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Tag Archives: UTV
Emraan Hashmi and Kunal Deshmukh In UTV’s Thriller
UTV Motion Pictures has roped in the actor-director duo of Emraan Hashmi and Kunal Deshmukh for a masala entertainer. This will be the comeback for this superhit duo who have entertained the audience with back to back hits earlier. The shoot is scheduled to start immediately after the release of ...
Posted in Straight News
Tagged Emraan Hashmi, Ghanchakkar, Kunal Deshmukh, Thriller, UTV
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Paan Singh Tomar On Your Shelf
A book that will capture the journey of how the real life of athlete turned dacoit Paan Singh Tomar (PST) turned into a cinematic experience will soon hit book stores. A story of an athlete from the Indian Army, who represented India at the 1958 Asian Games in Tokyo in ...
Real Cool
An under-production Ghanchakkar already has Mumbai on edge as Emraan Hashmi shoots on-location
It’s a Saturday afternoon and the busy streets of Sion in Mumbai are buzzing with people. Parked on these streets are two large white vans. Walk closer and you spot a bank. Was there a ...
Feet Accompli
20 years after he wowed the audience with his fancy footwork, the ‘Indian Michael Jackson’ delivers an encore
His debut Tamil film Kadhalan in 1994 was such a smash hit that it crossed over to being a Bollywood blockbuster as well, in the Hindi dubbed version Humse Hai Muqabala. The ...
Sharing Insights!
It’s great news for the industry that big consumer brands are turning to leading production houses to share some of their experiences in filmmaking and anticipating audience trends, with their global heads.
We’ve learnt that Siddharth Roy Kapur, Managing Director – Studios, Disney UTV, was specially invited to address ...
Now UTV’s High On Music
It’s said that half the battle is won if a film’s music wins the audience’ hearts. It’s been a year since UTV started retaining the IP of their films’ music and their decision has proved very fruitful, considering the performance of their films and their songs. A slate encompassing Delhi ...
Keith Alphonso Quits
Keith Alphonso, Business Head at UTV’s youth channel Bindass, has quit and will join Only Much Louder (OML) as Revenue Head. The channel is likely to be looked after by Nikhil Gandhi, Disney UTV Executive Director, Youth Channels – Media Networks. In his new role at OML, Alphonso will be ...
Patriotism: A Depleting Emotion?
We will soon be observing the 65th anniversary of our Independence. So, this week, we’re asking whether Hindi cinema has lost its patriotic soul or whether nationalism simply wears another avatar
Time was when the entire country was glued to the television set to watch Ben Kingsley as Gandhi ...
DisneyUTV Digital Formed
The Walt Disney Company India, announced a restructuring of the company’s digital assets in order to better drive growth in games, video and audio services for mobile, online and interactive TV. The new division, DisneyUTV Digital, will combine the businesses and talent from Disney, UTV and Indiagames. All content and ...
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Tagged bindass®, Disney, DisneyUTV Digital, Marvel, UTV, Walt Disney Company India
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The Walt Disney Company India To Form DisneyUTV Digital
The Walt Disney Company India, announced a restructuring of the company’s digital assets in order to better drive growth in games, video and audio services for mobile, online and interactive TV. The new division, DisneyUTV Digital, will combine the businesses and talent from Disney, UTV and Indiagames. All content and ...
Posted in Straight News
Tagged Disney, Indiagames, Sameer Bangara, Sameer Pitalwalla, The Walt Disney Company India, UTV, Vishal Gondal
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Heroine Is No TDP: Bhandarkar
The film has seen more downs than ups but Madhur Bhandarkar’s Heroine is finally complete. And, despite the controversy over the lead actress, the film features Kareena Kapoor. The cast of the film, Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Rampal and Divya Dutt, along with Bhandarkar and Siddharth Roy Kapur, were present at ...
Sneak Peek Of Halkat Jawaani
Kareena Kapoor shot for an item number Halkat Jawaani for her upcoming film Heroine directed by Madhur Bhandarkar. Produced by UTV Motion Pictures and Bhandarkar Entertainment, the film is set to release on September 21, 2012. Halkat Jawaani is being choreographed by Ganesh Acharya.
Barfi! Pushed, Joker Advanced
According to the grapevine, Ranbir Kapoor wanted his next film Barfi! to be released on August 31, not July 13 and UTV Motion Pictures finally agreed. Another shooting schedule of Barfi! is expected soon.Apparently, Kapoor didn’t want the post-production to be rushed.
