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  • SonyLIV celebrates the season of love this valentine’s day

    SonyLIV celebrates the season of love this valentine’s day

    MUMBAI: ‘There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved’.

    Valentine’s Day is a serious affair for couples in love.  India’s first premium video on demand (VOD) service, SonyLIV, is all set to bring an exciting line up this Valentine’s Day. The OTT platform is giving a chance to its viewers to be engrossed in the season of love through movies, web originals, short films and romantic songs streaming live on the platform.

    Valentine’s Day is an excuse to binge watch your favourite movies with your loved ones making the entire experience worthwhile. SonyLIV is playing cupid by bringing non-stop romantic drama and captivating experiences for its viewers with movies like Aashiqui 2, Ram amongst others.  But why stop there, SonyLIV keeps you on the edge of your seat with some web originals that will make you binge watch romantic series like Lovebytes, Married Woman Diaries, The Good vibes, The Big Bong connection to name a few. SonyLIV even brings to its viewer’s short romantic films like Gulmohar, Guzaarish, Us & Them, Ansuni amongst others. How can a V’Day be complete without SonyLIV?

  • Max plays cupid this Valentine’s Day

    Max plays cupid this Valentine’s Day

    MUMBAI: This Valentine’s Day Sony Max brings to its viewers Ishq Wala Shanivaara a day-long movie festival of the best and much-loved Bollywood romantic movies. Airing on 14th February, the channel spreads the love with back to back romantic comedies and dramas promising a fun-filled joy ride for all die hard romantics.

    The movie marathon consists of handpicked fan favourites airing from 7am in the morning with ‘Shudd Desi Romance’, and culminating with Heropanti at 11pm. The romantic extravaganza consists of various love themed movies which showcase how love emerges victorious in spite of the odds.  ‘Ishq Wala Shanivaar’ will get television audiences acquainted with the different faces of love, from modern-day love (Shudd Desi Romance) to, tragic love (Aashiqui 2), love and friendship (Mujhse Dosti Karoge) to love across lifetimes (Magadheera) and love set against a violent landscape (Heropanti).

    Commenting on its Valentine’s Day Movie Festival, Neeraj Vyas, Sr. EVP & Business Head, MAX & MAX2 said, “The lineup of romantic movies that we have as part of our festival are extremely popular amongst our viewers and boast of popular star casts which  make the movie viewing experience an enjoyable one. Our movie festival enables viewers to experience Bollywood at its romantic best with movies that celebrate the spirit of Valentine’s Day.”

  • The Tata Motors IIFA Awards announce 2014 nominations

    The Tata Motors IIFA Awards announce 2014 nominations

    MUMBAI: Indian Cinema’s most spectacular awards outside of India, The Tata Motors International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards have declared the list of nominations (Popular category) for its 15th edition. The Videocon D2H IIFA Weekend will be held in Tampa Bay, Florida from April 23-26.

     
    2013 was a fantastic year at the Box-office. Amongst the major films of the year, bagging a maximum number of nods is the inspiring biopic of Milkha Singh, ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’ followed closely by the gun-fest, ‘Goliyon Ki Rasleela- Ramleela’ and the heart-wrenching ‘Aashiqui 2’ with 7 nominations each, while the Ranbir Kapoor starrer – Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewaani scored 6 nominations. Other notable films: Krrish 3, Chennai Express, Kai Po Che and The Lunchbox have been nominated across various award categories.

     
    It is a battle of superstars at the awards, as Shahrukh Khan (Chennai Express), Hrithik Roshan (Krrish 3), Ranbir Kapoor (Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewaani), Farhan Akhtar (Bhaag Milka Bhaag), Ranveer Singh (Goliyon Ki Rasleela-Ramleela) and newcomer Sushant Singh Rajput (Kai Po Che) get nominated for Performance in a Leading Role (Male) for exceptional work in their respective films.

