Bride and Prejudice

Bride and Prejudice (also known as Bride and Prejudice: The Bollywood Musical) is a 2004 romantic drama film directed by Gurinder Chadha. The screenplay by Chadha and Paul Mayeda Berges is a Bollywood-style adaptation of Jane Austen's 1813 novel "Pride and Prejudice". It was filmed primarily in English, with some Hindi and Punjabi dialogue. The film was released in the United Kingdom on 6 October 2004 and in the United States on 11 February 2005. It has received mostly positive reviews from critics.
Plot.
Loosely based on Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", Lalita Bakshi (Aishwarya Rai), is a young woman living in Amritsar, India with her father (Anupam Kher), her mother (Nadira Babbar), her older sister Jaya (Namrata Shirodkar) and her two younger sisters, Lakhi (Peeya Rai Chowdhary) and Maya (Meghna Kothari). Mrs. Bakshi is determined to marry off all her daughters to respectable and wealthy men.
The family is invited to a friend's (Shivani Ghai) wedding ceremony along with Lalita's best friend Chandra Lamba (Sonali Kulkarni) and her Mother (Harvey Virdi), where Lalita meets Will Darcy (Martin Henderson), a handsome and wealthy American who is a long-time friend of the Indian-British barrister Balraj (Naveen Andrews), and Balraj's sister Kiran (Indira Varma). Balraj is instantly attracted to Jaya and likewise, Darcy is attracted to Lalita. During the wedding reception, Lalita takes a disliking to Darcy but when Balraj invites Jaya to Goa, Mr. Bakshi asks Lalita to go with and she reluctantly agrees to do so.
In Goa, whilst Jaya and Balraj enjoy themselves in the pool, Lalita and Darcy clash over their ideas on men and women and India's economic future. Later that night on the beach, Lalita meets Johnny Wickham (Daniel Gillies), Darcy's former friend from London, and he validates her low opinion of Darcy.
When Jaya and Lalita return from Goa, Mrs. Bakshi announces that they will be hosting Kohli Saab, an obnoxious distant relative living in Los Angeles who has come to India to find a "traditional woman" to marry. When Kohli Saab is attracted to Jaya, Mrs. Bakshi steers him towards Lalita, making Lalita uncomfortable. At night, Lalita fantasizes about moving to England to marry Wickham over Kohli Saab. In her dream, Wickham transforms into Darcy at the altar, scaring Lalita away.
Wickham later arrives, stays at the Bakshi's home, and is invited to join the family and Kohli Saab at the Garba, despite Mrs. Bakshi's disapproval. At the Garba, Lakhi shows Wickham around and Lalita is surprised to see Darcy, who attempts to warn her that Wickham is not a good person. Lalita dismisses his concerns and happily accepts a dance from Wickham much to the disliking of Darcy. This also concerns Kiran.
Kohli Saab formally proposes to Lalita, but she rejects him, angering her mother. As Kohli Saab leaves, Balraj comes to the house to bid farewell to Jaya and promises to write to her from London. Lakhi later announces that Chandra is marrying Kohli Saab much to the surprise of Jaya and especially Lalita. Wickham also announces that he is leaving and promises to write to Lalita. Neither Balraj nor Wickham writes to the two older sisters, but Wickham is shown secretly writing to Lakhi. Kohli Saab and Chandra phone to invite the Bakshi family the wedding ceremony in Los Angeles. The family accepts and Jaya is excited to stopover in London hoping to see Balraj again.
In London, Kiran invites the Bakshi family to tea and informs them that Balraj is in New York with their parents to meet potential brides, devastating Jaya, Lalita and Mrs Bakshi. At Heathrow Airport, Lakhi, Jaya, Lalita and Mrs Bakshi coincidentally run into Darcy, who is also a guest at Kohli Saab and Chandra's wedding. On board Darcy offers his First class seat to Mrs. Bakshi so he can sit next to Lalita in Economy class for the remainder of the flight. During their stay in California, Lalita's opinion of Darcy slowly improves, and the two fall in love.
At the wedding, Darcy's condescending mother, Catherine (Marsha Mason) introduces Lalita to Darcy's former girlfriend, Anne (Georgina Chapman) who mispronounces Lalita's name as the movie "Lolita". Jaya and Lalita also meet Darcy's younger sister, Georgie (Alexis Bledel), who tells Lalita that Balraj and Darcy are not in contact because Darcy convinced Balraj not to marry an Indian girl with a "gold-digger" Mother. Lalita furiously realizes that Darcy is the reason why Jaya never heard from Balraj. Georgie waves Darcy over who runs to Lalita and confesses his feelings for her and asks her to marry him. Lalita angrily refuses, blaming him for Jaya's unhappiness, and validates her low opinion of him once again.
Back in London, Lakhi uses the family's layover as an opportunity to sneak away and meet Wickham. Darcy apologizes to Lalita, telling her that he has gotten Balraj to reconcile with Jaya. Lalita later realizes that Darcy was right about Wickham and calls for his help to find Lakhi. Darcy explains that Wickham got Georgie pregnant at age 16, tried to marry her for their family's money, and ran away when his plan did not work. They both rescue Lakhi and Lalita accepts Darcy's proposal. The film ends with a double wedding of Jaya to Balraj and Lalita to Darcy.
Cast.
Names in parentheses are the characters in the original Austen novel.
Soundtrack.
The songs were composed by Anu Malik. The lyrics were written by Farhan Akhtar and Zoya Akhtar.
Production.
"Bride and Prejudice" received funding from the UK Film Council with the stipulation that a majority of filming had to take place in the UK. Locations used include Halton House, Stoke Park Club, Turville, and Cobstone Windmill in Buckinghamshire, and Southall, Somerset House, Little Venice, the London Eye, and the National Film Theatre in London. Other locations include the Golden Temple of Amritsar, the beaches of Goa, the Grand Canyon, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and Santa Monica Beach.
Ashanti sings "Take Me to Love" and "Touch My Body" in the film. According to director Gurinder Chadha in "making-of" extras on the DVD release, Ashanti's appearance is an homage to the tradition of a celebrity making a cameo appearance to sing an "item number", a song that has no direct involvement in the plot in Bollywood films.
Critical reception.
The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 64% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 134 reviews, with an average rating of 6.09/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "A colorful and energetic adaptation of Austen's classic." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 55 out of 100 based on 34 critics, indicating "positive reviews".
Peter Bradshaw from "The Guardian" reviewed, ""Bride and Prejudice" could be any unremarkable Bollywood picture". Stella Papamichael at the BBC noted that "swapping corsets for saris, and polite pianoforte for the bhangra beat, director Gurinder Chadha reinvigorates Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" with fun and flamboyance".


Kartik Shetty

Kartik Shetty is a Mumbai-based Indian actor and director. He has acted in the Kannada films "Yuva" and "Karthik". He directed the Marathi film "Bhakti Heech Khari Shakti" and "Than Than Gopal"
Personal life.
Kartik Shetty was born in Mumbai on 4 July 1987. His father, Vijay B. Shetty, is from Udupi. His mother, Sulatha V. Shetty is from Karkala. He did his early education from DonBosco school Matunga Mumbai and Jai Hind college, Digital Academy-The Film school Mumbai. He learned mixed martial arts and Mua Thai in Singapore. He is also a polo player.
Career.
Kartik Shetty made his directorial debut in the Marathi film "Bhakti Heech Khari Shakti" in 2006 and began his acting career in the Kannada film "Yuva" in 2009, the Kannada film "Karthik" in 2011 and the Kannada film "Agni Musti" in 2012.
At the age of 19 years, he became the first Mumbai-Kannadiga to venture into Marathi film production.


B. Kannan

Bhimsingh Kannan (10 January 1951 – 13 June 2020) was an Indian cinematographer who worked in Tamil and Malayalam films. He was known for his association with Director Bharathiraja and was referred to as "Bharathirajvin Kangal" (Bharathirajas's Eyes).
Personal life.
Kannan was the son of film-maker A. Bhimsingh and the younger brother of editor B. Lenin. He was married to Kanchana and has two daughters namely MadhuMathi Kannan and Janani Kannan. Ànd three son Naresh,Srinivasan,Prabhu
Career.
Kannan was known for his recurrent association with Bharathiraja.
Awards.
He won the Shantaram Award for Best Cinematography for his work in "Kadal Pookkal" in 2001. He was also a recipient of the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Cinematographer twice for "Alaigal Oivathillai" (1981) and "Kangalal Kaidhu Sei" (2004).
Death.
Kannan died on 13 June 2020 at the age of 69 due to heart complications.


Vijay Milton

S. D. Vijay Milton is an Indian cinematographer and director working in Tamil films. He directed the romantic comedy film "Azhagai Irukkirai Bayamai Irukkirathu" (2006) starring Bharath and Mallika Kapoor. He received critical acclaim for his work in "Kaadhal" (2004), "Vazhakku Enn 18/9" (2012) and "Kadugu" (2017).
Career.
Following the success of "Goli Soda", Vijay Milton directed a film titled "10 Enradhukulla", a road movie featuring Vikram and Samantha. His latest release, Kadugu has won acclaim. His next directorial is based on basketball and to be produced by his own production house Rough Note Productions. After Kadugu his movie Goli Soda 2 (known as GST) is ready for release.


Salem Chandrasekharan

Salem Chandrasekharan (died 10 May 2021) was an Indian film producer and distributor. He produced high-budget Tamil films like "Ghajini" and "Sabari" under Sree Saravana Creations.
Business.
Before venturing into film production, Chandrasekharan was a distributor and owner of a three-screen theatre in Salem named ARK Complex. His first production was "Sullan" (2004) and later was supposed to produce Vetrimaaran's debut film "Desiya Nedunchaalai" with Dhanush, which was later shelved. Despite the success of "Ghajini" (2005), his following ventures did not perform well. His final project, "Killadi" (2015), released almost a decade after the film was shot, owing to financial problems. He later sold his theatres to Aascar Ravichandran.
Death.
Chandrasekharan died on 10 May 2021 due to COVID-19.


G. Sasikumar

G. Sasikumar is an Indian film editor, who has worked on Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam language films.


The Frameline Award

Established in 1986, The Frameline Award is given every year at the Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco to a person or entity that has made a major contribution to LGBTQ+ representation in film, television, or the media arts.
List of Honorees.
1986 Vito Russo

1987 Alexandra von Grote

1988 Divine

1989 Cinevista / Promovision

1990 Robert Epstein

1991 Elfi Mikesch

1992 Marlon Riggs

1993 Pratibha Parmar

1994 Christine Vachon

1995 Marcus Hu

1996 Peter Adair

1997 Channel Four Television

1998 Dolly Hall

1999 Stanley Kwan

2000 Barbara Hammer

2001 The Festival’s Founders

2002 Isaac Julien

2003 Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato

2004 Rose Troche

2005 Gregg Araki

2006 Francois Ozon

2007 Andrea Sperling

2008 Michael Lumpkin

2009 George Kuchar & Mike Kuchar

2010 Wolfe Video

2011 Margaret Cho

2012 B. Ruby Rich

2013 Jamie Babbit

2014 George Takei

2015 Jeffrey Schwarz

2016 Bob Hawk

2017 Alan Cumming

2018 Debra Chasnoff

2019 Rodney Evans


Vijay Award for Best Villain

The Vijay for Best Villain is given by STAR Vijay as part of its annual Vijay Awards ceremony for Tamil (Kollywood) films.
The list.
Here is a list of the award winners and the films for which they won.


