Bodyguard, was released on the occasion of Eid in the business as expected. Salman Khan on Eid this time picked up a hat trick of success. 3000 print on Wednesday last week with the bodyguard was in theaters around the world. Collection of more than 20 million by the first day it was indicated that the 5-day long week and will set a record of the film collection. 5 days, 88 million have crossed a road film grossed over 100 easy-to-movies will come in the league. The other two films released last week, the Yellow Boots That Girl lyrics and the audience could not be significant. Ideally, the two films could be released in India. Bodyguard was a casualty of the popularity of both films, the theme of both films was hard hitting.Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Film Bodyguard Best On Box Office
Bodyguard, was released on the occasion of Eid in the business as expected. Salman Khan on Eid this time picked up a hat trick of success. 3000 print on Wednesday last week with the bodyguard was in theaters around the world. Collection of more than 20 million by the first day it was indicated that the 5-day long week and will set a record of the film collection. 5 days, 88 million have crossed a road film grossed over 100 easy-to-movies will come in the league. The other two films released last week, the Yellow Boots That Girl lyrics and the audience could not be significant. Ideally, the two films could be released in India. Bodyguard was a casualty of the popularity of both films, the theme of both films was hard hitting.
Monday, October 17, 2011
A film explores
The best comedies always have a subtle streak of tragedy in them. Perhaps that's why director Kundan Shah, the man behind some of them, including cult classic 'Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro', decided to dwell on a serious subject - dowry suicides by three sisters.'Teen Behenein' is a film based on a real-life incident in India in 1988 and signifies the importance of holding a mirror to contemporary events.
'Although we, as a country, have a considerable body of documentary work on several of the more memorable moments in our social and political history, there is not too much by way of feature films holding a mirror to events of contemporary relevance,' Shekhar Hattangadi, chief associate director on the film, told IANS.
'Here, I don't mean period films like 'Mangal Pandey' or 'Asoka'. The genre I'm referring to would include films like 'Black Friday', though with a difference.
'The difference is while 'Black Friday' purports to tell you what really happened in terms of the planning, execution and investigation of the Mumbai bomb blasts, 'Teen Behenein' only takes the seed of its story from real-life incidents of combined suicides by three sisters, and then builds a narrative around it by attempting to enter the minds of the sisters and thus exploring the probable reasons that would have driven them to their deaths,' he added.
The film is based on an incident that occurred in Kanpur in 1988, when three sisters committed suicide due to the inability of their parents to pay their dowries. The suicide made it to the front page of newspapers at the time.
'The research work that we did prior to scripting the film revealed there were at least eight such incidents that were reported from different parts of the country between 1988 and 2002. So the Kanpur tragedy was in fact the first of several others,' said Hattangadi.
'It was thus a rare opportunity for us to highlight a little-discussed aspect of a dowry death, which is normally associated with the killing of or suicide by a married woman. We grabbed that opportunity in order to be able to make a film that would be difficult for the big-banner commercial film to contemplate making,' he added.
The cast of 'Teen Behenein' includes Amrita Subhash, Shiju Kataria, Kadambari Kadam and Anjan Srivastav. The film, made at a budget of approximately Rs.60 lakh, was also screened at the Connecticut Film Festival along with 'I Am Kalam', 'West is West' and 'Nouka Dubi'. It will now be screened at the India Habitat Centre Oct 23.
'Collaborating on a feature film project with Kundan Shah was exciting and particularly challenging because the two of us had been discussing the possibility of making comedies when this project for making a 100 percent tragic film fell into his lap,' said Hattangadi.
'I was intrigued as to how he would accomplish a task that was such a departure for him, as his movies till then had been largely comedies (including his truly wacky comic debut film 'Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro' and 'Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa') -- although the best comedies always have a subtle streak of tragedy in them,' he said.
'Although we, as a country, have a considerable body of documentary work on several of the more memorable moments in our social and political history, there is not too much by way of feature films holding a mirror to events of contemporary relevance,' Shekhar Hattangadi, chief associate director on the film, told IANS.
'Here, I don't mean period films like 'Mangal Pandey' or 'Asoka'. The genre I'm referring to would include films like 'Black Friday', though with a difference.
