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  • The Lunchbox continues to wow audience worldwide

    The Lunchbox continues to wow audience worldwide

    MUMBAI: After wowing festivals worldwide and winning hearts in India, Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox, continues its winning trail. This time, it has won the Church of Iceland award at the Reykjavik International film festival, and the Best Director and Best Actor awards at saint jean de luz Film Festival (a French Festival).

     

    The film has now been selected in the official competition section of the prestigious BFI London Film Festival. In the 56th year of the festival, The Lunchbox that stars Irrfan Khan and Nimrat Kaur in the lead roles, will compete with some of the best films in the world including the Jesse Eisenberg-starrer The Double and the Scarlett Johansson-starrer Under the Skin. The festival will also screen Steven McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave and Alfonso Cuaron’sGravity in the Gala section.

     

    In another key development, Artifical Eye has bought the UK distribution rights of The Lunchbox. “We acquired the film both because we loved it and because we feel it will be loved by the UK audiences,” says Artificial Eye Managing Director, Louisa Dent.

  • Over 25 films awarded at Mumbai Women’s International Film Festival

    Over 25 films awarded at Mumbai Women’s International Film Festival

    NEW DELHI: Veteran actor Shabaza Azmi and senior actor-director Nandita Das along with renowned choreographer Saroj Khan were awarded Awards of Excellence at the Mumbai Women’s International Film Festival (MWIFF) in the western metropolis.

    The seven-day Festival organised by Oculus Creations had screened 210 films from across 70 nations and had given women filmmakers an international platform to screen their talents.

    While ‘Aabida’ by Maaria Sayeed of India won the best short film award, the largest number of awards went to ‘Bawra Mann’ for editing by Meghna Ashchitr and screenplay by Mitu Kumar and Abhilasha Nagi. The runner-up in the short film category was Israel’s ‘Rpomancy’ by Tal Getritman, Shea E Butler from US won the director’s award for ‘The Trial of Ben Barry’, while the cinematography award went to the British Chris Moon for ‘The Other Woman’. Shazia Shrivatava and Sharifa Roy got the best story award for ‘Do Pahar’.

    ‘Connected’ by America’s Tiffany Shiain got the best documentary award, and the runner-up award went to India’s ‘Woman Prayed and preyed upon’ by Kankana Chakraborty.

    ‘Silence’ by Avani Saxena and ‘Delivering Hope’ by Niraj Upadhyaya won the best and runner-up awards respectively in the ‘Her’ films category.

    Spain’s ‘A soft scent of Cinnamon’ by Giovanna Ribes won the Best Feature film award.

    The Audience Choice Awards went to three documentaries – ‘Gawah’ by Gauri Chadha, ‘Scattered Windows, Connected Doors’ by Ms Roohi Dixit and ms Ziba Bhagwagar, and America’s ‘Beyond Silence’ by Vidyut Latay – and two short films: ‘Melody’ by Hana Makki of Dubai, and ;Happy Birthday’ by Sheetal Shetty.

    The jury choice award went to the documentary ‘Gun and a God’ by Sonia Nepram of India and the short ‘725’ by America’s Irawati Athalye. Five documentaries came in for special mention: ‘In Our own way’ by Italy’s Wilma Massucco, India’s ‘Shivkalin Mardani Khel’ by Sailee Chandrakant Sane, ‘A country for my daughter’ by South Africa’s ‘Lucilla Blankenberg, India’s ‘My Kashmir’ by Madhuri Mohindar and Vaishali Sinha, and Italy’s ‘Me and Marti’ by Martina Vander Veer.

    Khan said: ‘The Bollywood fraternity respects the women filmmaker, long live women power’.

    Das said, ‘The percentage of women filmmakers in the industry is very less. I am very happy that women directors, women cinematographers, women editors and all the women technicians who work behind the camera are being felicitated and their work is being showcased at different places in Mumbai from the past one week and I’m also glad that my film ‘Firaaq’ was a part of it.’