Alludu Diddina Kapuram

Alludu Diddina Kapuram () is a 1991 Indian Telugu action comedy film written, edited and directed by Krishna who also played the lead role alongside Shobhana, Mohan Babu and Saroja Devi. U. Satyanarayana Babu produced the film for Padmavathi Films. The film opened to largely negative reviews and bombed badly at the box office.
Songs.
Chakravarthy scored and composed the film's soundtrack.


Chicago Palestine Film Festival

The Chicago Palestine Film Festival is an annual film festival begun in 2001 in Chicago and is one of the most important venues in the US for the screening of Palestinian cinema. It accepts works in a variety of genres — documentaries, dramas, comedies — in both long and short formats. Although the organizers "are especially interested in work by Palestinian filmmakers...nationality is not a selection criteria."
The initial intention was for the festival to be hosted at the University of Illinois at Chicago. However, the University refused to host the event if there wasn't an Israeli film festival alongside. For this reason, the decision was made to make this a citywide festival funded by the local community. During the first festival, movies were shown for free at the Preston Bradley Center in Uptown. Subsequent festivals have been held at various locations throughout the city, and screenings are no longer free.
Directors and actors often appear at the festival and discuss their movies with the audience after the screening. In addition, speakers often appear to discuss matters related to Palestine, Israel, the art of filmmaking, and the challenges of being an émigré artist.


B. Venkatarama Reddy

B. Venkatarama Reddy ( – 12 May 2019, also written as B. Venkatarami Reddy) was an Indian film producer who produced many Tamil and Telugu films.
Biography.
Reddy was the youngest son of B. Nagi Reddy. He produced films like "Bhairava Dweepam", "Sri Krishnarjuna Vijayam", "Uzhaippali", "Thaamirabharani", "Nammavar" and "Veeram".
Reddy was married to B. Bharathi Reddy. They had one son and two daughters.
Reddy died on 12 May 2019 at the age of 75.


Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K.

Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K., collectively known as Raj & DK, are an Indian filmmaking duo who primarily work in Hindi language films. They write, direct, and produce feature films and original series, under their banner D2R Films.
They are best known for creating and directing "The Family Man", "Stree", "Go Goa Gone", "Shor In The City", "99".
The duo has also started a new initiative, D2R Indie to encourage new formats and new filmmakers.
Early life.
Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K. were born and brought up in Tirupati and Chittoor respectively. Their mother tongue is Telugu. They both graduated from Sri Venkateswara University College of Engineering, where they also met. After graduation, they emigrated to the U.S. to pursue a career in software engineering.
Career.
Raj & DK's first Hindi feature film, "99", was an original crime-comic-thriller-historical-fiction set in Mumbai and Delhi. The New York Times called it "funny, inventive, refreshing"; Box Office magazine (USA) acclaimed that the film "sets new standards in Hindi cinema!"; and a number of Indian publications gave it four star reviews.
Their next, "Shor in the City", was the most acclaimed Hindi film of the year. It received glowing reviews from across media publications. The film was also made at a micro-budget, making it profitable even before the film's release. The film was also selected to various high-profile film festivals across the world.
Several years later, they came back with "Go Goa Gone", which was a clutter-breaking film that introduced to India the first of its kind of a genre-bending film - a stoner/slacker comedy combined with horror and comedy. It became a cult film, especially among the younger audience.
In 2021, they started subsidiary of their production company, D2R Indie to produce indie films. The film produced under the banner is 2021 Telugu film "Cinema Bandi."


Vijay Award for Best Comedian

The Vijay for Best Comedian is given by STAR Vijay as part of its annual Vijay Awards ceremony for Tamil (Kollywood) films.
The list.
Here is a list of the award winners and the films for which they won.


Abroad

Abroad () is a short film directed by Lebanese filmmaker Zayn Alexander. The film made its world premiere at the 33rd Santa Barbara International Film Festival on February 2, 2018. The Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies awarded Alexander the 2020 Khayrallah Art Prize for the film.
Plot and Themes.
The film tells a story from the perspective of a Lebanese couple, Jad and Rania. The story starts with their shared common dream of having a successful life as actors in New York City but gradually reveals different aspects affecting their lives, which finally takes them to a point of divergence propelled by differences of opinions and decisions. In the course of ten minutes, the film explores the issue of typecasting, effects of societal expectations and the life of the struggling artist.
Genesis.
In an interview with "Directors Notes", Alexander said the film was based heavily on his and Seigneurie’s personal experiences and struggles of finding work in the American entertainment industry. He also added the film involved an effort to show that people, irrespective of cultural and ethnic backgrounds, are not much different.
Receptions.
Critical Reception.
The film made its debut to an American audience at the 33rd Santa Barbara International Film Festival where it received mixed to positive reviews.  The introductory segment of the film, while having a resemblance to some widely familiar stereotypical terrorist plots, has received praise from critics for its apt cinematic usage. Critic Kirk Fernwood commented "Abroad can safely claim a space among well-conceived, credibly engineered, and suitably pertinent short film efforts". Critic Felix Vasquez of Cinema Crazed stated that “Abroad is a stark statement about the entertainment industry and the difficulties of minorities to achieve their dreams in an art form where they were stigmatized decades ago.”
The Moise A. Khayrallah Center, which awards the annual Khayrallah Prize recognizing the artistic expressions pertaining to Lebanon and the Lebanese Diaspora, has awarded Alexander and "Abroad" The 2020 Khayrallah Art Prize. The selection committee considered the film to be significant in the post 9/11 era specifically for portraying the stereotypes and racism faced by Lebanese immigrants.


Aathi

Aathi () is a 2006 Indian Tamil-language action revenge drama film, directed by Ramana and produced by S. A. Chandrasekhar. Stars Vijay and Trisha, the film is an official remake of the 2005 Telugu film "Athanokkade" starring Nandamuri Kalyan Ram and Sindhu Tolani in the lead roles. The film opened to mixed reviews. The film had average box office performance. The film was dubbed into Telegu as "Nenera Aadhi" and Hindi as "Aadhi Narayan".
Plot.
The film starts by with Anjali (Trisha) sitting on a bench in Rameswaram feeding a white pigeon by a calm ocean. A retired police officer Shankar (Devan) comes and sits on the bench by her side, and they exchange pleasantries. Suddenly, she whips out a knife and kills him with the help of her paternal uncle Ramachandran (Nassar), while saying that she has been waiting for this moment for many years. She then comes back to Chennai with Ramachandran to attend college.
After that, the scene shifts to Aathi (Vijay), who lives in New Delhi with his foster family consisting of his parents Mani (Manivannan) and Lakshmi (Seetha), who are both loving to him, and his sister. He takes up a course in a college in Chennai against his foster parents' wishes, while he is actually on a personal mission to eliminate the people behind the murder of his blood family. Unable to be separated from Aadhi, his foster family comes to Chennai along with him.
It is revealed that Anjali is studying in the same college as Aadhi, and she also has her own agenda to seek revenge on her family's killers, and she is assisted by Ramachandran. Meanwhile, RDX (Sai Kumar), a local gangster, enters and is shown to have a dispute with Pattabhi (Rajan P. Dev). To exact their revenge, Ramachandran attempts to kill Sadha (Karate Raja), one of RDX's henchmen, but fails to do so since Aadhi kills Sadha with a gun he was armed with. At first naturally, RDX assumes the killer can be none other than Pattabhi, so he kills him. However, Aathi arrives on the scene with help from Bullet (Vivek), his college classmate who is a comical rowdy. Aathi threatens RDX telling that he was the one who killed Sadha, and that he will also kill Abdullah (Adithya Menon). As typical and usual, Abdullah gets angry and goes to kill Aathi but fails, and Aathi beheads Abdullah, while his foster family witnessed this act with horror. On being questioned by his foster family, Aathi tells his story.
Aathi's biological father (Prakash Raj) was an honest cop who arrested one of RDX's henchmen. It is revealed that Anjali and Aadhi are from the same family as Anjali's father (Livingston) is Aathi's maternal uncle. RDX pays Aathi's house a visit and asks his grandfather to let his henchmen go. When Aathi's grandfather (Vijayakumar) refuses, RDX threatens them, only to find knives being held at him by Aadhi and his cousins. Aathi's father arrives and arrests RDX. Infuriated, he pays them a visit with some of his henchmen and Shankar. Together, they murder their whole extended family. Only Anjali, Ramachandran, and Aathi survived the blast that annihilated their family. After the house is blown up by RDX, Aadhi escapes and is taken in by a couple who later became his foster parents.
On finding out his past, Aathi's foster parents request him to come back to New Delhi, but he refuses. He then takes them to the railway station, but is nearly ambushed by RDX's men. He succeeds on defeating them in a fight and meets RDX, warning him to bring his brother Robert (Subbaraju) from Dubai, whom he promises to kill. Soon, Robert arrives, and in revenge, kills Ramachandran, while challenging Aathi to meet him at RDX's place. Aathi came after finding out that RDX had Anjali kidnapped and held hostage by his henchmen in the library of their college, which happens to be the old house that Aathi, Anjali, and their family lived in. Aathi escapes after killing Robert with his own gun. RDX's men hold Anjali hostage, but she is saved by Bullet and the other students in the college. In a thrilling climax, Aathi kills RDX and is shown to be leaving and reuniting with Anjali, the only one left in his family.
Production.
Chandrasekhar bought the remake rights of Telugu film "Athanokkade" (2005) to make it in Tamil with his son Vijay. Ramana, who earlier worked with Vijay in "Thirumalai" (2003) was selected to direct this film.
Trisha was chosen to be the lead actress pairing with Vijay for third time after "Ghilli" (2004) and "Thirupaachi" (2005). Saikumar was chosen to portray the antagonist while Prakash Raj, Vivek, Naasar, Seetha and Manivannan were selected to portray supporting roles.
The song picturisation with a set costing 40 lakh was shot with around 50 dancers.
Music.
The film has five songs composed by Vidyasagar
The film includes two more songs not included in the audio soundtrack which are:
Release.
The satellite rights of the film were sold to Kalaignar TV for 10 crore. Theatrical rights for Tamil Nadu were sold for 17 crore The film didn't perform as well as expected, which Sify.com attributed to the film not being released on Pongal Day.
Reception.
Critical response.
Nowrunning rated 3 out of 5 stars and called the film "Though not bracingly pleasurable, the movie is worth for its well etched out dialogues, racy action sequences and Vijay's brisk acting"


Simon Chung

Simon Chung Tak-sing (), is a Hong Kong film director. His films include "Innocent", released in 2005, "End of Love" which premiered at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival in 2009, and "Speechless", released in 2012, and which premiered at the BFI 26th "London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival" (since renamed ""), on 28 March 2012. Chung personally identifies as gay.
Early life and education.
Chung was born and brought up in Hong Kong, and from the age of fifteen, in the city of Toronto in Canada, where he attended high school. He was later educated at York University in Toronto, where he majored in Film, followed by Hong Kong Baptist University, in Kowloon Tong in Hong Kong, where he made his first independent films in the technical department and at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Shatin, in Hong Kong's New Territories, where he took a master's degree in Cultural Studies.
Life and career.
Chung's first film short was "Chiwawa Express", made in 1992. His first full-length feature film, "Innocent", made in 2005, premiered at the Hong Kong International Film Festival and won the NFB Best Canadian Film Award at the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival. His second feature, "End of Love", premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2009, while his third, "Speechless", premiered at the BFI London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. He is a founding member of Ying e Chi, an independent film distributor in Hong Kong.


