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  • Cinépolis launches its first plex in Mangalore

    Cinépolis launches its first plex in Mangalore

    MUMBAI: Cinépolis, the world’s fourth largest cinema chain and India’s first international exhibitor, has launched its 5-screen, 100 per cent digital multiplex at Mangalore.

    The multiplex with 1,233 seats brings together Real D, the world’s best 3D technology, Hollywood standard 2k digital screens and 7.1 Dolby digital audio.

    After Bengaluru, this is the second Cinépolis multiplex in Karnataka.

    Cinépolis India managing director and country head Milan Saini said, “We are pleased to open the biggest and best cinema of Mangalore. Our patrons can look forward to enjoying a truly world class movie going experience with our state of the art cinemas which are conveniently located in the heart of the city and in the best mall of the city. "

    Added Cinépolis business head – exhibition Ashish Shukla, “After an overwhelming response to our international product quality in Bengaluru, we are extremely happy to introduce the same at Mangalore. Along with a truly international movie watching experience through audio and video, the multiplex will offer an indulging experience at our VIP Cinemas. Another added attraction at Cinépolis is ‘Coffee tree’, an in-house coffee shop which will feature a wide range of freshly prepared gourmet food and beverages.”

    For the first few weeks, Cinepolis has set a special introductory price offer starting at Rs 80 for normal seats and Rs130 for VIP seats. “

    Cinépolis currently operates at Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Bengaluru, Patna, Surat, Ludhiana, and Bhopal. Starting 2012 with 32 screens, Cinépolis has added 17 more screens until now, making it one of the fastest growing multiplex chains in the country. With the addition of Cinépolis Mangalore, Cinépolis now stands at a total of 49 screens across all four geographic zones.

  • Happy expands services with Design Cell

    Happy expands services with Design Cell

    MUMBAI: Bengaluru-based creative agency Happy has launched a new division — Design Cell — as part of its expansion plans. The new division will be led by Shilpa Colluru in Bengaluru and Pallavi Nayak in Mumbai. The company had started Mumbai operations in January this year.

    Design Cell will offer services in the areas of identity creation, branding and packaging, along with retail and environment design. While business development will be driven from Bengaluru and Mumbai offices the division aims to service clients across India. The creative delivery, however, will continue to take place from Bengaluru.

    Happy CEO Kartik Iyer said, “We have been offering design services to many from the day we started. We‘ve also been fortunate to win a few awards for our work in Design. We took our time to build a body of work and crystallise on a strategic design process that is our own. The design cell shall work as an independent unit with its own business targets and talent pool. We see a huge opportunity in this space and are confident we can inject new energy and excitement in this space.”

    Happy COO Praveen Das added, “Having a specialised design cell only seemed like a natural progression for us as it allows us to do a lot more for our clients. It also makes more sense for companies and brands that have been newly formed and are preparing for a launch.”

    According to Iyer Design is more than just making things look pretty. “There is science behind effective design. India is at a stage where her people have begun to develop a strong aesthetic sense and appreciation for design. We believe that this will play a strong ancillary role in shaping the way Indian businesses look at branding and design as a key to drive growth,” Iyer said.

    In the past, Happy has designed for projects like The Lee Never wasted Bag and The Skinny jeans packaging for Lee. The agency was also responsible for online fashion retailer Myntra.com‘s new logo. Happy also created the logo and worked on the store experience of fashion retailer Basics Life.

    Apart from Design, Happy‘s creative wing is behind the popular Flipkat.com advertisements featuring small children as grown-ups.

  • 47% tax rebate to film productions in Fiji

    47% tax rebate to film productions in Fiji

    MUMBAI: Fiji government has decided to offer 47 per cent tax rebate to film productions happening in the country.


    “We are planning to meet some of the producers in Bollywood shortly during this trip to promote film tourism in Fiji,” said Fiji minister for tourism, civil aviation, industry and trade Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum.


    The announcement comes in the wake of a decision by Fiji Tourism to target Bollywood to promote tourism products and destinations in the country. Though a few Indian films have already been shot in Fiji, the tourism department is further trying to attract more and more film producers from India to shoot their films in the country.


    Speaking about Fiji as a tourism destination, the Minister said that it is a unique tourist destination in the South Pacific region with it offering wide variety of tourism products for Indians.


    Fiji Tourism is currently conducting road shows in four cities–New Delhi, Kolkata, Bengaluru and Mumbai. “The main focus of the show is to highlight the diverse tourism products and destinations in Fiji as well as to educate the Indian travel trade about Fiji‘s offerings,” shared Fiji tourism director – global destinations – India representative Pranav Kapadia.

  • Bengaluru Film Fest from 15 December

    Bengaluru Film Fest from 15 December

    MUMBAI: Kannada film Rasarushi will open the fourth edition of Bengaluru International Film Festival that will be held here from 15-22 December.

    This year‘s festival would also, for the first time, screen political dramas like The Battle of Algiers (Algeria), Z (France), Thaneer Thaneer (Tamil), Lemon Tree (Hebrew) amongst others, it is learnt.

    As many as 20 Kannada films would be screened during the festival out of the total of 179 international and world films.

    Renowned Iranian film director Dariush Mehrjui will take part in the inaugural ceremony when five of his films namely The Cow, The Lodgers, Sara, The Pear Tree and The Music Man would be screened.

    Two Kannada films namely Sandhyaraaga and Vasantsena would be screened under the Indian film category.

    The festival panel is also making all attempts to screen one of the films of late Bollywood legend Dev Anand to pay him a tribute.

    The fourth edition of the festival would feature both competition and non-competition sections. The competition section has four categories namely World Cinema Award, Asian Cinema Award, Indian Cinema Award and Kannada Cinema Award.