Strengthening its hold in regional Cinema in Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Marathi and Bhojpuri.
Mumbai, 1st April, 2006: Spice Media Vision, in association with Pen & Camera International proudly announced their Five regional movie projects at a press meet held at Time & Again, Andheri West, on 31st March ’06 in the presence of the Directors and Star Cast of the movies. Continuing its commitment to provide good, meaningful, Spice Media Vision, aims to produce the best form of entertainment in every Genre, Language and subject, the project are:
1) Screenplay Films Pvt. Ltd. in association with Spice Media Vision’s “ANURANON” (Bengali Movie) is a beautiful modern story on relationships between two couples and on urban loneliness in the society today. Directed by Aniruddha Roy Choudhury, it has Rahul Bose, Rituparno Sengupta, Rajat Kapoor and Raima Sen as main artists. Sunil patel, who has earlier done movies like Hum Tum & Salaam Namaste is the cameraman for this project. The story travels from London to Kolkatta, to eastern Himalayas, exploring various facets of human relationships with its twists and turns and the society’s outlook towards it.
2) DIL DIWANA TOHAR HO GAYIL: Presented by Spectrum Media. This PEN and Camera Intl’s project is 100% complete. Directorial debut by noted Bollywood choreographer Saroj Khan. This bhojpuri movie has been shot extensively in London with all time-hit jodi of Ravi Kissen and Nagma. The tremendously popular bhojpuri pair has delivered huge hits and immense business for the earlier two projects. Other artists in the movie include Lovy Rohatgi, Kamaal, Vinod Tripathi and Asif Khan.
3) MUNNA PANDEY BEROJGAR: This movie is directed by Manish Jain. Lead artists from the movies include the Super Hero of Bhojpuri movies,Manoj Tiwari. Bipin Bahar, singer who has to his credit several music albums by T Series, maken his acting debut in the second lead. Bollywood Popular Villian of yester years, Ranjeet also makes his debut in Bojpuri movies with this film. Other artists include Rani Chatterji, Brajesh Tiwari, Abha Parmar, Purvi, Rohail and Surendra Pal. Munna Pandey Berojgar” is a comic satire on unemployment, youth frustrations and their problems. An emotional representation of unemployed youth who are mislead and how small mistake can ruin their entire life. Unlike the typical Bhojpuri films which are family centric, this movie marks a new beginning for Bhojpuri Cinema.
4) SATAON VACHANWA NIBHAYIB HUM: Directed by Manish Jain with popular Bhojpuri star Manoj Tiwari and Rinku Ghosh in the lead role, this movie is more than Fifty percent complete. Presented by SPICE MEDIA VISION in association with OK INTERNATIONAL, this family drama is based on a real life story.
5) LAAGI CHHUTE NA: OK INTERNATIONAL presents this along with PEN & CAMERA INTERNATIONALS, being launched today. Directed by Sanjay Jha, it has the hit jodi of Ravi Kishan and Nagma in the lead. A thriller based on a kidnap in Lolndon. It revolves around the kidnapping scene in Bihar and the Bihar Mafia. A renowned Bollywood star will also act in the project.
Speaking on the occasion, Ragini Sona of Spice Media Vision said, “ With Chocolate, Spice has proved its capability of producing multi-starrer (big names) big budget movie. Tamil and English movies has already been our forte and very shortly we will be announcing spate of Hindi films. We are not deviating from our original objective of making Hindi movies but on a more holistic note we are looking at promoting good, meaningful cinema in every genre and language that will create cinema with a difference.”
She also added, “With the increased focus on regional cinema, it makes good business sense to produce movies in Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telegu and Bhojpuri as well. There will be a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) for each regional movie under the umbrella of Spice Media Vision. And spice will always strive to create cinema with a difference. We have Sunil Shetty starrer AMAR JOSHI SHAHEED HO GAYA ready for release, a Marathi movie with Sachin Pilgaonkar, a Telegu movie to be finalized shortly. Apart from these few Hindi Projects with renowned Directors like Vikram Bhatt, Aditya Dutt, Lawrence D’Souza etc are in the pipeline.”
Mehmood Ali of PEN and Camera Internationals, who has earlier released the multi-starrer Bhojpuri film “BABUL PYARE” said, “Currently, in a year around hundred Bhojpuri films are produced with every second producer in Bollywood announcing a Bhojpuri Project, we are proud to announce 4 Projects with the biggest names in Bhojpuri Cinema as Manoj Tiwari, Ravi Kissen and Nagma. Leading Bollywood stars are producing and acting in Bhojpuri films, which only indicates the attraction and profitability of this growing industry.
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