Moserbaer Movie DVDs: 4th time hike in its prices since launch

Now latest upcoming news for Moserbaer DVD lover is that they have to spend Rs 149/- per DVD for a single movie rather than its earlier price of Rs 99/- per DVD.

If we look back, then its the 4th time that Moserbaer has increased its DVD prices since its launch in late 2006. When Moserbaer entered the Home Video Market in late 2006, at that time it started selling both new and old titles for just Rs 34/- per DVD and that also helped it to grab attention of both consumer and media. It helped company in free publicity of its products at a huge scale and even company said that its model is too curb piracy for which they had lowered there profit point to very minuscule which they will get from a single product sale.

However in mere 6 months of time, Moserbaer increased its new titles prices to Rs 49/- per DVD and in few media publications, Moserbaer has backed its price hike decision by pointing out the hike in taxes and raw material prices.But sooner, Moserbaer has again increases its prices to Rs 50/- per DVD for new titles. In this cases also company pointed out and backed its decision of hike by giving out the reason of the difference that has been created between dollar and rupees at that time.
In late 2008, when Moserbaer acquired 25 movies from UTV then it started launching its all new titles in market with a price tag of Rs 99/- per DVD in December 2008. But since this time it hiked directly Rs 49/- per DVD, so it launched this new price tag with some "Winter Offer" and in few movies it gave some free DVDs of old titles to attract the consumers.

But now within 4 months since it launched its DVDs in a price tag of Rs 99/- per DVD, Moserbaer has gone ahead and if its official website is taken into consideration then Moserbaer has released DEV D on home videos for a price tag of Rs 149/- for DVDs pack, which contains a free DVD of making of the film also.

So now the big questions are:

• Whether Moserbaer really entered the Home Video Market with its low cost products for curbing the piracy or just it wanted to make a space for itself in Home Video Market which was already over crowded with various players when Moserbaer entered this market?Now it has increased its prices since it has make enough space for itself to survive in this market.
  
• Whether Moserbaer is also going to adopt the same price point and business model that has been adopted by various other players of home video market?
• Whether Moserbaer DVD lovers are going to spend this amount or now they are going to switch to pirated ones? Since a large section of Moserbaer customers loved its product due to low its cost factor.
• Or Moserbaer has loose the battle that it wanted to start against pirates before it could make any impact on pirates?

Out on DVD: Kidnap

Movie: KIDNAP
Released Date: 02.October.2008
Genre: Action, Thriller
Presenter: Indian Films
Banner: Shree Asthavinayak Cine Vision
Director: Sanjay Gadhvi
Music: Pritam
Music On: Sony BMG
Star Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Imraan Khan, Minissha Lamba, Vidya Malvade, Raj Zutsi and Rahul Dev.
Home Video Label: Moserbaer Entertainment
Online Shopping: www.moserbaerhomevideo.com
Packaging:
The movie comes in a standard DVD plastic case with single DVD of the film and no special features are available.
Technical Details:
2 Channel Stereo & 5.1 Dolby Digital Sound
16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen
Subtitle: English
Price: Rs 50/-

Synopsis:

When Dr. Mallika asks her daughter Sonia what she wants for her 18th birthday, Sonia tells her she wants her Dad. Mallika divorced Vikrant Raina when Sonia was just 10. The bitter custody battle was settled in Mallika's favor and Sonia has not met her father for eight long years.

Rebellious Sonia is hell-bent on meeting her dad, but Mallika does not want her to have anything to do with him. After a spat between mother and daughter, Sonia walks off in a huff and doesn't return.

Mallika panics when she gets a call from a stranger that he has kidnapped Sonia. The kidnapper, Kabir, has only one demand - that he will negotiate with nobody but Sonia's father - Vikrant Raina.

Reluctantly Mallika brings Vikrant back into their lives to save Sonia. But Vikrant Raina, one of the richest Indians in the world, with a net worth of 51.7 billion dollars, chokes at the thought of taking orders from a criminal.

But Kabir holds the trump card - he holds Sonia and Vikrant knows he has no option but to toe the line.

It's very simple, Kabir tells him. They are going to play a game - just the two of them. Vikrant has to play by the rules set by Kabir and he has to play alone. He has to play to save his daughter. If he even utters the words 'Hello Police', it will be Bye Bye for Sonia!

Because his daughter's life is at stake, a reluctant Vikrant agrees to obey Kabir's orders. Kabir sets him a series of daunting, time bound tasks. As Vikrant completes each task, he receives a clue that will bring him a step closer to finding Sonia.

And so begins a thrilling, cat and mouse game where Vikrant Raina chases elusive clues through impossible terrain, even as a hawk eyed Kabir keeps a watch on every step he takes. The slightest error or delay on his part and Vikrant will never see his daughter again. But why do all the tasks involve Vikrant having to commit crimes in rising intensity?

