Yash Raj Films is venturing into the booming digital content (over-the-top or OTT) landscape of India. YRF’s streaming content production business will be called YRF Entertainment and it will churn out five marquee projects to begin within its first year. The first big project to hit the floors from the banner is titled The Railway Men – a tribute to the railway workers at Bhopal station who are the unsung heroes of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, the world’s biggest man-made industrial disaster. YRF announced this project on the same day to salute the heroes of Bhopal who saved thousands of lives when the crisis hit the city 37 years back. The Railway Men is being directed by debutant Shiv Rawail, who has been homegrown at YRF and is being mentored by Aditya Chopra.
Shiv will start the proceedings at YRF Entertainment with his content-forward one-season limited series about the resilience of human spirit in the face of a disaster. The Railway Men will feature four brilliant actors like R. Madhavan, Kay Kay Menon, Divyenndu Sharma and Babil Khan. These four actors helm the show and the company will also announce the presence of several other powerful performers in due course of time. The Railway Men started filming from December 1st, yesterday.
Akshaye Widhani, Senior Vice President of Yash Raj Films, says, “The Bhopal Gas Tragedy is the world’s worst industrial disaster that has impacted scores of people since the tragedy struck the city 37 years ago. At YRF, we are constantly trying to develop the best compelling stories for the audience and this is our tribute to the unsung heroes of the tragedy who, despite saving thousands of lives on that fateful day, are still unknown to people across the world.”
Yogendra Mogre, Executive Producer at YRF Entertainment, adds, “The Railway Men is our salute to their spirit, their courage, and their humanity. This is a story that needed to be told. We are not going to leave any stone unturned to ensure that this story reaches out to audiences, across the world, in the best possible way so that they can understand the depth of devastation that this tragedy has caused in India.”
In the late hours of December 2, 1984, methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide factory owned by the American Union Carbide Corporation. It has been reported that more than half a million people were poisoned that night and the official death toll exceeded 5,000.
Thousands of survivors have said they,
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One of the few actors, Kay Kay Menon has always believed in content driven films. Making his presence felt in films like Corporate, Life in a Metro and Haider the actor once again come with a submarine war film The Ghazi Attack playing one of the naval officers.
Do you think now due to Bollywood the stories about the freedom fighters will start coming out in limelight?
I don't think if that was the intension (for Ghazi) but it might be right. In the process of making an interesting film if the information given to the audience is to what exactly happened, then it is fine. But, I don't think it's the agenda.
You are one of those actors who have always tried to take realistic roles, what made you say yes to this film?
One is of course as it was a first submarine film in Indian film industry and that's a very unique thing to make. Secondly when I read the screenplay and met the director and the producers I realised their intension was pretty pure. As long as suddenly a submarine doesn't turn into a song and dance sequence, I am fine. It is very believable and a kind of cinema which was intended to do what it meant to do. So, i decided to jump on the board and do it.
Films like this of a particular genre that has a backing of a production like Dharma which is meant to do not just light-hearted but more commercial films, how much does that help to these kind of films?
It helps a lot. Dharma came after seeing this film. I really hope that more and more production houses come and take up these kinds of films so that it helps the film, as they have a lot of clout. They have the power of money.
India has been in many wars and despite of that there are very few films made on war...
I don't know, what's the reason behind it but, I guess it's not easy to make a war film. If you intend to make a genuine war film it's a hard-working project, you can't just get away with a patriotic song. Most of our industry (people) are lazy they don't want to do that kind of hard-work. Only few people like Aamir Khan do a lot of hard work and a producer and a film like Dangal -- is a hats off to him also Raju Hirani, these are few people in main stream cinema whom you can salute. Rest are very lazy. They show their bodies and then also correct them (when the film is) in post production. They sell it out basically.
Ghazi is releasing along with another 4 films...Do you think it will make a profitable business for Ghazi?
I feel everybody should have their o
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#Official description
India is generally a superstition dominated country, and the people here strongly rely on God to resolve their problems or issues. 3 Dev is a rib tickling comedy based on lives of three men who are assumed to be ‘Bhagwan’.
3 Dev is a Bollywood comedy starring Karan Singh Grover, Ravi Dubey, Kunaal Roy Kapur, Kay Kay Menon, Raima Sen, Tisca Chopra, Priya Banerjee and Prosenjit Chatterjee. The movie has directed by Ankoosh Bhatt.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=sVA-SDYndg8
Movie is releasing on 1st June .
PS - Good TV actors + Kay Kay Menon and Tisca in supporting role makes this movie interesting . I found it cliched in some places and interesting in others .
Yash Raj Films is venturing into the booming digital content (over-the-top or OTT) landscape of India. YRF’s streaming content production business will be called YRF Entertainment and it will churn out five marquee projects to begin within its first year. The first big project to hit the floors from the banner is titled The Railway Men – a tribute to the railway workers at Bhopal station who are the unsung heroes of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, the world’s biggest man-made industrial disaster. YRF announced this project on the same day to salute the heroes of Bhopal who saved thousands of lives when the crisis hit the city 37 years back. The Railway Men is being directed by debutant Shiv Rawail, who has been homegrown at YRF and is being mentored by Aditya Chopra.
Shiv will start the proceedings at YRF Entertainment with his content-forward one-season limited series about the resilience of human spirit in the face of a disaster. The Railway Men will feature four brilliant actors like R. Madhavan, Kay Kay Menon, Divyenndu Sharma and Babil Khan. These four actors helm the show and the company will also announce the presence of several other powerful performers in due course of time. The Railway Men started filming from December 1st, yesterday.
Akshaye Widhani, Senior Vice President of Yash Raj Films, says, “The Bhopal Gas Tragedy is the world’s worst industrial disaster that has impacted scores of people since the tragedy struck the city 37 years ago. At YRF, we are constantly trying to develop the best compelling stories for the audience and this is our tribute to the unsung heroes of the tragedy who, despite saving thousands of lives on that fateful day, are still unknown to people across the world.”
Yogendra Mogre, Executive Producer at YRF Entertainment, adds, “The Railway Men is our salute to their spirit, their courage, and their humanity. This is a story that needed to be told. We are not going to leave any stone unturned to ensure that this story reaches out to audiences, across the world, in the best possible way so that they can understand the depth of devastation that this tragedy has caused in India.”
In the late hours of December 2, 1984, methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide factory owned by the American Union Carbide Corporation. It has been reported that more than half a million people were poisoned that night and the official death toll exceeded 5,000.
Thousands of survivors have said they,
... keep reading on reddit ➡