He has been entertaining audiences with comedy, drama, romance, some with a bit of all three as well as historical and social issue driven content for 25 years. We are of course talking about the great Akshay Kumar. He is truly one of the best in Bollywood and audiences love to watch his movies.
His newest release both as actor and producer, Toilet: Ek Prem Katha hits theaters on August 11th. Directed by Shree Narayan Singh, this important film brings to light the issues surrounding sanitation, open deification and women safety in India.
Toilet Ek Prem Katha (Tepk) is the real-life love story between Keshav and Jaya (Bhumi Pednekar) whose love transcends across barriers of society and tradition but is challenged by the most unexpected hurdle, a toilet.
Tepk is set in two villages near Mathura, where at least 80% of households are without any access to a lavatory. It is a...
His newest release both as actor and producer, Toilet: Ek Prem Katha hits theaters on August 11th. Directed by Shree Narayan Singh, this important film brings to light the issues surrounding sanitation, open deification and women safety in India.
Toilet Ek Prem Katha (Tepk) is the real-life love story between Keshav and Jaya (Bhumi Pednekar) whose love transcends across barriers of society and tradition but is challenged by the most unexpected hurdle, a toilet.
Tepk is set in two villages near Mathura, where at least 80% of households are without any access to a lavatory. It is a...
- 8/11/2017
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
Exclusive: India’s National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc) and France’s Catherine Dussart Productions have boarded Rajnesh Domalpalli’s rural fable Avani as co-producers.
Michael Henrichs of Die Gesellschaft Dgs is the lead producer on the Telugu-language project, which has also secured $37,000 (€30,000) from the EU’s Creative Europe Media Development Fund.
Set at a time when the monsoons have failed two years in a row, Avani tells the story of an eight-year-old girl who learns new respect for life on Earth while bringing her family together.
“Avani will build on the tone that the director developed in his first film, Vanaja. We expect to close the financing over the next nine months and begin shooting in mid-December 2015,” said Henrichs.
Dussart and Nfdc recently co-produced Gurvinder Singh’s The Fourth Direction, which is in production, with Kartikeya Narayan Singh’s The Film Café and Sunil Doshi’s Handmade Films. Dussart’s credits also include Rithy Panh’s The...
Michael Henrichs of Die Gesellschaft Dgs is the lead producer on the Telugu-language project, which has also secured $37,000 (€30,000) from the EU’s Creative Europe Media Development Fund.
Set at a time when the monsoons have failed two years in a row, Avani tells the story of an eight-year-old girl who learns new respect for life on Earth while bringing her family together.
“Avani will build on the tone that the director developed in his first film, Vanaja. We expect to close the financing over the next nine months and begin shooting in mid-December 2015,” said Henrichs.
Dussart and Nfdc recently co-produced Gurvinder Singh’s The Fourth Direction, which is in production, with Kartikeya Narayan Singh’s The Film Café and Sunil Doshi’s Handmade Films. Dussart’s credits also include Rithy Panh’s The...
- 11/23/2014
- ScreenDaily
Rajesh Jala’s The Spark was awarded the $16,000 (Rs1m) Incredible India award at the close of Film Bazaar (Nov 20-24), while Kanu Behl’s Titli took the Prasad Digital Intermediate prize.
The Spark, which was selected for Film Bazaar’s Screenwriters’ Lab, tells the story of a riot victim who has a plan to take revenge, but is indecisive about taking action. Jala previously directed award-winning documentary Children Of The Pyre.
Produced by Dibakar Banerjee with backing from Yash Raj Films, Titli revolves around the volatile relationship between two brothers. Currently in post-production, the film was selected for Film Bazaar’s Work-in-Progress Lab. Behl has worked as assistant and co-writer on Banerjee’s previous features.
More than 950 delegates from 35 countries attended this year’s Film Bazaar, compared to 712 from 32 countries in 2012. International visitors included four Cannes heavyweights – Thierry Fremaux, Christian Jeune, Critics Week’s Charles Tesson and Directors’ Fortnight’s Edouard Waintrop – along with delegations from Screen...
