Umbergaon, Hyderabad & Goa emerge as potential locations for TV shows
The TV industry, which had managed to get back on its feet after facing a few difficult months last year owing to the lockdown, is in trouble again. With the Maharashtra government’s decision to stop all film and TV shoots for two weeks as a part of restrictions announced to contain the COVID-19 surge, channels and production houses are in a state of a tizzy. While they are hoping for this decision to be reversed after their meeting with Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray soon, they are also looking at potential options to shoot.
MUMBAI â Every storyteller has a protagonist and antagonist in mind. The makers of the Star TV show âRudrakaalâ have managed to rope in renowned lyricist, writer, playback singer and national award winning actor Swanand Kirkire to make his acting debut on the small screen.
A versatile talent and National School of Drama graduate, this multi-talented personality is now all set to enter Star Plusâ much-awaited finite series âRudrakaalâ and will be essaying MLA Phulchand Mishra.Â
Kirkire says, âI am glad to collaborate with Star Plus and producer Nitin Vaidya as I mark my acting debut on the small screen. The subject of the upcoming series and my mastermind character is what excited me the most to take up this show. Above all, I feel truly privileged and fortunate to begin work with various people and don unique roles in todayâs time. And the reason I choose to play the antagonist
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A special virtual signing ceremony took place Jan. 20 at the 5
th edition of Vidnet, indiantelevision.com’s OTT Summit between PACT’s Managing Director of Global Strategy, Dawn McCarthy-Simpson, MBE, and members of the Indian Film and TV Producers Council (IFTPC) J.D. Majethia, chairman TV-Web, Shyamashis Bhattacharya, director, IFTPC, Abhimanyu Singh and Nitin Vaidya, director, IFTPC.
The GCA (Global Creative Alliance) is now made up of 22 countries including the UK, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Singapore, South Korea and the USA among others. The purpose of the GCA is to encourage more effective international collaboration between producers and increase opportunities for co-productions.
This alliance will help partners in India and UK in terms of technology, storytelling, incentives
21 Jan, 2021 - 09:04 PM IST | By Shikha Singh
MUMBAI: The Indian film & TV industry is counted among the entertainment powerhouses of the world. The Indian filmmakers, artistes, behind-the-camera personages who have been feted internationally are beyond count, as are the movies and series that left an indelible mark on our society and culture. But it was actually two foreigners – the Lumiere brothers – who gave the gift of motion pictures to India. Since then, we have made cinematic and small-screen content that is uniquely and unabashedly our own. And love it or hate it, you just can t ignore it.