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  • YRF’s Lafangey Parindey to release on 20 August

    MUMBAI: Yash Raj Films‘ Lafangey Parindey will release on 20 August.
    The film, produced by Aditya Chopra and directed by Pradeep Sarkar, has Neil Nitin Mukesh and Deepika Padukone in the lead.


    The film is a gritty romance set on the streets of Mumbai and is rumoured to be about bike gangs of Mumbai. This required Neil to engage in serious and authentic fights on the streets.


    Lafangey Parindey will be Sarkar‘s second film with the YRF banner. He had earlier directed Laaga Chunari Mein Daag.


    Sarkar‘s first film was the Saif Ali Khan and Vidya Balan starrer Parineeta, based on the novel by Sharatchandra Chattopadhya.

  • Karlovy Vary Film festival to felicitate Nikita Mikhalkov

    MUMBAI: The 45th International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary will present the Crystal Globe to 64-year old Nikita Mikhalkov for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema.


    Slovak-born filmmaker Juraj Herz would also receive the lifeime achievement award for his contribution to cinema.British film and theatre actor Jude Law will be bestowed the festival president‘s award.


    This year‘s festival in Karlovy Vary will present 180 full-length feature filmsof which some 50 films will have their world or international premiere.


    While twelve films will be in the main feature film competition, 16 films have been shortlisted for the documentary competition.


    The main jury will be chaired by US producer Ron Yerxa who produced the historical film Cold Mountain (2003) with Jude Law and Nicole Kidman.

  • Pietro and L.A. Zombie to premiere at Locarno

    MUMBAI: This year‘s Locarno Film Festival will see the world premiere of Daniele Gagliacone‘s drama Pietro and Canadian Bruce La Bruce‘s L.A. Zombie.


    The two films are among an estimated 20 others that will compete for Locarno‘s prestigious Pardo d‘Oro (Golden leopard) award. 


    Pietro is the third full-length feature from Gagliacone, who came onto the Italian film scene six years ago after winning the award for his first feature in Venice for Nemmeno il destino.


    This will be Gagliacone‘s second appearance in Locarno. Earlier he was there for the screening of his documentary Rata Nece Biti in 2008.


    The international screening of L.A. Zombie will coincide with the first visit of noted photographer and underground pornography figure La Bruce.


    The 63rd edition of the Locarno festival is set for Aug. 4-14.

  • Prakash Jha’s next project is Aarakshan

    MUMBAI: Even as his film Raajneeti is attracting audiences, Prakash Jha has announced his next project Aarakshan.


    The film, based on the issue of job reservations and student politics, stars Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgn and Manoj Bajpayee in lead roles. 


    While Devgan and Bajpayee featured in Raajneeti, it is the first time that Jha would be working with Bachchan.


    It is speculated that Katrina Kaif may also feature in the film.


    Like Raajneeti, Aarakshan would be also shot in Bhopal.

  • MPA and APSA create $100,000 film fund

    MUMBAI: The Motion Picture Association (MPA) and the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) have created a new $100,000 film fund for the cause of development funding for features each year from the Asia Pacific region. ?


    Announcing the creating of the Fund at the recently concluded Shanghai Film Festival, the partners said that the fund was intended to stimulate production in the region, particularly at the development phase among the 70 countries embraced by APSA. 


    Grants of $25,000 each, will be allocated to the script development of four new film projects.


    Recipients of the MPA-APSA Academy Film Fund money will be members of the APSA Academy, a body of filmmakers comprising of past APSA nominees, winners, jury and nominations council members. ?


    The first recipients will be selected by a panel of industry experts and announced at the fourth annual APSA ceremony, scheduled to take place in Australia on 2 December.


    Among those eligible are feature films, children‘s features, animated features and feature length documentaries with a synopsis or treatment that have a producer, director or screenwriter attached at the time of submission.


    Submissions for the first round of grants from the new fund will open on 31 July. 31.
     

  • Dreamworks to make The Good Luck Trolls

    MUMBAI: In an agreement with Denmark‘s Dam Things, DreamWorks Animation (DWA) will develop an animated feature The Good Luck Trolls.


    In 1959, the troll doll was created by Danish fisherman and woodcutter Thomas Dam, when he carved a doll based on Scandinavian trolls for his daughter Lajla. The toy line gained popularity in Europe and the US during the early ‘60s thus becoming a fad embraced by kids and the counter-culture.


