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  • IFP rings in fifteen years of creativity and culture

    IFP rings in fifteen years of creativity and culture

    MUMBAI: Fifteen and fabulous! India Film Project (IFP) is all set to celebrate its milestone 15th edition, returning to Mumbai’s iconic Mehboob Studios on 29 and 30 November for a weekend bursting with stories, art, and unfiltered creativity.

    What started as a spark between a few passionate creators has now grown into the world’s largest festival celebrating creativity x culture, a global platform where filmmakers, writers, designers, musicians, and dreamers come together to create, collaborate and reimagine storytelling.

    This year’s line-up is nothing short of stellar. The jury features cinematic heavyweights and creative icons including Dibakar Banerjee, Sheeba Chaddha, Hariharan, Bilal Siddiqi, Santhy Balachandran, Ravi Jadhav, Kanu Behl, Mukesh Chhabra, and Gajesh Mitkari, among others.

    At the festival’s heart lie the 50 hour creative challenges, IFP’s signature event where imagination meets the ticking clock. From filmmaking and music to design, photography, writing, and performing arts, this year’s challenges drew over 40,000 participants from 350 cities across 23 countries, a testament to IFP’s ever-growing creative tribe.

    Reflecting on the milestone, IFP founder Ritam Bhatnagar shared, “What began as a small dormitory idea is now one of the world’s biggest celebrations of creativity. Fifteen years later, IFP continues to be that space where creative people come together, experiment, and grow.”

    For filmmaker Dibakar Banerjee, being part of the jury felt like coming full circle. “Storytelling thrives on curiosity, and that’s what IFP embodies. Fifteen years in, it still surprises and inspires.”

    Echoing the sentiment, Sheeba Chaddha added, “There’s a rare joy in being part of IFP. It’s a space that lets artists express freely and evolve without boundaries.”

    Over the years, IFP has hosted over 1.2 lakh creators, 1400 speakers, and creative legends like Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mira Nair, Vicky Kaushal, and Javed Akhtar, proving that it’s not just a festival, but a movement.

    This November, IFP once again promises two unforgettable days where every idea, big or small, finds its spotlight. So if creativity runs in your veins, Mehboob Studios is the place to be.

  • 9th Season of Asia’s largest content festival, India Film Project concluded with the celebration of creative minds

    9th Season of Asia’s largest content festival, India Film Project concluded with the celebration of creative minds

    Mumbai: Happiness, enthusiasm and festive fervour prevailed over the last weekend at Mumbai’s Mehboob Studios as Asia’s largest content festival India Film Project was concluded with much fanfare.One of the most anticipated events of the year IFP, in its 9th edition, witnessed over 35000 participants from across the boundaries and over 100 celebrities from films, digital, music and literature. The attendants amassed valuable insights from the masterclasses, celebrity panel discussions and numerous workshops. The sessions highlighted the various nuisances of the artistic, storytelling and creative aspects of filmmaking.

    Talking about the much-awaited event, Ritam Bhatnagar, Founder, India Film Project, said, “I am overwhelmed by the response that we have received for IFP this year. This festival was conceptualised to offer a learning& networking opportunity across all domains of films, digital,literature and music.. Filmmaking and creative arts in India have come a long way, and it’s great to witness young minds illustrating their narratives. The success of this seasonhas yet again proved that good storytelling can come from anywhere & can transcend existing boundaries of thought and imagination.”

    Nikhil Taneja, festival creative director said "Every year, it is so gratifying to see yet again that India Film Project has become the one-stop destination for over 12,000 young people from 130 cities across the country, to learn from, interact with and collaborate on other young and old filmmakers and film fans like them. This year, we saw full houses for masterclasses and conversations featuring legends like Naseeruddin Shah, Javed Akhtar and Manoj Bajpayee and for youth icons like Zakir Khan, Prajakta Koli, Kusha Kapila and Ishaan Khatter. Every conversation was house full, every masterclass was overbooked and every workshop found massive attendance. It means so much to us that this is the only youth festival in the country that appeals to both the minds and the hearts of the people. We are so grateful to everyone who attended and we can't wait for Season 10 next year!"

