By Australian contemporary artist Lene Makwana.

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

161-B, M.G. Road, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001

Timing: 11am to 7pm.

www.lenemakwana.com

An exhibition of Paintings series titled “CONSTRUCTIONS” by Australian contemporary artist Lene Makwana. This show has been inaugurated on Tuesday 13th Nov. 2018 by Mr. Christopher Ellinger, Australian Deputy Consul General, Mumbai in Jehangir Art Gallery, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai .

THE ARTIST

Lene Makwana is a Perth, Western Australia based mixed media artist born in Norway. Her interest toward art started as a child and was fostered throughout her schooling. She has studied fine art and art history at Einar Granum School of Arts in Norway, Illustration at Kristiania University College in Oslo and has completed her BA Illustration Design from Curtin University in Perth. Leaving Norway, she took with her knowledge of Scandinavian design trends and its characteristic of clean lines and simple colour palettes, and currently works on international and global projects from her studio and gallery in Perth.

Lene’s art is characterised by detailed patterns and tactile surfaces, and she has worked on art and design projects in Norway, India and Australia. Her architectural elements and pattern-work inspired by systems and grids are suitable for a variety of different uses in interiors and aesthetics.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

An exclusive selection of the first twenty artworks in a series of one hundred by Western Australian fine artist Lene Makwana will be showcased at Jehangir Art Gallery in Mumbai from 13th November to 19th November 2018.

The “Construction” series by fine artist Lene Makwana is a reflection on the artists’ experiences being a Norwegian residing in Perth, Western Australia and with close ties to India. The theme “Construction” is developed from the artists’ exploration of grids and patterns as representations of social construct and identity, and the diptychs (two artworks combined together) address the falling “in between” in various cultures, making the theme of the exhibition relevant in many ways, one being the journey of an immigrant. The diptych is an attempt to introduce and activate the space between the actual artworks, addressing the space and given time where directions change in life.

Lene is a mixed media artist working with paper collages, watercolour paintings and drawing, and she also works with combining digital and traditional tools and mediums. She works with both figurative and abstract art, exploring balance, directions and colours as reflections on personal and cultural identity.

Lene is participating in the Festival of Australia in India 2018 – 2019 with a solo exhibition at Jehangir Art Gallery in Mumbai, being the only visual artist from Western Australia to showcase contemporary art from the state during the festival.

Lene Makwana is a Western Australian based visual artist and designer from Norway and she is residing in Perth with her Indian born businessman husband.

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

On 18 September 2018 Australia’s High Commissioner to India Her Excellency Ms. Harinder Sidhu, launched Australia Fest – a six month long celebration of Australian culture, involving over 75 events across 20 cities in India.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My art explores the diversity of self, created from living between three diverse cultures. I am Norwegian, and live in Australia with my Indian husband, and I have encountered many differences but also similarities between the cultures of these three countries and are inspired by how my sense of self has grown being a part of all of them. Being present within, but also being between cultures has given me an opportunity to embrace certain aspects of each whilst growing and enriching my own sense of self. I am fortunate to be able to speak from this perspective, and find that it enriches my art, and pushing it beyond colour and shape. My work is also a channel for reflection and explorations on inner levels.

The “Construction” series, which is a body of work in progress, address aspects of personal, cultural and social construction of identity through the impact of globalisation. The series will be completed when I reach 100 pieces, and the body of work has led me to focus on abstract imagery rather than figurative, as working with abstract elements gave me more freedom to explore than what figurative elements could. With the explorations of abstract elements, the diptych became a way to introduce aspects of time and space into my work.

My Scandinavian background has for my work resulted in balanced and clean compositions, and with limited colour palettes. It is important for me to keep an open and intuitive approach to my work, where small and sharp-edged details are combined with soft surfaces and textures as a result of my preferred mediums; watercolours and inks.

——–Abhishek Dubey(PRO)

The Bombay Talkies Studios which was formed in 1934 and became the pillar of Indian cinema by producing 115 films has been revived by Aazaad. He has written, directed, and edited a soul-stirring, patriotic and hard – hitting film RASHTRAPUTRA. The film has been made in 26 languages which is for the first time phenomenon of the world cinema history.

