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  • BAFTA: Redmayne, Moore win top honours; ‘Lunchbox’ loses to Polish film

    BAFTA: Redmayne, Moore win top honours; ‘Lunchbox’ loses to Polish film

    MUMBAI: Held at the Royal Opera House in London on 8 February, 2015, the 68th edition of the annual British Academy of Film and Arts (BAFTA) awards was hosted by Stephen Fry in the presence of a string of international film celebrities.

     

    Eddie Redmayne and Julianne Moore received the top acting honours for their roles in The Theory Of Everything and Still Alice respectively. The American coming-of-age tale Boyhood won a BAFTA for ‘Best Film’ while the award for the ‘outstanding British Film’ went to The Theory Of Everything.

     

    India’s acclaimed movie, The Lunchbox was nominated for the foreign film category. It was competing with Russian drama, Leviathan, Brazilian-British adventure drama thriller film, Trash and Belgian drama Two Days, One Night but eventually Polish-Danish drama movie Ida, was named the winner in the category.

     

    Actress Nimrat Kaur, the leading lady of The Lunchbox looked lovely on the red carpet in a pink Georges Hobeika dress.

     

    Below is the complete list of BAFTA 2015 winners: 

     

    Film: Boyhood, Richard Linklater, Cathleen Sutherland
     

    Director: Boyhood, Richard Linklater
     

    Leading Actor: Eddie Redmayne, The Theory Of Everything
     

    Leading Actress: Julianne Moore, Still Alice
     

    Supporting Actor: J.K. Simmons, Whiplash
     

    Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
     

    Adapted Screenplay: The Theory Of Everything, Anthony Mccarten
     

    Animated Film: The Lego Movie, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
     

    British Short Animation: The Bigger Picture, Chris Hees, Daisy Jacobs, Jennifer Majka 
     

    British Short Film: Boogaloo And Graham, Brian J. Falconer, Michael Lennox, Ronan Blaney
     

    Cinematography: Birdman, Emmanuel Lubezki
     

    Costume Design: The Grand Budapest Hotel, Milena Canonero
     

    Documentary: Citizenfour, Laura Poitras
     

    EE Rising Star: Jack O’Connell
     

    Editing:Whiplash, Tom Cross
     

    Film not in the English Language: Ida, Pawel Pawlikowski, Eric Abraham, Piotr Dzieciol, Ewa Puszczynska
     

    Make-Up And Hair: The Grand Budapest Hotel – Frances Hannon
     

    Original Music: The Grand Budapest Hotel, Alexandre Desplat
     

    Original Screenplay: The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson
     

    Outstanding British Film: The Theory Of Everything, James Marsh, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony Mccarten
     

    Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director or Producer: Stephen Beresford, David Livingstone,Pride
     

    Production Design: The Grand Budapest Hotel, Adam Stockhausen, Anna Pinnock
     

    Sound: Whiplash, Thomas Curley, Ben Wilkins, Craig Mann
     

    Special Visual Effects: Interstellar, Paul Franklin, Scott Fisher, Andrew Lockley

  • Zee TV HD to premiere ‘The Lunchbox’ on 8 February

    Zee TV HD to premiere ‘The Lunchbox’ on 8 February

    MUMBAI: Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL) with five high definition (HD) channels in its bouquet, namely Zee TV HD, &Pics HD, Zee Cinema HD, Zee Studio HD and Ten Sports HD, last week announced its new brand identity-Zee HD League.

     

    The new offering is a complete bouquet with the best of Hollywood and Bollywood blockbusters, cutting-edge entertainment and best-in-class sporting action. And now, as part of the #HDFirst initiative, Zee TV HD will showcase the world television premiere of the critically acclaimed and award-winning movie The Lunchbox at 12 noon on Sunday, 8 February.

     

    The Lunchbox, starring Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, is an epistolary romantic film written and directed by Ritesh Batra, and produced by Guneet Monga, Anurag Kashyap and Arun Rangachari. The film captures what happens when a mistaken delivery in Mumbai’s famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young, lonely, disillusioned housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in a lunchbox.