Although circumstances have forced Vikrant to take orders from this hateful stranger, he's also a master strategist of many board room battles and a man to be pushed around. Thus he succeeds in outwitting Kabir on more than one occasion.

But then a counter-offensive Kabir puts Sonia's life in jeopardy and Vikrant vows that he will stop at nothing to save his daughter... his only child.

But will he stop at committing murder?

Sanjay Gadhvi, the master director of mega, blockbusters like Dhoom and Dhoom: 2, brings you Kidnap - a high-octane, edge-of-the-seat thriller about the power tussle between a father hell bent on rescuing his daughter and a young man thirsting for revenge!

My Conclusion:

The idea was new but i felt that execution was not so good and there are too many flaws in the script. Along that if some one has seen Sanjay Dutt starrer "Zinda" which came few years back then you will also find the script an outdated one. Since here also the story revolves around a person( Imraan Khan) who wants to take revenge from a person( Sanjay Dutt) who has changed his whole life from childhood, for a misunderstanding.When we talk about acting then its only Imraan Khan show you can say and even Sanjay Dutt will disappoint you with his acting because in many scenes you will find Sanjay Dutt looking tooo dull.And even like Sanjay Gadhvi's Dhoom series here you wont find any action scenes that leave you with some impact. And if i can recollect the movie has one train chase action scene and a building climb up scenes that seems too be ok ok action actions.So its not a Dhoom but its just one time watchable flick.Except the song "Mit Jaye" others doesnt leave nay impact on you too.So bad in terms of music score also.

Overall, i didnt like it so much and i was very dissapointed as i was expecting much more from this movie.

My RATING: 2.5/5

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Moserbaer releases "A Wednesday" on Home video

In my last post only i have written that in some websites, pre-orders of UTV movies are being taken but i was not sure whether it was acquired by Moserbaer or it was just a mistake by the internet shopping websites. But now after my research its confirmed that atleast Moserbaer has acquired the rights of latest UTV movies which includes the rights of "Kismat Konnection", "A Wednesday", "Fashion", "Mumbai Meri Jaan" and " Welcome to Sajjanpur".But this time Moserbaer has increased the price of its DVDs and now the DVDs of this films will cost you Rs 99/- for each movies.

Out of this five movies, " A Wednesday" is already out in the market and its is out at a price point of Rs 40/- for VCDs and Rs 99/- for its DVD.The DVD of this movie also contains the DVD of the movie "Shaurya" as a free gift inside the pack.A Wednesday was a very short film of around 2 hours and it was also made at a very low budget. The movie was critically acclaimed and its star cast includes Nasseruddin Shah, Anupam Kher, Jimmy Shergill and others.

"A WEDNESDAY" tells the story of certain events that unfold between 2 and 6 pm on a particular Wednesday – events which do not exist in any record but which deeply effects the lives of those involved.

Prakash Rathod, Commissioner of Police, Mumbai (played by Mr Anupam Kher) gets a call demanding the release of four militants in lieu of information on bombs that the man has planted in various parts of the city. At first, Prakash suspects it to be a crank call but his doubts are dispelled once he actually finds a bomb planted in the police station right opposite his Police Headquarters.

Now Prakash Rathod is in a real dilemma. Should he release the militants? Militants who have been caught at the cost of lives of police officers in the first place? Militants who are responsible for unaccountable damage to civilian lives and property? Militants who will cause further damage in the coming years, if let go scott free? Or should he just think of all the innocent people who will die today if he decides not to let them go?

Prakash Rathod is not a man who would give up so easily. He gets a team of his best men together and taps all his resources – he was going to leave no stone unturned in his mission to track down the man. He even hires a 17 year old hacker to help his team trace the calls and hence the location of this man.

Meanwhile, he comes across Naina Roy, a wannabe-something news channel reporter (played by Ms Deepal Shaw) who also has been tipped off by an anonymous caller. Time passes without any concrete results on the identity of the caller. As a backup plan, he puts two of his best men, Arif and Jai (played by Jimmy Sheirgill and Amir Bashir respectively) to hand over the four militants. It is then that events take a bizarre turn.

Suddenly, everything becomes a huge question mark. Who is this man? What is his identity? What are his intentions and what is the motive behind them? The caller (played by Mr Naseeruddin Shah) then reveals his true identity and answers these questions, raising some more in the process...Last releases from Moserbaer was Pahlaj Nihalani's " KHUSHBOO" and Sanjay Gadhvi's " KIDNAP" starring Imraan Khan and Sanjay Dutt.Very Sooner Moserbaer is also going to release the DVDs of Golmaal Returns, Fashion, Kismat Konnection, Welcome to Sajjanpur, Mumbai Meri Jaan and that too in its new price point of Rs 99/- per DVD.May be this DVDs also contain a free movie DVD like "A Wednesday" which is coming with the disc of movie "Shaurya" as a free gift.

