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  • Nana Patekar slams Lifetime Achievement Awards

    Nana Patekar slams Lifetime Achievement Awards

    MUMBAI: Nana Patekar refused to accept a Lifetime Achievement Award. According to the veteran, people making beneficial contributions to the society merit such awards and not him.

    "Anybody and everybody gets up and forms any organisation and institutes a Lifetime Achievement Award and people also accept it," Patekar said without identifying anyone. The 62-year-old actor was speaking at a function organised by Thane police.

    He also came down heavily on people receiving these type of honours. "It is not a crime…But I won‘t accept it…How can you evaluate my life‘s cost as Rs 1 lakh…Rs 5 lakh… Rs 10 lakh," he asked.

    Lifetime Achievement awards are given by various organisations to recognise contributions of persons over their whole career, in any field.

    Earlier, participating in a seminar on ways to overcome crime in the society organised by Thane police on the occasion of Maharashtra Police Raising Day, Patekar said, "We have become a society devoid of cordiality and unity."

  • Imtiaz Ali turns producer with Highway

    Imtiaz Ali turns producer with Highway

    MUMBAI: Always wanting to turn a producer, Rockstar fame Imtiaz Ali will soon realise his dream with Highway that he will co-produce along with Sajid Nadiadwala.

    The film, a love story about two very different people who get attracted to each other, stars Alia Bhatt and Randeep Hooda in the lead.

    It is said that Highway has been conceived by Saif Ali Khan‘s Cocktail writer. Sajid loved the fact that Imtiaz showed the inclination to produce the film. He immediately gave his nod. Imtiaz is excited about the fact that he will be a hands-on producer for the first time.

    After he completes Highway, the Jab We Met director will move on to his next with Ranbir Kapoor in the lead, which is slated to go on floors sometime in mid-2013.

  • Virtual premier of Balak Palak on 3 Jan

    Virtual premier of Balak Palak on 3 Jan

    MUMBAI: Marking a first for Indian cinema, UFO Moviez along with Valuable Edutainment, will pioneer the interactive ‘Virtual Premier‘ of actor-producer Ritesh Deshmukh‘s Marathi film ‘Balak Palak‘ at UFO digital theatres in five different locations – Mumbai, Thane, Nalasopara, Pune and Latur simultaneously.

     

    The event will take place on 3 January, at Sona Gold in Borivali East, Fun Fiesta in Nalasopara, Gold Digital in Thane West, Prabhat in Pune and Big Rama theatre in Latur.

     

    Audiences in each of these UFO digital theatres will also witness the cinegoers located in the other theatres in different cities asking questions. Deshmukh along with co-producers Uttung Hitendra Thakur and Ravi Jadhav, who is also the director of the film, music directors Vishal – Shekhar, and the children of Balak Palak, will all be stationed at the Valuable Edutainment central studio, to watch and interact with the audiences in all UFO digital theatres at the same time. The session is expected to last an hour followed by the screening of the film.

     

    Deshmukh said, “I am overjoyed that ‘Balak Palak‘, a sensitive drama that will help parents realise how important it is to communicate transparently with your child, will create history with the first-of-its-kind Virtual Premier facilitated by UFO Moviez and Valuable Edutainment. Marathi films have created a mark throughout the world and with this unique technology, they will unite Marathi film going audiences in remote locations. I‘m confident that Balak Palak will not only break box office records but also enter many books of record with this unique feat.”

     

    UFO Moviez India & Valuable Edutainment MD Sanjay Gaikwad added, “In a fitting tribute to the 100th year of Indian cinema, a home-grown company, UFO Moviez, will show the world how it is possible to unite film lovers in different locations of this large country with popular film personalities at the same time. UFO Moviez, which is already a world leader, will now demonstrate how its unique satellite technology will help the aam admi achieve the impossible. We are happy to provide our technology to Ritesh Deshmukh for starting a new trend in mainstream cinema with Balak Palak and hope that the film breaks box office records.”

     

    Thakur said, “The Indian cinema is witnessing first ever virtual premier of the movie, starting from BP (Balak-Palak) we hope that we could reach maximum number of people through virtual premier and convey the message on sex education to the society. By talking about this taboo subject to the audience we feel that the communication gap between parents and children would get filled up and they will freely talk with each other on the sensitive subject like sex.”

  • Mere Dad Ki Maruti to release on 15 March

    Mere Dad Ki Maruti to release on 15 March

    MUMBAI: Yash Raj Films‘ (YRF) next venture Mere Dad Ki Maruti (MDKM) under the Y-Films banner, has finally got a release date. It will release universally on 15 March.

     

    For some time now, it has been seen that YRF is becoming the perfect platform for budding talent. After having successfully launched Ranveer Singh and Anushka Sharma in Band Baaja Baaraat , it followed up by casting Arjun Kapoor and Parineeti Chopra in Ishaqzaade.

     

    Through Mere Dad Ki Maruti, the production house is all set to launch Saqib Saleem and Rhea Chakraborty. Incidentally, Saqib had earlier made his debut with Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge under the same banner.

