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Some people are born with all the luck. Otherwise how do you explain the success of Freida Pinto. She didnt have even 10minutes role in Slumdog Millionaire and she walked away with all the jazz.
Here’s a music video which she shot during Slumdog Millionaire and now its getting lot of attention because of her new found fame. Its for canadian singer Dal Hothi’s song I Promise You. Have a look
Here is the first look of Rocket Singh – Salesman of the Year. Ranbir Kapoor plays the lead role in this Yashraj Films production. The film is directed by Shimit Amin (standing, right) and written by Jaideep Shani ( sitting, left). The duo delivered the blockbuster hit Chak De India.
Rocket Singh – Salesman Of The Year will release by year end.
Yes, finally some indian connection at Cannes Film Festival this year. Actress Sharmila Tagore will serve as a jury member in the festival’s feature film category.
The other desi connection at the festival this year is Uma Da Cunha (festival programmer) who will serve as jury member in Un Certain Regards section.
Tagore follows India’s Arundhati Roy, Aishwarya Rai and Nandita Das, who served on the Cannes jury in recent years. Though its been quite some time since an indian film made the cut at the festival.
This year’s festival jury will be headed by French actress, Isabelle Huppert. The other members of the jury are Asia Argento (Italy), Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey), Lee Chang-Dong (South Korea), James Gray (US), Hanif Kureishi (UK), Shu Qi (Taiwan) and Robin Wright Penn (US).
More on Sharmila from Cannes Festival website : Sharmila Tagore started acting as a child in 1959, in the film Apu, directed by Satyajit Ray with whom she would shoot for other films, among which the Goddess, in competition at Cannes.
Star of the hindi cinema, she works with both auteur filmmakers and popular films produced in Mumbai. Sharmilla Tagore is also the great-granddaughter of the Indian poet Rabîndranâth Tagore.
Tagore, 52, currently heads the Central Board of Film Certification.
The Cannes Film Festival is from May 13 to 24.
We got our hands on the synopsis of Gurinder Chadha’s new film Its a Wonderful Afterlife. Shabana Azmi plays the lead role in the film and it also features Sally Hawkins.
Here is the synopsis…
MRS. SETHI, a widow, can’t bear the thought of her daughter being alone and unhappy. Okay, she’s a little plump and opinionated&but she’d make a great wife for some lucky man, if only she were given a chance. When MRS. SETHI can no longer stomach the rudeness of families who refuse her daughter, she takes matters into her own hands with the only way she knows…
Suddenly a police hunt begins for a serial murderer who cooks a killer curry. MRS. SETHI doesn’t feel too guilty until the SPIRITS of her victims come back to haunt her – complete with tandooried bodies and kebab skewered heads, they’re unable to be reincarnated until their murderer dies.
MRS. SETHI has no problem killing herself she’ll get to see her dead husband again but how can she go before her daughter is married? The SPIRITS realize that helping Mrs Sethi daughter find a suitable husband before the police catch her is their only chance for a wonderful afterlife.
It’s a big bloody wedding and a comic feast which takes the phrase ‘I could murder a curry’ to hysterical new heights.
Thats the name of Gurinder Chadha’s new film.
With Shabana Azmi in the lead, it also stars Sally Hawkins, Zoe Wanamaker, Jimi Mistry and Mark Addy. Shooting now in the U.K., the picture reunites some of Chadha’s “Bend It Like Beckham” cast including Shaheen Khan, Ash Varrez and Adlyn Ross.
Its a Wonderful Afterlife is a comedy, about an Indian mother who takes her obsession with marriage into the world of serial murder. Its billed as My Big Fat Greek Wedding meets Shaun of the Dead,
Producer-director Chadha’s latest was penned with her writing partner and husband, Paul Mayeda Berges.
Abhimanyu is one of the five short films that Onir plans to direct. Its the story of a child abuse survivor.Background : In India every one out of five girl child and every one out of ten boys faces some form of abuse. But the society and law at large is not still vocal enough and addressing the issue. Most incidents of the crime do not get reported leaving behind a traumatized and mute innocence to suffer. The heinous crime not only jeopardizes the present of a child but also disturbs the entire growth process of an individual.