The Hindi version of RASHTRAPUTRA has been released on 2^nd of NOV.in 2200 screens worldwide. It was also distributed by Bombay Talkies. The film depicts the life and times of Chandrashekhar Azad (played by Aazaad). The forgotten hero is revived as the hero who is still relevant as the one who fights corruption and wipes out the evil forces.

Aazaad has also written, composed and rendered the immortal song mantra of the Indian revolutionaries –Vande Mataram for the film which is also one of the major highlights. The film is one of the biggest inspirations for today’s generation, mainly the youth.

Other actors who have performed major roles in the film are Jamie Lever, Aryan Vaid, Rakesh Bedi, Achint Kaur, Master Akshay, Alpesh Dhakan, Mohsin Khan, Atul Srivastava, Vivek Vaswani, Nasir Johny Walker, Deep Raj Rana, Abhay Bhargav, Raza Murad, Manish Chaudhary and Zakir Husain.

Veteran Music Composer Bappi Lahiri has composed three songs which are rendered by Mika Singh, Palak Muchhal, Ash King, Ram Shankar and Surabhi Singh. Lyrics have been penned by Goswami Tulsidas, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee and Sandeep Nath. DOP: Sethu Raman, Rajan Lyallpuri and Akashdeep Pandey. Action by Kaushal Moses and Hanif Khan embellish the film. The film is produced and processed by The Bombay Talkies Studios.

The Sanskrit version of the film titled RASHTRAPUTRAH will be releasing shortly.

Music album ‘Pehli Kiran’ dispels the emotional journey of Indian army jawans on their way back home during holidays

Mumbai: Music album ‘Pehli Kiran’ is the first venture from Azad Hind Film Creation’s stable. It is produced by Ashvin Katariya, the commando of Indian Army. The album has been penned, composed and rendered by Ishan Pandya. The music video has been directed by Ashvin Katariya featuring himself with Hetvi Shah. It will be soon released on all various music channels. Dilip Patel is the production designer.

Ashvin Katariya is the producer, director and actor of his maiden music album ‘Pehli Kiran’ and is a resident of Surat (Gujarat). Since the last 11 years he is working as a Commando in the Indian Army. His second venture is a Hindi feature film titled as “Posting” which will mount the floors next year. Speaking about his debut music album, Ashvin Katariya reveals, “This album displays the emotional feeling, sentiments and affection when we come back home on holidays and meet our parents, brothers and sisters, wife or girlfriend and other family members. It is the spirit and the fervor. I would be overwhelmed if the entire common man understands the compassion in our happiness and sadness.”

The album is composed, rendered and penned by Ishan Pandya, who has also acted in many films. He has his own studio under the name of ‘Seasons Recording’. He has displayed his acting histrionics in Hindi films like “Jeevan Saathi”, “Gang Of Surat” amongs others. Speaking about this album, Ishan Pandya says, “It is a heart-rending and surges emotion too which strikes the chord of one’s heart. We have put in our full efforts to make this album and I am sure the people will get the feel of it too.”

——–Sanjay Sharma Raj(P.R.O.)

Shalini Pandey, a popular Film actress marked her singing debut with the very special Chhath Puja Geet Song on the auspicious occasion of Chhath today. The video is out now and has been getting a tremendous response online.

Talking about her experience shooting the video she says, “It was a great experience for me. Since I am an actress so i had to regulate my weight for the video. It was a smooth process. I am glad that on this festive occasion, my first music single is out. It is a great feeling.”

Shalini always aspired to become a singer since childhood but happened to be an actor to begin her career in the industry. She said, “I always wanted to become a singer since I was a kid but since I am not a trained singer so television happened to me.” “This is my singing debut and I look forward to playback more often in films but things aren’t in my hands as of now,” she adds.

When prodded about her upcoming projects, she didn’t reveal much about it, she says, “I have film projects in my kitty but I can’t talk much about it.”

Founded by the late Shri. Tarachand Barjatya, Rajshri Productions started its journey in 1947.

Whenever we think of Rajshri films, a trail of nostalgic family bonding scenarios take us down the memory lane, that’s the impact of cinema Rajshri Productions has left on its viewers. To understand one’s audience and building a legacy by adding generations to it for 71 years isn’t a cake walk, however Rajshri Productions has been doing that with ease and is now all set to add another emotion to its brand.

