“Harry Potter” star Tom Felton is currently filming the series “Gandhi,” where he plays Josiah Oldfield, the future Mahatma’s friend in London.
Part of the series, produced by Sameer Nair for India’s Applause Entertainment and directed by Hansal Mehta, follows the young Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi when he was in London to study law and missing vegetarian food. It examines how Gandhi’s chance discovery of a vegetarian restaurant brings him to the lesser-known Vegetarian Society of London, of which Oldfield is one of the founders. This chance meeting proves to be formative for Gandhi, as it is Oldfield who first discovers the writer in him and encourages him to pen articles for the Vegetarian Magazine.
“It is about the relationship between the two of them and how they found each other at exactly the right time. And how without meeting each other, their lives would have definitely been different,...
Part of the series, produced by Sameer Nair for India’s Applause Entertainment and directed by Hansal Mehta, follows the young Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi when he was in London to study law and missing vegetarian food. It examines how Gandhi’s chance discovery of a vegetarian restaurant brings him to the lesser-known Vegetarian Society of London, of which Oldfield is one of the founders. This chance meeting proves to be formative for Gandhi, as it is Oldfield who first discovers the writer in him and encourages him to pen articles for the Vegetarian Magazine.
“It is about the relationship between the two of them and how they found each other at exactly the right time. And how without meeting each other, their lives would have definitely been different,...
- 5/2/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Indian studio Applause Entertainment’s upcoming big-budget series “Gandhi” aims to humanize the Mahatma.
The first season covers the formative years of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s life as a law student in London and later as lawyer and civil rights activist in South Africa, during which time he conceived the ideas that ultimately led India to independence from British rule. Gandhi became known as Mahatma, or great soul, for his leading part in the independence movement.
The series sees the reunion of Applause, director Hansal Mehta and actor Pratik Gandhi (no relation to the Mahatma) who plays Gandhi, after hit SonyLIV series “Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story” (2020).
The benchmark for on-screen depictions of Gandhi remains Richard Attenborough’s “Gandhi” (1982), which won eight Oscars.
“It’ll be complementary in that sense, because Attenborough had some three hours to tell the story, which is a big story and a big life,...
The first season covers the formative years of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s life as a law student in London and later as lawyer and civil rights activist in South Africa, during which time he conceived the ideas that ultimately led India to independence from British rule. Gandhi became known as Mahatma, or great soul, for his leading part in the independence movement.
The series sees the reunion of Applause, director Hansal Mehta and actor Pratik Gandhi (no relation to the Mahatma) who plays Gandhi, after hit SonyLIV series “Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story” (2020).
The benchmark for on-screen depictions of Gandhi remains Richard Attenborough’s “Gandhi” (1982), which won eight Oscars.
“It’ll be complementary in that sense, because Attenborough had some three hours to tell the story, which is a big story and a big life,...
- 5/2/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Gandhi, the Indian period drama series currently in production, will reveal “the origin of Superman,” according to its makers.
In a series of interviews, stars Pratik Gandhi and Tom Felton, director Hansal Mehta and executive producer Sameer Nair revealed the latest on the show, which is being billed as one of the biggest to ever come out of India.
The show will tell the story of Mahatma Gandhi’s earlier adult years before becoming a political icon and nonviolence protest pioneer, in particular his time spent in London and South Africa.
“There are almost 45 years of life before the moment he becomes the Mahatma,” said Nair, CEO of Gandhi producer Applause Entertainment. “Of that, a large part was spent in London before he spent 23 in South Africa. There are a lot of elements of that story that are not known but are important to the history. Richard Attenborough’s [1982] movie covers it in 15 minutes,...
In a series of interviews, stars Pratik Gandhi and Tom Felton, director Hansal Mehta and executive producer Sameer Nair revealed the latest on the show, which is being billed as one of the biggest to ever come out of India.
The show will tell the story of Mahatma Gandhi’s earlier adult years before becoming a political icon and nonviolence protest pioneer, in particular his time spent in London and South Africa.
“There are almost 45 years of life before the moment he becomes the Mahatma,” said Nair, CEO of Gandhi producer Applause Entertainment. “Of that, a large part was spent in London before he spent 23 in South Africa. There are a lot of elements of that story that are not known but are important to the history. Richard Attenborough’s [1982] movie covers it in 15 minutes,...
