ndustry goes all hails for Maniesh Paul’s 'Black Briefcase'

Maniesh Paul left everyone intrigued when he shared the first poster of his upcoming short film ‘Black Briefcase’. The movie is produced by Vevek Paul, who is also Maniesh’s brother. Vevek Paul apparently met the director of the film while travelling in a flight. Intrigued by his fellow passenger’s passion to make film, he decided to give him a chance to direct Maniesh Paul.

This is the first time that the host turned actor Maniesh has come up with a serious and dark role. The intensity of his character could be felt with the first look of the film.

The special preview of the film saw a lot of attendees including Raj Nayak, Ramesh Taurani, Vikram Phadnis, Anu Malik, Aanad Tiwari, Vishwas Pandya, Prachi Pandya, Sehban Azim, Iqbal Khan, Tisca Chopra, Rohan Mapuskar, Farhad, Iulia Vantur, Rumi Jaffre and others. They were indeed spellbound by his performance and are all hails for our performer.

A film by Cinemaddicts9, Black Briefcase is presented by T-series and is produced by Vevek Paul.

Vicky Kaushal makes his singing debut with Manmarziyaan

After Dev D, Anurag Kashyap is back with a musical love story Manmarziyaan. Promising to be the album of the year, the film's music composed by Amit Trivedi is already a subject of heated discussion .

In a unique promotional stratergy , the makers are releasing one song each day and audiences were in for a treat as the first song 'F for Fyaar' marked actor Vicky Kaushal's singing debut.

Such was the reception that the song went on to cross 7 million views in less than 8 hours.

Talking about the idea says music director Amit Trivedi, “Since Vicky plays a DJ in the movie, we felt it would be great if he could sing a few lines in the song to give a real feel to it. It has come out well. When Vicky heard the song, he was pleasantly surprised to hear his voice. He enjoyed the singing process.”

Excited to be teaming up with his mentor again says Vicky Kaushal,“I am very excited and I have said this to Anurag as well, but I feel like I should collaborate with him once in every two-three years because he really makes you reinvent yourself as an actor, which I feel is very important for me. Each time I work with him, I see something new in myself and that’s what happened in Manmarziyaan as well.”

Jassie Gill turns turbanator for Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi

Popular singer Jassie Gill, who is eagerly anticipating the release of his big Bollywooddebut, Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi, produced by Eros International and Aanand L Rai’s Colour Yellow Productions and directed by Mudassar Aziz, had a whale of a time shooting for the laughter riot.

Besides sharing the screen space with Sonakshi Sinha for the first time and working with Aanand L Rai and his costars including Diana Penty, Jimmy Shergill, Piyush Mishra and Ali Fazal, the film is quite special to Jassie for quite a few reasons, including the fact that he had to sport several pagdis in the movie!

“Since I belong to a Sardar family, I’ve always been fond of wearing a pagdi,” Jassie informs as he recollects, “I used to have pictures of popular Punjabi singers on the wall of my room and I used to look at them and wear pagdis. When I started my singing career and was in college, I wore a pagdi for one of the scenes in a music video.” Then i wore Pagdi in my video Bapu Zimidar & Att Karti, with the grace of Almightly, both became sesational hits.

While most of his costars only changed into their next costume, Jassie would take relatively more time to change since he had to wear a Pagdi as well! Interestingly, Mudassar along with the cast would often playfully pull his leg over this by blaming him for delaying a shot!

“I didn’t anticipate that I’ll get the opportunity to wear a pagdi in just my debut film. People all over Punjab have really appreciated my pagdi look in Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi. It gives me a feeling of pride to wear a pagdi,” Jassie adds.

Presented by Eros International and Aanand L Rai, A Colour Yellow Production, Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi, hits the theatres on 24th August.

Rani Mukerji Wins the Best Actress Award for Hichki and the ‘Excellence in Cinema’ Award at Indian Film Festival of Melbourne

Rani Mukerji won hearts everywhere with her outstanding performance in Yash Raj Films’ superhit film Hichki. As Naina Mathur, a passionate teacher who deals with Tourette Syndrome, Rani delivered a powerful performance, also communicating a key message about equal treatment for people with physical challenges in India.

Her character inspires positive change in school students from economically backward origins, a story that resonated globally for Hichki to become a massive hit and now Indian Film Festival of Melbourne has awarded Rani with the Best Actress Award for the year. 

Hugely popular with sizeable Indian diaspora living in Melbourne, Rani expressed her gratitude saying, “Indian Film Festival of Melbourne has always welcomed the best of Indian cinema and celebrated our form of storytelling. I feel very proud and thankful that Hichki has been accepted and loved by audiences here.

It’s a story with universal resonance, and it’s spirit of positivity has won over Indians and locals here. I am also grateful for winning the Best Actress Award and sincerely thank everyone for applauding my performance. I have found this film festival a vibrant and progressive setting for cinema and its impact beyond languages and cultures. I thoroughly enjoyed being in Melbourne and hope to travel with my films here in the near future.” 

The theme of the IFFM 2018 festival was ‘Inclusion’. Rani Mukerji is the only mainstream actress who has successfully and sensitively embraced such subjects through her exceptional films Black and Hichki so Rani was also chosen unanimously to win the ‘Excellence in Cinema’ award at the ceremony. 

IFFM had an eminent panel of jury (Andrew Anastasios, Jill Bilcock, Geoffrey Wright, Nikkhil Advani, Rajeev Masand, Simi Garewal, Sue Maslin) who unanimously decided upon Rani Mukerji’s win as the Best Actress.

“The storyline of Banned’ made me say a yes to web series” – Sahil Anand

The extremely talented actor Sahil Anand has left no stone unturned to entertain the viewers with his extraordinary acting skills. After giving some hit television shows, the actor marks his entry in the web world through Viu’s upcoming series Banned.

Based on comedy musical drama, Sahil Anand will play a pivotal role in Banned. Excited on his debut, the actor quipped, “I mark my debut in web series with Banned. The storyline of Banned’ made me say a yes to web series. Since it revolves around the musical background, shooting for it was really fun. Apart, I always wanted to be a part of Viu which is such a big platform across the world. I am sure the viewers will in for umpteen entertainment with this show.”

The series is slated to go on floors on 24th of August, only on Viu.