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Ali Fazal of Fukrey fame will feature in Universal Studios’ biggest franchise of all time Fast and Furious.

Ali is jubilant to be a part of Fast and Furious 7 which is slated for a 2014 release. It is believed that the 26-year-old has already shot his scenes with none other than Hollywood superstar Vin Diesel for the movie.

The talented actor plays the role of a mad tycoon in the upcoming venture of the hit series. Though Ali is appearing in a cameo his character in Fast and Furious 7 in all certainty could bring plum offers for the young man in India and overseas.

Until recently rumors were rife that Bollywood beauties Sonam Kapoor, Deepika Padukone and Chitrangada Singh were being considered for a role in the film. Deepika’s spokesperson stressed that she couldn’t be a part of the successful franchise as she is occupied shooting for Hindi projects.

The third edition of I-view Film festival will be held from September 18-26, 2010 in Manhattan. The festival will screen over 25 features, documentaries and shorts. I Am will be the opening film of the festival while Mirch will close the festival. The venue for the festival organized by Engendered will be Asia Society, Tribeca Cinemas and Big Cinemas.

Rituparno Ghosh’s Antarmahal, Kaushik Ganguly’s Just Another Love Story, Sanjay Sharma’s Dunno Why!!!...Naa Jane Kyun by, Dibakar Banerjee’s Love Sex aur Dhoka, Saeed Mirza’s Ek Tho Chance etc. are a few other films that will be screened at the festival.

I Am directed by Onir is a series of four short stories about issues and dilemmas facing modern Indian society, ranging from policing of homosexual men to adult survivors of childhood sex-abuse, and unmarried motherhood. It stars Sanjay Suri, Shernaz Patel, Anurag Kashyap, Radhika Apte, Rahul Bose,...

Remember Ali Fazal aka Joy Lobo of 3 Idiots? After a blink and miss role in the superhit feature, Fazal has now landed himself a lead role in an upcoming film. Sources say that Fazal will be seen with the likes of Giselli Monteiro of Love Aaj Kal fame and Amrita Arora in the Red Chillies Production, Ek Tho Chance. The film will be directed by Saeed Mirza. Ek Tho Chance, says the source, is not an out-an-out commercial venture and has three parallel stories. Fazal is the lead in one of the tracks. The actor refused ...

Ek Tho Chance and Saluun produced by Pritish Nandy Communications have won top honours at the 43rd Worldfest Houston.

Saluun, directed by first time director Nikhil Bhat won the Silver Remi award. Ek Tho Chance directed by Saeed Akhtar Mirza, won the Special Jury Award in the Foreign Features category. The ten day festival ran from April 9-18.

“The jury members decided that Saluun should be awarded the Silver Remi award for its honest effort at showing the spirit of rural India and its intelligent humour and Ek Tho Chance, the Special Jury Award for its high-value content and cinematic excellence," says Kathleen Haney, Program Director, WorldFest Houston.

Pnc's Ek Tho Chance, directed by renowned filmmaker Saeed Akhtar Mirza, has been selected for the 23rd Singapore International Film Festival that runs from 15th to 24th April 2010 in the Cinema Today section. Here movies, from drama to comedy to documentaries are presented, that depicts the realities of today and are made by some of the world's most watched filmmakers. This comes close on the heels of 43rd Worldfest Houston where the film has also been selected and nominated for...

New Delhi, April 13 – Pritish Nandy Communications’ feature film ‘Ek Tho Chance’ will be screened at the 23rd Singapore International Film Festival to be held April 15-24.

Directed by filmmaker Saeed Akhtar Mirza, ‘Ek Tho Chance’ features actors like Purab Kohli, Amrita Arora, Rajat Kapoor and Vinay Pathak. The movie will be screened in the Cinema Today section at the festival.

‘Cinema Today is about a modern interpretation of global issues and.

Ek Tho Chance, directed by Saeed Akhtar Mirza and Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni’s short film Gaarud have been selected for the 23rd Singapore International Film Festival that runs from 15th to 24th April 2010. Ek Tho Chance will be screened in the ‘Cinema Today’ section of the festival.

Ek Tho Chance tells the tale of Mumbai city and the millions who get off the train at Vt station every second of the day hoping to latch on to the magic of Mumbai. It is a colourful mural of the lives of individuals from the city’s diverse cultural, social and economic strata.

Gaarud is a twelve minute film about a room of a shady lodge near the railway station in a small town. It gives glimpses of the lives of people who are caught in the frame of the room, unable to escape.

Three top Indian movies are set to storm the barricades of Worldfest at the AMC Studio in Houston, Texas from April 9th-18th. One of the oldest film festivals in the Us will see Boddhisatva, Ek Tho Chance and Saluun.

Boddhisattva stars the extraordinarily talented and beautiful director, writer and actress Trisha Ray and Soumitra Chatterjee in a movie about a young man forced by debt to do something he doesn’t want to do, who also finds himself trapped in a marriage he doesn’t want to be in, and sharing his house with a beautiful guest that he does want very much. As the tagline goes, “This isn‘t a love story.”

Ek Tho Chance stars Amrita Arora, whose career is bursting out in all directions, Purab Kohli and Rajat Kapoor. A remarkable movie, it tells the tale of the thousands of young hopefuls who arrive in Mumbai...

The 43rd WorldFest Houston International Film Festival will feature Pnc's Ek Tho Chance (Last Chance Mumbai), directed by Saeed Akhtar Mirza, and Saluun, directed by first time director Nikhil Bhat. The ten day festival starts on April 9th 2010 and runs till April 18th.