     

    The film was released in India on 20 September 2013 and holds the unique distinction of being an all-round box-office success along with being widely acclaimed by critics. The film was screened at International Critics’ Week at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, and later won the Critics Week Viewers Choice Award also known as Grand Rail d’Or. It was shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. The Lunchbox was nominated for the Film Not in the English Language category of the British Academy Film Awards 2015.

  • ‘The Lunchbox’ gets nominated at BAFTAS

    ‘The Lunchbox’ gets nominated at BAFTAS

    NEW DELHI: The internationally lauded and awarded The Lunchbox by Ritesh Batra has become the first Indian film since 1990 to be nominated at the BAFTA awards since Salaam Bombay.

     

    The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) nominated the film in the ‘Best film not in the English language category.

     

    Producer Guneet Monga was ecstatic at this nomination. “We are so happy that our faith in Ritesh and The Lunchbox is paying off so beautifully. It’s a film we are very proud of and earning a Foreign Film nomination is yet another reassurance that great content will always go a long way. I would like to say a big thank you to the HFPA (Hollywood Foreign Press Association) and the BAFTA jury,” said Monga.

     

    The award ceremony will be held on 8 February in London.

     

    The Lunchbox is a 2013 Indian epistolary romantic film written and directed by Ritesh Batra, and produced by Guneet Monga, Anurag Kashyap, and Arun Rangachari. The film was jointly produced by various studios including DAR motion pictures, UTV Motion Pictures, Dharma Productions, Sikhya Entertainment, NFDC (India), ROH Films (Germany), ASAP Films (France), and the Cine Mosaic (United States).

     

    It stars Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur and Nawazuddin Siddiqui in lead roles. The film was screened at International Critics’ Week at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, and later won the Critics Week Viewers Choice Award also known as Grand Rail d’Or.

     

    It was shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was released in India on 20 September 2013.

     

  • The Lunchbox bags Star Box Office India award

    The Lunchbox bags Star Box Office India award

    MUMBAI: Described as a defining film in Indian cinema, The Lunchbox which has won numerous domestic and international accolades in its slight over a year’s run at the box office won yet another award. It was recently conferred the Film with the Best Return on Investment award at the Star Box Office India 2014 awards. DAR Motion Pictures producer Vivek Rangachari and Guneet Monga from Sikhya Entertainment were present on the occasion to receive the award.

     

    The film is a story about a mistaken delivery in Mumbai’s famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality. The film is an example of global collaboration with studios from India, USA, France and Germany coming together to produce a film that strikes a chord with global audiences. One of the top-rated film by critics in India this year, it was distributed in the US by Sony Classic Pictures.

     

    Commenting on the award Rangachari said “When the script of The Lunchbox came to me, I was sure this movie will do great but the kind of response we have got from India as well as globally is way beyond all expectations. DAR is really happy to be a part of the project which has created a new path for Indian cinema nationally and globally.”
    Written and directed by Ritesh Batra, the film has released globally in various countries like UK, USA, New Zealand, France, Germany, Australia, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Brazil, China, Columbia, Malaysia, Italy, Israel, Hungary, Hong Kong, Japan, Poland, Middle East, Singapore amongst others. Furthermore, it has been showcased in various film festivals including The Cannes Film Festival, The Telluride Film Festival, The Toronto Film Festival, The London Film Festival, etc. winning various awards like Viewers Choice Award at the International Critics’ Week, Best Film at The London Film Festival and The Filmfare awards, to name a few.

     

    Produced by Arun Rangachari of Dar Motion Pictures (India) and Guneet Monga and Anurag Kashyap of Sikhya Entertainment (India), The Lunchbox has been co-produced by Vivek Rangachari, Nina Lath Gupta of NFDC (India), Karan Johar (Dharma Productions), UTV Motion Pictures, Shanaab Alam, Sunil John, Nittin Keni, Karsten Stöter and Benny Drechsel of Rohfilm (Germany), Cedomir Kolar and Marc Baschet of ASAP Films (France), Danis Tanovic and executive produced by Lydia Dean Pilcher of CineMosaic, Irrfan and Ritesh Batra.

