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- Dada Saheb Phalke award to Rishikesh Mukherjee
Heart-throb Hrithik Roshan to marry next year
Noted Bollywood comedian Mukri passes away
Hrithik Roshan's second film "Fiza" is releasing all over India on September 8-Friday
Aamir is looking forward to Preity Zinta in this project
Tips Industries To Go Public: Bid Opens 5th Sept. Floor Price Rs. 325
B4U's Entertainment Channel Launched
Aditya Chopra speaks about "Mohabbatein".
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- Dada Saheb Phalke award to Rishikesh Mukherjee
MUMBAI, SEPTEMBER 5: Hrishikesh Mukherjee, the director who won critical and commercial acclaim for his simple, yet sensitive films such as Anuradha, Anand, Satyakam and Anari, has been chosen for India's highest film award, the Dadasaheb Phalke award for 1999.
Popularly called Hrishida, the 78-year-old director continued making successful light comedies and directed a deglamourised Amitabh Bachchan through the heat and dust of the action craze of the 70s. (In fact, Bachchan still swears by him. Some of his best work emerged under Mukherjee's baton, he says.)
The director will be presented with the annual award for outstanding contribution to the growth and development of Indian cinema by President KR Narayan on September 18.
The award, first given to Devika Rani in 1969, comprises a Swarna Kamal, Rs two lakh and a shawl. Producer-director BR Chopra was given the Phalke award last year. Other notable awardees include Raj Kapoor, Satyajit Ray, Majrooh Sultanpuri and Dilip Kumar.
Born in Calcutta in 1922, Mukherjee started out as a teacher and a freelance artist at All India Radio. He follwed renowned film maker Bimal Roy to Bombay to join New Theatres Studio in 1945 where he worked initially as a laboratory assistant and then as a film editor. His first full editing assignment was the Bengali film Tathapi.
Hrishida did the production work of Bimal Roy Productions' maiden film, Do Bigha Zameen and went on to edit most of Bimal Roy's films. He debuted as director in 1959 with L B Films' Anari starring Raj Kapoor and Nutan. This was followed up by Anuradha, starring Balraj Sahni and Leela Naidu with music by Ravi Shankar. Later, he made the experimental Mem Didi with character artistes Lalita Pawar, David and Jayant.
In 1961 he directed Aashiq starring Raj Kapoor and Padmini and then helmed Asli Naqli starring Dev Anand and Sadhana. In 1964 he directed Sanjh Aur Savera starring Meena Kumari and Guru Dutt. Do Dil (1965) starred Rajshree and Biswajeet. Anupama (1966) which starred Dharmendra and Sharmila Tagore was a big hit. He also directed Biwi Aur Makan and Majli Didi starring Dharmendra and Meena Kumari.
But Mukherjee hit Bollywood big time with a string of touching tales and simple comedies through the 70s. His films included Satyakam, Anand (1970), Buddha Mil Gaya (1971), Bawarchi (1972), Abhimaan (1973), Namak Haram (1973), Phir Kab Milogi (1974), Chaitali (1975), Chhupke Chhupke (1975), Mili, Arjun Pandit (1976), Alaap (1977), Kotwal Saab (1977), Gol Maal (1979), Jurmana (1979), Khubsoorat (1980), Naram Garam (1981) and Naukar (1981).
Hrishida's later films like Bemisaal, Rang Birangi, Jhoothi and last year's Jhoot Bole Kaua Kate could not replicate the success of his bull run through the 70s.
Hrishida has won several National awards during his 50-year film career and has served as Chairman of the Central Board of Film Certification and National Film Development Corporation.
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Heart-throb Hrithik Roshan to marry next year
Superstar Hrithik Roshan has offers from Hollywood but would rather
stay in the country and break the hearts of millions of his women fans
because he intends to get married next year. Hrithik Roshan was in
Calcutta to promote his latest film "Fiza". The aura of glamour around
Hrithik far overshadowed what "Fiza" is all about. There were massive
traffic jams in the city as the Hrithik went around the city keeping
commitments. Hrithikmania is far from over. At the question and answer
session he faced from the media, women expressed dismay when he told
his plans to marry his girlfriend Suzzane Khan next year. But if there
was disappointment among fans, Hrithik had reason to be elated for one
female voice professed to love him even if his films flopped. The meet
was preceded by a screening of excerpts from the film. The producer of
the film Pradip Guha said the film was conceived in August 1999, shot
from October 31 and releasing on September 8 this year. The cameras
were trained on Hrithik, who stood up and folding his arms across his
muscled chest. But that was not enough for the photographers. So
co-star Neha obliged them by standing coyly beside the hero, who put
his arm around her. Was he nervous with Fiza? "I was not nervous about
my first film, why now?" he shot back. He took five seconds to say
"Yes" after the script was read out to him. "It is a fantastic role
and very different," he said. He came up with a one-liner on whether
he had competition in Abhishek Bachchan. "He is brilliant," Hrithik
said. On why he is always surrounded by bodyguards, Hrithik answered:
"Do you think my father will allow me to move without a bodyguard
after he was shot?". He has offers from Hollywood, but said he hasn't
decided.
