[arr] Amritraj, Stewart in tune with 'Dancing'

[Vithur]

Amritraj, Stewart in tune with 'Dancing'Duo team on youth-friendly dance pic
By MICHAEL FLEMING
, ALI JAAFAR 
[image: Ashok Amritraj]

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Ashok Amritraj is teaming with music producer Dave Stewart to make "Street
Dancing," a pic set in the world of a cutting-edge dance competition in
Singapore and New York.

Project will be the first to come out of Amritraj's $75 million fund with
Abu Dhabi-based Imagenation and Singapore's MDA.

Amritraj will produce through Hyde Park Entertainment. Imagenation Abu Dhabi
chief executive Ed Borgerding and Hyde Park's Patrick Aiello will exec
produce with Stewart and Prem Akkaraju.

The film will be directed by Bille Woodruff ("Honey," "Beauty Shop"), from a
script by David B. Harris. Stewart will create the music with A.R. Rahman,
Oscar-winning composer for "Slumdog Millionaire."

Aside from mixing dance styles and cultures in the storyline, the film will
exploit cross-promotional opportunities through Nokia's mobile platform, as
the tech company will have an association with the picture.

Story revolves around a youth who makes a longshot bid to win a dance
contest whose competitors and styles span the globe. Cindy Gomez will make
her feature film starring debut.

Gomez was recently featured in Nokia's mobile game "Dance Fabulous," which
employed a dancing avatar of the young singer and introduced songs that will
be featured on her 2010 album from Interscope Records.

Hyde Park and Imagenation Abu Dhabi initially joined forces with a $250
million co-financing and co-production fund to generate up to 20 films over
seven years. Last October, they extended the arrangement and formed a
separate $75 million joint fund with Singapore's MDA to finance three or
four films over the next five years. "Street Dancing" is the first film in
the latter arrangement.

Aside from Gomez, Eurythmics founder Stewart also has a relationship with
Nokia.

Amritraj said: "This fresh and exciting pop cross-cultural project is an
organic match for continuing our partnerships between Hollywood, the Middle
East and Asia and gives us the ability to explore the exciting new
distribution format of mobile technology."

Imagenation's Borgerding called the project "the ideal property to commence
our partnership with Hyde Park and the MDA. It's very reflective of our
partners, their culture and embodies our overall vision of creating global
cinema for mass audiences."

Hyde Park Intl. head Mimi Steinbauer will handle worldwide sales.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118010910.html?categoryId=13&cs=1&cache=false
-- 
regards,
Vithur

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[kishore parayath]

Rajib... I dont think there exists any country where ARR fans are very less!

Re: [arr] ARR at Singapore night safari

[pratap]

Cool. Didn't know about this. Thanks for the info:-)

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--- On Wed, 11/4/09, karthik subramanian  wrote:

From: karthik subramanian 
Subject: [arr] ARR at Singapore night safari
To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 7:20 PM







 



  



  
  
  Apologies if this has been posted before.

I was vacationing at Singapore with my family earlier this month.

At the Singapore zoo and night safari, there is a show called the creatures of 
the night, that show cases nocturnal animals and their skills.

The highlight of the show is the Bombay theme music that plays in the 
background when they introduce Hyenas and wolves.

I had seen this before ( 5 years back), but my family members were thrilled 
when they heard the familiar tune :)

The interesting thing about this is, the night safari has been using this music 
for at least 5 years ( long before the double Oscar wins).



Not that we needed any reinforcement of ARR's global appeal, but thought you 
will all be interested in knowing this.



Karthik






 





 



  






  

[arr] Re: Watched Blue yesterday and...

[Jahanzeb]

oh my god i am again reminded how brutally this magnificent song was ruined in 
move. it was definitely the WORST treatment given to an ARR song ever. ever 
ever. picturized it on Rishi and Abheshik, in car and in a snooker club. man 
(ROM) were you out of your mind doing that??? what on earth made you think it 
will look good. no director in his right senses would do that. that alone tells 
even talented directors like ROM cannot understand value of ARR song, and that 
too of a gem song like Rehna Tu, his best in many years. i always imagine how 
wonderful it would have been had he picturized it on Abhishek and Sonam. i 
always visualized it that way but he ruined the whole thing. Rehna Tu for me is 
the darkest period of ARR song picturization.


