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Film Heritage Foundation Announces The Amitabh Bachchan Film Festival To Celebrate The 80th Birthday Of The Living Legend India, 30th September, 2022 - To mark the momentous occasion of the 80th birthday of the legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan, Film Heritage Foundation announces a unique film festival titled ‘Bachchan Back To The Beginning’ in partnership with PVR Cinemas. Slated to be one of the grandest film festivals that celebrates an icon through his landmark early films, the four-day celebrations will be conducted from the 8th – 11th October 2022 in 17 cities, covering 172 showcases and 30 screens across 22 cinema halls all over India. The not-for-profit organization founded by filmmaker and archivist Shivendra Singh Dungarpur has meticulously curated a bespoke collection of eleven blockbuster films that gave birth to one of the biggest superstars of the nation who continues to shine as brightly over 50 years since his debut on the silver screen. Audiences across citi...

Indian Creative Industry Provides Opportunities for Expansion & Leaving a Global Footprint of the Country: Justice Prathiba M. Singh MUMBAI, 28 September 2022: Hon’ble Justice Prathiba M Singh, Judge, Delhi High Court today said, “There are enormous opportunities that the Indian Creative Sector provides for expansion and leaving a global footprint of the country.” Addressing the two-day ‘FICCI FRAMES Fast Track 2022’ on strengthening India’s IP Ecosystem, Justice Singh highlighted, “There is a need for a unified central agency for enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights that will help strengthen the overall IP ecosystem.” While addressing the low turnover of the Indian movie industry as compared to other countries, she highlighted that USA produced less than half the number of films and generated 8 times more box office revenue while China produced almost half the films, yet the box office collections was nearly 7 times of India. Similarly, in the Indian music in...

Indian M&E sector to grow over $100 billion by 2030: MIB Secretary AVGC going to be next revolution; Govt to soon set-up National Centre of Excellence in AVGC Actor Ranveer Singh receives FICCI FRAMES Achiever of the Year Award MUMBAI, 27 September 2022: Mr Apurva Chandra, Secretary, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India today said, “We will be a $10 trillion economy in next 10 years. We should target that media and entertainment sector should grow to more than 100 billion dollars by 2030.” Addressing the two-day ‘FICCI FRAMES Fast Track 2022’, Mr Chandra said, “Ministry of Information and Broadcasting will do whatever it takes to support the media and entertainment sector and help it grow.” Expressing concern over declining number of theatres, the Secretary said that over the past 5-6 years, the number of theatres has witnessed a decline and we need to reverse this trend. “We will assign the Film Facilitation Office to work with Inv...

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews Film: #SarojKaRishta Rating: * * Runtime: 106 mins Cast: #SupriyaPathak #GauravPandey #KumudMishra #SanahKapoor #RandeepRai #AlokPathak #SachinKathuria Director: #AbhishekSaxena #Studio7 #TarangFilms #KapoorFilms #AENAProductions An unsatisfactory attempt at Comedy, Drama, Romance, set in Ghaziabad (UP ka Darwaza) where Gaali and Thappad come at you without announcement, this film about a plus size woman Saroj ( Umar 26 Kamar 36) trapping her (one-sided) childhood sweetheart into falling for her alter-ego, ticks all the wrong boxes. Yet another humorless small-town wedding drama that fails to gather roses on its way to happily ever after. It’s a good thing that Bollywood has begun to recognize and value the plus size heroine but having them involved in such meaningless, faltu, drama doesn’t augur well. The narrative falls flat under the weight of its own contradictions. Scamming a prospect...

‘FICCI FRAMES Fast Track 2022’, on 27-28 September 2022 at Hotel Westin, Powai, Mumbai. Mr Sudhir Mungantiwar, Minister of Culture, Govt of Maharashtra will deliver keynote address on 28th September 2022 Mr Apurva Chandra, Secretary, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Govt of India made the keynote address on 27th September 2022 Hon’ble Ms Justice Prathiba M Singh, Judge, Delhi High Court to address on 28th September 2022 Program Details: Day & Date: Tuesday-Wednesday, 27-28 September 2022 Time: 10:30 AM onwards Venue: Hotel Westin, Powai, Mumbai Other key speakers slated to address the two-day event include: Mr Saurabh Vijay, Secretary, Cultural Affairs, Govt of Maharashtra Mr Karan Thapar, Deputy Secretary, DPIIT, Govt of India Mr Vikram Sahay, Joint Secretary (P&A), Ministry of Information & Broadcasting Ms Priyanka Chaturvedi, Member of Parliament Ms Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire, UK Mr Ranveer Singh, Indian Actor Ms Jyo...