- 5/2/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Harry Potter star Tom Felton has boarded Gandhi, the Hansal Mehta-directed streaming series about the iconic Indian nonviolent resistance leader from Applause Entertainment.
Felton will play Josiah Oldfield, Gandhi’s first and best friend during a period he spent in London while studying law. Pratik Gandhi (no relation) is playing Gandhi, as we reported back in May 2022, and we can reveal his real-life partner, Bhamini Oza, will play Kasturba Gandhi, the Mahatma’s wife.
The period drama series has been billed as India’s answer to The Crown, and several scenes are being shot in London this month. As such, British actors James Murray, Jonno Davies, Molly Wright (Apostasy), Simon Lennon, Ralph Adeniyi, Libby Mai and Lindon Alexander are joining Felton in the cast.
Felton will play Josiah Oldfield, Gandhi’s first and best friend during a period he spent in London while studying law. Pratik Gandhi (no relation) is playing Gandhi, as we reported back in May 2022, and we can reveal his real-life partner, Bhamini Oza, will play Kasturba Gandhi, the Mahatma’s wife.
The period drama series has been billed as India’s answer to The Crown, and several scenes are being shot in London this month. As such, British actors James Murray, Jonno Davies, Molly Wright (Apostasy), Simon Lennon, Ralph Adeniyi, Libby Mai and Lindon Alexander are joining Felton in the cast.
- 5/2/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Hindi cinema is filled with movies that delve into the Indian freedom struggle and other events that occurred in India post-Indian independence. The makers of such movies go ahead and take all the cinematic liberties they need to tweak the story and rely a lot of the narrative on jingoism. Just last week, there was Yodha, a movie about a soldier trying to avert the possibility of a conflict between India and its neighboring country. That film, incidentally, was produced by Dharma Films. Directed by Kannan Iyer, Ae Watan Mere Watan is the story of two freedom fighters who dared to make a difference for the sake of their motherland. The movie is based on two real-life freedom fighters who put a lot at stake to make sure their country received independence.
Spoilers Ahead
Who Was Usha Mehta?
Usha Mehta was a young, college-going girl from a family of means,...
Spoilers Ahead
Who Was Usha Mehta?
Usha Mehta was a young, college-going girl from a family of means,...
- 3/22/2024
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
Ae Watan Mere Watan
It is strange, but director Kannan Iyer has directed just one other film in his entire career. Ek Thi Dayan in 2013 featured Konkona Sen Sharma as a, ha ha, witch. Which, if you think about it, is just the antithesis of what Sara Ali Khan plays in Iyer’s second film.
Ae Watan Mere Watan warmly embraces all the shining trophy-like atrophied tropes of desh-bhakti films, and yet succeeds in being a trifle removed from its flag-waving origins.
Sara Ali Khan, so far known for making faces on camera, withdraws into a quietly assured space to play Usha Mehta, a fierce nationalist who combated colonialism in her own way by manning an underground radio station propagating the views and ideology of Mahatma Gandhi while he, the Mahatma, was jailed.
Uniquely, the character Usha Mehta’s fight for freedom is in-sync with the actress’ flight into freedom.
It is strange, but director Kannan Iyer has directed just one other film in his entire career. Ek Thi Dayan in 2013 featured Konkona Sen Sharma as a, ha ha, witch. Which, if you think about it, is just the antithesis of what Sara Ali Khan plays in Iyer’s second film.
Ae Watan Mere Watan warmly embraces all the shining trophy-like atrophied tropes of desh-bhakti films, and yet succeeds in being a trifle removed from its flag-waving origins.
Sara Ali Khan, so far known for making faces on camera, withdraws into a quietly assured space to play Usha Mehta, a fierce nationalist who combated colonialism in her own way by manning an underground radio station propagating the views and ideology of Mahatma Gandhi while he, the Mahatma, was jailed.
Uniquely, the character Usha Mehta’s fight for freedom is in-sync with the actress’ flight into freedom.
- 3/21/2024
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
Sara Ali Khan will be seen shortly in the upcoming Amazon Prime Video presentation, ‘Ae Watan Mere Watan’, which is based on the life of the young Gandhian, Usha Mehta, and her Congress Radio, which became the voice of the 1942 Quit India Movement.
Mehta was an ordinary young woman with extraordinary resilience, but she may never have been known, had her voice not benefited from the amplification provided by equipment supplied by Nanik Motwane.
