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UPCOMING SHORT FILM FESTIVAL IN 2019

Films play an indispensable part in our daily lives.

They capture stories that we fail to see and celebrate characters that we fail to notice. But most importantly they make us realize the beauty in simple things. Films are not just a medium of entertainment rather they are lessons to appreciate the life!

Film festivals are the events that celebrate the entire medium of video.

Films, short films, musical videos and documentaries made by passionate cine lovers come together to a common platform to exchange their visions.

We present you the list of important short film festivals happening around the country.

1. Indian Cine Film Festival- 2019

Events Date : 20th August

Event Venue : Meerut

Website: http://miniboxoffice.com/indiancinefilmfestival/

The Indian Cine Film Festival is a decade old festival. Launched in Meerut, the Festival gained a reputation of attracting international participation in its debut event.

The ICFF- 19 aims to give a momentum to the independent cinemas.

Besides the main event, the ICFF, with collaboration with International Competitive Film Screening, conducts master classes and discussions related to Industry and the film markets. It creates a useful point for meeting and discussion of film professionals and new talents.

2. Vintage International Film Fest -2019

Events Date : 17th August

Event Venue : Shahu Smarak Bhavan, Kolhapur

Website : https://www.vintageiff.com/

The Vintage film festival has its roots in one of the most culturally celebrated city of India, the Kolhapur.

It believes that local talents don’t get a platform in spite of the immense talent, so it aims to give an international platform to such local artists.

Besides the event, it will also organize workshops.

Shahu Smarak Bhavan, Kolhapur is going to host this event on 17th August.

3. Nagaon International Short and Documentary Film Festival

Events Date : 23rd to 25th August

Event Venue : Nagaon, Assam

Website : https://www.cinemalay.com/

The Nagaon Short and Documentary Film Festival promote and celebrate art through visual mediums!

The local Cine-lovers, students, and filmmakers in association with Cinemalaya and Mahapurusha Srimanta Sankaradeva Vishwavidyalaya created this Festival.

The main objective of the Festival is to create quality cinema while bridging the distance between the filmmakers and small-town audience.

The event will be happening in Nagaon, Assam from 23rd to 25th August.

4. Glance International Short Film Festival

Events Date : 3rd and 4th September

Event Venue : Prabhadevi, Mumbai

Website : http://www.gisffindia.com/

The Glance International film festival promotes and encourages international films from across the globe. It creates awareness and appreciation for the cultural background of the stories to promote international brotherhood.

It celebrates every department and talent of filmmaking like the music department or the cinematography department.

The Festival also aims in giving production support to the deserving stories.

The event will commence on 3rd and 4th September.

5. Annabhau Sathe Film Festival, Pune

Events Date : 1st to 3rd November

Event Venue : Pune Law College, Pune

Website : www.asfpune.com

The Annabhau Sathe Film Festival is from 1st to 3rd November that will be held in the National Film Archive of India’s auditorium in Pune Law College.

The Film festival gets organized in association with the Nirmit Media. Besides the main event, the Festival will also organize classes, panel discussions, and Queries Forum that will be attended by prolific filmmakers and producers of the country.

6. Smita Patil International Film Festival

Events Date : 14th – 15th December

Event Venue : SM Joshi Auditorium, Pune

Website : https://spiffpune.in

The Smita Patil International Film Festival is one of the most reputed film festivals of the country!

The Festival had many successful international ventures over the years.

Acclaimed filmmakers like Ridley Scott produced some of its projects which also have a reputation of being screened at festivals like Cannes.

The Festival is organized successfully for eight years and takes entry of documentaries and short films.

The event will commence on 14-15 December this year at SM Joshi Auditorium, Pune.

7. Legend Short Film Festival

Events Date : 5th September

Event Venue : Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Website : https://www.sathyabama.ac.in/

The Legend Short Film festival is organized by the Satybama Institute of Science and Technology. It will be held on the 5th of September.

8. Rolling Reels Film Festival

Events Date : 25th August

Event Venue : Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu

Website : https://rollingreels.festember.com/

The Rolling Reels Film Festival is a non-profit organization which is handled by some film lover students.

The Festival is presented by the Festember, which is considered to be the most prominent cultural Festival in the southern regions of India.

The objective of the Festival is to establish an interactive platform for young filmmakers and veterans.

It is on 25th August.

9. Dehradun International Film Festival

Events Date : 25th August

Event Venue : Dehradun

Website : https://ddniff.com/

The Dehradun International Film Festival is a yearly festival that gets held in late September.

It features foreign, Indian, and local feature films along with short films and documentaries.

The main objective of the Festival is to bring down the local talents and the professionals of the Industry in a familiar place to encourage the film culture of the state, which will indirectly serve nationally.

10. Telugu Short Film Awards

Events Date : 25th August

Event Venue : Hyderabad

Website : http://kalaraj.com/

The Telugu Short Film Awards is a two-year-old film festival. The Kalaraj Media and Entertainment organize it.

The objective of the event is to honor and appreciate and felicitate short filmmakers, cast and also crew members with awards and rewards. The event is on 25th August in Hyderabad.

11. Kolkata Short Film and Photography Festival

Events Date : 1st September

Event Venue : Kolkata

Website : https://www.ksff.in

The Kolkata Short Film and Photography Festival is a microfilm festival to be held on 1st September in Kolkata.

The primary purpose of the Festival is to bring together all filmmakers irrespective of the genres. The event is hoping to have a diversified audience that can appreciate art in all forms, including Photography.

The event will be a red carpet premiere which may attract essential personnel of the media industry.  

12. Orchid Children’s Film Festival, Bengaluru

Events Date : 29th August

Event Venue : Bengaluru

Website : http://orchidsliteraturefest.com/

The Orchid International School of Bengaluru will organize its Children’s Film festival on 29th August.

The event will bring around over 25 eminent national and international film personalities.

