Masterclass by Global Film distributor and Oscar winning Producer, Marc Baschet at Navi Mumbai International Film Festival

Masterclass by Global Film distributor and Oscar winning Producer, Marc Baschet at Navi Mumbai International Film Festival

Mumbai: January 2014: Oscar winning producer for No Man’s Land and co-producer of  Lunch Box, Mr Marc Baschet, will conduct a Master Class at Navi Mumbai International Film Festival (NMIFF) on 1^st Feb 2014 at 3.00 pm at the DY Patil Hospitality College, Nerul.

Mr Marc Baschet will address the aspiring film makers on the topic , “ How to market and distribute independent films globally.” The master class will describe the various ways and methods used in the past to take the independent films to a global platform and the changing scenario today. Various films in India which have been distributed globally successfully are Lunch box and Ship of Theseus.

Through this master class, NMIFF aims to cultivate the innovative ideas of film making and to provide talented filmmakers a wider attention and space by showcasing their art to the global audience. Navi Mumbai Film Festival is determined to provide the film-goers, a repository of fine movies of different taste & calibers from across the globe, to enjoy under the sky of this beautiful city.

The registration for passes can be made online on the film festival’s website at http://www.nmiff.in

The Master-class will be held on:

Date: 1^st February 2014, Saturday

Time: 3.00 pm

Venue: DY Patil Hospitality College, Nerul

Farhan Akhtar promotes Shaadi Ke Side Effects on Radio Mirchi

Shahid Kapoor's song have tracked very well with audiences and he has been spotted on stage at most award functions.

Shahid Kapoor's song have tracked very well with audiences and he has been spotted on stage at most award functions.

However at the Filmfare awards Shahid was seen rushing to the stage on a spontaneous thought.

When Supriya Pathak bagged the Best Actor Award in Supporting Role (Female) for Ram-Leela, shahid was seen sprinting towards the stage

He warmly congratulated her and rushed back.

It was a sweet unexpected gesture from the young lad to which Supriya and the audiences ooh-ed.

It is the first award Supriya has bagged and it was a very special moment for her.

Even Pankaj Kapoor who was present at the event was surprised and elated with Shahid's reaction.

Pankaj and Shahid share an extremely close bond. Shahid often seeks his advice and discusses his roles with him.

Impressive start to the 1st edition of Navi Mumbai International Film Festival (NMIFF)

Impressive start to the 1^st edition of

Navi Mumbai International Film Festival (NMIFF)

·         Mr. Sachin Pilgaonkar felicitated

·         Opening film Titanic Love was screened

Mumbai, January 31, 2014: First day of film extravaganza started on a very high note. The excitement was palpable as the emcee welcomed Mr. Sachin Khanna, Festival Founder and Chairman of the 1^st edition of the Navi Mumbai International Film Festival. Applause continued when Mr. Ashok Purang, Festival Director, Capt. Samir Walavalkar, Director – Business & Finance, Salim Arif, Director of Cultural affairs, NMIFF  were invited on the stage to address the gathering.

Ceremony kick started with felicitating reputed face of Indian Cinema, Mr. Sachin Pilgaonkar by Mr. Pramod Hindurao, (Chairman, CIDCO). On this touching occasion Mr. Pilgaonkar said, “I am extremely thrilled to receive this honour from Navi Mumbai International Film Festival and I would like to thank everyone associated with this fantastic festival. It is a great initiative and I wish you all the very best. “

The auspicious lamp was lit by Mr. Sachin Pilgaonkar and Mr. Pramod Hindurao along with Shri Sagar Naik, (Mayor, Navi Mumbai), Mrs. Manda Mhatre, (Ex-MLC, Navi Mumbai), Actor Rakesh Bedi along with jury members Mr. Marc Baschet, Mr. Imtiaz Hussain and Ms. Rohini Hattanagadi.

Shri Sagar Naik, (Mayor, Navi Mumbai) said,  I am very happy that a festival of this stature is taking place in Navi Mumbai.  I am happy to know that NMIFF has received films from across the globe and am looking forward to a fantastic three days of the festival.”

Mr. Sachin Khanna, founder, NMIFF said, “After attending several film festival across the country, I always wanted to do something for Navi Mumbai and that is how NMIFF was born. We have received tremendous response from Manda tai, Pramodji, Sagarji and from the people of Navi Mumbai.

