Ramachandran India Latest Celebrity News & Gossip

Naman Ramachandran Indian cinema superstar Rajinikanth, 70, will be the 2021 recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke award, India’s highest film honor.The award is given for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema and is named after Phalke, director of “Raja Harischandra” (1913), India’s first full-length feature, who is considered the father of Indian cinema.

Naman Ramachandran Indian ticketing giant BookMyShow launched in India’s burgeoning TVOD market on Friday armed with deals from Hollywood studio majors and 600 movie titles including “Wonder Woman 1984,” “Unhinged” and “Tenet.”The service, called BookMyShow Stream, has deals in place with Hollywood suppliers including Sony Pictures, Warner Bros.

Naman Ramachandran India’s A.R. Rahman, the Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Grammy winning composer of “Slumdog Millionaire” will score the music for upcoming war film “Pippa.” In doing so he teams up with two of India’s leading producers.The film is produced by Ronnie Screwvala’s RSVP and Siddharth Roy Kapur’s Roy Kapur Films, and directed by Raja Krishna Menon (“Airlift”).

Naman Ramachandran India has the highest consumption of films on Netflix globally. During 2020, 80% of subscribers in the country chose to watch a film every week, revealed Monika Shergill, VP, content, Netflix India.The information is part of year end viewership data that Netflix has published for several territories across the Asia region.

Naman Ramachandran Indian arthouse filmmaker Pushpendra Singh’s latest effort, feminist fable “The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs” (Laila Aur Satt Geet) is bowing at the Singapore International Film Festival after plaudits at Berlin, Hong Kong and Jeonju.The film, based on renowned Rajasthani writer Vidaydan Detha’s story of a woman discarding all identities society wants to impose on her, and making her own choices, uses the narrative device of seven local folk songs to describe the

Naman Ramachandran Indian studio Yash Raj Films’ “Bunty Aur Babli 2,” starring Saif Ali Khan (“Sacred Games”) and Rani Mukerji (“Hichki”) has wrapped production with the shooting of a song and dance routine.The shoot, at Mumbai’s Yash Raj Films studios, adhered to the Indian government’s recently announced safety protocols that allow movies to restart production in the COVID-19 era.The film was essentially complete, save the song, by March, when the spread of coronavirus halted production

Naman Ramachandran Indian media conglomerate Zee Entertainment Enterprises has announced a premium VOD service Zee Plex. The platform makes it likely that more top film titles will bypass cinemas and release directly online, at a time when Indian cinemas remain shuttered due to the coronavirus pandemic.The Zee5 platform was one of the first to announce a direct-to-OTT title with “Ghoomketu,” starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui (“Sacred Games”).

Naman Ramachandran Indian cinema superstars Prabhas and Deepika Padukone will star together for the first time in an as yet untitled film referred to currently as #Prabhas21.The project hails from outside the Bollywood mainstream. But it brings together Prabhas, the reigning king of Telugu-language, or Tollywood, regional cinema, and Padukone as a model turned actress who is now regarded as Bollywood’s leading lady.It is being produced by C.

Naman Ramachandran Indian streamer Disney Plus Hotstar has appointed Sunil Rayan as president and head. He will report into Uday Shankar, president, The Walt Disney Company Asia Pacific, and chairman Star and Disney India.Rayan is a technologist with more than 20 years of experience.

By Naman Ramachandran