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  • Film segment helps Tips report PAT in Q3

    Film segment helps Tips report PAT in Q3

    BENGALURU: Tips Industries Limited’s film distribution and production segment has reported operating profit of Rs 7.14 crore in Q3-2014, after losses in the first two quarters, helping the company report a net profit of Rs 6.38 crore in the third quarter.

     

    The film segment had last reported operating profit of Rs 13.95 crore in Q4-2013. In Q2-2014, the film segment reported operating loss of Rs 19.6 crore, which completely wiped the operating profit generated by Tips Audio segment and resulted in a net loss of Rs 22.32 crore for the company.

     

    In Q3-2013, the film segment had reported operating loss of Rs 2.08 crore, while the company had reported a PAT of Rs 0.63 crore. 

     

    The company’s audio products segment also reported operating profit of Rs 5.47 crore in the current quarter, which was 17.6 per cent lower than the Rs 6.63 crore in Q3-2013 and 55.6 per cent more than the Rs 3.51 crore in the immediate trailing quarter.

     

    Let us look at the other figures reported by Tips for Q3-2014 

     

    Total operating income in Q3-2014 at Rs 43.59 crore was 5.2 times the Rs 8.68 crore operating income in Q3-2013 and 1.4 per cent more than the Rs 42.99 crore in Q2-2014. 

     

    Total expense for Q3-2014 at Rs 34.52 crore was 5.22 times the Rs 6.62 crore in Q3-2013 and 45 per cent lower than the Rs 62.67 crore in Q2-2014. 

     

    The company’s major cost head is cost of production/distribution of films. The company spent Rs 28.38 crore towards this head in Q3-2014, which was 23.44 times the Rs 1.21 crore in the corresponding quarter of the previous year and (47) per cent lower than the Rs 53.44 crore in Q2-2014.

     

    Finance cost of Rs 3.04 crore for Q3-2013 was 2.59 times the Rs 1.18 crore in Q3-2013 and 2.1 per cent more than the Rs 2.98 crore in Q2-2013. 

     

    Tips audio segment operating income for Q3-2014 at Rs 7.08 crore was (15.6) per cent less than the Rs 8.39 crore in Q3-2013 9.2 per cent more than the Rs 6.48 crore in Q2-2014. 

     

    The company’s film segment reported income of Rs 36.5075 crore, almost the same as the Rs 36.5085 crore in the immediate trailing quarter. This segment had reported no income in Q3-2013.

     

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  • Gunday: Old wine rebottled

    Gunday: Old wine rebottled

    MUMBAI: Gunday is a story based in 1970s and 80s. And, in keeping with the era, the story is also what was called mass masala in those days. What is new about it? Well, after seeing a lineup of films with Delhi background, this has Kolkata as the backdrop.

    Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor are two orphaned refugee kids from Bangladesh who join the tide of other refuges and enter a refugee camp in Bengal. Wanting to cash in on their innocence, an officer and a tout decide to use them as conduits to transport guns outside the camp. When the officer gets the urge for a woman and finds none in the camp, he decides to use one of the two boys. This leads to the boys committing their first crime as the officer is shot dead. They make their escape on a goods train carrying coal and come to Kolkata.

    While doing odd jobs, they dream big, which of course, is not easy to achieve unless one gets into illegal dealings. They see the use of coal all around and think of the wagon train they travelled in and decide to steal from wagons and sell coal at half the market price. It is the 1980s now and the lads have grown up and graduated to stealing entire trainloads of coal instead of just a few kilos, in the process killing the earlier don and his whole gang. With that materialises the car and the home they dreamt of all along. The boys are more than blood brothers, so inseparable that they even share the same bed!

     

    Producer: Aditya Chopra.

    Director: Ali Abbas Zafar.

    Cast: Priyanka Chopra, Ranveer Singh, Arjun Kapoor, 
    Irrfan Khan, Saurabh Shukla. (Darshan Gurjar and Jayesh
    V Kardak as young Ranveer
    and Arjun.)

