, including, without limitation, death and bodily
injury, due in whole or in part, directly or indirectly or any related
activity, to the extent permitted under law. If the Participant is
found to be ineligible, or if he or she has not complied with any of
the Terms and Conditions, the corresponding Entry will stand
disqualified and such decision shall be final and binding.
18.
Employees and / or members of their immediate family of the company
and their group companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, holding companies
are not eligible to participate in the activity.
19.
The Company may in its sole discretion exclude a Participant from
participation in the program, including without limitation for the
following reasons:
(i)
circumstances which, in the Company’s view, renders the Participant
unfit to participate therein;
(ii)
inability to produce documentation specified by the Company proving
the identity of the Participant.
(iii)
Dishonest practice adopted by the Participant
(iv)
non-confirmation to comply with the rules and regulations as
specified herein by the Participant
(v)
if the Participant has acted in any manner be detrimental to the
reputation of ZEE
(vi)
for any other reason as the Company may deem fit and proper in its
absolute discretion
20.
No
dispute shall be entertained with regards to the selection criteria.
Decisions of
the Company shall be final and binding on the Participant(s).
21.
The
shortlisted candidates hereby agrees to release and discharge the
Company from all Gratification and Activity related obligation on the
Company delivering/ handing over the Gratification to
the .
22.
All
PI and Documents (if asked by the Company) requested by and supplied
to the Company by each Participant must be truthful, accurate and in
no way misleading, failing which the Company reserves at its sole
discretion the right to disqualify any Participant from availing the
opportunity to participate in the Activity.
23.
The Participant states and declares that he / she shall not commit
any act which might prejudice or damage
the reputation of Zee Talkies.
24.
Further, except for incidental, non-derogatory references, the
Participant will not grant or publish any interviews, news articles,
or issue any other kind of publicity concerning the Participant's
participation in relation to this promotional activity without the
Company's prior written consent in each instance.
25.
By participating in the Activity, it is construed that the
Participant(s) has read and understood these Terms and Conditions,
Privacy Policy including the General Terms and Conditions stated below
and Participant(s) act of participation in the Activity will be deemed
acceptance to abide by the same and the Participant
represents that he/she
has
agreed to voluntarily participate in this promotional activity without any compulsion and coercion after understanding these Terms and Conditions, including the General Terms and Conditions stated below.
26.
The Company in its absolute discretion reserves the right to add, alter, modify,
change or vary all or any of these Terms and Conditions, wholly or in
part, at anytime at its absolute discretion without giving any prior notice
and without assigning any reason whatsoever
and the participant/winner agrees to abide by such additions,
alterations, modifications and changes.
II.
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1.
Age limit for the participation is 18 years and above, who must be
medically fit and have no criminal conviction or an arrangement or a
contract with any third party that prevents the Participant(s) from
participating in the Activity. Documents pertaining to medical fitness
must be furnished by the Participant on demand.
2.
The Participants must enter
the details on their own behalf and Entry(ies) by proxy will not be accepted, even for their family members.
3.
The Company reserves all rights to make amendments to the existing
Terms and Conditions or withdraw the Activity without giving prior
notice. It shall be the sole responsibility of the Participant(s) to
check the Terms and Conditions of the Activity on Company’s
Website and the Participant shall not
indulge in any kind of acts of deviation to such Terms and Conditions
and will always agree and adhere to such modifications without raising
any objection for any reason whatsoever.
4.
The Participant hereby undertakes, warrants and guarantees to the
Company that he / she has the full legal capacity to participate in
the Activity in accordance with law
and also these Terms and Conditions.
5.
The Participant represents and warrants that he/she is free to enter
into this Agreement and that he/she is the sole, absolute,
unencumbered legal and beneficial owner of all rights granted to the
Company in respect of the Entry submitted by him/her under this Terms
and Conditions, and that the Participant is not under any disability,
restriction or prohibition, legal or otherwise, which might prevent
him/her from performing or observing any of the obligations provided
in this Terms and Conditions. The Participant further represents that
he/she is competent and suffers from no disqualification under the
laws of India
6.
