Documentary Organisation of Canada, Shamiana host screening of 'Long Time Running'

The Honorable Consul General of Canada in association with SHAMIANA – Asia’s largest Short Film Company and the Documentary Organisation of Canada (DOC) co-hosted the screening of Long Time Running, a documentary film which chronicles the Tragically Hip’s iconic 2016 Man Machine Poem Tour, their emotional final concert at one of Bombay’s prettiest venues Ministry of New in Fort in South Mumbai.

The evening was attended by some of the finest connoisseurs of cinema and Documenatries including docu filmmaker Anand Patwardhan, Rashmi Lamba (FICCI), former IDPA honcho Ramesh Tekwani, Sanjay Bhutiani, Rajeev Ruia, etc. More...http://www.filmytown.com/documentary-organisation-canada-shamiana-host-screening-long-time-running/

FLYP@MTV Café opens its doors for Mumbaikars to GORGE-GULP-GROOVE

FLYP@MTV hosts a smashing launch party featuring a performance by hot young singer Jubin Nautiyal

Glitz and glamour rule at the launch part as Sonal Chauhan, Rannvijay Singha, Cyrus Sahukar join in the revelry

Mumbai, 26 October 2017: Funbars Hospitality Pvt. Ltd in association with Viacom18 Consumer Products, the consumer products arm of Viacom18 have given the music and food lovers of Mumbai a new destination to Gorge – Gulp – Groove with the launch of iconic line of MTV themed cafes – FLYP@MTV Café today at Kamala Mills in Mumbai. Glitzy guests, party animals and food lovers gathered together for the grand opening held today. Turning the night into a blockbuster party was the versatile singer Jubin Nautiyal who set the tone for the launch with his performance. Entertaining the guest with his tongue-in-cheek humour was the host for the evening Cyrus Sahukar who kept the ball rolling.

Present at the event were musicians Shilpa Rao, Jubin Nautiyal celebrated artists from the world of entertainment industry such as Sonal Chauhan, VJ Andy, Parul Gulati, Meiyang Chang and Manu Punjabi and popular MTV faces such as Rannvijay Singh, Barkha Singh and Krissann Barretto who partied to their hearts content as the café opened its doors to welcome Mumbaikars to Gorge – Gulp – Groove! More...http://www.filmytown.com/flypmtv-cafe-opens-doors-mumbaikars-gorge-gulp-groove/

Birju Maharaj Parampara’s Workshop in Andheri, Mumbai

Birju Maharaj Parampra Presents Kathak workshop conducted by Pt.Jaikishan Maharaj ji at Andheri West Mumbai.

 

 

It’s good news for Mumbaikars that legendary Kathak dancer Pandit  Jaikishan Maharajji is conducting a Kathak workshop for all the students of classical dance in Andheri West Mumbai from 27th May 2016 to 31st May 2016 between  10am to 1pm.
 

 

 

The workshop forms will be available from 27th May at Bungalow no 56 MHADA 4 Bunglows near Jankidevi School Andheri West in Mumbai. 
 

 

 This workshop is presented by Jaikishan Maharaj.

- See more at: http://www.filmytown.com/birju-maharaj-paramparas-workshop-andheri-mumbai/#sthash.kHaBlly9.dpuf

Ileana D'cruz at Reliance Trends Concept Store Launch

Ileana D'cruz, Shadab Faridi the Singer of Bajirao Mastani Fame and Sheehan Dixit (Madhuri Dixit's Nephew) at the launch of Reliance Trends Concept Store at infinity 2, Malad, Mumbai

Elena Fernandes attends Nishka Lulla’s new summer collection launch!

Supermodel-actor Elena Fernandes, who made a stellar Bollywood debut with Karan Johar’s latest romantic family drama, Kapoor & Sons, recently attended designer Nishka Lulla’s new summer clothing line for high-street label 109F at Tote on the Turf in Mumbai.

Having born and brought up in London, Elena shot for Kingfisher Calendars, several high-end beauty products and TV commercials.

She is also involved in charity work in India for both animal and child welfare.

The Prêt Pop-Up by IndusDiva at You

The Prêt Pop-Up by IndusDiva at You, Kemps Corner

Featuring a fresh, exclusive prêt line – IndusDiva by Neeta Lulla, Priyadarshani Rao & Nikhil Thampi

IndusDiva.com is synonymous with highly curated merchandise from all over the country and this festive season they are spearheading a movement, making exclusive designer wear accessible.

IndusDiva has taken a leap forward in fashion by launching exhilarating ranges from designers- Neeta Lulla, Priyadarshini Rao and Nikhil Thampi at You Store, Kemps Corner on 4th November 2015. They have created a fresh new Prêt line exclusively for IndusDiva.com. It just gets better, as this line is going to be easy on the pockets too and will be showcased at a pop up at You from 5^th– 8^th November. The collection will also be available on Amazon.in, snapdeal.com 10th November onward.

The event was attended by renowned personalities like Cyrus Broacha, Sonali Kulkarni, Neeta Lulla, Suguna Sundaram (Joint Editor at Magna Publishing and Editor at Stardust), and Anish Jhaveri (Partner at Oliphans Capital). The event was abuzz with cocktails, canopies and conversations, hosted by IndusDiva.com founders Vineet Saxena & Jyoti Amba.

IndusDiva and You’s collaboration is just the right choice as You comes with a fine history of hosting Prêt collections, since its inception. Located at Kemps Corner, Mumbai, You Boutique is a clothing and accessories store. Known for its uber trendy and convivial style, You’s collection is synonymous with youthful and happy tones.

IndusDiva’s idea behind housing this premium, designer labels was to be able to provide, otherwise exclusive clothing, to a larger audience, with a mission to democratize fashion. With this novel intent, IndusDiva brings to you this fabulous new collection. The collection is young, vibrant, and buoyant with colors as it celebrates the spirit of the woman it strives to dress, reflecting the beauty that shines from within.

Neeta Lulla 

Neeta Lulla, popularly known as the ‘Czarina of Bollywood’ has crafted this collection to extend to the wearers; simplicity, comfort and flexibility of utility. This line for IndusDiva seamlessly blends two seemingly different sensibilities to create a line that offers a distinctive option in one’s closet. The collection comes with uncomplicated cuts employed to create easy silhouettes including paired separates that proposes unique choices. The obvious plainness of the garments belies the sensual undertone upon which the collection has been built. With a tropical colour palette and muted Mokaish embellishments, this collection showcases an array of elegant monochromatic ensembles with the occasional Aztec accent. The collection is the perfect balance to make a style statement, this festive and party season.

- See more at: http://www.filmytown.com/the-pret-pop-up-indusdiva-you/#sthash.2J7zqxRg.dpuf

Indian Beauty & Make-Up Awards 2015 ends up with a bang

Oct 5, 2015 Thane: 

Honoring Make Up artists and hairstylists for outstanding achievements the Indian Beauty & Make-Up Awards 2015 was the biggest award of its kind in the city. The black tie evening brought together Divyanka Tripathi, Harshali Zine, Singer Purva Mantri, Aakarshika Goyal, etc.

Divyanka Tripathi who was looking pretty in an Anarkali said  “These are the talents that create the characters we see on screen, with the Indian Beauty & Make Up Awards I am here to support them. Handpicked from a bevy of over a thousand nominees are artists curated by the Special Jury of Indian Beauty Awards 2015.”

Speaking on the occasion Harshali Zine said “Finding good hair and make-up artists is very crucial for our work as they help us understand our best look for various occasions and are updated with the latest Red Carpet Trends. I am sure the winners will be the ones who stole the spotlight with their craft this year.”

Purva Mantri who rocked the house with her performance said, “No one can deny the importance of the right make-up and hair artist in the media and entertainment industry. Make-Up artists are very hardworking and they need to be honored at right forums like these. Many a times we team up with our hair and make-up artists as best friends.

Apart from the award to the best in hair & make-up there were some special awards given to persons and companies for outstanding contributions to the industry like Classic Productions in the category of Events & Entertainment, Mr. Mzee Singh for outstanding contribution to Entertainment Promotion in India, Aakarshika Goyal for upcoming Television Face of the Year 2015.

Mumbai welcomes 6th Jagran Film Festival

Festival opens with a gala opening ceremony and 2015 French film ‘Standing Tall’

The opening day saw presence of personalities like R Madhavan, Ranveer Shorey, Kunal Kapoor, Dibakar Banerjee and many more

Iranian Filmstar Mozhgan Taraneh at the 6th Jagran Film Festival 2015

Mumbai, September 28, 2015: It is Mumbai’s turn to roll out a red carpet welcome to the country’s biggest travelling film extravaganza, the Jagran Film Festival in its sixth edition. On Day 1, the buzz at Fun Cinema auditorium was infectious as the film lovers from in and around Mumbai gathered to witness a star-studded opening ceremony. With a stellar film line-up from all corners of the world, the Mumbai edition is shaping up to be a grand affair not to be missed.

Emmanuelle Bercot’s film ‘Standing Tall’ drew celebrities and cinephiles alike to witness a magnanimous screening. This low-key French drama which has also been the opening film at Cannes chronicles the life of an at-risk adolescent dabbling with violence, punishment and the idea of rehabilitation. The screening turned into a star-studded evening in the presence of film luminaries such as R Madhavan, Ranveer Shorey, Kunal Kapoor, Dibakar Banerjee, among others from the entertainment industry.

On the very first day, JFF also showcased some offbeat shades of Arabic cinema with films such as an Israeli-Palestinian Joint Venture‘Sport’ and a series of recent short films including Matan Gur’s ‘Jisr Boys’, Lily SheffyRize’s ‘Just a Man’, Tal Oved’s ‘Ziva and Amal’and Ahmad Barghouthi’s ‘Blue Eagles’ and ‘WOUROD’.

Hindi film lovers grabbed the opportunity to walk down the cinema lane with Hiren Nag’s 1984 romantic classic ‘Abodh’, Phani Majumdar’s 1962 romantic drama ‘Aarti’, Govind Mooni’s 1982 family love triangle ‘Nadiya Ke Paar’, K Balachander’s epic love story of the 1980s ‘Ek Duje Ke Liye’ and Mahesh Bhatt’s 1991 romantic thriller ‘Sadak’, that paid a homage to the late actor Sadashiv Amrapurkar.

Film enthusiasts were seen juggling between the big screens and auditoriums to catch the cinema of their choice. In days to come, the much anticipated Mumbai edition is studded with a noteworthy collection of Jagran Shorts, Hindi classics, World premieres as well as a handpicked selection of International cinema. And since its Jagran keeping up the promise of making the 6^th edition bigger in every possible way, there are master classes and workshops on Screen Writing, Reviewing Cinema and Animation along with panel discussions on Casting, Film Direction, Making Advertising Films, Editing adding to the charm.

Talking forward the theme of the year, ‘Happiness’, the Mumbai editions is set to showcase iconic films such as the Hindi cinematic delight ‘Mera Naam Joker’, much loved 1942 American classics ‘Gone With the Wind’ and ‘Casablanca’, 2006 American biographical drama ‘The Pursuit of Happiness’, 1997 Italian tragic-comedy drama ‘Life is Beautiful’ and the rare and ravishing 1965 Hindi drama ‘Guide’ among others.

Promising to present some of the finest works of cinematic geniuses, India’s only travelling film festival, ‘Jagran’, features a delectable mix of movies, master-classes and memorable experiences for avid cinema lovers based in and around Mumbai. Showcasing a good number of feature and short films this year, Jagran Film Festival in its 6^th edition is slated to be an eyeful treat for one and all.

The 2015 edition of Jagran Film Festival after traversing rom Delhi to the Indian hinterlands of Kanpur, Lucknow, Allahabad, Varanasi, Agra, Meerut, Dehradun, Hisar, Ludhiana, Patna, Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Raipur, Indore, and Bhopal is culminating in Mumbai.  In close collaboration with festival partners such as Whistling Woods International (WWI), Film Federation of India (FFI) and Motion Picture Dist Association (India) Pvt Ltd, Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA), the 2015 edition is all set to surpass its own last benchmarks of presenting over 16 cinema appreciation workshops, 400 screenings in 17 cities, that were witnessed by a direct audience of more than 50000 film aficionados and a media reach-out to nearly 50 million people in India in 2014.

The 6th edition of the Jagran Film Festival, Mumbai 2015 is scheduled from 28th September – 4h October, 2015 at the Fun Cinemas, Mumbai.

• For more details and festival registration, please visit: http://www.jff.co.in/

Fun with Zespri Kiwifruit & Celebrity Chef Ranveer Brar at Smaaash

Celebrity Chef Ranveer Brar at the Independence Day cookalong at Smaaash

This Independence Day, Smaaash and Zespri International invited all parents and kids for a fun filled Kiwifruit treasure hunt followed by a cookalong with celebrity chef Ranveer Brar.

The event kickstarted with a treasure hunt at on Saturday, the 15th August, 2015 (Independence Day) at Smaaash, Lower Parel during which both parents and children went around to search Green and SunGold kiwifruits along with the other ingredients that they require for the cookalong. 

Followed by the exciting and competitive treasure hunt, everyone proceeded for a fun cookalong with MasterChef India judge Chef Ranveer where he demonstrated how to make an easy but absolutely yummy kiwifruit mojito and a lip smacking kiwifruit salad!

The kids then made these kiwifruit delights with the help of their parents and Chef. 

Ranveer tried each one of them and shared his valuable feedback and also announced three lucky winners that won certificates signed by him. 

Song recording of upcoming film ”Kaaya – A Revenge Story”

Song recording of the upcoming hindi film ” Kaaya – A Revenge Story”

Movie Kaaya was launched with Song Recording by Singers Kunal Ganjawala, Palak Muchhal at Studio Trinity, Mumbai.

The Film is Being Produced by Pratik Vishwakarma and Gopal Rajpurohit and has banners “A19Th Venture Motion Films” & “99Film Production” and is Associated with Films Today Entertainment Pvt. Ltd..

This Film is Directed by Amit Kumar, Music by: AARV, Lyrics by: Niranjan Bhudhhadhara, Vikas Tomar, Javed Anwar Khan, Mehervaan Khan.

The shooting will be one schedule Start to Finish from May 2015.

- See more at: http://www.filmytown.com/song-recording-upcoming-film-kaaya-a-revenge-story/

Aranav Kumar: New Handsome hunk in B Town

Aranav Kumar is a martial art practitioner trying his fate in Bollywood. Not only a good actor, he is also trained in martial arts. His love to this art led him to know more about this art and the road led him to the Shaolin School in Shandong Province in China.

At the age of 14, Aranav discovered this particular talent within. Like most of the teens, he was a puny guy most often being a victim to the bullying and mostly got beaten by his colleagues as was too weak and incapable of facing those situations, but once the boy found his inner instinct he not only started training on his own he now started throwing punches on wall and tried all the variations of kicking.

This young lad had the opportunity to get a bit of training from his school teachers of martial arts, but he could not learn much as he had to get busy with his studies and regular life.

Again at the age of 16 he decided to go to Pune and take this seriously, so in 2004 he left for pune to pursue martial arts but also he was keen to become an actor.

This newly developed hobby did not stop here after watching a series of Fight Quest documentary on Discovery Channel he got to know that foreigners can go to China and learn Shaolin martial art. He immediately packed his bags and left for China to the learn martial arts in Shaolin Temple as he always been fond of Monks.

Aranav is a big fan of Jacky Chan, Jet Lee and Donnie Yen.

When he arrived at Shaolin school he realize that life over there will not be easy..,

The 1st week training was so hard that he couldn’t walk properly and his master use to beat him which made him upset.. training was so hard that he use to get upset he use to sit on mountain and think whether his decision of coming to China was right?-

He persisted and stayed there for four months and then he took a decision that its enough now and that he ought to go back to India as he couldn’t take more pain.