     
    Stealing the limelight is the very beautiful Deepika Padukone with 3 nominations in Performance in a Leading Role (Female) category for her perfomance in last year’s smash hits Chennai Express, Goliyon Ki Rasleela- Ramleela and Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewaani. Equally impressive performers, Sonakshi Sinha (Lootera), Nimrat Kaur (The Lunchbox) and Shraddha Kapoor (Aashiqui 2) find themselves nominated in the category, as well.

     
    Best Director nominees include a host of celebrated filmmakers like Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Rakesh Roshan, Rohit Shetty, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra and Abhishek Kapoor. One of the most awaited awards, the Best Film category witnesses 2013’s runway success’s Dhoom 3, Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, Goliyon Ki Rasleela-Ramleela, Krrish 3, Kai Po Che, Chennai Express and Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, as they compete to win the much coveted title.

     
    The Videocon D2H IIFA Weekend is presented by Videocon D2H and the Tata Motors IIFA Awards is presented by Tata Motors. The IIFA Weekend &Awards will be broadcast globally on Star Plus, for the 10th year running.

  • Celebrate Love with Sony MAX

    Celebrate Love with Sony MAX

    MUMBAI: This Valentine’s day, Sony MAX, the premium Hindi movies and special events channel brings to you  five epic romantic flicks to keep the magic of love alive all day long. Feel the triumphs and tribulations in each of these movies with your loved ones.

    Qayamat Se QayamatTak (7:00 a.m.):A young man and young woman fall in love against their feuding fathers’ wishes; Romeo and Juliet set in 1980’s India. Will their love survive?

    MUJHSE DOSTI KAROGE (10:30 a.m.): When Raj leaves India to move to England with his family, he leaves behind childhood friend and crush Tina. Tina’s friend Pooja has a crush on Raj, which she manages to keep secret from both of them while keeping an email correspondence with Raj under Tina’s name. When Raj returns to India, he will find out the truth, but who will he choose?

    Mohabbatein (1:00 p.m.): Three young men arrive at a famous private school in India, headed by a stern headmaster named Narayan Shankar. The headmaster has instituted a strict anti-romance policy. Sameer, Vikram, Karan are the three men who are encouraged by Raj Aryan, their music teacherto follow their hearts. As the story unravels, the three boys fall in love and the relationship between the headmaster and the music teacher begins to become strained.Who wins in the end – Raj or Narayan? Do the three boys finally find their love?

    YehJawaani Hai Deewani (5:30 p.m.): YehJawaani Hai Deewani is the story of the relationship between two characters, Bunny &Naina, at two separate but defining times in their lives. First, when they are just out of college and standing on the crossroads of multiple decisions that will shape who and what they become and then later on, in their late-twenties when they meet again, holding on to certain fulfilled and certain unfulfilled dreams, at a crossroads of another nature this time. What does the future hold for both of them?

    Aashiqui 2 (9 p.m.): Aashiqui 2 movie is a musical love story of Rahul Jaykar a famous, successful and self-destructive and ArohiShirke an aspiring female singer. Believing in her talent, Rahul gives her a helping hand and her career begins to eclipse his. Arohi is ambitious to become a star while Rahul’s career is his defense against a self-destructive part of himself that has led him into outrageous bursts of drunkenness, drugs, love affairs, fights and adventures that have made him a legend. Will they accept their success and live life together?

     

  • Golden Kela nominates the most popular for the worst performance

    Golden Kela nominates the most popular for the worst performance

    MUMBAI: They are the heartthrobs of Bollywood and their movies were the highest grosser of 2013. But still, they couldn’t impress their critics much. We are talking about Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan, whose movies Chennai Express and Dhoom 3 earned in crores at the Box Office but have been nominated in the sixth edition of the Golden Kela Awards – the Indian version of the Raspberry Awards – that celebrates the worst of Bollywood.

     

    Interestingly, these two are not the only ones facing flak; many top notch actors of the industry are in the list. So while there’s Deepika Padukone for Chennai Express, Sonam Kapoor has been nominated for Raanjhana, and Sonakshi Sinha for R…Rajkumar.