-
Jahanzeb


--- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, "Rivjot"  wrote:
>
> Rawat, how can you call Rehna Tu 'situation specific' - that song was so 
> forcefully included in that movie and was ironically picturized on AB & Rishi 
> Kapoor traveling in a car? During the promos they showed (different) scenes 
> of AB & Sonam Kapoor wow!
> 
> No offense to the song though, it remains one of the best song of this year.
> 
> --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, V S Rawat  wrote:
> >
> > On 11/3/2009 4:21 PM India Time, _Gopal Anandan_ wrote:
> > 
> > > 1. poor movie script, screenplay - screws up some good ARR songs. Like 
> > > in Blue, Yuvvraj, Delhi 6
> > > 
> > 
> > 1.
> > About Delhi 6, whatever be the merits of ROM style of storytelling, but he 
> > did give prominence to our man's songs. 
> > 
> > - Rehna Tu was such a situation specific that it couldn't have been 
> > possible to get it made without very close understanding and communication 
> > between the film director and the MD. 
> > 
> > - Arziya was shot on such a vast panoramic scale that it must have required 
> > a lot of efforts from director to shoot this brilliant song by our man.
> > 
> > - Genda phool just happens sort of unannounced but it still brings a fresh 
> > air when it happens. 
> > 
> > - Ye Dilli hai mere yaar could only be a background song by its genre. Kala 
> > bandar was also particularly created for the film's situation. 
> > 
> > - maskali, of course, was more a filler song compared with the media 
> > coverage it got before the release of the film. 
> > 
> > - dil gira also was more like a filler, though we can't deny that director 
> > did put a lot of efforts in shooting it.
> > 
> > --
> > 2. Ghai did his best to give prominence to each and every song. Zindagi was 
> > shot at the most appropriate juncture, though its breakup could have been 
> > avoided. All three dance songs were elaborately and luxuriously shot, I get 
> > mixed up in which of the three dance songs was which. tu dost hai also had 
> > money spent in special effects. tu muskara was grand climax song. manmohini 
> > was situation perfect.
> > 
> > --
> > i think we can judge the prominence given to a song if we can remember 
> > which song was placed where and what was there in the video and how 
> > significant it was for the film. In blue we do get mix up among the songs, 
> > and the opening/closing credit songs were just wasted. Of course, in D6, 
> > one can recall which of the each song was where.
> > 
> > --
> > 
> > So I don't agree with you that D6 and Yuvvraj songs treatment had anything 
> > lacking from the side of the director and I wouldn't club them in the 
> > categories of blue.
> > 
> > What more do we expect a director to do for ARR songs?
> > 
> > --
> > Rawat
> >
>

[arr] Fiqrana used in Kanden Kadhalai as BGM

[pratap]

The intro of Fiqrana is used in Kanden Kadhalai as a BGM. Is it a commercial 
loop or is it lifted by Vidyasagar? I have included the BGM here 
http://www.mediafire.com/?jz5ggz31rtk

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[arr] Street Dancing

[$ Pavan Kumar $]

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118010910.html?categoryId=13&cs=1&cache=false

Amritraj, Stewart in tune with 'Dancing'
Duo team on youth-friendly dance pic
By MICHAEL FLEMING, ALI JAAFAR
Ashok Amritraj is teaming with music producer Dave Stewart to make “Street 
Dancing,” a pic that is set in the world of a cutting-edge dance competition in 
Singapore and New York.
The project will be the first to come out of Amritraj’s $75 million fund with 
Abu Dhabi-based Imagenation and Singapore’s MDA.
Amritraj will produce through Hyde Park Entertainment. Imagenation Abu Dhabi 
chief executive Ed Borgerding and Hyde Park’s Patrick Aiello will executive 
produce with Stewart and Prem Akkaraju.
The film will be directed by Bille Woodruff (“Honey” and “Beauty Shop”), from a 
script by David B. Harris. Stewart will create the music with A.R. Rahman, 
Oscar-winning composer for “Slumdog Millionaire.”
Aside from mixing dance styles and cultures in the storyline, the film will 
exploit cross-promotional opportunities through Nokia’s mobile platform, as the 
tech company will have an association with the picture.
The pic revolves around a youth who makes a long-shot bid to win a dance 
contest whose competitors and styles span the globe. Cindy Gomez will make her 
feature film starring debut.
Gomez was recently featured in Nokia’s mobile game, “Dance Fabulous,” which 
employed a dancing avatar of the young singer and introduced songs that will be 
featured on her 2010 album from Interscope Records.
Hyde Park and Imagenation Abu Dhabi initially joined forces with a $250 million 
co-financing and co-production fund to generate up to 20 films over seven 
years. Last October, they extended the arrangement and formed a separate $75 
million joint fund with Singapore’s MDA to coin three or four films over the 
next five years. “Street Dancing” is the first film in the latter arrangement.
Aside from Gomez, Eurythmics founder Stewart also has a relationship with Nokia.
“I am very excited to be working with Ashok on this multi-platform, 
multi-cultural charming film,” Stewart said. “The world is more connected than 
ever before and as pioneers in connecting media from all sources, I found Hyde 
Park, Imagenation and I shared this outlook.”
Said Amritraj: “This fresh and exciting pop-cross-cultural project is an 
organic match for continuing our partnerships between Hollywood, the Middle 
East and Asia, and gives us the ability to explore the exciting new 
distribution format of mobile technology.”
Imagenation’s Borgerding called the project “the ideal property to commence our 
partnership with Hyde Park and the MDA, it’s very reflective of our partners, 
their culture and embodies our overall vision of creating global cinema for 
mass audiences.”
Hyde Park Intl. head Mimi Steinbauer will handle worldwide sales.