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  • 3D format of Sholay to release in 2012

    3D format of Sholay to release in 2012

    Mumbai: Ramesh Sippy‘s Sholay is expected to hit theatres again, albeit in a new avatar. This time, the film will be released in 3D.


    Producer-director Ketan Mehta’s high tech effects from Maya Digital Studios is working on the conversion of Sholay in 3D. The senior director at the studio Frank Foster is heading the project. It has been decided that due to technical restraints, most of the action sequences will be in 3D.


    Foster has confessed that transforming this 35-year-old movie that is not colour corrected from 2D to 3D was a very thought-provoking task. When movies normally have 2000 shots, Sholay has about 5000 shots that need to be boosted for better visual effects.


    The film, which is over three hours in length, is the longest to be converted into 3D. Sholay is expected to release next year.

  • 5th edition of Cinemascapes concludes

    5th edition of Cinemascapes concludes

    MUMBAI: The 5th edition of Cinemascapes, India’s leading conference cum expo to promote locations from India and overseas, was held in Mumbai recently.


    Among the places that were shown as prospective locations were Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh from India besides France, Maldives, Dubai and Thailand.


    The film dignitaries who attended the event included Yash Chopra, Mahesh Bhatt, Ramesh Sippy, Mukesh Bhatt, Manish Ghoswami, Raj Tilak, and Sunil Agnihotri.


    The occasion also marked a special session on regional cinema that was orgainsed by the Western India Film Producers Association (WIFPA). The session was to take Bhojpuri films on a fast track.


    Among those who addressed the session were songstress Deepa Narayan, producer-director Rajkumar Pandey, actress Sharon Thomas,WIFPA president Sangram Shirke, Mahavir Jain, sr. vice president, WIFPA, Ravindra Arora, joint treasurer, WIFPA and Dineshwar Sinha, EC Member, WIFPA. They guided the members on making of Bhojpuri Cinema.


    More than 400 delegates attended the 5th edition of Cinemascapes.
     

  • Ramesh Sippy re-elected as Film and TV Producers Guild president

    Ramesh Sippy re-elected as Film and TV Producers Guild president

    cThe first meeting of the newly elected Guild Council of Management, which was held immediately after the 57th Annual General Meeting on 29 September in Mumbai, also elected filmmakers Mukesh Bhatt, Vipul Shah and Ashutosh Gowariker and television producer Dheeraj Kumar as vice presidents.


    Manish Goswami and Ashim Samanta (son of Shakti Samanta) were elected
    treasurers.


    Some of the other members of the newly elected Council of Management of Guild are Yash Chopra, Manmohan Shetty, Kamal Kumar Barjatya, Amit Khanna, Rakesh Roshan, Bobby Bedi, Subhash Ghai, Karan Johar, Vishal Bharadwaj and Farhan Akhtar.
     

  • Ramesh Sippy back to direction after 16 years

    Ramesh Sippy back to direction after 16 years

    MUMBAI: Known to have directed films like Sholay and Seeta Aur Geeta among others, Ramesh Sippy is returning to helm a film after a gap of 16 years. The veteran filmmaker is set to direct a romantic film.

    Confirming the same Sippy said, "Yes, I am working on my next project, a romantic film. I am very excited with the way the script is shaping up and am looking forward to starting the casting process soon."
     
    The new silver screen presentation will be his first romantic film since the Kamal Hassan-Dimple Kapadia-starrer Saagar. The film is expected to roll next year under his RS Entertainment banner.

    It may be noted that Sippy has recently signed up for a remake of Gautham Menon‘s Tamil blockbuster Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya in which he will reprise the role of a Bollywood producer.