    Deepa Bhatia, the editor of films ‘Kai Po Che’, ‘Student of The Year’ and ‘My Name Is Khan’ after her felicitation with the Award of Excellence said that this concept will help to uplift women filmmakers.

    Singer Shibani Kashyap, who was also awarded, rendered her famous song ‘Sajna Aa Bhi Jaa’.  

    Others felicitated included filmmakers Alankrita Shrivastava and Samruddhi Porey.

  • Over 25 films awarded at Mumbai Womens International Film Festival

    Over 25 films awarded at Mumbai Womens International Film Festival

    Veteran actor Shabaza Azmi and senior actor-director Nandita Das along with renowned choreographer Saroj Khan were awarded Awards of Excellence at the Mumbai Women’s International Film Festival (MWIFF) in the western metropolis.

     

    The seven-day Festival organised by Oculus Creations had screened 210 films from across 70 nations and had given women filmmakers an international platform to screen their talents.

     

    While ‘Aabida’ by Maaria Sayeed of India won the best short film award, the largest number of awards went to ‘Bawra Mann’ for editing by Meghna Ashchitr and screenplay by Mitu Kumar and Abhilasha Nagi. The runner-up in the short film category was Israel’s ‘Rpomancy’ by Tal Getritman, Shea E Butler from US won the director’s award for ‘The Trial of Ben Barry’, while the cinematography award went to the British Chris Moon for ‘The Other Woman’. Shazia Shrivatava and Sharifa Roy got the best story award for ‘Do Pahar’.

     

    ‘Connected’ by America’s Tiffany Shiain got the best documentary award, and the runner-up award went to India’s ‘Woman Prayed and preyed upon’ by Kankana Chakraborty.

     

    ‘Silence’ by Avani Saxena and ‘Delivering Hope’ by Niraj Upadhyaya won the best and runner-up awards respectively in the ‘Her’ films category.

     

    Spain’s ‘A soft scent of Cinnamon’ by Giovanna Ribes won the Best Feature film award.

     

    The Audience Choice Awards went to three documentaries – ‘Gawah’ by Gauri Chadha, ‘Scattered Windows, Connected Doors’ by Ms Roohi Dixit and ms Ziba Bhagwagar, and America’s ‘Beyond Silence’ by Vidyut Latay – and two short films: ‘Melody’ by Hana Makki of Dubai, and ;Happy Birthday’ by Sheetal Shetty.

     

    The jury choice award went to the documentary ‘Gun and a God’ by Sonia Nepram of India and the short ‘725’ by America’s Irawati Athalye. Five documentaries came in for special mention: ‘In Our own way’ by Italy’s Wilma Massucco, India’s ‘Shivkalin Mardani Khel’ by Sailee Chandrakant Sane, ‘A country for my daughter’ by South Africa’s ‘Lucilla Blankenberg, India’s ‘My Kashmir’ by Madhuri Mohindar and Vaishali Sinha, and Italy’s ‘Me and Marti’ by Martina Vander Veer.

     

    Khan said: ‘The Bollywood fraternity respects the women filmmaker, long live women power’.

     

    Das said, ‘The percentage of women filmmakers in the industry is very less. I am very happy that women directors, women cinematographers, women editors and all the women technicians who work behind the camera are being felicitated and their work is being showcased at different places in Mumbai from the past one week and I’m also glad that my film ‘Firaaq’ was a part of it.’

     

    Deepa Bhatia, the editor of films ‘Kai Po Che’, ‘Student of The Year’ and ‘My Name Is Khan’ after her felicitation with the Award of Excellence said that this concept will help to uplift women filmmakers.

     

    Singer Shibani Kashyap, who was also awarded, rendered her famous song ‘Sajna Aa Bhi Jaa’.  

    Others felicitated included filmmakers Alankrita Shrivastava and Samruddhi Porey.

