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  • 1987 Bond girl to star opposite Emraan Hashmi in Danis Tanovic film

    1987 Bond girl to star opposite Emraan Hashmi in Danis Tanovic film

    MUMBAI: Bollywood‘s serial kisser Emran Hashmi has signed a film to be directed by Danis Tanovic. It is now official that Maryan d‘Abo who reprised the role of the bond girl in the 1987 hit The Living Daylights will share screen-space with Emraan in Tanovic‘s An Episode in The Life of an Iron Picker.

    In a statement, producer Guneet Monga confirned, "Yes, she is doing the film and we are happy to have Maryam on board. At this point, we can‘t divulge anything else". What‘s confirmed for now is that Maryan d‘Abo was the first choice for the role and her character is pivotal to the film‘s narrative.

    Produced by Anurag Kashyap and Guneet Monga ‘s Sikhya Entertainment, international banner Cinemorphic and Prashita Chaudhary , Danic Tanovic‘s untitled film will be shot extensively in India and abroad.

  • Three Indian films to screen at Barbara International Film Festival

    Three Indian films to screen at Barbara International Film Festival

    MUMBAI: Three films from India would grace the 28th Barbara International Film Festival that will be held from 24 January to 3 February.

    While Anurag Kashyap‘s Gangs of Wasseypur has been selected for the competition section, Manjeet Singh‘s Mumbai Cha Raja and Suman Ghosh‘s Shyamal Uncle Turns Off the Lights will be screened in Pan Asia section.

    A co-production, Blood Brother (India, USA) by Steve Hoover will compete in Documentary section. The film chronicles the story of a man-dissatisfied with his life in America-who decides to move to India and restart his life among children living at an orphanage for those infected with HIV.

    Another film concerning India is One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das by Jeremy Frindel, that will be showcased in the Cinesonic section. The film tells the story of Jeffrey Kagel who sold allhis possessions and moved from suburban Long Island halfway across the world to India, where he studied under Neem Karoli Baba. He later emerged as Krishna Das and became a world-renowned chant master and spiritual leader, helping to bring what he had learned to the West.

  • Gangs of Wasseypur to screen at Glasgow film fest

    Gangs of Wasseypur to screen at Glasgow film fest

    MUMBAI: Anurag Kashyap‘s Gangs of Wasseypur will be screened at the Glasgow Film Festival in Scotland to be held from 14 to 24 February.

    Writes the festival website about the film, “Acclaimed as India‘s The Godfather, Gangs of Wasseypur was one of the discoveries of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Director Anurag Kashyap blends the ferocious energy of South Indian action movies with the sweep, scope and richness of a gangster epic by Sergio Leone or Martin Scorsese.”

    Both the parts of the film will be screened on 23 and 24 of next month.

    Another Indian film, Vanishing Point, a short film by Abhijit Mazumdar will compete in Adrift: International Competition section of the Festival. It tells the story of a location scouting trip that falls into disarray.

    The Glasgow Film Festival, that was launched in 2005, is known as one of the fastest growing festivals in the UK.

  • Anurag Kashyap to be part of jury at Sundance

    Anurag Kashyap to be part of jury at Sundance

    MUMBAI: Noted Bollywood filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has been chosen to be part of the jury for the 2013 edition of Sundance film festival. He is the man behind movies like Dev D, Gulaal and Gangs of Wasseypur. Kashyap will take part in the festival as the jury member for the World Cinema Dramatic section alongside director Nadine Labaki and producer Joana Vincent.

    The festival will take place from 17-27 January in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance in Utah. Kashyap‘s two part crime saga ‘Gangs of Wasseypur‘ is also screening at the festival in the Spotlight section of the festival.

    "It is a truly special film for me and I‘m overwhelmed with the audience reception and happy to know that the team‘s efforts have been honoured at such large platforms," said Kashyap, who is currently working on his next venture titled ‘Ugly‘, in a statement.

  • DAR MentorCap gets Sebi approval for Rs 1 bn film fund

    DAR MentorCap gets Sebi approval for Rs 1 bn film fund

    MUMBAI: The DAR MentorCap jointly promoted by DAR Media Private Limited, a leading Mumbai-based film production and distribution company, and MentorCap Management Private Limited, an investment advisory firm, has received Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) approval for its film fund under the new AIF guidelines.

    With an initial corpus of Rs 1 billion, the DAR MentorCap Film Fund has tenure of five years with a liquidation option for investors after three years. Apart from high-levels of corporate governance, transparency and credibility the fund is also seeking significant alpha generation targeted IRR in excess of 20 per cent.