But the change in release date put ...
UTV Wins Case Against Percept On Shoebite
UTV Motion Pictures has won a case against Percept Pictures in a copyright dispute involving UTV’s film Shoebite, directed by Shoojit Sircar. The case had been filed by Percept, which had sought to restrain UTV and Sircar from infringing on the copyright of the script and dialogue of their film, ...
Rowdy Rathore First Look Gets 7 lakh Hits On YouTube
The first look of Akshay Kumar's upcoming movie Rowdy Rathore was unveiled to crowds at BDD Chawl grounds in Mumbai recently. And, since then, the first trailer has received a thunderous response. In fact, UTV Motion Pictures’ official YouTube channel, where the trailer has been uploaded, has received more than ...
FisCAL, Aaj Aur Kal
When they made a foray into Indian cinema, we were more than a tad defensive. We called them ‘corporate raiders’ for their deep pockets, big budgets and for hiking the remuneration of our leading actors.
This is a debatable debate, a sore point that will be discussed for years. But ...
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Tagged Balaji Motion Pictures, Eros International, Reliance, UTV, Viacom 18 Motion Pictures, Yash Raj Films
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UTV’s Movie Of The Month
UTV will showcase Priest, a sci-fi film dubbed in Hindi on March 31 at 8.45 pm on UTV Action. Priest revolves around a legendary warrior priest from the last vampire war who now lives in obscurity among the other human inhabitants in cities ruled by the Church.
When his ...
UTV Motion Pictures And Thirupati Brothers Part Ways
Thirupathi Brothers and UTV’s Pongal release Vettai was a super hit. The Tamil film which featured R Madhavan in the lead is now being remade in Hindi and will have Shahid Kapoor in the lead. But an official statement from UTV states that the companies have now decided to go ...
Fantastic Four
Siddharth Roy Kapur, CEO, UTV Motion Pictures, is a happy man. And why not? It’s been less than three months since we rang in the new year and his company has already delivered not one but four successful films including one in the South. Here’s the ecstatic CEO in conversation ...
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Tagged A Wednesday, Ahmdavad, Barfi, CEO, Chillar Party, Disney, Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu, EMAET, Ghanchakkar, Heroine, Khosla Ka Ghosla, Luv Shuv Te Chicken Khurana, Paan Singh Tomar, PST, Raajneeti, Race 2, Reliance, Rowdy Rathore, Siddharth Roy Kapur, Singham, South, Tamil, Tere Naal Love Ho Gaya, the dance film with Remo ABCD – Anybody Can Dance, TNLHG, UTV, Vettai
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UTV Seeks Tax Break For Paan Singh Tomar
Strange though it may sound, ten days after it was released, UTV Motion Pictures has decided to seek tax-free status for their critically acclaimed Paan Singh Tomar, which has also been embraced by the audience.
Gaurav Verma, Distribution Head, UTV, says, “We have applied for tax-free status but it ...
Posted in Trade Gup
Tagged Amrita Pandey, break, Gaurav Verma, Irrfan, Paan Singh Tomar, tax, UTV
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Mariyam Zakaria’s Item Number in Rowdy Rathore
Swedish import Mariyam Zakaria added another feather to her cap when she was signed on to do an item number in Akshay Kumar’s Rowdy Rathore. Incidentally, the producers had approached Karisma Kapoor for the same number but that did not materialise. The lovely lass has already featured opposite Kareena Kapoor in Agent ...
Boom Bang-la Boom
Going by the growing budgets, it is evident that the Bangla film industry is going places
The Indian film industry churns out almost 200 films a year, out of which Hindi films undoubtedly enjoy the major market share. As far as the regional films are concerned, it is the ...
Posted in Features
Tagged Abhomaan, Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury, Aparajita Tumi, Aparna Sen and Aniruddha Roy Choudhury., Arijit Dutt, Data Bazaar, Dev, Etv Bangla and STAR Ananda, Himanshu Dhanuka, Iti Mrinalini, Janla, Kaushik Ganguly, Mahendra Soni, Nispal Singh, Noble Chor, Nouka Dubi and Aparajita Tumi, Paglu, Rana Sarkar, Reliance Entertainment, Rituparno Ghosh, Ritwik Ghatak, Ronnie Lahiri, Royal Bengal Rahashya, Satyajit Ray, Shatru, Shob Choritro Kalponik, Subhash Ghai, Utpal Acharya, UTV, Viacom 18, Zee Bangla
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Disney To Acquire
The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) will acquire, through a subsidiary, a controlling interest in media and entertainment company UTV. The acquisition will be completed through a successful delisting offer and will enable Disney to integrate UTV’s current operations. In addition, UTV CEO Ronnie Screwvala has been named Managing Director, ...
