Gone are the days, when you stood in long queues to book tickets for your favorite movies or make umpteen number of arrangements to procure passes of your favorite musical concert in town. BookMyShow.com, India’s premier comprehensive entertainment ticketing service by Bigtree Entertainment Pvt. Ltd, invested by Network18 group, launches an innovative application to book tickets on your mobile phones. BookMyShow’s Mobile application allows the users to book tickets of their favorite movies, plays and concerts nationwide on their Mobile phone. They are the pioneers who have made real time ticket booking available on Mobile / electronic medium in India

BookMyShow’s international format of ticket booking permits users not only to book tickets but also to choose their preferred seats at the cinema in real time. BookMyShow’s Mobile Application allows the users to book tickets for any Hollywood / Bollywood movie playing at any multiplex or play or concert nationwide that is listed with Bookmyshow.

Commenting on the new venture, Ashish Hemrajani, the Chief Executive Officer of Big Tree entertainment, said, “Movie watching is an experience for Indian families. Long queues & unfavourbale seats normally spoils the overall enjoyment. With immense growth in mobile telephony, India presents a great opportunity for our rapidly expanding global business. Keeping the consumers needs and demands in mind, this is for the first time in India that tickets can be booked on real time basis on the Mobile.”

Mr. Neeraj Sanan, Marketing Head, Web18, said, “Web 18 has always understood the need of people and have created various niche services to cater to individual requirements. Considering the Indian telecom market which is the fastest growing market in the world-adding 8.5 million new subscribers each month, we are confident that the launch of mobile application by Bookmyshow.com will provide the world class experience with a difference.”

How to Download theMobile Application?

Simply follow any of the three steps to Download BookMyShow’s Mobile Application:

1) Enter your mobile number in the provided space (On Web banners, Web Blockers, on www.bookmyshow.com) to receive a link of the application on your mobile handset.

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2) SMS- BMS to 52622 to receive Bookmyshow’s Mobile Application link instantly.

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3) Log on to http://m.bookmyshow.com on your mobile browser to download the application on your mobile

Simply follow any of the three steps to Download BookMyShow’s Mobile Application:

1) Enter your mobile number in the provided space (On Web banners, Web Blockers, on www.bookmyshow.com) to receive a link of the application on your mobile handset.

OR

2) SMS- BMS to 52622 to receive Bookmyshow’s Mobile Application link instantly.

OR

3) Log on to http://m.bookmyshow.com on your mobile browser to download the application on your mobile

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About Bookmyshow.com

BookMyShow is the biggest ticketing service in the entertainment avenue today that offers the widest range of venue & entertainment options and tickets to over 500 screens and over 100 theatres. It offers world class user rating and recommendation engine on films and events and guarantees the safest and fastest way of seeking information for entertainment along with buying tickets for the same. It is present in 29 cities in India, and plans to gradually expand to over 35 cities. BookMyShow partners with all major multiplexes in India, Play theatres, Concert / Event promoters & Party organizers. It also plans to expand its partnerships by providing ticketing solutions for not only movies, plays and concerts but also all major live events including Parties and Sports events. Its recent projects included the two New Year Parties-Hollywood & Polyester along with 18 concerts date in past three months and about 65 concerts since 1999 in India by providing a complete ticketing solution to the producers / promoters of these events.

About Web18

Web 18 is the Internet and Mobile arm of Network 18, India’s leading Media conglomerate. It has a variety of leading information and transactional services based on the Internet.

Ø MoneyControl.com: One of the world’s largest and India’s number one end-to-end business, stocks and personal- finance portal and has more than five million users. Moneycontrol also launched ‘Markets On Mobile’ which offers News, Markets Statistics, Indices, Portfolios, Detailed listings of stocks and Watchlist through GPRS.

Ø IBNLive.com: India’s leading and definitive news portal that provides dynamic multimedia content including streaming video feeds, breaking news, etc…from CNN-IBN and IBN 7.

Ø Cricketnext.com: the fastest growing, interactive multimedia cricket portal with a focus on Indian cricket

Ø CommoditiesControl.com: Comprehensive portal on the Indian commodities space, providing real-time market price sensitive market information and analysis. India’s most credible source for commodities information.

Ø PowerYourTrade.com: India’s leading financial advisory portal for equity investors and traders. More than 50,000 paid subscribers.

Ø Tech2.com: Focuses on providing quality technology info and buying advice to the masses, making the tech world accessible and usable for "everybody".

Ø Biztech2.com: Biztech2.0 is the widest-reach business technology media brand in India today. Biztech2.0 is Network18's business technology media label that unifies information delivery and brand communications across multiple mediums.

Ø Compareindia.com: The website is one-stop destination to select products from a cross-section of 32 categories such as Mobiles, Laptops, MP3 Players, Washing Machines, Air Conditioners and the like and compare their features and prices.

Ø Storeguru.com: Storeguru.com is Web 18’s flagship e-commerce website with complete electronic retailing (e-tail) solutions.

Ø Indiaearnings.com: India’s most credible and exclusive earnings information destination for companies and institutional investors.

Ø JobStreet.com: One of India's premier e-recruitment portals,JobStreet.com offers a comprehensive suite of interactive recruitment services.

Ø Indiwo.com: It is a women portal, which has important topics, videos, photo galleries, interactive tools, forums and more.

Ø Buzz18.com: It is a leading entertainment portal which provides the latest news and features of movies, music, television, have celeb galleries, juiciest gossip, interesting videos, hot debates over hot stars or plan your weekend entertainment with a little help from our guides… the possibilities are endless.

Ø Josh18.com: Leading Hindi portal catering exclusively to the Indian youth providing them a platform to express and place themselves in the global arena. Josh18.com is a portal which will provide complete information, news and a platform to express views and has one of the largest Library of Videos built solely in house with the support of CNBCAwaaz & IBN7.