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  • &Pictures partners ‘Dil Dhadakne Do;’ acquires Excel movies’ telecast rights

    &Pictures partners ‘Dil Dhadakne Do;’ acquires Excel movies’ telecast rights

    MUMBAI: Hindi movie channel &Pictures from the Zee stable, has partnered with Excel Entertainment for the promotion of its upcoming movie – Dil Dhadakne Do, which is slated to release on 5 June.

     

    Additionally, &Pictures has also exclusively acquired the telecast rights of Excel Entertainment’s previously released films namely Dil Chahta Hai, Lakshya, Don and Don 2.

     

    Adding an innovative take on their partnership for Dil Dhadakne Do, &Pictures has created a platform for audiences to meet the movie’s stars namely Anil Kapoor, Shefali Shah, Priyanka Chopra, Ranveer Singh, Anushka Sharma, and Farhan Akhtar.

     

    As part of the promotions, &Pictures will invite viewers to share the fun side of their families via the ‘Crazy Family Contest.’ Viewers have to take crazy and funny family pictures and Whatsapp it to the &Pictures number (08879763807) along with their name and the city they hail from. Shortlisted winners will get a chance to hang out with the Dil Dhadakne Do star cast as they tour Indian cities for the promotion of the film.

     

    Chopra said, “We are coming to your city to meet your family.”

     

    Excel Entertainment’s Ritesh Sidhwani added, “The contest is an interesting integration aimed towards finding families who are as much fun as our Mehra family. Also, this will be our first association with & Pictures and we look forward for many more in the future.”

     

    Directed by Zoya Akhtar, Dil Dhadakne Do is produced by Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar and is a comedy-drama set on a cruise ship.

  • Ranbir Kapoor is the new brand ambassador of TAG Heuer

    Ranbir Kapoor is the new brand ambassador of TAG Heuer

    MUMBAI: TAG Heuer has signed actor Ranbir Kapoor as a TAG Heuer brand ambassador for a long-term partnership. With this association, TAG Heuer reinforces its leadership position by becoming the only brand in the industry endorsed by two of the biggest names in Bollywood – Shah Rukh Khan & Ranbir Kapoor.

     

    TAG Heuer recently unveiled its global campaign, ‘Don’t crack under pressure’, in India.

     

     “Far more than a claim, it is a powerful mindset,” said TAG Heuer CEO Stephane Linder. “Those who know TAG Heuer may recognise the motto, a tribute to an early 90’s campaign which for many remains the most archetypal expression of TAG Heuer’s unbreakable determination. The campaign captures the mental strength of our Dream Team, athletes and partners, who reflect the values of the TAG Heuer shield. Be it Cristiano Ronaldo the perfectionist, Maria Sharapova the irresistible, Shah Rukh Khan the King of Bollywood or our latest ambassador Ranbir Kapoor the Bollywood heartthrob & youth icon of today. In India, we are proud to have two of the best names in Bollywood sporting TAG Heuer and we see a great future with them in the coming years.”

     

    “TAG Heuer has always been one of my dreams,” said Kapoor. “It started when I was really young, it was the first watch I wanted to own in my life. I remember my parents gifted it to me on my 13th birthday. So now, to be associated with the brand is really humbling for me. I really have to pinch myself to believe that I am part of the TAG Heuer family. I think TAG Heuer stands for the four principle P’s that is prestige, precision, passion and performance. I think that is something we all and especially I can identify with; the way I look at my career, my life. I believe these are very important aspects for how one should approach their life, their work and their relationships.”

     

     “While most people want to succeed in their time, a few succeed in changing their time. These exceptional individuals are called Time Changers,” said TAG Heuer marketing director Puneet Sewra. “Being a 4th generation actor from the legendary Kapoor family, there are a lot of expectations one has to match. Not only did Ranbir live up to those expectations, he also successfully managed to carve his own niche in a short span and did not crack under pressure; and that is what makes him a Time Changer. We are very proud to have Ranbir join the TAG Heuer family and we look forward to a long-term partnership with him.”