  • Not so bossy after all

    Not so bossy after all

    MUMBAI: Boss reminds you of a brand of hand mixer of the same name. It is a blend of similar films from 1970s and 80s with two brothers, a principled father and a misunderstanding where brothers are parted. Traditionally, one takes the illegal route while the other is the father’s blue-eyed boy. The brothers come together to prove blood is thicker than water a decade and a half later. How is the film contemporary? In those days, a mother slapped her elder one and threw him out, here it is done by the father; the hero does not have a childhood sweetheart pining and waiting for him to return; the music is louder and lyrics make no sense most of the time and mainly, the fight is over the villain’s sister.

    Producer: Ashwin Warde
    Director: Anthony D’Souza.
    Cast: Akshay Kumar, Mithun Chakraborty, Danny Denzongpa, Ronit Roy, Shiv Pandit, Aditi Rao Hydari, Johny Lever, Parikshit Sahni, Govind Namdeo, Sanjay Mishra

    The film starts in an old-fashioned way, trying to set the pace of the film with action by various artistes for the first 40 minutes before it introduces Akshay Kumar with yet another action sequence, a greedy one because it refuses to end! The only action hero of yore who does not have a fight scene is Mithun Chakraborty.

    Akshay Kumar, who has been banished from his home in Banaras by his father, Mithun, ends up in Haryana in nick of time to save the local don and Big Boss, Danny. Seeing honesty mixed with anger in the young lad, Danny takes him under his wing to make him his heir, and names him Boss. Big Boss’s front is as the owner of a transport fleet but otherwise he is a supari contractor. On the other side is a policeman, Ronit Roy, who wants to be the commissioner of police and to achieve this, he handles the dirty deals department for the wannabe CM, Govind Namdeo.

    It is time to work on a family story and to absolve Akshay of his childhood act which led to his ouster from home. Akshay’s kid brother, Shiv Pandit, is romancing Aditi Rao Hydari, the sister of Ronit. Ronit wants her to marry Namdeo’s son in exchange for the Commissioner’s post. Namdeo wants an outsider to kill Shiv so fingers don’t point at him. The contract to kill him is given to Akshay. At the same time, Mithun gives a contract to save Shiv to Akshay. The brothers combine to foil all the evil plans of the villains through expected twists and turns with no pretence of logic or justification. It is supposed to be old-fashioned entertainment after all!

    A remake of the 2010 Malayalam movie, Pokkiri Raja, the film maintains its south flavour in treatment and even the choice of fighters and junior artistes. It also sticks to south style of action and stunts which is too much in vogue with Hindi films lately. Action and light banter of Akshay is what the film counts on to entertain the viewers. Direction is fair. The photography is good. Some one-liners are funny, some flat. Music is a lot of noisy stuff which makes following the lyrics tough. Akshay is his usual self in the roles he plays on regular basis now; a carefree character with unbeatable energy and fighting power. Shiv gets scope to showcase his action prowess and also his romantic side. Aditi Rao Hydari is okay. Mithun seems miscast in an Alokenath kind of role. Parikshit Sahani’s presence in the film is unexplained since he just has to hang around Mithun. It is nice to see Danny on screen after a long time. Ronit makes a perfect villain against Akshay. Johny Lever and Sanjay Mishra are okay with their comic input. Govind Namdeo is the usual villain like his many such roles before.

  • 26 features and 16 non-features in Indian Panorama of 44th IFFI

    26 features and 16 non-features in Indian Panorama of 44th IFFI

    NEW DELHI: A total of 26 features and 16 non-features figure in the list of the Indian Panorama section of the next International Film Festival of India (IFFI) to be held in Panaji in Goa from 20 November.

    The Panorama films also form the basis for the government to make its selections when sending films for participation in film festivals overseas.

    The Jury for feature films, headed by renowned filmmaker and editor B Lenin, selected 25 films out of a total of 210 eligible entries.

    Hindi film Pan Singh Tomar (Director Tigmanshu Dhulia) which won the Best Feature Film award at the recent 60th National Film awards is the 26th film of Indian Panorama, by virtue of direct entry. The nine- member jury took 21 days to finalise the selections. 

