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  • Leading Korean filmmaker impressed by Rajini ‘Robot’; keen to co-produce with India

    Leading Korean filmmaker impressed by Rajini ‘Robot’; keen to co-produce with India

    NEW DELHI: Critically-acclaimed Korean filmmaker Kim Jee-Woon, whose action thriller ‘The Age of Shadows’ is the Closing Film for the International Film Festival of India, said it would “surely be great” to incorporate elements of cinema from both countries into each other’s films.

    Addressing the media in Panaji, he said he would like to mix the elements of Indian cinema like humour and other real life emotions into Korean films, he added.

    Kim said he has been greatly inspired by the stalwarts of Indian cinema like Satyajit Ray and his films like Pather Panchali and Aparajita among others. They have had a major impression on his style of film making. He would like to collaborate with the Indian film industry to make films on history and the Independence struggle in both the countries, he added.

    Jee-woon, who led successful films like “I Saw the Devil”, “The Last Stand” and “The Good, the Bad, the Weird”, was highly impressed with the Tamil superstar Rajinikanth’s “Robot” and would love to make a film like that some mix of historical drama.

    Lead actor Song Kang-Ho said he is honoured that their film – which is also the South Korean entry in the Oscars – has been selected as the Closing Film at the IFFI 2016 and he is hopeful that the times to come would see more critically acclaimed films from both India and Korea being screened for the people in both the countries.

    Set in Seoul and Shanghai, during the Japanese occupation in the late 1920s, the film depicts an intense drama that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, on one side, and Japanese agents trying to stop them, on the other. A talented Korean-born Japanese police officer, who was previously in the independence movement himself, is thrown into a dilemma between the demands of his reality and the instinct to support a greater cause.

    Kim said his film is not an attempt to show action and violence on the screen but to depict intense emotions associated with the Korean Independence struggle against the Japanese occupation. He informed that he has tried his best to show these emotions through special sound effects and the ability of his actors to emote them on the screen.

  • Bhojpuri Cinema now available on Tata Sky and Den Network

    Bhojpuri Cinema now available on Tata Sky and Den Network

    The No.1 Bhojpuri Movie Channel – Bhojpuri Cinema,hasstrengthened its distribution with India’s leading Direct to air platform – Tata sky. With Tata Sky,Bhojpuri Cinema will now benefit with deep penetration across the regions of the country. This move will gradually fortify the channel’s position in other markets also, making it easily available for discerning viewers throughout the country.

    Bhojpuri Cinema is now available on Tata sky Channel No. 1115.

    Apart from the new DTH entry, the channel is also now available on Den network in the state of UP/Uttarakhand,Bihar & Jharkhand on channel number 827.

    With these associations, Bhojpuri Cinema will mark the beginning of new prospects for the channel in terms of increased viewership, new audience base, robust expansion plan, etc. The channel will engage with viewers and trade partners locally and nationally through a multimedia campaign across multiple platforms.

    Amongst the Bhojpuri regional channel in Bihar & Jharkhand, Bhojpuri cinema derives a 26 percent of market share in 4 plus TG.

    Bhojpuri Cinema is the only Bhojpuri channel that delivers round the clock entertainment with the scheduling of 42 fresh Bhojpuri movies every week including world television premiers. Its library of over 350 Bhojpuri movies is the biggest Bhojpuri movie library of the world.

    Bhojpuri Cinema is available across DTH platforms such as Tata Sky,Airtel, DD Free Dish, Dish TV along with all cable operators of the region.

    Speaking on the occasion, Enter 10 Television Pvt. Ltd, Founder and Managing Director, Mr. Manish Singhal said, “We are happy to announce our availability on Tata Sky and Den Network, which allows the channel to immediately grow its reach across the geography. We are confident that our content will be thoroughly enjoyed by the new audiences, further enhancing our reach and position. Strengthening our distribution is a strategic move which will not only widen our audience base and popularity but will also give better value to our advertisers.”

    Enter 10 Television Pvt. Ltd. (ETPL) is an Indian media and entertainment company based in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. The company’s founder and managing director is Mr. Manish Singhal. The Company has 4 channels serving Indian content across India. Enter 10 Television Pvt. Ltd. was incorporated 11 March 2004. Enterr10 Television, the flagship channel of Enter10 Television Pvt. Ltd. was launched in October 2006. Then it came out with three channels namely Dangal, which is a General Entertainment channel, Bhojpuri Cinema, which is a 24 hours Bhojpuri Movie channel &Fakt Marathi , which is a 24 hours Marathi Movie channel.