    The two soon start other businesses and even have a logo designed for their ventures: BB (for Bala and Bikram, the screen names). While they have been busy building an empire and establishing themselves as the most feared dons of Kolkata, the police chief is busy collecting a horde of files on their crimes. As the duo looks unstoppable, the chief hands over the case to one cop who can stop them – Irrfan Khan. But they remain unperturbed as even with so many files, the police had no proof or witnesses so far. Irrfan takes on the onus to collect proof against them. He starts his job by planting a mole around them.

    The duo has financed a night club and gets the privilege of inaugurating the club. There they set their eyes on Priyanka Chopra, the club’s star performer. Both fall in love with her instantly. Two men in love with same woman, just the situation that is enough to put their friendship to the test. Circumstances are created whereby not only the friendship is broken but now the friends for life are ready to kill each other. The enmity starts with a no-holds-barred fistfight and later leads to the use of guns.

    As the film gets into the latter parts post interval, things become predictable. The surprises don’t surprise the viewer.

    With few characters to carry it, the film is too lengthy at 153 minutes. It could have been shorter. With a loose script, the direction is copybook, offering no sparks of genius. Kolkata locations are exploited well. The film’s music works to its advantage with three songs having popular appeal in Asalaam- e-ishqum…, Jashn- e- ishq…… and Tune maari entriyaan and has helped the film get a better opening. The lead actors, Ranveer and Arjun are not really known for histrionics but having nothing negative against their names so far, they draw the young crowd. However, they needed a younger girl to fall in love with rather than Priyanka whom one would consider in the senior league. Irrfan and Saurabh Shukla are good as usual.

    Gunday has had a good opening all over (Delhi, NCR and UP affected a bit earlier in the day due to rains). With solo release as an advantage and its two young heroes, the film has everything working for it at the box office.

     

  • Eros International reports higher income, profit in Q3-2014

    Eros International reports higher income, profit in Q3-2014

    BENGALURU: Eros International Media Limited (Eros) posted 17.2 per cent y-o-y consolidated operating income at Rs 432.68 crore in Q3-2014 as compared to the Rs 369.33 crore in last year’s quarter and was more than double (2.15 times) the operating income of Rs 201.05 crore in the immediate trailing quarter. Over the nine month period that ended 31 December, 2013, Eros reported a 4.2 per cent drop in operating income from Rs 855.63 crore to Rs 820.05 crore in the corresponding period of the previous year. Operating Income for FY 2013 was Rs 1067.95 crore.

     

    The company’s PAT in Q3-2014 at Rs 91.99 was 41.1 per cent higher as compared to the Rs 65.2 crore in Q3-2013 and also more than double (2.48 times) the Rs 36.97 crore in Q2-2014. YTD, PAT for the current quarter was up by 29 per cent to Rs 158.30 crore as compared to Rs 122.71 crore in last year’s nine month period. For FY 2013, Eros reported PAT of Rs 154.53 crore.

     

    Eros Managing Director Sunil Lulla said, “The company has showcased its success with releases such as Ram Leela, R…Rajkumar, Grand Masti, Raanjhaana, Krissh 3 (Overseas), Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (Overseas) and Phata Poster Nikla Hero (Overseas). These releases are continuously being monetised over several distribution platforms. With a diversified mix of high budget and moderately budgeted-high concept movies in our future movie stale, we believe that we will exhibit sustained success in the future as well.”

     

    Let us look at the other Q3-2014 figures reported by Eros:

     

    Consolidated total expense for Q3-2014 at Rs 298.4 crore was 6.5 per cent more than the Rs 280.27 crore in Q3-2013 and almost double (1.97 times) the expense of Rs 151.16 crore in the immediate trailing quarter. Year-to-Date (YTD), Eros reported expense of Rs 597.64 crore, which was 11.6 per cent lower than the Rs 675.95 crore in the corresponding nine month period of last year. In FY 2013, Expense was Rs 848.13 crore.

     

    Earnings before Income & Tax (EBIT) reported by the company for Q4-2014 at Rs 135.25 crore was up by 50.5 per cent as compared to the EBIT of Rs 89.86 crore in Q3-2013 and also more than double (2.68 times) the Rs 50.31 crore in Q2-2014. YTD, EBIT at Rs 231.69 crore was 25.6 per cent more than the Rs 184.47 crore in the corresponding nine months of the previous year. For FY 2013, Eros EBIT was Rs 226.22 crore.

