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  • Three Indian films to screen at Barbara International Film Festival

    Three Indian films to screen at Barbara International Film Festival

    MUMBAI: Three films from India would grace the 28th Barbara International Film Festival that will be held from 24 January to 3 February.

    While Anurag Kashyap‘s Gangs of Wasseypur has been selected for the competition section, Manjeet Singh‘s Mumbai Cha Raja and Suman Ghosh‘s Shyamal Uncle Turns Off the Lights will be screened in Pan Asia section.

    A co-production, Blood Brother (India, USA) by Steve Hoover will compete in Documentary section. The film chronicles the story of a man-dissatisfied with his life in America-who decides to move to India and restart his life among children living at an orphanage for those infected with HIV.

    Another film concerning India is One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das by Jeremy Frindel, that will be showcased in the Cinesonic section. The film tells the story of Jeffrey Kagel who sold allhis possessions and moved from suburban Long Island halfway across the world to India, where he studied under Neem Karoli Baba. He later emerged as Krishna Das and became a world-renowned chant master and spiritual leader, helping to bring what he had learned to the West.

  • Gangs of Wasseypur to screen at Glasgow film fest

    Gangs of Wasseypur to screen at Glasgow film fest

    MUMBAI: Anurag Kashyap‘s Gangs of Wasseypur will be screened at the Glasgow Film Festival in Scotland to be held from 14 to 24 February.

    Writes the festival website about the film, “Acclaimed as India‘s The Godfather, Gangs of Wasseypur was one of the discoveries of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Director Anurag Kashyap blends the ferocious energy of South Indian action movies with the sweep, scope and richness of a gangster epic by Sergio Leone or Martin Scorsese.”

    Both the parts of the film will be screened on 23 and 24 of next month.

    Another Indian film, Vanishing Point, a short film by Abhijit Mazumdar will compete in Adrift: International Competition section of the Festival. It tells the story of a location scouting trip that falls into disarray.

    The Glasgow Film Festival, that was launched in 2005, is known as one of the fastest growing festivals in the UK.

  • Anurag Kashyap to be part of jury at Sundance

    Anurag Kashyap to be part of jury at Sundance

    MUMBAI: Noted Bollywood filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has been chosen to be part of the jury for the 2013 edition of Sundance film festival. He is the man behind movies like Dev D, Gulaal and Gangs of Wasseypur. Kashyap will take part in the festival as the jury member for the World Cinema Dramatic section alongside director Nadine Labaki and producer Joana Vincent.

    The festival will take place from 17-27 January in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance in Utah. Kashyap‘s two part crime saga ‘Gangs of Wasseypur‘ is also screening at the festival in the Spotlight section of the festival.

    "It is a truly special film for me and I‘m overwhelmed with the audience reception and happy to know that the team‘s efforts have been honoured at such large platforms," said Kashyap, who is currently working on his next venture titled ‘Ugly‘, in a statement.

  • Gangs of Wasseypur bags four nominations at Asia-Pacific Film Fest

    Gangs of Wasseypur bags four nominations at Asia-Pacific Film Fest

    MUMBAI: Anurag Kashyap`s Gangs of Wasseypur has bagged four nominations, including best film and best director, at the 55th Asia-Pacific Film Festival.

    It has also been nominated in the best supporting actress category (Huma Qureshi) and best art direction (Suikal Bose).

    Two other films – Kahaani and Barfi‘ have also been nominated. While Vidya Balan has been shortlisted in the best actress category for Kahaani, Barfi has been nominated for its music by Pritam Chakraborty.

    The other films in contention for the best movie along with Gangs of Wasseypur 1 & 2 are I Wish, Life Without Principle, Lore, Masquerade and Bunohan Apparat.

    Thirty films will contend for the final awards in this year`s festival with the theme The New Starting Line.