Now we have to see whether it can keep its market share and can give fight to pirates as it was doing well till now since the advantage Moserbaer had over other players was its low price strategy but now it seems like Moserbaer is also following others and has increased the prices of its new products. Even it will get clear in coming few days whether Moserbaer also releases them in a price point of Rs 50/- and keep the higher price point for premium segment, but that we can only hope at this stage of time.

Along that another question is whether we will get premium quality product in this price point in terms of packaging and contents like addition of deleted scenes, making of the film, extra songs and posters or the same DVD cases which we were getting at price point of Rs 50/- per film DVD.

So keep watching this space for latest happenings in Indian Home Video Market....

Moserbaer releases Kidnap on Home video

If you remember, in starting of November i have written a post in which i have mentioned that Moserbaer has acquired the home video rights of "KIDNAP" and "GOLMAAL RETURNS". And yesterday only i have seen the ads on television from Moserbaer that it releases "KIDNAP". As its earlier ads, this ad also has some sort of uniqueness that differentiate it from other ads and you will get the look Moserbaer in it, with a tagline of "Hello Happiness". And the ad mainly focusses on Imraan Khan and with some editing, it will show that the movie revolves around four clues that are given by Imraan Khan to Sanjay Dutt for saving her daughter which is played by Minissha Lamba and who is being kidnapped by Imraan Khan.

Kidnap stars Imraan Khan, Sanjay Dutt and Minissha Lamba and it is an outcome from "Dhoom" fame director Sanjay Gadhvi. However at box-office, the result was not so good but still it manages a clear win against its competitor release of same week "Drona". The movie manages to earn around 19 crores in box-office from Indian Circuit only during its first few weeks.

Moserbaer has released the DVDs at a price point of Rs.50/- for single disc and VCDs at a price point of Rs.40/- for 2 disc. Keep watching this blog because sooner i will write the DVD review of this movie. And so now keep waiting for Golmaal Returns has it will too come out on Moserbaer DVDs by December and rather stop piracy and wait for this low price Moserbaer original DVDs.

Big Home Video releases new Hollywood titles

Big Home Video has recently released Universal Picture's The Incredible Hulk and Paramount's Iron Man on home video in over seven regional languages, including Hindi. Meanwhile, to cater to the premium segment, Big Home Video has tied up with Crossword to promote the release of The Incredible Hulk and with Planet M to promote Iron Man. A Hulk Zone will be created at select outlets of Crossword for on-the-spot contests and a chance to win exciting merchandise. Planet M chain of outlets, as part of a special focus on Iron Man, is organizing a consumer contest at its key stores across the country.

The Incredible Hulk and Iron Man DVDs are priced at Rs 599, the English VCDs are priced at Rs 299 and the Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam VCDs are priced at Rs 99.

Along this two hollywood biggies it has also released Indiana Jones series – Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Crystal Skull on home video. Directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Frank Marshall, with George Lucas and Kathleen Kennedy as its executive producers, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Crystal Skull is a thriller packed with sensational spectacles. The film grossed more than $ 780 million at the worldwide box-office.

Big Home Video has chalked out a marketing plan to unleash this adventure on home video. Through a tie-up with the Planet M chain of stores, buyers of the DVD and the VCD have the opportunity of winning attractive early bird prizes and also taking part in a consumer contest to win exclusive Indiana Jones premiums.

Indiana Jones has been released on DVD as a two-disc special collector's edition at Rs. 699 as well as a single disc DVD at Rs. 599. It presents hours of content that offers in-depth coverage of Steven Spielberg and his cast and crew at work, including pre-production and pre-visualization sequences, photo galleries and a tribute to Indy. This VCD had been released in English at Rs. 299 and in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu at Rs. 99 each.

It seems that still the hollywood titles are sold at a very huge prices and i really hope that sooner this prices will come down as it happened in case of bollywood titles after the entry of Moserbaer in the market as a key player.

And due to this price points only, hollywood titles piracy taking place at a larger scale and even its my personal experience that i have too seen the pirated DVDs are available at a price point of Rs 70/- per DVD. And this DVDs are DVD prints only (means copied from an original DVDs), so they have all those features like subtitles and Dolby sound etc., in it. Even along that you can take 6 movies in just Rs 70/- including all the above movies which are available on Big Home Video for Rs 599/- each.

So, why should a common man go for an original dvds when he is getting that same quality along that a combination of movies at a such lower prices. Because fancy packaging and few gifts are not the main intention for a common man.

Now, really i think this home video players should rethink and reduce there prices and come up with some new effective business models if they wanna really fight back with piracy else they are going to play a looser game in future too.

But even in this case Moserbaer has again got some credit has it is launching its new Hollywood titles at maximum price of Rs.149/- for an english DVD whereas for Hindi dubbed version DVD, its available at Rs. 99/- and am really looking forward for "Righteous Kill" to release on Home Video by Moserbaer. And even i have purchased earlier "Air Buddies" from Moserbaer and it also comes up with a fancy packaging like its provided by any other Home video player at a price point of Rs. 599/- for english version DVDs.


