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‘Pratap’ Faisal Khan follows his favourite Hrithik Roshan’s footsteps

Faisal Khan who plays the young Pratap in Sony Entertainment Television’s popular epic drama Bharat Ka Veer Putra - Maharana Pratap, is focusing on things other than acting too! Faisal Khan who is leaving no stone unturned to ensure that he emerges as the young Maharana Pratap proficiently is now focusing heavily on his fitness regime as well. Faisal himself revealed that he is an ardent admirer of Bollywood superstar Hrithik Roshan and follows his commandments totally! And just the way Hrithik gives importance to good health and fitness, on screen Pratap is following his footsteps too.

So much so that, whenever Faisal gets time between shoots, he heads to the gym. That’s not all  Faisal has bought a bicycle for himself and keeps riding it all the time on the set. Now that’s what we call sheer dedication!

Imparting Tangible Realism to the surreal ‘Jai Hanuman Gyan Gun Saagar’

Charuvi Design Labs (CDL) presents a 12 minute 3D vision on Hanuman Chalisa - The Resurgence of the ‘Vayuputra’

Allowing imaginations to soar beyond the realm of ancient scriptures, Charuvi Design Labs have conjured the art of ‘living the experience’ with the launch of the 3D animated film on Hanuman Chalisa which complements the emerging trend of augmenting 3D animation movies with technology taking a meaningful plunge in recreating aestheticism by Charuvi Design Labs. Gearing towards a realistic replication of the 17^th century hymn, the Hanuman Chalisa will transform lives by imparting spiritual connotations in monotonous existence. The 12 minutes animated film is a visual metaphoric representation of the verses of Hanuman Chalisa in a captivating and enriching way to help the layman understand the literal meaning of each verse and feel the essence of the lyrics. To pervade the senses for eternity, the experience will ve further enhanced by the launch of interactive Shri Hanuman Chalisa app (IOS/Android tablets) and sale of limited edition book along with other fascinating merchandise. 

Charuvi Agrawal
Founder & Director-Charuvi Design Labs

Charuvi has evolved as an artist and as a person with each element of learning inculcated from diverse cultures. Stroking life into her creations, Charuvi has imparted a pervasive zeal into art that has garnered extensive appreciation and imparted a forte of ‘extraordinaire’ to every creation. Exuding rarity of thoughts and imagination, Charuvi has emerged as one of the most revolutionary artists to have impressed critics and has been bestowed critical acclaim across the globe.     

A graduate in Computer Animation from Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Canada and a gold medallist in Fine Arts from College of Art, New Delhi, she transformed her vision into reality with the formation of Charuvi Design Labs. Charuvi has won many accolades including being featured in the celebrated Limca Book of Records (2007) for her exemplary work in creating a new form of caricature called “Claytronics” – miniature clay sculptures of contemporary political figures. Bequeathed as the emerging 10 who would transform the global artistic landscape...” at the 'Incredible India@60' Festival in New York by Coca Cola where select 60 Luminaries by Coca Cola were felicitated, Charuvi has become a name to reckon with in the creative realm.   

Her entrepreneurial debut embraced a wide range of artistic and creative activities. Recognised at prestigious festivals across the world with numerous awards, her work has surpassed the realm of creativity and aestheticism. The bold approach to her work and the tangible manifestation of her imagination stemmed from her formative years as a student and as an entrepreneur at par.

 Aestheticism and novelty exude through every piece of art and appeal to all the five senses. She has a remarkable ability to tackle various facets of film and art works with a unique style and treatment. Her endeavours are always geared towards transforming lives and in empowering individuals through her discourses and oration at prominent forums including the widely acknowledged Siggraph and India Design Forum. Her initiative today has become a think tank for growing designers from all over India.
For more info visit: http://www.charuvi.com/

About Charuvi Design Labs Private Limited

www.cdl.tv

CDL is an incredibly diverse studio with unrivalled creative and technical expertise. It's a think tank, a space for experimentation, exploration, and development. The two worlds today ‐ the physical and the virtual world have not only been moving towards each other, but now this convergence seems to have pushed each world past the point of overlap. The real world seems to be getting more strange and artificial, while the virtual world is looking more natural and authentic all the time. CDL lives in this zone of overlap, seeking to map this new terrain and to bring forward the new visual experiences. Formed to design not only the animated content but also the interactive and innovative media installations along with applications, games,. Extending seamless service in the domain of production, animation and direction, CDL focuses on producing and creating original content with international appeal and promoting Indian heritage. CDL is an independent studio that has majorly worked on its recently finished IP, “Shri Hanuman Chalisa” that includes the film, interactive installations and applications around the theme of the film, few projects from TERI, NFB & various animation bits.

