All articles by Bhuvan Lall – Page 5
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Singh's Videovision to handle Maqbool sales
Anant Singh's South African company Videovision Entertainment has signed a landmark deal with Indian production outfit Kaleidoscope Entertainment to handle international sales for critically acclaimed Indian film Maqbool. Producer Bobby Bedi's Maqbool, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, is set against the backdrop of the Mumbai underworld and stars Om Puri, ...
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Weinstein, Bachchan in Mumbai meeting
Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein made a short private visit to Mumbai to meet Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan last week. The details of meeting are not immediately known, although it comes in the same month that Bachchan relaunched his production company AB Corp on 11th October 2003.Weinstein also visited the shoot ...
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Makhmalbaf's Afternoon wins India fest prize
Samira Makhmalbaf's At Five In The Afternoon has won The Golden Peacock for the Best Film in the Asian competition section of the International Film Festival of India.The film has previously won the Special Jury Award at Cannes. Makhmalbaf, who was not present to receive her prize, donated her cash ...
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Indian cinemas call off protest strike
Cinemas in India's Maharastra state - which encompasses Bollywood capital Mumbai - have re-opened after a strike over entertainment taxes was called off after three days.Cinema owners called off the strike after the state government reduced its entertainment tax from 55 per cent to 45 per cent in Mumbai. In ...
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Indian Film Development Corp targets Asia
India's National Film Development Corporation has invited buyers from the former USSR, China and Japan to attend the Film Bazaar at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) being held in Delhi. Akhmadjon Kasimov of TV and Broadcasting Company of Uzbekistan and an exhibitor at the Film Bazaar told ScreenDaily.com ...
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MIP TV lines up BBC chief, China focus for 2004
Greg Dyke, director general of the BBC will be the keynote speaker at next year's MIP TV market 2004, which will be held from March 29 to April 2.The event will also host the first ever China day on March 31 with two discussions about how to partner with Chinese ...
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Kher named as Indian Censor chief
Indian actor Anupam Kher, who has appeared in Bend It Like Beckham has been appointed chief of India's Censor Board. The move was announced by the Indian information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad in New Delhi, who said Kher had worked in commercial cinema, cross-over cinema and had considerable ...
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Bollywood megastar arises from bankruptcy
Indian superstar Amitabh Bachchan is to relaunch the operations of his film production company Amitabh Bachchan Corp Ltd. on Oct 11 in Mumbai. The company, which was declared bankrupt in 1999, will now be known as AB Corp and will launch a new Hindi film, directed by Indian filmmaker Raj ...
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International Festival of India unveils line-up
The 34th edition of the International Film Festival of India (Oct 9-20) - the last to be held in New Delhi before the venue shifts to Goa next year - will open with Dr. Chandraprakash Dwivedi's magnum opus Pinjar.Based on Amrita Pritam's novel of the same name and set during ...
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Star TV strikes Indian production deal
Rupert Murdoch's STAR TV India has struck a deal with Indian production company UTV to make three big budget movies. The $25m deal will give STAR the exclusive television and broadcast rights in perpetuity of the three movie products. The rights to theatrical and the home video will remain with ...
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1000 Indian cinemas stage protest closures against tax rates
Almost 1,000 single-screen cinemas in the Indian state of Maharashtra will close from Oct 17 in protest against high entertainment taxes. Entertainment tax levels are set at 55% for Mumbai, 50% for major towns and cities and 45% for rural areas. The exhibitors want this to be brought down to ...
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Movie mogul plans revenge with comeback feature
Indian film producer Bharat Shah - one the biggest film financiers in the Mumbai film industry - has announced fresh plans to invest in Indian films. The move came on the day he was given a one year prison sentence for withholding information from police about the criminal underworld muscling ...
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Top Bollywood producer convicted for Mafia connections
Leading Bollywood film financier Bharat Shah has been found guilty of failing to inform police that the criminal underworld had muscled in on a film he made three years ago. The same court also convicted Chori Chori Chupke Chupke producer, Nazim Rizvi, and assistant Abdul Rahim Allahbux Khan, who have ...
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Sony to stock up on Hindi movies
Indian TV outfit Sony Entertainment Television is planning to buy TV rights to up to 50 Hindi movies in the next year.The company will invest up to$25 million for the rights to the films, which it aims to broadcast on Sony TV and SET Max in India and SET Asia ...
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Veteran Polish director named jury head of Dehli festival
Polish film-maker Krzystof Zanussi is to head up the five strong jury of the 34th International Film Festival of India in New Delhi (Oct 9-19). The Jury will award Golden Peacock prize of US $10,000 for the best Film by an Asian Director, and a Silver Peacock prize of US$ ...
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Joggers Park director dies just ahead of film's release
Anant Balani, the director of Hindi film Joggers Park, died of a cardiac arrest in Mumbai on Aug 28 - 17 days ahead of the film's release. Balani made his directorial debut with Gawahi (1989). His latest films Joggers' Park and Mumbai Matinee are to be released in September. He ...
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Mumbai film production continues after bomb attacks
This week's terrorist attack in Mumbai, the film capital of India, has so far had little direct impact on the Indian film industry.Two car bombs exploded in the heart of the city on Monday Aug 25, killing at least 50 people.Filmmakers said business was continuing as usual and actors have ...
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Maya team ready Indian Opium tale
The production outfit and director behind the acclaimed Indian film Maya have launched their next project, Opium Royale, which is budgeted at $3.5m. Set to start shooting in India on Jan 15, 2004, Opium Royale is produced by Dileep Singh Rathore and Emmanuel Pappas of Kundalini Pictures and directed by ...
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Disney dissolves Indian joint venture
The Walt Disney Company and Modi Enterprises Ltd have dissolved their joint venture company, Walt Disney India Pvt Ltd. Disney is now seeking the Indian government's permission to set up a wholly owned subsidiary for the launch of the Disney Channel in India. The move comes after the expiry ...
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India's most expensive film to be a trilogy
The $20m three-part epic The Rising, directed by Ketan Mehta is set to be the most expensive film ever to be produced in India.The India/UK production, set in the backdrop to the 1857 mutiny and the first War of Indian Independence, will be divided in to three episodes of 100 ...