The Spark, which was selected for Film Bazaar’s Screenwriters’ Lab, tells the story of a riot victim who has a plan to take revenge, but is indecisive about taking action. Jala previously directed award-winning documentary Children Of The Pyre.
Produced by Dibakar Banerjee with backing from Yash Raj Films, Titli revolves around the volatile relationship between two brothers. Currently in post-production, the film was selected for Film Bazaar’s Work-in-Progress Lab. Behl has worked as assistant and co-writer on Banerjee’s previous features.
More than 950 delegates from 35 countries attended this year’s Film Bazaar, compared to 712 from 32 countries in 2012. International visitors included four Cannes heavyweights – Thierry Fremaux, Christian Jeune, Critics Week’s Charles Tesson and Directors’ Fortnight’s Edouard Waintrop – along with delegations from Screen...
- 11/25/2013
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Vasant Nath’s drama Sebastian Wants To Remember has found an Indian co-producer and secured a grant of $68,000 (€50,000) from EU Media Development.
Kartikeya Narayan Singh’s The Film Café (Alms For The Blind Horse) has boarded the project alongside Germany’s Die Gesellschaft Dgs and France’s 24 Images.
Selected for Nfdc Screenwriters’ Lab in 2011 and the Co-production Market in 2012, Sebastian Wants To Remember is the story of an aging photographer who loses his memory and must embark on a daunting journey with his wife in search of his past.
Kartikeya Narayan Singh’s The Film Café (Alms For The Blind Horse) has boarded the project alongside Germany’s Die Gesellschaft Dgs and France’s 24 Images.
Selected for Nfdc Screenwriters’ Lab in 2011 and the Co-production Market in 2012, Sebastian Wants To Remember is the story of an aging photographer who loses his memory and must embark on a daunting journey with his wife in search of his past.
- 11/25/2013
- ScreenDaily
Gurvinder Singh’s The Fourth Direction is scheduled to start shooting in mid-January, 2014 after securing support from French funding body Cnc.
The film has secured funding of $135,000 (Euros100,000) from Cnc’s World Cinema Support fund. Satya Nagpaul, who won best cinematography at India’s National Film Awards in 2011 for Singh’s Alms For The Blind Horse, has also boarded the film.
Selected for Film Bazaar’s Co-production Market in 2012, The Fourth Direction is a co-production between France’s Catherine Dussart Productions, India’s National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc), Kartikeya Narayan Singh’s The Film Cafe and Sunil Doshi’s Handmade Films.
Based on two short stories by Punjabi writer Waryam Singh Sandhu, the film will be shot in Punjab with a host of local actors and non-actors.
The Fourth Direction is the second Indian film after The Lunchbox to receive funding from Cnc’s World Cinema Support fund, established in 2012 to support international co-productions.
For full production...
The film has secured funding of $135,000 (Euros100,000) from Cnc’s World Cinema Support fund. Satya Nagpaul, who won best cinematography at India’s National Film Awards in 2011 for Singh’s Alms For The Blind Horse, has also boarded the film.
Selected for Film Bazaar’s Co-production Market in 2012, The Fourth Direction is a co-production between France’s Catherine Dussart Productions, India’s National Film Development Corporation (Nfdc), Kartikeya Narayan Singh’s The Film Cafe and Sunil Doshi’s Handmade Films.
Based on two short stories by Punjabi writer Waryam Singh Sandhu, the film will be shot in Punjab with a host of local actors and non-actors.
The Fourth Direction is the second Indian film after The Lunchbox to receive funding from Cnc’s World Cinema Support fund, established in 2012 to support international co-productions.
For full production...
- 11/22/2013
- ScreenDaily
Manish Tiwary is the first filmmaker to be granted permission to shoot Varanasi’s oldest Ramleela. Thanks to his Maharaja uncle, Manish Tiwary is the first filmmaker to be granted permission to shoot Varanasi’s oldest Ramleela
Manish Tiwary has a special relationship with Varanasi. After all, the director’s uncle is the Maharaja of Benares. And thanks to his connections with the royalty, Manish’s film has captured one of the city’s oldest Ramleelas that has been running across three centuries, thanks to the patronage of the city’s royal family.
