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  • Bipasha Basu in Sajid Khan’s Humshakals

    Bipasha Basu in Sajid Khan’s Humshakals

    MUMBAI: Sajid Khan is now gearing up for his upcoming comic caper Humshakals. The latest addition to this film is Bipasha Basu, who was last seen in Aatma. Besides Basu, Saif Ali Khan, Riteish Deshmukh and Ram Kapoor will be playing triple roles in the movie.

     

    While Tamannaah Bhatia has been paired opposite Saif, Bipasha will play Riteish’s love interest. Other details about the characters in the film have still been kept under wraps.

     

    Humshakals is produced by Vashu Bhagnani and Fox Star Studios and is expected to go on floor from September.

     

    Sajid Khan started his directing career with Heyy Babyy and followed it up Housefull and Housefull 2. His recent Ajay Devgn starrer Himmatwala remake bombed at the Box-Office.

  • Largest number of shorts in Film Southasia from India

    NEW DELHI: A total of 15 shorts from India – the highest – are to be screened at the Film Southasia 2013 Festival of South Asian Documentaries.


    The festival will be held from 3 to 6 October in Kathmandu and will feature 34 shorts in all.


     Film Southasia (FSA) is a biennial festival that was set up in 1997 with the goal of popularising the documentary.


    The Indian films contain Celluloid Man, a bio-documentary by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur about the veteran P K Nair who set up the first film archives in South Asia – the National Film Archives in Pune.






    The other Indian films are: A Prayer For Aliyah (by Zorawar Shukla); Algorithms (Ian McDonald); Big in Bollywood(Kenny Meehan and Bill Bowles); CHAR…No Man’s Island (Sourav Sarangi); Elemental Gayatri Roshan, Emmanuel Vaughn Lee); Fire In The Blood (Dylan Mohan Gray); Gaur in My Garden (Rita Banerji); Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread (Satchith Paulose); Immoral Daughters (Nakul Singh Sawhney); Voice of God (Bernd Lützeler); Invoking Justice (Deepa Dhanraj); Salma (Kim Longinotto); Sama (Shazia Khan);  and The Human Factor (Rudradeep Bhattacharjee). 


    There are three films from Afghanistan: Expecting; How To Build an Afghan Box Camera; and No Burqas Behind Bars.


    Pakistan has sent My Punjabi Love For You; Transgender – Pakistan‘s Open Secret; and Saving Face.


    The films from Bangladesh are:  Hombre Maquina; Life Begins with Tears; Shunte Ki Pao; and The Strike.


    The Sri Lankan films are: Broken; No Fire Zone – The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka, and The Story of One.


    The films from Myanmar (Burma) are: Miss Nikki and the Tiger Girls; No. 62, Pansodan Street, and The Old Photographer.


    The three shorts from the host country are: Playing with Nan; Who Will Be a Gurkha; and Yomari Ya Bakhan.

  • OUATIMD fails to cash in on Independence Day release

    OUATIMD fails to cash in on Independence Day release

    MUMBAI: Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaara starring Akshay Kumar, Imran Khan and Sonakshi Sinha could reap only limited benefit of its release on 15th August holiday as the screens available to it were limited. Thereafter, as the reports were unfavourable, the film could not grow over the weekend. The film ended its four-day weekend with Rs 34.6 crore.

    Chennai Express starring Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone has become the biggest weekend grosser as well as setting a fantastic record for the biggest first week collections. With paid previews included the film has set a new benchmark of Rs 142 crore for week one. With the week’s new release not enjoying favourable reports, the film will stand to gain in its second week run.

    B A Pass has been able to sustain through its second week. The film collected Rs 1.25 crore in second week to take its two week total to Rs 6.6 crore.

    Ramaiya Vastavaiya has added a symbolic Rs 12 lakh in its fourth week taking its four week total to Rs 25.97 crore.

