Prime Focus, the Mumbai based post production company has worked on significant portions of the recent blockbusters, Avatar and The New Moon.
Prime Focus played an essential behind-the-scenes role in two of the biggest Hollywood blockbusters of 2009 — Chris Weitz’s “New Moon” and James Cameron’s “Avatar.” The company established itself as one of the cutting-edge firms in the visual effects business by producing about 10 percent of James Cameron’s path-breaking 3D superhit and a whopping 80 percent of the shots for the second installment of the Twilight franchise.
“’Avatar’ obviously is the biggest of all,” Malhotra said. “We’ve done some exemplary work in ‘GI Joe’ and ‘New Moon’ as well. But when you’re working on ‘Avatar’ as one of the top five vendors you have got to a lot more credible space than working on just any movie.”
The London Stock Exchange-listed company’s portfolio of work runs the gambit from “Avatar” to top Bollywood hits like the Amir Khan starrer “3 Idiots” to Splinter Films’ DVD release of a live performance by Beyonce. The company already owns the lion’s share of the Indian post-production and visual effects market, and the international business is expanding rapidly.
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From left Parvathy Omanakuttan of India (1st runner up), Kseniya Sukhinova of Russia (Miss World 2008), Gabrielle Walcott of Trinidad and Tobago (2nd runner up).
Above picture courtesy: IBNLive
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Woohoo…. Anurag Kashyap is back, after No Smoking and Black Friday. Dev D is the story of Devdas set in the current age.
The only Deol that i like, Abhay Deol. Am very much impressed by his selection of movies – Socha Na Tha, Manorama 6 feet under, Ek Chalis ki Last Local.
Aankhon ka hai dhoka, Paisa tera pyaar,
Tera emotional atyachaar
Produced by UTV Spotboy and a rocking soundtrack, this is one movie am waiting for.
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Aamir Khan is back… and how. The trailer of the much anticipated Murugadoss directed, Aamir Khan starrer Ghajini is out. And by the looks of it, looks like a super violent movie.
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Is it a 6 pack or the very elusive 8 pack? Lets wait for the verdit to happen, but boy am sooooper excited. Cant wait for the music to release. The tamil version had some terrific foot tapping music by Harris Jayaraj and a muscular Surya to boot. Honestly, i was not impressed by the Tamil version. Especially the climax which i though was a letdown. But with Mr Perfectionist, Aamir in the lead, am waiting with bated breath.
Above picture courtesy: Aamirkhan.com
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Death at a funeral - 3/5
Cloverfield – 2/5
Casino Royale – 4/5
Before Sunset – 3/5
Outsourced – 3/5
Disaster Movie – 0/5
Original Sin – 2/5 (for the steamy scenes of Angelina Jolie and Antonio Banderas)
Taare Zameen Par – 3/5
Matchstick Men – 3/5 (The hindi movie Bluffmaster starring Abhishek Bachchan was a ripoff of this movie)
All pictures courtesy: IMDB
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