The 2002 Gujarat riots, also known as the 2002 Gujarat violence, was a three-day period of inter-communal violence in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The burning of a train in Godhra on 27 February 2002, which caused the deaths of 58 Hindu pilgrims and karsevaks returning from Ayodhya, is cited as having instigated the violence. Following the initial riot incidents, there were further outbreaks in Ahmedabad for three months; statewide, there were further outbreaks of violence against the minority Muslim population of Gujarat for the next year.
According to official figures, the riots ended with 1,044 dead, 223 missing, and 2,500 injured. Of the dead, 790 were Muslim and 254 Hindu. Dakxinkumar Bajrange sets his story in the same area, 10 years after the events, with the fire of terrorism still burning intensely, as the serial bomb blasts instigated by Yasin Darji and the tension in the neighborhoods where Muslims and Hindus co-exist eloquently highlight.
Sameer is screening at International...
According to official figures, the riots ended with 1,044 dead, 223 missing, and 2,500 injured. Of the dead, 790 were Muslim and 254 Hindu. Dakxinkumar Bajrange sets his story in the same area, 10 years after the events, with the fire of terrorism still burning intensely, as the serial bomb blasts instigated by Yasin Darji and the tension in the neighborhoods where Muslims and Hindus co-exist eloquently highlight.
Sameer is screening at International...
- 1/31/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Raaz, Haunted, 1920: Evil Returns, Vikram Bhatt’s fascination with horror films is a long standing one. He loves to sell fear, he proclaims. In his latest offering as writer, producer, he backs debutant director Ayush Raina in Horror Story.
Seven friends, high on revelry on a night-out at a pub, meet to celebrate the farewell of one of them who is set to go abroad. As the night closes on them, they watch the news of the shutting down of Hotel Grandiose, owing to a suicide and subsequent declarations of it being haunted causing it’s abandonment. A debate on ‘do you believe in ghosts’ ensues and in their drunken stupor, they decide to venture over to the hotel.
When asked why they had cast a bunch of newcomers, Vikram Bhatt said that he was selling fear and not stardom. Well played! The ensemble cast of mostly debutants ensures...
Seven friends, high on revelry on a night-out at a pub, meet to celebrate the farewell of one of them who is set to go abroad. As the night closes on them, they watch the news of the shutting down of Hotel Grandiose, owing to a suicide and subsequent declarations of it being haunted causing it’s abandonment. A debate on ‘do you believe in ghosts’ ensues and in their drunken stupor, they decide to venture over to the hotel.
When asked why they had cast a bunch of newcomers, Vikram Bhatt said that he was selling fear and not stardom. Well played! The ensemble cast of mostly debutants ensures...
- 9/15/2013
- by Pooja Rao
- Bollyspice
I don’t usually begin interviews with a synopsis and a trailer, but for this one I think I must, to give you an idea about what Faiza Ahmad Khan’s Supermen of Malegaon is all about.
Malegaon, a small town tucked away near the heart of India geographically, is fraught with communal tension and under economic depression. To escape the harsh reality of their world, its people seek refuge in the fantastical world of cinema.
This passion for cinema has spurred a group of cinema enthusiasts to make their own films-quirky, low budget, socially aware and notoriously funny spoofs of Bollywood films. Their ambition has grown and now they are ready to take on Hollywood and Superman.
We follow them on this journey. At times funny, tragic, contemplative. Always warm and engaging. And as the film begins to take shape, through schemes and approaches that are sublimely ingenious, simply bizarre and purely hysterical,...
Malegaon, a small town tucked away near the heart of India geographically, is fraught with communal tension and under economic depression. To escape the harsh reality of their world, its people seek refuge in the fantastical world of cinema.
This passion for cinema has spurred a group of cinema enthusiasts to make their own films-quirky, low budget, socially aware and notoriously funny spoofs of Bollywood films. Their ambition has grown and now they are ready to take on Hollywood and Superman.
We follow them on this journey. At times funny, tragic, contemplative. Always warm and engaging. And as the film begins to take shape, through schemes and approaches that are sublimely ingenious, simply bizarre and purely hysterical,...
- 7/14/2012
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
After successful screenings at festivals across the globe, Supermen of Malegaon is slated for theatrical release in India on June 29, 2012. The film has had an extraordinary journey since the idea was first mooted but its biggest hurdle was securing a theatrical release in India, which has now been achieved.
Supermen of Malegaon is a documentary that captures a motley bunch of cinema fanatics in Malegaon, Maharashtra who remake Bollywood and Hollywood films on miniscule budgets, which they shoot, star in and screen for their local audience in Malegaon. This time, they take on the challenge of making Superman. The film follows them on this journey-at times funny, tragic and contemplative.
Supermen of Malegaon took off when Director Faiza Ahmad Khan, along with co-producer Gargey Trivedi & Siddharth Thakur, won the Asian Pitch in Singapore. The Asian Pitch is organised by Mediacorp in Singapore, Nhk in Japan and Kbs in South Korea.
Supermen of Malegaon is a documentary that captures a motley bunch of cinema fanatics in Malegaon, Maharashtra who remake Bollywood and Hollywood films on miniscule budgets, which they shoot, star in and screen for their local audience in Malegaon. This time, they take on the challenge of making Superman. The film follows them on this journey-at times funny, tragic and contemplative.
Supermen of Malegaon took off when Director Faiza Ahmad Khan, along with co-producer Gargey Trivedi & Siddharth Thakur, won the Asian Pitch in Singapore. The Asian Pitch is organised by Mediacorp in Singapore, Nhk in Japan and Kbs in South Korea.
- 6/15/2012
- by Press Releases
- Bollyspice
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