    Sharin Bhatti, festival curator for literature and music said "I am thrilled and delighted to have had the opportunity to curate the literature and music conversations for India Film Project in their 9th year. The idea was to get the best in their craft to gather on stage and engage in meaningful and relevant conversations for the creators of tomorrow. It was endearing to see the reactions of all the participants. From Devdutt Pattanaik to Shelleji, screenwriter Kamna Chandra with her talented daughters Tanuja Chandra and Anupama Chopra to Harinder Sikka and Female authors. Naezy to Ritviz, spoken word artists to lyricists- the range of conversations were truly entertaining and rewarding. I hope to continue working with IFP to keep getting cooler and bigger artists and creators on the same stage."

    The two-day content festival witnessed speakers from different fields of art ranging from films, comics, literature, music and hosted a series of interesting conversations, AMA’s and workshops. Celebrities like Rajkumar Rao, Javed Akhtar, Naseeruddin Shah, Manoj Bajpayee, Swara Bhaskar, Ishaan Khatter, Jim Sarbh, Vikramaditya Motwane, Nitesh Tiwari, Radhika Madan, Kirti Kulhari, Anand Gandhi, Devdutt Pattnaik, Ravinder Singh, Abish Mathew, Zakir Khan, Prajakta Koli, Kusha Kapila, Aparshakti Khurana,  Divya Dutta, Abhishek Chaubey, Apurva Asrani, Ritviz, Anupama Chopra, Divya Dutta, Kubrra Sait, Sumukhi Suresh,Beer Biceps, Flying Beast, Ravinder Singh, The Jordindian, Be YouNick and many more have shared their experiences with the audiences present at the venue.

    Veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah spoke at the conversation titled ‘Making of a Legend – A Masterclass in acting’ whereas the conversation titled ‘Cardinal Sins of Cinema’ witnessed legendary writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar as a guest speaker talking about the golden era of cinema and how every decade has it's good and bad aspects. Segment moderated by Faridoon Shahryar, ‘The Showcase: Sheer Qorma’ saw actors Divya Dutta&Swara Bhaskar along with the makers Faraz Ansari and Marijke D’Souza giving an ode to female queer love story and unveiling the movie poster. The conversation titled – ‘Cultural Impact: What is the key to creating Authentic and real LGBTQ characters on screen’ witnessed Kubra Sait, Apurva Asrani, and Onir as panellists. The session moderated by Renil Abraham spoke about the portrayal of the LGBTQ characters on screen and their characterization. Aparshakti Khurrana moderated of Manoj Bajpayaee titled as ‘Signature Masterclass: The Making of a Legend’.

    The gala event was concluded with the award ceremony for 50 hours filmmaking challenge. This year Bollywood bigwigs Abhishek Chaubey, Pradeep Sarkar, Apurva Asrani, Bhavani Iyer, amongst others, were on board to judge the series of challenges. Here is a comprehensive list of the winners.

    Professional Category

    Team

    Movie Name

    City

    Platinum Film of the Year

    @not.just.a.dentist

    Paul

    Nagpur

    Gold Film of the Year

    Word of Mouth Media

    GAURA

    Dehradun

    Silver Film of the Year

    Candor Bros Entertainment

    Perfect Gods

    Chennai

    Bronze Film of the Year

    Brand Icon Studio

    Inside

    Indore

    #5 Film of the Year

    Lights On Films

    Tales of Passion – A biopic of an environmentalist

    Mumbai

    My Signature Award

    EBC Originals

    Mere Papa Google Par

    Mumbai

    Amateur Category

    Team

    Movie Name

    City

    Platinum Film of the Year

    Vilvanaram

    Janu

    Chennai

    Gold Film of the Year

    22nd Society

    Thanthooni Thuruthu

    Kochi

    Silver Film of the Year + Best use of Adobe Premiere Pro for Editing

    90's Kids

    Mehsoos

    Mumbai

    Bronze Film of the Year

    Pichchar

    Anjaan

    Dehradun

    #5 Film of the Year + Best use of Mirrorless Camera for Cinematography

    Nature Surferers

    BANDISH

    Mumbai

    Mobile Category

    Team

    Movie Name

    City

    Platinum Film of the Year

    UA Productions

    Kheer

    Kolkata

    Gold Film of the Year

    BistroBethak

    Itwar

    Mumbai

    Silver Film of the Year

    EkJagaah

    FLAWED

    Mumbai

    Bronze Film of the Year

     

    Shot Down

    Mumbai

    #5 Film of the Year

    Abhraneel & Bros.