    Nominated for best actor are Lee Byung-hun (Masquerade), Lau Ching Wan (Life Without Principle), Eddie Garcia (Bwakaw), Joseph Chang (GF*BF), Masato Sakai (Key of Life) and Tony Leung Kar Fai (Cold War) while the nominees for best actress besides Vidya are Song Jia (Falling Flowers), Gwei Lun Mei (GF*BF), Im Soo-jung (All about My Wife), Prisia Nasution (The Dancer) and Nora Aunor (Thy Womb).

    The list will be assessed by the juries through two rounds of voting.

    Winners will be announced on 15 December.

  • Raaz3 attracts audiences as Joker performs dismally

    Raaz3 attracts audiences as Joker performs dismally

    Mumbai: Raaz3 took an excellent draw in its opening weekend by collecting Rs 360.2 million. The collections were better at 3-D screening multiplexes and the film is reported to be sustaining well on Monday as well.

    Joker laboured through its first week at the box office. Disowned by its hero and part-producer Akshay Kumar, moviegoers followed suit as the film found few takers ending its first week with a meagre Rs 191 million.

    From Sydney With Love, Jalpari -The Desert Mermaid and I Am 24 fared poorly in their first week.

    Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi collected Rs 17.5 million in its second week to take its total collection to Rs 114 million.

    Ek Tha Tiger, after sweeping the box office in its opening nine days, is now steadily inching towards the Rs two billion mark. At the end of the third week (23 days) the film has collected Rs 1.95 billion with the addition of Rs 100.1 million during the week. The fourth weekend collections were Rs 23.1 million and, at the end of day 26, the collections added up to Rs 1.97 billion.

    Gangs Of Wasseypur came to the end of its run with a symbolic Rs 4.5 million for the fourth week taking its total collection to Rs 230 million.

  • Akshay fans shun Joker; Tiger manages to attract viewers

    Akshay fans shun Joker; Tiger manages to attract viewers

    Mumbai: Joker failed to find any slot and faced near total rejection from the moviegoers. As the film‘s hero Akshay Kumar kept away from the film‘s promotions, his fans followed suit by staying away from the cinema halls.

    For Sonakshi Sinha, this is her first failure after two hits (Dabangg and Rowdy Rathore). The film managed a poor Rs 147 million for the opening weekend.

    Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi was not appreciated and ended its first week on the lower side of Rs 100 million, finishing at Rs 96.5 million.

    Ek Tha Tiger, despite a massive multiple screen/show release, added just Rs 306.2 million in its second week, which took its two week (16 day) total to Rs 1.84 billion. It further added Rs 65.1 million over the third weekend, taking its 19 day total to Rs 1.91 billion.

    Gangs Of Wasseypur collected Rs 11 million in its third week, taking its total tally to Rs 225.5 million.

    JIsm2 added Rs 1.5 million in the fourth week taking its total collection to Rs 358.5 million.

  • Jism 2 first weekend collection at Rs 209 mn

    Jism 2 first weekend collection at Rs 209 mn

    Mumbai: Jism2, starring porn star Sunny Leone, drew curious crowds as it opened but took a beating as the new week dawned. The movie known for its sleaze content, had a first weekend collection of about Rs 209 million, including Rs 7.4 million collected from paid previews a day before the regular Friday release on 3 August.

    Kya Super Kool Hai did very well in its first week to collect Rs 352 million, the advantage being a low price tag. The second weekend proved decent enough with figures of Rs 55 million.

    Aalaap, a film about Naxals v/s youth, fared poorly at the box office and collected about Rs one million in its first week. Mere Dost Picture Abhi Baki Hai, with total collections of Rs 1.3 million over two weeks, is a lost proposition.

    Cocktail sailed through its third week with figures of Rs 39 million. Bol Bachchan added Rs 45 million in the fourth week to take its total collections to Rs 975 million so far.

    Gangs Of Wasseypur collected Rs 800000 in its sixth week taking its total to Rs 261.5 million. Rowdy Rathore took its nine week total to Rs 1.39 billion, adding Rs 1.8 million for the week.