  • Sajid-Wajids friendly gesture for Tigmanshu Dhulia

    Sajid-Wajids friendly gesture for Tigmanshu Dhulia

    MUMBAI: We have heard a very heartwarming story behind Bullett Raja’s latest track — Don’t Touch My Body that features Mahie Gill. Not many know that the tune of the song created by Sajid Wajid that is gradually becoming a rage was actually created almost seven years ago.

     

    It so happened that Tigmanshu roped in Sajid Wajid for a film in 2006 but due to some technical difficulties the film was never made and got shelved eventually. However, Sajid Wajid promised him that they will keep the music they composed for his film reserved for their collaboration in future.

     

    Tigmanshu again approached Sajid Wajid, this time for Bullett Raja. While Tigmanshu had forgotten about the incident, the duo shocked him by telling that they had kept the music with them. And that’s how Don’t Touch My Body happned.

     

    Sajid-Wajid have set one of the finest examples of exemplary friendship in the industry!

     

    The film releases on 29 November, 2013!!!

  • Anti-Piracy Day launched with campaign ’Don’t Steal It, Spuul It!’

    Anti-Piracy Day launched with campaign ’Don’t Steal It, Spuul It!’

    NEW DELHI: Spuul streaming service for Indian movies and TV shows online is kick starting a campaign called ‘Don’t Steal it, Spuul It!’ To extend its support towards the Global Anti-Piracy Day today with the aim of combating the illegal trade of pirated content on the internet.

    Approximately 160 million Indians globally are internet users. With more and more people consuming content online, it is inevitable to ignore the growth of the digital space. However, the biggest battle that the digital age is fighting is against piracy.

    Calling itself the legitimate way of watching Bollywood Movies, Spuul provides legal online Indian content to anyone in the world. The website has an exhaustive list of movies and popular television shows which can be viewed for free. Shemaroo Entertainment is the content partner for the platform also comments on the campaign.

    With this initiative, Spuul is encouraging fans of Indian Cinema across social media platforms to watch their favourite Bollywood movie ranging from the romantic Hum Aapke Hai Kaun to B.A Pass on Spuul.

    Commenting on this, Spuul India CEO Prakash Ramchandani said: “Digital space internet piracy is at a rise across the globe. The volume of pirated movies, TV shows, music, books, etc online is growing at an alarming rate. This is a severe threat to the business and economy. Spuul is a legitimate content provider and we are glad to extend our support to such an initiative that aims to educate consumers about the value of intellectual property.”

    Shemaroo Entertainment director Jai Maroo said: “Piracy is a serious issue that needs to be addressed and curbed. India is the fastest growing Internet market in the world. Shemaroo is constantly striving to provide convenient, high quality and legal alternatives to consume entertainment digitally. Spuul propagates legal content on the web space. With this campaign we, along with Spuul, are requesting people to consume entertainment lawfully and support anti-piracy.”

  • Veteran actor Jagdish Raj leaves for heavenly abode

    Veteran actor Jagdish Raj leaves for heavenly abode

    MUMBAI: A mainstay of Bollywood for 21 years, the man who reportedly earned his recognition in the Guinness World Records as the film industry’s most typecast actor Jagdish Raj is no more. He is known for his role as a police inspector in at least 144 films.

     

    Back in the 1960s, a big Hollywood casting director called Harvey Wood came and selected him for a police inspector’s role. Although he had done many films before as hero and villain, but he found popularity reprising the role of police inspector time and again.

     

    Twenty years later, he bumped into Harvey Wood again. He looked at him and said, “Bloody hell! You’re still in the same uniform.” He asked Raj to mail him the details of all his films as he was onto a world record for the most occupational role. Later the Guinness book people sent a team to Bombay to verify facts before they entered his name in their book.

     

    Born in Pakistan, Raj was featured in releases including Deewar, Don, Shakti, Mazdoor, and Imaan Dharam before he retired in 1992. He’s also known as the father of Bollywood star Anita Raj.

     

    Raj had been in and out of hospital for the past two years and had respiratory problems. He died in Mumbai at 84 due to a respiratory arrest on 28 July, according to his son-in-law Rakesh Malhotra.