    D-Day has finally remained much below its merits, managed a meagre Rs 10 lakh in its fourth week taking its four week total to Rs 19.6 crore.

    Bhaag Milkha Bhaag the biopic on the great Indian athlete Milkha Singh also called “the flying sikh” starring Farhan Akhtar and Sonam Kapoor has collected Rs 2.5 crore in its fifth week to take its five week tally to Rs 105.25 crore.

  • Bipasha Basu in Sajid Khan’s Humshakals





    MUMBAI: Sajid Khan is now gearing up for his upcoming comic caper Humshakals. The latest addition to this film is Bipasha Basu, who was last seen in Aatma. Besides Basu, Saif Ali Khan, Riteish Deshmukh and Ram Kapoor will be playing triple roles in the movie.


    While Tamannaah Bhatia has been paired opposite Saif, Bipasha will play Riteish‘s love interest. Other details about the characters in the film have still been kept under wraps.


    Humshakals is produced by Vashu Bhagnani and Fox Star Studios and is expected to go on floor from September.


    Sajid Khan started his directing career with Heyy Babyy and followed it up Housefull and Housefull 2. His recent Ajay Devgn starrer Himmatwala remake bombed at the Box-Office.

  • GSEAMS gets into a 3 movie marketing deal with Viacom Motion Pictures

    GSEAMS gets into a 3 movie marketing deal with Viacom Motion Pictures

    MUMBAI: Arjun Singgh Baran and Kartik Nishandar who had just turned entrepreneurs with their new venture, GSEAMS (Global Sports Entertainment And Media Solutions Pvt Ltd) get into a three movie marketing deal with Viacom Motion Pictures.

    GSEAMS has already done the marketing alliance of the first regional movie of Viacom Zapatlela 2 – 3D and will be involved in handling the marketing for Viacom Motion Pictures two regional movies 72 Miles – Ek Pravas and Kumari Gangubai Non Matric.

    Clear domain understanding and a passion to market movies through new age channels and mediums are the reasons why Arjun and Kartik chose these projects as the first under their movie marketing division.

    “We have been quite fortunate to have been involved with the promotion of Viacom Motion pictures’ first regional movie Zapatlela 2-3D within 10 days of our company launch. After the success of the movie we have been thankful to the Viacom team specially Jayesh Muzumdar (Viacom Regional Movies – business head) and Neeraj Joshi (Viacom Regional Movies- marketing head) to have extended the deal to two more regional movies to be marketed, We look forward to working with the brand and creating great synergies in the future” says Baran.

    Commenting on the association Nishandar further added “GSEAMS as a team couldn’t have asked for a better association to start its movie marketing division and having been involved in promoting one of the biggest commercially successful Marathi regional movie Zapatlea 2- 3D. We look forward to the next “Twinkle Khanna, Ashwini Yardi and Viacom’s 72 Miles and Gangubai Non Matric.”

    “Thanks to Jayesh and team Zapatlela 2 has given us a benchmark to move to the next level & do better with GSEAMS foray into Bollywood movies. We have got great response on our first movie marketing involvement with Bajatey Raho but would like to up our benchmark with one of the most awaited movie of the year to be released in November which we would like to disclose closer to the date of release.” adds Nishandar.

    “I have known Arjun and Kartik for a past few years and have been aware about their work on the 50 strong IP’s created during their days at Reliance. Thus when they approached me for Zapatlela 2 – 3 D marketing and presented us with a great plan we thought about getting them onboard for the same. Also since movie marketing at various levels such as alliances and tie-ups help grow the top line and visibility for the movie. We look forward to working with the team and create an exciting association” says Viacom Regional Movies – business head Jayesh Muzumdar.

