Martin Scorsese's Shine a Light set for an Indian Release news
Martin Scorsese's documentary on Rolling Stones is all set to rock India, reports a DearCinema Correspondent
Mumbai based world cinema distributors, Palador Pictures, have announced to theatrically release Matin Scorsese documentary on the cult rock band Rolling Stones Shine a Light in India. The opening film at Berlin this year, this film is set for a commercial release in April in the US.
Martin Scorsese who has earlier explored the lives of other bands in his previous films ‘˜The Last Waltz’ and ‘˜No Direction Home: Bob Dylan’ turned his lens on rock and roll legends ‘˜The Rolling Stones’ for this documentary. The focus of the film is on two concerts of the band in 2006. Besides extensive coverage of this concert, the documentary also features historical footage, interviews and behind-the-scenes footages from the 4 decades of the bands existence, including footage from Bill Clinton’s birthday party in which the band played.
The film has won the prestigious honour at the Berlin International Film Festival by being its opening film. It is no surprise for the film has been labelled the ‘˜Ultimate Concert Film’ already and millions of fans of one of the oldest surviving and active bands in the world, eagerly await its release.
Gautam Shiknis, MD and Founder of Palador Pictures said in a press statement, “We are constantly striving to add new and great quality content to out repertoire of a 1000 films. ‘˜Shine a Light’ combines two masters in two respective genres, The Rolling Stones in music and Martin Scorsese in movies. We want to expose lovers of both music and cinema in this country to this lethal combination.”
Co-founder and Joint MD, Mohan Polamar, said, ‘˜Musical documentary has not garnered mass appeal or the detailed attention of the entertainment industry. However, there is a huge audience for the same. We are sure music lovers will lap up this opportunity and go to see the movie in hordes. We also want to show the strength of this genre in this country by doing some interesting events to promote the film.”
According to a Palador release "The film will be theatrically released in India with 50 prints across the country. Palador also has plans to do a never before combination of screening the film, combined with live gigs performed by local bands across the country in exclusive clubs."