  • Bhojpuri Cinema now available on Tata Sky and Den Network

    Bhojpuri Cinema now available on Tata Sky and Den Network

    The No.1 Bhojpuri Movie Channel – Bhojpuri Cinema,hasstrengthened its distribution with India’s leading Direct to air platform – Tata sky. With Tata Sky,Bhojpuri Cinema will now benefit with deep penetration across the regions of the country. This move will gradually fortify the channel’s position in other markets also, making it easily available for discerning viewers throughout the country.

    Bhojpuri Cinema is now available on Tata sky Channel No. 1115.

    Apart from the new DTH entry, the channel is also now available on Den network in the state of UP/Uttarakhand,Bihar & Jharkhand on channel number 827.

    With these associations, Bhojpuri Cinema will mark the beginning of new prospects for the channel in terms of increased viewership, new audience base, robust expansion plan, etc. The channel will engage with viewers and trade partners locally and nationally through a multimedia campaign across multiple platforms.

    Amongst the Bhojpuri regional channel in Bihar & Jharkhand, Bhojpuri cinema derives a 26 percent of market share in 4 plus TG.

    Bhojpuri Cinema is the only Bhojpuri channel that delivers round the clock entertainment with the scheduling of 42 fresh Bhojpuri movies every week including world television premiers. Its library of over 350 Bhojpuri movies is the biggest Bhojpuri movie library of the world.

    Bhojpuri Cinema is available across DTH platforms such as Tata Sky,Airtel, DD Free Dish, Dish TV along with all cable operators of the region.

    Speaking on the occasion, Enter 10 Television Pvt. Ltd, Founder and Managing Director, Mr. Manish Singhal said, “We are happy to announce our availability on Tata Sky and Den Network, which allows the channel to immediately grow its reach across the geography. We are confident that our content will be thoroughly enjoyed by the new audiences, further enhancing our reach and position. Strengthening our distribution is a strategic move which will not only widen our audience base and popularity but will also give better value to our advertisers.”

    Enter 10 Television Pvt. Ltd. (ETPL) is an Indian media and entertainment company based in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. The company’s founder and managing director is Mr. Manish Singhal. The Company has 4 channels serving Indian content across India. Enter 10 Television Pvt. Ltd. was incorporated 11 March 2004. Enterr10 Television, the flagship channel of Enter10 Television Pvt. Ltd. was launched in October 2006. Then it came out with three channels namely Dangal, which is a General Entertainment channel, Bhojpuri Cinema, which is a 24 hours Bhojpuri Movie channel &Fakt Marathi , which is a 24 hours Marathi Movie channel.

  • ‘Visanarai’ to represent India at Oscars

    ‘Visanarai’ to represent India at Oscars

    NEW DELHI: The Tamil film ‘Visanarai’ (Interrogation) will represent India at the American Academy of Motion Pictures (Oscars) awards next year. This was announced by the selection committee set up by the Film Federation of India in Hyderabad.

    The film has been directed by Vetrimaaran, and will compete in the foreign language competition category. The film is about a group of immigrants who are forced by the police to confess to a crime they did not commit.

    Produced by Wunderbar and Grass Root Film Company, the film stars Samuthirakani, Dinesh, Anandhi and Murugadass.

    The film won the Amnesty International Italia Award at Venice in 2015. It bagged awards for best Tamil feature, best supporting actor for Samuthirakani, and best editing for T I Kishore in the National Film Awards in May this year.

    India has been nominated three times – “Mother India” (1957), “Salaam Bombay” (1989), and “Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India” (2002).

    Indians working in foreign films or international films made by Indians have won Oscars. These include Richard Attenborough’s ‘Gandhi’ in which costumes award went to Bhanu Athaiya, Shekhar Kapoor’s ‘Elizabeth’ which won several awards, and ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ which won A R Rahman two Oscars for the song ‘Jai Ho’ penned by Gulzar.

  • ‘Visanarai’ to represent India at Oscars

    ‘Visanarai’ to represent India at Oscars

    NEW DELHI: The Tamil film ‘Visanarai’ (Interrogation) will represent India at the American Academy of Motion Pictures (Oscars) awards next year. This was announced by the selection committee set up by the Film Federation of India in Hyderabad.

    The film has been directed by Vetrimaaran, and will compete in the foreign language competition category. The film is about a group of immigrants who are forced by the police to confess to a crime they did not commit.

    Produced by Wunderbar and Grass Root Film Company, the film stars Samuthirakani, Dinesh, Anandhi and Murugadass.

    The film won the Amnesty International Italia Award at Venice in 2015. It bagged awards for best Tamil feature, best supporting actor for Samuthirakani, and best editing for T I Kishore in the National Film Awards in May this year.