He was the Bombay industrialist who ensured, literally, that Mahatma Gandhi got heard by the masses by providing the Congress with mics for its sessions and rallies. In fact, Motwane’s Chicago Radio branding appears on mics in all pictures of Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and other Congress leaders photographed during some of the iconic moments of the freedom struggle.
Motwane, who was moved by the sight of the Mahatma going from one group of people...
Mehta was an ordinary young woman with extraordinary resilience, but she may never have been known, had her voice not benefited from the amplification provided by equipment supplied by Nanik Motwane.
He was the Bombay industrialist who ensured, literally, that Mahatma Gandhi got heard by the masses by providing the Congress with mics for its sessions and rallies. In fact, Motwane’s Chicago Radio branding appears on mics in all pictures of Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and other Congress leaders photographed during some of the iconic moments of the freedom struggle.
Motwane, who was moved by the sight of the Mahatma going from one group of people...
- 3/18/2024
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
The upcoming Pratik Gandhi-starrer series ‘Gandhi’ has flagged off its filming on Friday, with its first schedule being held in Gujarat. The series, directed by Hansal Mehta of ‘Aligarh’ fame, is a biopic based on Mahatma Gandhi and will see Pratik essaying the titular character.
It marks the third collaboration between Pratik and Hansal after the superhit streaming series ‘Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story’.
On Friday, the makers of the show unveiled a glimpse of Gandhi’s world sharing a carousel of images from the set.
This epic series, capturing the life and times of the Mahatma, is set to be an international production shot across various Indian and foreign locations.
The series will have many seasons and is produced by Applause Entertainment in association with Applause Productions.
Meanwhile, Hansal Mehta has been on a roll with his Netflix series ‘Scoop’ and SonyLIV’s ‘Scam 2003’ – the sequel...
It marks the third collaboration between Pratik and Hansal after the superhit streaming series ‘Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story’.
On Friday, the makers of the show unveiled a glimpse of Gandhi’s world sharing a carousel of images from the set.
This epic series, capturing the life and times of the Mahatma, is set to be an international production shot across various Indian and foreign locations.
The series will have many seasons and is produced by Applause Entertainment in association with Applause Productions.
Meanwhile, Hansal Mehta has been on a roll with his Netflix series ‘Scoop’ and SonyLIV’s ‘Scam 2003’ – the sequel...
- 1/19/2024
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
‘Gandhi’: Hansal Mehta & Applause Entertainment’s Expansive Biopic Series Begins Production In India
The upcoming Gandhi streaming series has gone into production in Gujarat, India.
The series is being helmed by director Hansal Mehta, who was pictured on set in an Instagram from the account of series producer Applause Entertainment.
The series will tell the story of Mahatma Gandhi’s life and times, in the same vein The Crown told the story of the British royals. Pratik Gandhi stars as his namesake.
The Insta post noted it’s being filmed as an “international production shot across various Indian and foreign locations.” In an interview with Applause CEO Sameer Nair when we first told you about the show back in May 2022, he location scouting was taking place in India, South Africa and the UK — countries in which Gandhi lived and that are covered by the non-fiction books on which the show is based.
Further production details were not forthcoming this morning, but Applause previously...
The series is being helmed by director Hansal Mehta, who was pictured on set in an Instagram from the account of series producer Applause Entertainment.
The series will tell the story of Mahatma Gandhi’s life and times, in the same vein The Crown told the story of the British royals. Pratik Gandhi stars as his namesake.
The Insta post noted it’s being filmed as an “international production shot across various Indian and foreign locations.” In an interview with Applause CEO Sameer Nair when we first told you about the show back in May 2022, he location scouting was taking place in India, South Africa and the UK — countries in which Gandhi lived and that are covered by the non-fiction books on which the show is based.
Further production details were not forthcoming this morning, but Applause previously...
- 1/19/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Actor Boman Irani, who is known for ‘Munna Bhai’ film franchise, ‘Main Hoon Na’, ‘Veer-Zaara’, ‘Khosla Ka Ghosla’ and several others, recently walked down the memory lane as he opened up about his journey of embodying the father of the nation in Feroze Khan’s ‘Mahatma V/s Gandhi’. For the same, the actor lost 30 kgs of body weight.