     

  • NFDC Film Bazaar 2014 back with second edition of Producer’s Lab

    NFDC Film Bazaar 2014 back with second edition of Producer’s Lab

    MUMBAI: Coming back with the second edition of Producer’s Lab, NFDC Film Bazaar 2014 is calling for entries for the same. The deadline for submission of application is 30 September 2014.

     

    Producer’s Lab was introduced in the Film Bazaar in 2013 and was a huge success. It will provide training and networking opportunities to upcoming independent producers from across the world.

     

    The Lab will also host Workshop Sessions, Case Studies and Master Classes spread over the five days of the Bazaar. Participants shortlisted for the lab will also be required to pay a non-refundable fee of Rs 50,000.

     

    Also, applicants should have worked in the capacity of a producer or line/supervising/executive producer on either one of the following and completed the same.

     

    The mentors for the NFDC Film Bazaar, Producer’s Lab 2013 included Cedomir Kolar (producer – No Man’s Land; co-producer – The Lunchbox), Clare Stewart (director – London Film Festival), Charles Tesson (delegue general- Semaine De La Critique / Critics’ Week at Cannes Film Festival) amongst others.

     

    This year, the NFDC Film Bazaar will be held from 20-24 November in Goa alongside the International Film Festival of India 2014.

  • Nimrat Kaur to be seen in popular American TV series ‘Homeland’

    Nimrat Kaur to be seen in popular American TV series ‘Homeland’

    NEW DELHI: Nimrat Kaur, who was noticed for her quiet but powerful role in the internationally acclaimed film ‘The Lunchbox’ last year, has been chosen to act in American TV series ‘Homeland’.

     

    “Pretty fun for someone who watched the pilot after the screen test! Season 4 HOMELAND it is,” tweeted Kaur.

     

    ‘Mad Men’ star Mark Moses and Art Malik will also appear in the series. Moses and Kaur have joined the series for several episodes.

     

    Malik will appear in at least one episode, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

     

    Kaur will be seen as a high-level operative within Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, while Moses’ character Dennis is described as an academic teaching political science at Islamabad’s Quaid-I-Azam University.

     

    Malik, best known for playing the villain in 1994 action-thriller ‘True Lies’, is playing an old friend of Saul’s retired Pakistani general Bunran ‘Bunny’ Latif.

     

    ‘Homeland’ is currently shooting its fourth season in South Africa, where Cape Town is doubling for Islamabad.

     

    Produced by Fox 21, the series’ main cast includes Claire Danes and Damian Lewis, among others. ‘Homeland’ returns on 5 October.

     

     

  • Sydney Filmfest to screen two Indian films on lonely housewives

    Sydney Filmfest to screen two Indian films on lonely housewives

    NEW DELHI: Two Indian films being screened at the ongoing 61st Sydney Film Festival are on a common theme – lonely housewives in different eras who are forced to find interests elsewhere. 

     

    Even as Ritesh Batra’s highly-lauded The Lunchbox is among the four Indian films being screened at Festival, the other film is Charulata, made by cine craftsman Satyajit Ray and being screened almost 50 years after it was last exhibited at the same festival.

     

    This movie is one of Ray’s women-centric films that was well ahead of its times when made in 1964 with Madhabi Mukherjee in the lead. The film is based on a story by Rabindranath Tagore and set in the late nineteenth century and tells the tale of the lonely housewife whose busy husband has no time for her.

     

    Coincidentally, The Lunchbox is also the story of a loney housewife and how she begins to correspond with someone through letters sent inside a lunchbox. 

     

    The Festival which commenced on 4 June, will also show Pan Nalin’s Faith Connections and Richie Mehta’s Siddharth in different sections.

     

    Richie Mehta’s film Siddharth is about the search by a father for his lost son despite his own poverty.

     

    Pan Nalin’s documentary Faith Connections is primarily on the Kumbh Mela, which takes place every three years at selected places along India’s river banks and is attended by about 100 million people. 

     

  • Zurich Film Festival’s New World View: India

    Zurich Film Festival’s New World View: India

    MUMBAI: For its tenth edition, the Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) welcomes India as its New World View section guest for the film festival held this year between 25 September and 5 October. In doing so, ZFF highlights a country with a tradition spanning more than 100 years of cinematic history and a production output.

