Y-FILMS' 3RD FILM 'MERE DAD KI MARUTI' HITS THE ROAD!

Y-FILMS’ 3^RD FILM

‘MERE DAD KI MARUTI’

HITS THE ROAD!

Yash Raj Films’ introduces some more new talent on the back of Ishaqzaade.

Tuesday, May 16, 2012: Yash Raj Films’ youth films’ studio Y-Films’ just began filming their third production. Titled “Mere Dad Ki Maruti” [MDKM], it’s an outrageous comedy set against the backdrop of a loud Punjabi wedding in Chandigarh, MDKM tells the story of a boy who sneaks his dad’s fancy new car out to impress the college hottie and how all hell breaks loose when he loses it!
 ‘Mere Dad Ki Maruti’ stars Saqib Saleem who made his debut in last year’s sleeper hit from Y-Films’ ‘Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge’. Proclaimed the ‘Find of the Year’ by critics, he will be romancing another hot new face being launched by Y-Films.
 MDKM also marks the directorial debut of Ashima Chibber who has been associated with some of the most talented directors of our times. Beginning as Shimit Amin’s First AD on ‘Ab Tak Chappan’ and ‘Chak De India’ among others, Ashima’s last project was as First Assistant Director to Imtiaz Ali on ‘Rockstar’.
 The film has a thumping soundtrack by Sachin Gupta who previously scored the chartbusting music of ‘Prince’ and a host of pop albums for artistes like Atif Aslam, Mika and more. There are a bunch of other tricks in the bag that will be announced shortly and ‘Mere Dad Ki Maruti’ sure promises to be one crazy ride!
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Aditya Chopra

presents

MERE DAD KI MARUTI

Director: Ashima Chibber Producer: Ashish Patil

Story: Neeraj Udhwani

Screenplay: Neeraj Udhwani, POOJA DESAI & ASHIMA CHIBBER

Dialogues: Ishita Moitra

Music: Sachin Gupta

Lyrics: Kumaar & Anvita Dutt

Director of Photography: Adil Afsar

Associate Producer: Aashish Singh

Creative Executive Producer: Pooja Desai

Sound: Ali Merchant

Production Designer: Parichit Paralkar

Editor: Antara Lahiri

Costume Design: Priyanjali Lahiri

Choreographer: Rajeev Surti

Casting Director: Shanoo Sharma

New Photos From Total Recall Revealed

Sony Pictures has updated the official site for director Len Wiseman's Total Recal with new images from the August 3 release. You can check them out below and thanks to 'Steve' for the heads up.Total Recal is an action thriller about reality and memory, inspired anew by the famous short story �We Can Remember It For You Wholesale� by Philip K. Dick. Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid (Colin Farrell), even though he's got a beautiful wife (Kate Beckinsale) who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life - real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. Finding himself on the run from the police � controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston), the leader of the free world � Quaid teams up with a rebel fighter (Jessica Biel) to find the head of the underground resistance (Bill Nighy) and stop Cohaagen. The line between fantasy and reality gets blurred and the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid discovers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate.

SONY PICTURES LAUNCHES ITS BIGGEST SUMMER LINE-UP EVER

Brings back MIB, Spider-Man, Bond, Total Recall this year

~ Will release THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN on 29 June before US ~

