Indra Dhnush (Hindi for Rainbow), later AsiaVision, was a British cable television subscription channel aimed at the South Asian diaspora.
The channel launched in May 1986 on the cable networks of Windsor and Slough in Berkshire, where the Asian population at the time was estimated to be at 30%.
[2] Like its sister channel HVC, Indra Dhnush purchased many movies as cheaply as possible, making copies via low-band U-matic tapes and distributing the films to other cable operators (along with a paper-based schedule) to play within their own local cable areas using a semi-automated system.
[5] The channel eventually shut down in 1994 due to accumulated debts, larger than the ones expected.
[6] Indra Dhnush primarily broadcast Hindi films and television programmes with some material in other Indian languages, namely in Urdu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil and Bengali.