'The difference is while 'Black Friday' purports to tell you what really happened in terms of the planning, execution and investigation of the Mumbai bomb blasts, 'Teen Behenein' only takes the seed of its story from real-life incidents of combined suicides by three sisters, and then builds a narrative around it by attempting to enter the minds of the sisters and thus exploring the probable reasons that would have driven them to their deaths,' he added.
The film is based on an incident that occurred in Kanpur in 1988, when three sisters committed suicide due to the inability of their parents to pay their dowries. The suicide made it to the front page of newspapers at the time.
'The research work that we did prior to scripting the film revealed there were at least eight such incidents that were reported from different parts of the country between 1988 and 2002. So the Kanpur tragedy was in fact the first of several others,' said Hattangadi.
'It was thus a rare opportunity for us to highlight a little-discussed aspect of a dowry death, which is normally associated with the killing of or suicide by a married woman. We grabbed that opportunity in order to be able to make a film that would be difficult for the big-banner commercial film to contemplate making,' he added.
The cast of 'Teen Behenein' includes Amrita Subhash, Shiju Kataria, Kadambari Kadam and Anjan Srivastav. The film, made at a budget of approximately Rs.60 lakh, was also screened at the Connecticut Film Festival along with 'I Am Kalam', 'West is West' and 'Nouka Dubi'. It will now be screened at the India Habitat Centre Oct 23.
'Collaborating on a feature film project with Kundan Shah was exciting and particularly challenging because the two of us had been discussing the possibility of making comedies when this project for making a 100 percent tragic film fell into his lap,' said Hattangadi.
'I was intrigued as to how he would accomplish a task that was such a departure for him, as his movies till then had been largely comedies (including his truly wacky comic debut film 'Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro' and 'Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa') -- although the best comedies always have a subtle streak of tragedy in them,' he said.
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Real Steel' tops box office
Boxing robot movie "Real Steel" won the domestic box office for the second straight weekend, edging a remake of 1980s dance classic "Footloose."
"Real Steel" brought in about $16.3 million at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to studio estimates released on Sunday. The action movie starring Hugh Jackman landed slightly ahead of "Footloose," which brought in an estimated $16.1 million.
Third place went to horror movie "The Thing" with $8.7 million.
"Real Steel" was produced by DreamWorks and distributed by Walt Disney Co. "Footloose" was released by Paramount Pictures, a unit of Viacom Inc. Universal Pictures, a unit of Comcast Corp, distributed "The Thing."
"Real Steel" brought in about $16.3 million at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to studio estimates released on Sunday. The action movie starring Hugh Jackman landed slightly ahead of "Footloose," which brought in an estimated $16.1 million.
Third place went to horror movie "The Thing" with $8.7 million.
"Real Steel" was produced by DreamWorks and distributed by Walt Disney Co. "Footloose" was released by Paramount Pictures, a unit of Viacom Inc. Universal Pictures, a unit of Comcast Corp, distributed "The Thing."
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Facebook: allows Warner Bros web series
Facebook has now launched a new app that will turn its users' lives into a TV show by allowing them to insert their photos and updates into a special action series created for the web."Two and a Half Men" and "Gossip Girl" makers Warner Bros will launch the social-networking's site first-ever action series called 'Aim High' in October, the Telegraph reports.
The plot will revolve around a high school student, played by Jackson Rathbone, a young actor best known for his role in the Twilight vampire films, who is leading a double life as a US spy.
The web show would allow Facebook users to become participants in the show through using an application on Aim High's Facebook page.
Users can be integrated into the show, such as seeing their face on a poster or their name written on a wall.
"The show becomes personal. Music that the characters are listening to comes from your playlist, pictures on the walls, TV screens and picture frames inside the show are from your profile," the paper quoted director McG, as saying.
The show's producers hope this unique personalised mode will draw a young audience that spends a lot of time on Facebook.
The plot will revolve around a high school student, played by Jackson Rathbone, a young actor best known for his role in the Twilight vampire films, who is leading a double life as a US spy.
The web show would allow Facebook users to become participants in the show through using an application on Aim High's Facebook page.
Users can be integrated into the show, such as seeing their face on a poster or their name written on a wall.
"The show becomes personal. Music that the characters are listening to comes from your playlist, pictures on the walls, TV screens and picture frames inside the show are from your profile," the paper quoted director McG, as saying.
The show's producers hope this unique personalised mode will draw a young audience that spends a lot of time on Facebook.
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