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  • India-born American filmmaker bags two awards at Manhattan Filmfest

    India-born American filmmaker bags two awards at Manhattan Filmfest

    NEW DELHI: Emmy-nominated America-based filmmaker Tirlok Malik has been honoured with the special Outstanding Achievement in Multicultural Arts in acting, filmmaking, and immigrant advocacy at the International Film Festival in Manhattan.

     

    The Festival held recently showed films dealing with social issues. The festival has the most diverse selection of world class films and a focus on social issues and advocacy as part of the programming and goals.

     

    Malik has made many films starting from Lonely In America, Khushiyaan, On Golden Years, and many more. They all deal with the effects of migration in America.

     

    Malik, who has given a break to many new faces in his films in front or behind the camera, said, “I am happy to be a part of this festival and I feel honored for this awards.”

     

    Malik also received an award for best film award for On Golden Years.

     

     Luis Pedron, co-founder of the festival, said the film On Golden Years deals with social issues of retirement that millions of first generation immigrants face in their lives.

     

    Films from many countries, including Israel, Australia, Philippines, Sweden, Singapore, and the United States were shown at IFFM.

     

    Malik accepted the award on the behalf of the team of On Golden Years and said, “It was team work making this film.”

     

    The film is produced by Golden Movies. The idea of the story is inspired by the book Seeking Roots by Iggy Ignatius who is also the co-director of the film. The film stars among others Ranjit Chowdhry, Jyoti Singh, Reeves Lehmann, Shetal Shah, Noor Naghmi, Tirlok Malik, among others.

     

    The film has been shot at the Indian retirement community Shantiniketan in Florida.

     

    Meanwhile, Malik recently launched a website for streaming Indian-American movies www.nritvfilmclub.com. The website seeks to promote new talents as Malik wants to create what he calls ‘NRI-wood’ just like Hollywood and Bollywood. 

  • Indians in New York to mark Independence Day in nostalgic show

    Indians in New York to mark Independence Day in nostalgic show

    NEW DELHI: People of Indian origin will gather at a function in New York on 15 August to reminisce over what happened around the time India attained independence in 1947.

     

    Emmy-nominated renowned filmmaker Tirlok Malik, who recently launched www.nritvfilmclub.com for streaming Indian American movies online, has invited several NRIs who were witness to the brutalities of that time, and many of whom lost their dear ones.

     

    It is estimated that more than one and a half million people were killed or injured in the process and 15 million people migrated from both India and the newly-created Pakistan.

     

    The show “15th August 1947” will have senior citizens who were then children sharing their journey from 1947 to 2015 in the show. In another segment, the show will have presenters talking to the young generation of 2015 who did not witness the horrors of 1947 but heard about this from their grandparents or read in the history books. The young people will share their views what should be learned from the history and future impact.

     

    Talking about the show, Malik told Indiantelevision.com, “What has been the emotional journey for those kids who were 10 year old at that time August 1947? Have their memories faded? What would you feel if you were 10 year old and witnessed that?”

     

    He added, “I know many people – Indians and Pakistanis – who have witnessed 1947 but now they are living in America. Even while in America, they have never forgotten their childhood memories. Is it possible that we as human beings with the background of different religions and race can agree that we can also disagree sometimes and there should be no violence so that world can be more peaceful place?”

     

    Malik is a pioneer making films on the experiences of the Indian American and began this with his gripping Lonely in America made around two decades earlier.

     

    The show is being presented by NRI TV Film Club and JUS Broadcasting, which has four channels. They are the first Indian American Punjabi channels. The show will be aired in the week of 15 August on JUS Punjabi channels in US and Canada.

     

    The site www.nritvfilmclub.com was launched with 15 films made in America by NRI filmmakers with local Indian American talent. Some of the films are award winning and have been shown worldwide. NRI TV Film Club will also be producing and showing more films, TV sitcoms, web series with Indian American and multi-cultural talents.

  • Website launched for NRI films; open to global filmmakers

    Website launched for NRI films; open to global filmmakers

    NEW DELHI: New York-based Indian filmmaker Tirlok Malik has launched a website for screening films about and by non-resident Indians (NRIs).

     

    The site www.NRITVFILMCLUB.com was inaugurated in New York by Indian consul general Dnyaneshwar M. Mulay in the presence of many prominent people from the Indian community, media and entertainment.

     

    The event was held at the Indian Consulate in New York. Mulay congratulated Malik, founder of NRI TV Film Club, by saying, “It is a wonderful idea. Very much needed. And it will make the bridge between Hollywood and Bollywood by creating NRI-wood.”

     

    NRI TV Film Club website is for the audience to watch movies made by NRIs, about NRIs, with NRIs. NRI TV Film Club website is also a platform to promote and create opportunities for NRI talents in the area of film, television and new media. It is a collective effort of filmmakers and artists.