The actor recently took to his Instagram and shared a few pictures in his character of Mahatma Gandhi which required him to undergo physical transformation.
He wrote in the caption, “It’s Gandhi Jayanti. However, we should be thinking of him and his principles every single day. I had the good fortune to play him in Feroze Khan’s “Mahatma vs Gandhi. Lost 30 Kgs to essay the part but gained a lifetime of learning”.
As the nation pays homage to Mahatma Gandhi, Boman Irani’s portrayal of the Mahatma in ‘Mahatma...
The actor recently took to his Instagram and shared a few pictures in his character of Mahatma Gandhi which required him to undergo physical transformation.
He wrote in the caption, “It’s Gandhi Jayanti. However, we should be thinking of him and his principles every single day. I had the good fortune to play him in Feroze Khan’s “Mahatma vs Gandhi. Lost 30 Kgs to essay the part but gained a lifetime of learning”.
As the nation pays homage to Mahatma Gandhi, Boman Irani’s portrayal of the Mahatma in ‘Mahatma...
- 10/3/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Actor Boman Irani, who is known for ‘Munna Bhai’ film franchise, ‘Main Hoon Na’, ‘Veer-Zaara’, ‘Khosla Ka Ghosla’ and several others, recently walked down the memory lane as he opened up about his journey of embodying the father of the nation in Feroze Khan’s ‘Mahatma V/s Gandhi’. For the same, the actor lost 30 kgs of body weight.
The actor recently took to his Instagram and shared a few pictures in his character of Mahatma Gandhi which required him to undergo physical transformation.
He wrote in the caption, “It’s Gandhi Jayanti. However, we should be thinking of him and his principles every single day. I had the good fortune to play him in Feroze Khan’s “Mahatma vs Gandhi. Lost 30 Kgs to essay the part but gained a lifetime of learning”.
As the nation pays homage to Mahatma Gandhi, Boman Irani’s portrayal of the Mahatma in ‘Mahatma...
The actor recently took to his Instagram and shared a few pictures in his character of Mahatma Gandhi which required him to undergo physical transformation.
He wrote in the caption, “It’s Gandhi Jayanti. However, we should be thinking of him and his principles every single day. I had the good fortune to play him in Feroze Khan’s “Mahatma vs Gandhi. Lost 30 Kgs to essay the part but gained a lifetime of learning”.
As the nation pays homage to Mahatma Gandhi, Boman Irani’s portrayal of the Mahatma in ‘Mahatma...
- 10/3/2023
- by Agency News Desk
New Delhi, Oct 2 (Ians) On the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, celebrities including Manoj Bajpayee, Prakash Raj, Sunny Deol, Madhuri Dixit, Mahesh Babu, Siddharth Malhotra paid tributes to the Father of the Nation
Manoj Bajpayee shared a sketch of Mahatma Gandhi and wrote on his X (formerly Twitter): “The one to show us the way to truth and non-violence, I bow to Bapu on his birthday.”
Mahesh Babu took to his Instagram stories and posted: “Happy Gandhi Jayanti” with a small snippet of the National Anthem playing in the background.
Madhuri Dixit shared one of the Mahatma’s iconic quotes on X: “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” She added: “May we all have the strength and courage to achieve our dreams.”
Prakash Raj posted a cartoon sketch of Mahatma Gandhi walking in his iconic pose with his stick and wrote on...
Manoj Bajpayee shared a sketch of Mahatma Gandhi and wrote on his X (formerly Twitter): “The one to show us the way to truth and non-violence, I bow to Bapu on his birthday.”
Mahesh Babu took to his Instagram stories and posted: “Happy Gandhi Jayanti” with a small snippet of the National Anthem playing in the background.
Madhuri Dixit shared one of the Mahatma’s iconic quotes on X: “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” She added: “May we all have the strength and courage to achieve our dreams.”
Prakash Raj posted a cartoon sketch of Mahatma Gandhi walking in his iconic pose with his stick and wrote on...
- 10/2/2023
- by Agency News Desk
New Delhi, Oct 2 (Ians) On the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, celebrities including Manoj Bajpayee, Prakash Raj, Sunny Deol, Madhuri Dixit, Mahesh Babu, Siddharth Malhotra paid tributes to the Father of the Nation
Manoj Bajpayee shared a sketch of Mahatma Gandhi and wrote on his X (formerly Twitter): “The one to show us the way to truth and non-violence, I bow to Bapu on his birthday.”