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Tagged Andy Bird, Ronnie Screwvala, UTV, Walt Disney Company
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UTV Bindass Presents Cricket Champs
UTV Bindass in association with Indraprastha All India Sports Foundation announced the launch of first of its kind cricket reality show –Cricket Champs. The show is slated to go on air by February 2012 .
This initiative of UTV Bindass with Indraprastha All India Sports Foundation will seek to ...
UTV Strikes Syndication Deals
UTV Motion Pictures, recently, announced multiple syndication deals in various territories amounting to over 1 million US dollars. The deals are primarily for terrestrial TV rights and satellite rights for films in UTV’s library. UTV is signing a deal with broadcaster Channel 4 in UK for two of its library ...
UTV Acquires
UTV Motion Pictures has acquired the movie rights of Chetan Bhagat's latest bestseller Revolution 2020. Revolution 2020 will be made into an epic drama with strong roles for the lead cast. Bhagat's new novel has notched up sales of 800,000 copies in just a month since its release. The book has great ...
Rules of Engagement
The humble bit has changed the very definition of ‘celebrity’ and even their star-studded destinies
Five years ago, a seismic event took place in the history of communication – the ability of individuals to communicate with others, en masse. We call it User-Generated Content. But that’s a disservice to its scope ...
Worldly Wise
On-ground promotions give world cinema a much-needed boost
In a movie-crazy country like India, world cinema has always been a low-key segment. But this niche genre, which has always had a tough run as far as the sale of videos is concerned, might be in for a resurrection.The world ...
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Tagged COO, Founder, NDTV, Pranav Ashar, Reliance Home Video, Sweta Agnihotri, UTV
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UTV Stars presents Live My Life with Imran Khan
UTV Stars, the latest channel from the UTV stable is gearing up to launch a new show called Live my Life. The show will feature a die-hard fan of an actor and will help them live the life of his favorite star.
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Did Kareena Demand Rs 10 Crore For Heroine?
Hold your breath! News making the rounds in the film trade is that Kareena Kapoor has asked for Rs 10 crore to play leading lady in Madhur Bhandarkar’s ambitious venture, Heroine, being produced by UTV Motion Pictures.
Kapoor has gone on record to say that she has said ‘yes’ ...
More On Saif Ali Khan
We were wondering… Alhough Saif Ali Khan has his o...
We were wondering… Alhough Saif Ali Khan has his o...
Why Didn’t Madhur Wait For Aishwarya?
Now we all know that although Aishwarya Rai Bachch...
Now we all know that although Aishwarya Rai Bachch...
Much-Delayed Shabri Gets A Sequel!
Lalit Marathe’s first directorial venture Shabri f...
Lalit Marathe’s first directorial venture Shabri f...
Rahul Bose Replaces Boman Irani
Known for his versatility, Rahul Bose is all set t...
Known for his versatility, Rahul Bose is all set t...
Gill Brothers & Co
After spearheading Film Acquisitions and heading D...
After spearheading Film Acquisitions and heading D...
Ajay Devgn Versus Shah Rukh Khan
Come Diwali next year and there’s going to be war ...
Come Diwali next year and there’s going to be war ...
Trailer Of LPNY Rocks
Often, an album that doesn’t click instantly grows...
Often, an album that doesn’t click instantly grows...
Short Takes
• News is that Abhinay Deo, director of Game and D...
• News is that Abhinay Deo, director of Game and D...
Prabhu Deva Overshadows Akshay Kumar
Prabhu Deva steals the show at trailer launch of R...
Prabhu Deva steals the show at trailer launch of R...
Kashyap Brothers’ Respective Next
A few weeks ago, we told you that both the Kashyap...
A few weeks ago, we told you that both the Kashyap...
Bhushan Kumar Is Ecstatic
Bhushan Kumar the best when it comes to judging th...
Bhushan Kumar the best when it comes to judging th...
Short Takes
• Disney-UTV Motion Pictures has decided to dub R...
• Disney-UTV Motion Pictures has decided to dub R...
