Paris-based Indian filmmaker Pan Nalin has wrapped principal photography on his debut in mainstream Hindi cinema, coming-of-age drama Angry Indian Goddesses.
The film features a hot ensemble cast of established and up-and-coming actresses, including Tannishtha Chatterjee (Brick Lane), Sandhya Mridul (The Great Indian Butterfly), singer Anushka Manchanda, actress Rajashri Deshpande, former Miss India Sarah-Jane Dias, model-turned-actress Amrit Maghera and model Pavleen Gujral.
Set in Goa, the film revolves around seven women from different walks of life who come together on a friend’s invitation. The film is produced by Jungle Book Entertainment, owned by Nalin and Gaurav Dhingra.
“It’s a light-hearted female buddy film. We have tried to deal with contemporary issues related to women without being preachy,” said Nalin. “It’s made with the sensibility of my earlier films and is not-over-the-top. But it’s my most commercial film till date.”
Nalin has previously directed features such as Samsara and Valley Of Flowers. His recent...
The film features a hot ensemble cast of established and up-and-coming actresses, including Tannishtha Chatterjee (Brick Lane), Sandhya Mridul (The Great Indian Butterfly), singer Anushka Manchanda, actress Rajashri Deshpande, former Miss India Sarah-Jane Dias, model-turned-actress Amrit Maghera and model Pavleen Gujral.
Set in Goa, the film revolves around seven women from different walks of life who come together on a friend’s invitation. The film is produced by Jungle Book Entertainment, owned by Nalin and Gaurav Dhingra.
“It’s a light-hearted female buddy film. We have tried to deal with contemporary issues related to women without being preachy,” said Nalin. “It’s made with the sensibility of my earlier films and is not-over-the-top. But it’s my most commercial film till date.”
Nalin has previously directed features such as Samsara and Valley Of Flowers. His recent...
- 11/23/2013
- ScreenDaily
Paris-based Indian filmmaker Pan Nalin has wrapped principal photography on his debut in mainstream Hindi cinema, coming-of-age drama Angry Indian Goddesses.
The film features a hot ensemble cast of established and up-and-coming actresses, including Tannishtha Chatterjee (Brick Lane), Sandhya Mridul (The Great Indian Butterfly), singer Anushka Manchanda, actress Rajashri Deshpande, former Miss India Sarah-Jane Dias, model-turned-actress Amrit Maghera and model Pavleen Gujral.
Set in Goa, the film revolves around seven women from different walks of life who come together on a friend’s invitation. The film is produced by Jungle Book Entertainment, owned by Nalin and Gaurav Dhingra.
“It’s a light-hearted female buddy film. We have tried to deal with contemporary issues related to women without being preachy,” said Nalin. “It’s made with the sensibility of my earlier films and is not-over-the-top. But it’s my most commercial film till date.”
Nalin has previously directed features such as Samsara and Valley Of Flowers. His recent...
The film features a hot ensemble cast of established and up-and-coming actresses, including Tannishtha Chatterjee (Brick Lane), Sandhya Mridul (The Great Indian Butterfly), singer Anushka Manchanda, actress Rajashri Deshpande, former Miss India Sarah-Jane Dias, model-turned-actress Amrit Maghera and model Pavleen Gujral.
Set in Goa, the film revolves around seven women from different walks of life who come together on a friend’s invitation. The film is produced by Jungle Book Entertainment, owned by Nalin and Gaurav Dhingra.
“It’s a light-hearted female buddy film. We have tried to deal with contemporary issues related to women without being preachy,” said Nalin. “It’s made with the sensibility of my earlier films and is not-over-the-top. But it’s my most commercial film till date.”
Nalin has previously directed features such as Samsara and Valley Of Flowers. His recent...
