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| Ticket2Bollywood: Bollywood’s “HIT” Filmmakers Share The Secrets of Their Craft with New York Film Fraternity, Aspiring Moviemakers, and Cinephiles |
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| (September 12, 2012 – New York, NY) New York and Mumbai-based Molecule Communications unveils its FIRST Bollywood event in the Big Apple, Ticket2Bollywood. The two-day education exchange, themed Bollywood: Beyond the Song and Dance, features some of the most successful Indian filmmakers in the business. It also provides a platform for aspiring actors, directors, and producers to glean “insider” information about direction, production, script writing, and financing movies in the largest film industry in the world – Bollywood. The conference is scheduled for October 6 and 7 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Dream Downtown Hotel (355 W 16th St., between 8th and 9th Avenues). A press conference will be held for accredited media from 12:30 to 2 p.m. on Saturday, October 6, and one-on-one interviews will be made available upon request. Media RSVP is required. |
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| The roster of powerhouse Bollywood “household” names includes: |
- Madhur Bhandarkar: National Award-winner for Best Director for Traffic Signal and director of National Award-winning movies Chandni Bar, Page 3, and Fashion (Priyanka Chopra). At the end of September, Bhandarkar is releasing the most-awaited movie of the year, Heroine (Kareena Kapoor).
- Imtiaz Ali: Nominated for Best Director for recent super hit Rockstar (Ranbir Kapoor) and 2007’s Jab We Met (Shahik Kapur & Kareena Kapoor). Ali also directed Love Aaj Kal and Socha Na Tha. Most recently, Ali wrote the script for Cocktail (Saif Ali Khan).
- Zoya Akhtar: FilmFare Award for Best Director for Zindagi Na Milege Dobara (Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar). Also directed Luck by Chance (Konkana Sen Sharma) and writer of soon-to-be-released Taalash (Aamir Khan).
- Anuraadha Tewari: Gold Medalist for Direction from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, and script writer of Fashion, Jail, and soon-to-be-released Heroine.
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| “At a time in our film history when Bollywood and Indian independent movies are in the international media spotlight, whether it is at Cannes, Sundance, or at the Oscars,” says Molecule Communications Director Ajay Shrivastav, “we want to educate anyone who is interested in Bollywood about what it takes to make a film a ‘hit.’ Our films have gone beyond the Bollywood that portrayed couples ‘fake’ kissing surreptitiously behind trees or having arranged marriages because they had no choice. This young crop of directors and writers is capturing the ‘truest’ sense of what it means to grow up Indian in a global world, and we are thrilled to be presenting all of them together for the first time in the United States during the 100th year of Indian cinema.” |
TICKETS ARE LIMITED!!! Student tickets are $250 and general admission is $300 for the two-day conference. To register for the conference, please visit www.ticket2bollywood.eventbrite.com. If participants register by Sept. 25th, they are entered to win one of FOUR coveted seats at a private breakfast with the four filmmakers on Sunday, October 7. For the complete schedule of panels discussions and speaker information, please visit www.ticket2bollywood.co. |
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