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews Film: #JahaanChaarYaar Rating: * * Runtime: 124 mins Starring: #MeherVij #ShikhaTalsania #SwaraBhaskar #PoojaChopra #GirishKulkarni #ManishChaudhary Director: #KamalPandey #VinodBachchan #SoundaryaProductions #PenMarudhar #JungleeMusic #ButterflyCommunications This one is more drudgery than Comedy. Four oppressed housewives, erstwhile friends, concoct an escape holiday that turns sour. They wanna break free but that temporary freedom comes at a price. Frankly, the way things turn here, you wouldn’t want to know what happens next. The dialogue is off-putting, performances lack heft and the scenario doesn’t quite have sense or logic to support it. It’s really not funny by any yardstick.

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews Film: #MattoKiSaikil Rating:* * * Runtime: 95 min Cast: #PrakashJha #AnitaChaudhary #AarohiSharma #IdikaRay #DimpyMishra #CPSharma #AayanMadar Director: #MGani Screenplay/Dialogue : #PulkitPhilip DOP: #ChandanKohli Editor: #KameshKarna #ParullGossainPR #PJPFilms Music: #WayneSharpe #ShivdevaFilms #SudhirbhaiMishra A slice-of-life tale of woe, this film headlined by award-winning Director Prakash Jha in his very first major acting role, has the grit and realism to be affective. About a casual daily wage labourer and his relationship with his trusted, faithful bicycle, the narrative shadows his struggle for dignity and livelihood in the face of acute indifference from the powers that be. The script may be a bit threadbare but a truly heartfelt lived-in performance by Prakash Jha (who also looks the part beautifully) elevates the film above the commonplace.

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews Film: #KhalliBalli Rating: * Runtime: 116 mins Cast: #Madhoo #Dharmendra #RajnieshDuggal #KainatArora #RajpalYadav #VijayRaaj #YasmeenMishra #Asrani #EktaJain #YogeshLakhani. Producer: #KamalKishorMishra . Writer/Director: #ManojSharma #HimanshuJhunjhunwala #DwaparPromoters A tacky, badly presented paranormal possession story, this film has really bad acting, cheap production values, juvenile scripting and dialogues and totally inept direction (more interested in upping the sleaze quotient rather than constructing a plausible narrative). The star cast may sound impressive but the resultant is not.

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews Film: #MiddleClassLove Runtime: Ratimng: * * ½ Cast: #PritKamani #EishaSingh #KavyaThapar #ManojPahwa Director: #RatnaaSinha #AnubhavSinha #ZeeStudios #PearlMedia #Ebrahim This amiable triangular, young adult love story, strikes up likability with an immensely gifted star cast ( Prit Kamani puts up a splendid, agile, nimble footed, highly expressive show and he gets great support from the two female actors and the rest of the cast). Unfortunately the vibrantly alive and enjoyable pre-interval half deteriorates into a maudlin and weepy experience, post that - Thus killing all the fun and taking the mickey out of what could have been a genuine popcorn entertainer. Ratnaa Sinha proves that she has what it takes to become a successful mainstream Bollywood film Director– if only she would have employed the good sense of getting an uninterested expert to whet the script or doctor it!

#PicksAndPiques #JohnsonThomas #internationalfilmfestivalcircuit #FilmMovieDocumentaryReviews Film: #Brahmastra #PartOneShiva Runtime: 158 mins Genre: Superhero Fantasy Rating: * * * Cast: #RanbirKapoor #AliaBhatt #Nagarjuna #MouniRoy #AmitabhBachchan #DimpleKapadia #ShahRukhKhan Director: #AyanMukherjee #UniversalCommunicationsPR #WaltDisneyStudiosMotionPictures #KaranJohar Cinematography: #SudeepChatterjee #PankajKumar #VManikandan #PatrickDuroux #VikashNowlakha A fairly engrossing and enjoyable superhero fantasy with a load full of thrills and action, this film may not be a fun every-minute spectacle but on the overall estimate, it does a fair job. The romance between Ranbir/Shiva and Alia/ Esha is palpable and the writers don’t have to do the hard work here because the audience is already invested in their love story. The myth-building about an Astraverse with X men like specialized skill sets is strong and the action does get the adrenaline gushing quite frequently. It’...