    The Film Fund is being marketed as an exclusive product amongst an identified set of High Net worth Individuals (HNIs) and Institutional Investors.

    DAR MentorCap Founder & Partner Shailesh Haribhakti said, “The steady upswing in the Hindi film industry has now prepared it for systems, processes and good governance. The simultaneous establishment of the AIF regulations have created the space for this unique film fund that will execute over 20 projects in the next 2-3 years.

    “The most distinguishing aspect of the fund is that it already has a wide selection of projects to invest in through our partner DAR Media‘s extensive network and experience. From that perspective investors in the fund will see their money working from the word go. A new Asset Management Company (AMC) – Creative Collaboration Advisors has already been set up to evaluate and manage the fund‘s investments,” added Haribhakti.

    The funds General Partner DAR Media has already identified, seeded and created a consideration set of over 20 projects for the fund, leveraging key industry partnerships with the likes of Anurag Kashyap, Shimit Amin, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Nikhil Advani, Danis Tanovic and Pan Nalin, amongst others.

    DAR MentorCap, and Chairman of DAR Media Founder & Partner Arun Rangachari said, “The DAR MentorCap Film Fund will follow a calibrated, controlled, transparent and focused investment strategy of acquiring quality projects, following innovative risk mitigation strategies and getting optimal returns. We aim at hedging risk by investing, at ground level, in a bouquet of projects that are at various points of the film‘s production and release cycle. To this effect DAR Media will offer its entire production slate, which currently stands at over 20 projects, to the fund for its consideration. These projects are being offered to the fund at zero premium and is a reflection of our endeavour to facilitate institutional and HNI investment flows into the industry.

    “This apart the Fund will further be encouraged to work with the entire value chain of the Indian film industry and take up positions in projects that are in sync with the fund‘s overall investment strategy,” added Rangachari.

  • Emraan Hashmi signs intl. film with Danis Tanovic

    Emraan Hashmi signs intl. film with Danis Tanovic

    MUMBAI: After captivating Indian audience at large, Emraan Hashmi has finally stepped into the international circuit with him signing a yet untitled film for Academy award winning director Danis Tanovic‘s next film.

    Tanovic is famous for his film No Man‘s Land that is best remembered in India for it having that toppled Aamir Khan‘s Lagaan in the best foreign film Oscar category in 2001.

    Tanovic‘s next will be under the collaborative banner of several production houses like ASAP Films (France), DAR Motion Pictures, Sikhya Entertainment and AKFPL (Anurag Kashyap Films Pvt Ltd).

    Producer Guneet Monga of Anurag Kashyap Films said, “It will be very interesting to see the combination of an Indian star, who has mass appeal with an Oscar-winning director in an international film. We are looking forward to a great collaboration.”

  • Anurag Kashyap features in new TVC for Cadbury

    Anurag Kashyap features in new TVC for Cadbury

    NEW DELHI: Cadbury Dairy Milk Shots‘s new TVC has been launched to introduce the Rs 10 pack called ‘Shots with Friends‘ featuring filmmaker Anurag Kashyap. The TVC hit screens across the nation on August 1, 2012 and is present across 60 television channels.

    The TVC captures the spirit of friendship by showing a group of friends bonding and celebrating with Cadbury Dairy Milk Shots. The commercial is based around the plot of an audition which lends the Bollywood connection and makes it easily identifiable and enjoyable, especially for the youth.

    The commercial is an extension of the brand‘s ‘mann ka laddoo‘ concept. The ‘chocolate ladoos‘ that are a part of each character‘s thought bubble act as the ‘sweet‘ metaphor that symbolise and connect the range of positive emotions they experience. The closing VO summarizes the mood of the TVC, “Dosto ke saath kuch meetha ho jaye”

    The opening of the TVC shows Kashyap sitting in a café and struggling to find the actress and describing his dream cast on the phone, he realizes they are much closer than he expected. The young group of girls on the neighboring table is ecstatic, to say the least, when they hear the director describe someone that looks exactly like them.

    Cadbury India director, snacking and strategy Chandramouli Venkatesan said, “The bite size format of Cadbury Dairy Milk Shots allows it to be an easy alternative to ‘snacking‘. The new TVC captures the essence of the product aptly- sharing among groups of friends, and further builds on the brand‘s core message of celebrating small but significant occasions with Shots.”