Anticlock’s Motive ( Onir’s proudction house) : The idea is to make available each film for educational / awareness purposes and at the same time, to put them all together and release as a single film. Because we believe that it is important for the normal cinema going audience to see this film.
And here is what you get if contribute…..
• Rs 5000 to Rs 25, 000 will be regarded with your name in the end credit roll.
• Rs 25000 to Rs 100,000 will be returned at the time of the release of the film and with acknowledgement in the end credits.
• Rs 100,000 to Rs 15, 00,000 will get credits in the beginning titles of the film and proportionate share in the profits.
The total budget of each film is Rs 30,000,00. ( Rs 30 lakhs
Funds in Place by Anticlock films.pvt.ltd = Rs. 15,000,00 ( Rs 15 lakhs)
For more details, you can contact
– anticlockfilms@gmail.com or Amar : +91-9833748111
Sundance Film lab has announced the names of the 12 particpants who have been selected for the filmmaker and screenwriters lab to be held in june this year.
In the directors list, we spotted a desi name – The Story of Ram/Ritesh Batra (writer/director), U.S.A./India
More details – The Story of Ram/Ritesh Batra (writer/director), U.S.A./India: A chance encounter over the radio waves leads to an extraordinary friendship between the Prime Minister of India and an ordinary tea vendor, which ends up transforming a nation.
Born and raised in Bombay, India, Ritesh Joginder Batra is based in New York and attends the MBA/MFA dual degree program at the Tisch School of the Arts and Stern School of Business at NYU. In 2006, he was selected for the MAISHA Film Lab, and in 2007 completed the award-winning short film The Morning Ritual. Batra recently worked on a feature screenplay for director Santosh Sivan.
Some of the films that came out of this lab in the past includes Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Hard Eight, Kimberly Peirce’s Boy’s Don’t Cry, Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream, John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Peter Sollett’s Raising Victor Vargas, Miranda July’s Me and You and Everyone We Know, Ryan Fleck’s Half Nelson, and most recently Cary Fukunaga’s Sin Nombre and Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer.
Slashfilm has published the names of other participants and their film details. Here is the link.
One of those days, nothing sounds quite right, even mood doesnt want to swing, may be just do nothing, think nothing. Complete blank. And then suddenly a song floats in, from somewhere, some corner. Mujhe jaan na kaho, meri jaan.
The sound of love, life and closeness. All it takes is one magical song. The soothing and sensous voice of Geeta Dutt. Music by Kanu Roy. Lyrics by Gulzarsaab. From film Anubhav, directed by Basu Bhattacharya.
Its all about silences and glances. Sanjeev Kumar and Tanuja – were they really in love ? Or is it what you call “chemistry” ? No clue. They dont make stars like them any more. We don’t create sounds and moments like these any more. Play. In non-stop loop.
Shashank Ghosh’s Quickgun Murugun had its premiere at the Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles ( IFFLA). PFC has posted an early review of the film. Here is the full review. To quote from the review…
Go watch this movie. If not for anything, just the satisfaction value it offers by being crazy. If in Indian context our justification to make dreamy films is to say people don’t want to use their grey cells while watching films, this challenges every sense of logic you may have. Support this film – a very unoriginal effort – if that is the way you like your cinema.
Well the intial buzz suggests the same. Its an insane film fron the crazy guy Shashank Ghosh. If gossipmongers are to be believed, Shashank is quite frustrated because the film is complete and its release has not been scheduled yet. 20th Century Fox has bought the rights of the film and has been sitting on its cans for quite sometime. Why ? How ? Even Shashank doesn’t have any clue.
In short, the film is a south indian spoof of a western cowboy (played by Rajendra Prasad). Sounds mad ? we are waiting.
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Amitabh Bachchan has put out the first pictures of him and Ben Kingsley on his blog, direct from the sets of Leena Yadav’s Teen Patti. The film is currently on floor in London. The rumour is that its based on the Kevin Sapcey starrer 21. Hav a look.
pic courtesy – big.bigadda.com
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