Premsai

Premsai is an Indian film director and former actor. As an actor, he was acclaimed for playing many different prominent roles in Tamil and Telugu television serials and tele films. Later he ventured in to Direction. His debut film was "Tamilselvanum Thaniyar Anjalum" starring Jai, Santhanam, Yami Gautam in Tamil and "Courier Boy Kalyan" in Telugu with Nitin & Yami Gautam. It was produced by Gautham Menon.
Early life.
Premsai was born on 29 September in Chennai. He started his media career in the year 1998 first he ventured into acting in Serials and tele films in Tamil and Telugu. He was introduced by AVM Productions in a teleserial by legendary director S. P. Muthuraman he featured in a single episode in that serial. He was choosy in selecting scripts which helped him work with the best of technicians such as Balu Mahendra, K. Balachander, A.C.Trilokchander, S.P.Muthuraman, Revathy, Venkat and Ramesh Raja.
Direction.
Premsai moved from acting and ventured into direction to explore his creative abilities into writing and direction. He directed his first telefilm "Manasa Vaacha Karma" with Venu Arvind in the lead which got him a very good recognition and Director Prabhu Deva noticed and he went on to assist him in films as associate director in the film "Shankar Dada Zindabad" with mega star Chiranjeevi in the lead.
He later worked as a co-director & dialogue writer for Prabhu deva in "Engeyum Kadhal" starring Jayam Ravi and Hansika Motwani in the lead.
As a director he debuted with a bilingual film titled "Tamilselvanum Thaniyar Anjalum" starring Jai, Santhanam, Yami Gautam in the lead in Tamil and "Courier Boy Kalyan" in Telugu with Nithin & Yami Gautam in the lead . It was produced by Gautham Menon.


Koti (composer)

Saluri Koteswara Rao, known professionally as Koti, is an Indian composer notable for his work in the South Indian film industry. He has composed music for more than 475 movies in Telugu and Kannada. The son of music director Saluri Rajeswara Rao, in early 1980s Koti teamed with Somaraju (Raj), son of T. V. Raju, and the resulting duo was known as Raj-Koti. The duo composed music for about 180 films from their debut in 1983 till their separation in 1994. After the separation, Koti has composed music and background score for more than 300 movies. He won Nandi Award for Best Music Director for the film Hello Brother (1994).
He started his music career as an assistant to music director K. Chakravarthy Composers like Mani Sharma and A. R. Rahman worked as keyboard programmers with Koti during the initial part of their career.
Roshan Saluri, son of Koti is also introduced as film score composer.
Another son Rajeev Saluri started his career as an actor.


My Bollywood Bride

My Bollywood Bride is a 2006 English and Indian film, released in 2007 theatrically and will release as new title "My Faraway Bride", on DVD (Vivendi/Universal) in August 2008 and also due to premiere on Showtime and Starz in 2008. Written by Richard Martini and Kashmera Shah, story and produced by Brad Listermann, it stars Jason Lewis and Kashmira Shah and is directed by Rajeev Virani. Despite its setting in India and the story taking place in front of one of India's major film industries, Bollywood, the film does not feature the same amount or type of sing-and-dance-numbers Indian Cinema is famous for. Its primary language is English with some Hindi.
Plot.
Alex (Jason Lewis), living in Venice Beach, is a struggling writer. One day, he meets Reena (Kashmira Shah) at the beach. They spend time together and Alex starts to fall in love with her. However, some days later, Reena disappears at LAX. The only thing Alex knows about her is that she's from Thakur Village, Mumbai, India - so he follows her there. In India, he discovers, with the help of his new driver Priyad (Ash Chandler) that Reena is the greatest film star of Bollywood and engaged to Shekar, an influential Bollywood producer. Alex stays with Bobby K. (Sanjay Suri), a friend of Reena and a big Bollywood actor himself - while Alex is struggling with his own romance, Bobby starts to fall for his choreographer, Alisha (Neha Dubey), an old friend from his past he very much disappointed by simply forgetting about her when he became famous. Reena, hesitant to break off an engagement arranged by her parents, feels that she owes Shekhar her entire career, while Alex is struggling with Reena's mother and Shekhar himself, who both feel that Reena and Alex might be too interested in each other. Bobby K. meanwhile, after a broken down car, gets stuck with Alisha in some abandoned hut at the beach, they have an opportunity to talk and make up, however shortly afterwards, a misunderstanding occurs and Alisha feels betrayed all over again. Reena, meanwhile, tells Alex to leave, as she is going to accept her family's wishes and will marry Shekhar in order to preserve the tradition of an arranged marriage. Alex is all ready to leave India and Bobby finds out that Shekhar is having an affair with a co-worker (The entire affair is caught on CD). Reena's parents tell her not give up her happiness and tell her to go after Alex, Bobby clarifies the misunderstanding between him and Alisha and makes her pursue her dreams and Reena stops Alex to leave the country after a rickshaw chase. Everything ends well and Reena and Alex, after professing their love for each other, get married.
Release.
"Variety" wrote that "That said, the film’s most marketable asset is, in a way, also its biggest liability".


Reel Affirmations

Reel Affirmations (RA) is a non-profit, all-volunteer LGBT film festival in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1991 and held every year in mid-October, as of 2011 Reel Affirmations was one of the largest LGBT film festivals (in terms of attendance) in the United States. Baltimore's "Gay Life" newspaper called it "one of the top three films festivals for the entire LGBT community." A 2007 guidebook claims it was one of the largest LGBT film festivals in the world. A listing of LGBT film festivals claims it is the largest all-volunteer film festival in the world.
Organization.
Reel Affirmations is a program of One In Ten, a Washington, D.C.-based LGBT non-profit arts organization. One In Ten is overseen by a board of four officers and nine board members. Until 2009, a full-time, paid executive director oversaw the day-to-day operations of the organization. But as of 2011, its operations were run by the board and three volunteer directors. All One In Ten programs, including Reel Affirmations, are conceived, organized, and implemented by volunteers.
Planning for Reel Affirmations begins after the conclusion of each year's festival. Deposits are placed to secure venues, and corporate sponsors are secured (an ongoing process which lasts until August). Programming teams for feature films, women's shorts, men's shorts, and documentaries begin researching and screening films in February. Films are secured by contract beginning as early as May, although most contracts are not finalized until early July. A coordinating committee oversees implementation of VIP relations, hospitality, volunteer coordination, marketing, embassy relations, public relations, and other aspects of the film festival.
Most funding for Reel Affirmations comes from corporate sponsorships and ticket sales. Additional support comes from grants provided by the D.C. city government.
Reel Affirmations previously sponsored a two-day film festival which coincided with Capital Pride. The program began sponsoring monthly film screenings titled RA Xtra beginning in 2000, but stopped these events after RA15 in 2005. RA Xtra resumed in November 2010. The organization also formerly sponsored "Divas Outdoors", a two-movie outdoor screening of classic gay-related movies at Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens, the former home of Marjorie Merriweather Post (heiress to the Post cereal fortune).
History.
Early years.
Reel Affirmations was co-founded by Barry Becker, Mark Betchkal, Matthew Cibellis and Keith Clark, gay residents of Washington, D.C., who wished to found a gay arts organization. They began meeting in 1990, and founded the LGBT arts organization One In Ten, with Reel Affirmations as the organization's first program. The four sought the advice and input of Frameline, then the largest LGBT gay film festival in the U.S. With financial and administrative assistance from Frameline, the first Reel Affirmations film festival opened on October 11, 1991. The first festival venue was the Biograph Theater in Georgetown. The 10-day festival screened 62 feature films, short subjects and documentaries to 2,500 attendees. The opening night film was "My Father Is Coming", and the closing night film was "Together Alone".
In 1992, the festival expanded to screen its opening night film at the Cineplex Odeon Embassy Theatre in the District. Author Armistead Maupin opened the festival. RA2 screened 76 short and feature-length works shown at the Biograph.
The following year, the festival screened 24 features and 44 shorts and added screenings at the Goethe-Institut and Charles Sumner School. With the film festival on firm financial footing, Frameline did not provide administrative and financial support for RA3.
The festival continued to expand in 1994, screening 130 films and dropping smaller venues (Biograph, Sumner School) while adding larger ones (such as the West End 1-4 cinema). The festival also conducted a screening at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden—one of the first gay events to be held in a federal building. 1994 was also the year the festival scored its first U.S premiere.
By its fifth anniversary in 1995, Reel Affirmations was the fourth-largest LGBT film festival in the United States in attendance, with more than 12,000 attendees. Although the festival screened only 102 films that year, it expanded to a fifth large venue (the AMC Courthouse Theatre in Virginia). A year later, it dropped two of its smaller venues in favor of the 275-seat Goldman Theatre in the D.C. Jewish Community Center in Dupont Circle.
Lincoln Theatre years.
Reel Affirmations' growth led it to move out of the Cineplex Odeon Embassy and West End theaters in 1998. The film fest moved into the 1,200-seat historic Lincoln Theatre located near U and 14th Streets, N.W. RA8 screened more than 140 feature films, shorts and documentaries at the two venues.
1999 was a turning point for Reel Affirmations. Several years of declining attendance by women led festival director Sarah Kellogg to create a special women's program. The event, known as the Women Filmmakers Brunch, has continued ever since and features women filmmakers, screenings, and a discussion of films with particular appeal to women. RA9 also was the only LGBT film festival of the season to screen "Boys Don't Cry". The award-winning film debuted in New York City, screened at Reel Affirmations, and then opened in theaters nationwide.
In honor of the festival's continuing success, the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance bestowed its 2004 Distinguished Service Award on Reel Affirmations festival director Sarah Kellogg. In 2006, RA 16 screened more than 100 movies to more than 30,000 attendees during its 10-day run.
Post-2008 festival.
In 2008, in addition to the Lincoln Theatre, the film festival used several locations including the Goethe-Institut, Sixth & I Synagogue, and Landmark E Street Cinema (all in Washington, D.C.), as well as the AFI Silver theater in Silver Spring, Maryland.
In 2009, Reel Affirmations struck a relationship with the Shakespeare Theatre Company. The film festival did not use the Lincoln Theatre, holding its larger film screenings at the company's Sidney Harman Hall. Festival executive director Margaret Murray left in November 2009 after four years as RA head—leaving the festival with about $40,000 in debt. According to the "Washington Blade", an LGBTQ newspaper in D.C., a number of factors were responsible for the debt: A diminishing number of corporate sponsors, the timing of Murray's resignation (just as donor recruitment was beginning for the following year), lack of preparation by RA for Murray's departure, an increasing number of popular LGBTQ events competing with the festival in October, fewer advertisers in the festival's program booklet, poor weather during several days of the 2009 festival, discontinuation of the festival's VIP program (which left it dependent on single ticket sales), and a heavy drop in single ticket sales. Many board members left the organization, new board members were recruited, and three volunteers took over RA's day-to-day operations.
In July 2010, RA organizers announced that the film festival would move from October 2010 to April 2011 because of funding shortfalls. One news source reported that RA organizers had intended to hold an October film festival, but a community fundraiser brought in only $5,000—far less than hoped, and not enough to allow an October festival to occur. The move to April was prompted, in part, by the hope that a $75,000 D.C. government grant would allow the festival to occur. However, on March 8, 2011, RA officials cancelled the April event because of continuing heavy debt and because several grants had not been awarded to the organization. Festival organizers scheduled the 20th Reel Affirmations LGBTQ film festival for October 13–22, 2011.
Additional changes occurred during the 20th film festival. The film festival no longer held events at the Shakespeare Theatre Company. The primary film festival venue was Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University (GWU). Other venues included GWU's Documentary Center, GWU's Marvin Center Amphitheatre, Atlas Performing Arts Center, the FHI 360 Globe Theater, and the West End Cinema (one of the original venues for the film festival in the early 1990s). The festival also instituted an "Embassy Screening Series," in which LGBTQ films from a specific country were screened at that nation's embassy in Washington, D.C. Screenings occurred at the Embassy of Israel and Embassy of France, and by the Embassy of Germany at the Goethe-Institut. The Women and Filmmakers' Brunch continued to be held, although the venue was now the U.S. Navy Memorial Heritage Center's Arleigh Burke Theater. Festival volunteer coordinator Mark Heckathorn estimated that the festival would draw 20,000 attendees in 2011.
Reel Affirmations continued to recover from its financial crisis in 2012. In March 2012, it held an "Oscar Party" (with muscular men covered in gold welcoming patrons) in which the public was invited to view the Academy Awards in a gay-friendly setting. Reel Affirmations hosted a truncated four-day festival (November 1–4) in 2012. Once more, its venues changed. The festival returned to its long-time venue at the D.C. Jewish Community Center and the Goethe Institut as well as its RA Xtra venue at the Carnegie Institution for Science.
End of annual festival.
Reel Affirmations ceased to offer an annual film festival at the conclusion of the 2012 event. One In Ten turned the Reel Affirmations program over to The DC Center, a nonprofit organization offering several different programs to the local LGBTQ community. The DC Center reestablished the RA Xtra program of monthly film screenings, which it offered beginning in 2015.
Reel Affirmations planned a three-day film festival for August 28–30, 2015, at the Gala Hispanic/Tivoli Theatre.
Awards.
Reel Affirmations presents four major awards each year. Each award is bestowed based on audience balloting. Honors are given for Best Feature, Best Documentary, Best Male Short, and Best Female Short. Beginning in 2011, Reel Affirmations added two new awards. These included a First Time Director and a Best International Movie award.
Reel Affirmations formerly distributed a Plant-A-Seed filmmaker grant at the end of each festival. The grant was established in 2000. It was supported by audience donations and a silent auction held throughout each year's festival, and varied in amount from year to year. The grant was awarded by the One In Ten board to a filmmaker or filmmakers who had previously produced a feature film, short or documentary, and was intended to help the filmmaker complete a current work in progress. This grant was discontinued in 2008. The festival re-established its filmmaker's grant award in 2011, renaming it the Keith Clark & Barry Becker Filmmaker Award (in honor of the co-founders of the festival).


