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DHANAK IS INDIA’S FACE AT BERLIN

Dhanak (Rainbow) is an uplifting, enchanting, magical fable set in Rajasthan that reinforces the belief that life is beautiful. The story revolves around the wonderful relationship between a 10-year old girl Pari and Chotu, her 8-year old brother who live in a picturesque village nestled among the sand dunes. Having lost their parents to an accident at a very early age, they live with their uncle and aunt. Step out and make this wondrous journey with Chotu and Pari and believe once again that if one wishes with atrue heart anything is possible.

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Nagesh Kukunoor’s Dhanak in Berlinale’s Generation K Plus

Filmmaker Nagesh Kukunoor’s fi lm Dhanak has been invited for the Generation Kplus programme of the 65th Berlin International Film Festi-val 2015. It will also have its world premiere at the festival.

Dhanak’s story revolves around the wonderful relationship between a old girl Pari and Chotu, her 8-year old brother who live in a pictur-esque villagenestled among the sand dunes in the desert state of Rajasthan, India. Having lost their parents to an accident at a very early age, they live with their uncle and aunt.Chotu is blind but he is anything but sad. Hap-py, precocious and a smart ass, he is the life of the village. Pari is his eyes, his guide and his best friend. And Chotu is the center of Pari’s universe.As children sometimes do, not truly under-standing the consequences, Pari has promised Chotu that he will be able to see by the time he turns 9!On their weekly trip to the neighboring vil-lage to see a movie, Pari sees a poster with an Indian movie star, Shah Rukh Khan (SRK) appealing to people to donate their eyes. Pari is convinced that her reel life hero can help her fulfi ll her promise to her brother. In all her innocence she writes a letter to SRK pleading Chotu’s case. She doesn’t hear back but this doesn’t deter her and she writes a letter to SRK every day.One day fate intervenes - Pari hears that SRK is shooting in a location about 300 kms from her village. This is all the motivation she needs! She is confi dent that if she can meet SRK, Chotu will get his eyesight back. In the dead of the night, holding Chotu’s hand, she runs away from home.What unfolds is a magical journey that only the innocence of childhood allows you to experi-ence. Chotu and Pari meet a host of colorful characters who sometimes help and some-times thwart their plan but always nudge them one step closer to their destination.Dhanak is an enchanting fable that reinforces the belief that life is beautiful.

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EROS INTERNATIONAL

Eros International Media oper-ates on a vertically integrated studio model managing content as well as distribution and ex-ploitation across all formats glob-ally, including cinema, digital, home entertainment and televi-sion syndication. It has over 1900 fi lms in its library and is at EFM with new Bollywood fi lms.

INDIA’S NEW ENERGY

As many as nine names in the Berlinale Tal-ents this year are from India is indicative of a new energy coursing through the coun-try’s off-mainstream cinema. As many as seven of these nine new talents invited to Berlin are aspiring directors and that tells a story to be excited about. Signifi cantly, four of these seven – Khusboo Ranja, Jasmine Kaur Roy, Sanghmitra Hitaishi and Jessica Sadana – are women with ideas that could alter India’s cinematic landscape when they attain fruition.

DISNEY INDIA

Bringing together the best of both worlds, The Walt Disney Company and UTV have formed Disney India Studios - one of the leading fi lm studios in In-dia. Objective at EFM : Showcase of UTV’s current line up and commercial exploitation of theatrical and non-the-atrical rights of UTV’s library for Euro-pean, South Asian, North Africa, Mid-dle East, Russia, Far East and South/Latin American markets. UTV’s lead products for the season are P.K.(from the makers of the Indian blockbuster 3 Idiots), Haider, Highway, 2 States among others.

39 PROJECTS, 30 COUNTRIES

Thirty-nine feature fi lm projects from 30 countries will be presented at the 11th Berlinale Co-Production Market (Feb. 9-11). Two Indian projects have been selected this year. Ritesh Batra’s Photograph will be part of the main selection, Avinash Arun’s Sway With Me will be one of the three Berlinale Directors proj-ects The co-production market gives fi lm producers the opportunity to come together for pre-scheduled individual meetings with 500 potential co- production and fi nancial partners.

JAR PICTURES

Ajay G. Rai and Alan McAlex, came together to form Jar Pictures - a versatile fi lm production company that is steadily gaining a stronghold in the Indian fi lm in-dustry. Between them, they have worked on indepen-dent fi lms, Indian “new wave”, and Bollywood’s top grossers. Apart from offering production services to mainstream Indian fi lms and international productions, Jar Pictures is also seriously involved with developing story ideas into successful fi lms. The company’s recent foray into independent fi lm produc-tion, has also led the producers to explore the inter-national co-production markets, having represented several projects at premier world fi lm markets.

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PVR PICTURES

PVR currently operates a cinema circuit consisting of 462 screens spread across 92 cinemas cover-ing 44 cities in India. PVR is the dominant leader and commands 30-35 per cent share of box offi ce collections for Hollywood mov-ies in India & 20-25 per cent share of Bollywood movies. PVR is at Cannes to acquire all rights for Hollywood fi lms and other for-eign language fi lms.

OVERDOSE ART

Overdose is a fi ercely indepen-dent fi lm production house based in Kolkata. They create locally rooted but globally relevant fea-ture fi lms, documentaries, music videos and potent virals, and are committed to producing original content that pushes boundaries. They have an eclectic network of artists, technicians, distributors, commissions, broadcasters, and a loyal fan base across the globe.