    India has been nominated three times – “Mother India” (1957), “Salaam Bombay” (1989), and “Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India” (2002).

    Indians working in foreign films or international films made by Indians have won Oscars. These include Richard Attenborough’s ‘Gandhi’ in which costumes award went to Bhanu Athaiya, Shekhar Kapoor’s ‘Elizabeth’ which won several awards, and ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ which won A R Rahman two Oscars for the song ‘Jai Ho’ penned by Gulzar.

  • Eros International & makers of Belaseshe unite to release Bengali film Praktan across India

    Eros International & makers of Belaseshe unite to release Bengali film Praktan across India

    Mumbai, May 12, 2016: Following the unprecedented success of Belaseshe, Eros International, a leading global company in the Indian film entertainment industry, joins hands with directors Shiboprasad Mukherjee and Nandita Roy, the makers of Belaseshe, once again to release Bengali film Praktan (Former) starring the biggest stars of the Bengali film industry—Prosenjit Chatterjee and Rituparna Sengupta—across India on May 27. Praktan is the first Bengali film to be released nationally and internationally on same day.

    Directed by Shiboprasad Mukherjee and Nandita Roy, the romantic drama that beautifully captures the importance of memories, will bring together Prosenjit Chatterjee and Rituparna Sengupta after 15 years. The film also stars Soumitra Chatterjee, Sabitri Chatterjee, Anupam Roy, Anindya Chaterjee among others. The popular singer, lyricist and music director, Anupam Roy, of Piku fame, will be debuting as an actor in this film.

    Eros anticipates a universal appeal for this film among discerning audiences across India, therefore, apart from Bangalore, Delhi NCR, Mumbai and Pune, the company also plans to release Praktan in newer markets across India.

    Commenting on the vast pan India release, Nandu Ahuja, Senior VP, India Theatricals, Eros International said, “We want to open up markets for Bengali films across the country, enter untapped, newer territories such as Baroda, Patna, Indore, Bhopal, Kanpur, Lucknow and Chandigarh. We are happy to unite with Shiboprasad Mukherjee and Nandita Roy once again after the tremendous success of Belaseshe. With the biggest stars in the Bengali industry, hit music and an intriguing story, I am sure Praktan will woo audiences across India.”

    Director Shiboprasad Mukherjee added, “After Belaseshe, we are associating with Eros yet again and together for the first time we will bring Praktan, a Bengali film to the national and international audience on the same day as Kolkata. We are grateful to Eros for their support for Bengali cinema.”

  • Eros International & makers of Belaseshe unite to release Bengali film Praktan across India

    Eros International & makers of Belaseshe unite to release Bengali film Praktan across India

    Mumbai, May 12, 2016: Following the unprecedented success of Belaseshe, Eros International, a leading global company in the Indian film entertainment industry, joins hands with directors Shiboprasad Mukherjee and Nandita Roy, the makers of Belaseshe, once again to release Bengali film Praktan (Former) starring the biggest stars of the Bengali film industry—Prosenjit Chatterjee and Rituparna Sengupta—across India on May 27. Praktan is the first Bengali film to be released nationally and internationally on same day.

    Directed by Shiboprasad Mukherjee and Nandita Roy, the romantic drama that beautifully captures the importance of memories, will bring together Prosenjit Chatterjee and Rituparna Sengupta after 15 years. The film also stars Soumitra Chatterjee, Sabitri Chatterjee, Anupam Roy, Anindya Chaterjee among others. The popular singer, lyricist and music director, Anupam Roy, of Piku fame, will be debuting as an actor in this film.

    Eros anticipates a universal appeal for this film among discerning audiences across India, therefore, apart from Bangalore, Delhi NCR, Mumbai and Pune, the company also plans to release Praktan in newer markets across India.

    Commenting on the vast pan India release, Nandu Ahuja, Senior VP, India Theatricals, Eros International said, “We want to open up markets for Bengali films across the country, enter untapped, newer territories such as Baroda, Patna, Indore, Bhopal, Kanpur, Lucknow and Chandigarh. We are happy to unite with Shiboprasad Mukherjee and Nandita Roy once again after the tremendous success of Belaseshe. With the biggest stars in the Bengali industry, hit music and an intriguing story, I am sure Praktan will woo audiences across India.”

    Director Shiboprasad Mukherjee added, “After Belaseshe, we are associating with Eros yet again and together for the first time we will bring Praktan, a Bengali film to the national and international audience on the same day as Kolkata. We are grateful to Eros for their support for Bengali cinema.”