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Noted Bollywood comedian Mukri passes away
The noted Bollywood comedian of yesteryears Mohamed Umer Mukry alias
Mukri passed away in the early hours of Monday at the Lilavati
Hospital in north west Mumbai, following a heart attack. He was 78
years oil and is survived by wife Mumtaz, two daughters Naseem and
Amina and three sons Nasir, Farookh and Bilal. Active in Indian cinema
for more than 50 years, Mukri acted in more than 600 films. According
to hospital sources, Mukri's condition became critical on Sunday in
the intensive care unit (ICU), where he had been admitted since August
8 as his kidney had failed. The end came at 0110 hrs on Monday. Noted
actor Dilip Kumar and his wife Saira Bano and a family member of Mukri
were present at his death bed. His eldest daughter Naseem said the
cremation would take place at Yari Road crematorium, Andheri West on
Monday evening at 1700 hrs.
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Hrithik Roshan's second film "Fiza" is releasing all over India on September 8-Friday
Good news for the fans of Hrithik Roshan, the new Megastar of the
Millenium. After the huge success of his debut film "Kaho Naa Pyaar
Hai" Hrithik Roshan's second film "Fiza" is releasing all over India
on September 8. The film also stars Karisma Kapoor, Jaya Bachchan,
Sushmita Sen, Manoj Bajpai, Bikram Saluja, Neha and others. The music
of the film is by Anu Malik, Gulzar and others. The film is directed
by Khalid Mohammed. Hrithik Roshan and Karisma Kapoor are not paired
opposite each other in this film. They play brother and sister, like
what Shahrukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai played in Mansoor Khan's Josh.
The story is about a Muslim girl (Karisma Kapoor) whose brother
(Hrithik Roshan) is reported missing during the communal riots in
Mumbai. Everyone believes that Hrithik is dead but Karisha believes he
will be back. Jaya Bachchan is returning to the silver screen after a
long gap and will be playing Karisma's mother in the film.
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Aamir is looking forward to Preity Zinta in this project
If Aamir Khan is looking forward to a dashing movie project, it is Dil Chaahta Hai. The movie stars Aamir Khan, Akshay Khanna and Preity Zinta in lead roles.
The movie is about the relationship of three friends and their individual love lives. The trio are just out of college and are starting out their life. Aamir plays a rich kid who is not serious about his life and has got a sharp witty tongue. It is for the first time that Preity Zinta is paired opposite Aamir.
The movie has been scripted and directed by Farhan Akhtar
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Tips Industries To Go Public: Bid Opens 5th Sept. Floor Price Rs. 325
Tips Industries Limited, one of the leading music companies with a consistent growth in turnover and profitability for the last 10 years, will enter the capital market with an initial public issue of 30,00,000 equity shares of the face value Rs. 10 each at a premium of Rs. 315 (floor price is Rs. 325). The issue includes book-building portion of 27,00,000 equity shares (90% of the issue) and fixed price portion of 3,00,000 equity shares (10% of the issue). The bid opens on 5th September and closes on 12th September. The fixed price portion opens on 26th September. The issue is to part-finance the company's expansion plans—to set up a studio for recording music, a plant to manufacture CDs, expand the existing cassette manufacturing capacity, acquire audio rights, augment long-term working capital and to meet issue expenses.
The audio-visual of Tips' growth over the years, screened at its press conference on 30th August at The Taj, to brief the media about its future plans, was pretty impressive.
Tips has a vast repertoire of film and non-film albums (totalling over 8,000) and has a number of super-hits to its credit. Tips has also acquired the entire music catalogues of Time Audio, Weston, Oriental, Swaran Sudha and Rajshri (Gujarati). Besides, the company has already acquired audio rights of 57 forthcoming films which are under different stages of production, for which the company has already paid around Rs. 31 crores. Almost all the audio rights are outright purchases.
Tips manufactures and markets pre-recorded audio cassettes, blank audio cassettes and replicated CDs. It has a capacity to manufacture 744 lakh audio cassettes per annum at is plants at Silvassa and Palghar.
Tips plans to increase its market share through acquisitions of more audio rights and forging alliance with overseas companies for distribution of its music in international markets.
For the year ended 31st March, 2000, Tips Industries recorded a profit after tax of Rs. 23.32 crores on sales of Rs. 115.82 crores. It expects to end the current year with a net profit of around Rs. 35 crores on a total sales of around Rs. 159 crores. The company has had an average return on net worth (RONW) of over 50% in the last 5 years. The estimated EPS for the year ending 31st March, 2001 on a post-issue capital of Rs. 12 crores works out to Rs. 29.36 as against Rs. 25.91 for the year ended March 31, 2000 on an equity of Rs. 9 crores. The company has a conservative accounting policy where payments for purchase of all audio rights and marketing expenses are written off fully in the year of release of music.
Promoted by the Taurani family, its chairman and managing director is Kumar Taurani. Prominent names on the Board of Directors are Shiv Abhichandani, Boney Kapoor, David Dhawan and Shyam Lakhani. Anand Rathi Securities Pvt. Ltd. is the book-running lead manager to the issue. The shares are proposed to be listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange, and the National Stock Exchange.
