C I N E M A & T H E A T R E Shortest film CINEMA Dystopia written and directed by Manu Kallikad is the shortest film with a run time of 8 seconds. The Longest uncut animated shot film highlighting the issue of environmental Aroop Dwivedi directed, degradation was screened for a select crowd at the animated and edited the short film Rasmi Film Society in Malappuram, Kerala on July Aai aka A Mother a 10-min black 23, 2015. The film was shot on Nicon Cool Pix and white traditional animated 510 camera by MG Guruprasad and edited by film. The animation was done with Bineesh Muthukad. 6,000 hand drawings done by Aroop and was completed in roughly four years. The film first premiered in Bangalore Film Festival on July 21, 2014 and later on at other fests too and has won 3 best animation film awards. Most roles in a single film Harish Raj enacted 16 roles in the Kannada film Shri Sathyanarayana which was released in theatres on March 11, 2016. He essayed the role of the lead character Sathyanarayan and 15 other cameo roles with screen time ranging from 1-5 min. The film is produced and directed by Harish Raj and has Ramya Barna as the female lead. WR: Longest running film Yash Chopra’s Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge completed a 1,046 weeks run at the Maratha Mandir theatre on Oct 30, 2015. The film starring Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol in the lead was first released in theatres on Oct 20, 1995. LIMCA BOOK OF RECORDS 2017 1 8 4 cinema 2017.pmd 184 28-03-2017, 10:42 C I N E M A & T H E A T R E A swiss tribute The Swiss Government paid another tribute to the legendary film maker Late Yash Chopra by unveiling a 350 kg bronze statue of him with his film camera inside the Kursaal area in Interlaken on May 4, 2016. The event was organised by Interlaken Tourism and Jungfrau Railways who had earlier named him Ambassador of Interlaken in 2011 and had named a train after him respectively. Highest collection by a dubbed film Baahubali-The Beginning directed by SS Rajamouli in Telugu which was released across India in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi on July 10, 2015 collected approximately Rs 100 crore in the domestic market from the Hindi film alone. In the weeks that followed it also became the highest grossing movie with reports of collecting Rs 650 crore overall. Oldest debut in film Chinnakrishnan Kaliyaperumal (b June 10, 1924) from Ariyalur, Tamil Nadu acted as a lead in the Tamil short film 93* Not Out written and directed by Arudra Most short films released consecutively Saravanakumar. The film is a story (online) of an old man who after a Tanmay Shah from Ahmedabad, Gujarat wrote pacemaker implant develops a and directed 52 short films and each of them were desire to ride a cycle and to buy a released on YouTube on Friday every week book and how he finally achieves starting from Jan 2, 2015 to Dec 25, 2015. The it at an age of 93. The film has films were shot, edited within the week and won around 7 awards and has released on Friday on the YouTube channel been showcased in various FridayFictionFilms. Each film had a new script and national and international film new actors. These 1-7 min films were based on festivals. various social and environmental issues. LIMCA BOOK OF RECORDS 2017 1 8 5 cinema 2017.pmd 185 28-03-2017, 10:52 C I N E M A & T H E A T R E Short film with most songs Tamil film Noe directed by Venkat Lakshmanan and produced by 6g Studios features six songs in the 13 min 46 sec long film which showcases the story of an orphan boy. The lyrics were written by Vignesh Jeyapal and put to music by Al Rufian. The film was showcased to a select crowd at MM Preview Theatre in Chennai on Feb 7, 2016. Most National Awards won Rajiv Mehrotra, Managing Trustee & Commissioning Editor of Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT) has won 28 National Awards as Director/ Producers of documentaries as of May 2, 2016. The films have also won over 255 awards and earned 1,440 festival screenings across the world. PSBT is an independent and not-for-profit film production body managed by a group of eminent filmmakers nurturing documentary film production. It WR: Most prolific lyricist has mentored and produced Shitala Pandey (b Feb 24, 1958) better known as more than 634 documentaries Sameer Anjaan is one of the most sought-after by 450 filmmakers, most of lyricists in the Indian film industry. Starting in whom are starting out talents, 1983 with Hindi film Bekhabar he has written since its inception in 2000. The lyrics for over 3,500 songs