Mumbai, 11 May 2012… Sony Pictures is all set to launch its biggest summer line-up ever to set off what looks like a major year for Hollywood at the Indian box office. The studio also announced that the India release of the much-awaited blockbuster The Amazing Spider-Man is being advanced to 29 June so that Indian fans can watch the film before it releases in the US on 3 July.
Sony Pictures’ summer line-up starts with Men in Black 3 (3D, worldwide 25 May) going back in time with the original pairing of Will Smith-Tommy Lee Jones and addition of Josh Brolin, followed by a fresh reboot of the Spider-Man franchise The Amazing Spider-Man (3D, 29 June) starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans and India’s own Irrfan, and ending with a remake of the 1991 blockbuster Total Recall with Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel (worldwide 3 August).
The action doesn’t stop with the end of summer. Later in the year, there’s Adam Sandler comedy That’s My Boy, high octane action film Premium Rush starring Joseph Gordon Levitt, followed by the return of another big franchise with Resident Evil: Retribution (3D, worldwide 14 September), Here Comes the Boom starring Kevin James and Salma Hayek and 3D animated film Hotel Transylvania starring Adam Sandler and teen star Selena Gomez, from cult animation director Genndy Tartakovsky known for such Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, The Powerpuff Girls.
The year ends with the 23rd Bond film titled Skyfall (releasing one week before the US on 2 November) and Sparkle, starring Jordin Sparks and featuring the last film appearance of the late great Whitney Houston. 2013 is another cracker year with Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz and Leonardo DiCaprio, sci-fi drama Elysium starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, Captain Philips starring Tom Hanks, After Earth starring the father-son pairing of Jaden and Will Smith, a return of the horror classic Evil Dead, Roland Emmerich’s White House Down, and follow-ups of super-hit films The Smurfs 2 and Grown Ups 2.
"After completing 75 years as a studio in India, 31 of which I have personally been part of, I can say without a doubt that this is our biggest and most exciting line-up ever with tried and tested record-breaking performance at the Indian box office,” said Kercy Daruwala, Managing Director - Sony Pictures India. “On the whole, we have an ideal mix of the biggest blockbuster action movies as well as comedy, drama and family films with an arsenal of great directors and top rung stars.”
Commenting on the advance of the release date of The Amazing Spider-Man, he said, “Each of the Spider-Man franchise films has broken records on its release in this territory. We are very confident that Indian audiences will enjoy the new reboot of the franchise even more because they are watching it before the US and also as this film has an India connect.”
“Our line-up of strong franchise films with mass appeal and already established high brand recall is ideal for unique and exciting co-promotional activities with like-minded brands, both local and international,” said Divya Pathak, Director – Marketing. “Many brands are choosing to partner with our blockbusters because of the incomparable scale of these movies.”
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Asin Learns to Waltz!!!

The latest buzz in B-town is that Asin has specially learnt the graceful dance form of waltz for a shoot. A sequence in the Ad of a prominent soap brand Asin endorses required Asin to perform the ballroom dance of the style ‘Viennese Waltz’, and we hear that Asin has reportedly mastered the steps of the intricate dance in a remarkably short while! 

The pretty actress who was shooting in Wai for ‘Bol Bachchan’ had to juggle between both these professional commitments. The ad was directed by renowned Director Harvey Brown who was specially travelled down to Wai fr the rehearsals. So post shooting when everyone would call it a day, Asin would learn Waltz during the nights. Her sheer hard work has surely paid off as those who have seen the Ad are all gung ho about the actress's dancing skills!!

A source close to her informed us that Asin who is already a trained Bharatnatyam dancer has been completely mesmerized by this western dance form and is planning to pursue it further as and when she wraps up the shooting of her movies!

Five leading actresses considered to play Bhanwari Devi

Mumbai, May 8, 2012: Priyanka Chopra, Kangana Ranaut, Mallika Sherawat, Bipasha Basu and Jacqueline Fernandez are the leading ladies considered to play the character of Bhanwari Devi, but what remains to be seen is who will eventually portray the character in question, undeniably the role of a lifetime!
On the 1st of September 2011, Bhanwari Devi, a resident of the Jaliwala Village in Rajasthan went missing after blackmailing politicians for inappropriate sexual conduct. Months later the police found remains of Bhanwari’s body in the Rajiv Gandhi Canal.
Nikhil Tonk, Mahesh Pandey and Mithilesh Suba, ex creative associates of Balaji Telefilms and Motion Pictures have come together to make a movie to take Bhanwari’s shocking story to the world. Writter and Director of the yet untitled movie, Mahesh Pandey promises it would be the most shocking film of the year, he says, “This is the story of a woman who was used and abused but refused to lose, it is a character that has never been portrayed on Indian Cinema”
Producer Nikhil Tonk calls it a standing ovation to the CBI and police, further explaining his dream project he says, “It is a tribute to the CBI and the police who stepped in to protect a woman’s dignity and modesty. This movie is going to shock the viewers at the same time leaving them in awe of the characters” When questioned about the leading pair the producer said, “you’ll have to wait and watch, but for me I can only see Mallika Sherawat and Emran Hashmi portraying the characters in question!”
The movie is scheduled to go on floors soon and would be releasing in the last quarter of 2012.