Both these films have been nominated for Remi awards in the feature film category at this year's festival. Director Saeed Akhtar Mirza will be attending the festival along with debutant director Nikhil Bhat.

New Delhi, March 30 – Pritish Nandy Communications’ feature films ‘Saluun’ and ‘Ek Tho Chance’ will be screened at the 43rd WorldFest Houston International Film Festival next month.

A tribute to middle class India, ‘Saluun’ is based on a true incident. Set in a small town in Maharashtra, the film depicts how the common people teache a lesson to corrupt government officials.

The film is Nikhil Nagesh Bhat’s first directorial venture.

Three Indian films will be competing for the prestigious Remi awards at the 43rd Annual WorldFest-Houston International Film and Video Festival starting from April 9. Bodhisattva, Ek Tho Chance and Saluun have been nominated for the top honours in the Feature Film category. Produced by Pritish Nandy Communication (Pnc) productions and directed by Saeed Mirza, Ek Tho Chance starring Purab Kohli, Amrita Arora, Rajat Kapoor is about life in Mumbai, the city of dreams. "Earlier in 2004, Pnc movie Jhankaar Beats won the Remi award. Later in 2007, another movie selected at the WorldFest Houston was Pyaar Ke Side Effects, a romantic ...

Its double whammy for Pritish Nandy Communications! The 43rd World Fest Houston International Film Festival will feature Pnc's Ek Tho Chance, directed by legendary film maker Saeed Akhtar Mirza, and Pnc's Saluun, directed by first time director Nikhil Bhat. The ten day festival starts on April 9th 2010. Both the Pnc films have been nominated for the prestigious Remi awards in the feature film category at this year's festival. "Pnc's Saluun definitely represents the fresh breed...

Pritish Nandy Communications’ ‘Ek Tho Chance’ will premiere at the 14th International Film Festival of Kerala in December 2009. “We are honored to have ‘Ek Tho Chance’ as part of our festival this year. It is a fantastic film and it’s an even greater honor to have Saeed Mirza with us, back with a film after 15 years,” says Bina Venugopal, Artistic Director of the Kerala International Film Festival.

‘Ek Tho Chance’ marks the return of Saeed Akhtar Mirza (‘Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Aata Hain’, ‘Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro’, ‘Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho’, ‘Nukkad’).

Pritish Nandy Communications' Ek Tho Chance will premiere at the 14th International Film Festival of Kerala in December 2009. "We are honoured to have Ek Tho Chance as part of our festival this year. It is a fantastic film and it's an even greater honour to have Saeed Mirza with us, back with a film after 15 years", says Bina Venugopal, Artistic Director of the Kerala International Film Festival. Ek Tho Chance marks the return of Saeed Akhtar Mirza (Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyu...

Carey Fitzgerald's London-based High Point Media Group today announced joining forces with one of India's best known motion picture companies, Mumbai-based Pritish Nandy Communication in the first deal of its kind. With High Point poised to position Pnc's titles for the international market outside India, the partnership kicks off with the latest Pnc film, Ek Tho Chance (Last Chance Mumbai) set in today's Mumbai. Esteemed Indian director, Saeed Akhtar Mirza, whose last film and Directors' Fortnight selection at Cannes, Naseem, won international plaudits, was coaxed out of retirement after 13 years by Pritish Nandy to make the film, which takes a kaleidoscopic look at 24 hours in the Indian metropolis. Described as "the other side of Mumbai to Slumdog", Last Chance Mumbai follows the mixed fortunes of varying characters who populate the city and who, from lowly thief to wealthy fashion hotshot, cover a wide spectrum of socio-economic background. High Point Media Group...

Carey Fitzgerald's London-based High Point Media Group today announced joining forces with one of India's best known motion picture companies, Mumbai-based Pritish Nandy Communication in the first deal of its kind. With High Point poised to position Pnc's titles for the international market outside India, the partnership kicks off with the latest Pnc film, Ek Tho Chance (Last Chance Mumbai) set in today's Mumbai. Esteemed Indian director, Saeed Akhtar Mirza, whose last film and Directors' Fortnight selection at Cannes, Naseem, won international plaudits, was coaxed out of retirement after 13 years by Pritish Nandy to make the film, which takes a kaleidoscopic look at 24 hours in the Indian metropolis. Described as "the other side of Mumbai to Slumdog", Last Chance Mumbai follows the mixed fortunes of varying characters who populate the city and who, from lowly thief to wealthy fashion hotshot, cover a wide spectrum of socio-economic background. High Point Media Group...

Carey Fitzgerald's London-based High Point Media Group today announced joining forces with one of India's best known motion picture companies, Mumbai-based Pritish Nandy Communications in the first such deal of its kind. With High Point poised to position Pnc's titles for the international market outside India, the partnership kicks off with the latest Pnc film, Ek Tho Chance (Last Chance Mumbai) set in today's Mumbai. Esteemed Indian director, Saeed Akhtar Mirza, whose last fi...

Carey Fitzgerald’s London-based High Point Media Group today announced joining forces with one of India’s best known motion picture companies,Mumbai-based Pritish Nandy Communication in the first such deal of its kind.With High Point poised to position Pnc’s titles for the international market outside India, the partnership kicks off with the latest Pnc film, Ek Tho Chance (Last Chance Mumbai) set in today’s Mumbai.

Esteemed Indian director, Saeed Akhtar Mirza, whose last film and Directors’ Fortnight selection at Cannes, Naseem, won international plaudits, was.