for Hindi and films produced by PSBT are Bhojpuri films as of Dec 15, 2015. He has also telecast every week on Doordarshan and Lok Sabha Television. Some written lyrics for music albums and won various selective films have been showcased by BBC, Channel 4 in the UK national awards. He has done a maximum and Discovery South Asia also. number of films (146) with the music-director PSBT is led by eminent filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan duo Anand-Milind, writing approximately 899 (chairperson), Shyam Benegal, Kiran Karnik, Mrinal Sen, Sharmila songs for them. Tagore, Fali S Nariman, Sunita Narain and Rajiv Mehrortra. LIMCA BOOK OF RECORDS 2017 1 8 6 cinema 2017.pmd 186 28-03-2017, 10:52 C I N E M A & T H E A T R E Highest earning stars Shah Rukh Khan with an earnings of $33 million ranks 86th in the Forbes Global Celebrity 100 - 2016 list. Akshay with $31.5 million earnings was 94th in the list. Largest social film making competition YES Foundation, the CSR wing of Yes Bank, organised a countrywide short film making challenge, YES! i am the CHANGE 2015, on social issues and received 2,755 films and over 1.4 lakh team registrations for the project from 2,500 cities from July 23 – Oct 6, 2015. The competition was done in four categories – Corporate (July 23-27, 2015), NGO (July 23-27, 2015, Student (August 15- Film with prisoners and 19, 2015) and Open (Oct 2-6, 2015) with police as cast participants working in the specific area. A jury Hindi short film Shuddi – A New consisting of 19 eminent personalities selected 45 Beginning directed by Sanjeev winners spread across the four categories. Sharma has a cast of police officers and prisoners serving life term of Most filmmaking aspects handled the Central Jail of Jaipur, Rajasthan Director Producer Syed Rafi handled 16 segments of filmmaking for in October 2014. The 5-min black two Telugu feature films, Madhuram and Inkennallu. Besides and white film written and directed producing, directing and acting, the story, screenplay and dialogues by Sanjeev was based on Mahatma were written by Syed. He also wrote the lyrics and sang for the Gandhi’s life during his prison stay. film. The other departments he was credited for in the film are The film was shot during a five- music direction, choreography, action director, art director, day film workshop from Oct 13- costume, production designing, casting director and dubbing 17, 2014, conducted for the artiste. The films were released under the banner of Rafi’s Movie – prisoners of Jaipur jail and was Inkennallu on Dec 30, 2011 and Madhuram on July 12, 2002. screened there on the last day. THEATRE Largest student-teacher participation theatre act Talegaon Dabhade Shikshan Mandal organised the largest theatre play with 3,022 students from 23 schools enacting the play Janta Raja at the Thor Samajsevak Nathubhau Bhegade Patil School ground on Feb 19, 2016. The staff from the schools also appeared in some scenes of the play while the elderly role of Shivaji and some others were performed by members of Talegaon Shikshan Mandal. Janta Raja is a historical Marathi play written by Babasaheb Purandare based on the life of Chattrapati Shivaji Raje Bhosle. LIMCA BOOK OF RECORDS 2017 1 8 7 cinema 2017.pmd 187 28-03-2017, 10:52 C I N E M A & T H E A T R E WR: Most performances as Charlie Chaplin II Rajan Kumar (b Jan 5, 1979) of Munger, Bihar, presently residing in Mumbai has been donning the role of legendary Charlie Chaplin, entertaining audiences First policeman to win Merlin Award on television shows and Subhash Bhaskar Dagadkhair (b May 5, 1962), a at various hotels with a Police Inspector in Mumbai, perfect imitation of the actor. He Maharashtra has learnt had completed 4,002 shows by May 27, 2016 magic as a hobby, showing and spent 12,100 hr in performance. magic tricks to young and old. He performs tricks Most simultaneous performance of a play which he has picked up Satvika Theatre factory organised the performance of from all over the world. the one-man show 55 Nimishada Ondu Premakathe On April 25, 2016, the with nine actors at nine different venue starting at CEO of International 7.15 pm in Bengaluru on July 18, 2015. The play Magicians Society, USA, was enacted by Manjunath at Kappana House (JP Tony Hassiny came to Nagar); Dattaraj Hegde at Vijayanagar Bibma Mumbai to honour Subhash (Hampinagara) ; Rajguru Hosakoti at Ravindra Kala with the Merlin Award, the Kshetra (Sampangi Rama Nagar); Purushotham at first Indian policeman to get Vijayanagar Library (Vijayanagar); LA this prestigious award.