    In explaining the decision to choose India, the co-directors of ZFF, Nadja Schildknecht and Karl Spoerri said in the official statement, “New Indian cinema has experienced an upsurge in recent years, and not just on the subcontinent.” It is among young filmmakers that the change is most visible. The festival-directors go on to say, “New projects have been realised over the past few years that undermine common stereotypes. The movement from mainstream to independent cinema is unmistakable. This development is incredibly exciting.”

    Even the large festivals such as Cannes have discovered the potential of Indian cinema for themselves. There has not been a line-up in recent years that did not include an Indian film. Schildknecht and Spoerri are certain for this reason that “focussing on India can only serve to enrich the 10th ZFF.” M.K. Lokesh, the Ambassador of India to Switzerland, is delighted by the festival’s choice: “Over the years, the Indian film industry has achieved a very high level of technical standards and directional skills. In the Indo-Swiss context, the Indian cinema, by capturing the natural beauty of Switzerland in many films, contributed to Swiss popularity among Indian tourists. It is befitting that the Zurich Film Festival is showcasing India as the guest country this year.”

    Indeed, Indian festival entries are usually and rightfully praised for their thematic freshness and high cinematic quality. The best examples of these attributes include Vasan Balas’ promising debut Peddlers, a captivating relationship drama in the form of a thriller; the romantic comedy The Lunchbox by newcomer Ritesh Batra, and the family/gangster saga Gangs of Wasseypur, Anurag Kashyap’s Indian Godfather, with a budget of $ 45 million, the most expensive non-Bollywood production to date.

    It was not only with the launching of The Lunchbox in 2013 that ZFF reacted early to the subcontinent’s cinematic signals; guest in Zurich and highly successful producer Guneet Monga (The Lunchbox, The Gangs of Wasseypur and Peddlers) also offered a preview of things to come during her ZFF Master Class. Bollywood bastion Yash Raj Films hired Guneet Monga for the international sales and distribution of the adolescent drama Titli – an indication that the traditional Indian film scene is giving independent domestic cinema a commercial chance.

    The programme of this year’s New World View section will showcase ten new feature and documentary films by emerging Indian filmmakers and a short film block. The short film block is selected through our collaboration with the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur. Details of the programme will be released at a later date.

  • The Tata Motors IIFA Awards announce 2014 nominations

    The Tata Motors IIFA Awards announce 2014 nominations

    MUMBAI: Indian Cinema’s most spectacular awards outside of India, The Tata Motors International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards have declared the list of nominations (Popular category) for its 15th edition. The Videocon D2H IIFA Weekend will be held in Tampa Bay, Florida from April 23-26.

     
    2013 was a fantastic year at the Box-office. Amongst the major films of the year, bagging a maximum number of nods is the inspiring biopic of Milkha Singh, ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’ followed closely by the gun-fest, ‘Goliyon Ki Rasleela- Ramleela’ and the heart-wrenching ‘Aashiqui 2’ with 7 nominations each, while the Ranbir Kapoor starrer – Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewaani scored 6 nominations. Other notable films: Krrish 3, Chennai Express, Kai Po Che and The Lunchbox have been nominated across various award categories.

     
    It is a battle of superstars at the awards, as Shahrukh Khan (Chennai Express), Hrithik Roshan (Krrish 3), Ranbir Kapoor (Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewaani), Farhan Akhtar (Bhaag Milka Bhaag), Ranveer Singh (Goliyon Ki Rasleela-Ramleela) and newcomer Sushant Singh Rajput (Kai Po Che) get nominated for Performance in a Leading Role (Male) for exceptional work in their respective films.

     
    Stealing the limelight is the very beautiful Deepika Padukone with 3 nominations in Performance in a Leading Role (Female) category for her perfomance in last year’s smash hits Chennai Express, Goliyon Ki Rasleela- Ramleela and Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewaani. Equally impressive performers, Sonakshi Sinha (Lootera), Nimrat Kaur (The Lunchbox) and Shraddha Kapoor (Aashiqui 2) find themselves nominated in the category, as well.

