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  • Jolly LLB and Murder 3 to be screened at Shanghai Filmfest

    Jolly LLB and Murder 3 to be screened at Shanghai Filmfest

    NEW DELHI: Two Hindi films released in 2013 and made by Fox Star Studios – Subhash Kapoor‘s Jolly LLB and debutant filmmaker Vishesh Bhatt‘s Murder 3 will be featured at the 16th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) in its international panorama section.

     The Festival is being held from 16 to 23 June, and will open with Monsters University, the upcoming Pixar animated feature – the first time that the Shanghai festival will open with an animation film. The film will be shown in an English-language version, although it will be introduced on stage with its Chinese voice cast, headed by Xu Zheng and He Jiong. The animation, directed by Dan Scanlon (Cars), is a prequel to the original Monsters, Inc (2001). It will screen in Shanghai ahead of its global commercial release. The animation is set to open in the US mid-festival on 21 June.

    The Indian films will be part of the spectrum section of the international panorama section which also includes- Official Selection, Tribute to Masters, View China and Global Village.
     
    China‘s largest and one of Asia‘s biggest film festivals on the international circuit, the current edition of SIFF is expected to cater to more than 200,000 Chinese movie lovers apart from international visitors from across the globe.

    Fox Star CEO Vijay Singh said: "We are mighty pleased to get an invitation from the Shanghai International Film Festival. Jolly LLB and Murder 3 are films that we are proud of and they are also representative of our commitment towards creating diverse and high content cinema- which while being massy and entertaining also pushes the envelope. For us, it‘s an honour that in the 100th year of Indian cinema, we have got a chance to showcase different strands of our cinema at a global platform.

    The Shanghai event will also show a series of sixteen animated Pixar shorts and the 3-D re-release of Finding Nemo (2003).

  • BO: Kai Po Che picks up pace over weekend

    BO: Kai Po Che picks up pace over weekend

    MUMBAI: Abhishek Kapoor’s directorial venture Kai Po Che, which opened low and with mixed reports, picked up well over the weekend to collect Rs 168 million for the opening three days. This is generally on the patronage by multiplex audience as at places with single screens shows had to be cancelled due to lack of audience.

     

    Sanjay Dutt and Vivek Oberoi starrer Zila Ghaziabad did not fare as well and managed to collect Rs 104 million in its opening weekend.

     

    The Bhatt camp’s latest offering Murder 3 found little appreciation and resulted in a below average first week with collections of 171.5 million.

     

    Vivek Oberoi’s slack run at the box office continued as his second release this month, Jayantabhai KI Love Story, continued to do poorly. The film managed to collect just about Rs 25 million in its first week.

     

    Special 26 maintained steady collections in its second week to collect Rs 183 million, taking its box-office total to Rs 601 million.

     

    ABCD: Any Body Can Dance held well in its second week to collect Rs 91 million. Its two-week total is Rs 369 million.

     

    Race 2 added Rs 11 million in its fourth week to have box office collections of Rs 975.3 million so far, just shy of being the first movie in 2013 to cross the Rs one billion mark.

  • ABCD, Special 26 continue to do well

    ABCD, Special 26 continue to do well

    MUMBAI: Murder 3 is a Bhatt Brothers formula that fails this time. Lacking in face value and music to back it, the film has had a weak opening and a poor opening weekend. The film managed to collect Rs 112.5 million in its opening weekend.
     

    Viviek Oberoi starrer Jayantabhai Ki Love Story, a rather under-publicised and badly released film, is a write off from day one; it managed to collect just about Rs 17 million for the opening weekend.

    Special 26 has been helped to a great extent by good word of mouth as the film, which opened slow on Friday, 8 February, went on to pick up over the next two days, peaking on Sunday and then going on to maintain steady collections through the week to end its opening seven days with Rs 418 million. The film also benefits the most due to the poor new releases — Murder 3 and Jayantabhai Ki Love Story — to hold well in its second weekend to collect Rs 116 million taking its 10 day total to Rs 534 million.

    ABCD: Any Body Can Dance has appealed to youth and multiplex patrons. Its best performance is in western India while the east is not up to mark. The film collected Rs 278 million for its first week.

    Vishwaroop has not been able to impress the Hindi moviegoer. The film collected Rs 10.5 million in its second week taking its tally to Rs 128 million.

    Race2 collected another Rs 38 million for its third week taking its total to Rs 964.3 million.

    The coming Friday will see two new releases. While Kai Po Che is the second Chetan Bhagat novel to be adapted for a film (after 3 Idiots) and has immediate identification in Western India, Zila Ghaziabad has a highly UP flavour. So much so that the Delhi-UP distributors are very enthusiastic about the film and plan to release it at all the 20 multiplexes in Ghaziabad and all five in Noida besides booking maximum single screens in the circuit.

  • Murder 3: Poor direction, faulty casting

    Murder 3: Poor direction, faulty casting

    MUMBAI: Murder 3 is a usual Bhatt brand of film. Expect romance, passion, adultery, betrayal, crime and, often, good music. For want of titles as well as to avoid labouring to find one, the film is titled Murder 3 though, as one eventually discovers, is a misnomer. The film is a legit version of the Colombian film, La Cara Oculta (English title: The Hidden Face)

    Producer: Mukesh Bhatt.

    Director: Vishesh Bhatt.

    Cast: Randeep Hooda, Aditi Rao Hydari, Sara Loren, Rajesh Shringarpure, Shekhar Shukla, Bugs Bhargava.

    Randeep Hooda is a renowned wildlife photographer in South Africa. One fine day, a top agency in India invites him to shoot fashion photographs! What caused this desperate situation in the Indian fashion photography scene is left to the viewer‘s imagination. Hooda arrives with his girlfriend, Aditi Rao Hydari, in tow. She can‘t think of a life without him and chucks her career in South Africa.

