{"id":2302,"date":"2013-10-24T01:50:06","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T18:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogbox.indianeagle.com\/\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2017-05-02T11:00:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T11:00:44","slug":"100th-year-of-indian-cinema-on-global-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianeagle.com\/travelbeats\/100th-year-of-indian-cinema-on-global-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Cinema on global stage"},"content":{"rendered":"
Indian Cinema completed 100th year of its journey in 2013<\/strong>. It has come of the age over this long span of time. It has gone global with offbeat stories, bold themes, and contemporary issues. Both male and female actors have equally challenging roles to play, these days. The efforts of talented newcomers are being recognized. Indian films are received with honor at prestigious international film festivals. It generates thousands of career opportunities in acting, screenwriting, filmmaking, production, art designing, styling, sound recording, cinematography, choreography, etc. Indian Eagle<\/strong> celebrates the 100th year of Indian Cinema by sharing the latest picture with Indian Americans.<\/p>\n India rocks in Hollywood! Since the release of Life of Pi<\/em> by Ang Lee, Hollywood filmmakers have been lavishing attention to Bollywood actors. Filmmakers in the West are looking to leverage the global appeal of Indian actors by casting them in their movies. Irrfan Khan, a noted actor of the Maqbool<\/em> and Paan Singh Tomar<\/em> fame, is a favorite of Hollywood directors. Amitabh Bachchan and Anil Kapoor<\/strong> are the latest face of Indian cinema<\/a> in the West. Recently, Amitabh Bachchan was seen in a Hollywood movie, The Great Gatsby<\/em>. South Indian actor R. Madhavan who earned kudos for his performance in Three Idiots<\/em> has been roped in to play a leading role in Simon West\u2019s Night of the Living Dead: Origins<\/em>.<\/p>\n Indian films are given grand welcome to international film festivals of the world. The cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me from the global entertainment industry have been valuing the worth of India cinema. Bearing evidence to the recent recognition of Indian films in the US is the screening of Sandcastle<\/em>, the silver screen debut of stage director Shomshuklla, at Los Angeles Femme Film Festival in California. The movie has already journeyed to the London International Film Festival 2013, and the Tenerife International Film Festival 2013. Recently, Mira Nair\u2019s The Reluctant Fundamentalist<\/em><\/strong> and Hansal Mehta\u2019s biopic Shahid<\/em><\/strong> have been critically acclaimed at Chicago South Asian Film Festival. The Silent River Film Festival in the US nominated the Bollywood movie Lootera<\/em> for screening this October 20.<\/p>\n The 22-year long imprisonment of Sarabjit Singh in Pakistan has been an international issue that Bollywood filmmaker Subhash Ghai is going to take on the silver screen. It was one of the long-running international stories in the world of news. Sarabjit, a native of Punjab in India, was convicted of espionage in Pakistan and consequently imprisoned for 22 years, and then died in an attack by the fellow inmates of the prison.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n