- 11/23/2013
- ScreenDaily
L-r: Pawan Kumar, Yogesh Karikurve, Sarthak Dasgupta
T he concept of crowd-funding is not new in India. Shyam Benegal made Manthan by collecting Rs 2 each from about five lakh farmers. Back then, it did not have the fancy name ‘Crowd-Funding’ but was called ‘Chanda’. The concept is now becoming popular with Indian filmmakers and has given rise to online portals devoted to the cause and business of crowd funding.
The Mumbai Film Festival 2013 hosted a panel discussion on ‘Crowd Culture’ on October 22. The panelists were:
Pawan Kumar, director of Kannada film Lucia, made with Rs 51 lakh collected from around 1,300 people from India and from Indians abroad using Facebook and blogs. The film released all over the country on September 6, 2013 and was a commercial as well as critical success.
Sarthak Dasgupta, known for The Great Indian Butterfly, ran a successful crowd funding campaign on Catapooolt for his project Cut Throat, a...
T he concept of crowd-funding is not new in India. Shyam Benegal made Manthan by collecting Rs 2 each from about five lakh farmers. Back then, it did not have the fancy name ‘Crowd-Funding’ but was called ‘Chanda’. The concept is now becoming popular with Indian filmmakers and has given rise to online portals devoted to the cause and business of crowd funding.
The Mumbai Film Festival 2013 hosted a panel discussion on ‘Crowd Culture’ on October 22. The panelists were:
Pawan Kumar, director of Kannada film Lucia, made with Rs 51 lakh collected from around 1,300 people from India and from Indians abroad using Facebook and blogs. The film released all over the country on September 6, 2013 and was a commercial as well as critical success.
Sarthak Dasgupta, known for The Great Indian Butterfly, ran a successful crowd funding campaign on Catapooolt for his project Cut Throat, a...
- 10/23/2013
- by Anita Thomas
- DearCinema.com
Sarthak Dasgupta, who directed The Great Indian Butterfly and won the Sundance-Mahindra Global Filmmaking award 2013 appeals to our readers to crowd-fund his film project “Cutthroat”
Why should you support ‘Cutthroat’?
In the realms of Cinema made in India, for India, the biggies will always stay. Big budgets, big stars, big stakes and big blitzkriegs. Hence what gets told in these big films are trivialities. And told in loud expressions so that it makes sense to a big number of people.
Where is the space for boutique, cultish, non-genre films which are intelligent, low key, yet entertaining for a few? There isn’t any.
‘Cutthroat’ is that kind of a film, which in neither arthouse world cinema, nor a Bollywood circus on screen. And I also hope it will not turn out to be a headless apologetic endeavour, the kinds that get made in the name of low-budget, no-star flicks.
Such ‘Ideas’ which cannot be type-cast,...
Why should you support ‘Cutthroat’?
In the realms of Cinema made in India, for India, the biggies will always stay. Big budgets, big stars, big stakes and big blitzkriegs. Hence what gets told in these big films are trivialities. And told in loud expressions so that it makes sense to a big number of people.
Where is the space for boutique, cultish, non-genre films which are intelligent, low key, yet entertaining for a few? There isn’t any.
‘Cutthroat’ is that kind of a film, which in neither arthouse world cinema, nor a Bollywood circus on screen. And I also hope it will not turn out to be a headless apologetic endeavour, the kinds that get made in the name of low-budget, no-star flicks.
Such ‘Ideas’ which cannot be type-cast,...
- 7/10/2013
- by Sarthak Dasgupta
- DearCinema.com
Sundance Institute and India’s Mahindra Group announced the four winners of the 2013 Sundance Institute | Mahindra Global Filmmaking Awards, in recognition and support of emerging independent filmmakers from around the world. The winning directors and projects are: Sarthak Dasgupta, The Music Teacher from India; Jonas Carpignano, A Chjana from Italy-us; Aly Muritiba, The Man Who Killed My Beloved Dead from Brazil;and Vendela Vida & Eva Weber, Let The Northern Lights Erase Your Name from UK-Germany-us.
