Tag: King Khan

Civic Studios announces world premiere of animation feature ‘Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust’ at Rotterdam Film Festival in 2024

Mumbai: Civic Studios, a global media company creating entertainment that drives social impact, proudly announces the world premiere of Indo-French-German production ‘Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust’ at the 2024 edition of the Rotterdam Film Festival in its Bright Future section, aimed at up-and-coming filmmakers with innovative, original, and daring work. This marks the feature debut of the award-winning Indian filmmaker Ishan Shukla, whose 2016 animated short “Schirkoa” played at more than 120 international film festivals and won 33 awards, including Best Animated Short award at LA Shorts Fest.

‘Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust’ tells the story of a dystopian world where people are made to wear paper bags over their heads to dissolve differences, and an anonymous citizen sparks an accidental revolution.

The film features a powerful, diverse voice cast, including Golshifteh Farahani, Asia Argento, SoKo, King Khan, Denzil Smith, John Sutton, and introducing Tibu Fortes and Shahbaz Sarwar. The guest voices will also include iconic Indian talents like Karan Johar, Shekhar Kapur, Anurag Kashyap, and Piyush Mishra. The film’s eclectic, immersive soundtrack is composed by the acclaimed Sneha Khanwalkar, who has created iconic scores for films like Gangs of Wasseypur and Oye Lucky Lucky Oye.

On the announcement of its Rotterdam world premiere, Civic Studios founder Anushka Shah, expressed, “With ‘Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust,’ we knew the film and Ishan’s vision will push the boundaries of animation and storytelling, celebrating a harmonious blend of diverse cultures, ideas and creative heft. It is thrilling to receive that recognition and premiere on a prestigious stage like Rotterdam.”

This film is a co-production between Red Cigarette Media (Ishan Shukla’s Vadodara-based animation studio), Dissidenz Films (Paris-based production company), and Rapid Eye Movies (German production and distribution company), in association with Civic Studios (Mumbai and London-based production studio focused on impact storytelling) and French Sofica Cofinova 18. On the Indian side, it has been by Shah and co-produced by Samir Sarkar.

The film was also supported by CNC Cinémas du Monde, Epic MegaGrants, Film¬ und Medienstiftung NRW and French region Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

November 29, 2023
King Khan shares the magic of fresh ‘n’ juicy mangoes with his die-hard fans

MUMBAI: India’s most cherished mango drink- Frooti, announced winners of the ‘Share a Frooti with SRK’ contest. As a part of the contest, only ten blessed fans amongst the billion others in the country earned the chance to share a Frooti with none other than the King Khan.

The brand invited participation from Frooti enthusiasts and SRK loyalists, asking them to creatively describe their love for both through voice messages. All they had to do was dial-in on number specified on Frooti packs or online channels and narrate short stories, >mimic Shahrukh Khan’s dialogues, use Frooti’s iconic jingle tone etc alongwith describing their passion for Frooti and SRK. This nationwide contest ran for a duration of 4 months (April 10, 2013 – August 10, 2013) and ten best answers were selected. The winners came from across the country- New Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan including Maharashtra to spend a special evening with SRK.

Talking about his experience, Frooti’s brand ambassador Shahrukh Khan said, I would like to thank everyone who participated in the Frooti contest. I really enjoyed the time I spent with the winners who expressed their love for me so sweetly. Cheers to Frooti for organizing this amazing evening and good luck to all the participants.”

That is not all, the entire journey of fans coming from various parts of India is documented through webisodes that will be uploaded on Frooti’s official channel. It will capture everything starting from the time they leave their home, to them taking a flight, reaching Mumbai and finally meeting SRK.

‘Share a Frooti with SRK’ contest was conceptualized to create excitement around the association of number one superstar of the country with the number one mango drink and has received unprecedented success. The contest built strong engagement with the audience through telephonic calls and social platforms like Facebook and Twitter.

August 31, 2013
Star to unveil music video with ‘KBC’ host sporting the ‘Don look’

MUMBAI: All energies are being diverted towards introducing the third season of KBC with a ‘mighty bang’ and Star has shown no less vigour in promoting their prime property. The channel has unveiled teasers of a music video that will feature the ‘Don’ rapping to lyrics that read “Kar le Kar le Tu Aek Sawal.” As a prelude to the launch of the show, the three minute music video will premiere at 9 pm on 22 January.

Speaking to Indiantelevision.com Star India advertising, sales and distribution president Paritosh Joshi hopes that the new hip hop track will take on a life of it’s own and go on to become a regular addition to music channel, radio and night club play lists. “Morover, the track makes no mention of KBC.”

With no obvious mention of KBC, the visuals however definitely amplify the big question mark “?”, apart from the title of the track and opening line bearing the theme “Kar le Kar le Tu Aek Sawal.”

What’s interesting is that King Khan himself seemed to have devised this plan to promote the show. This may help facilitate a stir among the core ‘youth based’ audience, mainly women, that the show is attempting to reach out to this time.

However, the promo looks like a take off from the actor’s latest avatar in Don, not excluding ‘the black shades, bling and sexy women.’ This is in stark contrast to the more sober persona that the actor displays on the other promos for KBC.

The music video has been conceptualized, choreographed, directed and sung by Ganesh Hegde. The music has been done by Vishal and Shekhar and the lyrics by Shabbir, RD Telang, Kumar and Asif Baig.

January 17, 2007