     
    Best Director nominees include a host of celebrated filmmakers like Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Rakesh Roshan, Rohit Shetty, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra and Abhishek Kapoor. One of the most awaited awards, the Best Film category witnesses 2013’s runway success’s Dhoom 3, Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, Goliyon Ki Rasleela-Ramleela, Krrish 3, Kai Po Che, Chennai Express and Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, as they compete to win the much coveted title.

     
    The Videocon D2H IIFA Weekend is presented by Videocon D2H and the Tata Motors IIFA Awards is presented by Tata Motors. The IIFA Weekend &Awards will be broadcast globally on Star Plus, for the 10th year running.

  • Two Indian movies nominated for the 8th Asian Film Awards

    Two Indian movies nominated for the 8th Asian Film Awards

    NEW DELHI: The Lunchbox by Ritesh Batra may have failed to make it to the Academy nominations but it figures prominently in the nominations for the Asian version of the Oscars — the 8th Asian Film Awards.

     

    The awards are to be presented on 27 March at a ceremony to be held at the City of Dreams casino resort in Macau, and the nominations were announced in Hong Kong over the weekend.

     

    The Lunchbox has been nominated for the best film award and Ritesh Batra has been nominated for the best screenplay while actor Irrfan Khan is in the list of best actor awards.

     

    The only other Indian film to make it to the nominations is Bhag Milka Bhag by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, the music composers of which – Shankar Ehsaan Loy – have been nominated for best music category.

     

    Renowned filmmaker Wong Kar-wai’s The Grandmaster topped with eleven nominations including best film and best director out of 14 categories. The highly stylised martial arts drama opened the Berlin festival this time last year.

     

    After being organised by the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society Limited (HKIFF) for the past seven years, this year’s award is being organised by the new Asian Film Awards Academy (AFAA), a combined effort between the Hong Kong International Film Festival, the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), and the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF).

     

    Competing closely with Wong Kar-wai is Korean director Bong Joon Ho’s sci-fi fantasy Snowpiercer with five nominations including best film and best director.

     

    A total of 28 films from ten countries and regions have been nominated this year from over a thousand eligible films. Hong Kong films have the most nominations with a total of 19 shared between The Grandmaster (11 nominations), Rigor Mortis (4 nominations), Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon (3 nominations) and The Way We Dance (1 nomination).

     

    Films from South Korea and Japan are tied at 14 nominations each. In addition to the five recognitions for Snowpiercer, the nominated South Korean films are Cold Eyes (4 nominations), The Attorney (3 nominations), Mr. Go (1 nomination) and The Face Reader (1 nomination).

     

    The 14 nominations for films from Japan are shared between The Great Passage (3 nominations), Like Father, Like Son (3 nominations), Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (3 nominations), Tokyo Family (2 nominations), Backwater (1 nomination), and The Ravine of Goodbye (1 nomination).

     

    HKIFF’s chairman Wilfred Wong is Chairman of the AFAA committee, which also includes BIFF’s Lee Yong-kwan and TIFF’s Shiina Yasushi.

     

    Director Peter Chan is serving as this year’s jury president, with Donnie Yen joining as a “celebrity jury” member. The two are joined by the Philippines’ Ronald Arguelles, Indonesia’s John Badalu, Japan’s Ishizaaka Kenji, France’s Christian Jeune, Singapore’s Eric Khoo, South Korea’s Lee Yong-kwan, Thailand’s Kong Rithdee, Taiwan’s Wen Tien-hsiang as well as Hong Kong’s Jacob Wong and Patricia Cheng.

     

    “Each industry, although successful commercially, is becoming more and more localised, catering to the taste of local audiences. As a result there are fewer channels for crossover distribution outside local markets. I think AFA is not only important in its celebration of Asian film and filmmakers, but an event that can bring Asian films together,” says Chan.

     

    For the first time this year, the award ceremony has been moved to a venue outside of Hong Kong, to a casino resort in neighbouring Macau. While the ceremony is traditionally held on the first day of the Hong Kong FilMart, this year’s ceremony will be held on 27 March, the final day of this year’s film market.