IFFI 2012 - The Reluctant Fundamentalist wins the Indian Cinema Centenary Award

Mira Nair's, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a unanimous choice of the Jury members, was awarded with the first Centenary Award and presented with a Silver Peacock, a certificate and a cash prize of Rs 10 lakh at this year's International Film Festival of India (IFFI).

Mira Nair's 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist', was also the closing film that brought down the curtains at the 43rd International Film Festival of India, Goa.

The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a touching and engaging story of a young man chasing corporate success on Wall Street. Post September 2011 tragedy in America, he finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American Dream, a hostage crisis, and the enduring call of his family's homeland.

It is based on the bestselling novel by Mohsin Hamid. The film was shot in Lahore, Istanbul, New York, Atlanta, Delhi and stars Kate Hudson, Kiefer Sutherland, Liev Schrieber, Riz Ahmed, Shabana Azmi and Om Puri.

Commenting on the achievement, director Mira Nair said, “As a child of the hundred years of Indian cinema, and as its perpetual student, to be given this first Centenary Award is a huge honour. The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a global film, but its heartbeat is fierce desi. Shukhriya!”

Together with our exhibition partners, we have built a unique, incremental distribution platform over the last 12 years at PVR Pictures." said Sanjeev Kumar Bijli, Joint MD, PVR Limited. "It's an honour to be distributing ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ in India and we are thankful to Mira for trusting us with her film. We are very excited about the films prospects in India and are keenly looking forward to its theatrical release"

The Reluctant Fundamentalist is slated for an April 2013 release in India.

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Talaash - Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Rani Mukherjee

An exceptional suspense thriller with an unusual narrative, unlike other edge of the seat thrillers, this one has a narrative never seen before in hindi cinema.

Talaash is an psychological suspense thriller. During the course of investigation of an accidental death of a superstar Inspector Shekhawat (Aamir Khan) experiences an inner guilt of the loss of his son.

The case turns into a life altering chase for Inspector Shekhawat when he is forced to reel under the repercussions of a broken married life with wife and come face to face with his suppressed grief of drowning of his son.

The film begins with a car accident leading to the death of a high profile star. Inspector Shekhawat buries himself in grilling the suspects, formulating various reasons or motives which lead to a dead end.

Most of the scenes are shot in red light areas of Mumbai. Talaash explores Mumbai’s underbelly like never before.

The film has accomplished actors like Aamir Khan, Kareena and Rani. Rani Mukherjee is brilliant as the grieving mother striving hard to come back to normalcy in her life. Those moments when she feels lonely and her confrontation with her husband appear extremely normal.

Aamir Khan sparkles as a cop yet again, but unlike the cop he played in Sarfarosh, he is superb in this matured role of an investigating inspector. And then it is Kareena Kapoor who plays the hooker – Rosy / Simran. Any male would die to get ‘hooked’ for a life-time with this hooker. In one word – OUTSTANDING.

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Hollywood Action Unit ‘ACTIONTEK INDIA’ Launched

Hollywood Action Unit ‘ACTIONTEK INDIA’ was launched by Renowned Karate Guru Sanjay Gokal in collaboration with Hollywood Action Master James Bomalick &  in association with Chitah Yagnesh Shetty,  on Saturday 17th Nov 2012 at Hotel Novatel, Juhu wherein important guests were famous television actor and winner of Jhalak Dikhla Jaa Season 5 Gurmeet Choudhary, bollywood actor and winner of Big Boss Season 1 Rahul Roy, Producer Director Anand Girdhar and Anand Kumar director of film Zilla Ghaziabad. James Bomalick addressed and welcomed all guests. Live action were performed by Sanjay Gokal’s & Yagnesh’s student. Approximately entire media present on the occasion and guests gave a big applaud on this innovative step.

The main intention of this launch pad is to attract young youths toward martial art, Karate Guru Sanjay Gokal who is owner of India’s largest karate school said “The martial arts are codified systems and traditions of combat practices, they are practiced for a variety of reasons, including self-defense, competition, physical health and fitness, as well as mental, physical, and spiritual development keeping this in mind we are starting ACTIONTEK INDIA”. Karate Guru Sanjay Gokal is the first ever Indian to receive 3 Hall of Fame medals from USA.  James Bomalick, has been involved in designing stunts / action sequences in Hollywood  blockbusters like Die-Hard V (yet to be released), Cloud Atlas, Mission Impossible IV, Bourne Supremacy, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The Mummy and more, in Bollywood we have seen his thrilling stunt in “Blue”, he has worked with Akshay Kumar, Sanjay Dutt, Lara Dutta and Zayed Khan . Chitah Yagnesh Shetty is a renowned Martial Artist, Producer of ‘Hum Tumpe Marte Hain’ starring Govinda-Urmila Matondkar. He is a name to reckon with in film production, action and martial art.

Based at Mumbai, ActionTek India will cater to Indian Film Industry; Bollywood, South, Punjabi and will also serve to Tv Reality shows, Ad film production house apart then providing training and learning the art and technique to Aspiring Actors and other students. Bollywood’s own Producer- Action Director Chitah Yagnesh Shetty will take care of its operations from Mumbai head office. With heavyweights from Hollywood and Bollywood coming together, Action is all set to reach new heights with the local availability of techniques and equipments.

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