Onir discovers Arpita Pal for Shab

Onir’s upcoming romance-drama, Shab will introduce Bangla superstar Prosenjit’s wife Arpita Pal as the female lead. The movie also starring Raveena Tandon will transform Arpita’s traditional Bengali beauty’s image into a hip South Delhi socialite.

Interestingly, Onir had visited Prosenjit’s place in Kolkata for a script narration and while discussing the same, he came across Arpita and was fascinated by her look. The National award winning filmmaker spoke to Prosenjit about her who was later introduced to him.

While Onir had started working on the script of Shab, he felt that Arpita fits perfectly for the role of a socialite in his movie. Arpita heard the script and liked it but the only concern for Onir was that her character needed to sport boy cut hair and Arpita had long hair. He convinced her to cut her hair short as he didn’t want her to use a wig. Arpita was convinced and she bagged the role in Shab.

Set in Delhi, Shab is an edgy, dark and complex relationship story revolving around three central characters played by Raveena Tandon, newcomer Ashish Bisht and Arpita and will release next year.  

 

Onir says, “The first time I saw Arpita, I was quite fascinated by her sensuous and good looks. After giving it a thought, I realised Arpita is apt for the role, but I wasn’t sure whether she’ll agree to do the movie or not. I’m glad I got Arpita on board for Shab.”

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TIPS acquires Shab music rights

Kumar Taurani of TIPS with Onir and Sanjay Suri

Kumar Taurani’s TIPS has acquired the music rights of Anticlock Films’ Shab directed by National award winning filmmaker Onir.

Set in Delhi, the romance-drama featuring Raveena Tandon and introducing two talented actors - Ashish Bisht and Arpita Chatterjee, is an edgy, intense relationship story revolving around three central characters. Shab is a story of the search of happiness and love of multiple characters caught in the web of circumstances of an unforgiving and cold city.

Considering the movie subject, Onir has brought on board his favourite composer Mithoon to compose the songs. The lyrics have been penned by Mithoon and Amitabh Varma.

It took merely 5 minutes for Kumar Taurani (TIPS) to come on board once he was given the presentation of the music by Onir and Sanjay Suri. The music giant was more than happy to associate with Onir and Sanjay Suri once again after their successful association in Bas Ek Pal (2006).

“The album has a fresh appeal to it catering to various moods of life including romance, agony, sorrow, happiness and is composed by my favourite composer Mithoon, who started his musical journey with Bas Ek Pal,” says Onir.

Shab is slated to release early next year.

Raveena, Juhi at Nawaz Modi Singhania's exhibition

NITA AMBANI, RAVEENA TANDON & JUHI CHAWLA AMONGST A-LISTERS AT NAWAZ MODI SINGHANIA’S SOLO ART EXHIBITION PREVIEW

‘PORTRAITS’ OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FROM APRIL 6 TO MAY 4, 2014

Nawaz Modi Singhania, Shweta Shetty, Madhoo & Poonam Soni

The City’s A-Listers were in attendance at the preview of Nawaz Modi Singhania’s new solo art exhibition titled “Portrait Study of Well Known Personalities” held in south Mumbai on the weekend. The solo art exhibition will be open to the public from April 6 to May 4, 2014 between 11 am and 8 pm at the Raymond Flagship Store, Warden Road.

Gautam Singhania and Nawaz Modi Singhania played host to everyone from Mumbai’s most powerful women (Nita Ambani) to actors (Raveena Tandon, Juhi Chawla, Gulshan Grover, Perizad Zorabian) to politicians (Shaina NC) to corporate chieftains (Nikhil Meswani, Niraj Bajaj, Ashok Wadhwa, Yohan Poonawala, Tanya Godrej Dubash, Vijay Kalantari) to builders (Boman irani Rustomjee, Abhishek Lodha) to advertising giants (Alyque Padamsee, Sam & Lara Balsara, Bharat Dabholkar, Kailash Surendranath, Prahlad Kakkar) to designers (Poonam Soni) to Government functionaries (Dr. PS Pascricha, Satish Maneshinde) to art curators (Nisha Jamvwal) to film industry personalities (Zarine Mehta, Anil Thadani) to sports marketers (Vivek Singh) to pure fashionistas (Aarti Surendranath, Reena Wadhwa, Madhoo Shah, Marc Robinson, Laila Lamba, Aakanksha Aggarwal, Shweta Shetty, Zeba Kohli) amongst others. 

The artiste whose work sparkles with grace, spirituality and movement, was overwhelmed with the enthusiastic response to the preview of her forthcoming solo art exhibition on portraits of iconic globally renowned personalities from various walks of life at the Raymond Flagship Store, Warden Road, South Mumbai.  The portraits on canvas (charcoal, oils and acrylic) are a tribute to iconic celebrities ranging from Hollywood stars (Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise) to singers (Beyonce, Michael Jackson) to sportspeople (David Beckham, Maradona, Roger Federer) to royalty (Princess Diana) to scientists (Albert Einstein) to corporate executives (Steve Jobs) to celebrity anchors (Oprah Winfrey) amongst others.

“Through the years, they’ve made us laugh and cry, they have inspired and motivated us, imbedded thoughts, imbibed emotions and character in us, enthralled and mesmerized us, both consciously and subconsciously. This collection is a Portrait Study of those whom we love to love…or even love to hate..,” says Nawaz.  

Nawaz Modi Singhania is renowned in the Indian art circuit for her visually impactful and creative renditions to her interests in various art forms, fitness, health and dance. Seamlessly uniting her interests, Nawaz has emerged as one of India’s most creative fitness experts. On her creative journey, she has successfully held four solo exhibitions in Mumbai (three) and New Delhi (one). Her canvases are a reflection of her vibrant and multi-faceted persona. Her body of work includes art collections such as the Charcoal Series, Body Art, The Awakening, Born Free and Miscellaneous.