Source: businessofcinema.com

Moserbaer acquired "Kidnap" & "Golmaal Returns"

In a latest interview given to a private channel NDTV Imagine Showbiz, Mr. Harish Dayani, CEO of Moserbaer Entertainment confirmed that in there latest acquisation process they has acquired the home video rights of two latest movies of Shree Astavinayak Cinevision which are "KIDNAP" and last week release " GOLMAAL RETURNS".Except this two biggies Moserbaer has also acquired many low budget movies in recent times which are in there production stage right now. And along that he also confirmed that we had acquired both Kidnap and Golmaal Returns before there release but Moserbaer is also in a negotiation stage with many producers of those movies which has released in past weeks.

According to him, Moserbaer will release Home Video of Kidnap in the market by 1st week or 2nd week of November 2008 and similarly, Golmaal Returns will also be out within a one month time from its theaterical release date.

Kidnap include Imraan Khan, Sanjay Dutt and Minnisha Lamba in main starcast and it was directed by "Dhoom" fame director Sanjay Gadhvi. On the other hand Golmaal Returns include Ajay Devgan, Arshad Warsi, Tushhar Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor and Shreyas Talpade in main starcast list and it is directed by "Golmaal" Fame Rohit Shetty.

Apart from Bollywood movies, sooner Moserbaer is also going to release the Home Video of Al Pacino and De Niro starrer Hollywood Movie "RIGHTEOUS KILL".

And as far as the production is concerned, Mr. Dayani said that after the success of there first Bollywood outcome "Shaurya" , there are around 4 to 5 movies which are in there different production stages under Moserbaer Entertainment banner and sooner there 2nd bollywood outcome " Sankat City" will be released.Few days back only i have posted the first look of "Sankat City" , so you can check that under my "iSaurav First Look" tag.

Along that after the grand success of two tamil movies under Moserbaer Banner, they are also producing 6 to 7 movies for regional markets.

After this news am really excited to buy the original DVDs of this two biggies and looking forward for it.And i really wanted that it should also acquire the home video rights for "Hello" and "Tahaan".

Unstable Indian Home Video Market

Just year before in Janaury 2007, when Moserbaer entered with a bang by there low price strategy in Home Video Market of India, its rival pointed out that they dont know the business and rather they are going to spoil the market. However, Moserbaer denied all such allegations and cleared the facts that they entered the market with a different business model which nobody yet explored in India.

According to Moserbaer, they are looking for quantity sell rather than quality sell and also they said that no competitors had a pan India presence like they had and they will sell there products in all languages and in all terms of content, rather than only focussing hollywood and bollywood movies. Even Moserbaer entered the market after acquisation of some known Home Video players of that time like Indus, Bombino, Time, Venus, Tips, Captain and many other major regional players and soon after its entry in Home Video business it got the position of number one in terms of content.

Within 4 to 6 months of Moserbaer entry we saw a reduction in price of Home Video products by all other major rival companies like T-Series, Ultra and Shemaroo. But story doesnt ends up here, soon Reliance backed company "Big Home Video" entered the market to grab some share for itself from this space.

And within a few months from the entry of Big Home Video, rumours started coming up that Big Home Video is negotiating with two major players Shemaroo and Ultra for there complete buy out. The reason behind this was that both the companies are running in huge losses due to large scale piracy and they wanted to quit from the market.

But soon Shemaroo declined all such rumours and confirmed that they will stay in the market and no such negotiation is going on between Shemaroo and Big Home Video. However, sooner the news came in media that Moserbaer had struck a deal of 700 million(70 crore) with Ultra and they had acquired close to 1000 titles from Ultra. Along that we also got news that Big was also in the race but as Big Home Video wanted complete buy out of Ultra. But Ultra wanted to retain some titles under their company name with an aim to continue as active players in the market. Hence the deal went kaput. , so the deal couldnt get success and it went to Moserbaer's bag.

And this deal again made Moserbaer more stronger in terms of content in there library and it made Moserbaer a true giant in Home Video Space as it acquired many other contents from individual producers also like from BR Films, Shakti Samanta & many others in this space of time.

This year we saw that Big Home Video had struck deals with three major Hollywood Studios Universal, Paramount and Warner Brothers. And this deals made Big a major content owner of Hollywood movies and almost 60% Hollywood Movies will now be sold under Big Home Video label. Even Big Home Video acquired some of the biggest blockbusters in recent time with huge sum of money like Welcome, Jodhaa Akbar and recently Singh is King (for around 5 crores). With this they also cleared that they wanted to focus on Blockbusters and can spend huge some of money for them rather then spending money on acquisation of many small films. And even Big Home Video has been backed up by Reliance "Big" brand which has various business in entertainment space from movie production to movie distribution and now to movie screening.
So it helps them in acquiring rights for new movies. So for now Big Home Video is also been seen as a major player in Home Video space which is new in market but captured a good market share for itself in this short span of time after Moserbaer.