The Participant undertakes not to indulge in any activity or
participate in any transaction or a promotional activity which is
intended to or is reasonably likely to jeopardize, restrict, or
diminish the completion or marketability of this promotional activity
or is likely to adversely affect this a promotional activity.
7.
By participating in the Activity, the Participant represents that
he/she is medically fit and does not have present or past
psychological problems. If in the past he/she has had any
psychological problems or have been under medication for any
psychological, anxiety, hypertension, depression or any other medical
problems, the same shall be disclosed to the Company in writing along
with a copy of the certificate from a qualified medical practitioner
declaring him to be fit for participation in the
Activity .
8.
The Participant shall not be eligible as a Participant for the
Activity if he/she is suffering from any critical health related
issues.
9.
The Participant represents that he/she has not been accused or
convicted or is otherwise involved in any criminal offence and/or is
not under inquiry or trial by the police or judiciary which has not
been disclosed to the Company in writing. That the Participant(s) is
/are not required to be present before any authority including police
or any court of law for a term of twelve (12) months from the date of
registration and has no other disability which would prevent or impede
his/her participation in the Activity (if selected/shortlisted).
10.
The Participant acknowledges that he/she has voluntarily chosen to
participate in the Activity out of his / her own accord / at his/her
free-will and is willing to bear all risk, costs (including but not
limited to food, travel,
incidental costs
etc.) and consequences arising from such participation in the
Activity.
11.
The Company makes no representations, warranties nor provides any
undertaking to any of the Participant(s) that any or
all of the Participants will be able to
qualify for receiving the opportunity to participate in the Activity.
12.
The Company shall not be liable / responsible for any lost
opportunity, damages, losses, costs, expenses or otherwise suffered /
incurred by any of the Participant(s)
in the event that the Company is not able
to permit the Participant to take part in the Activity in accordance
with any of the foregoing provisions.
13.
Notwithstanding any other provisions mentioned herein, the Company
may, at its sole and absolute discretion, to cancel the Activity
and/or reschedule the Activity dates.
14.
At no point of time will the Company be obliged to notify
unsuccessful Participant(s) of its decision.
The Participant(s)/ shortlisted
candidates of
the Activity agrees that he/she shall make himself/herself available
from time to time and co-operate with the Company and participate in
any activity and/or campaign relating to the Activity (hereinafter
referred to as "Promotional Activity") of any nature whatsoever without any money payable to the
Participant and/or shortlisted candidates. Further, the shortlisted
candidates shall at no point of time refuse or disagree to participate
in any such Promotional Activity for any reason whatsoever. The
Participant(s) gives his/her consent to the Company and/or any other
agency on behalf of the Company to make the footage of the
participation in the Promotional Activity. The shortlisted candidates
in consideration of being afforded an opportunity to take part in the
Activity, agrees that the footage of any nature with regard to the
shortlisted candidates shall vest with the Company, including but not
limited to all intellectual property rights and any other rights for
worldwide and in perpetuity
and the Company may exploit the same in any manner and in any media
whatsoever at any time throughout the world. The Company, as first and exclusive owner, shall have the sole and
exclusive right to exercise all rights comprised in copyright in the
stories of the participation in the Promotional Activity. The Participant
further specifically assigns to the Company any and all right, title,
interest in any Performer Rights relating to the entries submitted by
him/her and all other rights of any nature whatsoever including but
not limited to the right to broadcast or communicate such Entries to
the public; reproduce the Entries to feature in any audio and audio
video content, by the Company and/or its assignee, or for unrestricted
commercial use, issue copies of the
15.
The Entries received from the Participant by the Company may be used
in any form in future if found appropriate.
16.
The Participant(s) shall hold harmless and indemnify, its affiliates,
its group companies, their employees, officers, directors or any other
person from and against any injury/damage/harm/loss/death/mental or
emotional trauma suffered by the Participant(s) and/or the
in connection with the Activity and/or the Gratification
and also to the extent possible under law, waives all rights to file
in person/ through any family member and/or third party any
applications, criminal and/or civil proceedings in any courts or forum
in India to claim any damages or reliefs.
17.