    The Dream Project

    Kolkata

    India Film Project has also joined hands with two giants of the entertainment industry, PVR Cinemas and MTV who were on board as partnersthis season. The winning titles will be theatrically released in PVR cinemas across Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Pune, Hyderabad, and Chandigarh. Furthermore, these movies will also be premiered on MTV over weekends on a prime-time slot for 6 months.

    As this year’s edition of India Film Project marked its end, all those present at the event parted with a heart full of joy and memories to cherish.
    India Film Project season 9 was presented by Signature, with a common aim to enable passionate creators by providing them a relevant platform
     

  • National Film Museum to finally open next week in Mumbai

    National Film Museum to finally open next week in Mumbai

    NEW DELHI: The long-in-the-making National Museum of Indian Cinema (NMIC) showcasing India’s rich film heritage over the past 100 years will finally open in Mumbai next week to coincide with the Mumbai International Film Festival for shorts, documentaries and animation films.

     

    Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Minister Manish Tewari will be the chief guest at the opening of the Festival on 3 February. 

     

    “As the Indian cinema enters a new century, the national museum of Indian cinema coming up in Mumbai is a small tribute of the Ministry to the great film heritage of India. We have also launched a Rs-600 crore National Film Heritage Mission to digitise best of Indian cinematic works and archive them for the benefit of future generations,” said Tewari recently while outlining various steps taken by the government to promote cinema in India.

     

    The Minister also reviewed the preparations for the museum’s inauguration with Films Division officials and experts. The inauguration will coincide with the Mumbai International Film Festival for short, documentary and animation films that commences on 3 February.

      
    The National Museum of Indian Cinema is situated in the 6,000 square-foot Gulshan Mahal – a heritage building on Pedder Road in South Mumbai. Gulshan Mahal’s interiors have been refurbished to house an interactive walkthrough down cinema’s memory lane. It is part of a larger complex of 50,000 sqft that will come up in phases.

     
    The museum will be a ready-reckoner of the history of Indian cinema showcasing technological aspects of production and screening of films, as well as its social aspects during the past 100 years. Through its interactive galleries, it will trace the evolution of celluloid from the Lumiere Brothers, Raja Harishchandra onwards, and showcase Indian cinema in three stages – silent era, golden era and the modern era. It will portray the footsteps taken by Indian cinema, from the period of silent films to the studio period, and then recreate the times when stars and mega stars dominated the silver screen.

     

    An Advisory Committee headed by renowned filmmaker Shyam Benegal has guided the Films Division in establishing the museum.

     

    Visitors can also watch clips of old classics on a number of monitors or listen to rare film music from the past. There is also an interesting collection of posters of landmark movies from across India. A section on regional cinema is also on display.

     

    Many famous studios of yesteryears like Mehboob Studios, RK Studios and Prasad Studios have donated equipment to the museum. Some private collectors too have come forward to donate items. The Films Division, which was set up in 1941, to produce short films to disseminate information during war time, has also displayed old Eymo and Mitchel cameras, recording equipment etc. Also of interest are some older instruments that created an illusion of movement, which were precursor to the movie camera. 

    NMIC has been curated by the National Council of Science Museums, Kolkata, under the Ministry of Culture, which manages 55 various kinds of museums in the country.

  • Johnnie Walker The Journey brings together the worlds most inspiring and progressive artists

    Johnnie Walker The Journey brings together the worlds most inspiring and progressive artists

    MUMBAI : Johnnie Walker is all set to celebrate its legacy and philosophy of personal progress through a one day festival called The Journey, scheduled to take place on 14th December at Mehboob Studios, Mumbai.

