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  • Jackie Shroff, Sandip Soparrkar honoured at Navi Mumbai International Film Fest

    Jackie Shroff, Sandip Soparrkar honoured at Navi Mumbai International Film Fest

    NEW DELHI: Senior Bollywood actor Jackie Shroff and choreographer cum ballroom dancer Sandip Soparrkar received special honours at the Navi Mumbai International Film Festival (NMIFF) 2015 for their contribution in cinema. 

     

    The Festival showcased more than 400 films from over countries in its second edition.

     

    Soparrkar was especially honoured for his fantastic work in Hollywood and Bollywood films. “Sandip is a maestro in various forms of dance and has done immense work in spreading the dance culture across the country and the world. Many film stars from Bollywood and Hollywood have been trained by him and the young aspirants and artistes are learning from his great experience,” said Festival founder and chairman Sachin Khanna.

     

    Soparrkar has choreographed for several films including 7 Khoon Maaf, Mangal Pandey and Kites, and has popularised Bollywood dance on the international platform, apart from choreographing for icons like Britney Spears and Madonna. Through this art, he has also raised funds for various causes world over.

     

    Soparrkar said, “I feel humbled to be receiving this honour in front of so many film lovers from all over the world.”

     

    The NMIFF was founded with the idea to showcase the talent and creativity of filmmakers from all over the world in Navi Mumbai. 

  • Shiney Ahuja’s film Ghost releases 16 December

    Shiney Ahuja’s film Ghost releases 16 December

    MUMBAI: After an absence of almost three years from the film scene, Shiney Ahuja is making his comeback to Bollywood with Ghost.

    Ghost has been written, edited and directed by Puja Jatinder Bedi who had earlier co-produced films like Mangal Pandey and Guru. The film, also starring Sayali Bhagat, revolves around a city hospital as it witnesses a chain of blood curdling chilling murders and uncanny happenings.

    Said Jatinder Bedi,” The audience today are intelligent and mature and they need to see some real horror. I aim to scare them.”

    The horror film, produced by Bharat Shah and Jatinder Bedi, hits cinema houses on 16 December.

  • Exim Bank puts Rs 2 billion behind films in FY07, mulls equity in animation companies

    Exim Bank puts Rs 2 billion behind films in FY07, mulls equity in animation companies

    MUMBAI: For the Bollywood industry which is keen to tap the overseas market, there is good news. The Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) is willing to loosen its purse strings and has extended funding to the tune of Rs 2 billion for eight movies during the current fiscal.

    Exim Bank, in fact, has funded the recently released Yash Raj Films’ big ticket movie Dhoom 2. “We have lent Rs 2 billion to the film industry this fiscal,” Exim Bank chairman & managing director TC Venkat Subramaniam tells Indiantelevision.com. “Our total exposure to the sector is Rs 4 billion.”

    Of the other Yash Chopra movies funded by Exim Bank are Veer Zaara, Hum Tum, Bunty Aur Babli and Dum. The Bank has also financed Don (Rs 100 million) and Mangal Pandey – The rising (Rs 80 million). Exim Bank has been funding Hindi movie projects which have a potential to earn foreign currency revenues in the overseas market.

    Animation is another area in the entertainment sector that has drawn the attention of Exim Bank. It is eyeing the option of picking up equity in start-up animation companies. “With their outsourcing models, animation companies in India have the potential to grow. Apart from prividing debt, we may consider equity participation in the start-ups. But for the companies which are listed and are already enjoying high valuations, it doesn’t make sense for us to enter as equity partners because they are already highly valued,” says Subramaniam.

    Exim Bank is in talks with an animation company to provide finance for the expansion needs. With Crest Animation Studios Ltd, it has already agreed to lend $7 million to Crest Animation Studios Ltd.

    The Bank has extended lending to over Rs 4 billion for film projects which have potential to earn foreign exchange. “We are not only financing on production but also on the overseas distribution side.

    Noted film producer Bobby Bedi will approach Exim Bank to discuss his new project Mahabharata for which he plans to invest Rs 3-4 billion. Bedi is considering institutional financing for the epic project which will extend to a talent hunt, TV series, film trilogy, gaming, animation and a theme park. “Bedi is looking at an innovative financial structuring. He is taking the project to financial institutions. He is also going to approach Exim Bank for this,” an industry source says.