Mahesh Babu took to his Instagram stories and posted: “Happy Gandhi Jayanti” with a small snippet of the National Anthem playing in the background.
Madhuri Dixit shared one of the Mahatma’s iconic quotes on X: “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” She added: “May we all have the strength and courage to achieve our dreams.”
Prakash Raj posted a cartoon sketch of Mahatma Gandhi walking in his iconic pose with his stick and wrote on...
Manoj Bajpayee shared a sketch of Mahatma Gandhi and wrote on his X (formerly Twitter): “The one to show us the way to truth and non-violence, I bow to Bapu on his birthday.”
Mahesh Babu took to his Instagram stories and posted: “Happy Gandhi Jayanti” with a small snippet of the National Anthem playing in the background.
Madhuri Dixit shared one of the Mahatma’s iconic quotes on X: “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” She added: “May we all have the strength and courage to achieve our dreams.”
Prakash Raj posted a cartoon sketch of Mahatma Gandhi walking in his iconic pose with his stick and wrote on...
- 10/2/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Actor Pratik Gandhi, who is known for his role of Harshad Mehta in the hit streaming series ‘Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story’, and is a big star in Gujarati cinema, will be soon seen essaying the role of Mahatma Gandhi in an upcoming webseries titled ‘Gandhi’. On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, the actor spoke about his role and his connection with the Mahatma as the figure as he has spent years essaying him on stage.
Speaking about the pivotal role, Pratik said: “For me this is a very important role, one of the biggest shows I do in my life because I play the pivotal role of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. We will try our best to show his life and his journey. This is one the very first shows to depict something like this in the history of entertainment.”
The actor confessed that when he was first asked to play the role,...
Speaking about the pivotal role, Pratik said: “For me this is a very important role, one of the biggest shows I do in my life because I play the pivotal role of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. We will try our best to show his life and his journey. This is one the very first shows to depict something like this in the history of entertainment.”
The actor confessed that when he was first asked to play the role,...
- 10/2/2023
- by Agency News Desk
Actor Pratik Gandhi, who is known for his role of Harshad Mehta in the hit streaming series ‘Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story’, and is a big star in Gujarati cinema, will be soon seen essaying the role of Mahatma Gandhi in an upcoming webseries titled ‘Gandhi’. On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, the actor spoke about his role and his connection with the Mahatma as the figure as he has spent years essaying him on stage.
Speaking about the pivotal role, Pratik said: “For me this is a very important role, one of the biggest shows I do in my life because I play the pivotal role of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. We will try our best to show his life and his journey. This is one the very first shows to depict something like this in the history of entertainment.”
The actor confessed that when he was first asked to play the role,...
Speaking about the pivotal role, Pratik said: “For me this is a very important role, one of the biggest shows I do in my life because I play the pivotal role of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. We will try our best to show his life and his journey. This is one the very first shows to depict something like this in the history of entertainment.”
The actor confessed that when he was first asked to play the role,...
- 10/2/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Eminent filmmaker Ananth Narayan Mahadevan is in post-production on “Phule,” about the pioneers of women’s education in India.
Jyotirao Govindrao Phule and his wife Savitribai were social reformers known for their efforts against India’s endemic caste system. Phule’s first school for girls was founded in Pune, western India, in 1848. In 1873, Jyotirao Phule and his followers began the Satyashodhak Samaj (Truth-seekers’ Society) to campaign for increased rights for the underprivileged. In 1888, the honorific Mahatma (great soul), a term later used to describe Gandhi, was accorded to Phule.
“The two of them are lethal, the husband and wife, because at a time when the girl child was being refused education and just pushed into marriage, Jyotirao chose to actually educate his little wife – she was just 11 at that time, he was 17 when they got married, because it was the time of child marriage,” Mahadevan told Variety.
Many of the...
Jyotirao Govindrao Phule and his wife Savitribai were social reformers known for their efforts against India’s endemic caste system. Phule’s first school for girls was founded in Pune, western India, in 1848. In 1873, Jyotirao Phule and his followers began the Satyashodhak Samaj (Truth-seekers’ Society) to campaign for increased rights for the underprivileged. In 1888, the honorific Mahatma (great soul), a term later used to describe Gandhi, was accorded to Phule.