  • Anurag Kashyap retrospective in Germany

    Anurag Kashyap retrospective in Germany

    MUMBAI: A retrospective of Anurag Kashyap‘s films has been arranged at Hamburg, Germany from 11 to 16 July.

    The screening, to be held at the Hamburg-based Metropolis Cinema, has been organised under the banner of Daring Pioneers of Indian Cinema on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Indian cinema during the India Week 2012.

    Films of Kashyap that would be screened on the occasion are Gangs Of Wasseypur, That Girl In Yellow Boots and Black Friday with Kashyap‘s Dev-D opening the event. Notable filmmaker, Fatih Akin will introduce Kashyap and his works.

    Said Kinemathek Hamburg international programming head Rita Baukrowitz, “Under the title of ‘Daring Pioneers of Indian cinema‘, the Metropolis cinema is now presenting for the works of outstanding Indian directors. This time the focus is on present-day cinema and on Kashyap, the pioneer of the new independent movement within the Hindi film industry. In his films, Kashyap draws special inspiration from the works of the Hamburg film-maker Fatih Akin – a feeling of admiration that is mutual. We are looking forward to an interesting cinema discussion between Akin, Kashyap and Nair.”

    Said Kashyap in a statement, “”I am very honoured to be presenting all my films in Hamburg and really happy to be hanging out with Fatih again. He always inspires me and this time too hoping to come back rejuvenated.”

    The Kinemathek Hamburg, in cooperation with the Indian Embassy in Berlin, the Consulate-General of India in Hamburg and the Hamburg Ministry of Culture, will be presenting this comprehensive film programme on modern Indian cinema to commemorate 60 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

  • Bol Bachchan nets Rs 431 mn in opening weekend

    Bol Bachchan nets Rs 431 mn in opening weekend

    MUMBAI: The Ajay Devgn and Abhishek Bachchan starrer Bol Bachchan, which had an average opening on Friday, did not raise much on Saturday. However, it made up with a huge leap on Sunday to end its opening weekend with net box office collection of Rs 431 million.

    Teri Meri Kahaani collected Rs 47 million in its second week, taking its total to Rs 281.5 million.

    Gangs Of Wasseypur collected Rs 69 million in its second week and has collected Rs 240 million at the box office so far.

    Ferrari KI Sawaari’s third week collection stood at Rs 27 million. The film has raked in a total of Rs 268 million over three weeks.

    Rowdy Rathore collected Rs 27 million in its fifth week to take its box office collections to Rs 1.37 billion.

  • ‘Maximum’ disaster at BO

    ‘Maximum’ disaster at BO

    MUMBAI: Maximum, the film lacking on all counts from face value to content, became a disaster at the box office. The film managed to collect just about Rs 13 million over its opening weekend and its run may be curtailed today onwards for want of patrons.

    Teri Meri Kahaani remained poor at the box office and will fall far short of its high price of Rs 480 million for its domestic theatrical, satellite and audio rights; a grossly bad bargain for Wave Pictures. All the recovery that the film could muster pre-release was of Rs 40 million from audio rights and sale of two small circuits. The film has collected Rs 234.5 million in its first week with second weekend adding another Rs 35 million. The projected loss is over 50 per cent of investment as the prospects of decent recovery from the satellite rights have dwindled greatly.

    Gangs of Wasseypur has found its audience in some adventurous and curious few as it collected Rs 171 million in its first week; the curiosity tapered as the second weekend ended with figures of Rs 38 million.

    Ferrari KI Sawaari, which had collected Rs 177 million in its first week, added Rs 63 million in week two to take its total to Rs 241 million.

    Shanghai managed to collect only Rs 4 million in its third week, taking its tally to Rs 234 million.

    Rowdy Rathore maintained steady collections; with a figure of Rs 35.5 million in its fourth week, the film has so far collected Rs 1.34 billion.

    Vicky Donor collected Rs 1.1 million in its 10th week. Its net at the box office stands at Rs 419.5 million.