ULTRA DISTRIBUTORS

Ultra is a next-generation studio engaged in multiple aspects of entertainment, including full-scale fi lm and television production and distribution, digital media and post produc-tion services. Our catalog has over 1500 titles of Indian blockbusters for exploitation in var-ious platforms in the International Market. STAND: 110MGB

BOMBAY BERLIN FILM PRODUCTION

BBFP produces fi lms and documentaries, of-fers Co-Production and line production ser-vices for feature fi lms/documentaries to be shot in India and Europe and consulting ser-vices for international fi lm festivals including world sales, promotion and distribution.

CELIBRITY FILMS PVT. LTD

Leading fi lm distribution company in all segments. Also into local fi lm production through associate company Oscar Films Pvt. Ltd. It has imported over 400 Hol-lywood & world cinemas like “The Sea Inside”, “Motorcycle diaries”, “Down-fall” etc so far, recent one being, “Black Water”, “Crank”, “The Rebel”, “Flash Point”, “The Tournament”, “The Prom-ise”, “Fighting Fish”, also 51 library mov-ies. Also latest acquisitions to include are, Insidious, Midnight F.M, Sanctuary, Brave. Objective: To acquire Hollywood, European, World movies for distribution in Indian subcontinent,all rights.

MOTION MAKERS ANIMATION STUDIOS

Motion Makers is a Animation and Visual ef-fects company situated in Mumbai India. It produces feature fi lm, television, commer-cial and visual effects. Motion Makers also provides a full-service solution for feature animation, visual effects, and fi lm property development from the basic concept to the fi nal fi lm print. It is constantly on the look-out for collaborations, co-productions for more work in fi eld of Animation and VFX.

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Nagesh Kukunoor’s Dhanak (Rainbow) is in the offi cial selection at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival (Generation Kplus). A chat with the fi lmmaker who remains to himself and enjoys luxury of being offl ine

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How did you get into children genre for Dhanak?One thing that I have consistently done is never cater to a genre. Filmmakers thrive on the fact that this is the space that they occupy. If you take my fi lmography no one can identify a genre or a space that I operate, I have always said that when a story excites me is when I feel that I can do a good job for the audience. I have done festivals all my life. In the majors, this is the fi rst time my fi lm (Dhanak) is invited at Berlin. I am very excited. My fi lm Lakshmi last year was at Palmspring.

How did Dhanak happen?Lot of story ideas bounce on your head. Suddenly on the strangest way it take roots. The image that you seen on the poster (little boy and girl walking on the desert). Manish Mundra who produced the fi lm was excited when the fi lm was briefed.At the very least I won’t repeat the genre. One of the things that I don’t enjoy is I can’t creatively get energised repeating the same thing. I never sit down and say I am going to write a children’s fi lm. As a matter of fact, I told myself that after Rock-ford I won’t do a children fi lm. After Lakshmi, I



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would never do a dark fi lm. The story in Dhanak excited in me to write that stuff and I did it. After Dhanak, I am going to shift gears. There is no pattern to my fi lms.

As a fi lmmaker, how does story comes about and you execute it?Lot of times a fi lm takes shape when I see an image. The fi lm originates there. The entire fi lm begins to revolve around that image. In Dhanak, the boy and girl walk around the desert in Rajasthan. That’s it. Lakshmi was based on a true story. I had the image of girl in the brothel and began to write. Iqbal was very clearly a sports fi lm. It originated as a short story and as I wrote the story. For me, an im-age sets everything into motion.

How has been the survival in the space that you have created for yourself ?Fourteen fi lms. It is tough. The white hair that I have is what fi lmmaking has given me. I have ventured into fi lmmak-ing only for the true love I have for it. The love for movies came from my dad. But he never wanted me to give up a kushy job (Nagesh is a chemical engineer). Filmmaking is very risky. My family has no ties to cinema. I am not also from a business family to take risks. I am not in this fi eld for the wrong reasons. Money, glamour, going for award shows are ir-relevant for me. That’s the proof of me

making 14 fi lms.

How much of creativity and business runs in your mind in fi lmmaking?I apprise my producers that fi lmmaking is a huge risk and they could get zero returns from their investments. I oper-ate in a very reasonable budget. I always have the complete liberty to tell that sto-ries I wanted to. Obviously there is stress associated with low-budget fi lmmaking. But the joy that gives me is a fair trade.

What is the way forward for Indian independent fi lmmaking? Every-where in the world cinema culture is protected?Unfortunately in India fi lmmaking is al-ways going to be a private entrepreneur-ial space. I feel sad that we are not able to witness glorious times of NFDC. Cinema has to supported by respective countries. If all of cinema comes as a commercial enterprise you are going to get only sto-ries that play safe. People will not take chances. I am not saying everything in-dependent or art house is terrifi c. Many a time it is crappy. But at least people will take risk. That will happen only when an entity like NFDC gets its muscle back. Look at Canada. The grants that a fi lm-maker gets are incredible. Right now, lot of interesting cinema is coming out of India because fi lmmaking has become cheap. Today, you could con-

Stills from Dhanak

I always have the complete liberty to tell that stories I wanted to. Obviously there is stress associated with low-budget fi lmmaking



FilmographyDhanak (2015)Lakshmi (2014)Mod (2011)Aashayein (2010)8 X 10 Tasveer (2009)Bombay to Bangkok (2008)Dor (2006)Iqbal (2005)Hyderabad Blues 2 (2004)3 Deewarein (2003)Bollywood Calling (2001)Rockford (1999)Hyderabad Blues (1998)

vince a producer to invest quarter or half-a million dollars.