    Because Dam Things lost control of its copyright after failing to comply with US laws, imitators flooded the market in the ‘70s and ‘80s. But soon after a 1994 Congressional law that restored copyright protection to a number of foreign works, the Dam family regained authority.


    In striking the deal with DWA, Niels Dam, the dollmaker‘s son said, “My father would have been very happy to know that his Troll has found its dream partner in DreamWorks Animation.”


    Said DWA head of development Alex Schwartz, “We look forward to working alongside Dam Things to build on the mythology of the Good Luck Trolls while delivering the sense of adventure, heart and comedy that DreamWorks Animation is known for.”
     

  • Two releases set for the big screen this week

    MUMBAI: This week will see the release of two diametrically opposite films Krantiveer –The Revolution and Mr Singh & Mrs Mehta. 


    Krantiveer – The revolution, touted as a sequel to the 1994 Nana Patekar-Dimple Kapadia starrer Krantiveer, is a medium budget film that will release all over the country in around 450 to 500 screens. The film stars Sameer Aftab and Jahan Bloch and evolves around the theme that in the post-Independence era there is still much to achieve and people still “await the morning.”


    Manu Kumaran’s small-budget film Mr Singh & Mrs Mehta, on the other hand, will release in 47 screens mostly those of PVR. Starring Prashant Narayanan and Aruna Shields, the film is a story of two people – Ashwin and Neera – who find their spouses having an affair. Drawn together by shame and anger, they find comfort in their growing friendship even as they resolve not to be like their unfaithful mates.
     

  • Pyramid Saimira: Trading ban on Saminathan continues

    MUMBAI: Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has decided not to withdraw the ban order against Chennai-based Pyramid Saimira Theatre Ltd (PSTL) MD PS Saminathan.


    Sebi had imposed interim direction on Saminathan and other promoter Nirmal N Kotecha in April last year and had barred both from trading in securities till further notice. The regulator alleged PSTL for misconduct, forging a Sebi letter and of making misleading public announcements.


    Shortly thereafter, Saminathan had requested Sebi to withdraw interim directions. However, in its order on Monday, Sebi turned it down saying that it did not find Saminathan‘s explanation convincing.


    Saminathan explained that he had bought shares only for the purpose of raising money for PSTL. The Sebi also questioned Saminathan‘s announcement to the stock exchanges that he proposed to acquire 704.5 million shares of PSTL from promoters at Rs 200 a share. Sebi rejected Saminathan‘s submissions defending his actions “without merit”.


    In November last year the regulator banned PSTL for seven years from the market.
     

  • Anti-piracy team seizes 600 pirated discs of Raavan

    MUMBAI: Looks like the release date of Mani Ratnam‘s Raavan did not match the stars of the film.


    Not only has the film been getting a lukewarm reception at the box-office both nationally and internationally, its pirated prints were out on the day of its release on 18 June.


     
    If that were not enough, the anti-piracy cell of the Mumbai police along with A.A. Khan & Associates seized 600 pirated prints of Raavan in raids between 18 to 20 June.


    In a raid on 18 June at Andheri East, 1206 discs of Rajneeti, Kites, Prince of Persia were seized. In another raid on the following day at Dindoshi, a raiding party initially seized 300 prints of Raavan from an Activa bike that followed the seizure of several 6 in 1 DVDs of Raavan, Raajneeti, Prince of Persia, Kites, Ek Second ..Jo Zindagi Badal De and Badmaash Company among others. Again, in a raid on 20 June in Nalasopara, 314 discs of Raavan along with those of Rajneeti, Ironman 2, Prince of Persia and Kites were seized.

  • Mukta Arts bags rights of I Hate Luv Storys for Delhi, UP

    MUMBAI: UTV has sold the distribution rights of Karan Johar‘s I Hate Luv Storys to Mukta Arts for the territories of Delhi and Uttar Pradesh.


    Says Mukta Arts CEO Ravi Gupta, “Since we are strong on the distribution front in places like Delhi, UP and Punjab, we were more inclined to get the distribution rights of the film in these areas.”


    I Hate Luv Storys, starring Imran Khan and Sonam Kapoor, is a romantic comedy produced by Dharma Productions and UTV Motion Pictures and is directed by debutante Punit Malhotra.


    The film is scheduled to release on 2 July