     The Non-Feature films jury chaired by well known director Raja Sen, picked 15 films out of 130 eligible entries. Kashmiri film Shepherds of Paradise (Director Raja Shabir Khan) which won the Best Non feature film award at the recent 60th National Film Awards is the 16th film of Indian Panorama by direct entry. The five member jury took nine days to finalise the selections.

    The juries chose Kanyaka Talkies (Malayalam, Director K R Manoj) and Rangabhoomi (Hindi, Director Kamla Swaroop) as the opening feature and non-feature films respectively for the Indian Panorama 2013 at the 44th IFFI.

    The features have six films in Malayalam, five in Hindi apart from another in Hindi and English, five in Bangla, three in Marathi, and one each in Mising, Kannada, Tamil, Oriya, and Konkani apart from one in Konkani and English.

    In the non features films category, the maximum number of films selected, five are in Hindi, three in Malayalam, three in English, two in Marathi, two in Kashmiri and one in Kudukh.

    The complete list of 26 Feature films that would be shown at the 44th International Film Festival of India 2013:
    Sr. NO.
    TITLE OF THE FILM
    LANGUAGE
    DIRECTOR
    1
    101 CHODYANGAL
    MALAYALAM
    SIDHARTHA SIVA
    2
    AJANA BATAS
    BENGALI
    ANJAN DAS
    3
    APUR PANCHALI
    BENGALI
    KAUSHIK GANGULI
    4
    ARTIST
    MALAYALAM
    SHAYAM PRASAD
    5
    ASTU
    MARATHI
    SUMITRA BHAVE/SUNIL SUKHTANKAR
    6
    BAGA BEACH
    KONKANI
    LAXMIKANT SHETGAONKAR
    7
    		 BHARATH STORES KANNADA P.SHESHADRI
    8
    CELLULOID
    MALAYALAM
    KAMAL
    9
    PHORING-DRAGONFLY
    BENGALI
    INDRANIL ROYCHOWHURY
    10
    FANDRY
    MARATHI
    NAGRAJ MANJULE
    11
    JAL
    HINDI
    GIRISH MALIK
    12
    KANYAKA TALKIES
    MALAYALAM
    K.R. MANOJ
    13
    KO:YAD
    MISING
    MANJU BORAH
    14
    KUNJANANTHANTE KADA
    MALAYALAM
    SALIM AHAMED
    15
    LISTEN AMAYA
    HINDI
    AVINASH KUMAR SINGH
    16
    MEGHE DHAKA TARA
    BENGALI
    KAMLESHWAR MUKHERJEE
    17
    SALA BUDHA
    ORIYA
    SABYASACHI MAHAPATRA
    18
    SATYANWESHI
    BENGALI
    RITUPARNO GHOSH
    19
    SHIP OF THESEUS
    ENGLISH/HINDI
     
    ANAND GANDHI
    20
    SHUTTER
    MALAYALAM
    JOY MATHEW
    21
    TAPAAL
    MARATHI
    LAXMAN UTEKAR
    22
    THE COFFIN MAKER
    ENGLISH/KONKANI
    VEENA BAKSHI
    23
    THANGAMEENGAL
    TAMIL
    RAM
    24
    BHAAG MILKHA BHAAG
    HINDI
    RAKESH OMPRAKASH MEHRA
    25
    OMG OH MY GOD
    HINDI
    UMESH SHUKLA
    26
    PAN SINGH TOMAR
    HINDI
    TIGMANSHU DHULIA

     

