All articles by Nandita Dutta – Page 2

  • Revathy
    News

    Revathy moves into Homestay Blues

    2013-11-24T01:30:00Z

    South Indian actress Revathy will star Miriam Chandy Menacherry’s Homestay Blues, which has been selected for this year’s Co-production Market at Film Bazaar.

  • The Good Road
    News

    BGP journeys on Correa’s Good Road

    2013-11-24T01:30:00Z

    New York-based BGP Film has picked up North American rights to Gyan Correa’s The Good Road, which is India’s official entry to the foreign-language category of the Academy Awards.

  • Rajkummar Rao
    News

    Rajkummar to star in Mahajan’s Daily

    2013-11-23T01:30:00Z

    Rajkummar Rao has been cast in Nikhil Mahajan’s Daily (Dainik), which was selected for this year’s NFDC Screenwriters’ Lab.  

  • Pan Nalin
    News

    Nalin wraps Angry Indian Goddesses

    2013-11-23T01:30:00Z

    Paris-based Indian filmmaker Pan Nalin has wrapped principal photography on his debut in mainstream Hindi cinema, coming-of-age drama Angry Indian Goddesses.

  • Gurvinder Singh
    News

    Singh’s Fourth Direction finds its way

    2013-11-22T01:30:00Z

    Gurvinder Singh’s The Fourth Direction is scheduled to start shooting in mid-January, 2014 after securing support from French funding body CNC.

  • Anup Singh
    News

    Anup Singh to jump Over The Rainbow

    2013-11-22T01:30:00Z

    Qissa director Anup Singh is working on an adaptation of UK author Paul Pickering’s novel Over The Rainbow. The film will be produced by Switzerland-based Saskia Vischer Productions.

  • With You, Without You
    Features

    Sri Lankan filmmakers wait for peace dividend

    2013-11-21T12:42:00Z

    A lack of government support, digital cinemas and professional producers are hampering the development of the film industry in post-war Sri Lanka.

  • Ruchika Oberoi
    News

    Oberoi’s Island City starts production

    2013-11-21T02:30:00Z

    Principal photography has started on Island City, written and directed by Indian filmmaker Ruchika Oberoi, which participated in NFDC Screenwriters’ Lab in 2012.

  • Light In The Yellow Breathing Space
    News

    Rabbit's Killing next for Jayasundara

    2012-12-16T03:00:00Z

    Paris-based Sri Lankan director Vimukthi Jayasundara’s next feature will be a tale of homecoming set in Galle, a port-city in southern Sri Lanka. 

  • News

    Ganguly debut set to be Banished

    2012-12-16T03:00:00Z

    Bengali actress Churni Ganguly, who appeared in Kaushik Ganguly’s Sound and Laptop, is set to make her directorial debut with a feature film about Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin.

  • Valley Of Saints
    News

    Saints team in tandem on The Cycle

    2012-12-15T07:02:00Z

    Musa Syeed, director of Kashmir-set Valley Of Saints, is re-teaming with producer Nicholas Bruckman and DoP Yoni Brook to shoot his next feature The Cycle in the Republic of Yemen.

  • Ashim Ahluwalia
    News

    India's indie filmmakers question new wave

    2012-12-13T10:25:00Z

    The concept of the Indian New Wave has been over-hyped and doesn’t reflect the current situation in Indian cinema, said Miss Lovely director Ashim Ahluwalia at a DIFF Forum panel yesterday.

  • Kaushik Ganguly
    Features

    Kaushik Ganguly

    2012-12-11T17:48:00Z

    Kaushik Ganguly talks to Screen about his latest feature Sound.

  • News

    Indian Kiss finds partners at Film Bazaar

    2012-11-24T07:59:00Z

    Guneet Monga of India’s Sikhya Entertainment and Giulia Achilli of Italy’s Dugong Production have signed a deal at Film Bazaar to co-produce a documentary on the depiction of romance in Indian cinema.

  • Pan Nalin
    News

    Arsam and Reservoir move to Pan Nalin's Known World

    2012-11-24T07:55:00Z

    Ilann Girard of Paris-based Arsam International has boarded Pan Nalin’s Film Bazaar project, Beyond The Known World, as co-producer alongside New Zealand’s Reservoir Films.

  • News

    Mammootty to star in Ahamed's Shop

    2012-11-24T07:52:00Z

    Malayalam superstar Mammootty will play the lead in Kunjanandan’s Shop (Kunjananthante Kada), the latest project from National Film Award-winning director Salim Ahamed.

  • Peepli Live
    News

    Peepli Live directors option Sethi's A Free Man

    2012-11-23T02:30:00Z

    Delhi-based filmmakers Anusha Rizvi and Mahmood Farooqui are planning an adaptation of Aman Sethi’s non-fiction work A Free Man, which they are planning as a sequel to their 2010 hit Peepli Live.

  • Delhi In A Day
    News

    Bliss, Film Base Berlin board Nair's Umrika

    2012-11-22T02:30:00Z

    Jim Birmant of Paris-based Bliss and Mathias Schwerbrock of Film Base Berlin have boarded Indian-born director Prashant Nair’s new project Umrika as co-producers.

  • Irrfan Khan
    News

    Global partners tuck into Lunchbox

    2012-11-21T02:30:00Z

    EXCLUSIVE: Indian filmmaker Ritesh Batra has lined up a host of international collaborators for his debut feature The Lunchbox (Dabba), a co-production between France’s ASAP Films, Germany’s rohfilm, New York-based Cine Mosaic and India’s Anurag Kashyap Films. 

  • Amitabh Bachchan
    News

    Amitabh Bachchan to star in Kabuliwala

    2012-11-21T02:30:00Z

    EXCLUSIVE: Superstar Amitabh Bachchan is attached to play the lead in French-Afghan filmmaker Atiq Rahimi’s screen adaptation of Rabindranath Tagore’s short story Kabuliwala.