The day moved ahead with the opening film Titanic Love, Director by Mark Pressdee starring Susannah Felicity Wells, Alex Edwardson, Loxley Logan, Ryan McKen and more. Titanic Love showcases how Lucy has found a Titanic Love cruise and wants to relive the Hollywood dream. Jack does not, they can’t afford it and Lucy is furious. Their relationship hits rough waters and Jack calls on best friend Delroy for advice and a cheap alternative. The film has a talented and emerging cast from the region. The film had been produced by some of the regions finest filmmakers.

The first day saw a great line up of 15 movies like Mahesh Manjrekar film Satnaagat, Directed by Raju Parsekar in Feature film category to L'appuntamento film by Gianpiero Alicchio from Italy in Professional Short Film and Jash ne Daawat by Karan Asnani in Student Short Film Category.

The crowd was immense and is looking forward for second and third day of Navi Mumbai International Film Festival.

Deepika Padukone is inundated with a lot of requests in the last few days.

Deepika Padukone is inundated with a lot of requests in the last few days.

As soon as the news broke that Deepika Padukone had taken a fan to a recent award ceremony, thousands of fans have written and reached out to Deepika Padukone.

She has received umpteenth number of fan mails. In fact her fan mail has almost doubled since the award nights.

She has received mails talking about how they wish it were them or that they want to meet her as well.

All of them have written to her appreciating the gesture she had shown towards her fans.

It is the first time ever an actor has shared this special moment, of winning an award with their fan. Deepika was keen to attribute her success to her fans that have all through her journey stood by her.

Her gesture has been received very well with her fans and has had a sort of rippling effect.

Deepika Padukone acknowledged the role of her fans and thanked them for their place in her life on the podium while receiving the award for the world to see.

Her fans are ecstatic that she has acknowledged them on the world forum. 

Gunday is one of the first films to be shot in a real coal mine.

Gunday was one of last narrations of Yash Chopra. He green lit the project and also gave a lot of his inputs for the film.

Yash Chopra was very keen for Ali to shoot the film at an actual coal mine. He felt that while shooting for Kaala Patthar(starring Amitabh Bachchan), Yashi ji himself did not take the plunge.

He insisted on the fact that Ali should definitely shoot at a coal mine and also shared details of his experience and details about coal mines.

Yash Chopra enthusiastically even shared options of where all can the shoot be held.

When the film went into production YRF was very enthusiastic to weave this through.

The coal mine shots are done in an open cast mine in Raniganj which is 3 hours away from Kolkata.

Never before has there been a film shot in this area. Not even, a Bengali or small scale film.

The permission bit was not a problem.. In fact all the nitty gritties worked out smoothly for them. The authorities were very accommodating.

Even when the team went for a recce the authorities gave them access during lunch breaks for them to scan and plan things.

Ali also interacted with miners to closely understand their lifestyle, their work conditions etc. He also photographed them to ensure he gets the nuances of the look right.

When they went back to shoot, there was an entire area which was allotted to them.

Their shooting schedule was two week long and they had no interference from the miners what so ever.

The only little hiccup was that while they shot every day, a huge sea of people gathered there out of curiosity.

They used to sit there all day long keenly observing the shoot.

Everyone is very pleased with the way the film has turned out. 

Ali has been glad Yash ji advised him to go to an actual mine. His experience of shooting there and the way the film has visually taken shape would not have been the same.

Ya Rab Story

After watching the film - ''YA RAB'' of TRUE FILMS, The tribunal of India stated: ''We have viewed the aforesaid film, This is a thought provoking movie which condemns fundamentalism in strongest terms & exposes self styled religious leaders who owe allegiance to foreign powers.

The tribunal is of the view that such films be shown to younger age group to sensitise them about the terrorist activities by certain outfits which incite the people to resort to violence in the name of religion. No religion preaches intolerance or violence, but terrorists have no religion''.

After speaking with Lucknow based Qazi: Abdul Irfan Miyan Firangi Mahali Maulana quoted: ''People use their personal benefits to provoke or to instigate young muslims in the name of Jihad, to spread terrorism. On the contrary Islam is a peace loving religion and killing people is not Jihad''.

Mahesh Bhatt quoted, "YA RAB has been approved by the tribunal in glowing terms, but yet it is sad that we film makers have run from pillar to post after following the due process of law to release this film.”

Main Tera Hero Trailer crosses 2 million views in just 1 week!!!

Main Tera Hero Trailer crosses 2 million views in just 1 week!!!

The trailer of the much anticipated film ‘Main Tera Hero’ which released online on Thursday grabbed an unprecedented amount of eyeballs just within minutes and the fans across social media loved  Varun Dhawan in his comic avatar and were baffled by the good looks of Ileana Dcruz and Nargis Fakhri.