The event will have various workshops on acting, scriptwriting, direction, and Photography,

Animation, etc. along with competitive events for the same.  

13. SKG International Film Festival

Events Date : May 2020

Event Venue : Ahmedabad

Website : http://skginternationalfilmfestival.com/

The SKG International Film Festival will be in May 2020 at Ahmedabad.

It has a variety of competition starting from microfilms (one second to thirty seconds) to

Feature films and music videos. It has a wide range of awards sections that will have International recognitions.

14.  All Lights India- International Film Festival

Events Date : December 2019

Event Venue : Hyderabad

Website : https://aliiff.com/

All Lights India-International Film Festival (ALIIFF) is a foundation that was laid in the year 2015. The foundation started the Festival started in the same year in Cochin and later moved Hyderabad for its 2nd, 3rd and 4th edition (2016, 2017 & 2018) respectively. It showcases over 100 films every year which encompasses all genres, lengths, and formats.

15. Ability FEST

Events Date : 9th to 12th September 2019

Event Venue : Chennai

Website : http://www.abilityfoundation.org/ability_fest.html

The Ability Fest, also known as India International Disability Film Festival – is the country’s leading film festival to empower disabled persons with disabilities.

The Eighth Edition of the Fest is going to be held from 9th to 12th September 2019 at Chennai, India.

The Festival showcases upbeat cinema by, sensitive, thought-provoking films from all around the world. Short films, documentaries, and feature-length films subtitled films, audio-described films; there’s every kind of cinema in this Fest.

16. Global Nature Film Festival

Events Date : 19th to 24th September 2019

Event Venue : New Delhi

Website : http://globalfilmfestival.in/

The Global Nature Film festival is going to held from 19 to 24 September which will mark the 150th and 101st birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay respectively.

The event invites short and features films and documentaries from all over the world on Environment protection and Nature appreciation. The Festival will also have exhibitions, seminars, workshops, and cultural events. Also, the Festival will have brainstorming sessions on environmental issues and the protection of Mother Nature.    

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WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEKEND May 17, 2019  - JOHN WICK CHAPTER 3, A DOG’S JOURNEY, THE SUN IS ALSO A STAR

Well, the summer is grinding along at a rather slow pace. Granted, it’s only the third or fourth official weekend, depending on when you started counting, and if you live in New York City, it doesn’t really feel like summer at all, but as has been the case since starting my beat at The Beat, I hope people will be reading this for the limited releases and repertory stuff, which I try to make fairly comprehensive and complete.

Normally, I wouldn’t be too impressed with Lionsgate’s decision to release Keanu Reeves’ JOHN WICK CHAPTER 3 - PARABELLUM in the summer, but surprise, surprise, I actually liked this one. A LOT! I already reviewed the movie for The Beat, a review which you can read here, but I do think that most of the people who liked the first movie will like this one, too, as it adds the likes of Halle Berry, Asia Kate Dillon  (Orange is the New Black) and Mark Dacascos to flesh out the mythology while sending John Wick on the run as he’s excommunicated from the assassin’s guild.

I don’t have as much an opinion about the doggie sequel A DOG’S JOURNEY (Universal). I mean, I like dogs just fine, but I never got around to seeing A Dog’s Purpose, and I’m not sure I can follow this movie’s high-concept premise without having seen it. Apparently, a dog dies and then keeps coming back as another dog in order to protect Dennis Quaid’s daughter… no, I don’t get how that works either, but I’ll probably never see this.

The other movie I’ve seen which opens Friday is Ry Russo-Young’s THE SUN IS ALSO A STAR (Warner Bros./MGM), based on the novel by Nicola Yoon, starring Yara Shahidi (black-ish,grown-ish) and Charles Melton from Riverdale. If you know me at all, then you can probably guess that I’ve never seen those shows, but I have seen Russo-Young’s other films, and she’s a director that’s definitely grown on me as she’s taken on YA adaptations. I’m not going to write a full review of this one (due to time constraints and illness) but I was generally mixed on it. I thought the two young actors were fantastic, and this was a perfectly nice romantic film that generally used its New York locations well, but there were definitely parts where I was just bored and not that into the story. It’s a shame, because I usually buy into the whole fate and destiny thing, especially when it come to romance, but this one just gets silly at times.

You can find out what I think of the above film’s box office prospects over at The Beat.

LIMITED RELEASES

This is a very busy week for limited releases with a lot of things coming out of the woodwork at the last minute… and honestly, most of what I’ve seen is just okay, at best.

Jack O’Connell plays Cameron Todd Willingham in Ed Zwick’s TRIAL BY FIRE (Roadside Attractions), based on the true story of the Texas man accused of murdering his three young daughters via arson in 1991. He spent 12 years on Death Row before his case found its way to writer Elizabeth Gilbert, played by Laura Dern, who tries to negate the evidence against Willingham. I wanted to like this movie more than I did, because it is an interesting story with a decent script written by Oscar winner Geoffrey Fletcher (Precious), based on an article by New Yorker writer David Grann (apparently all of his articles become movies, so he has a good agent, huh?). The movie is generally okay, mainly due to the fantastic rounded performance by O’Connell but it’s also quite long-winded and didn’t need to be over two hours to get its point across.

Joanna Hogg’s autobiographical British indie THE SOUVENIR (A24) stars Honor Swinton Byrne (yes, that’s Tilda’s daughter) as film school student Julie who encounters and gets involved with a gregarious and opinionated older man named named Anthony (Tom Burke) who turns out to be a heroin junkie who effectively sabotages the film she’s trying to get made. While I can generally understand what Hogg was trying to do with this movie, I found it very long and drawn-out, and I was even more shocked to learn that this was meant to be the first of a two-part movie, but no, I won’t bother with Part 2 even if it does star Robert Pattinson, probably as another dick who tries to derail Julie’s career, cause that’s what men do.