    The Journey will showcase inspiring performances by the legendary The Alan Parsons Live Project, the mesmerizing Ouroboros- TheHandspring Puppet Company, the maverick theatre producer – John N. Hart Jr., the earnest creative director Shane Carruth and the liberal ‘Q’ a.k.aQaushiq Mukherjee. Each of these artistes offer an inspirational, stimulating and exciting story of personal and social progress, a critical attribute that makes them an ideal choice for this unique platform.

    A confluence of global art and culture, The Journey will give audiences a wealth of cultural knowledge and inspiring content. It is expected to emerge as the cutting edge platform in India that will give audiences an opportunity to interact with experts, share progressive ideas and connect with like-minded people through moving performances, workshops and demonstrations.

    Announcing the launch of Johnnie Walker The Journey – BhaveshSomaya, Marketing Director, Diageo India said, “We are confident that Johnnie Walker The Journey will set a new benchmark in the industry and lead a progressive movement among the Indian audiences. The festival will present a wealth of cultural knowledge and content that will be narrated by artistes, who have an intriguing story of personal progress.”

    From world renowned performing artistes and musicians to movie makers, exponents of multiple disciplines will stir the imagination and take spectators on an awe inspiring sensory journey. The festival will surely leave them with inspirations that could significantly impact their lives.

  • Mumbai HC relief for Sanjay Gupta

    Mumbai HC relief for Sanjay Gupta

    MUMBAI: In a case of cheating and forgery against filmmaker Sanjay Gupta for allegedly copying the letterhead of the Mumbai Police Commissioner registered by the Mumbai police, the Bombay High Court has granted him anticipatory bail against a bond of Rs 10,000. Earlier, the Sessions Court had rejected anticipatory bail for Gupta.

    Soon after, Gupta approached the HC for justice. Justice A V Nirgude, who was officiating in the matter, said in his order: “This is an innovative invitation, that’s it. The police officers who registered the offence have lost their sense of humour,” he observed.

    It was alleged that Gupta Wadala carried the rubber stamp of the Mumbai Police that was used on invites sent out for the unveiling of his film Shootout At Wadala for a press conference at Mehboob Studios last week.

    The court observed that no intention to commit fraud was disclosed by the police in the case. The police could not prove any wrongful gain or loss on part of the producers of the movie, the court remarked.

    However, additional public prosecutor Rajeshree Gadhvi said that the invitation was misleading and the producers had not taken prior permission from the CP to issue it using the seal of his office.

    Shootout at Wadala, based on the first-ever registered encounter by Mumbai police who shot dead gangster Manya Surve at Wadala in 1990s, is being produced by Balaji Motion Pictures along with Gupta’s White Feather Films. The film stars Anil Kapoor, Kangana Ranaut, John Abraham and Tusshar Kapoor.

  • Dev Anand’s funeral on Saturday

    Dev Anand’s funeral on Saturday

    MUMBAI: Dev Anand will be cremated at the Putney Vale Crematorium in London on 10 December at 11.40 am. Later, at about 2 pm, a condolence meeting has been organised at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in West Kensington.

    This was decided by the actor‘s wife Kalpana Kartik and daughter Devina. His ashes will later be brought to India, where a ceremony of remembrance will be held at the Mehboob Studios in Mumbai. Later the actor‘s son Suniel Anand will address the media there.

    Suniel Anand said in a statement, “In due course, Dev Anand‘s ashes will be taken back to India, where a major ceremony of remembrance will be held in Mumbai. The family of Dev Anand is moved and touched by the outpouring of public sympathy and love emanating from India, South Asia and the rest of the world following the sad news of his passing away.

    “Accordingly, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to everyone for their kind words and moral support. These have been of tremendous comfort and support to them throughout this very difficult period,” he said.

    Meanwhile, PVR Rare Film Club will pay tribute to Dev Anand by screening his evergreen classic Hum Dono at nine PVR cinemas across the country in its digitally restored colour print.