The awards were presented at a private ceremony at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, U.S.A., by Rohit Khattar, Chairman, Mumbai Mantra, Michelle Satter, Founding Director, Feature Film Program, Sundance Institute, and Paul Federbush, International Director, Feature Film Program, Sundance Institute.
Each of the four winning filmmakers will receive a cash award of $10,000, attendance at the Sundance Film Festival for targeted industry and creative meetings, year-round mentoring from Institute staff and creative advisors,...
The awards were presented at a private ceremony at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, U.S.A., by Rohit Khattar, Chairman, Mumbai Mantra, Michelle Satter, Founding Director, Feature Film Program, Sundance Institute, and Paul Federbush, International Director, Feature Film Program, Sundance Institute.
Each of the four winning filmmakers will receive a cash award of $10,000, attendance at the Sundance Film Festival for targeted industry and creative meetings, year-round mentoring from Institute staff and creative advisors,...
- 1/23/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
John Abraham is the chosen one by Sanjay Gupta for his comeback film. The actor has been signed up for an action thriller which would be going on floors soon. This would also serve as a reunion for Sanjay Gupta and John Abraham who had last worked together in Zinda (2006). "For quite some time, Sanjay has been deciding on the starcast for his next multi-starrer. In fact this new action thriller that he would be directing is being pitched as the 'baap of all action entertainers' that have ever come out of Bollywood. It's a multi starrer and while there are number of other actors who are in the film, John is a prominent name to be on board", says a source closely attached to the film. After Zinda, Sanjay Gupta went on a sabbatical for five years and only shot for one of the short stories in Dus Kahaniyaan.
- 2/25/2011
- by Joginder Tuteja
- BollywoodHungama
John Abraham is the chosen one by Sanjay Gupta for his comeback film. The actor has been signed up for an action thriller which would be going on floors soon. This would also serve as a reunion for Sanjay Gupta and John Abraham who had last worked together in Zinda (2006). "For quite some time, Sanjay has been deciding on the starcast for his next multi-starrer. In fact this new action thriller that he would be directing is being pitched as the 'baap of all action entertainers' that have ever come out of Bollywood. It's a multi starrer and while there are number of other actors who are in the film, John is a prominent name to be on board", says a source closely attached to the film. After Zinda, Sanjay Gupta went on a sabbatical for five years and only shot for one of the short stories in Dus Kahaniyaan.
- 2/25/2011
- by Joginder Tuteja
- BollywoodHungama
The Berlinale Talent Campus, an initiative of the Berlin International Film Festival is a creative and networking platform for 350 up-and-coming filmmakers from all over the world. It lasts for six days and offers a huge variety of different programme elements for people involved with various aspects of filmmaking through workshops, seminars, excursions, panel discussions and lectures.
The 9th edition of the Berlinale Talent Campus, from February 12 – 17, 2011 will focus on filmmakers positioning themselves in today’s world of cinema. Shanker Raman, Pushpendra Singh, Rajesh Jala, Zalina Gamat, Mohammed Shakeel and Bikas Mishra are the six Indians who will participate in this year’s Talent Campus. DearCinema profiles the participants for you, one at a time.
Shanker Raman
This is a special year at Berlinale for cinematographer Shanker Raman. A film which he shot, debutant Prashant Bhargava’s Patang, is having its World Premiere in the Forum of the festival. “Being selected...
The 9th edition of the Berlinale Talent Campus, from February 12 – 17, 2011 will focus on filmmakers positioning themselves in today’s world of cinema. Shanker Raman, Pushpendra Singh, Rajesh Jala, Zalina Gamat, Mohammed Shakeel and Bikas Mishra are the six Indians who will participate in this year’s Talent Campus. DearCinema profiles the participants for you, one at a time.
Shanker Raman
This is a special year at Berlinale for cinematographer Shanker Raman. A film which he shot, debutant Prashant Bhargava’s Patang, is having its World Premiere in the Forum of the festival. “Being selected...
