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  • PVR to release Zero Dark Thirty and Midnight’s Children in Feb

    PVR to release Zero Dark Thirty and Midnight’s Children in Feb

    MUMBAI: PVR Pictures, the flagship film production and distribution arm of PVR Group, announced the release dates of two big films in February 2013.

    The first is Kathryn Bigelow‘s Zero Dark Thirty. The film is the story of history‘s greatest manhunt for the world‘s most dangerous man. It is slated to release in India on the 15 February.

    Zero Dark Thirty is a chronicle of the decade-long hunt for the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden following the 11 September attacks of 2001, and his death at the hands of U.S. Navy SEALs in May 2011.

    The film has bagged four nominations at the 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards. These include Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama) – Jessica Chastain, Best Director (Motion Picture) – Kathryn Bigelow and Best Screenplay (Motion Picture) – Mark Boal.

    Directed by Oscar winning director Kathryn Bigelow; the film stars Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton, Chriss Pratt, James Gandolfini, Edgar Ramirez and Mark Strong.

    Deepa Mehta‘s Midnight‘s Children based on the Booker Prize winning novel by Salman Rushdie is slated to release on 1 February.

    The film features Satya Bhabha, Shahana Goswami, Rajat Kapoor, Seema Biswas, Shriya Saran, Siddharth, Ronit Roy, Rahul Bose, Anupam Kher, Darsheel Safary, Soha Ali Khan, Shabana Azmi and Kulbhushan Kharbanda.

    Other films releasing under the PVR banner include The Impossible, Now You See Me and Broken City among others.

  • Censor board clears Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children

    Censor board clears Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children

    MUMBAI: Deepa Mehta‘s film based on Salman Rushdie‘s book Midnight‘s Children finally received the green signal by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) without a single cut.

    The movie is an adaptation of controversial author Salman Rushdie‘s 1980 Booker Prize-winning book of the same name.

    Mehta tweeted, "India here we come – intact! Great news – ‘Midnight‘s Children‘ went through Indian censor board …… without one pic cut. Salman Rushdie and I THRILLED."

    The film‘s cast includes Satya Bhabha, Shriya Saran, Siddharth, Anupam Kher, Shabana Azmi, Seema Biswas, Shahana Goswami, Rahul Bose, Soha Ali Khan, Ronit Roy, and Darsheel Safary.

    Midnight‘s Children is shot mostly in Sri Lanka and follows the story of a boy, Saleem Sinai, who is born at the exact time and date when India attained independence at midnight on 15 August 1947.

  • Deepa Mehta’s Midnight Children to release in India in December

    Deepa Mehta’s Midnight Children to release in India in December

    MUMBAI: After a lot of suspense around its release, PVR Pictures has acquired the distribution rights of Deepa Mehta‘s Midnight‘s Children based on Salman Rushdie‘s 1981 novel by the same name. The film is now being readied for release in India in December. The film was earlier mired with fears that it would not find a distributor in the country where it is set.

    Commenting on the acquisition and release of the film, PVR CEO Kamal Gianchandani said, “We‘re looking at releasing the film in December. We‘re yet to decide the release date.”

    Rushdie‘s Booker prize-winning novel includes highly critical descriptions of the late prime minister Indira Gandhi, who suspended democracy in India between 1975 and 1977 in a period known as The Emergency.

    Midnight‘s Children, which was adapted by Rushdie, was shot in Sri Lanka, where the government came under pressure from Iran to bring a halt to the project.

    The adaptation is due for worldwide release in October or November.