“The two of them are lethal, the husband and wife, because at a time when the girl child was being refused education and just pushed into marriage, Jyotirao chose to actually educate his little wife – she was just 11 at that time, he was 17 when they got married, because it was the time of child marriage,” Mahadevan told Variety.
Many of the...
- 8/9/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
New Delhi, June 19 (Ians) Congress criticised the government for conferring Gandhi Peace Prize for 2021 to Gita Press saying that the decision is a travesty and is like awarding Savarkar and Godse.
“The Gandhi Peace Prize for 2021 has been conferred on the Gita Press at Gorakhpur which is celebrating its centenary this year. There is a very fine biography from 2015 of this organisation by Akshaya Mukul in which he unearths the stormy relations it had with the Mahatma and the running battles it carried on with him on his political, religious & social agenda. The decision is really a travesty and is like awarding Savarkar and Godse,” Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said in a tweet criticising the government.
The Gandhi Peace Prize for 2021 will be conferred on Gita Press, Gorakhpur, in recognition of its “outstanding contribution towards social, economic and political transformation through non-violent and other Gandhian methods,” according to an official statement.
“The Gandhi Peace Prize for 2021 has been conferred on the Gita Press at Gorakhpur which is celebrating its centenary this year. There is a very fine biography from 2015 of this organisation by Akshaya Mukul in which he unearths the stormy relations it had with the Mahatma and the running battles it carried on with him on his political, religious & social agenda. The decision is really a travesty and is like awarding Savarkar and Godse,” Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said in a tweet criticising the government.
The Gandhi Peace Prize for 2021 will be conferred on Gita Press, Gorakhpur, in recognition of its “outstanding contribution towards social, economic and political transformation through non-violent and other Gandhian methods,” according to an official statement.
- 6/19/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
This article contains spoilers for Clone High season 1 and the season 2 premiere.
What memories does the year 2003 stir up? The first Pirates of the Caribbean film? Ugg Boots? Freedom Fries? When the only Fast and Furious franchise sequel was 2 Fast and 2 Furious? It was a time when two fresh faced geeks, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller didn’t have The Lego Movie or Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse under their belt. In fact, they practically had no experience in Hollywood, let alone some of the most revered animated work of their era.
To cut their teeth in business, the soon-to-be dynamic duo partnered with producer Bill Lawrence (who was the force behind Spin City and Scrubs at the time and had Ted Lasso on his future docket) to create 13 episodes of a little known animated show that premiered on Teletoon in Canada and eventually MTV in the U.S. That show was Clone High,...
What memories does the year 2003 stir up? The first Pirates of the Caribbean film? Ugg Boots? Freedom Fries? When the only Fast and Furious franchise sequel was 2 Fast and 2 Furious? It was a time when two fresh faced geeks, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller didn’t have The Lego Movie or Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse under their belt. In fact, they practically had no experience in Hollywood, let alone some of the most revered animated work of their era.
To cut their teeth in business, the soon-to-be dynamic duo partnered with producer Bill Lawrence (who was the force behind Spin City and Scrubs at the time and had Ted Lasso on his future docket) to create 13 episodes of a little known animated show that premiered on Teletoon in Canada and eventually MTV in the U.S. That show was Clone High,...
- 5/23/2023
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
"I found Bimal Roy at his desk, writing something, when I entered his cabin. As he stopped writing and looked up, he appeared to be taken aback. He fixed me with a steady gaze and kept staring at me in silence… After a while, he turned to the people seated at the rear end of the cabin and said to them in Bengali: ‘Is this the man you had in mind? What sort of a joke are you playing on me?’
"Apparently, he wasn’t aware that I knew Bengali. Without even offering me a seat, he said to me, ‘Mr. Sahni, my men have made a mistake. I can see that you are totally unsuited to play the sort of role I wish to present in my film’," Balraj Sahni wrote in his autobiography ‘Meri Filmi Atamkatha’.
A shattered Sahni managed to ask what role it was and Roy...
"Apparently, he wasn’t aware that I knew Bengali. Without even offering me a seat, he said to me, ‘Mr. Sahni, my men have made a mistake. I can see that you are totally unsuited to play the sort of role I wish to present in my film’," Balraj Sahni wrote in his autobiography ‘Meri Filmi Atamkatha’.
A shattered Sahni managed to ask what role it was and Roy...
- 5/1/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
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