The Lunchbox director Ritesh Batra returns to India for the romantic drama PHOTOGRAPH (Amazon) about Rafi (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), a man from a poor village who takes a picture of student named Miloni (Sanya Malhotra) and sends it to his grandma, saying it’s his new girlfriend, so she’ll get off his back about marrying. Rafi sends his grandma a picture of Miloni, but then has to convince Miloni to play along and meet his grandmother when she comes to Mumbai. As the two spend more time getting to know each other, a romance begins. It’s a nice movie, maybe not quite as great as The Lunchbox, but a nice date night movie for sure.

Opening at the Metrograph, which is in the midst of a Ryusuke Hamaguchi retrospective, is the Japanese filmmaker’s most recent film ASAKO I AND II (Grasshopper Films), based on the novel by Tomoka Shibasaki. It begins with a romance between a shy girl from (Asako, played by Erika Karata) who falls for a young man named Baku (Masahiro Higashide), who suddenly vanishes on her. She ends up moving to Tokyo and meeting another man named Ryohei, who is Baku’s spitting image – maybe because he’s also played by Higashide. A relationship develops between them until Asako learns what happened to Baku. This is definitely a strange but mostly satisfying romance story that would be a great date night double feature of Photograph.

From Sweden comes Pella Kagerman and Hugo Lilja’s sci-fi thriller ANIARA (Magnet Releasing), which takes place on the title spaceship which is taking the three-week journey to Mars full of thousands of passengers when it’s knocked off course. The problem is that it might take years to get back on course, which immediately throws everyone on board into a panic. At the center of it is Emelie Jonsson’s woman who runs a “Mima chamber” where people can go to relax, a chamber that gets increasingly more busy until it breaks down and then things just get completely crazy.  If you wondered what Passengersmight have been like if Gaspar Noe directed it then Aniarais the movie for you, but I did like Jonsson’s character arc as she ends up starting a relationship with a woman officer on the ship and where that story goes.

Karen Gillan stars in Collin Schiffli’s ALL CREATURES HERE BELOW (Samuel Goldwyn), which is written by and co-stars David Dastmalchian from Ant-Manand other films. It deals with a couple living in poverty, forcing him to break the law, as they set off to find refuge in Kansas City. I haven’t seen it but it sounds interesting with that casting.

Shirley Jackson’s 1962 mystery novel WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE (Brainstorm Media)is adapted by filmmaker Stacie Passon with an all-star cast including Taissa Farmiga, Alexandra Daddario, Sebastian Stan and Crispin Glover. Farmiga plays Merricat who lives with her sister Constance (Daddario) and uncle (Glover), the only survivors of a poisonic that killed the rest of their family five years earlier. When their cousin Charles (Stan) arrives, asking about the family’s finances, it begins a battle for control as tragedy looms.

Now playingat the Film Forum is The Third Wife (Film Movement), Ash Mayfair’s Vietnamese drama set in the 19th Century about a 14-year-old named May, who becomes the third wife of a much older man. With a mostly female cast and crew, the film has drawn comparisons to Zhang Yimou’s Raise the Red Lantern and some of the flashbacks in The Joy Luck Club (which I recently rewatched and cried my eyes out, but don’t tell anyone).

Then opening Friday at the Film Forum is Andrey Paunov’s documentary Walking on Water (Kino Lorber), about artist Christo and his late wife Jeanne-Claude, who had built some of the most amazing large-scale installations including the famous “The Gates” in Central Park and their most recent project “The Floating Piers” over Lake Iseo in Italy. The movie will open in L.A. and San Fran next Friday, May 24.

Johnny Depp stars in Wayne Roberts’ The Professor (Saban Films), a movie that seems to be getting dumped into theaters after a DirecTV release. Depp plays Richard, a college lecturer who discovers he has six months to live so he turns into a party animal, much to the shock of his wife (Rosemarie DeWitt) and chancellor (Ron Livingston). Also costarring Zoey Deutch, it opens in select cities.

Kevin and Michael Goetz’s A Violent Separation (Screen Media) stars Brenton Thwaites as Norman Young, deputy of a midwstern town who is forced to arrest his older brother Ray (Ben Robson) for murder. Things get more difficult when Norman gets involved with the victim’s younger sister (Alycia Debnam-Carey). It opens at New York’s Cinema Village and a few other theaters as well as On Demand.

Now playing at the Roxy Cinema in New York is Matt Hinton’s doc Parallel Love: The Story of a Band Called Luxury (Abramorama) about the small-town band Luxury, whose career almost ended in a wreck, but who continue to make records even as three members become priests.

Another music-related doc out this week is the Cordero Brothers thriller Room 37 - The Mysterious Death of Johnny Thunders (Cleopatra Entertainment), which as you might guess from the title is about famed rocker Johnny Thunders (Leo Ramsay) and how his trip to New Orleans to get his life together turned deadly.

This week’s Bollywood offering is Aki Ali’s De De Pyaar De, starring Ajay Devgn, Tabu and Rakul Preet Singh in a London-based love triangle.

Opening in New York this Friday, then in L.A. May 24 and VOD June 21 is Eddie Alcazar’s Perfect  (Breaker Films), exec. produced by Steven Soderbergh, which stars Garrett Wareing as a troubled young man sent to a clinic by his mother (Abbie Cornish) to help with his dark visions.

Next up is Rachel Carey’s Ask for Jane  (Level Film) starring Cait Cortelyou in a timely movie set in Chicago 1969 where abortion is punishable by prison and two women try to find a doctor to help a pregnant student at the University of Chicago has tried to kill herself. The two women end up forming the Jane Collective, an organization that helps women get safe abortions.