There is no level playing fi eld. Commercial cinema and your cinema tickets cost the same in theatres…That’s a problem. You won’t get a theatrical release here. For inter-esting cinema to emerge you will have to look outside India.And, I have always said that when commercial cinema is made here, they are made by extremely intel-ligent people. They are not made by fools. They know exactly who they cater to. It is a great business set up. The younger audience is extremely internet savvy. They download in-ternational fi lms all the time. The reach to world cinema is much faster than ever before. To look for alternative cinema, during my younger days, I used to go to the vid-eo library. That’s how I have sensi-bilities which are not mainstream commercial cinema. That’s how world opened out for me. Thanks to internet a new world of cinema is emerging. Cheaper fi lmmaking and better access to foreign fi lms will ensure better cinema comes out of India.

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Having scooped up coveted prizes at the Venice, Singapore and Mum-bai festivals in the past year with

his remarkably crafted debut fi lm Court, Chaitanya Tamhane is deservedly one of the hottest new Indian fi lmmakers on the global circuit today.His widely acclaimed tragicomic satire on the Indian legal system and the coun-try’s deep-rooted class fi ssures has now been selected for the 44th edition of New Directors/New Films (ND/NF), a festival jointly hosted by New York’s Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lin-coln Center.To be held from March 18 to 29 in New York, ND/NF is “dedicated to the discov-ery of new works by emerging and dy-namic fi lmmaking talent”.The Marathi-language Court is among the initial nine fi lms offi cially selected from all over the world for ND/NF. It will play alongside such feted titles as the Cannes Critics’ Week grand prize winner The Tribe and the winner of the Un Cer-tain Regard award White God.Tamhane is one of the most visible faces of India’s ‘new’ independent cinema – a stream of defi antly original fi lmmaking that exists outside the pale of the estab-lished Bollywood independent’ space, which is represented by the likes of Anurag Kashyap and Dibakar Banerjee.The fact that as many as nine names in the Berlinale Talents this year are from India is indicative of a new energy cours-ing through the country’s off-mainstream

cinema. As many as seven of these nine new talents invited to Berlin are aspiring directors and that tells a story to be ex-cited about.Signifi cantly, four of these seven – Khus-boo Ranja, Jasmine Kaur Roy, Sangh-mitra Hitaishi and Jessica Sadana – are women with ideas that could alter India’s cinematic landscape when they attain fruition.While the principal players in the Mum-bai independent cinema (notably Kashy-ap and Banerjee) have been co-opted by the mainstream, a new bunch of young fi lmmakers are setting themselves up to move into the breach and serve the cause of the kind of cinema that eschews com-mercial rules and follows its own artistic principles.Aditya Vikram Sengupta belongs to this emerging group. His debut effort, the Bengali-language Labour of Love, which premiered in the Venice Days sidebar of last year’s Venice Film Festival, bagged the FEDEORA (Federation of Film Crit-ics of Europe and the Mediterranean) award for the Best Young Director.In tone and texture, the virtually dialogue-less Labour of Love, a love story set in a recession-hit metropolis, is a far cry from the gangster fl icks and socio-political thrillers that are favoured by a majority of Mumbai’s independent fi lmmakers.Like Tamhane’s, Sengupta’s is a unique directorial voice that stands well apart from the cinematic din that is inevitably generated in the world’s largest fi lm pro-

A new breed of Indian fi lmmakers is driving a remarkable cinematic resurgence. The fact that as many as nine names in the Berlinale Talents this year are from India is indicative of a new energy coursing through the country’s off-mainstream cinema, says Saibal Chatterjee

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THE NEW INDIAN CINEMA



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DIRECTOR OF COURT CHAITANYA TAMHANE (LEFT) WITH PRODUCER VIVEK GOMBER

QISSAAnup Singh

LABOUR OF LOVEGURVINDER SINGH

MARGARITA WITH A STRAWGURVINDER SINGH

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Berlinale Talents’ - Khusboo Ranja, Jasmine Kaur Roy, Sanghmitra Hitaishi and Jessica Sadana – are women with ideas that could alter India’s cinematic landscape when they attain fruition

TALENTS FROM INDIA



ducing country, where an overwhelming majority of the titles are star-driven, song and dance extravaganzas made primarily for domestic consumption. .The two young fi lmmakers are not the only ones that are labouring to raise the bar for independent cinema in India. Anand Gandhi, whose Ship of Theseus was a huge critical success, and Gurvin-der Singh, whose Punjabi fi lm Anhey Ghorhey Da Daan, premiered in Venice before going on to win a Special Jury Prize in Abu Dhabi a couple of years ago, are two other directors whose careers are being intently watched by festival pro-grammers across the world.Gurvinder Singh has just wrapped up the shoot of his second fi lm, Chauthi Kot (The Fourth Direction), also in Punjabi.Another Mumbai fi lmmaker, Manjeet Singh, earned critical accolades for his debut fi lm, Mumbai Cha Raja, which is an unwaveringly naturalistic take on the lives of the city’s slum children. His sec-ond script, Chenu, made it to the Atelier in Cannes two years ago.Several other Indian fi lmmakers, who have been around for a while, have opted to work outside the mainstream Mumbai movie industry and steadfastly follow their chosen creative paths. They have been none the worse for it.The likes of Anup Singh (Ekti Nadir Naam) and Ashim Ahluwalia (John & Jane) have been in the forefront of an In-dian cinema movement that has thrived on a genuine spirit of independence. They have brought cinema from the sub-continent closer to the heights that the masters of yore had attained.Ahluwalia’s Miss Lovely and Anup Singh’s Qissa – The Tale of Lonely Ghost have both been applauded at festivals

