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Eros Pictures aligns with Sohail Khan Production After the stupendous success of Partner, Eros Pictures, the film production arm of Eros International, the leading London-listed Indian media and entertainment company, has entered into a co-production venture with Sohail Khan Production. While any specific project has not been formalized as yet, the announcement signals that the two companies will be working together to co-produce films in the near future. Eros International and Sohail Khan Production have worked closely in the past on various other releases like Partner, I Proud to be Indian etc and Eros is also releasing worldwide the Salman-Sohail multi-starrer Heroes on 24th October. Commenting on the development, Sunil Lulla, President, Eros International, India said, 'We are excited about tying up with Sohail with whom we enjoyed the huge success of Partner last year. With this tie-up, audiences will naturally have higher expectations and we are looking forward to presenting some more wholesome entertainment to audiences'. 'Sohail Khan Production and Eros enjoy a special relationship and I am happy to join hands with Eros who undisputedly have the best global marketing and distribution infrastructure. Aligning with them, we hope to recreate the phenomenal success of Partner and present some exciting cinema on a global platform', added Sohail Khan.
Marriage means equal partnership: Imran Khan
Actor Imran Khan believes that to make marriage work, couples need to share responsibilities. “In India, it is taken that washing clothes, and things like this is a woman's job, and not what men do, which is an unhealthy attitude... a thought process which is not conducive for a healthy relationship. "Both need to take on equal responsibilities to make their relationship work,” the “Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola” star, who is currently promoting detergent brand Ariel's 'Share the Load' movement, told. The 32-year-old, also a father to daughter Imara Malik Khan, believes that "once you become a parent, so many of our priorities get re-aligned in life". "You start to realize that there are so many things that you used to earlier care about are completely unimportant now. Everything becomes about your relationship, your child, about your responsibilities towards your family," said the actor, who tied the knot with Avantika Malik in 2011. Any tips for first time fathers? "Whenever you change a diaper, make sure everybody sees you doing it and show what a father you are," he said. Talking about Mothers' Day, which is celebrated on second Sunday in May, Imran said: “If you love your mother, tell her every day. I don't believe in specific days that are followed these days.”
Katrina in David Dhawan's Partner
For the first time Katrina Kaif will be paired with Govinda in David Dhawan's forthcoming flick 'Partner'. The unit is currently in Canada shooting for a song. The movie stars Katrina Kaif, Govinda, Salman Khan and Lara Dutta. 'Partner' is a complete laugh-riot. Katrina is also seen in Humko Deewana Kar Gaye and has other movies in the line like Apne with Bobby Deol and Dharmendra and Anees Bazmi's comedy movie Welcome.
Rakeysh Mehra roped in as Partner for UTV's world cinema library
UTV the diversified media entity with presence in Movies, New Media- (Animation &Gaming), TV, Broadcasting announced another first in the Indian media space with launch of its new business vertical UTV Palador - a 360-degree initiative in world cinema under the brand name of 'Olive Collection'. The Olive Collection is privileged to have as its Brand Ambassador and Partner ' Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra '"In India world cinema has been available to a privileged few. Our endeavor is to bring cinema of the world to the common man in India." says Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra on World Cinema in India. UTV Palador's 'Olive Collection' will have the world's largest library of world cinema under one roof with over 1000 film titles from 20 countries that have won over 3000 (cumulative) awards that include the likes of BAFTA, Cannes, Pusan, Berlin, Venice, Toronto amongst others. Further, adds Mr. Screwvala, 'UTV Palador's main objective is to ensure that the beauty, timelessness and quality of the world's greatest filmmakers is not lost to Indians. It was our vision to ensure that quality cinema is not a one off event at limited location but a regular part of India's entertainment industry. In addition, this is an extremely high potential category with no significant competition in the horizon.' The company will invest Rs. 70 crores in the category. The Non-Indian language Movie Segment is estimated to Rs.1500 