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From theindianentertainment.com ● Volume No: I-14 pickle● Jan 06-12, 2007 ● ●

His new film Valley of Flowers was pre-sold in 40 countries

an Nalin, the Gujarat-born French film maker is all set to break a record in Paris next week. The French version of his documentary film, Ayurveda: Art of Being will celebrate record breaking two year long run in a Paris theatre. The film opened on January 12, 2005 at Paris's Reflet Medicis CinemaP and will complete two years of continuous screen- ing later this week. This is also the most successful Indian documentary ever made in its theatrical release in US, Canada, Spain, Germany, Austria and many European coun- tries. His production company is Wonderworks in Europe and Monsoon Films in India. Shunned by the Indian popular cinema a decade back, Nalin, a student of Ahmedabad's National Institute of Design, is a case study for the globalisa- tion of Indian cinema. At that time, even NFDC would not consider his script as he was just an ad film maker. An out- sider in , Europeans bailed him out and Nalin made it big in Paris. That's why Paris is considered the most cosmopolitan film city in the world today. Ayurveda was just the begin- ning. The 100-minute infomer- cial gives a glimpse of several practitioners of this ancient PAN NALIN holistic science. It is a global PAN NALIN success and critically acclaimed as one of the amaz- ing documentaries ever made. You can still buy the DVD at Taking India Amazon.com. Then came feature film Samsara, an India-Franco proj- ect, described as a ``spiritual to the Global love story in Ladhaki language set in the majestic landscape of Stills from Nalin’s Ladakh.'' Samsara won over 30 Ayurveda: Art of awards, got released in over 65 Being. It is an countries and grossed over $20 amazing docu- Cine Map million. UK and US rights were mentary ever ma bought by Miramax.His new film Valley of the Flowers, a $6 HIS DOCUMENTARY ON AYURVEDA: million production filmed in and Japanese will soon be ART OF BEING WILL CELEBRATE released theatrically across the world. It is a France, Germany and India co-production starring , Milind RECORD BREAKING Soman and Mylene Jampanoi, a French-Chinese actress. TWO YEAR LONG RUN AT PARIS'S This film was presold in 40 countries. In Paris, there is no dearth for work for Nalin. He did documentaries like Reflet Medicis Cinema Khajuraho , Tulkus, The Nagas Devadasi: Sacred Courtesan, ON JANUARY 12, 2007 Amazing World: India among others.

1 pickle January 06-12, 2007 ● New Delhi● India Reliance, Moser Baer, Sahara set to make regional films Regional film boom Corporate entry into regional films IPO WATCH will be biggest trend setter in 2007 Pyramid his year will witness a boom in regional cinema. For the first time serious corporate Samira lists players will produce and tie upT with regional directors and film companies.The year has begun well at Rs 135 for regional movies. Look at Telugu movie Annavaram , the remake of hennai-based Pyramid Saimira Tamil hit Tirupachi. It is said to have CTheater became the fourth grossed over Rs 10 crore this year. Indian multiplex operator to join here are also high hopes on the stock market in the last one Rajnikant's big movie this year. year. The company was listed at 35 Chennai-based AVM Production will per cent premium in the BSE. The be releasing Sivaji, starring Rajnikant equity shares of Pyramid Saimira in the month of April (during Tamil Theatre Ltd was listed at Rs 135 on New Years day). Sivaji is said to be BSE over the issue price of Rs 100 the most expensive movie to be per equity share of Rs 10 each. made at a budget of $15 million. A Adlabs, PVR, Inox Leisure are other single song in the movie Sivaji is players in the market. said to have been made at half a The company expects to double million. Producer J. Murli Manohar is the number of producing the most expensive screens it cur- Kannada film Sajini this year. The Pawan Kalyan and in Telugu rently operates film launches a new girl, Sharmila, movie Annavaram. from 148 to 350 with the very popular Dhyaan. It's screens by March the first Kannada love story to be Sahara One has plans to make 2007. shot in England. This is a new trend- Bengali movies this year. The company’s setter for the orthodox Kannada Remake of Hindi movies: This vision is to create film industry which has banned year will witness a rise in the a mega Digital even dubbing movies into Kannada. remake of Hindi movies in regional Theatre Chain Malayalam films will continue to be languages. Lage Raho Munnabhai will across every sin- ruled by and Mammoty. be released in Telugu and in gle township in Entry of Corporates: After tasting Tamil (starring Ajit) and Telugu (star- the country. It success in the mainstream Hindi cin- ring ). Lage Raho is plans to have ema, corporates will foray into Shankar Dada Zindabad in Telugu 2000 screens in regional cinema. Reliance starring . 1550 locations Entertainment has already NFDC will make movies: After a across India with announced to venture into making big gap NFDC will work with inde- 58.75 mn. Sq.ft. Telugu and Tamil movies. Moser pendent film makers to co-produce under opera- Baer is all set to produce at least movies. The shoot is likely to begin tional manage- half-a-dozen movies in regional lan- in the second half of this year. This ment by year guage this year. They are likely to project has been internally cleared 2010. begin with Malayalam movies. by NFDC. The company aims to expand Sivaji is the into Punjab, most expensive and movie to be Rajasthan. The made in India substantial chunk of the fund raised in the IPO will be used for digital screening facilities. The company sees digital as lower cost than traditional equipment allowing it to operate profitably in smaller cities, where occupancy lev- els are usually lower than larger cities. The total fund requirement is estimated at Rs 111.19 crores, which is being financed through the IPO of Rs 84.44 crores and pre-issue Prabhas and Nayan Tara in Tamil star Vijay’s Pokkiri will be capital and internal accruals of Rs Telugu film Yogi released later this month 26.75 crores.