     

    Golden Kela Awards founder Jatin Varma thinks that the movies that released this year gave the jury ample choice for the nominations. “It might be tough for the voters to decide which one was the absolute worst! This time the nominations were especially difficult, because Bollywood spewed out an incredible amount of crappy films and the Indian audience spent a large amount of money on them,” he remarked.

     

    To add spice to the show, a few new categories have been introduced that include special awards like Aakhir Kyun Award, Dara Singh Award for Worst Accent, Bas Kijiye Bahut Ho Gaya, Aap Yahaan Aaye Kisliye Award and Ra.One Award for Worst Premise. These awards will only be announced at the official awards ceremony that will take place on 29 March, 2014 at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.

     

    The  voting lines are opening on 1 February and one just needs to log on to www.goldenkela.com to check out the categories, nominees, updates and cast a vote.

     

    Here’s a full list of the nominations…

     

    Worst Actor (Male)

    Ajay Devgn for Himmatwala
    Ram Charan Teja for Zanjeer
    Imran Khan for Once Upon Ay Time In Mumbaai Dobara
    Aditya Roy Kapoor for Aashiqui 2
    Ranveer Singh for Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-leela
    Arjun Kapoor for Aurangzeb

     

    Worst Actor (Female)

    Shraddha Kapoor for Aashiqui 2
    Priyanka Chopra for Zanjeer
    Pallavi Sharda for Besharam
    Sonam Kapoor for Raanjhanaa
    Sonakshi Sinha for R…Rajkumar
    Deepika Padukone for Chennai Express

     

    Worst Supporting Actor (Male)

    Aditya Roy Kapoor for Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
    Imran Khan for Matru Ki Bijli Ka Mandola
    The Whole Male Cast of ABCD
    Sachin Joshi for whatever he did
    Sanjay Dutt for Zanjeer

     

    Worst Supporting Actor (Female)

    Deepika, Jacqueline, Ameesha for Race 2
    Anushka Sharma for Matru Ki Bijli Ka Mandola
    The Whole Female Cast of ABCD
    Kangna Ranaut for Krrish 3
    Vaani Kapoor for Shuddh Desi Romance

     

    Worst Director

    Sajid Khan for Himmatwala
    Rohit Shetty for Chennai Express
    Rakesh Roshan for Krrish 3
    Anand L Rai for Raanjhanaa
    Sanjay Leela Bhansali for Ram-leela
    Prabhudeva for R…Rajkumar
    Apoorva Lakhia for Zanjeer

     

    Worst Film

    Himmatwaala
    Raanjhanaa
    Besharam
    Krrish 3
    Aashiqui 2
    Chennai Express
    Ramleela
    Dhoom 3

     

    Baawra Ho Gaya Hai Ke
     

    Vishal Bhardwaj for Matru Ki Bijli Ka Mandola
    Tigmanshu Dhulia for Bullet Raja
    Ali Zafar for Chashme Baddoor
    Aamir Khan for Dhoom 3
    Ranbir Kapoor & Abhinav Kashyap for Besharam
    Aditi Rao Hydari for Murder 3 & Boss
    Sudhir Mishra for Inkaar

     

    Irritating Song

     

    Lungi Dance
    Tum Hi Ho
    Lat Lag Gayi
    Party All Night
    Raghupati Raghav
    Gandi Baat

     

    Atrocious Lyrics

     

    Raghupati Raghav
    Saree Ke Fall Sa
    Tamanche Pe Disco
    Grand Masti
    Boss
    One Two Three Four
    Ishqyaun Dhishqyaun
    Babli Badmaash
    Chingum Chabaake

     

    Worst Sequel/Remake

     

    Zanjeer
    Chashme Baddoor
    Aashiqui 2
    Murder 3
    Dhoom 3
    Shootout At Wadala
    Himmatwala
    Race 2
    Yamla Pagla Deewana 2
    Krrish 3
    Once Upon Ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara
    Grand Masti

     