     

    The website was launched with 15 films made in America by NRI filmmakers with local Indian American talent. Some of the films are award winning and have been shown worldwide.

     

    NRI TV Film Club will be producing and showing more films, TV sitcoms, web series with Indian American and multi-cultural talents.

     

    The annual membership fee for the club is $35.

     

    In an exclusive interview with Indiantelevision.com, Emmy nominated filmmaker Malik says, “These movies have immigrant themes but with universal emotions. Many of these films do not reach wider audience. But with the new technology of streaming movies just like Netflix, we are able to bring these movies for the audience to watch worldwide. There are more than 25 millions NRIs worldwide and their families in India. We believe you will enjoy these movies. I am glad other NRI filmmakers have shared this vision with me and joined me.”

     

    The team behind this vision was announced at the event. TV Asia chairman H.R. Shah is the honorary chairman of NRI TV Film Club. Dr. Sudhir Parikh, who is chairman and publisher of Parikh Worldwide Media Inc., is supporting this vision.

     

    Malik informed that filmmakers were not paying for their films to get on the site. “It is a collective efforts by the film fraternity,” he added.

    The site will include features as well as short films.

     

    NRI filmmakers from other countries were also welcome to send in their films, he said.

     

    Asked if Indians who had made films on NRI themes such as Hyderabad Blues by Nagesh Kukunoor could send in their films, he said the site was open to filmmakers worldwide.

     

    Malik’s company Apple Productions has produced many films since 1990 starting with its first film about Indian Americans titled Lonely in America.

     

    Malik has also acted in several Indian films including Lajja and Dr Ambedkar, and was also the line producer in the US for these films.

     

  • Filmmaker Tirlok Malik awarded National AIA Honour Award

    Filmmaker Tirlok Malik awarded National AIA Honour Award

    NEW DELHI: US based Indian filmmaker Tirlok Malik has been awarded the National AIA Honor Award by Association of Indians in America for his contribution as a filmmaker.

     

    AIA, the oldest national association of Asian Indians in America, was founded in 1967. The association continues to recognise people with exceptional qualities and have organised national honour awards for those excelling in their respective fields of medicine, business, science, technology, art, and others.

     

    This is the first time that the association has honoured a filmmaker. Malik said he was humbled by this award.

     

    The event was attended by many AIA committee members from all over US and also many US Congressman from Chicago.

     

    Malik the founder of the NRI TV Film Club had recently made a Punjabi film, Khushiyaan, starring Kulbhushan Kharbanda and Rama Vij among others.

     

    Malik, who has won several awards including one for his very first film ‘Lonely in America’ in which he had also acted, had been nominated for New York Emmy Award in the category of Historical Programming-Cultural Historical in a Thirteen/WNET segment. His other films include Love Lust and Marriage with Dipti Naval.

     

    “I love making films in New York,” were his opening lines in the segment on Indian filmmaking of which Malik was also the segment producer and has been aired several times on Thirteen/WNET in both- Setting the Stage and the New York Voices programmes.

     

    He has also worked as line producer for many Indian films like Ambedkar, Lajja and Rajnikant’s Sivaji.

  • Tirlok Malik’s Khushiyaan at Teaneck International Film Festival

    Tirlok Malik’s Khushiyaan at Teaneck International Film Festival

    NEW DELHI: Emmy-Nominated America-based filmmaker Tirlok Malik‘s Punjabi film Khushiyaan is to be screened at the Teaneck International Film Festival in Teaneck, New Jersey.

    The screening will be on 11 November.

    Khushiyaan portrays the complex emotions of leaving parents in India and getting caught up in a busy American life. Shot in both India and New York, it combines family drama, comedy, and music into a thought-provoking film which is the journey of every NRI family. “It is the journey of family and as you‘re watching it, you may be surprised to find yourself there,” says Malik who has been a pioneer of Indian American cinema with films like ‘Lonely in America‘ and ‘Love, Lust and Marriage‘.

    The film is distributed worldwide by Eros Entertainment.

    Malik directed Khushiyaan, featuring Jasbir Jassi – famed singer of Dil Ley Gayee Kudi Gujarat Dee – making his debut as a lead actor, thespians Kulbushan Kharbanda and Rama Vij, Tisca Chopra, Deep Dhillon, Shrey Bawa, Vivek Shauq, and Gurpreet Guggi.

    Khushiyaan is produced by Darshan Garg, D.P. Goyal, and Pardeep Bansal. The music is composed by Jaidev Kumar and there is also a Shabd sung by the late Ghazal King Jagjit Singh.

    The film‘s writer Rajan Gangahar won the “best story” award at the Punjabi International Film Academy Award (PIFAA) held in Toronto.