around the world. Miss Lovely, set in the Mumbai C-grade movie industry of the mid 1980s, was in the offi cial selection in Cannes in 2012. The fi lm was commercial-ly released in India last year.Ahluwalia is now adapting a novel by gay rights activist R Raja Rao into a fi lm titled The Boyfriend. Qissa, which was premiered in Toronto in 2013, is slated to hit the multiplexes in the country sometime this year. Anup Singh’s next fi lm, Mantra – The Song of Scorpions, is already in development and he has roped in Iranian-French actress Golshifteh Farahani for the project. At the Toronto International Film Fes-tival as well as the Palm Springs Inter-national Film Festival early this year, Shonali Bose’s sophomore effort, Mar-garita With a Straw, struck an instant chord with the audience. At the former, it won the NETPAC prize; at the latter, it was voted into the top fi ve audience fa-vourites.Margarita With a Straw tells the story of a spirited cerebral palsy-affl icted woman who lets nothing get in the way of her personal desires and ambitions. The fi lm is most remarkably for the outstand-ing performance that the director has ex-tracted from lead actress Kalki Koechlin.The current burst of dynamism in Indian cinema is especially pronounced among non-Hindi fi lms, with Marathi titles lead-ing the way. Debutant director Shrihari Sathe has garnered much praise for his Marathi fi lm Ek Hazaarachi Note.Yet another Marathi director, Paresh Mokashi, whose fi rst fi lm Harishchan-drachi Factory was a major critical suc-cessful and India’s offi cial entry for the Best Foreignh Language Film Oscar, has followed the triumph up with the equally praiseworthy Elizabeth Ekadashi.

While the principal players in the Mumbai independent cinema (notably Kashyap and Banerjee) have been co-opted by the main-stream, a new bunch of young fi lmmakers are setting themselves up to move into the breach and serve the cause of the kind of cinema that eschews commercial rules and follows its own artis-tic principles

Saibal Chatterjee is an independent New Delhi-based fi lm critic and writer who has worked on the staff of several leading publications, served on the editorial board of Encyclopaedia Britannica’s volume on Hindi cinema and authored a biography of poet-fi lmmaker Gulzar.


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What are the trends you could see in EFM this year? EFM refl ects the global trend of growing signifi -cance of serial formats in the audiovisual content industry and integrates that in its marketplace. Along with this we also see an opening towards new platforms, towards digital distribution and new forms of content as another trending development. Thus we brought the EFM startup initiative to life, offering ten up-and-coming companies from Berlin’s huge startup scene the unique possibility to participate at the EFM. The growing importance of Asian and especially Chinese markets is another process we observe. With our new initiative “Bridging the Dragon”, a newly found network of Asian and European producers, and with an EFM Industry Debate about the revolutionary success of Chinese online platforms, we accommodate this trend.

Television Segment has got into EFM. How do you see this grow?Serial TV formats are booming and especially high end drama series with high production value, a fi rst-rate cast and complex, intelligently told stories have become very popular. The bound-aries between classic fi lm production and top quality series are dissolving. Serial formats have evolved quite impressively and won the favour of audiences around the globe and with this these formats have gained importance and become an

essential component of audiovisual culture.For us at EFM it was a logical step to include series in the market and offer the newly created platform Drama Series Days for those involved in their production and distribution. For the fi rst time not only individual fi lms are being traded at the European Film Market but also drama series from Germany, Scandinavia, Great Britain and North America that will be shown at market screenings in the Martin-Gropius-Bau. In addition, the EFM Buyers Lounge will serve as a central meeting point for the drama series industry on February 9 and 10.Furthermore, we offer two panel discussions dedicated to this subject: One of the EFM Industry Debates will be devoted to the German drama series market. Another panel with international experts will discuss the opening up of the US market for local productions from Europe, and how - as original series or remakes – their inter-national reception is on the rise.Also, the Berlinale Co-Production Market - as part of the “Drama Series Days” - presents six serial projects that are seeking international co-production and fi nancing partners, including Tom Tykwer’s “Babylon Berlin”, the fi rst German serial project, the Belgium series “Tabula Rasa” as well as the projects “Behind the Moon” at “That Time from Israel”, “The White Rhino Hotel” from the USA, “Hierro” from Spain and “Valkyrien” from Norway.

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The EFM is proud to continue its partner-ship with the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) and the Sundance Institute to bring you American Independents in Berlin - present-ing new US-American works to international buyers, sellers and festival programmers as well as supporting its fi lmmakers, companies and organizations while in Berlin. For over ten years, “Sundance at EFM” has been the direct pipeline between the European Film Market and the Sundance Film Festival, giving EFM Buyers fi rst crack at close to 50 new fi lms fresh from their screenings at Sundance.

According to latest fi gures, 7,848 profes-sionals from 96 countries - including 1,524 buyers from 64 nations - have received accreditation so far for this year’s EFM (2014 total: 8,396 participants, including 1,499 buyers). 733 fi lms had already been submitted for market screenings (522 Mar-ket Premieres)on the EFM’s 38 screens (the fi nal total last year was 784 fi lms shown in 1,109 screenings).

The newly created Producers Hub initiative is to cater especially for those producers who are not at the Co-Production Market or at the MEDIA stand so that they can fi nd what they are looking for at the EFM such as fi nancing or co-producers.

The European Film Market 2015 wel-comes Berlinale Talents once again to the initiative Berlinale Talents Market Hub in partnership with Canon. This platform, at its buzzing location in the gallery of the Martin-Gropius-Bau, serves as a contact and meeting point, offering new perspec-tives to both EFM participants and upcom-ing talents. Talents not only gain insights into how the EFM works, but also can use this prominent platform to introduce themselves to trade representatives and establish sustainable industry contacts.

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Starting in 2015, the EFM will expand its services for producers, develop-ing new initiatives and platforms designed to better meet the needs of producers attending the Market.