Carrying forward the legacy , On the 3 year celebration of Prem Ratan Dhan Payo they are all set to announce their new film, ‘Hum Chaar’, The film is based on friendship and with Rajshri’s philosophy of ‘family first’ ,a new phenomenon that ‘friends are family too’ gets introduced in Indian Cinema.

In a very warm and unique way Rajshri Productions introduced ‘Hum Chaar’ to their audiences, with a series and sequences of their previous hits in a video.

The video’s theme revolves around family and love, with scenes & dialogues from their greatest hits and with a branched message, ‘friends are family too’.

Hum Chaar explores the idea that in a world where families are nuclear and joint families are rarely seen, friends become family too.

Rajshri Productions is one of the pioneers in Indian cinema and has been around since India got it’s independence, hence it has always held Indian values and bonds in its films. Having said that it has always been evolving with time and each film has had the essence of present speaking volumes of the Indian culture and values.

From 1989, under the direction of Sooraj R. Barjatya, Rajshri became the trendsetter for a whole generation with films like ‘Maine Pyaar Kiya’ – a simple teenage romance – which was the biggest hit of the year and went on to win six Filmfare awards; ‘Hum Aapke Hain Koun…!’ – a film that managed to rewrite history by being the highest grossing film of all time in Indian cinema and started the trend of glamorous musicals in India . ‘Hum Saath Saath Hain’ is still considered the quintessential family film across all the generations, it was one of the biggest star cast ensembles of it’s time. ‘Vivaah’ is lauded for being one of the most simple and yet profound romances till date. ‘Prem Ratan Dhan Payo’ marks the return of superstar Salman Khan’s most beloved character – Prem and holds the record of being in the top five bracket of opening day collections.

Rajshri has enjoyed a special place in the hearts of Indian audiences for seven decades by exploring new avenues and laying the groundwork in the entertainment industry while being rooted in the philosophies of promoting good and wholesome cinema, music and TV serials. Rajshri has always supported new talent and has been a launching pad for many famous actors, directors, music directors, singers, producers and cinematographers.

Hum Chaar, Rajshri’s 58th production is slated to release in Early 2019.

As the film fraternity prepares for yet another edition of Indywood Film Carnival, the movie extravaganza, we now have Malaysia- based Orange County Sdn Bhd , signing up with Indywood for a healthy sponsorship of the Investors’ Meet.

Through this unique sponsorship, Orange County, the Global New-Age Technology & Media Company is making its entry to Indian movie industry. The N-Face® Facial Motion Animation Technology, which is being considered as one of the finest technology, is able to Photo-Realistically bring back any Deceased Actor Live on screen. Further, the company has devised numerous workflows for production & VFX pipelines employing State of the Art Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning technologies & the latest advents of engineering to credibly reduce the gestation involved in Producing Feature Films. Being a part of Indywood Film Carnival, Orange County would associate with various productions in the near future.

Besides, this alliance would open up enormous opportunities in the Multimedia and Animation sector. The specialized team of multimedia experts can create market-specific creative multimedia training courses to cater the latest technologies to the exploding market. The Hollywood-grade advanced Visual Effects techniques will form the crux of these various courses being developed to enrich potential students to jump straight into professional Creative Multimedia Production ranging from Commercials to Feature Film content.

The event would also witness the official launch of the Teaser from Orange County’s upcoming movie which is the Photo-Realistic Digital Re-creation of MGR in a full-length Feature Film. Orange County would also be honoured on the dias with an Award in the Best Innovation Category in Indywood Film Carnival.

Orange County Sdn Bhd

Orange County Sdn Bhd is a Global New- Age Technology & Media Company which has mustered the nuances of Film-Making from Concept till the rollout of Final Deliverables. The Company has embarked on a World’s 1st Showcase in Producing an International Feature Film earmarked for Global Release centered on the end to end Photo-Realistic Digital Re-creation of a Deceased Actor. The Company has created a leading- edge Solution in digitially creating & personalising the character attributes of any chosen Actor to take on a Photo-Realistic Digital Avatar in Motion Pictures.