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  • World premiere of Chittagong at IFFLA

    World premiere of Chittagong at IFFLA

    MUMBAI: Bedabrata Pain‘s film Chittagong will have its world premiere at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) on 10 April.

    The film gets to open on the silver screen after a two-year-long arduous journey. The Manoj Bajpai-starrer was supposed to release way back in 2010, but since Ashutosh Gowariker‘s Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey (2010) also revolved around the Chittagong revolution of 1930, the film was delayed.

    Said Pain, “Emotionally, both me and Shonali (Shonali Bose co-writer and wife) were in a sad state. Despite having lost our teenage son in an accident, we completed the film before its then-release date. Yet we have had to wait for two years.”

    Pain, who is one of the inventors of the active pixel sensor technology that produced the world‘s smallest camera which has been inducted to the US Space Technology Hall of Fame, is now waiting to release his film in India.

    Other films that will also be screened at the festival are Abhinay Deo‘s Delhi Belly and Sriram Raghavan‘s Agent Vinod, besides critically acclaimed films like Salim Ahmed‘s Abu Son of Adam (2011), Rajan Khosa‘s Gattu, Karan Gour‘s Kshay and Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni‘s Deool.

  • Eros International and Prakash Jha sign three-film deal

    Eros International and Prakash Jha sign three-film deal

    New Delhi: Eros International Media Ltd (EIML) has announced it will be co-producing three films with Prakash Jha Productions.

    The first of the films, ‘Chakravyuh’ directed by Prakash Jha, will star Abhay Deol, Arjun Rampal, Esha Gupta, Manoj Bajpai and others. Written by Prakash Jha, Anjum Rajabali and Sagar Pandya, it has music by Salim-Sulaiman. ‘Chakravyuh’ is scheduled to go on floor on 7 April.

    Commenting on the multi-film tie-up, EMIL Managing Director Sunil Lulla said, “It is great to be associated with good cinema and one can expect thought provoking as well as popular film content from the very talented Prakash Jha. We look forward to this association and presenting quality entertainment to film enthusiasts”.

    Prakash Jha added, “Our association with Eros goes back to ‘Mrityudand’ and we are happy to work with them on a regular and long term basis for creating content.”

  • Gangs of Wasseypur Part 1 coming on 29 June

    Gangs of Wasseypur Part 1 coming on 29 June

    MUMBAI: Anurag Kashyap’s film Gangs of Wasseypur Part 1 will release on 29 June.

    A film about the coal mafia in Dhanbad (Jharkhand), has been made in two parts, each of two hours and forty minutes in length.

    Directed by Anurag Kashyap, the film stars Jaideep Ahlawat, Manoj Bajpai and Richa Chadda.

    The second part of the film will release by the end of the year.

  • Piyush Jha to be felicitated at Global Meet 2012 of Pravasi Bihari

    Piyush Jha to be felicitated at Global Meet 2012 of Pravasi Bihari

    MUMBAI: Noted film director Piyush sJha, famous for making movies on ‘Badland Bihar’ ,will be felicitated in Global Meet 2012 of Pravasi Bihari, which will be held in the state’s capital city from 17-19 February.

    Besides participating in a panel discussion of Doordarshan, the filmmaker is also expected to announce his upcoming movie, which will be a political action thriller.

    Global Meet 2012 of Pravasi Biharis is expected to provide a forum to facilitate communication and interaction between non-resident Biharis (NRB’s) and the state of Bihar.

    Other notables from the film industry who are expected to attend are Shatrughan Sinha, Shekhar Suman, and Manoj Bajpai among others.

  • Sunil Bohra to release Pain’s Chittagong

    Sunil Bohra to release Pain’s Chittagong

    MUMBAI: Producer-director Bedabrata Pain is a relieved man after filmmaker Anurag Kashyap and his distributor friend Sunil Bohra coming forward to bail out the filmmaker and undertaking to be a presenters of his film Chittagong with Sunil Bohra alone distributing the film as well.


    Confirming the same Bohra said, “Anurag is a good friend. He liked the film a lot and told me about it. We are jointly presenting the film and we will try and ensure that the film has a wide release like any other commercial film.”


    The film, starring Manoj Bajpai, is set against the backdrop of a little known saga in 1930s British-occupied India, where a group of schoolboys and young women, led by a schoolteacher, Masterda Surjya Sen dared to take on the British Empire.


    With the release, Pain‘s Chittagong stands to be the second film on the Chittagong uprising after Ashutosh Gowariker‘s film Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey.

  • Vikram Bhatt’s Lanka to release on 9 December

    Vikram Bhatt’s Lanka to release on 9 December

    MUMBAI: Vikram Bhatt‘s much awaited action drama Lanka is slated for a worldwide release on 9 December.

    Lanka is an emotional journey of a man torn between the loyalty for his mentor and the empathy he feels for a girl; a journey of a modern-day ‘Asur‘ (Devil) who chose to be a man; a journey of a man who would be termed a traitor by some and righteous by others.

    Touted as modern day folklore, Lanka is about love, loyalty, betrayal and justice.

    The movie stars Manoj Bajpai as Raavan, Arjan Bajpai as Vibhishan along with Tia Bajpai.

    The film is produced by ASA Production and directed by Maqbool Khan.