Asa Butterfield, Finn Cole, Hermione Corfield, Michael Sheen, Margot Robbie, Nick Frost and Simon Pegg star in Crispian Mills’ horror-comedy Slaughterhouse Rulez set in a British boarding school where monsters have been unleashed from a sinkhole. The movie was a hit in England but is barely getting a release in the States even with that amazing cast.

STREAMING AND CABLE

Not much of note on Netflix except Kate Melville’s rom-com Good Sam, a movie about a reporter who is trying to find a stranger who is leaving bags of money all around New York City.

I probably haven’t been paying enough attention to the streaming service MUBU, but in honor of the Cannes Film Festival that started this week, the service is doing a “Cannes Takeover” which includes Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park, Crisi Piu’s The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, Alejandro Innaritu’s Amores Perrosand other films that broke out of the French film festival.

REPERTORY

METROGRAPH (NYC):

Sci-fi author Samuel R. Delaney will be at the Metrograph for Delaneymania, a collection of films selected by him including This Island Earth (1955), Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal  (1957), Jean Cocteau’s Orpheus  (1950), as well as Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil: Director’s Cut  (1958). The series will also include Fred Barney Taylor’s doc about Delany called The Polymath and more. Playtime: Family Matinees is also getting involved into Delanwymania with screenings of The Boy with the Green Hair (1948) on Saturday and Sunday morning. Also this weekend is the firstMetrograph Book Fair of the year with lots of rare and vintage books and magazines on sale.This week’s Late Nites at Metrographincludes screenings of Michael Mann’s Thief  (1981) and more screenings of Gasar Noé’sClimax, which seems to be Metrograph’s new go-to movie. (Sorry, Carol!)

THE NEW BEVERLY (L.A.):

Weds and Thursday seems double features of Elaine May’s Mikey & Nicky  (1976), starring Peter Falk and John Cassavetes, and Between the Lines (1977), while Friday and Saturday’s double feature is Martha Coolidge’s 1983 film Valley Girl (with Coolidge and special guests on Saturday!) and Sofia Coppola’s 1999 debut The Virgin Suicides.  The Sunday/Monday double feature is two from Dorothy Arzner, Merrily We Go To Hell (1932) and First Comes Courage(1943).Friday’s midnight is Tarantino and Rodriguez’s 2007 anthology Grindhouse, while Saturday at midnight, you have another chance to watch The Love Witch from 2016.  The weekend’s KIDDEE MATINEE is Agnieszka Holland’s 1993 film The Secret Garden  (which is being remade next year). On Monday afternoon, there’s a screening of Josie and the Pussycats… no, I’m not sure why either.

FILM FORUM (NYC):

Sadly, the Trilogies series ends Thursday, but the Film Forum will screen a 4k restoration of Alain Resnais’ Last Year at Marienbad (1961), and this weekend’s Film Forum Jr.offering is Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands  (1990), starring Johnny Depp. Dan Streible is back with his eclectic of shorts called More Orphans of New York.

EGYPTIAN THEATRE (LA):

On Friday, you can catch a “New York Sleaze Triple Feature” (yes, in L.A.) with Fulci’s The New York Ripper (1982),Nightmares in a Damaged Brain  (1981) and Abel Ferrar’s The Driller Killer  (1979). The Cassavetes & Scorsese: Love is Strangeseries continues on Saturday with Goodfellas and Husbands, plus the 1965 film The 10th Victim is showing as part of the Art Directors Guild Film Society Series on Sunday. Also on Sunday, Spanish filmmaker Ivan Zulueta (who died ten years ago) gets a tribute with a screening of 1979’s Arrebato.

AERO  (LA):

This week, the Aero begins the Passion of Pier Paolo Pasolini series (probably in conjunction with Abel Ferrara’s film, which finally gets a theatrical release) with a series of double features: Solo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) and Pigsty (1969) on Thursday, The Decameron  (1970) and Oedipus Rex (1967) on Friday, The Canterbury Tales (1971) and Teorema (1968) on Saturday, and Arabian Nights (1974)and Medea (1969) on Sunday. On Monday, they’ll screen a rare 35mm print of Pasonlini’s The Gospel According to St. Matthew(1964). Since I really enjoyed Ferrara’s new film starring Willem Dafoe, I’m bummed I missed the Metrograph’s retrospective of Pasolini last year, but this is a good chance to see this prolific Italian filmmaker’s often-controversial work.

QUAD CINEMA (NYC):

Another great series begins at the Quad this weekend with Fighting Mad: German Genre Films from the Margins, based around Dominik Graf’s two-part documentary A Journey Through German Film. Graf programmed the series with Olaf Müller, who presents a few of the screenings. It’s a pretty rich series with no films that I personally have had a chance to see – I have a couple screeners to watch – but there are sure to be a few gems in there if you have time to see some of the 17 movies.

IFC CENTER (NYC)

Waverly Midnights: ParentalGuidance  will screen Roman Polanski’s horror classicRosemary’s Baby (1968) and James Cameron’s Aliens (again). Weekend Classics: Love Mom and Dad screens Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1962 film Mamma Roma, while Late Night Favorites: Spring shows the Coens’ Fargo, David Fincher’s Fight Club and Pee Wee’s Big Adventure.

BAM CINEMATEK (NYC):

Black 90s: A Turning Point in American Cinema continues this weekend with Waiting to Exhale, The Five Heartbeats, Fear of a Black Hat, House Party, a 20thAnniversary screening of The Best Man and a lot more. It’s a really good series with a lot of movies worth checking out.

MOMA (NYC):

Abel Ferrara: Unrated continues with 1986’s Crime Story on Wednesday, 1993’s Dangerous Game on Thursday, Welcome to New York  (2014) on Sunday and Piazza Vittorio (2017) and 4:44 Last Day on Earth  (2011) on Sunday. The series will continue through May 31. MOMA is also doing a Jean-Claude Carriereseries, honoring the amazing prolific work of the French screenwriter, including Louis Malle’s Milou en Mai  (1964), Milos Forman’s Taking Off (1971) and many more, which will be screened between now and June 16.

