MUMBAI: Cabaret, Bob Fosse‘s ground-breaking Oscar-winning musical drama starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Joel Grey, Helmut Griem, and Marisa Berenson celebrates its 40th anniversary with a Blu-ray debut on 5 February, 2013.
Remastered for the first time in over 20 years, Cabaret is presented in its original aspect ratio (16 x 9 format). Winner of eight Academy Awards, including Director (Fosse), Actress (Minnelli), and Supporting Actor (Grey), the film will be offered in a premium Blu-ray Book format, which contains 40 pages of insightful photos and text.
A new documentary, Cabaret: The Musical That Changed Musicals will be featured, along with vintage documentaries Cabaret: A Legend in the Making, The Recreation of an Era, a multi-part memory gallery and more.
Cabaret was adapted from the Tony -winning stage production, which was in turn inspired by Christopher Isherwood‘s Berlin Stories and the play and movie I Am a Camera. This remarkable musical turns the pre-war Berlin of 1931 into a sexually charged center of decadence. Liza Minnelli gives a bravura performance as nightclub entertainer Sally Bowles, and Joel Grey is the master of ceremonies at the nightclub, also acting as the storyteller for the audience, exposing the seediness of the cabaret world.
The superb songwriting team of Kander and Ebb contributes a string of memorable songs that not only entertain but also provide social commentary on the events of the time. Under the helm of director-choreographer Bob Fosse, Cabaret becomes both a devastating drama and top-rate entertainment, and the result is one of the most memorable and meaningful screen musicals ever made.
Flamboyant and eccentric American entertainer Sally Bowles (Minnelli) sings in Berlin‘s decadent Kit Kat Club, even as Nazism rises in Germany in 1931. She falls in love with a British language teacher (York) – whom she shares with a homosexual German baron (Griem). But Sally‘s insular, carefree, tolerant and fragile cabaret world is about to be crushed under the boot of the Nazis as Berlin becomes a trap from which Sally‘s German friends will not escape.
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Cabaret to celebrate 40th anniversary with a Blu-ray debut on 5 Feb
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Pooja Bhatt teams up with Ponty Chadha for Jism 3 and Cabaret
MUMBAI: After the success of Jism 2 that meant a successful collaboration of Pooja Bhatt and Fish Eye Network Pvt Limited and Ponty Chadha and Wave Industries Pvt. Limited, the two have got together to produce Jism 3 and follow it up to make Cabaret.
Jism 2 is a complex love triangle where a woman is trapped between her long lost emotions for her ex-lover Kabir and Ayaan‘s growing fondness for her which she too, at times, reciprocates. Later, the film goes to show how porn star Izna kills her emotions for Kabir to save the nation.
While Jism 3 will release in the winter of 2013, Cabaret will release soon after. The cast and credits of both the films will be finalised soon.