- 2/1/2011
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
Sanjay Gupta may not really be able to bring his own life story on the big screen for wider audience with everything seemingly over for Alibaug. Launched with much fanfare almost four years back, the film is completely on the backburner, so much so that even Gupta is unsure about any further progress on it. Says a close friend of Gupta, "The film was a prestigious venture for Gupta, since it meant a diversion from the action fare being churned by his production house. He was looking at venturing into different cinema and while The Great Indian Butterfly and Pankh came in a little later, Gupta wanted Alibaug as his first take on some slice-of-life films. He was very attached to Alibaug as he wrote the film and had designed it as a quickie." However, this was the time when tragedy struck. There was rift between Sanjay Gupta and Sanjay Dutt...
- 8/23/2010
- by Joginder Tuteja
- BollywoodHungama
Prolific film maker Sanjay Gupta may well be heading towards a spot amongst the elite in the record books. He is perhaps the first every producer in the history of modern day Bollywood who has enjoyed the release of two of his movies on the same day . Pankh and The Great Indian Butterfly. What's more, he now also holds the distinction of having his films in two different languages - Hindi and English respectively. "Really, am I the first ever film maker who is enjoying this fea...
- 4/3/2010
- GlamSham
April 2, 2010:The Great Indian Butterfly- A must for warring couples!
Rating: 2.5 out of 5*
Starring: Aamir Bashir, Sandhya Mridul, Barry John and Koel Purie
Director: Sarthak Dasgupta
The Great Indian Butterfly narrates the tale of a young urban couple Krish (Aamir Bashir) and Meera (Sandhya Mridul). Forgetting their hectic lives, both Krish and Meera set out on their long impending vacation to Goa. While Meera wants to unwind on the beaches and scenic places, Krish has another agenda that is to search for the great Indian Butterfly. Last seen by an unknown Portuguese explorer Carodiguez,.
Rating: 2.5 out of 5*
Starring: Aamir Bashir, Sandhya Mridul, Barry John and Koel Purie
Director: Sarthak Dasgupta
The Great Indian Butterfly narrates the tale of a young urban couple Krish (Aamir Bashir) and Meera (Sandhya Mridul). Forgetting their hectic lives, both Krish and Meera set out on their long impending vacation to Goa. While Meera wants to unwind on the beaches and scenic places, Krish has another agenda that is to search for the great Indian Butterfly. Last seen by an unknown Portuguese explorer Carodiguez,.
- 4/2/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
April 2, 2010:The Great Indian Butterfly- A must for warring couples!
Rating: 2.5 out of 5*
Starring: Aamir Bashir, Sandhya Mridul, Barry John and Koel Purie
Director: Sarthak Dasgupta
The Great Indian Butterfly narrates the tale of a young urban couple Krish (Aamir Bashir) and Meera (Sandhya Mridul). Forgetting their hectic lives, both Krish and Meera set out on their long impending vacation to Goa. While Meera wants to unwind on the beaches and scenic places, Krish has another agenda that is to search for the great Indian Butterfly. Last seen by an unknown Portuguese explorer Carodiguez,.
Rating: 2.5 out of 5*
Starring: Aamir Bashir, Sandhya Mridul, Barry John and Koel Purie
Director: Sarthak Dasgupta
The Great Indian Butterfly narrates the tale of a young urban couple Krish (Aamir Bashir) and Meera (Sandhya Mridul). Forgetting their hectic lives, both Krish and Meera set out on their long impending vacation to Goa. While Meera wants to unwind on the beaches and scenic places, Krish has another agenda that is to search for the great Indian Butterfly. Last seen by an unknown Portuguese explorer Carodiguez,.
- 4/2/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
April 1, 2010: Though Bollywood had proudly taken on Ipl a month back, looks like it forgot to wear its seat belts in this rough ride. There were bound to be pot holes but the injuries suffered have been far more grievous.