  • Morocco to host 100 years of Indian cinema with special tribute to Yash Chopra

    Morocco to host 100 years of Indian cinema with special tribute to Yash Chopra

    MUMBAI: A centenary celebration of Indian cinema has been planned in Marrakech, the third largest city of the African Nation Morocco.

    The gala will kick off on 1 December and will see an Indian delegation led by Amitabh Bachchan comprising of film actors like Hrithik Roshan, Tabu, Abhay Deol, Arjun Rampal, Priyanka Chopra and Sridevi among others.

    Bachchan said, "I remember with deep gratitude, my last visit to Marrakech in October 2003 and the warmth and the hospitality that was extended to us during our short stay. I look forward to the pleasure of being there again."

    It is also said that the occasion will also have a special tribute for the late Yash Chopra whose last directorial venture Jab Tak Hai Jaan will be screened. According to sources, Shah Rukh Khan would be present for the occasion.

    Films that will be screened during the festival include Don, Don 2, Jodhaa Akbar, Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Ghum, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, Student of the Year, English Vinglish, Veer Zaara and Barfi!.

  • Titan signs on Farhan Akthar as brand ambassador for Xylys

    Titan signs on Farhan Akthar as brand ambassador for Xylys

    BANGALORE: Following its recent announcement of signing on Katrina Kaif as brand ambassador for its women’s range of Raga watches, Titan Industries announced Bollywood personality Farhan Akthar as the brand ambassador for its Swiss line of watches made by Titan-Xylys.

    Titan launched Xylys in the year 2006, with the aim to leverage the immense potential in the Indian premium watch market. Designed exclusively for the generation of today, Xylus, a new age Swiss made brand, has built up an appeal amongst watch aficionados for its design and style and is now poised to take a bigger share in burgeoning Indian premium watch market.

    Said VP and global business head-Titan & Retail, Ajoy Chawla, “Xylys has had a dream run and been growing at a CAGR of 30%, thanks to our investments in building awareness for the brand over the last 5 years. The market in the premium and Swiss segment is fragmented with several international brands, hence there is a strong need to sharply position our brand Xylys and target the young, contemporary global Indian.

    Further talking on Farhan’s association with Xylys, Chawla said, “Farhan is a new age, multi-talented individual admired for his unconventional work. He embodies the Xylys brand’s core values of sophistication, individualistic, authentic yet unconventional. We believe he will enable XYlys to connect deeply with the new age, global Indian seeking to express their own identity in a unique way.”

    Farhan Akthar, known for movies like DON, Rock On, Lakshya, Luck By Chance and more recently acclaimed for his performance in Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, has been signed as the brand ambassador to reinforce Xylys’ brand philosophy of novel design and quality.

    Amongst the other Bollywood celebrities besides Kaif, Akthar joins Rani Mukherjee who was a brand ambassador for Titan Raga in 2006 and Aamir Khan who has been a brand ambassador since 2008 for the refurbished Titan brand identity.

  • Bangladesh lifts 39-year old ban on Indian films

    Bangladesh lifts 39-year old ban on Indian films

    MUMBAI: In a welcome sign, the Bangladeshi High Court has lifted the 39-year old ban on Indian film exhibition in the country.


    Expressing his happiness at the move of the Bangladeshi High Court, producer Mukesh Bhatt said, “That‘s great news! This move will provide a death knell to the pirates there who make merry by selling the latest Bollywood fare.”


    “We were always of the view that there should be mutual coordination between all SAARC countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Pakistan Maldives and Nepal). Bangladesh and India can be of good use to each other by mutual coordination. Who knows, one day we might see a joint Indo-Bangla film being rolled out,” Bhatt added.
     
    After Eid-Ul-Fitr festival that ends on 10 September, cinemas in Bangladesh will start screening Indian films. This will start with the release of three Bengali films – Jour, Badla and Sangram, that are currently awaiting approval from the Bangladesh Censor Board.


    Later, Bollywood‘s biggest hits including Sholay, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Dil To Pagal Hai, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, Dhoom:2, Don, Wanted and 3 Idiots would be exhibited.