The European Film Market and the Berlinale Co-Production Market are bringing the best in new drama series to the Market. Drama Series Days is an exciting new initiative, pro-viding creators and producers of high-quality drama series with innovative platforms and channels to present and sell their new works. This includes a home base in the EFM Buyers Lounge where key players in commissioning and acquiring new content come together, as well as special screenings and a range of talks and events showcasing the latest indus-try trends and developments from Germany, Europe and North America. To complete the programme, the Berlinale Co-Production Mar-ket will present six handpicked international series-projects to potential co-production partners, funds and broadcasters attending the EFM.

At the centre of Europe’s most exciting startup hub, the EFM takes Berlin’s leading entrepreneurs and connects them with the fi lm and audiovisual media industries. This new platform provides EFM visitors with the op-portunity to tap in to carefully selected startup companies, who can help them develop new ideas or provide the technical know-how to implement new production, distribution or marketing strategies.

The Berlinale Co-Production Market is a three-day event for about 500 international producers, sales agents, distributors as well as broad-casting and funding repre-sentatives active in the fi eld of co-production.

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7,848 professionals from 96 countries - including 1,524 buyers from 64 nations - have received accreditation so far for this year’s EFM




23-25 April 2015 Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the three-day Global Exhibition on Services to showcase India’s

strength in the sector and provide platform to the industry to

explore business opportunities. The GES will bring the Indian

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Block your diary April 23-25, 2015, to be part of the Global Exhibition on Services in New Delhi. The GES will bring the Indian M&E service providers, content buyers under one platform

India is set to host the fi rst Global Ex-hibition on Services (GES) in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi from April 23 to

25, 2015. Spearheaded by the Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of In-dia, the expo is organised in association with the Confederation of India Industry (CII) and SEPC. The fi rst Global Exhibi-tion on Services will be a global platform to showcase the inherent strength of ser-vices sector in India.The main objective of the event is to po-sition India as a leader in the Service sector to the rest of the world, to tap po-tential for services’ exports and to draw further investment into India in the ser-vices sector. The GES will bring the Indian M&E ser-vice providers under one platform at the expo. Content buyers, technology service providers, production and location exec-utives will benefi t. The GES will enable delegates to explore M&E service solu-tions in the new emerging digital worldCII’s objective is to scale the Indian M&E sector towards achieving $100 billion by the end of this decade from the current $20 billion. CII believes that creative and production services vertical of the In-dian M&E sector will contribute to the growth of this sector.Media and Entertainment is among the sectors included in the Government of India’s ‘Make in India’ campaign to pro-mote creative services, production, loca-tions and offshoring. The cost benefi ts for global M&E companies is estimated to be as high as 60-70%.The Indian content on screen reaches over 85 countries on all major platforms, including Netfl ix and iTunes. This is just the tip of the iceberg and is set to

increase in the coming years. After Hol-lywood, Indian cinema has the highest reach (in terms of distribution for fi lms) and reaches over 75 territories globally. India’s strength is emotional content -- telling human stories that resonate the world over, irrespective of the language barrier.The Indian animation and VFX enter-tainment industry has evolved rapidly in a very short span of time. Indian produc-tion studios and production talent have had the privilege of working with global majors like Disney, WB, DreamWorks, Sony, Viacom/Nick, BBC, Cartoon Net-work, Fox, Ubisoft and Zynga among several others. The industry has gained rapid momentum and is set to witness a boom in the future.The demand for animation services in India is growing at a reasonably quick pace owing to the increase in high-end TV shows -- this sector will grow at about 15%+ per annum over the next few years. The Indian media industry is the big-gest in the world by output. Over 500,000 hours of television content, 80,000 news-papers published daily, 1,600 feature fi lms each year. 98% of this output is concep-tualised, shaped and produced in India. 700 million Indians watch television for three hours every day. The industry sup-ports six million jobs directly and equal number of jobs indirectly.

For more information to participate and exhibit at GES email [email protected]

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India could be the international hub for global content. Let’s create in India for the world. Make in India, Show the World

Content creation in the digital format will allow the Indian creative community to access the world through new media platforms - “Made In India for the World”

Mr Biren Ghose, Country Head - Technicolor and President ABAI

India has one sixth of the global eyeballs. The global potential of our entertainment industry is expanding. Interest in Indian entertainment has gone beyond persons of Indian origin

Mr Arun Jaitley, Minister of Finance, Corporate Affairs, and Information & Broadcasting

We believe that M&E sector has huge prospects, and content production and services will play a major role towards achieving $100 billion Indian M&E sector by 2020

Mr Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII

57% of India’s GDP was contributed by the Services sector. Global Exhibition on Services will provide the platform to further boost India’s Services sector

Mr Rajeev Kher, Commerce Secretary, Ministry of Commerce & Industry

We can make India as the production studio for the world. There is hardly a fi lm in the world which does not have animation, VFX, post production done out of India

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India has abundant talent, production quality and offers cost advantage in the audio visual space. There is a potential to create 10 million Jobs in media space without massive public investments

Mr Ashish S KulkarniIndustry veteran, M&E

Business to Business meetings will be key focus at the Global Exhibition on Services. Entertainment industry has a huge potential in services sector

Mr Lalit Bhasin, Chairman, Services Export Promotion Council of India

India has immense untapped potential in services space particularly in sectors like fi lms, entertainment, tourism, yoga, hospitality, wellness... We are committed to encourage and facilitate India’s service sector

Ms Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of State for Commerce & Industry

I always say, Indian movies are Indian food – It’s an acquired taste, but once you’re hooked you can’t get enough of Indian cinema

Mr Avtar PanesarYRF’s Vice-President, InternationalOperations



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GES will offer a one-stop-shop for meetings, networking and collaboration in the entertainment space.GES is the place to explore fi lm shooting destinations across India.

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The exhibition would be a meeting place for countries, for global service sector players to forge new business relationships and enhance international trade in services.