But acquisation story doesnt ends up here, few months back Sony BMG has licensed the right of 14 movies under its home video segment to Moser Baer for their distribution. Reason was given from Sony BMG side was that, Moser Baer is a strong player in the home video segment due to its pricing and reach, so Sony wanted to exploit its catalog to drive big numbers in small town. Even they cleared the fact that Sony BMG is not intending to shut its home video shop. Acquisition and distribution of newer titles will continue alongside, and gradually these titles will be redirected to Moser Baer for further exploitation.

After this another news has came up in recent times that UTV Home Video is also looking to sell its entire home video library and they are in talks with major home video players for that.So its an another interesting news that we have to look out(according to businessofcinema.com).

As on one side we seeing that older players like Bombino, Indus, Ultra etc. are quitting from the market due to large losses from which they are suffering for pirates but on other side new players are also coming in with different new business models to curb piracy and to establish themselves in the space created after quitting of older players.

And in this new entrant segment Moserbaer and Big Home Video are the major names, but now one more company has entered in this space. With the launch of "Phoonk", Times Music company backed Junglee Music has also launched its Junglee Home Video label. Even there are speculations that Sahara One is also planning to launch its Home Video Label in coming times in India, it is present in Overseas Market. After staying a silent player for almost a year from its deal with Moserbaer, now Ultra has also given slight hints that its going to invest a huge sum of money and will again return back in home video space by next year with its different strategies to fight with piracy, if everything goes well.

So now the market is really shaken up and nobody knows which company is going to survive in this space as every company knows that major threat for them are pirates & PIRACY which have acquired almost 90 per cent of the market in terms of sale. Now piracy has become digital and rather than purchasing DVDs, a person can download movies over internet free of cost.

Every Home Video company is trying its level best to reduce the pirates sale with there different business strategies, like Moserbaer has followed low price strategy and along that now it had also comes up with combination of movies in a single DVD under "Super DVD" brand name at a low prices, similarly Big Home Video is trying to reduce the cost of Hollywood Movies DVD. Along that Big and other major players like T-Series and Shemaroo has also followed the low price strategy but in there case, they brings down the prices of DVDs & VCDs, at an average time period of after 6 months of its launch on Home Video, whereas Moserbaer launches new movies directly at a low price.And some players like Eagle Home Video are playing a role of silent player in the market by acquiring few films per year, whereas players like Yash Raj & Eros are only focussing in launching of there production films on Home Videos and they rarely acquire separate rights for home video for any outside films.

Companies are trying there best to grab maximum share of Home Video market from pirates and everyone wanted to grab the number one slot in terms of sale and profit but till date nothing is seen to be clear that which one is gonna win this WAR FOR MAXIMUM SHARE IN INDIAN HOME VIDEO MARKET.

Out on DVD: CHAMKU

Movie: CHAMKU
Released On: 29.August.2008
Genre: Action Drama
Banner: Vijayta Films
Director: Kabeer Kaushik
Music: Monty Sharma
Lyrics: Sameer
Music On: T-Series
Star Cast: Bobby Deol, Priyanka Chopra, Danny Denzongpa, Irfaan Khan, Ritesh Deshmukh, Rajpal Yadav, Arya Babbar, Akhilendra Mishra & Rosa Catalano
Home Video Label: Moserbaer Entertainment
Online Shopping: www.moserbaerhomevideo.com
Packaging:
The movie comes in a standard DVD plastic case with single DVD of the film and no special features are available.
Technical Details:
2 Channel Stereo & 5.1 Dolby Digital Sound
16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen
Subtitle: English
Price: Rs 50/-
Synopsis:

'Chamku' is the journey of a boy Chandrama Singh alias Chamku whose family had been brutally murdered and was brought up and trained by Naxalites in Southern interiors of Bihar. He was later picked up under a covert Governmental Program jointly conceived by RAW & IB. Chamku was trained to kill. Best in the business, operations, encounters and political assassinations, he soon became the blue-eyed boy. He was given the toughest jobs which he tackled with ease. His life changes when love enters his life and makes him realize how beautiful life is… But his past comes and stands on his face.
Tagline: KAHANI KABHI KHATAM NAHI HOTI

My Conclusion:

The subject choosen by the director was quite good but they didnt able to give full justification to the naxalite subject and made it a personal rivalary movie which we are seeing from past decades in bollywood. At the beginning when movie starts, you expect some new matter is going to unclosed infront of you but at the end of the story you reliaze that you have been cheated and nothing comes up infront of you. Even movie gets bit out of pace after around 40 minutes and which you cant expect in this short movie of hardly 2 hours duration. Even short duration of the movie plays another culprit role, where in mere 2 hours you will watch songs in the movie.
Starcast is quite renowed one but after watching the movie you will realize that everyone was just wasted in the movie and except "Bobby Deol", no one had a role exceeding 20 minutes.But acting wise each actors had given full justification and everyone was okay-okay in there characters.

