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Anjaana Anjaani negative stuck in US
03 years ago
by Fenil Seta
in Bollywood News
By Subhash K. Jha, March 22, 2010 – 12:04 IST
Producer Sajid Nadiadwala is spending sweaty sleepless nights. The entire unit of his film Anjaana Anjaani came back from the US. But the negative stock of his shot footage is still in the US, awaited a flight. This startling eventuality because there was no direct flight from San Francisco to Mumbai before Monday.
Anything can happen in transit. Agrees Sajid, “It is risky especially for an Indian film and that too for a producer with a name belonging to a particular community. But I had no choice but to wait till Monday for the shot footage to be sent from San Francisco to Mumbai .That’s when there’s a direct flight from San Francisco to Mumbai.”
According to Sajid, connecting flights are too risky. “If the footage had to change flights the risk of misplacement would be far greater. So I’d rather brave a delay and let my film come on a direct flight.”
In the meanwhile, as Monday creeps up on Sajid, he contemplates in his head the possibility, remote as it is, of even a part of the film being lost. “There’s nothing we can do if even part of the footage gets damaged or lost in transit.”
The precious cargo is insured. “But what good would the money do to me if the footage doesn’t reach Mumbai intact?”, reasons Sajid.
Anjaana Anjaani is at the moment kept in film lab in San Francisco. This is the first that the unit has returned without the film. Hopefully, all the labour that Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra have More >
Peepli Live at Sundance-Co director shares his experience
03 years ago
by Fenil Seta
in Bollywood News
By Mahmood Farooqui (MUMBAI MIRROR; February 01, 2010)
// // // The Sundance ‘thing’ started for us in the shuttle as we travelled from the airport at Salt Lake City, the capital of Utah, to Park City where the festival is mainly held. We were sharing the cab with an Iranian origin investment banker from London who had come to attend the premiere of his Arab-origin, New York-based girlfriend’s first film, The Imperialists are still Alive. Sitting at the front was a sales agent from L.A who was good friends, believe it or not, with Gulshan Grover and had helped produce Deepa Mehta’s Earth: 1947. It was all very international and also very US.
Our first screening of Peepli Live took place at the Egyptian theatre, down Main Street, the only screening venue which is located in the Park City. The quaint theatre hall was completely full and the first public screening of the film and also the premiere, went down much better than we expected. A hall full of Americans seemed to enjoy every nuance of what is a very Indian film. The Q and A afterwards, and this was true of every subsequent screening, had charged up Americans wanting to unravel complex economic issues of rural India.
The festival itself is spread out over several theatres several miles from each other and they are all unconventional venues. The Temple theatre is a Jewish synagogue, the Library is located at a school, The Yarrow is a hotel, Prospector is a lodge while the Eccles, the largest of them all, is More >