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The demand for animation services in India is growing at a reasonably quick pace owing to the increase in high-end TV shows -- this sector will grow at about 15%+ per annum over the next few years.

Media and Entertainment is among the sectors included in the Government of India’s “Make in India” campaign to promote creative services, production, locations and offshoring.

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CAPITAL IMPACTFor GES delegates, New Delhi is a much more affordable location to do business during the expo. There is a wide range of hotel options. It’s also a very hospitable city with many restaurants offering the authentic fl avours.

It is a perfect launch pad for your products and services. If you are an App developer there is a great demand from companies looking at creating innovative Apps.

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Pickle lists fi ilmed entertainmnet services offered by Ultra

DIGITAL MEDIA WORKSUltra has set up technical studio facilities needed in-house and has been hiring out its capacities. It is equipped with state-of-the-art on-line and off-line editing studios, all types of video transfers, DVD authoring facilities, dubbing studio and post-production facilities.In short, Ultra is very well equipped with multiple units for various purposes to provide timely solutions to its clients.

2D to 3D Conversions Film Restoration 3D Production Services

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UR3D is able to process an existing fi lm (HD or higher (2K-4K)) and dimensionalize it for playback for: 3D stereo cinemas (RealD, Dolby3D), 3D stereo home systems (side by side or anaglyph) and/or digital signage systems (auto-stereoscopic, multi-view). Our process is in a controlled environment.

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Ultra’s newest thing in old fi lm restoration is the cutting edge technology, brand new AR-RISCAN Archive System with WETGATE technology, a mul-tidisciplinary and data-centric approach to fi lm restoration. The titles we work on end up look-ing and sounding more beautiful than when they were fi rst seen in theatres. State-of-the-art scan-ning is also done. Digital Resto-ration for Picture and Sound is one more advantage at Ultra.

Studio facilitiesStudio facilities offered by Ultra include digital intermediate & colour grading, DCP mastering, dubbing and editing units.

3D PRODUCTION SERVICESAs an integrated 3D service company, Ultra embraces live-action 3D. It works together with the top people in 3D production industry to create unique environments designed to achieve uncompromising quality, from pre-production through delivery and fi nally end-user experience.

ColorisationUltra’s wide range of facilities and experience in the technology side of the media industry, transformed many great black & white fi lms into colorised version which have been telecasted on top television channels to cater the audience of the current generation keeping the aesthetic value of that era where the fi lm belonged to.

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What is your view on On-demand, specifi cally from the perspective of world cinema and independent fi lms?Digital VOD offers an ideal platform to cater to the tastes and preferences of premium and niche audience as it allows them to watch content such as critically acclaimed parallel cinema that is diffi -cult to access otherwise. The platform is also ideal for fi lms that are made under small banners or those that address off-beat topics as it also gives the fi lmmakers direct access to focused viewer groups and helps them by-pass the conventional marketing and distribution channels. In recent times, there have been many movie makers and actors who are open to experimenting with real cinema and off beat genres, which might interest only certain sections of the society. In addition, many international fi lms and content are also fi nding audiences in the domestic market. Hence Digital VOD is a boon for world cinema and independent fi lms, to reach out to the right audience.

What are your expectations from large catalogued movie companies? How would you like to engage with them?Platforms such as Ditto TV present good value to aggregators of content like pro-duction houses and movie companies that own blockbusters and other critically ac-claimed works since they are able to tap a wider viewership and cover a greater sec-tion of audience, all through one medium. According to market statistics, close to 42 per cent of the movie trailers were con-sumed through mobile devices and with a

number of applications and websites now coming up, mobile television has become an independent medium in itself, with a very loyal audience base. Hence a strategic partnership with large catalogued movie companies is bound to be a win-win situ-ation for all. We are already in talks with some prominent movie distribution and production houses. Going forward our key focus will continue to be to explore partnerships with international content owners / production houses to bring rich premium content for our consumers and enhance their viewing experience.

We have several platforms today. Is Ditto TV present on all -- app ios, blackberry, windows 8?Ditto TV is the fi rst operator-agnostic ser-vice of its kind and it is present across all Operating Systems such as Android, iOS, Symbian, Windows, Windows PC, Win-dows phone, Windows MAC as well as on Connected TVs. Each platform is unique in its features and capabilities and hence the challenge here was to develop the best cross-formatted app, rather than for just couple of platforms. In fact, Ditto TV was ranked #1 on the AppleApp Store within a week of its launch, and listed in ‘Featured Apps’ on the BlackBerry App World & Windows Store ‘Spotlight’. Further to that, Ditto TV was ranked as the top trending app on Google Play Store and the number 1 Top Grossing app on the iOS App Store in the Entertainment category.

How is Ditto TV’s engagement with Content owners and aggregator?

Ditto TV of Zee New Media, ZEEL’s digital business arm, has witnessed a remarkable growth garnering over 5 lakh paid subscribers, over 5 million registered users and half a million downloads till date. An insight into this entertainment revolution for delegates at European Film Market, Berlin



What’s the transparency you have set in the engagement?The OTT segment has witnessed signifi -cant growth in recent times and one key element driving this growth has been the evolving ecosystem. We have better internet services, growing adoption for smart phones and reduction in internet tariffs by telecom players which has led to increasing the consumer engagement in the OTT space. Our engagement with content owners is more of a partnership than transactional. We want to co-exist with our partners in the eco system rath-

er than function in isolation. We have implemented a big data solution that gives us the capability to source complete information on the demographics of the consumer: nature of content consumed, duration of viewing, devices used, geo-graphical spread, etc. In addition we can also offer subscription pattern, viewer-ship details, most viewed content etc. all of which is valuable insight for content owners. This information helps them streamline the content as per user prefer-ence and offers scope for content localiza-tion.