Finally, its not a must watch movie but since from a long time very few movies have come out on DVD, so you can watch it if you dont have any other movie to watch.

My Rating: 2/5

Poster:

FIRST LOOK & SYNOPSIS: Fashion

Movie: FASHION
Release Date: 29.October.2008
Genre: Social
Banner: UTV Motion Pictures & Bhandarkar Entertainment
Director: Madhur Bhandarkar
Music: Salim-Sulaiman
Lyrics: Sandeep Nath & Irfan Siddique
Music On: T-Series
Official Website: www.fashionthemovie.net
Star Cast: Priyanka Chopra, Arjan Bajwa, Mugdha Godse, Arbaaz Khan, Harsh Chhaya, Sameer Soni, Kangna Ranaut, Kitu Gidwani
Synopsis:

The journey of the rise and fall and phoenix like re-birth of India's number one Supermodel.
Set against the glittering backdrop of the glamorous but ruthless world of haute couture
fashion, this tells the story of one small town girl with a dream and the determination to make it a reality
Meghna Mathur knew in her bones that she was meant to be famous. Ever ambitious and bright with stars in her eyes, even as a girl with conservative parents from a small north Indian town – she dared to dream of bright lights and the big city…
The world of fashion – the clothes, the colors, the make-up. . . all of these form a part of a fascinating world that Meghna's longed to be a part of.
Meghna never wanted to compromise on anything on her journey to success – as she puts it - whoever said intelligent women couldn't be glamorous?
She reaches the peak of her success and rises to walk the ramps for leading designers across India.
The fashion world lies at her feet – the parties, the brand endorsements, the photographers, the models, the romance and of course - the shows, the shows, the shows!
However karma catches up with Meghna as she slowly starts to pay the price for her fame and her journey to the top.
Her attempt at a comeback was going to be a near impossibility . . .
However she was never a woman to turn away from a challenge…
"Fashion" explores the world of style through the emotional personal journey of the key people that make the industry - the dream-weavers of that elaborate world of glamour: the models, designers, photographers, businessmen, agencies etc.
In the world of image – makers - is it possible to conquer it and remain true to yourself?

Poster (First Look):
Source: movietalkies.com

Out Now on DVD: 1971

Movie: 1971
Released On: 09.March.2007
Genre: War Drama
Banner: Studio 18 & Sagar Arts
Director: Amrit Sagar
Music: Akash Sagar
Lyrics: Dev Kohli & Zahir Anwar
Music On: Times Music
Star Cast: Manoj Bajpai, Ravi Kishan, Sunil Chavan, Chittaranjan Giri, Kumud Mishre, Manav Kaul, Pankaj Kalra, Deepti Gupta, Deepak Dobriyal, Piyush Mishra, Vivek Mishra, Sanjeev Wilson, Bikramjeet Kanwarpal, Satyajit, Pramod Kapoor, Sagar Saini, Rajeev Sharma, Rao Devender, Amrendra Sharma, Pankaj Rathod
Home Video Label: Moserbaer Entertainment
Online Shopping: www.moserbaerhomevideo.com
Packaging:
The movie comes in a standard DVD plastic case with single DVD of the film and no special features are available.
Technical Details:
2 Channel Stereo & 5.1 Dolby Digital Sound
16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen
Subtitle: English

Price: Rs 45/-

Synopsis:
1971 is an escape drama/story set against the backdrop of the year post the Bangladesh war, where six doredevil Indian prisoners of war, make a daring escape from a Pakistani POW camp, against all odds, to reach the Indian border.
What unfolds is a very touching story of bravery,courage, patriotism and sacrifice. Heart-rendering performances by Manoj Bajpai, Ravi Kishan and very talented support cast make this nerve-racking tale of bravery a must-watch for all audiences(Indians)It's tribute/homage to all Prisoners of War in Pakistan who have never returned home.

My Conclusion: Its an another superb movie that i come across on DVD after Swami and again here also Manoj Bajpai is in the lead. I really dont know why such movies turns out to be flop in box-office whereas masala movies like " Singh is King", which doesnt have a script turns out to be blockbuster...I will just say that its movie made for all Indians and everyone should questions ourselves and to Indian Government that whether we are giving that much attention and respect to our armed forces which they really needs.Brilliant script and screenplay along that mindblowing performances by all leading characters.This movie was another one after Swami which came out on DVD after almost one year of its release and its really seems to be a tragedy that no company takes such movies.

