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  • ‘Gulabi Gang’, ‘Unravel’ win awards at Aljazeera Filmfest

    ‘Gulabi Gang’, ‘Unravel’ win awards at Aljazeera Filmfest

    NEW DELHI: Two Indian films won awards at the recently-concluded 10th Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival in Doha.

     

    Unravel directed by Meghna Gupta won the Jury award in the short film category. The film is an interesting look at how discarded clothes from the western world find their way to a textile recycling factory in Panipat in Punjab where inquisitive factory worker Reshma and her co-workers use both their imagination and rumours that travel with the discarded garments. The film has earlier been screened at Sydney and Raindance film festivals among others.

     

    The Public Liberty and Human Rights Award went to the multiple award-winning documentary Gulabi Gang by Nishtha Jain in the long film category. The film is based on the true story of women wearing pink saris attempting to empower themselves in Bundelkhand in India and fight against gender violence, corruption and for the rights of poor and the lower classes.

     

    The film has won the Best Film award in Muhr Asia-Africa documentary section at Dubai International Film Festival and Amnesty Award at the Planete+ Doc Film Festival in Poland, among others.

  • Dull week at the BO

    Dull week at the BO

    MUMBAI: The week’s major release was Yash Raj’s Kill/ Dil, a very average fare which opened to poor response. Looks like the film may do its best only during the opening weekend with its solo release status being an advantage and not sustain thereafter. The film has managed to collect Rs 20.18 crore for its first three days.

    Chaar Sahibzaade (animation) has done very well in Punjab and has collected Rs 3.75 crore in its first week.

    Last week’s release, The Shaukeens, has not been able to fare well.  A disappointing remake of the 1982 classic by Basu Chatterjee, Shaukeen, and the film falls flat because of poor transcribing and adaption. The film manages about Rs 18.5 crore for its first week.

    Rang Rasiya has not been able to sell its erotica and nudity in the name of the life story of Raja Ravi Varma. The film falls flat at the box office and manages to collect just about Rs 3.95 crore for its opening week.

    Super Nani is the end of the story by its week two. The film manages to collect Rs 10 lakh in its second week to take its two week total to Rs 2.85 crore.

    Happy New Year has added Rs 7.4 crore in its third week to take its three week tally to Rs 169.8 crore.

     

  • Mukta A2 Cinemas launches first property in Bhopal

    Mukta A2 Cinemas launches first property in Bhopal

    MUMBAI: Mukta Arts has launched its 10th high tech multiplex in Bhopal on 14 November at People’s Mall.

    Commenting on the launch, Mukta Arts chairman Subhash Ghai said, “My hearty congratulations to our brilliant team of Mukta A2 Cinemas on the opening its 10th high tech multiplex in Bhopal on November 14, 204. This year, Mukta Arts has recently celebrated its 37th anniversary in show business of India and its feels great that Mukta A2 Cinemas is launching its 10th property in the same year.”

    Spread across 23,000 square feet with four screens and a seating capacity of 775, the theatre boasts of comfortable recliner seats at affordable prices, which is an exclusive offering to the movie going audience in Bhopal. The property also offers state-of-the-art technology with Dolby digital sound complimented by a soothing ambience with comfortable seating and an exciting variety of F&B options.
    In terms of marketing, the brand is reaching out to movie lovers by means of hoardings, bus branding, television tickers and newspaper advertisements.

    Speaking about the launch, Mukta Arts MD Rahul Puri commented, “It’s with great pleasure that Mukta A2 Cinemas opens its 10th property in the wonderful city of Bhopal. The people of this terrific city can now enjoy great movies in the comfort of a world class theatre at extremely competitive prices. The theatre is also in the heart of the City – People’s Mall, poised to be on the city’s retail hotspots.”

    Mukta Arts is one of the leading players in the Indian film production and distribution industry. It has also ventured into launching its own brand of multiplex theatres, Mukta A2 Cinemas, which is spread across 28 screens in India. The existing screens located in Ahmedabad, Baroda, Gulbarga, Vishakapatnam, Banswara, Sailu, Hyderabad and Sangli has received a tremendous response and strengthened the company’s goal to provide an enriching movie-watching experience.

    As part of their impending plans, Mukta A2 Cinemas aims to launch in cities like Mumbai, Gurgaon, Dehradun and Aurangabad, promising the best movie experiences to movie lovers.