Shantaram Athavale

Shantaram Govind Athavale () (21 January 1910 – 2 May 1975) was an Indian director of Marathi, Hindi and English language films, a lyricist, poet, and author. Part of the generation that emerged from the Prabhat Film Company in Pune in the 1930s, he made pioneering contributions to Marathi film.
Biography.
In the early 1930s, Athavale undertook an apprenticeship with the popular novelist Narayan Hari Apte. When Apte was brought in by the Prabhat Film Company to script "Amrit Manthan," Athavale joined him and achieved success as a songwriter on the film with "Kiti sukhada."
At Prabhat, as a lyricist under V. Shantaram and working alongside Vishram Bedekar, Master Vinayak, Keshavrao Bhole and others, Athavale would be part of the generation considered pioneers of Marathi cinema. Athavale's contribution as lyricist to Sant Tukaram, the first Indian film to achieve critical international success, was highly regarded.
Athavale as lyricist frequently worked with Keshavrao Bhole composing music; their collaborations included "Kunku" (1937), "Mazha Mulga" and "Gopal Krishna" (both 1938), "Sant Dnyaneshwar" (1940), "Sant Sakhu" and "Shejari" (both 1941), "Daha Wajta" (1942) and "Ramshastri" (1944). During this period, he became an assistant director under V. Shantaram.
He left Prabhat Films in 1942 and contributed dialogue and lyrics for Debaki Bose's "Aple Ghar" and lyrics for Vijay Bhatt's "Bharat Bhet."
In 1948, Athavale made his debut as a director with "Bhagya Rekha," which focused on a man who is part of the independence movement and must leave his pregnant wife when forced to go underground. The film incorporated his long-term colleagues Narayan Hari Apte (script) and Keshavrao Bhole (score) with Shanta Apte acting.
He won the Certificate of Merit for Feature Films in Marathi at the 3rd National Film Awards in 1956 for directing the movie "Shevagyachya Shenga". The film, under the English title Drumsticks, was entered into competition at Cannes in 1956.
In the early 1960s, Athavale switched to working in English, making a series of documentaries for the Films Division of India.
Released in 1966, Athavale's history of the Prabhat Film Company, "Prabhatkal", was considered a unique and significant work.


Mixed Match

Mixed Match is a 2016 animated/live-action documentary film directed by Canadian director Jeff Chiba Stearns. The documentary explores the challenges multi-ethnic blood disease patients face when trying to find a bone marrow match for transplant.


Aamhi Jato Amuchya Gava

Amhi Jaato Amucha Gava is a Marathi language film released on 9 August 1968. The film was remade in Tamil as "Moondru Deivangal" and in Hindi as "Teen Chor".
Soundtrack.
The music has been directed by Sudhir Phadke.


Aatpadi Nights

Aatpadi Nights is a 2019 Indian Marathi language romantic comedy film directed by Nitin SinduVijay Supekar and produced by the banner of Maaydesh Media. This film presenting by Subodh Bhave & Maaydesh Media. The film starring Subodh Bhave, Pranav Raorane and Sayali Sanjeev follows the story of excitement, nervousness and the ignorance of the first night of marriage.
The film teaser released on 6 December 2019, The film was released theatrically on 27 December 2019.
Production.
The film was publicly announced on 2 December 2019, with intensity building official poster of movie with just a closed door with sign of "Do No Disturb" on it and the film title. The film to be directed by Nitin SinduVijay Supekar and produced by Maaydesh Media.
Soundtrack.
The songs for the film are composed by Vijay Gavande & Sidharth Dhukate and lyrics by Narayan Puri and sung by Adarsh Shinde, Vaishali Mhade and Sanghapal Tayade.


Blarney (film)

Blarney is a 1926 American silent melodrama directed by Marcel De Sano, and starring Ralph Graves, Paulette Duval, and Renée Adorée. The film is based on the short story "In Praise of John Carabine", by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne.
Plot.
James (Ralph Graves), an Irish prizefighter, becomes involved with two New York girls.


Aggi Veerudu

Aggi Veerudu ( Fire Martial) is a 1969 Telugu-language swashbuckler film, produced by B. Vittalacharya under the Sri Vital Combines banner and directed by B. V. Srinivas. It stars N. T. Rama Rao, Rajasree and music composed by Vijaya Krishna Murthy.
Plot.
The film begins, the alliance of Prince Yeshovardhana (N. T. Rama Rao) with Princess Padmavathi (Rajasri). But Rudhirakshudu (Tyagaraju), a wizard wants to marry Padmavathi. So, he kidnaps her, transform her parents into fish and orders one demon to create unrest in the bridegroom's house. Yeshovardhana's father loses his eyesight due to the demon. Now, Yeshovardhana takes a pledge to get back his father's eyesight and protect Padmavathi. So, he starts an adventurous tour. On the way, special and peculiar incidents happen; Yeshovardhana relieves many people from their curses and he is awarded as "Aggi Veerudu". Meanwhile, Padmavathi escapes from the wizard, but due to the curse of a Saint, she is transformed into a rat. The rest of the story is how Yeshovardhana protects Padmavathi, gets back his father's eyesight, returning his in-laws to their original form and eliminating Rudhirakshudu. Finally, the movie ends with the marriage of Yeshovardhana & Padmavathi.
Soundtrack.
Music composed by Vijaya Krishna Murthy. Music released by Audio Company.