    Exim Bank will examine the cash-flow situation of the project as it spans over different formats and will take a longer period to complete.

  • Bobby Bedi has epic plans for ‘Mahabharata’

    Bobby Bedi has epic plans for ‘Mahabharata’

    MUMBAI: Noted film producer and Kaleidoscope Entertainment promoter Bobby Bedi is on an epic project. His plan: to repurpose Mahabharata so that it can roam across various formats including a TV series, a film trilogy, an animation product, and a theme park.

    Bedi had first announced plans for the Mahabharat project around the time his big-budget film Mangal Pandey released in August of 2005.

    “For creating the entire chain of products, it would require an investment of around Rs 4 billion. The idea is to make it for the global market,” Bedi tells Indiantelevision.com.

    First would be the creation of reality TV through a talent hunt for the Mahabharata characters. This, he says, would take about a year.

    The talent hunt would next move to a Mahabharata TV series which could stretch to 150 episodes. Dr Chandraprakash Dwivedi would direct the series. “It will transform Indian television and travel across the world. We can make it in many languages,” Bedi says.

    Bedi intends to invest Rs 160-170 million in just the development stage. “For completing the entire chain, it would require over three years. Developing gaming would require around $2 million,” he says.

    The animation work will be assigned to a company which has US and Indian base. He, however, refused to divulge the name of the animation firm.

    Will he rope in joint ventures to fund the project? “No, the investment will be done by Kaleidoscope. We may have partners,” he says.

    Mahabharata will be made into a comic book series as well. A theme park based on the Mahabharata is also in the pipeline.

    Delivering the keynote address at “India – The Big Picture,” Bedi said the project would involve multiple location shoots and be in multi-languages. “This is the direction Indian entertainment should be taking,” he added.

  • Bedi’s Kaleidoscope to develop TV, mobile content; announces Rs 200 mn strategic investment by ABP

    Bedi’s Kaleidoscope to develop TV, mobile content; announces Rs 200 mn strategic investment by ABP

    NEW DELHI: The Bobby Bedi promoted entertainment company Kaleidoscope Entertainment Pvt Ltd (KEPL) has announced a strategic partnership with leading Indian media conglomerate – ABP Pvt. Ltd.

    The ABP-Kaleidoscope partnership will capitalise on both companies’ strengths to create original content across media by producing high quality content for filmed entertainment, TV, mobile and Internet.

    ABP will pump in Rs 200 million to kickstart Kaleidoscope’s foray into new media, primarily focused at TV and mobile content development.

    A rapid scale up of operations is envisaged to establish a broad and deep presence as a provider of premium content for this space.

    “The paradigm of entertainment today has evolved beyond conventional definitions. The new media and digital content segment is growing in excess of 50 per cent annually and we envisage an acceleration driven by the ever widening consumer base for technology products,” Kaleidoscope Entertainment Pvt Ltd MD Bobby Bedi said.

    He also said that Kaleidoscope is “privileged” to join hands with the ABP Group, a blue chip media house in India, to leverage the best resources and expertise of both companies, offering rapid access to the fast growing entertainment industry, while also enabling us to quickly gear up to create and supply the mushrooming demand for technology driven entertainment content.
    According to ABP Pvt Ltd MD and CEO Pramath Raj Sinha, “A conglomeration of Kaleidoscope (one of India’s leading entertainment companies) and the ABP Group (one of the best in the business of media across genres) this enterprise is a win-win partnership for both the companies. This marks our foray into entertainment.”

    KEPL claimed it’s India’s first production house to follow an international approach in filmmaking and is an internationally recognised film and television production house with critically acclaimed films like Bandit Queen, Saathiya, Maqbool and Mangal Pandey – The Rising to its credit.

    The ABP Group has, today, evolved into one of the foremost media conglomerates in the country, with twelve premier publications, two 24-hour national TV news channels, two leading book publishing businesses, several mobile and Internet properties and a radio channel in the offing.