Abhay Deol, the actor-turned producer is going to make his mark in tinsel town. His move from acting to production, is all set with not a single but three in-line ‘indie’ movies that he chose from this year’s Ndfc Film Bazaar.The list includes –Brahmanand S Singh’s documentary ‘Kaagaz Ki Kashti’ about the life and times of the legendary gazal singer Jagjit Singh, Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s ‘Labor of Love’ and Payal Sethi’s short film ‘Leeches’. These movies were a part of Viewing Room at the 10th edition of Ndfc Film Bazaar. The ‘Aisha’ famed actor has named his production house as ‘Abhay Deol Presents’. Not just blindly going for commercial films, Abhay has decided to give a platform to independent films that deserve a proper launch pad with a world-wide audience reach. During his interview, Abhay was brimming up with new ideas as to how we...
- 11/23/2016
- FilmiPop
Exclusive/Film Bazaar: Indian actor Abhay Deol has set up a banner to acquire critically-acclaimed Indian independent films and work with online platforms to give them a straight-to-digital worldwide release.
The new venture, Abhay Deol Presents, has already acquired three titles – Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s Venice 2014 title Labour Of Love; Payal Sethi’s award-winning short Leeches; and Brahmanand S. Siingh’s documentary Kaagaz Ki Kashti, about Ghazal singer Jagjit Singh, which received a standing ovation when it premiered at Mumbai Film Festival last month.
“As an actor I’ve always wanted to balance mainstream and non-mainstream work but realised there needed to be changes in the distribution system for independent films to happen,” said Deol whose acting credits include indie titles Shanghai and Dev D. “Now digital is here, independent filmmakers finally have a platform, so I decided to take the plunge and explore this space.”
Deol is currently assembling a distribution team to exploit the titles...
The new venture, Abhay Deol Presents, has already acquired three titles – Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s Venice 2014 title Labour Of Love; Payal Sethi’s award-winning short Leeches; and Brahmanand S. Siingh’s documentary Kaagaz Ki Kashti, about Ghazal singer Jagjit Singh, which received a standing ovation when it premiered at Mumbai Film Festival last month.
“As an actor I’ve always wanted to balance mainstream and non-mainstream work but realised there needed to be changes in the distribution system for independent films to happen,” said Deol whose acting credits include indie titles Shanghai and Dev D. “Now digital is here, independent filmmakers finally have a platform, so I decided to take the plunge and explore this space.”
Deol is currently assembling a distribution team to exploit the titles...
- 11/21/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
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