First a Girl

First a Girl is a 1935 British comedy film directed by Victor Saville and starring Jessie Matthews. "First a Girl" was adapted from the 1933 German film "Viktor und Viktoria" written and directed by Reinhold Schünzel. It was remade as the 1982 American musical comedy Victor Victoria starring Julie Andrews.
Plot.
Fashion designer Madame Seraphina stages an elaborate catwalk show for a specially invited audience, including Princess Miranoff. Watching the fashion parade are the designer's shop girls, including Elizabeth (Jessie Matthews), who dances for the amusement of her colleagues and impersonates the Princess. Madame Seraphina asks Elizabeth to deliver some purchases to Princess Miranoff but she is distracted on the way by a theatrical audition. Despite borrowing Princess Miranoff's glamorous clothes, she does not get a part. It is pouring with rain as she leaves the theatre and her borrowed clothes get drenched. Going into a café to dry off she finds herself sitting opposite an actor called Victor, (Sonnie Hale) whom she met earlier at the audition. He confides in her that although he performs in drag as music hall act 'Victoria', he dreams of being a Shakespearean actor. Elizabeth begins to cry when she realises that she will probably lose her job after failing to deliver Princess Miranoff's purchases. Victor takes her back to his boarding house and she irons the dress to make it look as if it hasn't been worn. Victor receives a letter asking him to perform his drag act but he has lost his voice due to being caught in the rain. As Elizabeth consoles him she realises that she has forgotten the iron - it has burned a hole in Princess Miranoff's dress. Elizabeth begins to laugh at their misfortune and Victor has a brainwave: Elizabeth could stand in for him and pose as a female impersonator.
Elizabeth's first music hall performance is a great success, despite runaway geese storming the stage and spilt milk causing her to slip over several times. Music hall promoter McLintock comes backstage and offers Elizabeth a contract. Elizabeth begins touring Europe as female impersonator 'Bill' using Victor's stage name 'Victoria'. Princess Miranoff and her fiancé Robert attend one of 'Bill's' performances. Robert makes it clear that he is attracted to the woman on stage and when she takes off her wig to reveal boyishly cropped hair he is shocked and embarrassed. At a nightclub after the show Victor attempts to charm Princess Miranoff with Shakespeare recitations as Robert has a manly chat with 'Bill'. Elizabeth is forced to smoke a cigar and drink large whiskeys as she attempts to maintain the pretence that she is a man. When Princess Miranoff finds a feminine hair comb under a chair she begins to suspect that 'Bill' is indeed a woman. She and Robert invite their new friends to travel with them to the South of France with the intention of tricking 'Bill' into revealing his true gender. The three 'men' are forced to share a room in a guesthouse for a night but Elizabeth manages to maintain her disguise.
At the villa she has rented with Victor, Elizabeth revels in the chance to wear women's clothes again. Swimming in the sea, she gets into trouble when Robert surprises her by turning up; he has to use lifesaving techniques to get her back to shore. In a tight fitting swimsuit there is no doubt that she is a woman and Robert is tempted to kiss her but he apologises, turns and swims away.
Tired of pretending to be a man, Elizabeth tells the Princess she is in love with Robert and will fight for him. The Princess vows to expose Elizabeth as a fraud. Robert, believing that Victor and Elizabeth are lovers, punches Victor and spurns Elizabeth when she approaches him dressed in her own, feminine clothes. When Victor explains that they are just good friends, Robert chases Elizabeth in his car so that he can express his love for her. They kiss but Elizabeth has to cut their romantic interlude short in order to drive to the theatre for a performance. A newspaper reporter who has caught a glimpse of Elizabeth in women's clothing arrives at the theatre with two Gendarmes in order to expose her deception. Victor saves the day by performing 'Everything's in Rhythm With My Heart' in drag to amusing effect. Princess Miranoff pledges to fund Victor in Shakespearean theatre and despite Elizabeth having a man's passport, she is waved across the French border to begin her new life with Robert.
Critical reception.
BFI Screenonline wrote, "Of all the Matthews/Hale collaborations, this one seems the most polished and even-handed. A huge success at the time it was released, First a Girl is possibly the quintessential Jessie Matthews musical and certainly the most enduringly amusing for a modern audience."


Cinema of Ireland

The Irish film industry has grown somewhat in recent years thanks partly to the promotion of the sector by Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland and the introduction of heavy tax breaks. According to the Irish Audiovisual Content Production Sector Review carried out by the Irish Film Board and PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2008 this sector, has gone from 1,000 people employed six or seven years ago, to well over 6,000 people in that sector now and is valued at over €557.3 million and represents 0.3% of GDP. Most films are produced in English as Ireland is largely Anglophone, though some productions are made in Irish either wholly or partially.
According to an article in "Variety" magazine spotlighting Irish cinema, a decade ago the Republic of Ireland had only two filmmakers anyone had heard of: Neil Jordan and Jim Sheridan. , the Republic of Ireland can boast more than a dozen directors and writers with significant and growing international reputations. Ireland is now achieving critical mass of filmmaking talent to match the kind of influence, disproportionate to its small size, that it has always enjoyed in the fields of literature and theatre. Following in the footsteps of Sheridan and Jordan comes a generation that includes such directors as Lenny Abrahamson, Conor McPherson, John Crowley, Martin McDonagh, John Michael McDonagh, John Carney, Kirsten Sheridan, Lance Daly, Paddy Breathnach and Damien O'Donnell and writers such as Mark O'Rowe, Enda Walsh and Mark O'Halloran.
Former Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism Martin Cullen (2008–2010) said that “the film industry is the cornerstone of a smart and creative digital economy”. But as well as the concrete economic benefits that the Irish film industry brings in by way of cash investment from overseas and the associated VAT, PAYE and PRSI receipts, it has been noted that there are the soft benefits in terms of the development and projection of the Irish culture and the promotion of tourism.
Some of the most successful Irish films include "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" (2006), "Intermission" (2003), "Man About Dog" (2004), "Michael Collins" (1996), "Angela's Ashes" (1999), "The Commitments" (1991), "Once" (2007) and "Notorious" (2017). "Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie" (2014) holds the record for the biggest gross on the opening day of an Irish film in Ireland. "Notorious" (2017) on the other hand holds the record for highest grossing Irish documentary of all time.
In the past many films were censored or banned, owing largely to the influence of the Catholic Church with films including "The Great Dictator" (1940), "A Clockwork Orange" (1971) and "Life of Brian" (1979) being banned at various times, although virtually no cuts or bans have been issued in recent years, one as of August 2006. The Irish Film Censor's Office policy is that of personal choice for the viewer, considering his job to examine and classify films rather than censor them.
Ireland as a location.
The first fictional film shot in Ireland was Kalem Company's "The Lad from Old Ireland" (1910), which was also the first American film shot on location outside the United States. It was directed by Sidney Olcott, who returned the next year to shoot over a dozen films primarily in the small village of Beaufort, County Kerry. Olcott intended to start a permanent studio in Beaufort, but the outbreak of World War I prevented him from doing so.
The Irish government was one of the first in Europe to see the potential benefit to the exchequer of having a competitive tax incentive for investment in film and television, making use of a revised and improved version of its Section 481 tax incentive in 2015 which gives production companies a tax credit rate of 32% when making certain films. Other countries have recognized the success of Ireland’s incentive scheme and matched it or introduced a more competitive tax incentive. After a long lobbying process, significant improvements were introduced to the Section 481 relief for investment in film projects in 2009 to boost employment in the industry and help re-establish Ireland as an attractive global location for film and television production.
Kevin Moriarty, managing director of Ardmore Studios in County Wicklow, believes Ireland is an attractive film location as there is now recognition for the quality of the output of the Irish film industry and a perception that Ireland is a viable film destination.
Prominent films that have been filmed in Ireland include "The Quiet Man" (1952), "The Lion in Winter" (1968), "The First Great Train Robbery" (1979), "Excalibur" (1981), "Braveheart" (1995), "Reign of Fire" (2002), "King Arthur" (2004), "The Guard" (2011), ' (2015), and ' (2017).
Cinemas in Ireland.
The first cinema in Ireland, the "Volta", was opened at 45 Mary Street, Dublin, in 1909 by the novelist James Joyce.
Ireland has a high rate of cinema admissions (the highest in Europe).
There are several cinema chains operating in Ireland. Among them are ODEON Cinemas (formerly UCI/Storm Cinemas), Omniplex, IMC Cinemas (Both Omniplex and IMC are owned by the Ward Anderson group), Cineworld, Vue and Movies@Cinemas.
Studios.
Ardmore Studios was the first Irish studio, opening in 1958 in Bray, County Wicklow.
Animated films.
Ireland has been home to several noteworthy producers of animated films in recent years. Sullivan Bluth Studios was opened in 1979 as Don Bluth Productions, with its primary location in Dublin, to produce animated films by director Don Bluth and producer Morris Sullivan. Some films produced at Sullivan Bluth's Irish studio include 1988's "The Land Before Time", 1989's "All Dogs Go to Heaven" (co-produced with UK-based Goldcrest Films) and 1991's "Rock-a-Doodle". Many of these films competed favourably with productions by Walt Disney Pictures at the time. However, following a number of box-office flops in the early to mid-1990s, including 1994's "Thumbelina" and "A Troll in Central Park" and 1995's "The Pebble and the Penguin", the studio soon declared bankruptcy and was closed in 1995.
Today, Ireland has a number of animation studios that produce television and commercial animation, as well as feature films and co-productions. Cartoon Saloon, founded in 1999 by Paul Young and Tomm Moore, is among the most prolific. It has produced the award-winning TV series "Skunk Fu!" as well as a feature film, 2009's "The Secret of Kells", animated primarily with Traditional paper and pencil hand drawn animation and detailing a fictitious account of the creation of the Book of Kells. The film was nominated at the 82nd Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature. Cartoon Saloon has more feature films in production, including "Song of the Sea", released in 2014.
Legislation.
The Film Act of 1970 set the foundation for an expanding Irish-based film industry. It provided, among other things, very advantageous tax advantages for film productions and resident foreign creative individuals. A number of world-renowned writers, including Len Deighton, Frederick Forsyth, and Richard Condon took advantage of the allowances, residing in Ireland for a number of years. The Film Act of 1970 was the result of an initial collaboration between the Taoiseach, Jack Lynch, and Lynn Garrison, an aerial film director who shared a semi-detached house with Lynch. The Film Act of 1970 became the basis for other national film acts throughout Europe and America.
Irish Film Board.
Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board (IFB) is the national development agency for the Irish film industry investing in talent, creativity and enterprise. The agency supports and promotes the Irish film industry and the use of Ireland as a location for international production.
The Irish Film Board was set up in 1981 to boost the local industry, and one of its earliest supported projects was "The Outcasts" in 1982. After the infamous closure of the Irish Film Board in 1987, Irish stories and filmmakers continued to break through with considerable international success "My Left Foot" (Jim Sheridan), "The Crying Game" (Neil Jordan), "The Commitments" (Alan Parker) all made with non-Irish finance. The success of these projects coupled with intensive local lobbying led to the re-establishment of the Irish Film Board in 1993.
Many film critics point to the fact that the Irish Film Board's output has been poor, as most films which are chosen for funding do little or no business outside of the country, and are rarely popular in Ireland. However, IFB funded films like "Intermission", "I Went Down", "Man About Dog", "The Wind That Shakes The Barley", and "Adam & Paul" have proved popular with domestic audiences and have all done respectable business in Irish cinemas.
Both the Oscar-winning film "Once" and the Palme d'Or winner "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" have experienced international success over the last couple of years. "Once", which was made on a shoestring budget, took over $10 million at the US box office and over $20 million in worldwide ticket sales, while "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" was distributed theatrically in 40 territories worldwide.
Over the last four years Irish films have screened and won awards at the top international film festivals including Cannes, Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, Venice, London, Tribeca, Edinburgh and Pusan.
"The Wind That Shakes The Barley" won the prestigious Palme d'Or award for Best Film at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006, while "Garage", directed by Lenny Abrahamson, picked up the CICEA Award at the Directors Fortnight at the festival in 2007. After winning the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007, "Once" went on to win the Best Foreign Film prize at the Independent Spirit Awards in 2008 and an Academy Award for Best Original Song. The Irish short film "Six Shooter" won the Academy Award for Best Short Film in 2006 while the short film "New Boy" was nominated for the same award in 2009.
In 2009 a record seven IFB funded films ("Ondine", "Perrier’s Bounty", "Triage", "A Shine of Rainbows", "Eamon", "Cracks", and "Colony") had officially been selected for the Toronto International Film Festival.
Tony Keily has criticised the board's insistence on funding "uncommercial commercial cinema". Paul Melia has also criticised the IFB over its slowness in awarding funding.
The Minister for Arts, Sports and Tourism Martin Cullen addressed the issue of commercial success recently saying that “The film board offers the chance to make films for a small audience and not necessarily for big commercial success but which have real quality. That offers opportunity to people who can go on to make their mark. Whether that is the actors, the director or crew, many of the people who work on those films wouldn’t go on to success unless they had been given their first chance here. People can only get experience by giving them the opportunity”.
2005 Top 10 poll.
In 2005 a Jameson Whiskey-sponsored poll selected the top 10 Irish films: the results are below.
Critically acclaimed Irish films released since this poll was taken include "The Wind That Shakes the Barley", "Once", "The Secret of Kells", "Song of the Sea", "Garage", "The Guard", and "Brooklyn".
Irish Film & Television Awards.
The Irish Film and Television Awards have been awarded since 1999, and in their current form since 2003. The Best Irish Film award winners have been:


Dhadakebaaz

Dhadakebaaz is a Marathi movie directed by Mahesh Kothare and produced by Jenma Films International. It was released on January 1st, 1990. The film was remade in Tamil as "Vetri Padigal" (1991).
Plot.
Lakshya, Mahesh, and Bappa are best friends who support themselves by committing petty crimes. After release from prison, Mahesh and Bappa decide to cease their criminal activity and go their separate ways. Lakshya is reluctant to part with his friends and give up crime. However, Mahesh and Bappa forge ahead and choose to live separately. Mahesh says to Bappa and Lakshya: "If we all three continue to live together, we can't leave our criminal lives. So we must live separately, away from each other."
Later, Lakshya finds a five rupee coin while walking on the street. He keeps the coin in his jacket pocket. However, his jacket pocket has a hole, so the coin drops onto the street. Lakshya picks it up again. This happens multiple times. He gets hungry and walks into a restaurant, thinking he has 15 rupees, and eats various dishes. When the restaurant owner asks him to pay, he finds he does not have enough money. The owner throws him out of the shop. Lakshya, once again, finds the five rupee coin and then tries to make money with this coin by playing poker. In a poker game, he manages to win a few hundred rupees. In the end, it is revealed that he is cheating. The other players start to physically assault Lakshya, but Mahesh arrives and saves him.
Mahesh, Bappa, and Lakshya flee and reach Shivapur village. They go to the temple of Shiva and pledge to live as law-abiding citizens. Lakshya then meets Gangi, a girl selling flowers outside the temple. He falls in love with her. Then, Lakshya finds a bottle in the ruins of an old fort. A man trapped inside the bottle tells him that he is Gangaram, the ancestor of Lakshya. He also says that he was learning magic from a guru, but an accident occurred, and his guru cursed him and trapped him in this bottle. The guru said to Gangaram: "You only will be free from this bottle when your descendant will use the sand given by Guru for his benefit."
Lakshya shows this bottle to Mahesh and Bappa. They colour the temple of Shiva by using Gangaram's magic. A notorious robber, Kawatya Mahakal, comes to find out more about the magic bottle that Lakshya owns. He steals the bottle but is unable to use it. All three friends defeat Mahakal and free Shivapur by using the magic of Gangaram. Gangaram's sandbag empties and is free from the curse of his Guru.
Production.
"Dhadakebaaz" is the first Marathi movie made in CinemaScope. The story was written by Mahesh Kothare. Lyrics for the songs were written by Pravin Davne. These songs are performed by Suresh Wadkar, Sudesh Bhosle, Usha Mangeshkar, Jyotsna Hardikar, Uttara Kelkar, Vinay Mandake and Anupama Deshpande.
The role of robber Kawatya Mahakal was played by eight different actors at various times during principle photography. Bipin Warti first portrayed Kawatya Mahakal, but he was unable to continue because he was shooting another film. Bipin Varti performed the voice-over for Kawatya Mahakal for the entire film by himself. Laxmikant Berde's hand was injured during filming of the gunfire shooting sequence.
Soundtrack.
The lyrics were written by Anil Mohile. Songs title are:


The Adventures of Count Bobby

The Adventures of Count Bobby (German: Die Abenteuer des Grafen Bobby) is a 1961 Austrian comedy film directed by Géza von Cziffra and starring Peter Alexander, Vivi Bach and Gunther Philipp. It was the first in a trilogy of films featuring the character Count Bobby.
The film's sets were designed by the art directors Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff and Alexander Sawczynski. It was shot at the Sievering Studios in Vienna.


Aadarsa Kutumbam

Aadarsa Kutumbam () is a 1969 Telugu-language drama film, produced by A. V. Subba Rao under the Prasad Art Productions banner and directed by K. Pratyagatma. It stars Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Jayalalithaa and music composed by Saluri Rajeswara Rao.
Plot.
The film deals with a joint family, Raghavendra Rao (Chittor V. Nagaiah) & his wife Rajyalakshmi (Hemalatha) are paterfamilias who has four sons and a daughter. The elder son Pattabhi (Gummadi) and his wife Janaki (Anjali Devi) look after the house finances and agricultural work. The second son Prakasam (Nagabhushanam) is involved in village politics, wastes time & money therein, and his wife Jaya (S. Varalakshmi) is a shrew who doesn't contribute anything to the welfare of the family. The third son Pratap (Bheemaraju) is a bodybuilder who is obsessed with diet & fitness and not bothered about his wife Rama (Geethanjali). The youngest one Prasad (Akkineni Nageswara Rao) studies in the city where he falls in love with a beautiful girl Saroja (Jayalalithaa) a doctor. The only daughter is Chandra (Anitha), her husband Suryam (Padmanabham), suffers from night blindness. He doesn't do any work and passes time lazily by living in his in-law's house. To make things worse, his mother Durgamma (Suryakantham) always visits the house and creates rifts in the family. Pattabhi & Janaki's goodwill is mistaken as inability and all these people make use of their innocence. Meanwhile, Prasad marries Saroja at this juncture, she enters the family when everybody is in a mess with unnecessary expenditures, arguments, and cheatings. So, Prasad & Saroja decide to separate the family and they do so by cheating. The rest of the story is how they reunite the affections and relations between family members.
Soundtrack.
Music composed by Saluri Rajeswara Rao. Music released on Audio Company.


R. Narayana Murthy

R. Narayana Murthy (born 31 December 1954) is an Indian actor, screenwriter, director, composer, singer, and producer. He works predominantly in Telugu Cinema. He received Nandi Special Jury Award for his film "Dandora" (1993).
Murthy produces most of his films under the banner Sneha Chitra Pictures. He is known for left-oriented films that deal with the exploitation of society's lower strata. His films adopt themes like the atrocities of the upper classes against the helpless.
His films address contemporary social problems such as unemployment, crony capitalism, problems in developing countries, environmental issues, dams and rehabilitation problems, land issues, political turmoil, etc. He starred in films such as "Ardharatri Swaatantryam, Adavi Diviteelu, Laal Salaam, Dandora, Erra Sainyam, Cheemala Dandu, Dalam, Cheekati Suryudu, Ooru Manadiraa" and "Vegu Chukkalu".
Early life.
Murthy was born on 31 December 1954 the village of Mallampeta of East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh. He was schooled at Sankhavaram and moved to Chennai after completing his intermediate to pursue a career in films. He joined as a junior artist in the Krishna-starrer "Neramu Siksha" (1973) but on the advice of director Dasari Narayana Rao, he returned to studies and completed his BA in Peddapuram.
Murthy is unmarried.
Career.
After completing his B.A. he went to Madras and met his guru and he played second lead in the film "Needa". Murthy acted in Dasari's "Sita Ramulu" (1980), "Korikale Gurralaite", "Vishwaroopam" and K. Bapayya's "Agni Poolu". Dasari made him a full-fledged star with "Sangeeta" and "Orey Rickshaw".
Murthy organized "Ardharatri Swatantram" as his first venture under his production house 'Sneha Chitra Pictures' in Rampachodavaram of East Godavari district on 10 June 1984. The film was released on 6 November 1986 on the eve of T. Krishna's death anniversary. T. Krishna played the role of a naxalite in that film. It was a hit and gave Murthy a reputation as a communist. From 1986 until 2018, he produced and directed 29 films on his Sneha Chitra Pictures banner. He had 15–20 years of success. Many of his films ran for silver jubilees (25 weeks) and golden jubilees (50 weeks).


Beyroutou el lika

Beyroutou el lika (Beirut the Encounter) is a 1981 Lebanese drama film directed by Borhane Alaouié. It competed in competition at the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival and the 38th Venice International Film Festival.


Master Prabhakar

Master Prabhakar, (born Prabhakar vaishyan) is an Indian film actor, who primarily worked in Tamil cinema, and few Telugu films and acted in about 60 programmes for Doordarshan, between 1977 and 1987 and as a technician he has worked for few Bollywood films. He made his acting debut with the Tamil film "Devalayam" directed by G. R. Nathan, and he starred in 150 feature films.
Personal life.
Prabhakar was born in Madurai; a city in Tamil Nadu, India. His mother tongue is Saurashtra. His father and mother were originally from Madurai. His father managed several businesses such as photo studio and printing press. His mother, was a housewife taking care of his sister Sumathi and his other six brothers and three sisters. Prabakhar was the first one in the family to enter the film industry.
In 1966, Prabahakar along with Sumathi moved in with his Aunt to pursue his dreams.


Santosham Best Comedian Award

The Santosham Best Comedian Award is given by the "Santosham Film" magazine as part of its annual Santosham Film Awards for Telugu films.
The award was first given in 2003. Here is a list of the award winners and the films for which they won.