ROXY CINEMA (NYC)

A new addition! The theater in the Roxy Hotel in Tribeca is showing Joanna Hogg’s earlier film Archipelego (2010), as well as Sally Potter’s 1992 film Orlando in 35mm!

MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE (NYC):

On Saturday, MOMI is doing a Filmmaker Memorial for John Singleton, put together by The Black Filmmaker Foundation and the Black Film Critics Circle with BFCC President Michael Sargent and other critics discussing Singleton’s work. Otherwise, MOMI is finishing up Panorama Europe.

LANDMARK THEATRES NUART  (LA):

This week’s midnight movie on Friday is the Japanese horror filmHouse (Hausu) from 1977.

That’s it for this week. Next week, we get Guy Ritchie’s Aladdin, starring Will Smith; Olivia Wilde’s hilarious Book Smart and the James Gunn-produced Brightburn. Oh, yeah, and it’s Memorial Day weekend!

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Shemaroo Entertainment Sued for Trademark Infringement

The number of entertainment and media disputes in India has reflected an upward trend since the past two decades. Nowadays filmmakers, production houses, distributors as well as broadcasters are well-cautious when it comes to the protection of the copyrights, trademarks, neighbouring as well as broadcasting rights, etc, that vest in their work. This protection usually covers movie titles, dialogues, songs, lyrics, etc. One of the issues revolving around the entertainment industry is the adoption of similar or identical movie names, based on their wide popularity and fondness. Class 41 of the Fourth Schedule of the Trade Mark Rules, 2001 comes off as a relief to producers, allowing them to register movies titles and labels, in order to claim protection against trademark infringement. In addition, Class 9 of the Trade Mark Classes is relied upon for asserting protection over storage devices like DVDs, Blu-Ray’s, etc.

Recently, the giant Production and Distribution House, Shemaroo Entertainment Limited was sued for trademark infringement. This Mumbai-headquartered content creator and media distribution company were founded in the year 1962 by Mr Buddhichand Maroo. Presently, this distribution brand owns a collection of approximately 3700 movie titles in various different languages and has customer coverage in over 30 countries all around the world, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore, UAE and Australia.

Astonishingly enough, this 58-year old distribution giant was sued for violating trademark rights of a Marathi TV Channel named ‘Marathi Bana’. The complainant, Ashok Hande is a stage director, writer, actor, singer, producer of Marathi films as well as musical shows. Hande filed an FIR in Mahim Police Station (Mumbai) against Shemaroo when it witnessed an advertisement pertaining to Shemaroo’s new Marathi channel having the same title, ‘Marathi Bana’. He contended that the show was launched and conceptualized by him in the year 2005 and since then, it has acquired a considerable reputation, owing to performance and presentation on stages in India as well as abroad, more than 1500 times. In addition, the Trade Mark ‘Marathi Bana’ was granted trademark protection in the year 2009.

Responding to this complaint, Shemaroo said, “We will meet any challenge to the use of our channel name by following due process of Law. The FIR apparently is a malafide attempt to damage our reputation and goodwill. Shemaroo has been in business for the last 57 years and has a reputation of its own under the trademark Shemaroo for which it enjoys statutory rights apart from the common law rights”.

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19 FOR ‘19: TOP SPORTS Business PROJECTIONS FOR 2019

19 FOR ‘19: RICK HORROW’S TOP SPORTS/BUSINESS/

TECHNOLOGY/PHILANTHROPY PROJECTIONS FOR 2019 with Jacob Aere and Tanner Simkins

The coming year in sports will include mega global events, major facilities openings, and leaps forward in technology and innovation. Here are the top stories we’re keeping an eye on in 2019.

Esports have garnered sponsorships with major companies and continue their global growth. In a year capped by sponsorships between Nike and Jian, and “Uzi,” Zi-Hao, and Tyler “Ninja” Blevins’ unprecedented Fortnite success, esports are headed on a near vertical market trend. By year end, the industry will have grossed $900 million and by 2020 the industry’s revenue could reach $2.4 billion. According to CNBC, even Wall Street behemoth Goldman Sachs has taken note of the blossoming industry and has predicted that the audience for esports will reach 276 million people by 2022. To date, some of the biggest names investing in esports include Mark Cuban, Shaquille O’Neal, Alex Rodriguez, Jerry Jones, Jennifer Lopez, Michael Jordan, Drake, Stephen Curry, and Sean “Diddy” Combs. Expect more companies to advertise with and sponsor esports teams and leagues while also preparing for more tightly contested battles for media rights to stream esports action.

With a signature 2018 win under his belt, Tiger Woods renews optimism that he can break Jack Nicklaus’ record 18 Major victories. Woods’ 2018 season-ending Tour Championship victory at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta was his first victory at a pro golf tournament in more than five years and his 80th career PGA win — two short of the career record held by Sam Snead. Vegas odds makers currently have Woods at 25-1 to beat Nicklaus’ record. More to the point, while Woods is passing on this week’s Tournament of Champions in Maui, PGA Tour execs from Torrey Pines in San Diego to Bethpage State Park in New York anticipate having to do what Valspar Championship tournament director Tracy West underwent last March. When West got word that Woods had committed to her tournament, according to Sports Illustrated she implemented the “Tiger Plan,” adding two parking lots, an extra admission gate, and bridges, doubled the press room, hired 20 more off duty cops and more marshalls…and ordered 100 extra port-a potties.