Strongly recommended for every Indians to realize that what sort of sacrifices are given by our Armed Forces everyday to protect our borders and for peoples of this country.But did we Indians realize and question ourselves, whether they reached safely to there homes & met there families after several years from the completion of the war.

Why just we forget them so easily after an war?

My Rating: 4.5/5

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Out Now on DVD: SWAMI

Movie: SWAMI
Realeased On: o8.June.2007
Genre: Social
Banner: Pushpa Krishna Creations
Director: Ganesh Acharya
Music: Nitin Arora & Sony Chandy
Lyrics: Sameer
Star Cast: Manoj Bajpai, Juhi Chawla, Maninder & Nehha Pendse
Home Video Label: Moserbaer Entertainment
Online Shopping: www.moserbaerhomevideo.com
Packaging:
The movie comes in a standard DVD plastic case with single DVD of the film and no special features are available.
Technical Details:
2 Channel Stereo & 5.1 Dolby Digital Sound
16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen
Subtitle: English
Price: Rs. 50/-
Synopsis:
“Life is just a chance to grow a soul.” Every one of us has a life to live, with our parents, our relatives, our near and dear ones… Some of them are with us, while others have left us and are lost in the sands of time. Their only existence now is in our memories. When we look at an ant hill and see the ants running up and in their daily routine, just like the millions who walk this earth. It makes us think if we really have the time to miss the ones who left us. When our loved ones who are about to leave us and have just a few last breaths left, there comes a “moment” when they get connected with the supernatural. At that moment they just bless us and give us a loving look, that I know and leave silently. “Swami” is a film about this “moment.”

My Conclusion: A movie with a great script, perfect acting by all the actors and overall everything is perfect if your looking for a social movie which you want to watch with your whole family. However this movie was a complete disaster on Box-Office and also its DVD launched in the market after one year from its release, but after watching this movie i realised that there are so many movies releases in this bollywood which really had a strong potential and great story to tell but due to there uninspiring promotion and absence big star cast made them flop on box office. Movie has really emotional touches and simplicity is another factor of the movie that has to be watch on and really everyone should watch it. Strongly recommended from myside.

My Ratings: 4/5

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Sony BMG licenses its Home Video Library to Moserbaer

Sony BMG has licensed the right of 14 movies under its home video segment to Moser Baer for their distribution.

The movies include the likes of Guru, Yuva, Lakshya, Rang De Basanti, Dil Chahta Hai, Mistress of Spices, Balle Balle Amritsar to LA, Bride and Prejudice, Meeanxi, Passion of Christ, Jai Santoshi Maa, two Bengali movies- Manush Bhoot and Aalo and the most recent movie being Jannat.

Sony BMG director marketing Shanujeet Bhujbal said, Moser Baer is a strong player in the home video segment due to its pricing and reach, so we thought it would be nice to have them exploit our catalog to drive big numbers in small towns. Moreover, the home video market has changed drastically due to the new price points and nobody knows how this segment will shape up in future.

However, Sony BMG is not intending to shut its home video shop. Acquisition and distribution of newer titles will continue alongside, and gradually these titles will be redirected to Moser Baer for further exploitation. Moreover, Sony BMG has not passed all its titles to Moser Baer; they chose to retain films from 'Dharma Productions' banner.

Moser Baer will be able to exploit this catalog only for the time balance under the agreement that Sony BMG signed originally with various producers. Moser Baer has already begun to roll out some titles in the market and will be releasing all other titles within a month's time.

The titles Rang De Basanti, Guru, Yuva, Lakshya, Dil Chahta Hai and Jannat are already available in the shops under Moserbaer brand name. And except Jannat, which is priced for Rs. 50/- all other titles are available at a price of Rs 45/- for a single DVD.

With this deal of Moserbaer with Sony BMG, it has again increased its titles number in his catalogue. Before this only, it had 10,000 different titles to offer to consumers which includes both bollywood and regional movies along other documentaries. Last year only it had acquired 1000 titles from Ultra Home Video and that deal made Moserbaer, the largest content owner in Home video Market. Before this, Moserbaer had acquired 30 films from B.R.Chopra which include titles like Baghban, Bhoothnath, Naya Daur and other hits.

Whereas Ultra's catalogue that Moserbaer had acquired, also contains some of the biggest hits like Maine Pyar Kiya, Hum Aapke Hai Kaun, Sholay, Koi...Mil Gaya, Apna Sapna Money Money, Iqbal and so on.This is not the only story of acquisation of Moserbaer, it has also acquired many other companies before it entered the market. It has acquired 600 titles from Indus Home Video, 550 titles from Bombino Digital, 400 titles from Captain Video, 200 titles from Venus and also titles from Time Home Video and Tips.Moser Baer had also pocketed films from individual producers like Shakti Samanta, Shivaji Ganeshan (AVM) amongst others and also from many other small home video and production companies like Gypsy and others. With this Moserbaer has become the true giant of Bollywood Home Video Library and along that it has also entered regional markets with a bang and made a pan India presence also within a two years entry in the market.