  • India’s Marathi film ‘Court’ out of Oscar race

    India’s Marathi film ‘Court’ out of Oscar race

    MUMBAI: The National Award winning Marathi film Court, which was India’s official entry to the Oscars, is out of the Best Foreign-Language Film category for the upcoming 88th Academy Awards.

     

    Nine features will advance to the next round of voting in the Foreign Language Film category for the 88th Academy Awards. A total of 80 films had originally been considered in the category.

     

    The nine films that have made the cut for the Best Foreign-Language Film category are as follows:Belgium’s The Brand New Testament directed by Jaco Van Dormael; Colombia’s Embrace of the Serpent directed by Ciro Guerra; Denmark’s A War directed by Tobias Lindholm; Finland’s The Fencer directed by Klaus Härö; France’s Mustang directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven; Germany’sLabyrinth of Lies directed by Giulio Ricciarelli; Hungary’s Son of Saul directed by László Nemes; Ireland’s Viva directed by Paddy Breathnach and Jordan’s Theeb directed by Naji Abu Nowar.

     

    Foreign Language Film nominations for 2015 are being determined in two phases.

     

    The Phase I committee, consisting of several hundred Los Angeles-based Academy members, screened the original submissions in the category between mid-October and 14 December. The group’s top six choices, augmented by three additional selections voted by the Academy’s Foreign Language Film Award Executive Committee, constitute the shortlist.

     

    The shortlist will be winnowed down to the category’s five nominees by specially invited committees in New York, Los Angeles and London.  They will spend 8 January through 10 January, viewing three films each day and then casting their ballots.

     

    The 88th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on 14 January, 2016 at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.

  • Eros to co-produce Marathi film with Ravi Jadhav

    Eros to co-produce Marathi film with Ravi Jadhav

    MUMBAI: Eros International has joined hands with Ravi Jadhav Films to co-produce a Marathi movie titled &.

     

    An emotional family drama, & is being directed by Prakash Kunte, who has earlier directed Coffee Ani Barach Kahi.

     

    The new film is a touching tale of a family caught in the whirlpool of emotions; a dilemma to choose between the mind and the heart.

     

    Eros International producer Krishika Lulla says, “We are happy to be associating with one of the finest film makers from the Marathi film industry, Ravi Jadhav for the upcoming movie &. We at Eros, believe that Marathi entertainment is witnessing a continual growth and the audiences are now open to new and fresh concepts and by joining hands with leading film makers like Ravi Jadhav and Prakash Kunte, we only want to strengthen this thought further.”

     

    Jadhav added, “& is a heartwarming tale of the complicated human relationships between a mother and daughter and a son and the father. The title, aptly named so defines the connection between the myriad of emotions of individuals and how that affects their life further on. It is an absolute pleasure to be associated with Eros International, who have shown belief in my vision and my content.”

     

    The movie features Mrinal Kulkarni, Siddharth Menon, Shivani Rangole and Indraneil Sengupta, who now makes his foray into Marathi entertainment. The film is set to go on floors on 5 November, 2015 in Mumbai.

  • Asianet Movies launches on Singapore’s StarHub TV

    Asianet Movies launches on Singapore’s StarHub TV

    MUMBAI: Malayalam movie channel Asianet Movies has launched on Singapore’s StarHub TV platform.

     

    Asianet Movies (StarHub TV channel 140), along with Malayalam general entertainment channel Asianet (StarHub TV channel 139) will form the new Nidhi Pack on the platform, which is available for a monthly subscription of $16.05.

     

    Asianet Movies, which carries over 1,000 titles, will showcase some latest movies like Ennum Eppozhum, Aadu Oru Beekara Jeeviyalla and Immanuel amongst others.

     

    “When StarHub launched Asianet some years back, local Malayalee households were able to enjoy quality content in their language on a dedicated channel. Today, we are pleased to enhance their viewing entertainment with the introduction of Asianet Movies,” said StarHub media business unit head Lee Soo Hui.

     

    “We are extremely pleased and excited to strengthen our offerings on StarHub TV with the launch of Asianet Movies, India’s first 24-hour Malayalam movie channel. The channel showcases the best of Malayalam movies and we are confident that the Malayalee Diaspora in Singapore will be excited by this addition,” said Asianet senior vice president Reghu Ramachandran.

     

    Additionally, to coincide with the Indian festival of Diwali, StarHub is offering both new and existing subscribers a 50 per cent discount for three months when they sign up for the Nidhi Pack between 29 October and 28 December.

     

    StarHub will offer a free preview of Asianet Movies from 9 am on 23 October to 12 pm on 16 November.