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Moser2007 Baer IS is HEADED also entering IN THE SAME into regionalDIRECTION movie AS IN production 2006 It’s Wow from Moser Baer From this month, the company will retail DVDs at Rs 34 and VCDs at Rs 28. The roll out will begin with Malayalam movies

oser Baer is that Moser Baer will have going to cre- rights of 7,000 movies TECHNOLOGY ate a history for distribution in the first of sorts in the year of its entertainment LG LAUNCES MIndian filmed entertain- operation. That's one ment space. Some time The biggest third of the movies pro- DUAL FORMAT this month, you will be duced in India in the last able to buy Moser Baer challenge for three decades. HD PLAYERS branded movie DVDs at Moser Baer will Moser Baer has done a Rs 34 and movie VCDs at great deal of home work The DVD format war Rs 28. The packaging is be in acquiring as they are set to partner has not ended. But the cool and it is going to and license the movies next generation DVD create a wow in the copyrights of with companies who players have begun to industry. More over, new movies hold rights, rater than to enter the market. South Moser Baer DVDs are compete to acquire or Korea's LG has much cheaper than the buy out home video launched the first next- pirated DVDs sold at rights. The companies generation video Delhi's Palika Bazaar, COMPANY who had acquired movie device to play both Mumbai Hira Panna or copyrights have nothing High-definition disc for- Chennai's Burma Bazaar. TO WATCH to lose as they would mats. The LG's Super Also, Moser Baer brand- be co-branded in the Multi Blue Player ed DVDs will be cheaper DVDs when it is retailed (BH100) is a dual-for- than the audio cassettes retailed in the in the market. mat high-definition disc market.The company has a well-organ- Also, no other player in the market in player blending the lat- ised distribution network across the the current situation will be able to est technologies and country match up with the price offered by offering flexibility for The foray of the 23-year-old company, Moser Baer. The company is the world’s consumers seeking to which has specialised in recordable second largest optical storage manufac- play both Blu-ray and optical media will bet on Malayalam turer. HD DVD content. The movies in the first installment of their The heat will be felt by players like player is priced at launch. Shemaroo, Ultra, Eagle and so on. $1,199. This is almost This will be followed by other South The biggest challenge for Moser Baer twice the price of an Indian Bengali movies. It is a bold step will be in acquiring copyrights of new HD-DVD player and attempted by any company in the world movies. The lowest price quoted in the slightly more than the in the home entertainment market. The market for a mainstream Hindi movie average price of a Blu- strategy is interesting as they are woo- home video right is in the range of Rs 1 ray player. Pioneer's ing the regional market than the main- crore to Rs 2 crore. Blu-ray player is priced stream . The company will India has over 26 million DVD/ VCD at $1500.Movie studio also venture into movie production -- to users and the market is said to be grow- .There are only 200 start with, in the regional cinema. ing at 25 per cent. This is one fourth of titles available to play Analysts point out that Moser Baer all TV ownership in the country. in the new generation has to expand into newer segments for Despite the huge potential market, DVDs compared to future growth as global optical media home video accounts for a mere 20,000 titles that can disc market will face challenges in the 7% of the total film revenues of Rs. be played in ordinary coming months. It is interesting to know 7,900 crore. DVD players.