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Since its inception, Ditto TV has witnessed a remarkable growth garnering over 5 lakh paid subscribers, 5 million users and over half a million downloads till date. Ditto TV has a huge network spanning across 176 countries including UK, UAE, New Zealand, Australia and the US. It has also strengthened its position in the APAC region with viewers from 17 countries, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, Thailand, New Zealand and Taiwan, have access to Live ZEE content using the Ditto TV app. One strategic development in the recent months was the tie–up with Fortumo to introduce a new payment option for consumers wherein they can pay through their mobile operator. In addition, we have also partnered with ‘Payment Solution Providers’ like Oxigen, itzcash, Payworld and Pay1 which offers Ditto TV users the convenience to make payments at these solution provider kiosks or even at the nearest retail outlets. On the content offering, Ditto TV has added a number of new channels including three HD channels from the National Geographic stable, Al Jazeera, three channels from the Times Television Network (TNN) - ET Now, Times Now and Zoom to its bouquet and the 24 hour international channel, Bikini TV is also now available LIVE on the app.



MAMI: NEW TEAM, NEW PLANS

A new team has taken over Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI) under Chairperson Kiran Rao. Mumbai Film Festival Director Anupama Chopra, fi lm critic and author spoke to Pickle on changes at MAMI. The MAMI team is at Berlinale 2015

MAMI has now got new faces and new management team for its 17th edition. What’s on offer this year? Give a feel-ing of what to expect at MAMI?2015 is the new face of MAMI and while it’s still very early, I think we can defi nitely expect a lot of change. We want to do many things. We are extremely ambitious and I am hoping that many of those things come true. What we want to do is create a 360 degree experience for the delegates. Not make it just about watching movies in the theatre but listening to people talk about movies and experiencing movies in more ways than one. This will of course translate into many different things which I don’t want to talk about until they’re all set in stone but defi nitely, it’s going to be a new and exciting MAMI.

As a festival director, what’s your ob-jective? What’s the overall vision of MAMI going forward? My objective and my vision is to create a two way dialogue. I would like for MAMI to be the one stop shop for the best in Indian cinema and I would like MAMI to be the gateway of great world cinema for the

people of Mumbai and for the people who travel to come here and see these movies. So it works both ways. We offer the best of world cinema to the people of Mumbai and we offer the best of Indian cinema to the world.

What’s your focus at Berlinale this year?Our focus at Berlinale this year would be to go out and meet people and tell them about the changes at MAMI. We had a scare last year with the funding situation. People were concerned whether the festival would happen or not. So I think our biggest focus at the Berlinale is to go in there and tell people that we are here, MAMI will happen, come let us collaborate, let us build something great together.

There is no Cannes without French Films and Berlinale without a fl avour of German cinema? What about Mum-bai’s MAMI?MAMI would of course be absolutely incomplete without Indian fi lms; there is no question about it. Last year itself we had an Indian fi lm Chaitanya Tamhane’s

Anupama ChopraDirector, Mumbai Film Festival

MAMI: MOVIES & MOVES



‘Court’ winning the International competition’s number one prize. I agree that there is no MAMI without the Indian cinema.

Will MAMI be a catalyst for Indian cinema spread to newer territories?I certainly hope so and one of our aims is that we need to spread it. We need to take Indian cinema far and wide and that’s why we need to have the best of Indian cinema showing here so that programmers and sales agents can come here, look at it and take it further. Absolutely, it is very important.

What are the international fi lm festi-vals you love the most?For me Cannes and Toronto are the two international festivals that are just incredible. I’ve been to Cannes for more often than I have been to Toronto but I love both festivals. I think they do unique things and they do them extremely well.

MAMI in 2014 survived because of passionate support from many indus-try stakeholders. MAMI crowd fund-ing is a global case study now. How’s it going to be funded this year?We are hoping for it to be a combination of state, public and corporate partnership. So some funding coming in from patrons, some from states and some from corporate sponsors. That is the ambition right now.

MAMI is also a breeding ground for fi rst time fi lmmakers. Have you seen success on this front?I think it’s been extremely successful in being a breeding ground for fi rst time fi lmmakers. Last year like I said Chaitanya Tamhane won for Court, also Chauranga which was a fi rst time fi lm, Killa by Avinash Arun; all these fi lms got awards. I think it’s a great breeding ground; it’s a great platform for young fi lmmakers to get noticed.

India has not got a full-fl edged market for fi lms? Do you see emergence of

Mumbai Film Mart and fi ll this gap?We still haven’t taken a call on the market. We do want to have a market but it won’t be traditional. We want to create something new and something exciting that serves our needs. I think what we don’t want to do with MAMI is simply ape other fi lm festivals because the needs of Mumbai city, the needs of Indian fi lmmakers are different and we would like to fulfi l those.

You are moving as a MAMI festival director after being an accomplished journalist/writer and someone who has seen Indian fi lm industry fi rst hand? Any challenges? There are only challenges in this job. Right now, it’s a blank slate and we are starting construction from the ground up. But MAMI has a great legacy and a 16 year-old foundation. I hope we will build something enduring that serves Mumbai and Indian cinema.




Anupama Chopra is a fi lm critic, televi-sion anchor and author. She is also di-rector of the Mumbai Film Festival. She has been writing about Bollywood since 1993. Her work has appeared in pub-lications such as The New York Times, Hindustan Times, The Los Angeles Times and Vogue (India). She is founder and editor of the Film Companion chan-nel on YouTube. Film Companion offers a curated look at cinema – Bollywood, Hollywood and beyond. Anupama has also worked extensively with Star World, Star Plus and NDTV 24/7. In 2001, Anupama won the National Award for Best Book on Cinema for Sholay: The Making of a Classic.



