All articles by Bhuvan Lall – Page 7
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Mukta Arts plans $18m Indian film school
Mumbai-based film Production Company Mukta Arts is launching a film school named Whistling Woods International. "Today most of us in the industry are products of individual and instinctive talent without much professional training," Mukta Arts' Subhash Ghai told Screendaily. "We want to change that. If the Hindi film industry needs ...
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Lagaan director signs Shahrukh Khan for next feature
Ashutosh Gowarikar, director of India's Oscar nominated cricket epic Lagaan, is lining up a new $6m film starring Shahrukh Khan.Called Swades, the film will be funded by Mumbai's UTV Motion Pictures and produced through Ashutosh Gowarikar Productions. Billed as a patriotic film set in contemporary times, it is being targeted ...
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Cancellations hamper India's biggest industry event
With the keynote speaker pulling out at short notice, the Indian Film Industry conference FRAMES 2003 is facing a daunting task of attracting speakers - and delegates, given the global economic and political climate. FRAMES, held between March 14 -16 in Mumbai, is promoted as Asia's biggest convention on the ...
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Indian delegation heads for AFM
Led by Mrs. Anjuli Duggal, joint secretary of India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, a 25-strong delegation of Indian film directors, producers and financiers is heading for the AFM. The delegation, the first ever to visit the AFM, plans to promote the Indian film industry in an international context amongst ...
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Expat Indians plan to raise funds for Bollywood productions
Indian IT Millionaires settled in Silicon Valley are looking to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to invest in Bollywood. Over 600 venture capitalists, angel investors and bankers including Kanwal Rekhi, Shailesh J Mehta, Rahul Bhasin, Raj Dugar and Brajesh Mehra participated in a Media and Entertainment conference in ...
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Bollywood gears up for slate of high-profile productions
After Kaante became one of the big Bollywood success stories of 2002, the Indian film Industry is gearing up to launch more Hollywood co-productions this year.Mumbai based film and TV production company UTV is launching four films in 2003. Among the films is a co-production with LA based Madira Films ...
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Amitabh Bachchan rescues Bollywood box office
Bollywood may be the biggest producer of films in the world but the ratio of hits to flops in 2002 made depressing reading. In one of the worst years in the history of the local film industry, 2002 saw the release of 132 films out of which 124 failed to ...
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Yash Chopra wins India's highest film award
Veteran Hindi film-maker Yash Chopra has been chosen for the highest national award for a filmmaker - the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2001. "His films are about love, romance and drama and the stars of his films become icons for film buffs. Chopra has been instrumental in tapping the potential ...
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Bollywood braces itself for most expensive Indian film yet
Devdas producer Bharat Shah has joined forces with director Ram Gopal Varma to make a film with acting superstar Amitabh Bachchan that will be the most expensive ever made in Bollywood.The US$13m film is billed as an international political thriller that will be shot in five countries, including India and ...
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China buys into Bollywood
The Indian Film Exporters association has announced the sale of 104 films to a Chinese delegation in New Delhi on a visit to the 33rd International Film Festival of India. The 104 films, including all the films made under the Yashraj Films banner, Karan Johar's Kabhie Khushi Kabhie Gham and ...
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Festival of India to showcase local wares at market Bazaar
The 33rd International Film Festival of India (1-10 October) is to launch an expanded 'Film Bazaar' market section to showcase Indian film and to promote the country as a destination for shooting and post-production facilities.Film Bazaar will have 17 booths with leading Indian film companies exhibiting including Eros Entertainment, Yashraj ...
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Indian industrial giant Tata Group moves into film production
Indian industrial giant Tata Group has entered the Bollywood film production sector, signing up Indian superstar Amitabh Bachchan to star in its first film, Aitbaar.Tata is the latest in line of new entrants into the Indian film industry: in July 20th Century Fox announced plans to produce its first Bollywood ...
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Bollywood hits lead re-scheduled International film festival of India
Bollywood hit Dil Chahta Hai (pictured) and winners of the 49th National Film Awards Dweepa and Chandni Bar are among the 20 feature films selected from 96 entries to be screened at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in New Delhi in October 2002. The other feature films selected ...
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Bollywood shocked by mafia connections
Mumbai police today released audio tapes of conversations between an alleged member of the underworld and leading Bollywood film directors and actors The police say the recorded conversations, between the alleged Karachi-based don Chhota Shakeel, actor Sanjay Dutt, directors Mahesh Manjrekar and Sanjay Gupta and producer Harish Sugandh, reveal that ...
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India's Censor Board chairman resigns over porn proposal
Vijay Anand chairman of India's Censor Board of Film Certification is understood to have offered to resign after his proposal to legalise the exhibition of X-rated films in selected approved cinemas in the country was rejected by the Indian Government. The Government of India is yet to respond to ...
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Devdas expected to gross $10m in first week on release in India
Devdas has been declared a hit in India, with industry sources telling Screendaily that the film is expected to pass $10m at the box office by the end of its first week in the country. The film opened to capacity screenings at 300 cinemas across the territory, grossing nearly $50,000 ...
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20th Century Fox announces first Bollywood production
20th Century Fox is to produce its first Bollywood film: a Hindi feature titled Ek Haseena Thee (There Was A Beautiful Girl) to be directed by Ram Gopal Verma. Fox India is likely to release the film in January 2003 with production set to begin in the next few weeks.The ...
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Deepa Mehta plans $10m English-language historical drama
Toronto-based Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta (pictured) is planning to make a $10m English-language feature about the 1914 epic journey by Punjabi immigrants from India to Canada and back on a ship named the Komagata Maru. The film is based on the historical incident of the steamship Komagata Maru that sailed ...
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Ketan Mehta to produce The Rising, raise $12m via IPO
Veteran Hindi film producer and director Ketan Mehta has announced plans to produce a three-part international English-language feature titled The Rising based on the 1857 revolt of the Indian forces against the British Raj. Mehta, chairman and managing director of Maya Entertainment Ltd (MEL), told Screendaily that the company is ...
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India's film censors to allow pornographic cinemas
India's traditionally ultra-conservative Censor Board has announced that it may allow pornographic films to be played in certain cinemas. Having so far been unable to control widespread abuse of its rules, it has opted to regulate the practice and, presumably, impose entertainment taxes.Filmmaker Vijay Anand, Chairman of India's Central Board ...