     

    MDKM is an outrageous comedy set against the backdrop of a loud Punjabi wedding in Chandigarh. The film tells the story of a boy who sneaks his dad‘s fancy new car out to impress the college hottie and how all hell breaks loose when he loses it.

     

    MDKM also stars Ram Kapoor as the khadoos dad in his first full-fledged comedy role.

     

    MDKM also marks the directorial debut of Ashima Chibber who has been associated with some of the most talented directors of our times like Shimit Amin‘s first Assistant Director (AD) on Ab Tak Chappan and Chak De India‘ among others, The director‘s last project was as first assistant director to Imtiaz Ali in Rockstar.

  • Zee Cine Awards 2013 nominations announced

    Zee Cine Awards 2013 nominations announced

    MUMBAI: The Zee Cine Awards 2013 announced the nominations for the popular and technical category for the 13th Annual Zee Cine Awards. The channel has also revealed stars including Shah Rukh Khan, Anushka Sharma, Katrina Kaif, Deepika Padukone and Ayushman Khurana will be giving performances at this year‘s awards ceremony.

    Zee Cine Awards 2013 will be held in Mumbai on 6 January 6 at the Yash Raj Studios and the same will be telecast on Zee TV on the 20 January at 8 pm.

    To encourage more viewer participation, the channel has devised an innovative ‘Free Call’ service and has activated a centralized website www.zeecineawards.com where viewers can cast their votes free of cost. The voting started on 28 December 12 noon IST and closes on 4th January at 12 noon.

    The nominations for Zee Cine Awards 2013 are

    1

    SONG OF THE YEAR

    i

    Chikni Chameli- Agneepath

    ii

    Pungi Baja Kar- Agent Vinod

    iii

    Tumhi Ho Bandhu- Cocktail

    iv

    Chinta Ta Ta- Rowdy Rathore

    v

    Radha- Student Of The Year

    2

    BEST FILM

    i

    Agneepath

    ii

    Barfi

    iii

    English Vinglish

    iv

    Kahaani

    v

    Paan Singh Tomar

    3

    BEST ACTOR – FEMALE

    i

    Deepika Padukone- Cocktail

    ii

    Kareena Kapoor- Talaash

    iii

    Priyanka Chopra- Barfi

    iv

    Sridevi- English Vinglish

    v

    Vidya Balan- Kahaani

    4

    BEST ACTOR – MALE

    i

    Irrfan Khan –           Paan Singh Tomar

    ii

    Hritik Roshan-          Agneepath

    iii

    Ranbir Kapoor-        Barfi

    iv

    Shah Rukh Khan-    Jab Tak Hai Jaan

    v

    Salman Khan-        Dabang 2
  • Dan Wolman and Nitin Kakkar get best film awards at first DIFF

    Dan Wolman and Nitin Kakkar get best film awards at first DIFF

    NEW DELHI: Noted Israel filmmaker Dan Wolman’s Film ‘Valley of Strength‘ and Indian director Nitin Kakkar’s film ‘Filmistaan‘ were awarded as the Best Films at the first Delhi International Film Festival.

    Renowned telecaster Shoib Ilyasi’s film ‘498-A Wedding Gift‘ on false cases relating to dowry and Nitin Tiwari’s ‘Rajula’ received the Best Audience Choice Awards.

    Veteran actor and theatre artist Zohra Sehgal was awarded the Minar-E-Dilli award and thespian Sharmila Tagore was honoured with the Life Time Achievement Award for her immense contribution in films.

    The best film under the NRI section went to Sangeeta Nambiyar‘s film ‘The Gran Plan‘ from Singapore and ‘Cinema for the People‘ won the award in the documentary section. Under animation section, Suraj Bashisht from India got an award for his film ‘Bravo‘. The Art section award went to Bharti Dixit for her paintings and to Harminder Singh for his unique sculptures.

    A total of 174 films from 32 countries including at least twenty per cent from the SAARC countries were screened at the Festival. The best amongst selected films were honoured with the Golden Minar and Silver Minar awards respectively.

    DIFF founder president and senior journalist Ram Kishore Parcha said the festival had been timed to coincide with 100 years of Indian cinema and a century of Delhi as the capital of India.

    Parcha said there had been a vacuum of an international film festival since the International Film Festival of India was shifted to Goa, and there was also a need to have a filmmaking hub in north India. This festival fulfilled these needs.

    There were as many as sixteen films from Pakistan with ‘Lamha‘ being the closing film. The Polish film ‘80 Million‘ by Waldemar Krzystek was the opening film.

    Festival secretary K Goswami who is a filmmaker himself announced that a film library of DVDs of classics was being established at the Indian Media and Communication Centre in Gautam Nagar in south Delhi.

    Classic Films from Overseas and India were included as special sections along with Delhi Scope section in the festival. Retrospective, Tributes and Homage sections included films of Dev Anand, Balraj Sahni and other legendary filmmakers and actors. This section also included films of Adoor Gopalakrishnan and the distinguished actor Soumitra Chatterjee from Bengal.