    The Bangladesh Cinema Halls Owners Association has welcomed the move by saying that the Court‘s decision was “the best thing to have happened” to the country‘s cinemas. Cinema hall owners have expressed hope that they would be able to start showing new Indian films shortly.

  • SRK slams critics while picking up BBC award for ‘Don’

    MUMBAI: After a month of public voting, the BBC Asian Network in the UK has announced the Film Café Award winners. This, it says, is the only audience-voted online Bollywood award in the UK.

    Shah Rukh Khan won the Best Villain award for his controversial performance in the remake of Don. His performance received as many criticisms as it did applause. Shah Rukh was asked if he now felt vindicated in light of the public votes that he received.

    He said, “No, you feel vindicated if you believe in the people who give the negative reactions and I never believe in that because it was very clearly a modern day combined with the old Don version and it was targeted at an audience, which may not have seen the old Don.

    “We can just assume that the older audience did not like the film but the younger audiences, who we aimed the film at, really enjoyed it. I feel I did a good job and I liked what I did in Don.”

    He was even more defiant towards his critics when he spoke to Film Café about his role in Khabhi Alvida Naa Khena, where he plays an adulterous husband.

    He remarked, “I have been working for many years … I get surprised that critics get confused between the actor and the role. In Khabhi Alvida Naa Khena I play a guy who is not nice, sleeps with someone else’s wife but that’s a character. You play a grittier character the critics have a problem with that. It’s the ticket-paying audience that counts at the end of the day”.

    Aamir Khan was voted Best Actor in the awards for his work in Rang De Basanti. He said, “I am overwhelmed by the response of the audience. It was a difficult film to do as an actor. I am really moved by the response. Film and award ceremonies are so subjective and I don’t take award nights seriously – the film has been made for the audience and they have loved it and that is of prime importance to me.”

    Rang De Basanti won the overall vote in four of the eight categories, including best film.

  • UTV targets June launch of youth channel with Astro

    UTV targets June launch of youth channel with Astro

    MUMBAI: UTV Software Communications’ joint venture with Astro of Malaysia is fast taking shape. The youth-centric channel, aimed at the age-group of 17-25 years, is set for launch by June.

    “We are working on the content research. We plan to launch the channel by June,” says UTV Communications COO Ronald D’Mello.

    UTV will be investing Rs 1 billion in its 50:50 venture with Astro in broadcasting.

    “We will be expanding to a 360 degree entertainment venture including a TV channel as the anchor, to be flanked by activities on the internet, new media, ground events, merchandising and licensing,” says D’Mello.

    UTV will be releasing DVDs of Don and Khosla Ka Ghosla this quarter. Namesake will have an international and national release in the third week of March.

    UTV has posted a consolidated revenue of Rs 704 million, which includes capital gains of Rs 263 million from the sale of United Home Entertainment Ltd (Hungama TV), for the third quarter ended 31 December 2006.

    Net profit stood at Rs 283 million while EBITDA was at Rs 303 million for the period. The company has consolidated the financials of UESL, UTV-US, UTV-UK and UTV-Mauritius.
    UTV also announced an interim dividend of 25 per cent.

    Commenting on the results UTV CEO Ronnie Screwvala said, “The quarter has been a very eventful one; while the Hungama TV deal with The Walt Disney Company was consummated during the quarter, the Company also decided to make investments in two gaming companies – Ignition Entertainment and Indiagames Ltd in console and mobile space respectively. With these proposed investments UTV has acquired worldwide capabilities of content creation and distribution across all gaming platforms.”

    UTV has entered into exclusive sales and marketing tie up with Radaan Media, the largest TV production house in South India. “This will result in significant growth in Television businesses in the months to come. In addition to this and as a step towards entering the South Indian film production space, UTV has tied up with Radaan for co-production of all South Indian films,” Screwvala added.

    UTV is acquiring a 70 per cent stake in Ignition Entertainment Ltd (UK based company with interests in console game development, publishing and distribution across the globe) as well as a controlling stake in IndiaGames (gaming company in India, with interests in mobile and online gaming) for a total consideration of Rs 1.28 billion.

    UTV has inducted Walt Disney International president Andy Bird and Pantaloon’s Kishore Biyani as non executive directors.