     

    Eros Finance cost for Q3-2014 at Rs 7.39 crore was almost triple (2.84 times) the Rs 2.6 crore in Q3-2013 and 19.2 per cent more than the Rs 6.2 crore in Q2-2014. YTD, the company’s finance cost was more than double (2.44 times) at Rs 18.2 crore as compared to the Rs 7.44 crore in the corresponding nine months of the previous year. In FY 2013, Eros paid finance costs of Rs 9.22 crore.

     

    The company says that 41 films (15 Hindi, 25 Tamil and 1 other regional) were released during the nine month of FY 2014 as compared to 60 (26 Hindi, 32 Tamil and 2 other regional) films in during nine month FY 2013. It says that strong theatrical revenues during 9M FY 2014 have showcased the success of overseas releases, namely: Ram Leela, R…Rajkumar, Grand Masti, Raanjhaana, Krissh 3, Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani and Phata Poster Nikla Hero.

     

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  • SRK meets Vicente Fox, discusses films, education and much more

    SRK meets Vicente Fox, discusses films, education and much more

    MUMBAI: Bollywood is becoming popular across the globe with every passing day and one of the harbingers is actor Shah Rukh Khan whose almost all the movies get good responses internationally.

     

    Recently, it was a moment of pride when former Mexican President Vicente Fox met SRK on the sets of Red Chillies Entertainment’ film Happy New Year. The film is being shot at RK Studios in Mumbai and Fox was accompanied there by his wife, Martha Fox and the current Mexican ambassador to India Jamie Nualart.

     

    They discussed everything from Bollywood films, to things about Mexico and the importance of education. The meeting was organised by KidZania, in whose Indian franchise SRK owns about 26 per cent stake. 

     

    Fox said, “We have been visiting many places, but meeting SRK and talking to him we feel he is a great person. The set is fabulous and the activity is just amazing. We hope that Mr Shah Rukh Khan would visit us at Mexico some day. India is a great country with great people, he has always admired India. Also proud that KidZania is Mexican and I am glad that it has SRK’s blessings and that he is looking into the Indian franchise of this wonderful way of educating kids with entertainment.”

  • Celebrate Love with Sony MAX

    Celebrate Love with Sony MAX

    MUMBAI: This Valentine’s day, Sony MAX, the premium Hindi movies and special events channel brings to you  five epic romantic flicks to keep the magic of love alive all day long. Feel the triumphs and tribulations in each of these movies with your loved ones.

    Qayamat Se QayamatTak (7:00 a.m.):A young man and young woman fall in love against their feuding fathers’ wishes; Romeo and Juliet set in 1980’s India. Will their love survive?

    MUJHSE DOSTI KAROGE (10:30 a.m.): When Raj leaves India to move to England with his family, he leaves behind childhood friend and crush Tina. Tina’s friend Pooja has a crush on Raj, which she manages to keep secret from both of them while keeping an email correspondence with Raj under Tina’s name. When Raj returns to India, he will find out the truth, but who will he choose?

    Mohabbatein (1:00 p.m.): Three young men arrive at a famous private school in India, headed by a stern headmaster named Narayan Shankar. The headmaster has instituted a strict anti-romance policy. Sameer, Vikram, Karan are the three men who are encouraged by Raj Aryan, their music teacherto follow their hearts. As the story unravels, the three boys fall in love and the relationship between the headmaster and the music teacher begins to become strained.Who wins in the end – Raj or Narayan? Do the three boys finally find their love?

    YehJawaani Hai Deewani (5:30 p.m.): YehJawaani Hai Deewani is the story of the relationship between two characters, Bunny &Naina, at two separate but defining times in their lives. First, when they are just out of college and standing on the crossroads of multiple decisions that will shape who and what they become and then later on, in their late-twenties when they meet again, holding on to certain fulfilled and certain unfulfilled dreams, at a crossroads of another nature this time. What does the future hold for both of them?

    Aashiqui 2 (9 p.m.): Aashiqui 2 movie is a musical love story of Rahul Jaykar a famous, successful and self-destructive and ArohiShirke an aspiring female singer. Believing in her talent, Rahul gives her a helping hand and her career begins to eclipse his. Arohi is ambitious to become a star while Rahul’s career is his defense against a self-destructive part of himself that has led him into outrageous bursts of drunkenness, drugs, love affairs, fights and adventures that have made him a legend. Will they accept their success and live life together?