The Los Angeles Chargers and Rams will open a new stadium in L.A. According to ESPN, the Los Angeles Stadium and Entertainment District at Hollywood Park will open its doors to the Rams and Chargers for the 2020 season. The stadium and its surrounding areas’ costs are pushing close to $5 billion, all of which will be funded by Rams owner Stan Kroenke. The most recent updates show that the stadium is more than 50% complete and the facility is already slated to host the Super Bowl in 2022, the College Football Playoff National Championship in 2023, and the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2028 Olympics. The new stadium will seat 70,000 and is expandable to 100,000 while there will also be a 6,000-seat performing arts venue, 1.7 million square feet of retail and office space, 300 hotel rooms, 2,500 new residences, and 25 acres of public parks and open space. Bigger than football, the venue is helping to reestablish L.A. as a cultural landmark.

The NBA Golden State Warriors look forward to moving across the Bay to their new state of the art home. The Warriors, marking this season as the team's last at Oracle Arena in Oakland, started construction on their new San Francisco Mission Bay site in January, 2017. The $1 billion self-financed Chase Center is scheduled to be completed in August, 2019, in time for the team's 2019-2020 NBA season tipoff. The 18,000+ facility will also house office and lab space and a public park, and is NHL-ready should that league decide to add yet another team to its Western division.

After a change in North Carolina law, Charlotte gets the NBA All-Star Game. Last May, the NBA announced that Charlotte would host the 2019 All-Star Weekend after the league had taken the 2018 event away from the city because of North Carolina’s so-called “bathroom bill,” which required transgender individuals to use public restrooms that correspond with the sex listed on their birth certificates. The state repealed some portions of that law, and in April NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said the league would once again consider letting Charlotte host its midseason exhibition. Outside of the big showcase in Charlotte, the NBA announced that the Indiana Pacers and Sacramento Kings will play in two preseason games in Mumbai in October, marking the first games the NBA has played in India and the first games any North American sports league has held there.

Where will the Oakland Raiders play in 2019? In terms of the 2020 season, the Oakland Raiders are set to play in Las Vegas in a gorgeous $1.9 billion, 65,000-seat domed stadium with natural grass and a see-through roof with a view of the Strip. However, their move to Vegas has been halted as the city of Oakland filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against the team and the NFL that could skew the transition process between Oakland and Vegas. Reportedly, a part of the lawsuit could include the Raiders having to leave their team name, colors, and history in Oakland, like the Cleveland Browns did when they moved to Baltimore in 1996 and became the Ravens. While it is far from certain if the Raiders will remain in Oakland during all of the legal troubles, there may be an opportunity to play in the nearby Levi’s Stadium, or even down in San Diego – that recently lost an NFL team – or potentially in Glendale, Arizona where the Cardinals currently play.

The debut of the Alliance of American Football League is right around the corner. After the NFL’s Super Bowl LIII wraps in Atlanta in February, the following week will showcase the first season of the Alliance of American Football League. The league was announced back in March, 2018, and currently has eight teams around the U.S. Select games will be broadcast by CBS Sports and the biggest break for the league was the lifting of federal sports gambling restrictions. According to USA Today, the league will offer a gambling product that allows customers to watch a game on an app while on the same screen allowing betting on anything including touchdowns, tackles, scores, and more. Although its high-tech gambling options and separate season from the NFL offer lots of market promise, the league will have direct competition with the renovated XFL if it survives into 2020.

Seattle’s NHL expansion team comes to fruition. After the NHL’s board of governors unanimously approved the franchise in Seattle, the team is expected to begin playing in the 2021-2022 season. According to The New York Times, the NHL will receive an expansion fee of $650 million, which will be split among every other team except for the recent expansion club Vegas Golden Knights. Seattle’s expansion team will add another city to the Western Conference, which will now balance the 16 clubs of the Eastern Conference. Good for Seattle is an instant rivalry with the Vancouver Canucks, who play just across the northern border. The region is home to corporate giants like Amazon and Microsoft, and outside of the Canucks, the Pacific Northwest is a relatively untapped area for the NHL. With an NHL team coming, an NBA team may also land in the not-too-far future.

If recent history is an indicator, April’s NFL Draft in Nashville will further expand the league’s appointment viewing resume and dominance of a 12-month annual calendar. According to the economic impact report compiled by VisitDallas, the first NFL Draft hosted at an NFL stadium – running April 26-28, 2018 at AT&T Stadium - generated $125.2 million in economic impact for the Dallas region during the three-day event and $74 million in direct spending. This marks a new record for the NFL Draft's economic impact and the first year that the NFL Draft generated more than $100 million in economic impact for its host region. The 2019 NFL Draft will take place April 25-27 in Nashville, and given that city’s music industry and creative ties, look for the economic impact to build along with the event’s entertainment value.

The 2022 World Cup in Qatar could be the first to have 48 countries competing to become world champions, with a decision likely to be made in 2019 on the size of the competition. FIFA President Gianni Infantino indicated that he hopes to expand the current 32-team format before the 2026 World Cup in Canada, Mexico, and the United States, noting that it is “possible” and “feasible” to do so. Qatar is currently in the process of building eight stadiums to host the World Cup in four years’ time, also needing to construct massive amounts of infrastructure to accommodate the teams and fans. If the World Cup field were expanded to 48 teams, it would significantly increase the already-controversial workload placed on a mostly-immigrant worker population.

This summer, the U.S. Women’s National Team will look to defend their title at the 2019 Women’s World Cup in France. The event will be staged in nine host cities across the country before concluding at Parc Olympique Lyonnais in Lyon. The USWNT is set to face off against Sweden, Chile, and Thailand in Group F, coming into the tournament as the top-ranked team in the FIFA Women’s World Rankings at the end of 2018; Sweden, ranked No. 9, is the only other Group F member ranked in the top 20 worldwide. The 24-team tournament will kick off on June 7 at the Parc des Princes in Paris when host France takes on South Korea. The USWNT will open play versus Thailand in Reims before playing Chile in Paris and concluding group play against Sweden in Le Havre.