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SHAMITABHThe fi lm Shamitabh according to director R Balki is an ode to the Amitabh Bachchan baritone, the voice of India. In the fi lm, Amitabh Bachchan plays an alcoholic voice-over artiste who is employed by a mute aspiring actor (Dhanush). Together they form “Shamitabh” and become successful till ego creates a rift between the two. Sham-itabh, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Dhanush and debutante Akshara Haasan, is an unconventional story of two egotistic individuals, who are at their most powerful when together. The fi lm is produced by Eros International and Hope Productions, releases February 6.



DETECTIVE BYOMKESH BAKSHY! is based on Saradindu Bandyopadhyay’s well-known and successful fi ctional detective, Byomkesh Bakshy and is a contemporary interpretation of Calcutta during the 1940’s. This fi rst of its kind detective fi lm is an adventure thriller mired in deep political intrigue. A young, astute and intelligent Byomkesh, fresh out of college, pits himself against a mega world villain, depending more on his intuition and instinct rather than concrete proof, to solve the case, sometimes overstepping the law if needed. Yash Raj Films is proud to present a Dibakar Banerjee Film, DETECTIVE BYOMKESH BAKSHY! which releases worldwide on April 3.





BOMBAY VELVETBombay Velvet directed by Anurag Kashyap is the most awaited fi lm this year. Set against the jazz age of Mumbai, the story spans a period from the late 1940’s through to the 1970’s. Bombay Velvet is the story of the rise and fall of one boy Balraj who transforms into Karan, a gangster in Mumbai post Inde-pendence and on the verge of becoming a metropolis. Ranbir Kapoor plays a street fi ghter who turns into a tycoon in the movie. Anushka Sharma plays a nightclub jazz singer at a club. Bollywood fi lm producer and director Karan Johar is making his acting debut with the fi lm and is said to be playing a villain. The fi lm is based on historian Gyan Prakash’s book Mumbai Fables. The fi lm is scheduled to release May 15. The fi lm is jointly produced by Phantom Films and Fox Star India. International Sales: Fox Star Studios India.




FANShahrukh Khan, the man unarguably with one of the greatest fan followings globally, will now play the role of being the biggest fan himself in the forthcoming YRF movie, FAN.

UTTAMA VILLAINThis fi lm by Kamal Haasan features him in a dual role, and one among them, interestingly, is an ageing superstar. Directed by Ramesh Aravind, the movie has music by Ghibran. Pooja Kumar and Andrea Jeremiah are the heroines.

YENNAI ARINDHALThis has brought together Ajith and fi lmmaker Gau-tham Vasudev Menon for the fi rst time. Touted to be a gripping action thriller, ‘Yennai Arindhal’ has two lead ladies- Trisha and Anushka Shetty. Music is by Harris Jayaraj.

THAARAI THAPPATTAIMaestro Ilayaraja’s 1,000th movie is being directed by Bala, one of the much acclaimed fi lmmakers of Tamil cinema. Sasikumar and Varalaxmi play key roles in this fl ick, which tracks the lives of folk artistes.

Following are major 2015 Fox Star Studios India productions.Mr X - April 17 (Starring Emraan Hashmi, Director: Vikram Bhatt)

Hamaari Adhuri Kahaani - June 12 (produced by Mahesh Bhatt’s Vishesh Films and presented by Fox Star Studios)

Guddu Rangeela - July 3 (director Subhash Kapoor, Starring Arshad Warsi)

MS Dhoni - The Untold Story - Oct 22 (Neeraj Pandey’s bio-pic starring Sushant Singh Rajput)

Prem Ratan Dhan Payo - Nov 12 (Produced by Fox Star Studios and Rajshri Productions, Prem Ratan Dhan Payo stars Salmaan Khan, Neil Nitin Mukesh)


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We are happy to present the February edition of Pickle on the occasion of Berlinale and

European Film Market 2015. Nagesh Kukunoor’s Dhanak (Rainbow) in the Generation KPlus Section is the only fi lm selected this year at Berlinale from India. Ten Indian fi lms were screened in the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. It is very interesting to note that nine from India are part of Berlinale Talents. Ritesh Batra and Avinash Arun’s works are selected in the Berlinale Co-Production Projects.All this would not have been possible without Dorothee Wenner, delegate for Indian fi lm selection for Berlinale. Along with Meenakshi Shede, Dorothee has been vigorously scouting for talented fi lmmakers’ work to reach to the Berlinale board.Over 40 Indian fi lm companies are at EFM including major studios. India has representation from across the country. Major chunk of Indian delegates at Berlinanle include young fi lmmakers. Saibal Chatterjee’s article on the new emerging Indian fi lmmakers refl ects the changing grammar of Indian cinema.We also have a special feature on the Global Exhibition on Services, to be organised by the Ministry of Commerce

and Industry, in partnership with CII and SEPC in New Delhi (April 23-25, 2015). The Indian media ecosystem is changing fast. There are 800 TV channels, 500,000 hours of TV content output, 250 million Internet users (set to cross 500 million in next 18 to 24 months), 900 million mobile phones (of which 100 million top-end smart phone users), 80,000 newspapers published daily, 1,200 feature fi lms. And, Hollywood studios are making movies for domestic consumption. Indian start-up ecosystem is beginning to mature specially in the digital media and e-commerce space.Indian government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched the new ‘Make in India’ initiative to promote India as a global manufacturing and services hub nationally and abroad to boost the country’s economic prospect. Media & Entertainment is one of the sectors in the `Make in India’ campaign. We request every Berlinale and EFM delegate to engage and look at engaging with an Indian counterpart and do at least one project out of India. Be it service or creative output, only you have to imagine what you want, and you can get that done in India.Feel free to email your thoughts and suggestions.

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