The director’s maternal uncle is apparently the Maharaja Anant Narayan Singh. Manish’s film, which is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic Romeo and Juliet, has been shot in Varanasi.
A source from the sets says, “ The Ramleela has been running in the city since the past 300 years. Never before has anyone apparently got the permission...
Manish Tiwary has a special relationship with Varanasi. After all, the director’s uncle is the Maharaja of Benares. And thanks to his connections with the royalty, Manish’s film has captured one of the city’s oldest Ramleelas that has been running across three centuries, thanks to the patronage of the city’s royal family.
The director’s maternal uncle is apparently the Maharaja Anant Narayan Singh. Manish’s film, which is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic Romeo and Juliet, has been shot in Varanasi.
A source from the sets says, “ The Ramleela has been running in the city since the past 300 years. Never before has anyone apparently got the permission...
- 6/14/2013
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
Starring: Akshay Kumar,Manoj Bajpai, Anupam Kher, Jimmy Sheirgil, Rajesh Sharma, Kishore Kadam, Kajal Aggarwal
Written & Directed by Neeraj Pandey
Gimme raid, said the fake Cbi officers who in a daredevil swoop-down on a well-known jewellery outlet in Mumbai in 1983, escaped with a loot worth lakhs. If done today it would have been a heist worth crores.
But that’s the devilish beauty of Neeraj Pandey’s second feature film. Though set in a world where lakhs were a large fortune, he gives us a caper-thriller worth crores. The period detailing of the 1980s-the cars, hotel lobbies, clothes, hairstyle and most importantly, the attitude to wealth acquisition(scams were unknown back then, scandals were as far as the financials over-reachers went)-they all add a lustre of underscored believability to the proceedings.
Morality is a prime casualty in the tale. And if crime should not be allowed to pay in...
Written & Directed by Neeraj Pandey
Gimme raid, said the fake Cbi officers who in a daredevil swoop-down on a well-known jewellery outlet in Mumbai in 1983, escaped with a loot worth lakhs. If done today it would have been a heist worth crores.
But that’s the devilish beauty of Neeraj Pandey’s second feature film. Though set in a world where lakhs were a large fortune, he gives us a caper-thriller worth crores. The period detailing of the 1980s-the cars, hotel lobbies, clothes, hairstyle and most importantly, the attitude to wealth acquisition(scams were unknown back then, scandals were as far as the financials over-reachers went)-they all add a lustre of underscored believability to the proceedings.
Morality is a prime casualty in the tale. And if crime should not be allowed to pay in...
- 2/10/2013
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
Amit Dutta’s The Museum of Imagination has been selected for CinemaXXI competition section for medium and short length films at the Rome Film Festival 2012.
Three of his films: Sonchidi, Nainsukh and Aadmi Ki Aurat Aur Anya Kahaniyaan were screened at the Venice Film Festival in the Orrizonti section when Marco Mueller was the Festival Director. This is the first year when Mueller is heading Rome as the Artistic Director.
Amit Dutta’s new feature film project The Room on a Tree, going to be Produced by Kartikeya Narayan Singh ( Anhey Ghore Da Daan) has also been selected for the New Cinema Network, the co-production market at Rome Film Festival. This project has also been selected for Film Bazaar 2012.
Read also: Q’s “Tasher Desh” to compete at Rome Film Festival...
Three of his films: Sonchidi, Nainsukh and Aadmi Ki Aurat Aur Anya Kahaniyaan were screened at the Venice Film Festival in the Orrizonti section when Marco Mueller was the Festival Director. This is the first year when Mueller is heading Rome as the Artistic Director.
Amit Dutta’s new feature film project The Room on a Tree, going to be Produced by Kartikeya Narayan Singh ( Anhey Ghore Da Daan) has also been selected for the New Cinema Network, the co-production market at Rome Film Festival. This project has also been selected for Film Bazaar 2012.
Read also: Q’s “Tasher Desh” to compete at Rome Film Festival...
- 10/27/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
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