    Hooda loves to be close to nature. He acquires a palatial villa away from the crowds, settles down with Hydari and gets on with his work. He loves Hydari immensely but is not averse to other affairs on the side. Hydari, with her woman‘s instincts, sniffs his proximity to a hair stylist but Hooda tackles her nagging by showing more affection every time. That is when Hydari learns of a hidden vault, a safe room in the villa from the time of its previous owner. It was built by the owner during the freedom struggle to escape mobs in case of trouble. Considering it was made in the 1940s, the vault is a marvel of technology. It has one way glasses, speakers with the whole villa bugged and is safe enough to survive for a long period without the outside world finding out.

    Desperate to check Hooda‘s love for her, Hydari decides to hide in the vault. She shoots her departing message on a camera that she is leaving for good and leaves a note for Hooda. She watches as Hooda walks into the villa with her favourite white roses, notices the note and is devastated to watch her message. Hydari is convinced Hooda loves her truly after watching his plight and now wants to come out of the vault and surprise him. Sadly for her, in the hurry to hide, she has dropped the key outside.

    Hooda has taken to drinking and drowning his sorrows in alcohol. On one such binge at a bar, totally knocked out of senses, he is noticed by a staffer, Sara Loren. She develops sympathy for him which turns into love and soon she replaces Hydari in Hooda‘s bed, oblivious to the fact that they are being watched from behind the glass. However, Loren‘s stay at the villa is not pleasant. There is an eerie feeling all around, sudden power outages and suspicious sounds from plumbing.

    Meanwhile, the police, Shekhar Shukla and Rajesh Shringarpure, are searching for the missing Hydari with their prime suspect being Hooda. Shringarpure has a rather personal interest in the case and for doubting Hooda since Loren has been his love since college, albeit one sided. There are no other characters in the story and hence no scope for red herrings.

    It should have been an easy enough task to adapt a foreign film but the problem starts with casting of Hooda as the lead man. Even though he wears an aura of mystery, in most parts he has to romance three girls which needed a romantic image. Dressing him up with a wig for straight hair does not help take away his hard face. The script makes the second half repeat most scenes of the first half. Vishesh Bhatt‘s direction needs much honing yet: an investigating officer, Shringarpure, is armed like a sharpshooter; a picnic spread looks like a small utility store, and so on. Music looks like a continuation of past scores and lacks appeal. Of the two, Hydari has the better part and does well while Loren is passable.

    Murder 3 is a no go at the box office.

  • Fox Star gearing up to release Murder 3 on 15 February

    Fox Star gearing up to release Murder 3 on 15 February

    MUMBAI: Fox Star Studios, India is gearing up to release Murder 3, their joint venture with Vishesh Films on 15 February, next year.

    Avers Fox Star Studios India CEO Vijay Singh, "We are very excited to announce that Murder 3 is up for 15 February release. Murder 1 and 2 had made a splash at the box office and with the third offering we aim to raise the bar. We are very happy to associate with Vishesh Films yet again and hope to recreate the Raaz 3 magic."

    Taking a step forward in their successful partnership forward, Fox Star Studios and Vishesh Films had joined hands once again to produce the third installment of the Murder franchise. The film also happens to mark the directorial debut of producer Mukesh Bhatt‘s son Vishesh Bhatt.

    Talking about the film‘s release, producer Mukesh Bhatt says," Murder 3 will release a day after Valentine‘s Day next year and we are very eager to see how the audiences lap up the latest film in the Murder franchise…the film is especially close to me since my son Vishesh makes his directorial debut with it."

    While their last joint venture Raaz 3 set a benchmark in the horror genre, the producers with Murder 3 this time around promise to thrill audiences with the Randeep Hooda, Aditi Rao Hydari starrer that tells the tale of the unraveling of a mysterious disappearance, all told in true Bhatt style.

  • Murder 3 to release on Valentine’s Day next year

    Murder 3 to release on Valentine’s Day next year

    MUMBAI: Fox Star Studios and Vishesh Films have teamed up for their next thriller Murder 3 that marks the directorial debut of producer Mukesh Bhatt‘s son Vishesh Bhatt.

    They have also announced that the film would release a day after Valentine‘s Day next year.
    Murder 3 starring Randeep Hooda and Aditi Rao Hydari tells the tale of the unraveling of a mysterious disappearance. Shooting of the film is already underway in South Africa.

    Talking about the film‘s release, producer Mukesh Bhatt avers, “Murder 3 will release a day after Valentine‘s Day next year and we are very eager to see how the audiences lap up the latest film in the Murder franchise. The film is especially close to me since my son Vishesh makes his directorial debut with the film.”

    Fox Star Studios India CEO Vijay Singh said, “We are very excited to announce that Murder 3 is up for release on 15 February. Murder 1 and 2 had made a splash at the box-office and with the third offering; we aim to raise the bar. We are very happy to associate with Vishesh Films yet again and hope to recreate the Raaz 3 magic.”

  • Murder 3 to release on 15 February next year

    Murder 3 to release on 15 February next year

    MUMBAI: After delivering hits like Murder 2, Jannat2 and the latest Raaz 3, Vishesh Films is back with another installment of its super hit franchise Murder.

    Like all the previous films, this film is again a thriller and is currently under production.

    The production house is making all round efforts to release Murder 3 around Valentine Day next year on 15 February.

    The film ought to be a special one for the Bhatts as Mukesh Bhatt‘s son Vishesh is to make his directorial debut with this film. The film has Bhatts‘ favourite Randeep Hooda teamed up with Aditi Rao Haydari.

    While Hooda impressed everyone with his last two outings in Jannat 2 and Jism 2, Aditi Rao got appreciated for her work in London Paris New York.