What will happen to the Fox RSNs? The biggest sports media story of 2018 may very well hold the same title in 2019, and that is the fate of Fox’s 22 RSNs after a sale to The Walt Disney Company. Disney picked up the RSNs as part of its $52 billion deal to buy most of 21st Century Fox’ entertainment assets. But in June, the Department of Justice said Disney would have to part with its newly-acquired RSNs in order for the larger deal to get federal regulatory approval. As we head into 2019 and the closing of the Disney-Fox deal, the RSNs could fetch upward of $20 billion. The big question, however, is whether Disney will be able to find one buyer to take all 22 RSNs, or will have it have to sell them off to several bidders, including Sinclair?

2018 saw the publication of influential sports books including Mark Leibovich’s Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times, and 2019 will likewise see groundbreaking sports books published. After years of hard work, our very own Sport Business Handbook: Lessons from 100+ Industry Insiders over 50 Years of the Sports Business will be published on February 26, with national commercial, academic, and consumer distribution. All told, the book comprises 108 of the most prominent figures in sport business history sharing their successes, failures, and experiences in shaping what is now a $1 trillion global industry. Highlighting contributor stories within the Sport Business Handbook will be a focal point, as will conducting a national multi-city Contributor Symposium Tour that will kick off on Thursday, February 28 in Boston with an event jointly hosted by the Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, on the eve of the MIT Sloane Sports Analytics Conference.

The NFL has long been at the forefront of sports analytics and esports trends. For 2019, the league has unwrapped its NFL Big Data Bowl. This inaugural football analytics competition gives college students and professionals the opportunity to utilize historical data sets of the same player tracking data used by teams and suggest innovations about how football is played and coached. Finalists will have the opportunity to present to league and club personnel at the 2019 Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, accessing NFL player tracking data used by teams to analyze league trends and develop on-field strategies. Submissions using NFL-provided data fall under three themes: “Understanding On-Field Speed,” “Proposing a Rule Change” and “Identifying the Best Receiver-Route Combinations.” Eight finalists will earn an all-expenses paid trip to Indy to showcase their work on Wednesday, February 27.

NASCAR continues to shift gears. Turnover at NASCAR during 2018 will be felt both in the boardroom and on the track in 2019 and beyond. Jim France replaced his nephew, Brian France, as NASCAR Chair and CEO in August after Brian was arrested for DUI. Jim and niece Lesa France Kennedy, head of racetrack division ISC, are now quietly restructuring the sport, with a stunning $1.9 billion bid by NASCAR to acquire ISC in November. Meanwhile, after winning the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series championship last year, the closing of Furniture Row Racing midway through 2018 shocked many in motor sports and has given added urgency to NASCAR’s efforts to help teams overhaul faulty financial models. The sanctioning body is also exploring a multi-tiered sponsorship system, getting away from a single sponsor like Monster Energy that still has one year remaining on its title sponsor contract, estimated at $20 million annually.

This past year was a landmark one for MLS and Liga MX, as the two dominant North American soccer leagues announced a long-term partnership. The New Year will be the first full calendar year in which the partnership will be flushed out, including the second Campeones Cup, a matchup between the champions of each league. The partnership is expected to grow annually in the buildup to the 2026 World Cup, hosted across Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Speculation remains that the potential legacy of the United Bid could be the unification of MLS and Liga MX. “We have been discussing with Liga MX additional ways we can collaborate on and off the field, and we are excited about the future opportunities that exist between our two leagues,” said Liga MX President Enrique Bonilla.

UEFA and FIFA introduced the Nations League in 2018 and another major continental or intercontinental tournament is expected to be revealed in 2019. FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s $25 billion plan would totally revamp the global soccer landscape; the Club World Cup would be expanded to 24 teams and a new national-team competition, similar to the Nations League with promotion and relegation but played across multiple continents, would highlight the changes. The proposal was met with a great deal of pushback upon introduction in 2018 — this coming year will be a landmark one if Infantino gets his way. FIFA member nations are preparing to discuss the potential tournaments in the spring when they gather in Kigali, Rwanda, for the FIFA Council meeting.

David Beckham finally unveiled his MLS team toward the end of 2018, with the club now set to come to life in the New Year. Club International de Fútbol Miami, to be known as Inter Miami, has much to do before it begins play in 2020. In a letter penned to its supporters upon the official unveiling of the team’s name, the club wrote: “Above all, it marks another step we have taken on the journey to realizing this dream, together. A journey on which we’ve come a long way. A journey which has only just begun.” In 2019, Beckham and his ownership group will have to finalize a stadium site and construction plans — the biggest obstacle that remains in the way.

Affecting sports movies like 2018’s “Creed II” and “Uncle Drew,” global subscription OTT revenues, at $46 billion in 2018, will overtake box office revenues in 2019, which will come in at just under $40 billion. According to Ampere Analysis, the primary driver of the trend is theatrical slowdown in North America and Western Europe, while SVoD continues to grow in all regions. In the U.S., subscription OTT revenues surpassed theatrical revenues in 2017. The U.K. expected to follow suit by the end of 2018, and China in 2019. Also in OTT production: LeBron James’ and actor Octavia Spencer’s limited series about hair care entrepreneur Madame C.J. Walker, “America’s first Black self-made female millionaire,” reportedly due out in 2019.

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Bigg Boss 11: Fights, romance, tears and drama, here are the best moments from this season

Written by Sana Farzeen | Mumbai | Revealed: January 15, 2018 2:44 pm

Bigg Boss 11 has been a curler coaster journey for the contestants in addition to the viewers.

All Bigg Boss followers will face withdrawal signs from Monday with Shilpa Shinde lifting the trophy and the season pulling its curtain down after entertaining all for 105 days. This season of Bigg Boss has been some of the entertaining one owing to its good casting of the housemates. Each differed from the opposite in character resulting in a whole lot of fireworks. The celebs together with the commoners didn’t draw back from displaying their actual face and feelings on digicam. Additionally, Bigg Boss 11 was a season of unexpectedness as on daily basis, individuals and relationships modified. Right here’s a flashback to the present and giving our readers a spotlight of one of the best moments of Bigg Boss 11.

