Category: Hindi

MUMBAI: Dunno Y… Na Jaane Kyun, directed by Sanjay Sharma, will be screened at the closing ceremony of the Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival.

The film stars Aryan Vaid, Maradona Rebello, Yuvraaj Parashar, Kapil Sharma, Zeenat Aman, Rituparna Sengupta and Helen.

The film stars Aryan Vaid, Maradona Rebello, Yuvraaj Parashar, Kapil Sharma, Zeenat Aman, Rituparna Sengupta and Helen. The film is scheduled to release on 3 May.

Twenty five countries from Europe, US, South Asia are participating in this festival.

The festival is being screened at mainstream theatres to make ‘homosexual culture‘ mainstream.
 

MUMBAI: Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey, co-produced by Ashutosh Gowariker Productions and PVR Pictures, is slated for a worldwide release on 3 December.

The film stars Abhishek Bachchan and Deepika Padukone along with Vishakha Singh, Samrat Mukherji, Sikander Kher, Maninder Singh, Feroz Wahid Khan and Shreyas Pandit. 

Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey is director Ashutosh Gowariker‘s first period thriller that is based on the book ‘Do And Die‘ by Manini Chatterjee. The film centres on the 1930s Chittagong Uprising.

Commenting on the association, PVR Limited directors Ajay Bijli and Sanjeev Kumar Bijli said, “Ashutosh Gowariker, an ace director and a creative genius known for his grandeur and scale in his story-telling style, promises to bring to the table story-lines of a historic event that has never been told before. A truly inspirational movie, that we all felt should be seen by the current generation. This film is very much in line with our philosophy to touch, move and inspire audiences through the language of films.”

MUMBAI: Producer Amit Chheda and writer-director Amit Rai‘s Road To Sangam has added one more feather to it‘s already well decorated cap.

The film has now won the best narrative award at The White Sands International Film Festival, USA.

Speaking to indiantelevision.com, Chheda says, “We are very happy at the announcement. It is indeed encouraging. I am keeping my fingers crossed as my film is likely to feature at the Swan Seaday Film Festival in the UK that goes underway on 16 May and also at the London Indian Film Festival, happening in July.”

The film, produced under the Shethia Audio Video banner, stars Om Puri and Paresh Rawal in main lead along with Javed Shaikh, Swati Chitnis, Pawan Malhotra, GP Singh,Rajan Bhise, Sudhir Nema, Rakesh Srivastava, Masood Akhtar, Vijay Mishra and Yusuf Hussain.
 

MUMBAI: International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards will be held in Sri Lanka this year.

The three-day event will be held from 3 to 5 June in Colombo.

Sri Lanka is set to host the three-day International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) event from 3 to 5 June in Colombo.

The awards, first staged in 2000, are held outside India every year in an effort to increase the international profile of Bollywood films.

IIFA brand ambassador Amitabh Bachchan hopes the decision to bring the event to Colombo – that comes after the end of the island‘s long civil war last year — would encourage collaboration.

“This is a very rare and wonderful opportunity for Sri Lanka. Thanks to the prevailing peace, Sri Lanka has received international recognition,” said Duleep Mudadeniya, who heads the tourism bureau.

After the first IIFA awards in London, Hindi cinema ticket sales grew 35 per cent in Britain over the following six months, organisers said. Other cities where the IIFA has been held earlier include Bangkok, Macau, Johannesburg and Amsterdam.

MUMBAI: The first Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival will be held from 22 to 25 April in a span of which 110 queer films from 25 countries will be screened.

All the films screened will highlight gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender characters and stories, exploring issues, dilemmas, joys and sorrows that make up queer experiences and expressions in India and globally. 

Apart from film screenings, the festival will also feature panel discussions, music video launch and filmmaker interfaces.

The festival will be screened at two venues – PVR Cinema, Juhu, and Alliance Francaise, Marine Lines.
 

MUMBAI: The third part of Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision‘s Golmaal series will release in Diwali this year. 

Golmaal 3, inspired by the 1978 film Khatta Meetha, follows Mithun Chakraborty and Ratna Pathak Shah‘s characters as they decide to become involved. The interaction between their children is the crux of this comedy.

Directed by Rohit Shetty, the film stars Ajay Devgn, Kareena Kapoor, Arshad Warsi, Tusshar Kapoor, Shreyas Talpade, Kunal Khemu and Johnny Lever.

The film is currently in its second shooting schedule in Goa.
 

MUMBAI: Two films from two diagonally opposite genres release on the same day and walk the diagonally opposite course to the box-office.

While Eros‘ Paathshaala is an emotional drama that sets out to tackle social issues, Ram Gopal Varma‘s Phoonk 2 is a supernatural film.