     

  • Amitabh Bachchan and Honey Singh come together

    Amitabh Bachchan and Honey Singh come together

    MUMBAI: While Amitabh Bachchan has followers from all age groups, a few younger fans may be added to his fan base as he will soon be seen with rapper Honey Singh in the movie Bhootnath Returns. And the credit for the collaboration goes to Bhushan Kumar of T-Series who has brought them together.

     

    The rapper has composed a special number for the film. Big B, who has always been at the core of experimentation has proved it yet again that age isn’t a barrier for anything. This special number is yet another nouveau offering from the icon to look forward to.

     

    Kumar and Honey Singh have earlier given chartbusters such as ‘Sunny’ from Yaariyan, Lungi Dance from Chennai Express among others.

     

    Produced by Bhushan Kumar and Abhay Chopra (B.R Films), directed by Nitesh Tiwari Bhoothnath Returns stars Amitabh Bachchan along with Boman Irani and will release on 11 April, 2014.

  • YRF’s ‘Gunday’ to release in Dolby Atmos

    YRF’s ‘Gunday’ to release in Dolby Atmos

    MUMBAI: Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: DLB) and Yash Raj Films today announced that the much-anticipated movie Gunday will be releasing in Dolby® Atmos™—the latest in cinema sound technology. Dolby Atmos unleashes the potential of sound in storytelling by giving filmmakers the creative freedom to easily place or move sounds anywhere in the movie theatre to create a lifelike cinema sound experience. Gunday will be released across theatres in India and worldwide on February 14, 2014, by Yash Raj Films (YRF).

    Gunday, a Hindi action movie is written & directed by Ali Abbas Zaffar and produced by Aditya Chopra. Directed by Ali Abbas Zafar and Produced by Aditya Chopra, the film stars Ranveer Singh & Arjun Kapoor, as Bikram and Bala, along with Priyanka Chopra and Irrfan Khan, in lead roles. Set during the most turbulent times in the history of Calcutta, from 1971 to 1988, the story revolves around Bikram and Bala, who rose from being small time wagon breakers and coal thieves to becoming the biggest and most powerful black market mafia-men. As their notoriety became the stuff of legends, the people of this sprawling city started calling these two carefree and inseparable rebels as Gunday.

    “I have always strived to make breakthroughs in my movies, from storytelling to production,” said Ali Abbas Zafar, director of Gunday. “Dolby Atmos is a wonderful tool that enables us to do just that. It allows us to present an even more realistic story with an amazing audio experience that not only excites the ears but also touches the heart. He further added, “We are really looking forward to the release of Gunday in Dolby Atmos, which will transport the audiences to the onscreen action of the movie presenting them with a more realistic entertainment experience.”

    Gunday has been natively mixed in Dolby Atmos by rerecording sound mixer Anuj Mathur at YRF Studios. Dilip Subramaniam is the movie’s sound designer. Mixing in Dolby Atmos can simplify workflows because a native Dolby Atmos mix can be used to create 5.1- and 7.1-channel surround sound versions.

    Commenting on the announcement, Pankaj Kedia, Country Manager, Dolby Laboratories India, said, “Dolby Atmos brings a natural lifelike audio experience to movie theatres, giving filmmakers the creative freedom to place and move sounds anywhere in the auditorium, including overhead, for added realism and impact. With Gunday in Dolby Atmos, moviegoers will get to be a part of the most realistic cinematic experience amplifying each action sequence, emotion, and music of the movie. As we move forward, we are committed to offering the Indian audiences the best cinematic experience.”

     

  • MIFF 2014 concludes amid much fanfare

    MIFF 2014 concludes amid much fanfare

    NEW DELHI: Are you listening by Kamar Ahmed Simon won the Golden Conch Award for best documentary film while Nishtha Jain with her Gulabi Gang was named best director at the recently concluded 13th Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) for Documentary, short and animation films.

     

    Eminent filmmakers Adoor Gopalakrishnan and Shyam Benegal presented the awards as the curtains came down to the seven-day festival.