     

  • ‘Haider’ gets award in Rome, other Asian winner is a re-make of American film ’12 Angry Men’

    ‘Haider’ gets award in Rome, other Asian winner is a re-make of American film ’12 Angry Men’

    NEW DELHI: Haider, the third film in Vishal Bhardwaj’s trilogy of William Shakespeare adaptations has won the Mondo Genere programme at the 9th International Rome Film Festival.

    Set in Kashmir in 1995, the Hamlet reimagining is about a young man seeking revenge after his father was kidnapped by the Indian military.

     

    The other Asian film award went to Xu Ang’s 12 Citizens which won the award for the Cinema d’Oggi section. A remake of Sidney Lumet’s 12 Angry Men, the Chinese drama is about 12 people from different walks of life deliberating on a murder case as the jury of a law school mock trial.

     

    The awards in Rome were determined by audiences who voted via a mobile application, the festival website or at physical voting stations placed in multiple venues.

     

    The BNL People’s Choice Award for the gala section went to Stephen Daldry’s Trash.

     

    Unlike previous edition, this year’s festival did not include an international competition. Instead, it expanded the audience award to give one prize for each programme in the official selection. The original award for Best First/Second film was also expanded to the Camera d’Oro Prize for Best Debut Film this year.

     

    This year’s Camera d’Oro prize went to Andrea Di Stefan for Paradise Lost (in gala), Laura Hastings-Smith for X+Y (in Alice nella citta) and a special mention award went to Leonardo Guerra Seragnoli’s Last Summer.

  • ‘Kill/Dil’… Will too

    ‘Kill/Dil’… Will too

    MUMBAI: The stories of orphan children turning into juvenile delinquents who then graduate to hard core criminals have become rather commonplace. One of YRF’s own recent films, Gunday, is one such example. Here is another.

    Govinda, a don of some sort whose main business is to accept supari killing contracts, finds two tiny tots in a garbage bin. The boys grow up into Ranveer Singh and Ali Zafar. The boys get into petty crimes as soon as they learn to stand on their two feet. They are invincible. Nobody ever catches them or hits back. Soon they also become bullet proof as they take to guns becoming Govinda’s main shooters. 

    When they are not shooting down people out of the blue, they also have lot of fun. After all, they have never let Govinda down and he, on his part, has been generous with them. And, between the assignments they have nothing to do except spend that money. 

    Their home is Delhi and soon the Delhi culture brings them, especially Singh, face to face with his future romance, Parineeti Chopra. At this pub, the duo of Zafar and Singh are guzzling their alcohol when on the dance floor, someone makes a pass at Parineeti who in turn tells him off. The lad pulls a gun on Parineeti giving Singh a chance to save her and drive the villain off. 

     

    Producer: Aditya Chopra.

    Director: Shaad Ali.

    Cast: Ranveer Singh, Ali Zafar, Parineeti Chopra, Govinda.

    Romance blossoms between Singh and Parineeti, which Singh knows Govinda won’t approve of. To add to that, for the first time ever, Singh fails to shoot a person he has been assigned to eliminate. While Govinda is livid, Singh’s conscience has caught up with him. He wants to change his ways and lead an honest life to be worthy of Parineeti. For her part, Parineeti has herself given up a career where she could have made enough money to instead take up the challenge of helping ex-convicts settle into a normal life away from crime. He even starts selling insurance policies. Unaware of Singh’s background, this is one more criminal she is helping turn honest. 

    When Govinda is sure Singh is now out of his control, he plays a double game. He asks one of his men to kill Singh while he warns Zafar what is about to happen and also tells Parineeti how she will soon know what Singh’s past is.

    Having found out about Singh, Parineeti now does not want anything to do with him. On his part, Govinda’s purpose has been served as Singh returns to the fold and is ready for his next assignment. But, with Parineeti on his mind, Singh draws his gun but does not manage to fire, giving his victim the chance to shoot at him and receiving a bullet in his back for his efforts. 

    However, not having got a chance to tell his story to Parineeti, Singh has made a disc of his life story and sent it to Parineeti who sobs as she watches it and wants Singh back. 

    Kill/Dil has a weak plot and shoddy script which starts bad and goes on deteriorating as it progresses. By the second half, it is a mess. Direction is lacklustre. Musically, this 127-minute film is crowded with nine songs, probably to make up for lack of content. Photography is not up to the mark. Performance wise, Govinda is good while Zafar is passable. Singh looks funny in his clean-shaven look sans moustache; there is nothing different about his acting from other films. Parineeti’s role is ill-defined.