    Why Are You Still Trying
     

    Preity Zinta for Ishqk In Paris
    Sunny Deol for Singh Saab The Great
    Prateik Babbar for Issaq
    Jkackky Bhagnani for Rangrezz
    Vivek Oberoi for Jayantabhai Ki Love Story
    Neil Nitin Mukesh for 3G & Shortcut Romeo
    Shahid Kapoor for R…Rajkumar

     

    Worst Debut
     

    Girish Kumar
    Poonam Pandey
    Ram Charan Teja
    Sasha Agha
    Veena Malik
    Leander Paes

  • 4th Gionne Star GiMA sees outstanding success

    4th Gionne Star GiMA sees outstanding success

    MUMBAI:  The 4th Gionee Star Global Indian Music Academy (GiMA) Awards powered by Reliance 3G unfolded this evening at NSCI Stadium, Worli. Initiated by Wizcraft International to applaud the finest achievements in the music Industry, GiMA has grown into an established dais that unites the biggest musical talents in the country onto a common stage.

     

     

    The ceremony hosted by Ranveer Singh featured some of the best performances by some of the finest stalwarts in the music industry as well as some of the brightest stars of Bollywood. Asha Bhosle’s also paid tribute to music legend R.D. Burman with her performance on some of his most iconic songs Mera Naam Shabnam, Dum Maro Dum, Gulabi Chehra, Duniya Mein and Aa Dekhe Zara among others.

     

    The evening also saw a spellbinding performance by Sonakshi Sinha who performed as last year’s ceremony as well. With an exciting segment hosted by the hit comedian Kapil Sharma and some electrifying performances by Mika and Honey Singh, the evening hit all the high notes.

     

    The love story Aashiqui 2 walked away with 6 GiMA awards leading in the film category. The prestigious Lifetime Achievement Honour was awarded to Asha Bhosle in the Popular category for her outstanding contribution to the music industry. Pt Ram Narayan, considered the finest sarangi exponent in the country and the man who made it a popular instrument was also awarded the Lifetime Achievement Honour – Classical.

     

    On winning Best Playback Singer Female, Shreya Ghosal said, “It’s very special when you win an award, it reminds you that there is so much work to do, so much more music to enthrall audiences, I am very proud to be a part of this industry. Aashiqui 2 has definitely been the flavor of the year.”

     

    The show also showcased a host of promising and upcoming artistes including Aditya Narayan, Shefali Alvares, Ankit Tiwari, Sreeram, Bhoomi, Aditi Singh Sharma, Siddharth Mahadevan and Nikhil Paul George come together in a very special act, rendering the chart busters of the year gone by. Usha Uthup also had a special performance singing a number of songs, most notably, Skyfall.

     

    The 4th edition of the Gionee Star GiMA Awards is presented by Gionee and Star TV and powered by Reliance 3G. Brand Partners for the event are Renault and the Videocon Group.

  • The year of big movie acquisitions

    The year of big movie acquisitions

    By Neeraj Vyas

    If we were to reflect on the landmark moments of 2013, we could proudly say that it has been an impactful year with many highs. To start off, Indian Cinema celebrated 100 years of diverse and distinctive movies. It is a momentous occasion for the world’s largest producer of feature films with over 1200 releases a year in more than 25 languages. The casts got bigger, the designing of the film got more glamorous, the locations more exotic and the technical values are at par with anywhere else in the world.  

    On the flip side, most of this additional cost was passed on the broadcaster and acquisitions became hugely expensive. Surprisingly, these high costs have not deterred many broadcasters from acquiring big banner films at pre-production stage even though it is almost impossible to gauge how well the film will be received by television audiences. In future, movie deals will probably be governed by the revenue generated at the box office.

    On the digital front too, the channel focused on building its brand equity and connect, apart from trying to keep strengthening the positioning of the brand.With competition within channels heating up to garner maximum viewership, the stakes attached to such upmarket films has evolved to be much more complicated than it has been in previous years. Marketing budgets for the television premiers of these films is something which has seen a huge increase with each channel upping the level of spends and trying to be distinctively innovative with each premier. For Aashiqui 2, the biggest romantic musical of the year, at MAX, we raised the bar for marketing innovations across all mediums of communication. The channel engaged with its viewers across all platforms – print, online and outdoors raising to a crescendo with the stars of the movie engaging with some lucky viewers thereby creating a much required stickiness for the brand. The main aim was to attract fresh viewers and entice older ones to watch the film again.