Dhoom Dhadaka

Dhum Dhadaka is a Marathi comedy movie released in 1985. It is directed by Mahesh Kothare. The film is a remake of the Tamil movie "Kaadhalikka Neramillai" (1964), which was also remade earlier in Telugu as "Preminchi Choodu" (1965), in Hindi as "Pyar Kiye Jaa" (1966) and in Kannada as "Preethi Madu Thamashe Nodu" (1979).
Synopsis.
Dhanaji Wakade is an arrogant and greedy industrialist. Seema and Gauri are his daughters and Laxmikant is his son. Mahesh Javalkar is an employee in his company. Gauri and Mahesh decide to marry but Dhanaji does not approve of his daughter marrying someone below his social status. Dhanaji's son Laxmikant is an aspiring film maker and desires to marry the daughter of Mr. Rede, who also is not as rich as Dhanaji.
To overcome Dhanaji's resistance, Mahesh decides to take help of his friend Ashok. They decide that Ashok would disguise himself as a very rich old man and introduce himself to Dhanaji as Mahesh's father. They know that Dhanaji would be impressed by his show of wealth and allow his daughter to marry Mahesh. When disguised Ashok reaches Dhanaji's house he notices that Dhanaji is father of Seema. Ashok and Seema already know each other and desire to marry each other. Ashok discloses his identity to Seema. Mahesh discloses Ashok's identity to Gauri. Laxmikant, too, accidentally discovers Ashok's truth. Disguised Ashok tells Dhanaji that he wants to marry his elder daughter Seema. Dhanaji is so impressed by the (claimed) wealth of disguised Ashok that he agrees to his proposal.
Ashok's father is a friend of Dhanaji. He arrives at Dhanaji's town for some business purpose and halts at Dhanaji's house, but he does not recognize Ashok who is in disguise as an old bearded man. After some time Mahesh's father arrives at Dhanaji's house because he has not received any news from Mahesh for past few months. Now Dhanaji is confronted with two fathers of Mahesh. When Mahesh arrives at Dhanaji's house, he points at Ashok as his real father because he does not want to put his marriage plan in danger. Dhanaji hands over Mahesh's real father to police thinking him to be an imposter. Ashok guesses that the police would easily confirm the identity of Mahesh's father and then Ashok and Mahesh would be considered as frauds. So Mahesh, Ashok, Seema and Gauri elope in Mahesh's vehicle. They are joined by Laxmikant and Rede's daughter who also want to get married against their parents' wish. When Dhanaji notices their absence, he chases Mahesh's vehicle. He is accompanied by Ashok's father and Mahesh's father. Mahesh's vehicle takes a turn which Dhanaji does not notice and they start chasing another similar vehicle which is occupied by thieves. Chasing the thieves they reach the hiding place of the thieves. There the thieves attack them but Ashok, Mahesh and Laxmikant reach there on time and overpower the thieves. Police arrives and arrests the thieves. Dhanaji realises his folly and allows his three children to marry as per their choice.
The story of this film is similar to that of the Hindi film "Pyar Kiye Jaa" (1966) which itself was based on the Tamil comedy "Kaadhalikka Neramillai" (1964) which was remade into a Telugu movie as "Preminchi Choodu" (1965).


Hampi (film)

Hampi is a 2017 Indian Marathi language film directed by Prakash Kunte, starring Sonalee Kulkarni, Lalit Prabhakar, Prajakta Mali, Priyadarshan Jadhav, Vijay Nikam & Chhaya Kadam.
Plot.
Isha (Sonalee Kulkarni) is deeply hurt by her parents' divorce. So she hates people and does not believe in love. She visits Hampi in Karnataka, in search of happiness. She meets many people, including Kabir (Lalit Prabhakar) who helps her find happiness in the little things. They become friends and after some time she falls in love with him. One day, Kabir disappears suddenly without informing anyone. In the end, Isha comes to know the value of people and true love.
Production.
The film is set against Hampi's backdrop.
Release.
The film was released on 17 November 2017. The film was later released on streaming platform ZEE5.
Reception.
Box office.
On the box office, "Hampi" grossed over approximately .
Critical reception.
Mihir Bhanage of "The Times of India" rated the film 3 out of 5 stars. He praised cinematography, philosophy an performances but criticised the story. Blessy Chettiar of "Cinestaan" described the film as a genuine attempt of story, screenplay and dialogue writer Aditi Moghe Ulhas Shirke of "MarathiMovieWorld" rated it 3.5/5 praising cinematography and theme. "Zee News" and "Maharashtra Times" rated it 3/5. Ganesh Matkari writing for the "Pune Mirror" rated it 2.5 put of 5 and praised it production design and criticised its lack of story placing it between romantic comedy and travel film. Film journalist Amol Parchure praised cinematography and music and criticised lack of depth in some characters. He rated it 2.5/5.


Hello! Gandhe Sir

Hello! Gandhe Sir is a Marathi movie released on 19 June 2010. Produced by Dnyaeshwar Govekar and directed by the duo, Sandeep – Sameer.
Cast.
The cast includes
Soundtrack.
The music has been provided by Pravin Kuvar.


Are Avaaj Konacha

Are Avaaj Konacha (Marathi: अरे आवाज कोणाचा) is a 2013 Marathi movie directed by Hemant Deodhar. The film will emphasize on the life of karyakarta, their problems, the challenges they face during addressing the problems of society, political pressures.
Plot.
Are Avaaj Konacha …. ?, a slogan best known and said during many political campaigns by several opinion leaders. For years together this slogan has brought everyone together…. One inner voice ...one slogan ...'Are avaaj konacha...?'
With change in time and high exposure the charm of our own ideologies of togetherness is lost. But even in such a lifestyle, there are few people in this society who have kept themselves rooted with utmost sincerity, with no selfish motives and with absolute urge to eradicate anti social elements from the society and support everyone for their well-being, these set of people are called KARYAKARTA (Social Worker), people who take an effort to solve the unanswered problems of the common man.


Adhibar

Adhibar (English: Proprietor) is a 2015 Tamil action film directed by Surya Prakash. The film stars Jeevan and Vidya Pradeep in the leading roles with Nandha, Samuthirakani, Richard Rishi, and Ranjith playing supporting roles. The film was produced by T. Sivakumar, who also wrote the story for the film. The soundtrack was composed by newcomer Vikram Selva with editing done by Zashi Qmer and cinematography by Philip Vijayakumar. The film was released on 28 August 2015 to extremely negative reviews.
Production.
"Adhibar" began production in early 2015 and was revealed to be an action comedy film directed by Surya Prakash, who had been an active director in the early 2000s having directed films like "Maayi" (2000) and "Diwan" (2003). The shoot was held across Chennai, Bangkok and Malaysia.
Critical reception.
Sudhir Srinivasan of "The Hindu" criticized the film stating "It is perhaps the most bizarre film I’ve seen in a long time". "Now Running" rated the film 3 out of 5 and wrote "Athibar is an excellent written film and an awesomely narrated drama. It has few moments here and there." "The Times of India" rated 1.0 out of 5 and wrote ""Adhibar" is an exercise in mediocrity [..] We are told that the story is based on a real-life incident that happened in Sri Lanka, but there is so much randomness in the movie that we start wondering if real life can be this random. Characters behave in the most implausible manner and take instant decisions that no sane person in real life might take". "Silverscreen" stated ""Adhibar" tests your patience right from the beginning". The New Indian Express wrote, "Neither exciting nor refreshing, "Adhibar" is a dreary, mediocre fare".


Cheater (film)

Cheater is a 2016 Indian Marathi language horror comedy film, directed by Ajay Phansekar and produced by Pravinkumar Udaylal Jain under the Swiss Entertainment banner. The film was released on 10 June 2016.
The film stars Vaibbhav Tatwawdi and Pooja Sawant in lead roles. The supporting cast features Hrishikesh Joshi, Asawari Joshi, Suhas Joshi and Vrushali Chavan .
Plot.
Abhay Agnihotri (Vaibhav Tatwawdi) is a son of an Agnihotri pandit of Pune. Been the youngest, he is raised like a small brother and takes advantage overall. He becomes a cheater, cheating everyone and enjoying his life like a king. He even approaches a goon for a redevelopment of his house and takes money from him. Meanwhile, he falls in love with Mrudula (Pooja Sawant) who is a daughter of a hotel owner in Mauritius name Bob (Hrishikesh Joshi). Bob has recently purchased an Old English Bungalow in Mauritius and calls his family for a celebration. When everyone Bob's daughter, Wife (Asawari Joshi) and his Mom (Suhas Joshi) goes to the house for the first time, Bob's mom (Suhas Joshi) feels there is a ghost of an English man in the house and faints. She is taken to the hospital. In the Hospital, she warns Bobs that unless an Agnihotri Pandit of Pune do not perform Housewarming rituals she will not enter the house. For his mom, Bob asks his daughter to connect with her friend to get one pandit to Mauritius. Mrudula contacts Abhay and asks him to arrange for a pandit. Rather than arranging a knowledgeable pandit he himself decides to go Mauritius as a pandit. When he reaches Mauritius he acts as a pandit and tells Bobs that there is a ghost and in 5 days he will make ghost run away.
When Mrudula returns home she is shocked to see Abhay as a pandit and thinks he has come for her love. Same night when everyone is sleeping, Abhay realizes that there is a true ghost in the house and the ghost is of a Marathi lady name "sarangi" (Vrushali Chavan). She challenges Abhay that in next 5 days if he is able to move her out of the house then she will quietly go away and never come back but if he fails she will make the entire family go crazy and imprison him in the same house. Day 2 of the challenge, Sarangi takes over the body of Bob's mother and ask Abhay to take her to a place where she used to live earlier. When they reach that place, she meets her father's ghost who has been killed by Sarangi's Boyfriends father. Sarangi is happy to meet her father and his soul gets released. Bob is worried as his mother and pandit are not seen at home and lodges a missing complaint. When Bob's mother and Abhay return to Home, Bob is surprised to see his mother dress in his wife dress and blames Abhay for such behavior. Mrudula realizes that Abhay is playing with her feeling and confesses her father that Abhay is a cheater. Abhay tries to convince them but they do not listen. Day 3 of the challenge, Sarangi takes over the body of Bob's wife and ask Abhay to take her to a place where her mother could be.
Meanwhile, Bob hires a detective to keep an eye on Abhay who informs Bob that Abhay & his wife are romancing and going out somewhere. Abhay takes Sarangi to her mother, she is happy to her mother soul getting released. Bob gets angry to see his wife hugging Abhay (Actual Sarangi mother takes the body of Abhay and Hugs Sarangi). Bob orders goon to beat up Abhay and takes his wife home. Sarangi becomes very angry and tells Bob she is not his wife but a ghost who has taken her body. Bob does not believe so she takes over his body and performs a dance. She also informs Mrudula that Abhay is in love with her and cares her a lot. Everyone believes the ghost and forgives Abhay. Day 4 of the challenge, Sarangi takes over the body of Mrudula. She takes Abhay to a place where she used to meet her boyfriend Victor. When they reach she meet victor who informs her that his dad's goon killed him due to which his soul is not yet released. Victor takes the body of Abhay. Both Victor and Sarangi takes a plunge into the sea and their soul are released.
Abhay wakes up back in Pune now married to Mrudula. Every night he sees a dream of he and Mrudula jumping into the sea. When he comes out, he shocked to see the Goon whom he had taken money to redevelop his house standing to wait for him. When he talks to them, he realizes that he is started seeing a ghost. Goon is been killed long back and now souls of Pune are asking his help to release them.


Feast of the Seven Fishes (film)

Feast of the Seven Fishes is a 2018 American comedy film written and directed by Robert Tinnell and starring Skyler Gisondo, Madison Iseman, Addison Timlin, Josh Helman, Joe Pantoliano, Paul Ben-Victor and Ray Abruzzo. It is based on Tinnell's 2005 graphic novel of the same name.
Plot.
"Feast of the Seven Fishes" is a romantic comedy set in a rust belt town on the banks of the Monongahela River during the early days of the MTV phenomenon. When a nice, working-class, Italian-American Catholic boy brings an affluent, Ivy League, Protestant girl to his family’s raucous traditional seafood feast on Christmas Eve, 1983, sparks fly.
Production.
The film was shot in Marion County, West Virginia, including the towns of Rivesville and Fairmont.