    Ogilvy India NCD Abhijit Avasthi added, “The Shots proposition of ‘mann mein ladoo phoota‘ has been a resounding hit with the youngsters. To talk about the ‘Shots with Friends‘ pack we decided to build on the same with the slant being on a group of friends wishing for something fantastic instead of an individual. Also, we thought it would be sweet and charming to tell the story with a group of girls instead of making it male-centric. It‘s turned out much funnier than we had imagined and Anuraag Kashyap‘s cameo is the icing on the cake.”

  • Filmmakers to make short films for digital platform

    Filmmakers to make short films for digital platform

    Mumbai: This is a coup. Leading filmmakers Anurag Kashyap, Sudhir Mishra and Chakri Toleti (of Billa 2 fame) have come together to make a series of short films that will soon be released in the digital form across the country.

    The series will have everything found in a full length feature film like music, drama and excitement but in short films. The films will be treated like a normal feature film. Each film will be for around 10 minutes. It is said that Mishra will set the ball rolling being the first in the group to start work.

    Says ad filmmaker and TV producer Omar Haider, the man behind this initiative, “Several other directors are in the process of joining hands with us. Our initial plan is to come up with 10-12 films with each one making one film at least. We will then plan the release and marketing of the film.

    The films will be released on digital platforms like cell phone, internet, etc.

  • Next MAMI Fest in South Mumbai; NCPA and Inox are venues

    MUMBAI: The Board of Trustees of the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI) has revealed what transpired at a meeting yesterday. The trustees met and discussed the upcoming 14th Mumbai Film Festival, a Reliance Entertainment initiative.

    Film dignitaries present at the meeting included MAMI chairman Shyam Benegal, trustees – Ramesh Sippy, Sudhir Mishra, Ashutosh Gowariker, Amol Palekar, Amit Khanna, Reliance Entertainment CEO Sanjeev Lamba and festival director Srinivasan Narayanan.

    New additions to the board are filmmakers Anurag Kashyap and Sudhir Mishra.

    After a growing demand from cinema enthusiasts to accommodate them in larger number, it was decided to move the festival to South Mumbai, with NCPA and Inox as the festival venues.

    To celebrate 100 years of Indian Cinema, the Mumbai Film Festival has decided to introduce a ‘Competition‘ section for Indian films with a cumulative cash reward of Rs 1.5 million (USD 31,000 approx).

    Other special events are also being chalked out to celebrate the 100 years of Indian Cinema during the course of the Festival.

    Through a special selection of films in the Celebration of Italian Cinema, the Festival will pay tribute to Italian Cinema by way of a special selection of films. The package will include films from all major directors and also restored films like ‘Maciste‘ (1915) and ‘Inferno‘ (1911). The section is to be organised in collaboration with the Embassy of Italy in India and Mr. Italo Spinelli.

    Following last year‘s roaring response for the French films, the new edition of “Rendezvous with French Cinema” will be hosted by the 14th Mumbai Film Festival in collaboration with the Embassy of France in India and Unifrance.

    The Mumbai Film Festival will be held from 18 to 25 October.

  • Anurag Kashyap retrospective in Germany

    Anurag Kashyap retrospective in Germany

    MUMBAI: A retrospective of Anurag Kashyap‘s films has been arranged at Hamburg, Germany from 11 to 16 July.

    The screening, to be held at the Hamburg-based Metropolis Cinema, has been organised under the banner of Daring Pioneers of Indian Cinema on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Indian cinema during the India Week 2012.

    Films of Kashyap that would be screened on the occasion are Gangs Of Wasseypur, That Girl In Yellow Boots and Black Friday with Kashyap‘s Dev-D opening the event. Notable filmmaker, Fatih Akin will introduce Kashyap and his works.

    Said Kinemathek Hamburg international programming head Rita Baukrowitz, “Under the title of ‘Daring Pioneers of Indian cinema‘, the Metropolis cinema is now presenting for the works of outstanding Indian directors. This time the focus is on present-day cinema and on Kashyap, the pioneer of the new independent movement within the Hindi film industry. In his films, Kashyap draws special inspiration from the works of the Hamburg film-maker Fatih Akin – a feeling of admiration that is mutual. We are looking forward to an interesting cinema discussion between Akin, Kashyap and Nair.”

    Said Kashyap in a statement, “”I am very honoured to be presenting all my films in Hamburg and really happy to be hanging out with Fatih again. He always inspires me and this time too hoping to come back rejuvenated.”

    The Kinemathek Hamburg, in cooperation with the Indian Embassy in Berlin, the Consulate-General of India in Hamburg and the Hamburg Ministry of Culture, will be presenting this comprehensive film programme on modern Indian cinema to commemorate 60 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries.