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MUMBAI: Big Entertainment, the media and entertainment arm of the Reliance Anil
Dhirubhai Ambani (ADA) Group, has lined up 69 films in nine languages for production
and distribution over the next two years.
The
languages include Tamil (Vikram Kumar), Telugu
(Krishna Vamsi), Kannada (Girish Kasaravalli)
, Marathi (Amol Palekar), Bengali (Rituporno
Ghosh and Buddhadev Dasgupta), Punjabi (Manmohan
Singh), Malayalam, Gujarati and English.
Reliance
Big Entertainment chairman Amit Khanna in a statement said that the deals include
a two-film deal with Vidhu Vinod Chopra including his English-language gangster
film Broken Horses, a six-film deal with Excel Entertainment promoted by
Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani including Shah Rukh Khan starrer Don II.
There
is also a two-film deal with Shyam Benegal, four-film deal with Madhur Bhandarkar,
three-film deal with Vivek Agnihotri and two-film deal with Sudhir Mishra. Out
of the total films, those in post production stage are Rock On, Sarkar Raj,
Love Story 2050, Pathshala, Tamil film Yaavaram Nallam, Hulla,
Summer 2007, Punjabi film Mera Pind and Shabri. Films
in production stage are Luck By Chance, Daddy Cool, Singh is
Kinng, Sultan-the Warrior, Dulha Mil Gaya, Sikander and
animation film Hey Krishna. Khanna
also added that Reliance ADA group at present has 106 operating cinema screens
which is expected to go up to 400 by the end of the calender year 2009. |