Tara HD
Malaysian Hindi-language television channel
Tara HD was a Malaysian Hindi-language pay-television channel, owned by satellite provider Astro.
It offered Bollywood movies and Indian-made programming, including television productions from Colors TV, StarPlus, Life OK, Sony Entertainment Television, Colors Infinity, Star World, FYI TV18, Zoom, NDTV Good Times, Food Food TV, Big Magic, MTV India, Living Foodz and Zee TV.
Viewers were able to watch a variety of shows with English and Tamil subtitles.
The channel was launched on 19 October 2016, replacing Zee Variasi, and broadcast movies and programs with optional Malay and English subtitles. The channel ended its broadcast on 1 October 2019 and was replaced by Colors HD on the same channel number.
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