So we consumers are at the profit end with the entry of Moserbaer in the Home Video Segment and i hope this business model of Moserbaer of selling the products at lower price point will curb piracy also on a large scale.

Am doing a complete research on Moserbaer Entertainment and sooner will write about there business model, whats there future plannings and each and every detail which i will get regarding it. So keep watching this blog if your interested to know how they are selling there products at such a low price point whereas its competitors are selling the same at higher prices and whether they are recovering there inputs.

Source: businessofcinema.com
Compiled by: Saurav Chakraborty

Out on DVD: Maan Gaye Mugall-e-Azam

Movie: MAAN GAYE MUGALL-E-AZAM
Released On: 22.August 2008
Genre: Comedy
Banner: Moserbaer Entertainment & Venus Records and Tapes Pvt. Ltd.
Director: Sanjay Chhel
Music: Anu Malik
Music On: Venus
Star Cast: Rahul Bose, Mallika Sherawat, Kay Kay Menon, Paresh Rawal & Zakir Hussain
Home Video Label: Moserbaer Entertainment
Online Shopping: www.moserbaerhomevideo.com
Packaging:
The movie comes in a standard DVD plastic case with single DVD of the film and no special features are available.
Technical Details:
5.1 Dolby Digital & 5.1 DTS
16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen
Subtitle: English
Price: Rs 50/-

Synopsis:
IT'S MISSION... MOHABBAT... MADNESS...

Maan Gaye Mughall-E-Azam is a mad, contemporary comedy about how a small town drama company gets involved in a deadly mission to save the country. Circa 1993 - The country was burning due to the Babri structure demolition and communal riots. A small town like St. Louise near Goa, where Police, CBI and RAW officers were out on high alert due to illegal activities like Rdx and Arms landing at the coastal area! Set up in the same town is Kalakar Theatre Company, a theatre group of self indulgent dreamy actors who are always left with no choice but to perform the same age old period play 'Maan Gaye Mughall-E-Azam' every time. One fine day, they come to know that, an underworld don is planning a severe bomb blast in the country. A funny and thrilling roller-coaster ride begins when the entire drama company designs 'A Deadly Game plan' and gets into the act to save the entire city from this blasts. Performing multiple roles in disguise, the characters make you go crazy and eventually, save the entire nation from the big bomb blast in a hilarious slapstick climax. It's a story of losers becoming winners... 'Actors' becoming 'Heroes' ...A comedy which thinks and winks!!!

My Conclusion: It is a dialogue comedy movie rather then a mindless one which are coming up this years and you have to hear the dialogues carefully while watching it, if you wanna laugh. However i liked the movie alot when watched it in theater but at home i didnt like it so much. And it has to face a tough critics rating after its release which also made it a disaster at box-office. However i still feel that it was not a such bad movie how it was rated upon by various critics and peoples can easily watch it, specially if your in a mood to relax by a light comedy after your daily tiring schedule. So i will recommend this for all those peoples who are really in a mood to relax by watching a light hearted comedy movie, but who wanna watch mindless comedies, they should avoid this movie.

My Rating: 2.5/5

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Out on DVD: Ugly Aur Pagli

Movie: Ugly Aur Pagli
Released On: 01.August.2008
Genre: Comedy
Banner: Pritish Nandy Communication & Percept Picture Company
Director:Sachin Kamlakar Khot
Music: Anu Malik
Music On: T-Series
Star Cast: Ranvir Shorey & Mallika Sherawat
Home Video Label: Moserbaer Entertainment
Online Shopping: www.moserbaerhomevideo.com
Packaging:
The movie comes in a standard DVD plastic case with single DVD of the film and no special features are available.
Technical Details:
5.1 Dolby Digital & 5.1 DTS
16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen
Subtitle:English
Price: Rs 50/-

Synopsis:
It is the story of Kabir, a carefree guy who has been studying engineering for the last ten years now, whose life goes for a sixer when he meets the quirky and kinky Kuhu

Kabir always wanted a girl to love but he never in his wildest dreams thought he would encounter a girl who could make him dance around circles, run semi naked, ride cycles without seats, wear high heeled ladies shoes…

My Conclusion: In simple words i would say that i really enjoyed the movie while i watching it. The movie really contains some very funny scenes like Ranvir Shorey riding a bicycle without seat and that too wearing a petticoat, but its not that everything is fine in the movie. Movie really lacks in script and after second half you will start feeling that same scenes are repeating.And after watching Pyar Ke Side Effects from the same banner i was hoping bit more from this movie but it fails in that point of expectation.Acting wise both actors were superb in there roles.Overall its a quite good movie for timepass and can be enjoyed with bunch of friends during evening.

My Rating: 3/5

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Compiled By: Saurav Chakraborty