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  • Mirchi launches new show ‘Sunday Suspense Hindi’

    Mirchi launches new show ‘Sunday Suspense Hindi’

    Mumbai: Music and entertainment company Mirchi has launched its new show “Mirchi Sunday Suspense Hindi.” The radio show presents dramatic readings from Indian literature across suspense, crime, horror genres and it airs every Sunday between 3 p.m and 4 p.m on Radio Mirchi.

    The forty-minute-long show will be aired in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, North Bengaluru, and Mangalore, as well as in international markets including UAE and the USA. It will also be available to stream on Spotify, along with two other Mirchi IPs – “Sunday Suspense Bangla” and “Calling Karan: Season 1 and 2,” said the company in a statement.

    The show features famous stories by celebrated authors namely, Satyajit Ray, Conan Doyle, and Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, bringing to life their works through a play of sounds, music, and background scores, it added.

    “The launch of Sunday Suspense is an effort in this direction whereby we are not only launching fresh formats on the radio but also providing some nail-biting, dramatised renditions of horror and crime stories from Indian literature,” said Entertainment Network India Ltd executive president Nandan Srinath. “The popularity of Sunday Suspense Bangla strengthens our confidence in this new show and we are looking forward to our listeners’ response to it. We are also happy to have partnered with Spotify as this will enable our discerning consumers to access our content 24*7.”

    Listeners can catch repeats of “Mirchi Sunday Suspense Hindi” every following Wednesday post-midnight or Saturday at 11 a.m.

  • Johnny Depp to soon take on the role of famed illusionist Harry Houdini

    Johnny Depp to soon take on the role of famed illusionist Harry Houdini

    MUMBAI: Johnny Depp, the actor famously known for taking on different roles like Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Carribean franchise and the Mad Hatter in the Alice in Wonderland franchise is in negotiations to star as famed magician Harry Houdini in Lionsgate/Summit’s The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero based on the bestselling book by William Kalush and Larry Sloman, reports The Hollywood Reporter (THR).

     

    Since his death eighty years ago, Harry Houdini’s life has been chronicled in books, in film, and on television. Now, in this groundbreaking biography, renowned magic expert William Kalush and best-selling writer Larry Sloman team up to find the man behind the myth. Drawing from millions of pages of research, they describe in vivid detail the passions that drove Houdini to perform ever-more-dangerous feats, his secret life as a spy, and a pernicious plot to subvert his legacy. After years of struggling on the dime museum circuit, Harry Houdini got a break that put him on the front page of a Chicago newspaper. He never looked back. Soon Houdini was performing for royalty, commanding vast sums, and exploring the new power of Hollywood to expand on his legend.

     

    At a time when spy agencies frequently co-opted amateurs, Houdini went to London and developed a relationship with a man who would run MI-5. For the next several years, the world’s most famous magician travelled to Germany and Russia and routinely reported his findings.

     

    After World War I was successfully concluded, Houdini embarked on a battle of his own. He created a group of disguised field operatives to infiltrate the seamy world of fake spirit mediums. In doing so, Houdini triggered the wrath of fanatical spiritualists, led by the esteemed British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Death threats became an everyday occurrence, but the group would pose an even greater danger to Houdini’s legacy.

     

    Rigorously researched, and as exciting as a good thriller, The Secret Life of Houdini traces the arc of the master magician’s life from desperate poverty to worldwide legend, initiating the reader along the way into the arcane world of professional magic. In this remarkable book, Kalush and Sloman decode a life based on deception, providing an intimate and riveting portrayal of Houdini, the man and the legend.

     

    Depp is also set to revisit two of the earlier mentioned blockbuster franchisees in the coming year with Pirates of the Caribbean 5 and a sequel to Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass.

     

    History Channel announced late last year that they have given the greenlight to their four-hour Houdini miniseries. Academy Award winner Adrien Brody (The Pianist) will play Houdini with Kristen Connolly (House of Cards).