    The complete list of 16 Non-Feature films that would be screened at the 44th International Film Festival of India 2013:
    Sr. NO.
    TITLE OF THE FILM
    LANGUAGE
    DIRECTOR
    1
    23 WINTERS
    Kashmiri/Hindi
    Rajesh S. Jala
    2
    A DREAM CALLED AMERICA
    Hindi
    Anoop Sathyan
    3
    BEHIND THE MIST
    Malayalam
    Babu Kambrath
    4
    BY LANE 2
    English/Assamese
    Utpal Datta
    5
    KANCHE AUR POSTCARD
    Hindi
    Ridham Janve
    6
    LIGHTS ON A DOOR GOPALKRISHNAN
    Malayalam/English
    Prasanna Ramaswamy
    7
    MAKARA
    Marathi
    Prantik Narayan Basu
    8
    MANIPURI PONY
    English
    Aribam Syam Sharma
    9
    PHADA
    Kudukh (Region-Jharkhand, Chhatisgarh)
    Niranjan Kumar Kujur
    10
    RANGABHOOMI
    Hindi
    Kamal Swaroop
    11
    RESONANCE OF MOTHER’S MELODY
    English
    Dip Bhuyan
    12
    SAMA-MUSLIM MYSTIC MUSIC OF INDIA
    Hindi/English
    Shazia Khan
    13
    THE DONKEYFAIR
    Hindi/Gujarati
    Rakesh Shukla
    14
    V. BABASAHEB LIFE IN FULL OPEN
    Marathi/Hindi/English
    Avinash Deshpande
    15
    VISHAPARVAM
    Malayalam
    Vipin Vijay
    16
    SHEPHERDS OF PARADISE
    Kashmiri
    Raja Shabhir Khan

     

  • A sequel to ‘Khiladi’ without Akshay Kumar

    A sequel to ‘Khiladi’ without Akshay Kumar

    MUMBAI: Think of Khiladi, the superhit movie of the 1990s and without Akshay Kumar. Yes! producer Ratan Jain who has decided to make a sequel to the 1992 blockbuster plans to cast a newcomer in the movie for the lead role.

    Directed by Abbas-Mustan, Khiladi starred Akshay Kumar in the lead role, also featuring Ayesha Jhulka and Deepak Tijori, among others.

    Films that I have made are not too old. I started working in the 1990s, so yes, youth knows about my film. Yes, we are trying various ideas to come up with different films,” Jain said.

    “I don’t know about remake, but we are planning to make a sequel to Khiladi.  It’s in a very early stage, we are still scripting,” he added.

    Jain, who had worked with Akshay in Dhadkan as well, plans to rope in a new face for the movie.

    “Most probably we will cast a new comer for the sequel,” he said when asked about the cast.

  • Not so bossy after all

    Not so bossy after all

    MUMBAI: Boss reminds you of a brand of hand mixer of the same name. It is a blend of similar films from 1970s and 80s with two brothers, a principled father and a misunderstanding where brothers are parted. Traditionally, one takes the illegal route while the other is the father’s blue-eyed boy. The brothers come together to prove blood is thicker than water a decade and a half later. How is the film contemporary? In those days, a mother slapped her elder one and threw him out, here it is done by the father; the hero does not have a childhood sweetheart pining and waiting for him to return; the music is louder and lyrics make no sense most of the time and mainly, the fight is over the villain’s sister.

    The film starts in an old-fashioned way, trying to set the pace of the film with action by various artistes for the first 40 minutes before it introduces Akshay Kumar with yet another action sequence, a greedy one because it refuses to end! The only action hero of yore who does not have a fight scene is Mithun Chakraborty.

    Akshay Kumar, who has been banished from his home in Banaras by his father, Mithun, ends up in Haryana in nick of time to save the local don and Big Boss, Danny. Seeing honesty mixed with anger in the young lad, Danny takes him under his wing to make him his heir, and names him Boss. Big Boss’s front is as the owner of a transport fleet but otherwise he is a supari contractor. On the other side is a policeman, Ronit Roy, who wants to be the commissioner of police and to achieve this, he handles the dirty deals department for the wannabe CM, Govind Namdeo.

