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  • Kamasutra 3D in the contention list for Oscars 2014 in three categories

    Kamasutra 3D in the contention list for Oscars 2014 in three categories

    New Delhi: Rupesh Paul’s Kamasutra 3D figures in the contention list of the 86th Academy Awards, with selection in the three categories – Best Motion Picture, Original Score and Original Song with five songs.

     

    It is the only movie from India contending in the music category lists. The results were announced on yesterday by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences on its official website.

     

    Kamasutra 3D has been slated for a 23 May 2014 release after its premiere.

     

    Presented by Dr George John (GJ Entertainments) and produced under the house of Rupesh Paul Productions (RPPL), in co-production and project design by Sohan Roy, Kamasutra 3D is the only movie with five songs after The Great Gatsby to be selected in the Original Song category. The songs include – Aygiri Nandini, Saawariya, I Felt, Of Soil and Har Har Mahadeva – composed by Chennai based music directors, Sachin and Sreejith while its lyrics are penned by Rupesh Paul and Pratyush Prakash.

     

    Also scripted and penned by Rupesh Paul, the movie is set in the backdrop of the real historical milieu portraying the journey of a soulful love embodied with betrayal and war. It weaves the transformative changes in body, mind and soul by the forbidden world of sexual love and sensuality.

     

    Recently, with the release of its work-in-progress trailer, Kamasutra 3D critically came out to be more of a Hollywood war based epic movie than a classic erotica, it hyped to be with the sensuous Sherlyn Chopra, initially.

     

    Director Rupesh Paul, however, confirmed that he would not disappoint his viewers expecting the movie to be a classic erotica.

     

    Speaking on the Oscar entry, he stated, “Probably now we have an answer for all of them who claimed the movie to be a soft porn. Hopefully, they know that soft porns are not eligible for the Academy Award nominations”. He would his movie to be considered a musical than epic or erotica as Kamasutra 3D is influenced with its melody over the drama.

     

    After creating the best of pre sale records at the Cannes Film Festival 2013 and the American Film Market 2013 with its sale in most of the territories, Kamasutra 3D is all hopeful to make it in the final nominations of the categories in the 86th Academy Awards to be announced on 16 January, 2014 in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

  • Saint Dracula to release on 29 March

    Saint Dracula to release on 29 March

    MUMBAI: Biz TV Networks and Rupesh Paul‘s horror romance Saint Dracula that stars Mitch Powell is slated for an all India release on 29 March.

    Defying the normal convictions which define Dracula, the film has secured the honour of being the first 3D movie in the Dracula series. And with the help of the latest 3D technology around, it is bound to create a new impact of horror effect in the international level with a romantic flavor.

    The story and screenplay of the film has been written by Rupesh Paul, while the entire project has been designed by Sohan Roy, who had earlier directed DAM 999.

    Saint Dracula will be released in five languages – English, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu. Even though the film has faced many cuts by the Censor Board, it has still earned an A certificate because of its horror content and few intimate scenes.

    Rupesh Paul‘s next release is Kamasutra 3D that will release after Saint Dracula 3D.

  • Saint Dracula 3D to screen at Jaipur International Film Festival

    Saint Dracula 3D to screen at Jaipur International Film Festival

    MUMBAI: Biz TV Networks and Rupesh Paul‘s forthcoming horror film Saint Dracula 3D will be screened at the prestigious Jaipur International Film Festival that is underway from 31 January.

    The preview screening will be held on 2 February, the last day of the festival.

    Speaking about his experience on the film, director Rupesh Paul said, “Saint Dracula is essentially the story of love and passion. While building up the script of Saint Dracula, I went through the most thumping love experience of my life.”

    “It was in the air; it touched me and distilled me. This exceedingly weird and wonderful personal experience facilitated the script. In another state of mind and love, this would not have been possible.”

    Incidentally, Saint Dracula 3D has also been widely acknowledged and appreciated for its theme and demeanor at Cannes Film Market, Berlin Film Market and American Film Market. It was specially honoured by the Motion Picture Association of Antigua (West Indies).

    The movie is slated for release across India in March 2013.

  • Sohan Roy’s next is Saint Dracula 3D

    Sohan Roy’s next is Saint Dracula 3D

    MUMBAI: Filmmaker Sohan Roy, whose Dam 999 was caught in a controversy in the country and also missed out on getting an Oscar nomination, has announced his next production venture Saint Dracula 3D.

    Saint Dracula 3D is a story of a powerful king of Romania who has a very ordinary human side to his personality. If the conventional portrait of Dracula shows him as blood thirsty, Saint Dracula portrays him as a human being thirsty for love.

    The Dracula in the film is someone who is loved and worshipped by the women of his land. He sacrifices his immortality for a woman he loves and hopes to marry.

    Produced by BizTV Network, the film will be directed by Rupesh Paul.

  • Saint Dracula to travel to European Film Market

    Saint Dracula to travel to European Film Market

    MUMBAI: BizTV network is gearing itself to present and promote its first ever 3D Dracula film, Saint Dracula, at the European Film Market (EFM), a part of the Berlin Film Festival.

    The entire project is designed by executive producer Sohan Roy, who had produced and directed DAM 999.

    “Unlike Bram Stroker‘s Dracula, which sends a chill through the spine, Saint Dracula portrays a different dimension of the vampire, who holds a hero figure in the nation of Romania and is christened as a saint in the Orthodox congregation of the nation,” averred Roy, while describing his film.

    The film‘s plot is set in the 20th century with Dracula falling in love with a nun who is apparently being used by the Catholic Church to conspire against the vampire.

    While Mitch Powell plays the vampire, others in the cast include Patricia Duarte, Daniel Shayler, Suzanne Roche, Anna Burkholder and Lawrence Larkin. Co-produced by Prabhiraj, the film has been written and directed by Malayalam director Rupesh Paul.

    The film is slated for release in December.