crores by 2009 and UTV Palador believes that World Cinema in their model could account for 20% of that. UTV Palador's business strategy for the Olive Collection World Cinema Titles is three fold: (A) Initiate World Cinema Theatres in selective locations all over India ' and Special Film Clubs and Corporate Screenings (B) DVD Label (C) World Cinema Movie Channel UTV Palador's 'Olive Collection' will host World's greatest collection of world cinema, masterpieces, films from countries like France, Japan, China, Russia, Poland, Denmark, Brazil, Argentina in languages like French, Polish, Russian, Italian, Brazilian, Mexican, Japanese with subtitles. These films being classic cinematic experiences are counted in the league of the most important films ever made in the history of world cinema. Featuring maverick film directors like Akira Kurusawa Francois Truffaut, Michael Haneke, Wim Wenders, Chabrol, Kiarostami and Kitano along with 50 others who are considered to have shaped the thinking of the world cinema. The roll out plan for the Olive Collection would begin across all of the platforms beginning this April 2007 each platform reaching the youth, corporate, connoisseurs of world cinema across the country. The Olive DVD Collection will release the world cinema tittles in a phased manner and will include special features like a special short film that lends itself to the main film along with bonus features by Master Director. The DVD would also have short film by an Indian director as part of strategy to promote Indian talent along with memorabilia like rare posters, photographs. On the Theatrical front 20 theatres across the country will release the Olive Collection films with 2 shows daily that will account for nearly 15,000 shows per annum. The Olive Collection films will be released in Adlabs Metro & Huma in Mumbai, Gold Adlabs in Pune and in Sathyam Cinemas in Chennai. The films will roll out to Delhi, Bangalore and Calcutta in the second phase.
"Rumi's plot for LIFE PARTNER is brilliant" - Abbas Mustan
Early this year, RACE did a business of close to 60 crores flat but that hasn't changed the way director duo of Abbas-Mustan conduct themselves. Still being their humble self in spite of delivering the biggest money spinner of their close to two decades career, Abbas-Mustan are now busy in getting their production plans in place. "Currently we are concentrating on the films with Rumi Jaffrey and Rohit Jugraj. First to come on floors is Rumi's film LIFE PARTNER", informs Abbas. What is the film all about? "Honestly, Rumi's subject belongs to the kind that has never been seen before in a Hindi film. It is not just a family film; instead the script has got various ingredients to it which bring on a unique flavor", continues the film maker. Can he shed some more light on the subject? "See, I can't talk much about it since a) I would want audience to experience the unique plot that the film carries and b) It is difficult to really describe the movie in a sentence or two. Rest assured, Rumi has got a brilliant plot in hand and we are are sure he would do a great job on the film." Another film which is making headlines is the one to be directed by Rohit Jugraj. Some reports in the past have indicated that the director of JAMES and SUPERSTAR is adapting Hollywood hit CHARLIE'S ANGELS for his next film. "Absolutely untrue", says an amused looking Abbas, "I don't know how and from where do such rumors originate. Rohit's film has nothing to do with CHARLIE'S ANGELS. Yet again, the film boasts of a brilliant plot and seeing Rohit's potential in SUPERSTAR makes us firmly believe that he is one young film maker to watch out for." Meanwhile the director duo continues to work on the script of their next film. "While we are busy with our production plans, we are also working on the script of out next directorial venture. It will be some while before we get back behind the camera."
A partnership extended
Pawan Kalyan, as we have repeatedly written, likes to do things in his own chosen way. Not for him the beaten path. His Bangaram is one of the biggest releases of the summer. Though delayed, this big budget movie, directed by Dharani and produced by A M Rathinam, has been carrying good reports. Obviously the film should have come out well. Otherwise would Rathinam go on to sign Pawan for another movie? Pawan and Rathinam's association date back to their Kushi days. The news is that Rathinam will produce a new movie that Pawan himself will direct. It is not clear whether Pawan will take up this project after Annavaram (the remake of Tamil Thirupachi). Anyway Pawan's directorial venture is titled Satyagrahi. The news is also that it will have music by A R Rehman and camera by P C Sreeram. The muhurat is slated for tomorrow.