www.picklemag.com From theindianentertainment.com ● Volume No: I- 40 pickle● July 7-20, 2007 ● New Delhi ● India Adlabs and Ocher to co-produce 3-D animation Sultan OCHER STUDIOS Adlabs PHOTO: Corporates in the filmed taste Tamil entertainment space are aggresively moving into market Tamil film co-production BY N VIDYASAGAR Belgium now for Sultan's imaging. Sultan will be animated in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and English. dlabs Films has entered the Tamil Cinema market It is not just Adlabs who are betting on Tamil Cinema. with Ajit-starring Kireedom -- their first co-produc- Ronnie Screwvala's UTV, which has done prime time TV tion in a Tamil film. Kireedom, which was released ad sales for Tamil serials has now partnered with on July 20 had positive reviews and the response Radhika's Radaan to co-produce Kannamoochi Yenada (di- from viewers' at Chennai's Sathyam multiplex is rected by Priya V (groomed by Maniratnam). Aa clear signal of moderate box office collection in the UTV has signed an MoU with Radaan to produce four coming weeks. This is a real boost to Adlabs as they have Tamil films this year. Moser Baer is working with Prakash picked the right partner in Sujata Cine Arts -- which has Raj on a Tamil film. Industry analysts observed that this produced a movie after a trend will bring an end to the gap of 17 years. Adlabs Films disparity between national is a member of the Reliance Adlabs releases to watch for and regional cinema, in the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani long run. ● Group. Marigold (Salman Khan) Khoya Chand Moreover, this trend is not In fact the biggest movie ● Anubhav Sinha's ● Dil Dosti directed by visible only in corporates en- of Adlabs in 2008 will be 3- Cash Manish Tiwary tering Tamil cinema. It is also D animated $10 million bud- happening in Bengali cin- ● Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag ● Priyadarshan's Dhol geted Sultan The Warrior ema. Sahara is betting on a (with animated body face ● Ram Gopal Varma's ● Indra Kumar's Dhamaal bouquet of Bengali films. and voice renderered by Sarkar Raaj. ● Viveck Vaswani's Dulha Adlabs will release Rajnikanth). Sultan is a co- ● Sriram Raghavan's Mil Gaya Manmohan Singh's Mitti production with Ocher Awaazan Mardi starring Johnny Gaddaar ● Studio, run by Rajnikanth's Harry Baweja's Love Story Harbhajan Mann in Punjabi, ● younger daughter Sudhir Mishra's Khoya 2050 Soundarya. Rajnikanth is in SEE NEXT PAGE 1 pickle July 7-20, 2007 ● New Delhi● India Shemaroo to release Naya Daur in the overseas mart Naya Daur in Colour The fiftees blockbuster was coloured by West Wings for $1 million R Chopra's Naya Daur 14 lakh to make the movie. In (Starring Dilip Kumar, those days it grossed s 2.25 crore. Vyjayantimala) will be re- “Naya Daur is one of my father’s B leased in India and around classics. The younger audiences the world in color with dolby dig- don’t watch black and wh ite ital sound. This blockbuster has films, so maybe colour with entice been coloured at the cost of ap- them to watch content, which I proximately $1 million. The feel is relevant even today,” says whole process has been done by Ravi Chopra, son of BR Chopra, a Florida based agency named who has spent over two-and-a- West Wings, who also set up a half years on colourisation, back- temporary unit in Goa only to ground score and restoration of colour the film. Fifty years after the original negative. In 1956, BR the release on August Films and Sa Re Ga 15, 1957, the colour Ma came together version will roll out NAYA DAUR IS A for the music of this on Aug 3, 2007. BIG TREAT FOR ANY film. Fifty one years Shemaroo later, they have re- Entertainment has INTERNATIONAL launched the music bagged the overseas FILM FESTIVAL of Naya Daur. 100 rights. Naya Daur is a prints are set to be big treat for any inter- PROGRAMMER released in the do- national film festivals LOOKING FOR A mestic market and looking for a classic 25 in the overseas from India. It took Rs CLASSIC FROM INDIA market. Adlabs taste Tamil market FROM PREVIOUS PAGE later this year. Production houses based out of Tamil Nadu are entering the Hindi market. GV Films is produc- ing two films directed by Satish Kaushik and Aneez Bazmee. AVM productions is dubbing Sivaji in Hindi. Back to Kireedom. A remake of the Malayalam hit of the 80s, Kireedom has a great storyline, there is human- ism in the movie. The film was altered to the sensibilities of the Tamil market and Adlbas had given the complete creative freedom to Sujata Cine Arts. "We have been eagerly awaiting the release of our first Tamil film as the market has shown immense potential Kireedom open new avenues for Adlabs in Tamil Nadu market with recent releases breaking records both domestically and internationally,'' said of films like Malamaal Weekly, Chup Chupke and so on). Manmohan Shetty, CMD