Leading Bengali-language focused streamer Hoichoi has unveiled a 25-strong Indian and Bangladeshi series slate on the occasion of its fifth anniversary of operations.
Stepping into its sixth year, Hoichoi, revealed 21 shows from India and four from Bangladesh at a gala event in Kolkata on Tuesday. Content creators Srijit Mukherji, Dhrubo Banerjee, Anirban Bhattacharya, Sahana Dutta, Syed Ahmed Shawki, Ashfaque Nipun and others continue their journey with Hoichoi, while Raj Chakraborty and Arindam Sil are making their streaming debuts.
Hoichoi co-founder Vishnu Mohta said that the streamer’s monthy active users have increased by 40 and its international user base has risen by 30. Operated by studio Svf Entertainment, Hoichoi was launched in 2017.
“It’s been an extremely enriching and monumental five years. From bringing in top creators, ensuring one world premiere movie a month, to developing strategic partnerships for accessibility, to the current revamped Ui/Ux with more new features, everything aims...
Stepping into its sixth year, Hoichoi, revealed 21 shows from India and four from Bangladesh at a gala event in Kolkata on Tuesday. Content creators Srijit Mukherji, Dhrubo Banerjee, Anirban Bhattacharya, Sahana Dutta, Syed Ahmed Shawki, Ashfaque Nipun and others continue their journey with Hoichoi, while Raj Chakraborty and Arindam Sil are making their streaming debuts.
Hoichoi co-founder Vishnu Mohta said that the streamer’s monthy active users have increased by 40 and its international user base has risen by 30. Operated by studio Svf Entertainment, Hoichoi was launched in 2017.
“It’s been an extremely enriching and monumental five years. From bringing in top creators, ensuring one world premiere movie a month, to developing strategic partnerships for accessibility, to the current revamped Ui/Ux with more new features, everything aims...
- 9/20/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
It was back in 2004 that Turkish writer and star Cem Yilmaz caught our attention with his very silly - and very fun - scifi comedy G.O.R.A. The story of a Turkish carpet salesman kidnapped by extraterrestrials and plunged into an alien conflict the easiest pitch on G.O.R.A. is to describe it as a sort of Turkish Spaceballs with ringmaster Yilmaz sharing the same sort of broad, slapstick sense of humor as Mel Brooks. Yilmaz was already a pretty significant star in Turkey on release and G.O.R.A. proved a major hit, pushing him to further heights. A more ambitious film by far than the vast majority of local productions, it wasn't just funny but had fantastic production values and great VFX work that won fans...
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- 4/3/2017
- Screen Anarchy
[Our thanks to Serdar Kökçeoğlu for the following review.]
In the mid 90's, a young man publishing caricatures for humour magazines walked on stage, and against everybody's expectation, changed the face of Turkish comedy - His name was Cem Yılmaz. Also described as "not so handsome but highly sympathetic", he started performing his stand up comedy shows in Leman Cultural Center. His one man performances received high responses from the crowd, making him very popular; so popular in fact that the elite society started to invade the back streets of Beyoğlu, unknown area to them until then. His shows were filling thick and fast at the Leman Cultural Center. Using only a chair and his wit, he told us the life stories of different extraordinary fictional characters, and tackled with ease subjects otherwise thought to be slightly sensitive. He portrayed the Turkish identity from a unique parody angle in today's popular culture.
With such a successful stage debut, it...
In the mid 90's, a young man publishing caricatures for humour magazines walked on stage, and against everybody's expectation, changed the face of Turkish comedy - His name was Cem Yılmaz. Also described as "not so handsome but highly sympathetic", he started performing his stand up comedy shows in Leman Cultural Center. His one man performances received high responses from the crowd, making him very popular; so popular in fact that the elite society started to invade the back streets of Beyoğlu, unknown area to them until then. His shows were filling thick and fast at the Leman Cultural Center. Using only a chair and his wit, he told us the life stories of different extraordinary fictional characters, and tackled with ease subjects otherwise thought to be slightly sensitive. He portrayed the Turkish identity from a unique parody angle in today's popular culture.
With such a successful stage debut, it...
- 1/14/2010
- Screen Anarchy
The film scene in Turkey is expanding so quickly it’s just scary. Turkish arthouse film has been carving out a solid reputation for a few years now thanks to the likes of Akin and Ceylan but Turkey - notoriously - produces more than its share of pulp as well. And the undisputed champion of populist film? Without a doubt it’s hugely popular comedian Cem Yilmaz who had a massive international hit with his Mel Brooks style scifi comedy G.O.R.A. a few years back. And now Yilmaz is back with A.R.O.G., a sequel to his earlier film that inverts the entire premise. No future space battles for his hero this time out, no - this time they’re going back in time and the results look hilarious.
We posted a three minute sequence from the film a while back and now a quarter of teasers from the picture have arrived.
We posted a three minute sequence from the film a while back and now a quarter of teasers from the picture have arrived.
- 9/28/2008
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
Why, yes, I AM posting this purely as an excuse to bring back the earlier three minute reel from A.R.O.G., the sequel to hugely successful Turkish scifi comedy G.O.R.A. And why not? It’s the best fun I’ve had in three minutes for ... well, I’ll leave that sentence unfinished, I think. Anyway, there’s a behind the scenes reel available now detailing how exactly they made those fantastic three minutes and both the clip itself and the behind the scenes are available below the break.
Assuming they’re on schedule, the film is now deep into production, so expect new material soon ...
Assuming they’re on schedule, the film is now deep into production, so expect new material soon ...
- 9/18/2008
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
BERLIN -- Turkey's Valley of the Wolves: Iraq, an action drama that depicts U.S. troops in Iraq committing multiple atrocities, is setting new boxoffice records in its homeland. The movie has sold more than 3 million tickets since its Feb. 3 release, according to Turkish tracking agency Kenda. The current record-holder for ticket sales in Turkey is G.O.R.A., which drew 4 million admissions in 2004. "'Valley of the Wolves' will maybe reach 5 million," a Kenda representative said. The film also has sold about 228,000 tickets on its opening week in Germany, the Netherlands and Austria, where it is being released by specialist distributor Maxximum Films. "It is our best result yet," said Maxximum head Anil Sahin. The film is due to roll out in several other territories, including the U.K., in the coming weeks.
- 2/16/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The foreign market is not so foreign anymore.When Warner Bros. Pictures chalked up an industry record of $2.2 billion last year in boxoffice revenue from the overseas market, $167 million of that total came from the release of foreign local-language films. Among a slew of local-language films released in 2004, Warners retrieved $31 million in boxoffice revenue from France alone for the French-language A Very Long Engagement, $20 million in Japan for the Chinese-language House of Flying Daggers, and $17 million in Turkey for the native-language G.O.R.A. Other examples of foreign-language activity by the majors saw Universal, via international distributor UIP, extract about $51 million from Germany, Austria and Switzerland for the German-language Seven Dwarfs. Buena Vista International is tabulating $8.2 million to date for Germany's Barfus and $10.5 million for Wild Bunch 2, and Sony is picking up $7 million in Brazil for the native-language Cazuza.
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