    Producer: Ashwin Warde
    Director: Anthony DSouza.
    Cast: Akshay Kumar, Mithun Chakraborty, Danny Denzongpa, Ronit Roy, Shiv Pandit, Aditi Rao Hydari, Johny Lever, Parikshit Sahni, Govind Namdeo, Sanjay Mishra

    It is time to work on a family story and to absolve Akshay of his childhood act which led to his ouster from home. Akshay’s kid brother, Shiv Pandit, is romancing Aditi Rao Hydari, the sister of Ronit. Ronit wants her to marry Namdeo’s son in exchange for the Commissioner’s post. Namdeo wants an outsider to kill Shiv so fingers don’t point at him. The contract to kill him is given to Akshay. At the same time, Mithun gives a contract to save Shiv to Akshay. The brothers combine to foil all the evil plans of the villains through expected twists and turns with no pretence of logic or justification. It is supposed to be old-fashioned entertainment after all!

    A remake of the 2010 Malayalam movie, Pokkiri Raja, the film maintains its south flavour in treatment and even the choice of fighters and junior artistes. It also sticks to south style of action and stunts which is too much in vogue with Hindi films lately. Action and light banter of Akshay is what the film counts on to entertain the viewers. Direction is fair. The photography is good. Some one-liners are funny, some flat. Music is a lot of noisy stuff which makes following the lyrics tough. Akshay is his usual self in the roles he plays on regular basis now; a carefree character with unbeatable energy and fighting power. Shiv gets scope to showcase his action prowess and also his romantic side. Aditi Rao Hydari is okay. Mithun seems miscast in an Alokenath kind of role. Parikshit Sahani’s presence in the film is unexplained since he just has to hang around Mithun. It is nice to see Danny on screen after a long time. Ronit makes a perfect villain against Akshay. Johny Lever and Sanjay Mishra are okay with their comic input. Govind Namdeo is the usual villain like his many such roles before.

  • 26 features and 16 non-features in Indian Panorama of 44th IFFI

    26 features and 16 non-features in Indian Panorama of 44th IFFI

    A total of 26 features and 16 non-features figure in the list of the Indian Panorama section of the next International Film Festival of India (IFFI) to be held in Panaji in Goa from 20 November.

     

    The Panorama films also form the basis for the government to make its selections when sending films for participation in film festivals overseas.

     

    The Jury for feature films, headed by renowned filmmaker and editor B Lenin, selected 25 films out of a total of 210 eligible entries.

     

    Hindi film Pan Singh Tomar (Director Tigmanshu Dhulia) which won the Best Feature Film award at the recent 60th National Film awards is the 26th film of Indian Panorama, by virtue of direct entry. The nine- member jury took 21 days to finalise the selections.

     

    The Non-Feature films jury chaired by well known director Raja Sen, picked 15 films out of 130 eligible entries. Kashmiri film Shepherds of Paradise (Director Raja Shabir Khan) which won the Best Non feature film award at the recent 60th National Film Awards is the 16th film of Indian Panorama by direct entry. The five member jury took nine days to finalise the selections.

     

    The juries chose Kanyaka Talkies (Malayalam, Director K R Manoj) and Rangabhoomi (Hindi, Director Kamla Swaroop) as the opening feature and non-feature films respectively for the Indian Panorama 2013 at the 44th IFFI.

     

    The features have six films in Malayalam, five in Hindi apart from another in Hindi and English, five in Bangla, three in Marathi, and one each in Mising, Kannada, Tamil, Oriya, and Konkani apart from one in Konkani and English.

     

    In the non features films category, the maximum number of films selected, five are in Hindi, three in Malayalam, three in English, two in Marathi, two in Kashmiri and one in Kudukh.

    The complete list of 26 Feature films that would be shown at the 44th International Film Festival of India 2013:
    Sr. NO.