     

    Jury 1 comprised filmmaker Anand Patwardhan, film curator Angela Haardt from Germany, Director of the Yamagata Documentary Film Festival – Fujioka Asako of Japan, Slovenian film scholar Jurij Meden, and noted animator from Mumbai Shilpa Ranade.  Jury II comprised Canadian filmmaker Mark Achbar, film director and editor Amitabh Chakrabarty, film maker from Kerala M R Rajan, noted cinematographer Piyush Shah, and Netherlands based film scholar Rada Sesic.

     

    The 90-minute documentary by Simon won the award in the above 60-minutes category. It gets the Golden Conch trophy and Rs 500,000 cash prize (Rs 300,000 for the Director and Rs 200,000 for the producer – Sara Afreen). Set in the coastal belt of Bangladesh, the film is a powerful and beautifully photographed film that reveals the alarming effects of climate change and deftly captures the fighting spirit of a community and their will to survive. The global issue of climate change is experienced in microcosm in Simon’s film, as he observes the families of Sutarkhali.

     

    The Golden Conch for Best Documentary Film up to 60 minutes went to Maria Stodtmeier’s (Germany) In Between : Isang Yun in North and South Korea. This documentary explores whether music can overcome the boundaries of a divided country. It examines the worlds of North and South Korean music, taking the viewer along on an exciting journey through two political systems. It got the Golden Conch trophy and Rs 500,000 cash prize (Rs 300,000 for the Director and Rs 200,000 for the producer – Paul Smaczny).

     

    Black Rock directed by Vikrant Janardhan Pawar and produced by the Film and Television Institute of India was adjudged the Best Short Fiction film in International Competition. It got the Golden Conch trophy and Rs 500,000 cash prize (Rs 300,000 for the Director and Rs 200,000 for the producer – FTII).

     

    The Golden Conch Best Animation Film award went to True Love Story by Gitanjali Rao. This 18-minute animation set in the streets of Mumbai explores what happens when the ultimate Bollywood fantasy is applied in reality. It gives a glimpse into the influence of Bollywood on real life in Mumbai, told through puppet animation. The award carried a Golden Conch and Rs 500,000 cash prize.

     

    The film on Right to Information, Chakravyuh, by National Film award-winner Dhvani Desai was voted the most popular film, a new award chosen through voting by festival delegates. Chakravyuh through the struggles of four characters from different regions of India throws light on how the RTI can be used to fight corruption. The film produced by Films Division was first shown on 12 October 2013 on the occasion of the eighth anniversary of RTI in Mumbai.

     

    Nishtha Jain received Rs 100,000 cash award and a certificate got the Best Director Award in the International Competition section. Gulabi Gang tells the story of Sampat Pal and her group of women vigilantes and activists from Bundelkhand, who fight for women’s rights and their empowerment. Armed with a lathi (stick) the Gulabis visit abusive husbands and beat them up unless they stop abusing their wives. The film has won several other awards, and there are plans to release it in theatres on 21 February as part of PVR Director’s Rare initiative. Jain, an alumnus of FTII, is based in Mumbai.

     

    The Dadasaheb Phalke Chitranagari Award went to Mumbai based filmmaker Dylan Mohan Gray’s film Fire in the Blood for Best Debut Film of a Director. The 84-minute film tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs for the countries of the global south in the years after 1996 – causing ten million or more unnecessary deaths – and the improbable group of people who decided to fight back. This award carrying a cash prize of Rs 100,000 and a Trophy has been instituted by the Maharashtra Film Development Corporation, Mumbai

     

    The Indian Documentary Producers Association Award for the best student film went to Sonyacha Amba (Golden Mango) directed by Govind Raju and produced by FTII, Pune. This film had participated in the Berlin and Beijing festivals as well. The Rs 100,000 cash and Trophy is given by the IDPA.

     

    The Pramod Pati Award for most Innovative film, carrying a cash prize of Rs 100,000 and a trophy went to Pushpa Rawat’s 57-minute documentary Nirnay (Decision). The film explores the lives of women in a lower middle class colony in Ghaziabad, who are young and educated, but feel bound and helpless when it comes to major decisions about their lives, be it career or marriage.