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Company Jan 5 P/E Ratio Marketcap (in cr) Adlabs Films 444.20 70.51 1767.91 Balaji Telefilm 138.15 16.60 900.74 Cinevista Ltd 23.20 -16.57 23.43 Crest Animation 136.25 143.42 261.60 Cyber Media 123.15 24.29 123.15 Deccan Chronicle 775.00 46.97 3200.75 ETC Networks 53.40 10.90 80.00 Entertainment has the overseas rights of ENT Network India 266.55 66.80 1268.78 K Sera Sera’s film Risk and will be released on Jan Galaxy Entertainment 212.90 202.76 270.31 19, 2007.The thriller with the family backdrop stars HT Media 177.40 14.93 830.23 , , Tanushree Dutta Inox Leisure 148.90 50.82 893.40 in lead roles. For buying in the overeseas JagranPrakashan 331.55 47.98 1664.38 contact: [email protected] K Sera Sera 28.35 — 55.28 Moser Baer 338.95 58.24 3779.29 Mukta Arts 52.05 -21.69 117.63 NDTV 278.30 -260.09 1703.19 NFDC invite film projects Prime Focus 399.50 31.78 507.36 he National Film Development Corporation PVR 236.00 103.51 540.54 T (NFDC) has invited film makers to submit feature Pritish Nandy 45.90 11.95 48.19 film projects for co-production. Film makers are Sahara One 423.00 98.37 913.68 required to submit screenplays in English (duly Saregama India 217.90 36.02 320.31 registered with the Film Writers’ Association of India and copyrighted) for consideration. The film maker Shringar Cinema 56.30 -61.87 177.90 has to give a commitment letter for an assured mini- Sun TV 1524.25 76.05 10626.10 mum fiscal investment of 30% of the total cost of the TV 18 623.50 66.478 1309.85 film project. NFDC will undertake to back the film TV Today Network 83.75 16.95 485.75 with 30% (or maximun Rs 10 million) and rest of the TIPS Industries 29.200 49.49 43.22 backing from investors. Proposals complete in all UTV Software 272.70 13635.00 624.48 respects will be evaluated by a committee of eminent Zee Telefilms 281.60 168.62 11,984.90 personalities set up by NFDC. A maximum of five projects will be selected. Last date for submitting screenplays along with the form duly filled is January 31, 2007. Log on to ww.nfdcindia.com or email: CONTACT INFORMATION [email protected] Send your letters, views, suggestions to The Editor UTV’S SCRIPT PICKLE WORKSHOP WITH email: [email protected] SYD FIELD: Kamalhassan and Designed by Kamlesh Pandey [email protected] taking notes from the masterclass Make your ad Lessons from Syd Field t is a great beginning for the Indian cinema with the more powerful than the Itwo-day scriptwriting workshop by Syd Field.He said Hollywood is in the midst of undefined evolutions Edit in the Pickle and revolutions in terms of the screenplay ``Because films are now a fusion of art, science and technology. Block this space for 52 weeks The evolution is similar to that of what happened in the arena of art, where painters worked upon the Size: 8cm X 5cm evolution of how reality is depicted on the canvas,” he added. Among those present were Rakeysh Write to: [email protected] Mehra, Sanjay Gadhvi, , Raju Hirani, , Ritesh Sidwani, Govind Nihaliani, , , among others. BY THE NUMBERS Hindi cinema had a great 2006 in the United States. Just seven Hindi films grossed over $20 million in box office collections. Water grossed ($3.3m), KANK ($3.3m), Dhoom 2 ($2.6m), Don ($ 2.2m), Lage Raho ($2.2m), Rang De ($2.2m), Fanna ($2.1m), and ($1.8 m)

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