        
    TITLE OF THE FILM
        

    LANGUAGE
        

    DIRECTOR
    1

        
    101 CHODYANGAL

        
    MALAYALAM

        
    SIDHARTHA SIVA
    2

        
    AJANA BATAS

        
    BENGALI

        
    ANJAN DAS
    3

        
    APUR PANCHALI
        

    BENGALI

        
    KAUSHIK GANGULI
    4

        
    ARTIST
        

    MALAYALAM

        
    SHAYAM PRASAD
    5
        

    ASTU

        
    MARATHI

        
    SUMITRA BHAVE/SUNIL SUKHTANKAR
    6

        
    BAGA BEACH

        
    KONKANI

        
    LAXMIKANT SHETGAONKAR
    7

       BHARATH STORES     KANNADA     P.SHESHADRI
    8

        
    CELLULOID

        
    MALAYALAM

        
    KAMAL
    9

        
    PHORING-DRAGONFLY
        

    BENGALI

        
    INDRANIL ROYCHOWHURY
    10

        
    FANDRY
        

    MARATHI

        
    NAGRAJ MANJULE
    11
        

    JAL
        

    HINDI
        

    GIRISH MALIK
    12
        

    KANYAKA TALKIES
        

    MALAYALAM
        

    K.R. MANOJ
    13

        
    KO:YAD

        
    MISING
        

    MANJU BORAH
    14

        
    KUNJANANTHANTE KADA
        

    MALAYALAM
        

    SALIM AHAMED
    15

        
    LISTEN AMAYA
        

    HINDI

        
    AVINASH KUMAR SINGH
    16

        
    MEGHE DHAKA TARA
        

    BENGALI

        
    KAMLESHWAR MUKHERJEE
    17
        

    SALA BUDHA
        

    ORIYA
        

    SABYASACHI MAHAPATRA
    18

        
    SATYANWESHI

        
    BENGALI

        
    RITUPARNO GHOSH
    19
        

    SHIP OF THESEUS
        

    ENGLISH/HINDI

        
        
    ANAND GANDHI
    20

        
    SHUTTER

        
    MALAYALAM

        
    JOY MATHEW
    21

        
    TAPAAL

        
    MARATHI

        
    LAXMAN UTEKAR
    22

        
    THE COFFIN MAKER

        
    ENGLISH/KONKANI

        
    VEENA BAKSHI
    23
        

    THANGAMEENGAL
        

    TAMIL
        

    RAM
    24

        
    BHAAG MILKHA BHAAG
        

    HINDI
        

    RAKESH OMPRAKASH MEHRA
    25
        

    OMG OH MY GOD
        

    HINDI

        
    UMESH SHUKLA
    26
        

    PAN SINGH TOMAR
        

    HINDI
        

    TIGMANSHU DHULIA

     

    The complete list of 16 Non-Feature films that would be screened at the 44th International Film Festival of India 2013:
    Sr. NO.

        
    TITLE OF THE FILM
        

    LANGUAGE
        

    DIRECTOR
    1
        

    23 WINTERS
        

    Kashmiri/Hindi
        

    Rajesh S. Jala
    2

        
    A DREAM CALLED AMERICA
        

    Hindi
        

    Anoop Sathyan
    3

        
    BEHIND THE MIST
        

    Malayalam
        

    Babu Kambrath
    4

        
    BY LANE 2
        

    English/Assamese
        

    Utpal Datta
    5
        

    KANCHE AUR POSTCARD
        

    Hindi
        

    Ridham Janve
    6

        
    LIGHTS ON A DOOR GOPALKRISHNAN
        

    Malayalam/English
        

    Prasanna Ramaswamy
    7

        
    MAKARA
        

    Marathi
        

    Prantik Narayan Basu
    8

        
    MANIPURI PONY
        

    English
        

    Aribam Syam Sharma
    9
        

    PHADA
        

    Kudukh (Region-Jharkhand, Chhatisgarh)
        