    The digital space is constantly evolving and our endeavour is to customise everything we do on the digital platform. Some of the innovations on the social platform were the IPL Jhumping Jhapak app. Also, MAX was the first Hindi movie channel to integrate live tweets on Jab Tak Hai Jaan.

    From an overall industry perspective, I feel the highpoint was the rollout of digitisation across the country in phases. Although much delayed and slower than anticipated, it opened out a whole new opportunity for channels to increase shelf space. The proposed ad cap pushed many networks to launch new channels to adequately maximise their inventory supply. At MAX, our focus was to consciously deliver better films and energise the brand to engage with our loyal viewers.  

    Looking forward, the film channels will also need to re-evaluate the way advertising is sold so that the true value is gained in return for the delivery of this product to large chunks of audiences.

    (Neeraj Vyas is senior VP and business head, Sony Max. The views expressed in the above article are the author’s personal views)

  • ‘Yaariyan’s’ ‘Baarish’ gets over a million hits

    ‘Yaariyan’s’ ‘Baarish’ gets over a million hits

    MUMBAI: When Bhushan Kumar, son of T-series founder, late Gulshan Kumar, entered in the business, nobody was sure if he would be able to create the same musical magic that his father created. But it seems he is rising above his father’s shadow. After creating ripples with the melodious music of Aashiqui 2 earlier in the year, now even T-series’ second venture Yaariyaan seems to be getting a lot of attention, especially from the youngsters.

    One of the songs, Baarish from the film that was launched earlier this week already seems to be popular among the masses. Reports suggest that the song that features lead actors Himansh Kohli and Rakul Preet, has already got 1,138,752 hits in just four days. Despite a fresh cast, such an overwhelming response is really surprising.

     

    The film is being directed by Divya Khosla Kumar and is based on the life of college-going youngsters. It is scheduled to release on 10 January 2014.

  • Yaariyans Baarish gets over a million hits

    Yaariyans Baarish gets over a million hits

    MUMBAI: When Bhushan Kumar, son of T-series founder, late Gulshan Kumar, entered in the business, nobody was sure if he would be able to create the same musical magic that his father created. But it seems he is rising above his father’s shadow. After creating ripples with the melodious music of Aashiqui 2 earlier in the year, now even T-series’ second venture Yaariyaan seems to be getting a lot of attention, especially from the youngsters.

     

    One of the songs, Baarish from the film that was launched earlier this week already seems to be popular among the masses. Reports suggest that the song that features lead actors Himansh Kohli and Rakul Preet, has already got 1,138,752 hits in just four days. Despite a fresh cast, such an overwhelming response is really surprising.

     

    The film is being directed by Divya Khosla Kumar and is based on the life of college-going youngsters. It is scheduled to release on 10 January 2014.

  • Shraddha Kapoor to star opposite Akshay in Gabbar

    Shraddha Kapoor to star opposite Akshay in Gabbar

    The Aashiqui 2 fame Shraddha Kapoor is indeed going places. After witnessing a massive turnaround in her career post the film, she has now been signed opposite Akshay Kumar for Gabbar. The development is close on the heels of her giving a nod of approval to Shahid Kapoor’s Haider.

     

    Producer Sanjay Leela Bhansali was quite positive about Shraddha making the cut since he felt the pretty girl carried just the right kind of innocence that the character demanded.

     

    This will be Shraddha first movie in the big league opposite a superstar like Akshay. Incidentally each of her next three films, The Villain, Haider and now Gabbar, has the leading man in the title, playing the central protagonist.

     

    Not too long ago a certain Sonakshi Sinha also started on the similar lines with Dabangg, Rowdy Rathore and Son of Sardaar; so Shraddha seems to be having a gameplan.