     

    The Kashmiri film Tamaash (The Puppets) got the Golden Conch for the best Short Fiction Film up to 45 minutes in the National Competition. Tamaash is the first film by directors Satyanshu and Devanshu Singh, who also wrote, edited, and produced it, along with Tulsea Pictures. The film insists on the power of goodness and the importance of preserving the innocence of children.  It had won the Golden Elephant Award at the International Children’s Film Festival held in Hyderabad during November 2013. Along with the Golden Conch, the filmmakers also get Rs 250,000 cash award.

     

    In the National Competition section, Seven Hundred Zero Zero Seven by Altaf Mazid got the Golden Conch for Best Documentary (upto 40 minutes), while Have You Seen the Arana by Sunanda Bhat and Invoking Justice by well-known Deepa Dhanraj shared the  Best Documentary Awards in above 40 minutes category.

  • No big BO collection this week

    No big BO collection this week

    MUMBAI: The week saw as many as four films releasing. Even though Hasee Toh Phasee was the only film with known faces and a prestigious banner to back it, it did not meet up to the expectations and the promotion it was given. The film had nothing to offer to the single screen audience and even the youth and the multiplex audience did not readily take to the film. It opened to a tepid response. While Friday was below average, there was a nominal rise in the Saturday collections and it rose on Sunday mainly at multiplexes, to take its weekend collection figure to 15.75 crore.

     

    Baloo Happy Hai, Ya Rab and Heartless could not draw enough audience.

     

    Last week’s One By Two opened to poor response and remained so as the week progressed ending its first week run with mere a 2.5 crore to show.

     

    Jai Ho that was given an entertainment tax exemption in some states had little effect on the collections as the exemption came after the bad word of mouth had already done the damage. The film added 19.2 crore in its second week, taking its two week total to 101.2 crore.

     

    Yaariyan managed to add another 60 lakh in its fourth week to take its four week tally to 32.65 crore.

     

    Dedh Ishqiya collected 55 lakh in its fourth week thereby taking its four week total to 25.95 crore.

  • Indian films in Festival of India in Lao PDR and 3 other south east Asian countries

    Indian films in Festival of India in Lao PDR and 3 other south east Asian countries

    NEW DELHI: Selected films from Bollywood are part of a three-day Festival of India in Lao Peoples Democratic Republic inaugurated today by the Lao Minister for Information, Culture and Tourism Dr. Bosengkham Vongdara and Indian’s Culture Secretary Ravindra Singh in the capital city of Vientiane at the National Cultural Hall. 

    Speaking on the occasion, Singh said the Festival of India in Lao PDR would encourage people to increase India’s cultural ties with the south east Asian countries and deepen the historical bonds. He thanked the Lao Authorities for contributing towards the development of the Nalanda University. The South Zone Cultural Centre is the nodal agency for conducting the event. 

     

    Official level delegation talks were also held on a wide range of subjects between the two countries. The Indian side was led by Singh while the deputy prime minister and foreign minister Dr. Thongloun Sisoulith led the delegation of Lao PDR. 

    Indian Ambassador to Lao PDR Gururaja Rao said that the talks were cordial and constructive and India and Laos would seek to sign the Cultural Exchange Program in the coming days as also enhance people to people contact efforts. 

     

    Selected films of Bollywood would also be presented in the Festivals of India to be held in Cambodia, Vietnam and Myanmar.

     

    The films include Jodha Akbar, Dil Chahta Hai, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam etc. The film festival would be presented by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry.

     

    They will be part of the Festival being organised by the Culture Ministry. The Festivals of India in Cambodia would be held from 14 to 19 February. The Festivals of India in Vietnam will be held from 6 to 15 March and in Myanmar from 17 to 21 March.

     

    The Indian delegation to the Festivals of India led by Culture Secretary Ravindra Singh will have artiste delegation of 75 artistes.

     

    The two festivals would also comprise a Dance Festival of Classical Dance on Ramayana; a Buddhist Exhibition Dhamma Darshan presented by the Nava Nalanda Mahavihara; a Buddhist Mahotsava by the Central Institute of Himalayan Culture Studies in Dahoo, Arunachal Pradesh; a Food Festival by the Tourism Ministry; and aMehendi Art and Yoga festival by artists from the South Zone Cultural Centre and Yoga teachers from the Department of Ayush.