    Niranjan Kumar Kujur
    10

        
    RANGABHOOMI
        

    Hindi
        

    Kamal Swaroop
    11

        
    RESONANCE OF MOTHER’S MELODY
        

    English

        
    Dip Bhuyan
    12

        
    SAMA-MUSLIM MYSTIC MUSIC OF INDIA
        

    Hindi/English

        
    Shazia Khan
    13
        

    THE DONKEYFAIR
        

    Hindi/Gujarati
        

    Rakesh Shukla
    14
        

    V. BABASAHEB LIFE IN FULL OPEN
        

    Marathi/Hindi/English
        

    Avinash Deshpande
    15

        
    VISHAPARVAM
        

    Malayalam
        

    Vipin Vijay
    16

    SHEPHERDS OF PARADISE
        

    Kashmiri
        

    Raja Shabhir Khan

     

  • A sequel to ‘Khiladi’ without Akshay Kumar

    A sequel to ‘Khiladi’ without Akshay Kumar

    Think of Khiladi, the superhit movie of the 1990s and without Akshay Kumar. Yes! producer Ratan Jain who has decided to make a sequel to the 1992 blockbuster plans to cast a newcomer in the movie for the lead role.

     

    Directed by Abbas-Mustan, Khiladi starred Akshay Kumar in the lead role, also featuring Ayesha Jhulka and Deepak Tijori, among others.

     

    Films that I have made are not too old. I started working in the 1990s, so yes, youth knows about my film. Yes, we are trying various ideas to come up with different films,” Jain said.

     

    “I don’t know about remake, but we are planning to make a sequel to Khiladi.  It’s in a very early stage, we are still scripting,” he added.

     

    Jain, who had worked with Akshay in Dhadkan as well, plans to rope in a new face for the movie.

     

    “Most probably we will cast a new comer for the sequel,” he said when asked about the cast.

  • Tour De India announces John Abraham as its brand ambassador

    Tour De India announces John Abraham as its brand ambassador

    MUMBAI: As Godrej Eon Tour De India races ahead in its second edition, the property is ready to deliver the ultimate punch of dynamism and energy with the brand ambassador. The cycling event in the country which is being promoted by Maharashtra Cycling Association, Tourism Ministry, UCI, Cycling Federation of India (CFI) and ID Sports has announced John Abraham as its brand ambassador.

    John, who recently made to headlines for becoming a brand ambassador for National Geographic Channel, is making all the right moves.  

    John’s quintessential blend of challenging his own limits make him an ideal connect with Tour De India, which stands to believe ‘You are the Engine’. Godrej Eon Tour De India has shot an advertising campaign that showcases your vigor to ride a cycle. With John Abraham as the new face, Godrej Eon Tour De India is reinforcing its strong bond and connects with cycling enthusiasts through creativity, commerce, education and technology.

    Speaking ahead of the race 2013, ID Sports chairman and managing director Akil Khan exults: “Committed to drive participation and aiming to make cycling, a national sport, Godrej Eon Tour de India in 2013 could not be more proud to welcome John into the Godrej Eon Tour De India family. In the first year of Godrej Eon Tour de India we saw celebrity grand prix at F1 Circuit and this year we are excited about John being a part. John symbolises all that Godrej Eon Tour De India stands for.”
    He further adds: “He is a representation with intelligence, grace and a trendsetter who has always stood by his passion for sports along with an incredible blend of warmth with a vivaciousness and untiring charm. His connect with the common man and the highest segment of personalities shows his incredible versatility and makes him fit seamlessly into Godrej Eon Tour De India.”

    Expressing his excitement, John Abraham asserts: “It is a pleasure to lend myself to India’s noisiest and biggest cycling event that makes its presence felt. Godrej Eon Tour De India (TDI) stands for redefining the evolution of cycling and it is a great privilege for me to be associated with it. I tend to endorse brands very selectively as I need to relate to the brand and believe in it in my heart.”

    Godrej Eon Tour De India’s new campaign underlying ethos is about the spirit of the multi-faceted achiever who is the best in the world and hence deserves the best of all that the world has to offer. It deals with all the attributes associated with John which act as a representative of this changing face of the Indian youth be it health, sporting spirit or enjoyment. Moving forward ID Sports will be announcing the presenting sponsor soon.