Reliance to make Big Entertainment
(No Ratings Yet)Mumbai, May 17 (Sampurn): Reliance Big Entertainment, the media and entertainment arm of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, has finalized 69 films in nine languages for production and distribution over the next two years.The films include those in partnership with India’s leading production houses and Reliance’s own in-house films. The important deals include two film deals with Vidhu Vinod Chopra, including a mainstream English language film Broken Horses, a six-film deal with Excel entertainment promoted by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani, including Shah Rukh Khan starrer Don II.
In addition, there is also a two-film deal with director Shyam Benegal, four-film deal with Madhur Bhandarkar, three-film deal with Vivek Agnihotri and two-film deal with Sudhir Mishra.
According to Amit Khanna, Chairman of Reliance BIG Entertainment, Reliance ADA Group has 106 operating cinema screens at present and it is expected to go up to 400 by the end of the calendar year 2009. Earlier this year, the group made its foray into the US exhibition market and has expanded its film exhibition presence across India, Malaysia and Mauritius.
Out of the total films, those in post production stage are ‘Rock On’, ‘Sarkar Raj’ , ‘Love Story 2050’, ‘Pathshala’, Tamil film ‘Yaavaram Nallam’, ‘Hulla’, ‘Summer 2007’, Punjabi film ‘Mera Pind’ and ‘Shabri’.
On the other hand, films on the floor include ‘Luck By Chance’, ‘Daddy Cool’, ‘Singh is King’, ‘Sultan-the Warrior’, ‘Dulha Mil Gaya’, ‘Sikander’ and animation film ‘Hey Krishna’.
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