UTV announces release dates for Joker Shirish Kunder directed Akshay Kumar starrer to hit cinemas worldwide on August 30th 2012 Mumbai, 1 November 2011: UTV Motion Pictures today announced the release date for Joker as August 30, 2012. A madcap comedy directed by Shirish Kunder and featuring Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha, this film promises an out-of-this-world experience. Quite literally so! Akshay Kumar returns to his hometown, a place that's so remote and crazy that it’s not even on the map. And then what follows puts this forgotten little town not just on the country's map, but makes it the focus of the entire globe! Aliens! Is the town really the site of an alien invasion? Will Akshay manage to change the game - just like the joker does in a pack of cards? Get set for India's coolest (and first ever) comedy starring aliens! In 3D! About UTV Motion Pictures: The Motion Pictures division of UTV, established in 2004, is an integrated studio model in the Indian film industry as well as in the whole of South Asia region. The activities of the studio span across creative development, production, marketing, distribution, licensing, merchandising and syndication of films worldwide. UTV has a library of over 50 films including Hindi, Regional, Animation and International Productions. The last decade in Indian cinema has seen UTV delivering some of the most iconic films including Swades, Rang De Basanti, Jodhaa Akbar, A Wednesday, Dev D, Khosla Ka Ghosla, The Namesake, Life in a Metro, Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!, Kaminey and more recently Raajneeti, Udaan and Peepli [Live]. Over the years, UTV has worked with some of the most eminent talent in the industry like Aamir Khan, Karan Johar, Mira Nair, M. Night Shyamalan, Ashutosh Gowariker, Prakash Jha, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Farah Khan, Vishal Bhardwaj, Anurag Kashyap, Madhur Bhandarkar, Anurag Basu and Shyam Benegal, while backing new talent like Neeraj Pandey, Raj Kumar Gupta, Nishikant Kamat, Dibakar Banerjee, Vikramaditya Motwane, Amit Trivedi and many others. UTV opened the year 2011 on a strong note with the breakout hit No One Killed Jessica, critically acclaimed Dhobi Ghat and Delhi Belly, which has emerged an instant cult hit opening doors for a whole new genre of cinema and has an impressive slate of movies lined up for the rest of the year with Barfii, Rowdy Rathore, Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu and many more. .