No wonder, we are in a situation where two films of the same producer are arriving on a single Friday. Ever heard of anything like that in the history of Bollywood cinema? However, this is pretty much happening this week with both ‘Pankh’ and ‘The Great Indian Butterfly’ running in theaters. Presented as art-house cinema, these Sanjay Gupta films.
No wonder, we are in a situation where two films of the same producer are arriving on a single Friday. Ever heard of anything like that in the history of Bollywood cinema? However, this is pretty much happening this week with both ‘Pankh’ and ‘The Great Indian Butterfly’ running in theaters. Presented as art-house cinema, these Sanjay Gupta films.
- 4/1/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
Sanjay Gupta’s English film, The Great Indian Butterfly, that is lining up for releasing on April 2, has run into censor problems over certain expletives and also the S-word. In one of the scenes, Sandhya Mridul tells her husband Aamir Bashir that her mother had called and she’d told her that they had stopped having sex. The censors want the word “sex” beeped out. Gupta points out that his film revolves around a young urban couple facing marital problems. And one of the reasons for their incompatibility, is that they no longer have a physical relationship. “There’s nothing remotely titillating about ...
- 3/28/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
Genre: DramaDirector: Sarthak DasguptaCast: Sandhya Mridul, Koel Puri, Aamir BashirSynopsis: Krish and Meera are a young couple climbing the ladder of the corporate rate race in a nation hurtling forward at a rate unprecedented in its long history. Stressed with the sacrifice required for success, they go in search of a legendary magical insect — The Great Indian Butterfly.Last seen by the unknown Portuguese explorer Carodiguez, in a remote valley located in Goa, the butterfly possesses a magical aura, granting immense happiness to the person who catches it. In the journey that takes the couple from the smog filled, concrete ...
- 3/25/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
March 23, 2010:Men are not monogamous; Aamir will definitely vouch for that. In the forthcoming film ‘The Great Indian Butterfly’, Aamir Bashir continues his relationship with his ex-girlfriend, with whom he had a live-in-relationship, and finds it perfectly normal, though this could affect his present married life.
Though Sandhya’s , woman on top character, in the film raves and rants about the incompleteness in their relationship and the pressures of career and stress in their lives, Aamir believes that past relationship are an intrinsic part of one’s life. These and other inherent.
Though Sandhya’s , woman on top character, in the film raves and rants about the incompleteness in their relationship and the pressures of career and stress in their lives, Aamir believes that past relationship are an intrinsic part of one’s life. These and other inherent.
- 3/23/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
Just like any thinking woman, Sandhya Mridul has a bone to pick with men. Sandhya has got into this fiery mode especially after working on her forthcoming film, The Great Indian Butterfly, directed by Sarthak Dasgupta. Sandhya plays an urban woman and wife to Aamir Bashir in the film and the couple is constantly at each other's throats. The hustle bustle and stress of working life take a toll on their marital life, sex included. Sandhya adds that trouble brews when men start ta...
- 3/22/2010
- GlamSham
Producer Sanjay Gupta is once again bringing a different type of film to the theaters with the intriguing The Great Indian Butterfly. The award winning film, which releases on March 26th was directed by Sarthak Dasgupta and stars Aamir Bashir, Koel Puri, Sandhya Mridul and Barry John.
The story: Stressed, frustrated and unable to come to terms with the sacrifice required for success, Krish and Meera, a young Indian couple goes in search of the legendary magical insect - The Great Indian Butterfly. Last seen by the unknown Portuguese explorer, Carodiguez, in a remote valley located in erstwhile colonial Goa, the butterfly possesses a magical aura, granting immense happiness to the person who catches it. In the journey that takes the couple from the smog filled, concrete jungle of the Megalopolis of Mumbai through the little discovered coastal landscapes of the western Sahyadris, to the sun soaked land of Goa,...