The shortlisted candidates
/Participant(s) shall hold harmless and indemnify the Company, its
affiliates, its group companies, their employees, officers, directors
and/or any
other person from and against any
suit/litigation/injury/damage/harm/loss suffered by the Company in
connection with any act of the Participant(s)/
and/or the Activity and/or
post and/or Entry and/or any third-party rights claims with respect to
the material submitted by the Participant(s)/
. The Participant further agree to indemnify and hold the Company
harmless from and against any and all claims, threats, suits,
penalties, liabilities, damages, costs and disbursements incurred,
suffered or expended by or threatened against the Company by reasons
of or arising out of any claim pursuant to any event or action arising
out of his/her non-conformity to the rules, regulations or laws of the
land or of the instructions and guidelines given by the persons
authorized by the Company.
III.
OTHER TERMS
1.
If any provision of these Terms and Conditions is held by any court
or other competent authority to be void or unenforceable in whole or
part, the other provision of these Terms and Conditions and the
remainder of the affected provisions shall continue to be valid.
2.
These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of India and subject to exclusive
jurisdiction of the competent Courts in Mumbai to the complete
exclusion of all other courts.
3.
The Company is empowered to take a decision on any case not covered
by the present Terms and Conditions.
4.
Each provision of this Terms and Conditions shall be considered
severable, and if for any reason any provision(s), or the application
of such provision(s) to any person, entity or circumstance, shall be
held invalid or unenforceable, such provision(s) shall be ineffective
to the extent of such invalidity or unenforceability without
invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, or the application of
the affected provision to persons, entities or circumstances other
than those to which it was held invalid or unenforceable.
IV.
NO LIABILITY
1.
The Company is in no manner whatsoever responsible and/or shall not
be held liable, for any physical injury, death, mental trauma caused
to any Participant in any manner whatsoever, in relation to
participation in the Program.
2.
The Company, shall be under no liability whatsoever to the
Participants, in respect of any loss, damage suffered by the
Participant arising from or pursuant to the Activity or for any and
all loss, damage, cost, expense or injury to life or property
sustained by the Participant at any stage of the
Activity whether
or not caused by
(1) the Participant’s participation in the Activity, or being
selected or disqualified;
(2) as a result of the decisions of the
Company; and/or
(3) any printing, typographical or technological errors in any
materials associated with the Activity.
Notwithstanding the generality of the foregoing, the Company
expressly excludes liability for all direct, indirect and
consequential loss or damage, including but not limited to loss or
damage to property or for loss of profit, business, revenue, goodwill
or anticipated savings pursuant to participation in the Activity. In
no event will the measure of damages include, nor will the Company be
liable for, any amounts for indirect, incidental, consequential, or
punitive damages of any party, including third parties; or for damages
attributable to the Participant; or circumstances beyond the Company’s
reasonable control.
3.
The Participant/ shortlisted candidates agrees that he/she shall hold
harmless the Company, their affiliates, subsidiaries, group companies,
their respective employees, officers, sub-contractors or any other
person in connection with the Activity including but not limited to
persons connected to the selection procedure for the Activity.
4.
The Company or any of its affiliates will not be liable for any loss
of earnings, employment or otherwise caused to the Participant and
arising as a result of his/her
participation in the Activity.
5.
The Company shall not be held accountable/liable for any
disruptions/stoppages/ interruptions or cancellation of the Activity
on account of any force majeure factors or otherwise.
6.
The Company shall not be held responsible or accountable for any
expenses, loss, injury or any other liability which may arise, for
the to
receive the Gratification.
7.
The Company reserves the right to cancel or discontinue or terminate
this promotion at any time or to accept or reject any or all entries
at its absolute discretion without giving any prior notice and without
assigning any reason whatsoever.
8.
This promotional activity is open only to Indian Nationals residing
in India.
9.
The decision of the Company will be final and binding
with regard to any dispute arising out of
this promotion and is non-contestable
10.
The Participant hereby agrees to indemnify the Company or its
affiliates against any claims that might arise from his/her actions or
omissions while participating in the Activity or due to any
representations, misrepresentations or concealment of material facts
by the Participant.
11.
Other conditions apply.