Shilpa Shinde lifting the winner trophy

After being tagged as ‘kitchen queen’ and ‘Maa’ by her fellow housemates, and even dealing with flak for being a non-performer, Shilpa held her floor and made her strategy to emerge because the winner of Bigg Boss 11. She defeated Hina Khan (second), Vikas Gupta (third) and Puneesh Sharma (fourth) to raise the trophy and even take dwelling Rs 44 lakh. This was certainly one of the best second for not simply her followers however even the final Bigg Boss viewers who all the time appreciated Shilpa for her persistence and maturity on the present.

Salman-Zubair face off

The a lot hyped, alleged Haseena Parker’s son-in-law Zubair Khan made a whole lot of noise as he entered the Bigg Boss home. The motormouth, in a bid to seize consideration, used his foolish antics to select up fights. Quickly, all the home turned towards him and within the first week, he was eradicated owing to low votes. However host Salman Khan didn’t spare him. He pulled Zubair up and verbally bashed him on nationwide tv. A lot so, that he feigned falling sick and even allegedly tried to commit suicide in the home.

Vikas breaking the jail after being tortured by Shilpa

When Salman launched outdated nemesis Shilpa and Vikas on stage, the 2 had been stunned and even confirmed their displeasure of moving into the present collectively. Whereas the viewers anticipated them to bury their hatchet quickly, Shilpa had a unique plan altogether. She made all efforts to torture Vikas and didn’t depart him even with a second of peace. Annoyed, angered and even scared, Vikas twice tried to expire of the home however was introduced again by the present’s officers. Lastly, within the second month, the 2 determined to be cordial to one another, and although they feign being good, followers love their cute chemistry and have even given them a nickname #Shikas.

Puneesh-Bandgi’s love on digicam

Each season of Bigg Boss provides the viewers an excellent dose of romance. Though Puneesh Sharma and Bandgi Kalra began their love affair for the cameras, it slowly became real emotions. However their chemistry with the digicam remained till the top. Together with the housemates, the viewers too needed to witness their steady cosy moments. The couple, excessive on love, crossed all boundaries and by no means left an opportunity to steal a kiss or two from one another. Their quickie classes within the rest room not solely raised temperatures but additionally numerous eyebrows.

Rise of Arshi Khan, fall of Priyank Sharma

Identified to be all the time in information for the fallacious causes, Bigg Boss 11 showcased Arshi in a constructive gentle and gave her an opportunity to vary her daring and controversial picture. She might need been abusive throughout fights however she was an entertainer and a real good friend. Her Urdu dialect, adaayein and her fixed cute flirting with Hiten Tejwani gained hearts. However, Priyank Sharma, who made his mark as a youth icon, showcased a unique facet to himself. From physique shaming girls to being digicam hungry, Priyank was additionally accused of taking part in with girls’s hearts for the sake of the sport. The entry of his ex-girlfriend added the final nail to his coffin. Fortunately for him, even after his character assassination, his followers proceed to again him.

Hiten Tejwani’s eviction

One of the vital stunning moments within the season was when tv’s widespread face Hiten Tejwani needed to face the axe of eviction. Being within the backside two with Priyank, within the historical past of Bigg Boss, for the primary time, housemates voted one out. Hiten was a mature participant, who didn’t become involved in pointless fights and drama, which led to others really feel that he was not concerned within the sport. Shilpa, who was supported by Hiten, shockingly voted towards him, stating that he was a robust participant. Solely not too long ago did she point out on digicam that she needed Vikas-Hiten-Arshi’s trio to interrupt aside.

Akash Dadlani’s rap songs

This was the primary time music was composed for the present by the contestants. Akash, although a bit annoying, is certainly very proficient. His “Yeh Bigg Boss Ka Ghar Hai” rap music has grow to be an anthem for the present. Additionally, his “Bang Bang” and “Salman Bhai” songs are on lips of each viewer.

Hina’s love proclamation

Tv’s favorite bahu Hina tried her greatest to maintain her relationship with Rocky Jaiswal underneath wraps for lengthy. With distance conserving their aside, they couldn’t maintain their feelings when Ro, as she fondly calls him, entered the mansion. For the primary time, the 2 proclaimed their love publicly with none worry.

Sultani Akhada

Bigg Boss 11 additionally launched the Sultani Akhada the place Salman bought two contestants to struggle each weekend. The struggle area noticed a few of the largest showdowns. Be it Arshi punching down Hina, to the well-built Priyank shedding to mastermind Vikas, a whole lot of drama bloomed on the bottom. Salman even walked off after being postpone by Akash’s perspective. Each week, contestants had been desirous to go to the akhada and meet Salman and show their level towards their opponents. The successful medal additionally grew to become a cherished memento for all.

Bigg Boss was the actual boss

That is the primary time that the contestants had been left with zero prize cash until the final week of the present. Throughout one of many captaincy duties, all contestants following Hina’s suggestion cheated in the course of the darkish of the evening, main Bigg Boss to cancel all the prize cash, leaving everybody in shock. Bigg Boss additionally took the housemates for a shock when he nominated all contestants (besides Hina) after they had been caught on digicam discussing nominations.

Emotional household reunions

Yearly Bigg Boss provides an opportunity to the housemates to satisfy their households and it seems to be the spotlight of every season. Feelings run excessive as contestants greet their family members after weeks of staying away. Be it Hiten breaking down seeing his spouse Gauri or Priyank and Luv weeping like children seeing their moms, the episodes will all the time stay near our hearts. Realising that feelings all the time has an higher hand within the sport, Bigg Boss welcomed the households twice this season.

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