Touted to be one of the biggest entertainers of the year, Main Tera Hero sees Varun Dhawan, Ileana Dcruz and Nargis Fakhri caught in a love triangle. It will be a Father-Son Duo for David Dhawan and Varun Dhawan who will be seen pairing up for the very first time.

" We are really glad that the trailer of Main Tera hero is being so well received. It not even one week , and the trailer has crossed 2 million views, which is quite an achievement for any film. Main Tera Hero is Balaji Motion Pictures first Masala Entertainer and we are quite excited for the release of the film", said the elated CEO of Balaji , Alpana Mishra.

 ‘Main Tera Hero’ trailer has already hit a mark of 2 million views in just 1 week and has surpassed the  record of many blockbusters already!!!

Well, with such a magnum opus start we are sure ‘Main Tera Hero is all set to break many records and win the audiences hearts..

Directed by David Dhawan and produced by Balaji Motion Pictures, Main Tera Hero is all set to hit the screens on 4^th April 2014, starring Varun Dhawan, Ileana D’cruz and Nargis Fakhri in the lead roles.

Rajamouli beats the VFX budgets of Shahrukh Khan and Hrithik Roshan. His upcoming film, Baahubali, becomes the highest spender of VFX in Bollywood.

Rajamouli beats the VFX budgets of Shahrukh Khan and Hrithik Roshan. His upcoming film, Baahubali, becomes the highest spender of VFX in Bollywood.

The ace director will be spending over 85 crores for the VFX in the film.

S S Rajamouli's Baahubali is going to add yet another feather in its cap. Not only is it going to be one of the most expensive films ever made in India, but also, the film boasts of a never-before-heard budget for its visual effects alone. 

Since Baahubali is a period action drama, the makers have decided to go all out to create a visual extravaganza that'll surely take the audience by storm. 

The film's VFX budget alone is approximately going to exceed a whopping Rs 80 – 85 crores! This is more than the budget of most of Rajamouli's previous films including Eega, which was dubbed in Hindi as Makkhi.

                                      

With his earlier films, he has proved that he is the God of VFX and someone who understand the nitty-gritties of visual effects and the extent to which VFX designers, artists and others go to make things look real.

For Baahubali, their team is going to create almost two hours of environment for the film. Since the film is set in medieval India, there'll be plenty of visual effects in terms of creating extravagant sets, palaces and even kingdoms. The VFX team will create, extend and enhance the fictional kingdoms, forts and palaces in all their glory, apart from creating beautiful landscapes. Apart from all this, the VFX team will also be involved in creating several realistic action sequences, some of which involve animals.

S S Rajamouli and his team spend almost a year in pre-visualizing the entire film and the VFX team has already begun working on specific scenes which require greater efforts and time.

 The film stars Prabhas, Anushka Shetty and Rana Daggubati in lead roles, apart from Ramya Krishnan, Nasser, Sathyaraj and Sudeep in supporting roles. M M Keeravani is scoring the music and Senthil Kumar is the cinematographer. Shobu Yarlagadda and Prasad Devineni are producing the film under Arka Mediaworks banner and K Raghavendra Rao is presenting it. 

Baahubali is being simultaneously shot in Telugu and Tamil and it'll also be released in Hindi, Malayalam and other foreign languages in 2015.

Producer, Shobu Yarlagadda adds, "Baahubali is an ambitious project and attempting to make it the most spectacular film ever on Indian screen.  And we are using some cutting edge technology to achieve this. There is a lot of complex computer generated imagery(CGI) and VFX shots will be present in 90% of the movie. That means about 4500 - 5000 VFX shots.  So when you look at numbers like that budgets will naturally be very high. Baahubali will be one of the most expensive films ever produced in India along with highest VFX budgets ever. VFX is a very complex art and Rajamouli has been a pioneer in this space. His earlier films too have had great VFX but with Baahubali, he will take it several notches higher."

Radio Mirchi honours Marathi Music Industry at Renewgreen Mirchi Music Awards Marathi

Radio Mirchi honours Marathi Music Industry at Renewgreen Mirchi Music Awards Marathi

·       Music Composer Yashwant Deo felicitated with Lifetime Achievement award

·        Swapnil Bandodkar awarded as the best Male Vocalist of the year, while Bela Shende the Female Vocalist of the year

·        Mesmerizing performances by Sonu Nigam, Manasi Naik, Shalmali Kholgade among others

India’s leading radio station, Radio Mirchi, hosted an evening of glamour and music at the Renewgreen Mirchi Music Awards Marathi powered by Idea at Pune. The luminaries of the Marathi music and entertainment fraternity graced the occasion with their benign presence and felicitated the talented winners.