    Kill/Dil, trying to be a thriller, a romance, and a comedy and fails to deliver on all fronts.

  • ‘Court’ once again wins accolades on the international circuit

    ‘Court’ once again wins accolades on the international circuit

    NEW DELHI: Chaitanya Tamhane’s Court, which has been on a winning streak for the past few months, has now won the FIPRESCI (The International Federation of Film Critics) Prize at the Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale).
     

    In the citation, the jury said: “This film is a quietly sophisticated, emotionally restrained yet hugely affecting account of the politics, incompetence and casual corruption of the Indian justice system, which has a universal resonance. While focused on legal procedure, glimpses into the everyday lives of the protagonists add depth and surprising humour to the iniquities within the court.”

    This is director and writer Chaitanya Tamhane’s first film.

     
    Court recently won the Golden Gateway award for Best Film, Best Director and Jury Special Mention for Ensemble Cast at the 16th Mumbai Film Festival. Besides, it also won the Turkish Film Critics’ Association (SIYAD) award for the Best Film at 51st International Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival.

     
    A folk singer who sings about social ills is charged with abetting the alleged suicide of a BMC worker and thrown into judicial custody. What follows is an acidic satire that shows the absurdity of the Indian legal system and society’s callousness with elegant savagery. Court manages to talk about everything from the need for judicial reform to freedom of expression without ever turning preachy or becoming self-indulgent. The cast is made up of theatre actors and non-actors who comfortably slip between Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati and English.

     

  • Rajnikant, Wong Kar Wai to be honoured at International Film Festival of India, China is country in Focus

    Rajnikant, Wong Kar Wai to be honoured at International Film Festival of India, China is country in Focus

    NEW DELHI: A total of 179 films from 75 countries across different categories would be screened and China will be the focus country for the forthcoming International Film Festival of India in Panaji, later this month.

     
    Megastar Amitabh Bachchan will inaugurate the annual filmfest to be held from 20 to 30 November.

     
    Popular star Rajnikant would be bestowed with the Centenary Award for Indian Film Personality of the Year, and Chinese filmmaker Wong Kar Wai would receive the Lifetime Achievement Award.

     
    This information was given by Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, who said the first meeting of the “Indo-China Joint Working Group” would be held on the sidelines of the festival. The Minister added that this partnership provided a platform opening new avenues for film makers from both the countries by sharing best practices and technologies.

     

    Referring to the opening ceremony, the Minister stated Chinese film actress Zhang Ziyi, Swedish filmmaker Jan Troell, and Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi would be the Guests of Honour.

    The President directed by renowned filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf from Iran will be the opening film on 20 November and The Grandmaster by Wong Kar Wai would be the closing film of the festival on 30 November.

     

    The international films include World Cinema (61 films), Master-strokes (11 films), Festival Kaleidoscope (20 films), Soul of Asia (7 films), Documentaries (6 films), and Animated Films (6 films).

    In addition, the Indian Panorama section would include 41 feature and non-feature films. The North-East being the focus region of the festival, IFFI 2014 would be showcasing seven films from that region.

    Retrospectives will be held on Gulzar and Jahnu Baruah and a special tribute to Farooq Sheikh. One film each of eminent film personalities who passed away in the past year would be screened. These are Richard Attenborough, Robin Williams, Zohra Sehgal, and Suchitra Sen.

    A special section of films that focus on dance, personality based retrospectives, and Masterclasses and workshops would also form part of IFFI 2014.  

     

  • Prabhu Solomon’s ‘Kayal’ to release in Dolby Atmos, launches its music in Chennai

    Prabhu Solomon’s ‘Kayal’ to release in Dolby Atmos, launches its music in Chennai

    MUMBAI: Dolby Laboratories, has announced that the much anticipated Indian movie, Kayal will be mixed and released in Dolby Atmos. The announcement was made at the occasion of the music launch of the much anticipated movie, Kayal at the Sathyam Cinemas in Chennai. Filmmakers use Dolby Atmos to place and move sounds anywhere in the movie theatre, including overhead, to make film audiences feel as if they are inside the move and not merely watching it.

    Kayal is directed by Prabhu Solomon and produced by Madhan of Escape Artists Motion Pictures. The film features newcomers Chandran, Vincent and Anandhi in the lead roles, while D. Imman composes the film’s music.

    The Dolby Atmos version of Kayal is being mixed by re-recording sound mixer Tapas Nayak at G Studio in Chennai.

