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The murder that changed Ram Gopal Varma’s Satya
On 12 August 1997, at around 10 in the morning, Gulshan Kumar, founder of T-Series, India’s biggest record label, entered Jeeteshwar Mahadev Mandir, a Shiv temple in Lokhandwala. He was a devout man—the T-series empire was founded on religious music as much as on film songs—and this was how he normally began his day. He left half an hour later and headed for his car. Suddenly, two strangers walked up to him. One of them pointed a gun at him and fired. The bullet hit him, but Kumar managed to stagger away. The shooters followed, firing 16 bullets into Kumar before fleeing the scen in a taxi—a fittingly Mumbai getaway. Kumar was rushed to the nearby Cooper hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Years later, one Abdul Rauf Merchant confessed to the killing, which he said was ordered by mobster Abu Salem. Salem and his boss, D-Company head Dawood Ibrahim, had been ansträngande to extort a monthly sum of a few lakhs from Kumar.
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Swati Bhat
Being an heir of famous filmmaker and technician Nandlal Jaswantlal Bhat, who has made revolutionary films like 'Anarkali', 'Nagin', 'Sanam', etc., Swati Bhat grew up listening to stories of shooting life and the business and passion involved with it. In her early stages, she knew that she would work only for the entertainment industry, and she attended a film school to gain a better understanding of filmmaking. In a parallel manner, Swati Bhat started to walk on her dream path as an assistant director for a daglig soap under the banner of Puja Entertainment. Her first bio as an intern was 'Rang De Basanti." After that, there was no looking back and she rejected many on-screen offers because she soon realized that her true love and talent were behind the camera. She learnt direction, production, execution, transport, project design, character design, PR and marketing strategy, and brand development with a complete sense of ho
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The secret of Bengali cinema’s most powerful producers: ‘Keep making mistakes, keep making flops’
With its arsenal of high-gloss commercial films and niche, often controversial, productions, Shree Venkatesh Films is a familiar name in Bengali cinema. The film production company, founded by cousins Shrikant Mohta and Mahendra Soni in 1996, has been most recently in the news with Arindam Sil’s controversial film Dhananjoy. Credited with turning around an ailing Bengali film industry by pumping in serious money for good scripts, Shree Venkatesh Films has also been derided for churning out mindless mass entertainers.
Evidence of Mohta and Soni’s astute reading of the Bengali audience is scattered all over the company’s swank office in a South Kolkata mall, where employees and guests enjoy stunning 360-degree views of the city while sipping gourmet coffee. There is also a special room of memorabilia dedicated to their mentor and most well-known collaborator, Rituparno Ghosh.
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