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  • Home video major consortium Asia Vision being disbanded

    MUMBAI: Asia Vision, a consortium of home video majors Bombino, Indus and Time, will soon become a defunct company.
     

    The business activities of Asia Vision will be pursued independently by the three companies. “We will be phasing out Asia Vision. We will be pursuing these interests in our individual companies,” says Time Group promoter Dhiraj Shah.
     
     

    Asia Vision’s exclusive licensee deal with Columbia Tristar to distribute the Hollywood major’s home video products in India ended on 31 July. “We have been licensee holders of Columbia Tristar for the past four years. The contract is not being renewed,” says Shah.

    Asia Vision has also stopped purchasing and selling cable TV rights of movies. “The cable TV business is piracy driven. We decided to get out of it. Asia Vision doesn’t indulge in trading of movie rights to the cable TV industry anymore,” says Shah.

    A few years back, the company had sold its 49 per cent stake in Cable Video India Ltd (CVIL) to Hinduja TMT. CVIL, in which HTMT already held 51 per cent stake, owned and operated CVO, a cable Hindi movie channel.

    Asia Vision has also stopped acquiring satellite and terrestrial rights to movies. A major chunk of the library has been sold to Zee Telefilms, Star India, Sahara, and Doordarshan. “We have 200-300 movies still remaining in the company. We plan to sell them and exit,” says Shah. Asia Vision had major activities in trading on satellite and terrestrial rights of movies.

    All these activities will be pursued individually by Time, Indus and Bombino. Time Group continues to be involved in movie production and acquisition of multiple TV rights of movies.

    Asia Vision also runs commercial video copyrights under which it issues movie licenses to video parlours across the country.

  • CNN-IBN ‘Being’ to feature Mohanlal on 20 May

    CNN-IBN ‘Being’ to feature Mohanlal on 20 May

    It is said that acting is half shame and half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself and glory at forgetting yourself. In 300 films, over the past 25 years, Mohanlal has forgotten himself in characters who have varied from the everyman to the superman. He has played the fool, the lover, the hero and the anti hero with equal ease and been feted for his effortless portrayal of characters with a Padmashri and two National Awards
    And yet people outside of Kerala only know him as the tough as nails, sharp shooting cop, Srinivasan in Ram Gopal Varma’s Company. He defends his decision to stay within the confines of Malayalam cinema by saying, ” I have to be comfortable in the language if I am going to move out of Malayalam films.” But Company was “an irresistible role”. Mohanlal soaked in the ambience of the sets and refused to retreat to his trailor between shots. Instead he would memorise his lines, almost like a disciplined schoolboy. And yet, discipline is one characteristic that Mohanlal claims he never brings to his preparation for his roles. He says “I don’t prepare knowingly but unknowingly.”
    The rare exception was his last National award winning role, in a film he produced himself about a Kathakali dancer living on the brink of illusion and reality called Vanaprastham, which also made it to the Cannes Official selection in 1999. He brought a tinge of method acting to this role by learning Kathakali, and he says, “Characters in films are dead people and actors breathe soul into them.”
    To find out more about this effortless, talented actor tune into Being Mohanlal on CNN IBN at 8:30 pm on Saturday and 3:30 pm on Sunday .
    BEING showcases all celebrities from various walks of life –Sports, Politics, Films, Art and Business, too. In this half hour programme,, CNN-IBN will get under their skin and walk in their shoes to taste what its really like BEING…..And whether its worth it. Keeping them company through the ups and downs of that trip is Anuradha SenGupta.