  • NFDC India Screenwriters’ Lab 2013 heads to TIFF

    NFDC India Screenwriters’ Lab 2013 heads to TIFF

    MUMBAI: Announcing its final selection of six projects for the 2013Screenwriters’ Lab, from over 350 applications, NFDC (National Film Development Corporation – India) relocates the first stage of its Lab to Toronto in co-operation with TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival). The Lab has previously been hosted by Locarno and Venice festivals, each having welcomed two editions of the Screenwriters’ Lab.

     

    TIFF Bailey Artistic director Cameron said, “Indian independent cinema is taking the world by storm and it all begins with its screenwriters. We’re proud to welcome this workshop to the Toronto International Film Festival, and support the NFDC’s important work.”

     

    NFDC MD Nina Lath Gupta said, “NFDC is delighted to be expanding it’s long relationship with the festival by bringing the now renowned Film Bazaar Screenwriters’ Lab to Toronto for the first time, allowing our 6 writers’ creative process to be imbedded within TIFF, especially as Ritesh Batra’s acclaimed The Lunchbox, developed in our 2011 edition of this same lab is honoured with a Gala screening on 8 September”

     

    The six projects selected are to be work-shopped first in Toronto and further in Goa in November, before being presented in the annual Film Bazaar Co Pro Market:Nikhil Mahajan’s first feature Pune 52 was released in 2013 and was a follow up to his feature Doc Half a Billion Dreams (2011)

     

    Bela Negi wrote and directed the 2010 comedy Daayen Ya Baayen (Right or Left) and revisits the quirkiness of Indian rural life in this project which will be her second feature

    Varun Grover is perhaps best known for his collaboration with Anurag Kashyap as lyricist for That Girl in the Yellow Boots and Gangs of Wasseypur, and Vasan Bala’s Peddlers, Varun also has emerged through TV stand-up comedy writing.

     

    Shanker Raman is an award winning Cinematographer and (co) writer known for Frozen (TIFF 2007) and Harud (Autumn- TIFF 2010)

     

    Ashish Aryan is transitioning from a successful commercials career, taking on his first feature film with his project T for Taj Mahal, which he’ll be co-writing with Sachin Ladia, one of the writers of Kashyap’s Gangs of Wasseypur

     

    Rajesh Jalla is a renowned documentary director best known for Children of the Pyre (Best Doc Montreal 2013) who turns his lyrical style towards his first fiction feature project.

  • Satyajit Ray’s Goopy and Bagha in animation at Toronto Filmfest

    Satyajit Ray’s Goopy and Bagha in animation at Toronto Filmfest

    NEW DELHI: The animation film The World of Ghoopi and Bagha by Shilpa Ranade is being screened in the 39th Toronto International Film Festival’s Kids section.

     

    The film is based on Satyajit Ray’s live action 1969 Bengali language children’s musical ‘Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne’. The original was based on a story told by Ray’s grandfather. The animation film has been made for the Children’s Film Society, India.

     

    Indian romantic comedy Shuddh Desi Romance directed by Maneesh Sharma and produced by Aditya Chopra will also see its premiere at the Festival being held 5 to 15 September which will also have Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox.

     

    Ranade’s film has been announced in the update list of more than a dozen films from Asia in various sections announced now, doubling the size of this year’s Asian selection.

  • Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaara: Akshay Kumar all the way

    Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaara: Akshay Kumar all the way

    MUMBAI: Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaa is touted as a sequel to the producers’ earlier film, Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai. The claim is a deception and a ploy to cash in on the popularity of the earlier film. Supposedly based on a chapter from the don Dawood Ibrahim’s life, it is just another love triangle.

    Akshay Kumar has killed senior dons and attained the mantle of the ultimate don of Mumbai. The remaining local area gangsters are also rendered ineffective by him thereby creating enemies waiting to kill him. His main opponent is Mahesh Manjrekar. Akshay has shifted his base to Middle East but still rules the underworld of Mumbai from there. Akshay had long back picked a young boy, Imran Khan, and nurtured him into a perfect daredevil.

    Having neutralised all his enemies, he plans to visit Mumbai again; the agenda being to eliminate Manjrekar once and for all. The task to eliminate him is passed onto Imran and another henchman, Chetan Hansraj, who botch it up as Manjrekar outsmarts them.

    But there is a distraction in his life and plans. A khiladi with women otherwise, for the first time in his life, he falls in love. The woman is Sonakshi Sinha, but he is unaware that his own protégé, Imran, also loves the same woman. The film, which was fun so far, starts going downhill as the love triangle plays up and the villain in Akshay starts getting more and more cruel, illogical, stretched and dull.

    As the film continues with its love story of two men and one woman, there are songs and dream sequences and poor Sonakshi ends up being in the imagination songs of both the heroes. There seem to be no better, more interesting ways known to the writer to fill up the reels, notwithstanding the tedium it causes to the viewers. This is until Akshay suddenly dreams up a plot to lure Manjrekar out of his den: to spread the rumour that Akshay and Imran have fallen out as both crave the same woman! As invincible as the tales of Dawood Ibrahim have made him, Akshay, supposedly playing his character, takes on Manjrekar in the middle of a busy Mumbai road with traffic in full flow from both directions.

    Producers: Ekta Kapoor, Shobha Kapoor.
    Direction: Milan Luthria.
    Cast: Akshay Kumar, Imran Khan, Sonakshi Sinha, Sonali Bendre, Mahesh Manjrekar, Pitobash Tripathy, Mushtaq Khan, Chetan Hansraj, Tiku Talsania.

    Having killed his main adversary now is the time for the love triangle to reach some sort of conclusion. Pitobash Tripathy, Imran’s childhood buddy, finds a place in Akshay’s car. He has been brought here to ‘unwittingly’ convey that Imran also loves Sonakshi. Akshay being don and Imran being his underling knows only one way to end the love triangle: by killing Imran. There is some one-sided action as Imran refuses to raise his hand on his mentor and goes on to take a police bullet meant for Akshay on himself.

    The film is okay while Akshay holds the fort on his own for much of first half of the film. It is also okay with Imran’s entry scene. But enter Sonakshi and the film loses its track. Milan Luthria is not in his element and has also taken the viewer for granted at many places. Characters play Shoaib, Aslam and Jasmine speak of ‘Paap’ and cite ‘Ram’ and ‘Ravan’, which is odd. Nor does the film create the aura of the era it deals with. Rajat Arora has done well with his dialogue writing, especially the ones penned for Akshay. Musically, the film has an entertaining number in Tayyab Ali pyar ka dushman…. A hit number borrowed from Manmohan Desai’s Amar Akbar Anthony and scored by Laxmikant Pyarelal. The other good songs are: Tu hi khwahish… And Yeh tune kya kiya… Editing needed to be crisper. Photography is good.

    The film is an Akshay Kumar vehicle and he makes the most of it; dressed like a mid 20th century American gangster with jelled hairstyle, dark glasses and suit without tie, he carries a certain gait in his walk. This is one of his better performances. Imran is good in certain parts. Sonakshi is okay. Pitobash is good as usual. Sonali Bendre makes a brief role while Vidya Balan makes a passing appearance.

    Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaara is a mish-mash between a crime and a romance film, which does not quite work for a viewer.

  • ‘Tasher Desh’ based on Tagore play set for release on 23 August

    ‘Tasher Desh’ based on Tagore play set for release on 23 August

    NEW DELHI: The film Tasher Desh (The Land of Cards), a fantasy film in Bengali made on a play by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore directed by Q (Qaushiq Mukherjee), will be released in theatres on 23 August with English sub-titles.

     

    The film which has already been screened in Rome, London, Amsterdam and Toronto Film Festivals, has been produced by the National Film Development Corporation, Overdose Joint, AKFPL (Anurag Kashyap Films Pvt Ltd), Entre Chien Et Loup, and Dream Digital Inc.

     

    The film stars Rii (Rituparna Sen), Tillotama Shome, Joyraj Bhattacharjee, Soumyak Kanti De Biswas, Anubrata Das, Arijit Dutta, Imaad Shah, Tinu Verghis, and Maya Tideman.

     

    Though the original play and music is by Tagore, the music in the film is by Neel Adhikari/Miti Adhikari/Q. The musicians featuring in the film are Asian dub foundation Susheela Raman Sam Mills Eric Truffaz Moog Conspiracy Anusheh Sahana Bajpai Jens chr. Bugge Wesseltoft Tanmoy Bose Jivraj Singh Diego Neel Adhikari Miti Adhikari Arijit Chakraborty Seth Blumberg Esme Folley Nirmalya de Biswas Mainak nag Choudhury.

     

    The film is in the form of a story-teller wanting to tell a story. The story he tells mingles between his own story and that of a queen and her son banished to a palace where they lead a life of luxury and decadence. An oracle whispers the secret words to the prince and he leaves the palace with his friend, the merchant’s son. Their boat sinks and they arrive at the land of cards where the inhabitant cards are governed by a military regime. The prince and his friend get caught and bring about a change in the women cards with music and prophecies of love. The woman cards revolt. The king who banished them surrenders and the prince finds the meaning of life.

  • Industry leaders’ thoughts on Independence Day

    Independence. We in India have had it for so many years that the India that is emerging does not know what it is like to not be free. For millions, the struggle to get freedom from the British, Portuguese and sundry other rulers are just chapters in their history books. But occasions like Independence Day and Republic Day remind us that we were once subservient and that we overcame bondage and won our freedom.

    15 August is the 67th year of our independence. For sure, the Indian flag will be hoisted in neighbourhoods all over India. Smaller flags will be mounted on cars, cycles and bikes. And even smaller ones pinned on our shirt pockets. Patriotic songs will be played out on radio and on TV.

    And hopefully for a day we will forget all our complaints against rising prices, economic upheaval, a political and administrative class that is showing little backbone for fair governance and well-being of its citizenry, corruption and the lack of respect that many in India have for women. Hopefully, we will remember the price that was paid for the valuable freedom that we enjoy today. And feel proud to be Indian. We, at indiantelevision.com surely are and even proudly carry it in our name.

    Indiantelevision.com‘s young team of journalists spoke to senior professionals from the advertising, broadcasting, cable TV and marketing sectors to get a fix on their feelings on India‘s 67th Independence Day. And also to gather from them on what their favourite patriotic song or movie is. Read on to feel patriotic:

    O&M India executive chairman & NCD Piyush Pandey

    I am very proud to be an Indian. I think India is a very significant country with many diverse cultures and we have come a long way. In the future, I wish the country to be in a much better shape than what it is currently.

    Mile Sur Mera Tumhara is my favourite patriotic song and truly depicts the light of Indian culture and unity amongst Indians.

    NDTV executive vice chairperson Narayan Rao

    I feel good that we live in an independent country but it shouldn‘t be taken for granted.

    I‘d like broadcasting to be world class and for journalism to have high standards, credibility and ethics.
    My favourite song is Saare Jahan Se Achchha.
    Publicis director, CCO south Asia Bobby Pawar

    Yes I am proud and happy as well that I am living in an independent country as an independent man.

    I really don‘t have any ideas about where the industry is headed. If I did know, then I probably would make millions on it. However, I am very optimistic about the growth in the industry.

    My favourite movie is my friend‘s Prasoon Joshi‘s film Rang De Basanti and the title song from the same movie is my favourite song.

    Discovery Networks Asia Pacific, sr VP & GM, head of revenue, pan-regional ad sales & south asia, Rahul Johri

    I am proud of being an Indian and happy about it. I think in the coming years the broadcasting industry will evolve as the market evolves. I see many more options on offer for viewers and I see the broadcasting industry only growing further.