The story: Stressed, frustrated and unable to come to terms with the sacrifice required for success, Krish and Meera, a young Indian couple goes in search of the legendary magical insect - The Great Indian Butterfly. Last seen by the unknown Portuguese explorer, Carodiguez, in a remote valley located in erstwhile colonial Goa, the butterfly possesses a magical aura, granting immense happiness to the person who catches it. In the journey that takes the couple from the smog filled, concrete jungle of the Megalopolis of Mumbai through the little discovered coastal landscapes of the western Sahyadris, to the sun soaked land of Goa,...
- 3/16/2010
- Bollyspice
Sanjay Gupta known for his cutting edge cinema and the brain behind White feather Films now treads a new path and is launching his new brand White feather Arthouse Films. He is signaling off this journey with two films that are slated to chart new territories in the realm of `new age sensibility' movies. The two films are The Great Indian Butterfly and Pankh. The first film to be released is The Great Indian Butterfly that releases on the 26th of March, 2010. Directed by Sart...
- 3/13/2010
- GlamSham
Sanjay Gupta now treads a new path and is launching his new brand White Feather Arthouse Films. He is signalling off this journey with two films that are slated to chart new territories in the realm of `new age sensibility' movies. The two films are The Great Indian Butterfly and Pankh. The first film to be released is The Great Indian Butterfly that releases on the 26th of March, 2010. Directed by Sarthak Dasgupta, the film stars Aamir Bashir, Sandhya Mridul, Koel Purie and Barry John. The film has already been invited to prestigious film festivals like the Indo-America Arts Council Film Festival and the River to River, Florence Indian Film Festival, which is the first festival in the world to be devoted entirely to films from and about India. The Great Indian Butterfly is about a young couple searching for a mystical butterfly that brings peace, love, luck and happiness.
- 3/12/2010
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
Sanjay Gupta now treads a new path and is launching his new brand White Feather Arthouse Films. He is signalling off this journey with two films that are slated to chart new territories in the realm of `new age sensibility' movies. The two films are The Great Indian Butterfly and Pankh. The first film to be released is The Great Indian Butterfly that releases on the 26th of March, 2010. Directed by Sarthak Dasgupta, the film stars Aamir Bashir, Sandhya Mridul, Koel Purie and Barry John. The film has already been invited to prestigious film festivals like the Indo-America Arts Council Film Festival and the River to River, Florence Indian Film Festival, which is the first festival in the world to be devoted entirely to films from and about India. The Great Indian Butterfly is about a young couple searching for a mystical butterfly that brings peace, love, luck and happiness.
- 3/12/2010
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
The release of movie The Great Indian Butterfly has been pre-poned by a week. The movie, which is directed by Sarthak DasGupta will now release on 4 September instead of 11 September.This is the first movie to be produced under the banner of White Feather Art House Films. It stars Aamir Bashir, Sandhya Mridul, Koel Purie and Barry John.The story of The Great Indian Butterfly revolves around a young urban couple who takes a trip in search of a mystical butterfly, as they are unable to come to terms with the sacrifices ...
- 8/10/2009
- BusinessofCinema
Talk about Shibani Kashyap going places, she sure can take it to the hilt.
The lady who has been busy with the new album with her band Sojourne, and upcoming movie assignments like Sanjay Gupta’s The Great Indian Butterfly, Acid factory etc was elated when she recently got an invitation to the Palatial Mansion of the President of India.
Shibani was recently invited to the Rashtrapati Bhavan on the 8th International Women’s Day hosted by the President Shrinati Pratibha Patil to take an oath to save the girl child. She will also be composing a song to promote this.
The lady who has been busy with the new album with her band Sojourne, and upcoming movie assignments like Sanjay Gupta’s The Great Indian Butterfly, Acid factory etc was elated when she recently got an invitation to the Palatial Mansion of the President of India.
Shibani was recently invited to the Rashtrapati Bhavan on the 8th International Women’s Day hosted by the President Shrinati Pratibha Patil to take an oath to save the girl child. She will also be composing a song to promote this.
- 4/6/2009
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
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