All articles by Bhuvan Lall – Page 9
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India's biggest ever movie set for release
Indian film producer Yash Johar's Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gam (Sometimes Happiness, Sometimes Sorrow), the most expensive Indian film ever made at a cost of $10m, is set for its world premiere on 14th December. Directed by Indian cinema wonder-kid Karan Johar, whose debut film Kuch Kuch Hota Hai smashed local ...
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Fox signs Indian feature co-production deal
Rupert Murdoch's 20th Century Fox has developed a deal with Pritish Nandy Communications (PNC) to produce English-language movies in India. The agreement, of which details have yet to be disclosed, includes the co-production of English as well as Hindi language films to be made in India. PNC's credits include high-profile ...
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Mumbai festival extended by popular demand
The fourth edition of the International Film Festival of Mumbai, organised by the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI) has been extended for a day by popular demand from the delegates. "About 3,000 delegates, including a large number of film critics and experts from abroad are participating in the ...
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India's film and cable industries fight piracy
The Indian film industry and cable operators have reached an agreement to curb video piracy, with the film sector coming forward to make available "properly authorized" old films, legally to the cable operators for telecast over cable. The agreement would allow cable operators to telecast an Indian film -after it ...
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Academics attack Asoka's historical accuracy
Academics in the Indian state of Orissa have hit out at the historical accuracy of actor-producer Shah Rukh Khan's international hit Asoka. MN Das, an internationally renowned expert on Emperor Ashoka and his conquest of Kalinga, said that a figure of such historical importance should not have been distorted ...
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Bandits to open Mumbai festival of Indian film
Bandits, produced by Indian-born producer Ashok Amritraj, is to open the International film festival of Mumbai on 21 November. Amritraj will be the chief attraction at the three year old festival which will also screen a total of 30 feature films as part of the Indian Panorama, including this year's ...
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India announces anti-piracy measures
Indian Minister for Information and Broadcasting Sushma Swaraj has announced the formation of a six-member committee to regulate the showing of films on cable networks. She also committed to preventing the screening of pirated versions of films on Indian cable TV networks. The new committee comprises Indian filmmakers: Yash Chopra, ...
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Film Festival of India moves dates
The government-sponsored International Film Festival of India now in its 32nd year is being held in Bangalore from Oct 10 - 20. The dates have been moved from early January to mid October to accommodate more International and Indian films. For the first time the festival will showcase Indian films ...
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Hindi film Dattak to open at Toronto
Dattak, a Hindi feature film by well-known and award-winning director Gul Bahar Singh for the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC), will be screened at the Toronto Film Festival. The film, about a guilt-ridden young non-resident Indian "adopting" an old man because he had abandoned his own father, stars A K ...
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India's Zee TV to enter film production
Following the success of its maiden venture Gadar/I>, India's leading satellite television operator Zee TV has plans to enter film production as a backward integration policy for its networks. The company has announced plans to produce five $5m films a year. At present, the company has two movies in production ...
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Indo-US joint venture plans animation series
Film Club USA and AAFD (Anglo American Film Distributors) have joined with Padmalaya Telefilms Ltd to produce and market a 200 part animation series based on the popular Indian folk stories, The Jataka Tales. The Indo US joint venture will bring together Padmalaya's state-of-the-art animation studio in Hyderabad, and the ...
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Indian TV production company moves into film
Balaji Telefilms, whose television serials rank among India's top shows has announced plans to begin making low-budget films. The Mumbai based production company, founded by Hindi film star Jeetendra Kapoor and his daughter Ekta, is looking to make content-driven movies, with a budget of around $100,000, to be targeted at ...
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South India's 'Marlon Brando' dies
Legendary Tamil film star Villupuram Chinnaiah Pillai "Sivaji" Ganesan, dubbed the Marlon Brando of south Indian cinema, died on 21 July aged 74, after a brief illness.Winner of many awards, including National honors: the Padma Shri, the Dadha Saheb Phalke award (the country's highest honour in the entertainment industry) and ...
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Kerry Packer pulls plug on Indian TV joint venture
The HFCL-Kerry Packer joint venture (HFCL Nine Broadcasting India) has announced that it is shutting its television business in India and that the company's programmes on the government-owned DD-Metro channel will be taken off the air from September 10. This follows a decision by the company not to bid for ...
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Zee seeks partner for int'l expansion drive
Zee Telefilms Ltd (ZTL) is looking to partner with a multi-national media group in order to catapult itself into Asian and international markets.The executive committee of ZTL, which is managed by The Essel Group, has invited proposals from leading international investment and merchant bankers to put together the proposed strategic ...
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Swaraj promotes booming Indian film sector
The Indian Minister for Information and Broadcasting Sushma Swaraj announced this week that the government is in discussions with The British Film Institute with a view to setting up a Museum of Moving Images in New Delhi. Discussions advanced during a meeting at last week's Cannes Film Festival.The minister said ...
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Pentamedia bids to rescue Film Roman deal
Senior officials, including V Chandrasekaran chairman of India's Pentamedia have rushed to the US to renegotiate their deal with Film Roman on a stock and cash basis (Screendaily, Oct 24, 2001). Film Roman has set April 28 as the deadline for repair of the alleged breach of contract by Pentamedia ...
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Sony buys broadcast rights for Yashraj library
Sony Entertainment Television has acquired five-year multiple broadcast rights for Yashraj Film's library for around $3.5m.The rights will be restricted to the Asian region and include Mohabbatein, Dil To Pagal Hai and Darr. Sony TV will start a three-month movie festival of Yashraj Film's movies beginning this August with Dilwale ...
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India Lotus to shoot Taj Mahal for Imax
India Lotus Inc. a film production company owned by Indian filmmaker Bharat Bala has announced plans to produce an IMAX film on the Taj Mahal. The film will star popular Indian actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai who will play the queen Mumtaz Mahal who inspired the marble monument. ...
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Indian superstar tops Forbes list.
A year after being voted 'Superstar Of The Millenium' for an online BBC poll ahead of such luminaries as Laurence Olivier, Marlon Brando and Charlie Chaplin, Hindi cinema actor Amitabh Bachchan, has been ranked at the top of India's most powerful film stars by the Forbes.com web site. Bachchan whose ...