When he returned then he realize what he is missing in life, He began missing his training, his master’s shouting and the beating. He demonstrated what he learned in China during his 4 months and his friend use to be impressed. For the first time in his life people clapped on his performance, he realized that his master use to beat him for good .. and since he was not good in studies or anything but this is the first time that people were appreciating his talent. He then realized that this is what he was born to do… and then he started missing China and so one day he decided that he will go back to China and train no matter how hard the training will be he will train.

This time he was determined to pursue further, and left for china and stayed there for 3 years, during this period he participated in competitions and and then won gold medal, after which the school awarded him scholarship for his outstanding performance.

Day by day he was getting better… Having trained in a Shaolin form, 2 Shaolin weapons, 3 Shaolin animal forms, 4 Sanda techniques (Chinese kick boxing), 5 Tai qi and 6 Qin na.

In one competition he broke his nose and got knocked out, he was still training and his nose got worse he couldn’t breath properly from his nose he use to breath from his mouth when his master ordered him to go back to India and see a good doctor but this time, he didn’t want to come back as he didn’t want to miss his training.

Unfortunately, one day it got very serious and he had to come back to India and had to go through an operation in Delhi, since then he is in India and misses China…

Yet, he hasn’t given up with his training and trains everyday, Now its  a part of his daily life!

Aranav has now come to Mumbai and enrolled in acting school  (Vidhurs Kreating character acting school) and aims to do action movie where he can showcase his Shaolin martial art.

When he sees a Bollywood villain getting beaten by hero he feels bad, as in real life its not that easy to beat a villain but coz in India the villain sare not depicted in a fighthting fit physique, and wants to change that… He wants to give a tough competition to the hero.

Aranav is a newcomer in filmy town, he is professionally groomed in acting by Vidhur’s Kreating Character Acting School Mumbai. With his learning in Martial arts in China Shaolin temple for 4 years and having Won  gold medals in various Martial arts competition, this lad is to be watched out for giving the hero a tough time.

Personal Details – Aranav Kumar:
Height 5.11
Age       26
Weight 70
Waist    32
Eyes colour: Brown

- See more at: http://www.filmytown.com/aranav-kumar-new-handsome-hunk-b-town/

Manoj Maurya – Lights, Action & Art

The exhibition titled ReBORN by Manoj Maurya was open to public amidst colorful inauguration, music launch and screening of the film on ReBORN at Nehru Centre Art Gallery.

When asked about the reason for blending music and film with paintings, artist Manoj Maurya said that I want to connect masses with visual arts and paintings. Music and Films as forms of art easily assimilate within the masses and provide them an opportunity to connect easily to art.

Speaking about ReBORN paintings, Manoj says, “The philosophy of ReBORN has chosen me to decipher its essence to the world through my art. Each painting unfolds secrets of this universal truth.”

The guests present at the gallery were absorbed discovering their interpretations of paintings and interacting with Manoj to decode his thoughts behind the paintings. Dolly Thakore, renowned Indian theatre actress feels, “The evolving of the paintings and their mindset represent highly intellectual strings and a new interactive style of art.” Veteran Actor Suren Rajan who is known for his performances in The Legend of Bhagat Singh (2002), Phas Gaye Re Obama (2010) and Munnabhai M.B.B.S. (2003) was thoroughly enthralled with the paintings and found them deeply intriguing and thought provoking.

The Painting Exhibition is on till 16^th June, 2014 at Nehru Centre Art Gallery, Worli, Mumbai.

- See more at: 
http://www.filmytown.com/manoj-maurya-lights-action-art/#sthash.WBBclF36.dpuf

Salman Khan to host the 9th Star Guild Awards

The Film and Television Producers Guild of India today announced that the ninth edition of the Renault Star Guild Awards will take place on the 16th of January at the NSCI stadium in Mumbai.

The 9th Renault Star Guild Awards will be hosted by the inimitable Salman Khan who is sure to raise the roof with his own special brand of humor and his unbeatable charm. 

Salman hosted the event last year as well when the 8th Renault Star Guild Awards was the most-watched event of 2013.

Full details at: http://www.filmytown.com/