Mumbai: Actor Ranbir Kapoor has been signed by Disney for 'Jagga Jasoos' franchise and the film's shooting will commence in September next year.
Franchise 'Jagga Jasoos' will be co-produced by Picture Shuru -- Ranbir and Anurag Basu's new production company.
As the shooting is scheduled for next year, till then Anurag, Ranbir and UTV will work together on developing the script for the first and the second part, as well as work on pre-production work for the film that film, said a statement.
'Jagga Jasoos' will be a full-on Disney franchise and the long term plan would be to take it into multiple sequels, merchandising, consumer products, graphic comics, television, gaming and much more....
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06:26 PM, Jun 17, 2013
Mumbai: After mesmerising audiences with his performance as mute Barfi in Anurag Basu's film with the same name, the actor is all set to play a detective in the director's next 'Jagga Jasoos'. The 30-year-old, who was present at the special screening of his film 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani' here Thursday, confirmed the news. Letting out that he is playing a detective in 'Jagga Jasoos', Ranbir said: "Yes, this is...
03:04 PM, May 31, 2013
Mumbai: Director Anurag Basu is likely to act in his assistant Abhijeet Das's debut Bengali film. Basu, who has directed films like 'Murder', Gangster', 'Kites', 'Life In A Metro' and 'Barfi', played the role of a doctor in filmmaker Onir's movie 'I Am'. If all goes well, he might be in front of the camera once again. "I am working on a full length Bengali feature film. I am keen...
02:04 PM, May 30, 2013
New Delhi: The 13-year-old Pune boy emerged as the biggest dramebaaz in the entire country. Aditya Singhal says he couldn't sleep after winning the Golden Keeda trophy on 'India's Best Dramebaaz' (IBD). Aditya, a student of Bishop's Co-ed School in Pune, is a class VIII student and was the eldest among the finalists. After the results were announced, he said he couldn't sleep that night out of excitement. Known as...
11:15 AM, May 27, 2013
Mumbai: He was called "the silent one" on 'India's Best Dramebaaz' (IBD), and 13-year-old Aditya Singhal's sheer talent helped him win the reality show meant for children in the age group of five to 15 years. The youngster, who was the eldest among the finalists, was thrilled about his victory. The show, judged by Sonali Bendre, Anurag Basu and Vivek Oberoi, aimed at grooming children by testing their creativity, spontaneity...
04:04 PM, May 26, 2013
Kolkata: Grateful at having worked with "interesting filmmakers" since his 2007 debut, actor Ranbir Kapoor Thursday confessed that playing himself in his forthcoming release 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani' (YJHD) is "harder" than enacting characters in his previous films. "I am grateful that I got to work with such good directors. I was at the right place at the right time... I got these opportunities and I was intelligent enough to...
09:57 AM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: Ranbir Kapoor-Priyanka Chopra starrer 'Barfi' bagged nine awards in the technical category at the 14th annual IIFA Awards. The Anurag Basu directed movie took home nine awards out of 14 for Best Cinematography, Best Screenplay, Best Production Design, Best Sound Design, Best Song Recording, Best Sound Mixing, Best Background Score, Best Costume Designing and Best Make-Up. Whereas, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap's 'Gangs of Wasseypur' took the second position with...
03:42 PM, May 21, 2013
Mumbai: Filmmaker Anurag Basu, who started his direction career with 1996 hit daily soap 'Tara', says films should not be considered superior to television and adds that filmmaking is easier. He also directed TV shows 'Star Bestsellers' and 'Koshish... Ek Aashaa' before making his big screen debut with 2003 movie 'Saaya' starring John Abraham and Tara Sharma. "I don't feel that films are superior to television. I don't know why...
05:13 PM, May 06, 2013
Anurag Basu's critically acclaimed and commercially successful movie 'Barfi!' leads the nominations for the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards 2013. Movies like 'Vicky Donor', 'Gangs Of Wasseypur' and 'Agneepath' have scored major nominations too. The IIFA Voting Weekend was held in March, and the resultant nominations list reflects the diverse and thriving landscape of the Hindi film industry at present. The maximum 15 nominations have been bagged by 'Barfi!',...
02:01 PM, Apr 22, 2013
Vancouver: The story of a deaf and mute boy, 'Barfi!' turned out to be the top winner at the maiden edition of the Times of India Film Awards (TOIFA) cornering the best film, best director, best actor and best actress trophies. At a glittering awards function Saturday, Anurag Basu picked up the best director award while Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra carried home the best actor and best actress trophies,...
05:02 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Vancouver: After making her mark as a singer internationally, Priyanka Chopra is looking forward to lend her voice to Bollywood songs but says that will happen only after the release of her debut album. After 'In My City', Priyanka recorded her second single 'Exotic' with rapper Pitbull, which she says should come out in few months. "Vishal Shekhar and Salim-Sulaiman had asked me to sing but I was shy. Playback...
09:31 AM, Apr 07, 2013
Vancouver: Filmmaker Anurag Basu, who is re-teaming with Ranbir Kapoor for a biopic on Kishore Kumar, believes that the young star is the perfect choice to bring alive the versatility of the legendary singer-actor on-screen. Ranbir and Basu earlier worked together on the hit film 'Barfi'. The 30-year-old 'Wake Up Sid' actor is currently busy with two back-to-back movies so Basu is planning to begin shooting the biopic by next...
01:31 PM, Apr 06, 2013
The love story between a hearing and speech impaired boy and an autistic girl melt the hearts of the audiences but was heavily snubbed at the National Film Awards on Monday. Despite winning accolades at almost all other award functions, 'Barfi' failed to score even a single win at Indian cinema's most respectable awards. ...
12:04 PM, Mar 19, 2013
Despite being a well crafted film, 'Barfi' was criticised for its striking similarities with some foreign films. ...
03:53 PM, Mar 10, 2013
Filmmaker Anurag Basu, who will be directing a biopic on late actor-singer Kishore Kumar, says the film is taking a lot of time and will now start next year. However, he will start another film by May this year. ...
10:38 AM, Mar 02, 2013
Anurag Basu, who is scripting late singer Kishore Kumar's biopic, is still hunting for the actress to play yesteryear diva Madhubala in the film. ...
04:57 PM, Feb 21, 2013