    A special section called NRI Cinema had been included in the festival. Under this section at least 15 films by Non Resident Indians living in different parts of the world were showcased.

    The organizations that partnered with the festival are Broadway International Film Festival, Los Angeles, South Cinema South Film Festival, and JMT from Israel, Slade school of fine arts, London, Film factory china, Turkish Film Industry, Cinetech Nationale Mexico, Brazil films, Media Box Bangladesh, Hunarkada from Pakistan, Film Boutique from Germany, Second largest Nantes film festival of France and French cultural centre.

  • Salman magic works on the box office yet again

    Salman magic works on the box office yet again

    MUMBAI: There were no releases on the last Friday of 2012 leaving the week open for Salman Khan starrer Dabangg2. The film, which was given an exhaustive release with as many as 3,500 screens and multiple shows per day as well as an increase in admission rates, collected Rs 995 million in its first week.

    While the number of screens remained high in the second week, the ticket rates were pared to the normal. The film has collected about Rs 190 million taking its 10-day total to Rs 1.16 billion. The film is the sequel to Dabangg which released in 2011. The second instalment of Chulbul Pandey‘s heroics is also the debut ground for Salman Khan‘s brother Arbaaz Khan. The 2011 film was directed by Abhinav Kashyap.

    Akshay Kumar and Asin starrer Khiladi 786 added Rs 11.5 million to its tally in its third week taking its total to 647.5 million.

    Amir Khan’s suspense thriller Talaash collected Rs 10.5 million in its fourth week taking its total collection to Rs 938.1 million.

    The first Friday of January is as a rule avoided by major filmmakers as the record over the years has been that a film released on the day turns out a flop. However, the first Friday of 2013 has four films lined up for release of which one, Table No 21, holds some interest due to the presence of Paresh Rawal in the cast. The exhibition trade, however, holds more hope from 11 January when Vishal Bhardwaj’s Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola is slated for release along with Kamal Haasan’s Vishwaroopam.

  • Dabangg 2 is opening attraction of Mukta Arts’ multiplex in Gulbarga

    Dabangg 2 is opening attraction of Mukta Arts’ multiplex in Gulbarga

    MUMBAI: After four screens in Vadodara and an equal number of screens in Ahmedabad, the third multiplex of Mukta Arts Limited successfully began its operations at Gulbarga under brand name Mukta A2 Cinemas with Dabangg-2, Sarocharu (Telugu) and Yaare Kugadali (Kannada) as its opening attractions.

    Located at the heart of the city, the three screens multiplex has 1252 seats and has a 2K Digital with 3D projection system which is first of its kind in Gulbarga. It also boasts of hi-tech Dolby Digital surround sound.

    Subhash Ghai said, "I am happy the way our company Mukta Arts is heading faster in exhibition Division too along with our production house this year and was more happy when my friend‘s Salman khan biggest blockbuster ‘DABBANGG 2‘ opened its release with our new multiplex at beautiful city like Gulbarga."

    After Gulbarga, Mukta Arts Limited is all set to launch multiplexes at Vishakhapatnam, Sangli, Raipur, Aurangabad and Bhopal shortly. Negotiations are also going on for locations such as Mumbai, Thane, Panvel, Gurgaon among others. This will add around 30 screens to the existing 15 screens.

    The above multiplexes are in addition to around 170 theatres (approx. 425 screens) across the country.

  • Dharma Productions launches Facebook application

    Dharma Productions launches Facebook application

    MUMBAI: Keeping in mind the popularity of its filmy characters, Dharma Productions has come up with a unique Facebook application to celebrate this festive season.

    The application allows their fans to wish their friends and family in Dharma style. The user gets an option to choose from the ten most iconic Dharma characters and type out a wish for their friend or loved one.

    This application that got live on the eve of Christmas has till yet got a spectacular response as Dharma fans are making the most of it in this celebratory season.

    Over the years, Dharma Productions has been giving some of the most loved and unforgettable characters. Be it the tomboyish Anjali of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, the stylish Poo from Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham or the selfless Aman of Kal Ho Naa Ho, the characters have left behind an everlasting impression in the minds of the audience at large.

    Dharma Productions holds a strong digital presence and gives its fans a lot to look forward to every festive season.

  • Kerala academy plans web magazine on Malayalam films

    Kerala academy plans web magazine on Malayalam films

    MUMBAI: After it successfully conducted the 17th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) early this month, the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy plans to launch an online magazine providing news and features about the film industry in the state.

    The web magazine would offer extensive coverage on the Malayalam film industry showcasing news relating to art and mainstream films, academy sources said. It would be developed by the state-owned Centre for Development of Imaging Technology (C-DIT).

    The features proposed for the site include a review section and industry news. News on latest releases and ongoing projects, academy activities, technology update, market analysis and columns by critics and filmmakers would also figure in the site.

    With a view to encouraging marketing of Malayalam films by new filmmakers, previews of their films would be posted on the website, it is gathered.

    Reviews of books on films would also be available on the website.