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B4U's Entertainment Channel Launched
B4U Multimedia International Ltd. announced the launch of its new entertainment channel-B4U: The Digital Entertainment Channel-at a press conference held on 29th August at Hotel Oberoi, Bombay.
The B4U Digital Entertainment Channel will consist of three bands. The entertainment band will have stars participating in cookery shows, travel shows, fitness shows plus shows on lifestyles, fashion, leisure, gossip etc. The second band will have soaps and serials with film stars acting in them, and the third band will be the movie band which will screen 3 films everyday. The channel will be distributed by B4U through Modi Entertainment Network, the Hindujas and local distributors.
Kishore Lulla, chairman and managing director, B4U Multimedia International Ltd., said, "We want to reach out to the maximum number of viewers in India and we have therefore tied up with local distributors. We also have a dynamic distribution system ensuring that the channels reach the remotest corners of the country."
The programmes will commence on the B4U channel on September 3 with a 'Ganesh special' at 8.30 a.m. It is a 24-hour channel.
B4U Music channel, which was launched four months back in India, has, according to the channel, captured the lead slot among the music channels in the country with a 38% market share.
Among the future plans of B4U are: launch of 7 more channels, including Tamil and Telugu channels and a news channel; tie-ups and joint ventures with various companies in different areas of entertainment; funding 10 to 15 films a year; and opening an internet sector.
Along with Kishore Lulla, the other promoters of B4U are Bharat Shah, the group's executive director; Lakshmi Nivas Mittal, an eminent global business personality; and Gokul Binani, a businessman having operations in the United Kingdom and Africa. The other two executive directors are Ravi Gupta, the CEO, India operations, and the group's chief operating officer, and Sunil Lulla.
The B4U group comprises B4U Multimedia International Ltd., B4U Multimedia Holdings Ltd. (Mauritius), B4U Network (Europe) Ltd., B4U USA Inc., LMB Holdings (Middle East) Ltd. and Mega Film & TV Production (Mauritius) Ltd. The group has already established a significant presence in the UK, the USA, the Middle East and India.
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Aditya Chopra speaks about "Mohabbatein".
My first film "Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge" was released on the 20th of October 1995. It's taken me 5 years to get to my second film. A lot has changed in these 5 years, the most significant change being the INTERNET. It now allows a director like me to interact with the people who I make films for - people like you who live all over the world but share a common bond with me - the love for INDIAN FILMS.
In the coming months I'm going to share with you my thoughts on my latest film MOHABBATEIN - So join me and lets discover together why "Some love stories live forever".
The basic story idea of MOHABBATEIN was conceived by me more than 10 yrs ago. I always thought that it would be the film that I would begin my directorial career with. But with time I realised that I needed a little more maturity as a director to really do justice to this story, so I set it aside and made Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge instead.
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge released and I started work on DIL TO PAGAL HAI, as I had promised my father that I would write it for him. Dil To Pagal Hai released in Oct 97 and now it was time for me to begin work on my second film. But by now I was quite bored of love stories and I decided that I would definitely not make a love story. So I started work on an idea of a thriller that I had with me for a long time, but all the while my mind kept drifting to MOHABBATEIN. I realised that there is something in that story that keeps drawing me to it, so one day I just shut my thriller file and casually picked up my 10 yr old MOHABBATEIN file - that one simple action decided my second film for me.
The moment I finished reading my 10 yr old notes I knew that I just had to make this film - but there was one problem - it was all about love and I had promised myself that I would not make a film that would deal only with love. The original idea of MOHABBATEIN was basically about 3 love stories - a story of 3 friends who fall in love with 3 different girls in different circumstances - a film that runs as 3 parallel stories but culminate together. The basic excitement for me then as a writer and director was to try and pull off 3 love stories in one film and yet make it look like one story. But the excitement was not enough because at the end of the day the scenes would be about boys and girls meeting, falling in love, breaking up etc - something that I had already done, something that was coming too easy to me, I wanted something more challenging. I was not in a mood to write love scenes only, I wanted to work on something stronger, something more dramatic - something that would revolve around the confrontation of 2 strong characters - And then I got it - it had to be a story of 2 men, 2 strong and stubborn men - A man who believed in love - A man who did not believe in love - And the 3 love stories - That was the story I was waiting for - That was the film I was destined to make - That is MOHABBATEIN.
"Mohabbatein will be releasing on the 27th of October worldwide"
Cast of MOHABBATEIN
Starring:Amitabh Bachchan,Shahrukh khan,Anupam Kher,Aarchana puransingh.
Presenting:Uday Chopra,Shamita shetty,Jugal Hansraj,Kim sharma,Jimmy shergill,Preeti Jhangaini.
Special Appearance:Helen,Saurabh Shukla,Shefali chaya,Amrish Puri.
Story,Screenplay,dialogues and direction:Aditya Chopra
Produced by:Yash Chopra
Music by:Jatin Lalit
Lyrics by:Anand Bakshi
Playback singer:Lata Mangeshkar,Udit Narayan,Jaspinder Narula
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