A timely movie, Paathshaala comes at a time when commercialisation has taken over the educational system and immoral and unethical practices are rampant, affecting young minds.

The film opened to a mixed response, with some multiplexes registering 40 per cent footfalls, while at some occupancy was lower than expected.

But for the screenplay that goes out of touch towards the end, the film could have stood a chance for a tax-free tag.

The second release, Phoonk 2, fails to muster the right opening. A sequel always comes with a bigger baggage and people hope a lot out of it, since its original was successful.

But the RGV venture lacks the chills, thrills and screams that were the mainstay of the first version.

Though the film is well-written, director Milind Gadagkar fails to handle the film properly. Phoonk 2 is a good idea but goes down the drain and fails to be remembered.

Though we have six films – Muskura Ke Dekh Zara, Crime Partner, Apartment, Do Dilo Ke Khel Mein, Mumbai 118 and Kuch Kariye – lined up for this Friday, no business is likely because of the last four IPL matches being shown in multiplexes in 3D from 22 April.
 

MUMBAI: Dar Motion Pictures, the producer of Lalbaug Parel and City Of Gold, is planning to make a sequel of the film in both Hindi and Marathi.

“The collections for the first week of the Marathi version Lalbag Parel, were between Rs 160 to 180 million across Maharashtra,” said Dar Motion Pictures chairman and producer Arun Rangachari. 

“Mahesh Manjrekar would be directing the sequels as well. It might be another real life story related to Mumbai, though nothing has been finalised yet”, he added.

Meanwhile, Dar Motion Pictures is eagerly waiting for the Hindi version of City of Gold to release.
 

MUMBAI: Ashutosh Gowariker, who mesmerised both Indian and international audiences with his epic films and won numerous awards, will now be the proud winner of the Raj Kapoor special contribution state award.

The award will be given to him on 27 April by Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chauhan at a function to be held at the Gateway of India in Mumbai. 

Earlier, Gowariker was nominated for an Academy and an European Film Award. He has won a number of other awards, including a National Film Award, five Filmfare Awards and seven international film festival awards.

The Raj Kapoor Award, given by the state government, honours achievers from the Hindi film industry.

NEW DELHI: Saregama India’s home production The Japanese Wife, directed by Aparna Sen, is scheduled to be screened at The International Festival of Independent Cinema in Krakow in Poland.

The Amitabh Bachchan-Abhishek Bachchan-Vidya Balan starrer Paa will also be screened at the event which concludes on 25 April.

The Japanese Wife is in English, Japanese, and Bengali. The film, starring Rahul Bose, Raima Sen, Japanese actress Chigusa Takaku and veteran actress Moushumi Chatterjee, is based on Kunal Basu’s book of the same name. It is the story of an Indian who befriends a Japanese woman as a pen-friend and this gradually grows into more than mere friendship.

Rahul Bose had earlier worked with Aparna Sen in Mr. & Mrs. Iyer and 15th Park Avenue.

Another film, Ek Tho Chance, directed by renowned filmmaker Saeed Akhtar Mirza, has been selected for the 23rd Singapore International Film Festival being held from 15 to 24 April in the Cinema Today section. After Singapore, Ek Tho Chance will travel to London where it has been invited by Cary Sawhney, Director of the very 1st edition of the London Indian Film Festival in July.

The Singapore Festival presents movies from drama to comedy to documentaries that depict the realities of today and are made by some of the world’s most watched filmmakers. This comes close on the heels of 43rd Worldfest Houston where the film has also been selected and nominated for the prestigious Remi award.

“Cinema Today is about a modern interpretation of global issues and although Ek Tho Chance, produced by Pritish Nandy Communications, is aimed at showing the hopeful, the aspirational and sometimes desperate lives of people in the city of Mumbai. We are convinced that people from all across the world would appreciate the efforts of director Mirza and his honesty towards the subject since Mumbai city is top of mind and on the world map after Slumdog Millionaire” says Festival Director Philip Cheah.

PNC Chairman Pritish Nandy said, “Ek Tho Chance is the reason why we are all here in this city. Everyone wants that impossible, incredible, life-changing break and Mumbai never says no. This is what Saeed’s new film is about. Hunting down that chance. Great filmmakers never fade away. After a 13-year hiatus, Saeed had an idea in his head and he was ready to get back on the streets with it and we’re thrilled that we chose to back his vision.”

Director Saeed Akhtar Mirza says, “Ek Tho Chance is a simple narrative but speaks volumes on human nature. The most difficult part of filmmaking is to depict a simple story in an extraordinary way. I am still learning the art of it.”

Mirza’s last festival outing before Ek Tho Chance was at the Cannes Director’s Fortnight for his film Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aata Hai in 1981.