                        
    At the audio launch, Prabhu Solomon, Director of Kayal said, “As a film maker, I have always strived to deliver the best possible cinematic entertainment experience for my audiences. The storyline of Kayal is based on a natural calamity and we needed something to make the experience realistic, immersing the audiences in the storyline. Dolby Atmos helped us create that holistic entertainment experience and I think that it is the most amazing cinema sound technology. I truly believe in the power of Dolby Atmos which immerses the viewer into the setting, which in return helped us in telling our story as realistically as possible.”
     
     
    “With Dolby Atmos, the audiences are no longer watching a movie but experiencing it,” said Pankaj Kedia, Sr. Regional Director – India, South East Asia, ANZ, Dolby Laboratories. “We are confident that movie-goers will go back to cinemas for the extraordinary experience that Dolby Atmos delivers. Dolby Atmos creates a virtual reality of sound by precisely placing and moving sounds to make audiences feel as if they, too, are in the middle of the onscreen action. Kayal will be an extraordinary experience with Dolby Atmos.”
     
    Dolby Atmos has quickly become the preferred choice for next-generation sound in the cinema, with major studios, award-winning filmmakers, and exhibitors from around the world embracing its approach. Unlike traditional channel-based sound systems like 5.1, 7.1, and 11.1, which require filmmakers to think about the number and location of speakers, Dolby Atmos allows them to simply designate where in the cinema space each sound should be placed or moved to make audiences experience the film as if they were within its world.

    Also present at the event was the music director of the movie, D.Immanuel Vasanth Dinakaran. While sharing his experience of mixing the movie in Dolby Atmos he said, “Creating music is always very exciting, and Dolby Atmos has added to the whole creative liberty for music composers to create the best sound experience. Music of Kayal has been designed by keeping Dolby Atmos in mind as it powerfully translates the unsaid emotions in the most realistic and immersive experience for our audiences.”

     

  • Bangla film ‘Teenkahon’ wins two awards at maiden Kosovo filmfest

    Bangla film ‘Teenkahon’ wins two awards at maiden Kosovo filmfest

    NEW DELHI: Bengali feature film Teenkahon (Three Obsessions), which was premiered in India at the Mumbai Film Festival, has won the Best Screenplay award and Special Mention of the Jury for Cinematography at the Bridge Film Fest at Mitrovica, Kosovo.

    The maiden edition of the festival, in the partially-recognised state of Kosovo in south-eastern Europe, screened 10 feature films from across the globe.

    Teenkahon marks the directorial debut of advertising filmmaker Bauddhayan Mukherji and is independently produced by his Mumbai-based production company, Little Lamb films. The film is set for release next year.

    A triptych, Teenkahon features Dhritiman Chaterji, Rituparna Sengupta, Ashish Vidyarthi and Sabyasachi Chakraborty, among others.

    Spread over a 100 years, the three stories are structured in the manner of the classical Three Act Play with each story exploring one facet of an obsessive relationship outside the purview of marriage. Each story is a vignette of the period it is set in and looks at the populist trends of the time which has been restored in terms of props, costumes, make-up and hair etc. and these films have been digitally manipulated to imitate colour processes that were available in India during the periods in which each film is set.

     

  • Eros International collaborates with Aanand L Rai on Tanu Weds Manu Returns.

    Eros International collaborates with Aanand L Rai on Tanu Weds Manu Returns.

    MUMBAI: After the stupendous success of Raanjhanaa ,starring Sonam Kapoor & Dhanush, that went on to enter the highly coveted 100 crore club, Eros International is now collaborating with director Aanand L Rai on Tanu Weds Manu Returns, the sequel of the blockbuster starring Kangana Ranaut and R.Madhavan.

     

    Kangana Ranaut who will soon reprise her role as Tanu in Aanand L Rai’s Tanu Weds Manu Returns has a pivotal role in the film, that of a Haryanvi athlete.

     

    Says director Aanand L Rai, “It is wonderful to be collaborating with Eros yet again on Tanu Weds Manu Returns .They have always ensured that no stone is left unturned to give a film everything it needs right from the time it goes on floors to the release.”.

     

    Says producer Krishika Lulla, “after the delightful  Raanjhanaa, we at Eros are happy to partner with director Aanand L Rai on yet another entertainer Tanu Weds Manu 2 .We are confident that the sequel will be just as memorable and entertaining”.

     

    Complex, funnier and more twisted, Aanand L Rai’s Tanu Weds Manu Returns starring Kangana Ranaut and R.Madhavan is scheduled to release next year.