Adlabs Trade analysts maintained that Tamil films dominated Films. Suresh Balaje, Head - the box office collections in the first six months com- Twelve out of Sujatha Cine Arts, said: "It's pared to other language films. Twelve out of 50 Tamil 50 Tamil great to come back with a good movies have done well in the box office collections in the film featuring excellent perform- first six months. This success rate was not been met by movies have ances." Hindi films this year. done well in Adlabs is already doing an- AVM’s Sivaji, starring Rajnikant topped the chart. other Tamil movie Yavarum Vijay's Pokkiri was another big hit followed by the likes of the box office Nalam, starring Madhavan. This Mozhi, Paruthiveeran, Naan Avan Illai, Unnale Unnale and collections time, they are producing the Chennai 6000028. The boom is set to continue with big movie on their own and Sujata movies set for release this year including Vikram's in the first six Cine Arts will be the line pro- Bheema, Malaikottai featuring Vishal, Kamal Haasan's months of 2007 ducer. (They have the claim to Dasavatharam, Surya starrer Vel, Silambarasan's Kettavan fame after successful execution and Dhanush's Yaradi Nee Mohini. 2 pickle July 7-20, 2007 ● New Delhi● India Kaushik Roy's Apna Asman awarded German Star of India India wins German hearts at Stuttgart The big surprise at Stuttgart was that German’s who doesn’t share cultural links with India were interested in Indian cinema BY JULIA WESSEL German audience (the hall was full) resulting in an ani- mated Q&A with the director Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury nder almost unbearable heat that could rival the and actor Rajat Kapoor. hottest season of Kolkatta and had even the Awards in the other categories went to Paromita Vohra Indian guests complaining, hundreds of cinemago- for her documentary Q to P on nothing other than toi- U ers settled down in air-conditioned movie halls to lets and Saillesh Dupaare for his short film Spandan - The watch a rich variety of films from Bollywood mainstream Heart Beat". Finally the audience gave away its own like Don and Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna with the by far most award to the American team of the charming crosscul- popular face of Bollywood in Germany, Shah Rukh Khan, tural comedy Outsourced. to regional cinema, documentaries, short films, interna- Although not everyone was able to take home a prize, tional co-productions. the experience was worthwhile for everyone in atten- CHETAN ANAND --Poetics of Films, a docu-drama made dance. Especially the fact that so many Germans which by Ketan Anand on his late father was honored this year don’t share any cultural links to India were interested in at Stuttgart. Furthermore the long the countries' cinematic output astounded and diverse guestlist included actor/di- The readership many of the Indian visitors and so were they rector and last year’s award winner surprised to find that the readership of Rajat Kapoor (for Mixed Doubles), of Germany’s Germany’s magazine on Hindi films ISHQ children filmmaker Vinod Ganatra, consisted almost entirely of Germans not Rajnesh Domalpalli with his acclaimed magazine on NRIs. At the festival as well the audience was debut film Vanaja and Kaushik Roy who mostly made up of Germans with a keen in- in the end was presented with the Hindi films ISHQ terest in Indian movies, some of them even s- German Star of India for his feature Apna porting a sari or salwar kameez. Asmaan on the troubled parents of an consisted The Bollywood & Beyond festival catered autistic child. In the award race Apna to this affinity for everything Indian by offer- Asmaan had managed to beat the fa- almost entirely ing a rich programme apart from movies so vored Anuranan which stars Rajat visitors of the event - many of whom had Kapoor, in addition to Rahul Bose and of Germans, not travelled from different areas of Germany, Raima Sen. Non Resident Switzerland, Austria - were able to taste Anuranan proved beautifully how Indian food, watch Indian dancers and dance some relationships defy definition and Indians to Bollywood songs and Bhangra tunes at the received a positive response from the Bombay Boogie Night. Reach out to the delegates and buyers at the PICKLE PRINT GUIDE world’s largest audiovisual market. To place AT MIPCOM an ad: mail to [email protected] 3 pickle July 7-20, 2007 ● New Delhi● India MARKET INDICATORS UTV to launch BINDASS Media & Entertainment Companies traded in the Bonbay Stock Exchange (value in Rs and crore) Company July 23 P/E Ratio Market Cap Adlabs Films 534.95 20.48 2114 Bag films 60.55 102.95 423 Balaji Telefilm 263.05 22.43 1766 Cinemax India 152.09 35.14 422 Crest Animation 120.10 — 258 Cyber Media 114.85 14.79 103 Deccan Chronicle 224.15 29.08 5443 ETC Networks — — — ENT Network India 466.25 116.71 2288 Galaxy Ent.