Commenting on this, Prashant Pandey, CEO and Executive Director, ENIL, said, “We are delighted to host yet another edition of the Mirchi Music Awards Marathi. Music has no language and talent has no bounds. This is what we seek to acknowledge. With these awards we wish to pay tribute to the hard work and dedication of some of the most deserving talents in the country.”

Also present at the event Mr. Rajendra  Babulal Malu, Founder Director Renewgreen Energy Pvt. Ltd, said,  “Radio Mirchi is giving awards to aspiring and established singers, musicians and technicians of Marathi music World from last year. Renewgreen appreciates the efforts of Radio Mirchi to inspire the MARATHI MUSIC WORLD with this award. Renewgreen salutes the stalwarts of Marathi music industry & congratulates all the singers, musicians & technicians for this RENEWGREEN  MIRCHI MUSIC  AWARD - MARATHI.” 

Expressing his delight, Suresh Wadkar, the Jury Chairperson, said, “It’s the second year and I along with my team of jury members are very happy to see this platform grow for promoting good Marathi music. These awards are a huge encouragement for artists from the Marathi music industry to motivate them to do good and quality work. I got to hear some real good songs during the scanning process and feel that new talent has a huge potential in them”.

The star- studded event hosted by Sumeet Raghvan and Kranti Redkar was attended by prominent members of showbiz like Sachin Pilgaonkar, Hrishita Bhatt, Ashok Patki, Mrinal Kulkarni, to name a few. The evening saw some splendid performances by Sonu Nigam, Shalmali Kholgade, Vaishali Samant and Apeksha Dandekar. Popular Marathi actress Manasi Naik gave a scintillating dance performance.

 The jury included eminent personalities like Ashok Patki, Suresh Wadkar, Mahesh Manjrekar, Vijay Dayal, Vaishali Samant, Abhijeet Pohankar, Bela Shende, Kaushal Inamdar, Aarti Anklikar, Salil Kulkarni, Nilesh Mohrir, Pravin Davne, Rahul Deshpande, Manoj Pandya and Shitalchandra Kulkarni.

The awards were presented for 12 categories namely, album of the year, song of the year, male/female vocalist of the year, music composer of the year, lyricist of the year, upcoming male/female vocalist of the year, upcoming music composer of the year, upcoming lyricist of the year, Programmer & arranger of the year, Song recording & mixing of the year.

Yashwant Deo was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Awards for his extra ordinary contribution to the Marathi music industry.

The award show will be telecast on ETV Marathi on Sunday, February 16, 2014.

Winners:

Category	Winner
Album of the year	Mangalashtaka Once More
Song of the year	Olya Saanjweli
Male vocalist of the year	Swapnil Bandodkar
Female vocalist of the year	Bela Shende
Music composer of the year	Avinash – Vishwajeet
Lyricist of the year	Ashwini Shende
Upcoming music composer of the year	Jasraj Joshi, Saurabh Bhalerao & Rishikesh Datar
Upcoming lyricist of the year	Mangesh Kangane
Upcoming male vocalist of the year	Mangesh Borgaokar
Upcoming female vocalist of the year	Sayali Pankaj
Programmer & arranger of the year	Praful Karlekar
Song recording & mixing of the year	Henry Moniz & Vijay Dayal
Song of the year- Listener’s choice	Deva tujhya gaabhaaryaalaa
Album of the year- Listener’s choice	Duniyadari

About Radio Mirchi:

Entertainment Network India Limited (ENIL), India’s leading private FM radio broadcaster, popularly known as Radio Mirchi, operates across 32 cities in the country. Launched in 2001, Radio Mirchi has the highest listenership across the country and a track record of developing innovative content, thus expanding and retaining its audiences and advertisers through the years. Radio Mirchi has delighted listeners and the industry with its exciting properties like the Purani Jeans Film Festival and the Mirchi Music Awards. 

Radio Mirchi’s continuous innovations across different platforms like Visual Radio or Mirchi Mobile have been instrumental in gaining leadership in the private FM Radio industry. Radio Mirchi made its international foray with the launch of the brand in the UAE. From 1st Feb, 2012, Radio Mirchi can be heard in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Al Ain and is the first Indian radio brand to go international.