Urja Foundation & Dr.Harivansh Rai Bachchan Memorial Trust Commission the lighting up of Unelectrified homes across rural India with Solar Power System

With The noble intention to serve our country men, who are deprived of electricity, Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan Memorial Trust and Urja Foundation have commissioned the rural electrification initiative which was announced on Shri Amitabh Bachchanji’s birthday – 11th October 2013.

 In December 2012, over 250 million Indian citizens had no access to electricity and over 1/3rd of India’s rural population lacked electritcity, as did 6% of the urban population.

The rural initiative has commenced to provide solar powered lights to around 3000 homes all across India ,the objective is to provide feasible and sustainable renewable energy solutions for inclusive growth.The initiative is supported by the United Nations Information Centre for India and Bhutan (UNIC).

The initiative has also been supported by Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) and has Blue Dart as the official supply partner ensuring efficiency in logistics by delivering the solar home lighting systems across rural India.

The solar home lighting systems(SHS) will be provided free of cost to all identified beneficiaries.

Catering to the basic necessity of lighting the Solar Home Lighting System (SHS) will power 2 lights, 1 portable light and mobile charger.

With the growing energy needs of our country renewable energy resources will play an important role in the future. The solar home light system installed will be a step ahead to providing the basic necessity of clean and green energy.

-Mr Parag Shukal- Founder-URJA Foundation

-Mr Niraj Aggrawal- Executive Directot-communication-LIC

Ms-Kiran Mehra-Kerpelmann-United Nations Centre of Information for India And Bhutan- UNIC

-Mr Amitabh Bachchan-

Mr And Mrs Tushar Gandhi- Mahatma Gandhi Foundation- Trustee

http://www.urjafoundation.org

Shemaroo Entertainment releases the much awaited movie that marks the completion of 100 years of Indian Cinema – Bombay Talkies

 To mark the glorious 100 years of Indian Cinema, the top notch four directors came together to add a new dynamic to it. Together they released – Bombay Talkies - A 2013 Indian anthology film consisting of four short films directed by Karan Johar, Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar and Dibakar Banerjee.

After a long await the movie is ready to be released on Home Video by Shemaroo Entertainment. Winning a million of hearts and critical accolades, Bombay talkies marks the beginning of new era in Indian Cinema. The movie has four segments and each segment, though distinct in its emotional appeal and visual feel, succeeds in encapsulating the dreams, disappointments, falsehoods, flashes of truth, elements of emotional artifice and inescapable realities of life. The presence of stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Rani Mukherjee, Katrina Kaif, Nawazuddin Siddiqui & Randeep Hooda in these segments is a treat to watch.

The film culminates with “Apna Bombay Talkies”, the theme song Celebrating 100 years of Indian Cinema. The chief attraction of the Song sung by 22 prominent singers of the day is that it features the who’s who of Bollywood – right from Aamir Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Akshay Kumar & Ranbir Kapoor to Sridevi, Madhuri Dikshit, Kareena Kapoor & Deepika Padukone

Witness the revival of Indian cinema with us through Bombay Talkies!

The DVD of Bombay Talkies is economically priced at Rs399/- .

About Shemaroo

Celebrating the golden jubilee, Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd is among few entertainment companies that has hallmarked several pioneering efforts with its innovative and out- of-the- box thinking. Founded in 1962, Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd is an established Filmed Entertainment “Content Houses” in the country, active in Content Ownership, Creation, Aggregation and Distribution with a large content library of over 2800 titles.

Shemaroo is engaged in the distribution of content for satellite channels, physical formats and emerging digital technologies like the Mobile, Internet, Broadband, IPTV and DTH among others. With its partnership with the major telecom operators and other digital media platforms, Shemaroo is at the forefront of the digital age. The company has also tied up with many content providers across the country. The “Shemaroo” brand today is synonymous with quality entertainment in the Indian entertainment eco system.