Indo-Swiss director Kamal Musale has joined forces with Swiss production company Louise Productions for a new Black comedy set in India titled The Hermit. Mumbai and London based boutique studio, Flick the Switch is also associated with the project. Written and directed by Kumal Musale, The Hermit is a black comedy of human greed with [...]
Single window clearance for film shoots in India will be set up within three months. The system will work online and clearances will take six-eight weeks. Information and Broadcasting secretary Uday Kumar Varma made this announcement at the India Pavilion at the ongoing Cannes International Film Festival. Regarding the details of the process, Varma mentioned that the approvals [...]
Vidya Balan would like to work in Iranian, Italian or French films, she said in her official jury interview to the Cannes Film Festival. “It would of course require a lot of effort to learn the language but I enjoy learning new languages. And the world is becoming a smaller place. There are a lot [...]
Gulabi Gang by Nishtha Jain won the Amnesty Award at the 10th edition of PLANETE+ DOC FILM FESTIVAL in Poland. The festival was held between May 10-19, 2012 in Warsaw and between May 12-19 in Wroclaw. The Jury gives away the Amnesty International Award with 3000 euros to a film that best portrays the situation [...]
The Bright Day, directed by Mohit Takalkar and produced by Abhijeet Bhosale, has been selected to compete for Asia New Talent Award at the 16th Shanghai International Film Festival. The festival is scheduled for June 15-23 in Shanghai. The Bright Day is the only Indian film in this section which will compete with films from [...]
“Amit Kumar’s bold noir set amongst corrupt cops in Mumbai acts as a brash, blockbusting corrective to Cannes’s more sombre excesses”, writes Guardian’s film critic Peter Bradshaw in his first look review from Cannes. Bradshaw calls the film “rainy noir” and concludes in his review, “It’s an entertaining popcorn-movie with a twist, for which commercial [...]
Ritesh Batra’s debut Dabba (Lunchbox) received unanimous praise from major trade publications Variety and Screen. Variety critic Jay Weissberg termed it “An indie Indian pic with the crossover appeal of Monsoon Wedding” while Screen Critic Fionnuala Halligan wrote: “this is certain to woo international arthouse crowds who have been waiting for an authentic crossover Indian [...]
The Doha Film Institute (DFI) has launched the new Qumra Film Festival to focus on emerging directors and expand competition to films from around the world. The festival will include international competition sections for feature-length and short films, and provide opportunities for creative collaboration among filmmakers and industry professionals, with focus on first and second-time [...]
Anurag Kashyap’s Ugly has received extreme responses from critics after its Cannes premiere on Friday. Twitchfilm’s Brian Clark Found it better than some of competition titles while Screen International’s Lee Marshall found its characters “hastily-sketched”. International film website Twitchfilm.com’s European Editor Brian Clark was all praises for the film in his review. Here is an [...]
Anurag Kashyap will be honoured with “Chevalier dans l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres” (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) on May 20th in Cannes. The honour is bestowed upon people for extra-ordinary contribution in the field of art and culture by the French government. According to a French Consulate official in Mumbai, [...]
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