Chinese American Film Festival

Chinese American Film Festival (CAFF) is an American film festival held every November since 2006 in California (with events in Los Angeles and San Francisco, previously also in San Diego).
History.
In 2005, the Chinese American Film Festival was founded by EDI Media Inc. It is the only film festival recognized by both Motion Picture Association of America and China's State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television.
2018.
In 2018, the 14th annual Chinese American Film Festival was held in Los Angeles, California. On October 28 2018, a Welcome Banquet was held at the San Gabriel Hilton Hotel in San Gabriel, California.
On October 30, 2018, the Chinese American Film Festival opening ceremony was held at the Ricardo Montalan Theater in Hollywood, California. Winners include Chow Yun-fat, Li Bingbing, Kelsey Scott, Xu Lu, Byron Mann, and many others.


Chandrahasan

Chandrahasan (6 March 1936 — 18 March 2017) was an Indian film producer and actor from Tamil Nadu, India.
Career.
Born to advocate Srinivasan and Rajalakshmi, Chandrahasan was the second of four children. His elder brother Charuhasan and younger brother Kamal Haasan worked predominantly as actors in the film industry, while his younger sister, Nalini Raghuram, is a classical dancer. As a youngster, Charuhasan practised as a singer, before being readied for a career as a lawyer. In contrary to Charuhasan, Chandrahasan maintained a very close relationship with his younger brother Kamal Haasan throughout his successful career as an actor.
In 1995, he appeared as an actor in his niece Suhasini Maniratnam's directorial debut "Indira". The film featured his own daughter Anu Hasan in the titular role alongside Arvind Swamy and Nassar. During the 2000s, Chandrahasan took a more active role in the management of Raaj Kamal Films International. During the problems faced during the release of "Vishwaroopam" (2013), Charuhasan had taken a pivotal role in mediating with the opposition.
Prior to his death, Chandrahsan completed acting in the lead role of a film titled "Appathava Aattaya Pottutanga" by debutant director Stephen Rangaraj. A tale of romance between two older individuals, Stephen cast Chandrahasan as he wanted someone who was known as a "respectable person" and because the romance should not be conveyed in the wrong light. The film, which featured him alongside Sheela, the mother of actor Vikranth, remains unreleased.
Personal life.
Chandrahasan was married to Geethamani and has a son, Nirmal Hasan, who is settled at United States. His daughter, Anu Hasan, has appeared as an actress in Indian and British productions.
Geethamani has died in January 2017 aged 73. Following her death, Chandrahasan has died in March 2017 aged 81.
Death.
Following a cardiac arrest, Chandrahasan died aged 81 on 18 March 2017 in London, United Kingdom. Following the death of his wife in January 2017, Chandrahasan had travelled to stay with his son Nirmal in the United States, for a change of scenery. On his return, to avoid taking a twenty three hour journey to Chennai, he had made a brief stopover in London to visit his daughter Anu. He was staying at her residence during the time of his death. The family later held a quiet funeral upon the return of his body to Chennai, before holding a remembrance meet with film industry personalities in April 2017. Apart from family, other guests included Rajinikanth, Ilaiyaraaja and Prakash Raj. Kamal Haasan later described his brother as "a father figure".


Akkada Ammayi Ikkada Abbayi

Akkada Ammayi Ikkada Abbayi (English: "The girl from that side, the boy from this side") is a 1996 Telugu film produced by Allu Aravind under Geeta Arts Banner, directed by E. V. V. Satyanarayana, starring Pawan Kalyan and Supriya in the lead roles. The music of the film was by Koti. This film is the official remake of the 1988 Hindi film Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak.The film marks the debut of Pawan Kalyan, the younger brother of Chiranjeevi, in the Telugu film industry. It is also the debut and the only film appearance of Yarlagadda Supriya, the granddaughter of Akkineni Nageswara Rao (Sumanth's sister) at that moment until Goodachari. Pawan Kalyan got recognition for his martial arts performed in the movie.
Plot.
Harichandra Prasad (Nazar) and Vishnu Murthy (Saratbabu) are two rich and powerful rivals in a village. Harichandra Prasad's daughter Supriya (Supriya, 20) and Vishnu Murthy's son Kalyan (Pawan Kalyan, 23) study in the same college, where they both engage in few fights and bets. Kalyan and his gang attempt to enter a girls hostel and succeeds at last, and he wins a bet with Supriya. Slowly their love blossoms under these petty things and they reach their village, where they are separated at the railway station by their parents. The vacation ends and Kalyan reaches the station to get back to his college, but Supriya does not turn up. Kalyan learns that her marriage is fixed, and gets off the train to reach Supriya's house. But he is thrashed by Harichandra Prasad and his men. Meanwhile, her marriage is postponed due to her grandmother's (76) death. Using this to their advantage, Kalyan and Supriya elope. Her brother (23) and his men become involved in a fight with Kalyan. In the end, Vishnu Murthy saves Harichandra Prasad from being drowned in an abyss, and suddenly everyone realizes their mistake and reunite the lovers and get them married.
Soundtrack.
The music is composed by Koti. Lyrics are written by Veturi Sundararama Murthy. The music was released on Lahari Music.


Toddy Pictures Company

Toddy Pictures Company was a film distribution and production company. It was founded by in 1941 by Ted Toddy (1900 - 1983) in a consolidation of his film businesses under the new name. The film company specialized in African-American films.
Toddy was born in Russia. He worked for more than a decade at major studios before establishing Dixie National Pictures in Atlanta. He was involved in efforts to distribute the 1936 film "Polygamy" which ran into censorship hurdles and Joseph Breem. He added Million Dollar Productions to his business in 1940. Toddy re-released Million Dollar Productions films with new titles and marketing.
Toddy marketed light comedies with outdoor scenes and plenty of musical performances to Black audiences.


Mana Waka

Mana Waka is a 1990 New Zealand film documenting the construction of waka for the 1940 centenary of the Treaty of Waitangi. It uses footage shot between 1937 and 1940 by R.G.H Manley, and edited 50 years later by Annie Collins and director Merata Mita.
Original footage.
In 1937, in anticipation of the 1940 centennial celebrations, Māori leader Princess Te Puea commissioned seven waka taua (war canoes), in an attempt to recreate the legendary seven canoes of the Māori migration, though only three were built due to funding shortages. Stills photographer R.G.H “Jim” Manley was asked to film the process, from the felling of massive trees to the maiden voyage. The filming also met financial hurdles and never entered post-production.
The waka named "Ngātokimatawhaorua" was ultimately launched on Waitangi Day, 6 February, 1940. It is launched every February and is housed at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds. The other two waka, "Tumanako" and "Te Rangatahi", are located at Tūrangawaewae and sail annually during the Tūrangawaewae Regatta.
Reconstruction.
In 1983, the New Zealand Film Archive began restoring the footage. Merata Mita joined the project in August 1989, editing the film on location at Tūrangawaewae Marae so that the materials could be handled with traditional blessing practices, and to allow elders originally present in the 1930s to advise. As the original film was almost completely silent, the soundtrack was created from scratch based on the remembrances of these elders.
Disagreements between Mita and the family of R.G.H Manley over the direction of the film came to a head after an early workprint screening, when family members took the workprint from the projection booth. A period of mediation occurred afterwards, though contention over the ownership of the original footage persists.
"Mana Waka" premiered at Auckland’s Civic Theatre on January 21, 1990. Its next public screening was twenty-one years later at the 2011 New Zealand International Film Festival. It was one of fifteen films chosen by the New Zealand Film Archive in 1995 to represent the country’s most important cinematic heritage, in response to a UNESCO survey.


Sainath Thotapalli

Sainath Thotapalli (born 27 April 1956) is a well-known writer from the Telugu film industry (also known as Tollywood) and has written for 98 Telugu movies so far including Sitara, Swathimutyam, Swarnakamalam, Swayamkrushi, Sirivennela, Prema, Challenge, Marana Mrudangam, Pavitra Prema and Rakhi among others. He was also long associated with the Mumbai film industry (also known as Bollywood) for movies such as Criminal and Gundagardi.
He worked on Padiappa, Veetilo Viseshamga, Madrasi and Villain for the Chennai film industry (also known as Kollywood). Sainath's contribution to Kannada language films (Years 1995-2000) include the only two films that the ex-chief minister Ramakrishna Hegde acted in – Prajashakthi and Marana Mrudanga. His association with the Kannada film industry has been for 14 Kannada films so far including Halunda Tavaru, Lion Jagapathi Rao among others.
Biography.
Sainath is the fourth born to TSS Sharma and Susheela in Ananthapur from their seven children. Thanks to his father's job as a railway station master, he travelled extensively during his formative years and did his schooling from Chennai (then Madras), Rajahmundry, Anaparthi, Gudivada, Ongole and Nellore before going to Vijayawada. He did his graduation in BSc from SRR and CVR Government College at Vijayawada.
His writing skills started showing right from his school days when he wrote his first drama in class 7th and continued this work in the form of writing short stories during college. His first serious association with the creative industry started with his joining Kalabharathi, founded by Jandhyala Subramanya Sastry (who he considers his guru) in 1972. Here, he started acting in various plays and wrote his first playlet "Konark Vastunondi" in 1973. His play "Chaitanyam" was aired on All India Radio in 1974 and Vennela Keretam in 1976.
In 1979, he was taken by Jandhyala Subramanya Sastry as his writing assistant. In a span of nine months thereon, he worked on fourteen films as a writing assistant, both for Jandhyala and Satyanand. In 1982, he started his real work in the film industry as a script associate for Amayaka Chakrayavarthi for Janardhan Vallabhaneni (Producer: Vijay Bapineedu).
In 1984, Vamsi's Sitara was a major hit for which he debuted as dialogue writer,[1] and he continued his work for some of the most successful movies of the time until 2009. Some of the films include Swathi Muthyam, Swayamkrushi, Sirivennela, Challenge, Punya Stree, Swarnakamalam, Prema, Criminal and Krishna Vamsi's Rakhi among 92 films in Telugu. His strong association with the television medium gave several outputs in the form of soaps Anubandham, Kalisiundaam Raa for Balaji Telefilms and Gayatri for Radon Media Ltd. He wrote for Janani produced by Jayasudha and Manase Mandiram for Kutty Padmini.
He is writer and director for Saakshi TV through Goli Soda, a political satire during 2008 General Elections. He was writer director for "Mixture Bandi" on TV5 during 2009, a weekly satire on political and film related developments during each week. Sainath is currently associated with his longtime associate K Vishwanath and working with Larsco Entertainment.
Sainath lives with his wife Aruna in Hyderabad with his son Sai Charan and daughter Sameera T.


Ramji (cinematographer)

Ramji (born 31 July 1961) is an Indian film cinematographer, who has worked in Tamil, Hindi and Malayalam languages. He is well known for his association with directors such as Sangeeth Sivan, Ameer Sultan, Selvaraghavan and Mohan Raja.