    My favourite patriotic song is the video Ye Mera India by Saleem and Suleiman which is on Animal Planet.

    Zee, chief content and creative officer Bharat Kumar Ranga

    I renamed myself from Mukesh to Bharat, when I was in the fourth standard. I fell in love with Manoj Kumar‘s character as Bharat inUpkaar. So when I was filling my form for fifth standard, I renamed myself as Bharat. This is how deeply I feel about India. Though firangi competition is welcome, but in India only Indians will rule. I am among those, who believes in the country.

    It is in India, that media enjoys the stature of being the fourth pillar. It started with print and went on to books and films. There was a certain independence given to broadcasters, but that was not utilised to the maximum. Though India has done well in a lot of sectors, but growth in media has not been great. We need to break away from daily and weekly competitions to unleash the power of media.

    My favourite patriotic song is Mere Desh Ki Dharti from the movie Upkaar, I still get all charged up hearing the song. Purab and Paschim was one movie which aptly brought out the power of India, and that is my favourite patriotic movie.
    Draftfcb+Ulka advertising ED & CEO Ambi M G Parameswaran

    I am proud to be an Indian. And I value my freedom. 
    As a nation, the change I would like to see is that the slowdown, which we are witnessing, goes away. I know it will be another 12-18 months before that happens, but then we will see double digit growth after that. The GDP growth needs to regain momentum, business confidence need to rise, rural development really needs to happen, and food prices need to come down.

    My favourite patriotic movie is the Tamil film Kappalottiya Thamizhan.
    Star Den Media Services, CEO Gurjeev Singh Kapoor

    We feel proud to be independent and we celebrated Independence Day at our workplace too on 14 August. Everyone was wearing small paper flags across their hearts proudly. We decked up the office with balloons and placed a small flag on every workstation.

    In broadcasting, freedom of expression is critical and this has rarely happened in the past, but it is witnessing a change. Things have gone through a revolutionary change and kudos to the industry for bringing in this welcome change.

    I love patriotic movies, but Saat Hindustani (1969) andShaheed (1965) figure among my favourites.

    Zee News CEO Alok Agrawal

    I feel good as an Indian. We are living in a democratic country. There are lots of things we need to do to improve. We all have some amount of influence that we can use.

    We are launching an entire new initiative Bharat Bhagyavita. Our responsibility as media is to inform and empower people with knowledge and make them aware of their rights and encourage them to do something about what‘s going on.

    Nothing comes to mind. I don‘t go by defining a favourite. Any patriotic song is fine. I like almost all songs.

    Media Consultant, Sanjeev Hiremath

    For me patriotism is a feeling and cannot be defined in a song, though I really love the Hollywood movie ‘Independence Day‘.

    In the 67th year of Independence, the biggest achievement for India is that it is no longer considered as a developing nation. A lot of Indian companies are now investing in overseas business. Our GDP is robust and we are above world average. I am proud to be an Indian and the reason is its diverse culture. My only concern is that though individually we are progressing, the country collectively isn‘t. Even today 70 per cent of the population lives on 1.50 dollars a day. It makes me sad. The political scenario needs to improve.

    What is good about the cable and satellite industry is that we are not 10 years behind when we compare ourselves to other countries. We have been making gradual progress and now with DAS, in the next two years we will be up close with the world cable and satellite industry.

    Playtime Creations TV producer Hemal Thakakar

    As an Indian we feel proud that we had so many great men and women who gave their lives for freedom we enjoy today. Somewhere I think we have failed them and have misused freedom which they got for us. I hope, pray and wish we correct that.

    For broadcasters, future is shining. Digitisation is beginning of new horizon as our country gets hungry for more entertainment and infotainment. New avenues are discovered and looking at the Indian diaspora and the fact that we are a young nation, the broadcast industry is going to get a major boost.

    My favourite song is the title track from the film Swades and Kandho Se Milte Hain Kandhe.