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RS Entertainment is a private company founded in the year 2000 by renowned film director, Ramesh Sippy. The company has successfully produced four films. Kuch Naa Kaho (2003) starring Abhishek Bachchan & Aishwarya Rai and Bluffmaster (2005) starring Abhishek Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra, Riteish Deshmukh, Boman Irani and Nana Patekar both directed by his son Rohan Sippy. Taxi No 9211 (2006) directed by Milan Luthria, starring John Abraham and Nana Patekar and Fear (2007) directed by Vikram Bhatt. Currently RSE is in pre-production for Made In China - an ambitious action comedy featuring Akshay Kumar and also starring Deepika Padukone that has several firsts to its credit - it will be Warner Brothers first Hindi production, as well as the first Indian feature to be shot in mainland China; Sriram Raghavan's romantic fantasy featuring John Abraham; A sequel to Bluffmaster featuring Abhishek Bachchan. As plans to scale up presence in the booming production sector of Hindi films come to fruition, there are also several other live action and animated projects in various stages of development for which RSE has signed on a host of talented directors such as Sriram Raghavan (Ek Hasina Thi), Anurag Basu (Ganster, Metro), Rohit Shetty (Golmaal) and Milan Luthria (Kache Dhaage, Taxi No 9211) for upcoming projects. |
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Ramesh Sippy was born in Karachi on January 23, 1944 but during the tumultuous India–Pakistan partition, his father, G.P. Sippy moved his family to Bombay, in pursuit of safety and celluloid dreams. After many early brushes with cinema, including acting as a child artist in Shahenshah and at the age of 17, working as an apprentice before turning executive producer with the Shammi Kapoor-Rajshree-starrer Brahmachari, Ramesh worked for 7 years as an assistant before making a successful directorial debut with Andaz, in 1971, starring Shammi Kapoor, Hema Malini and Rajesh Khanna, This was followed by his second box-office hit, Seeta Aur Geeta, in 1972, with Hema Malini in a double role opposite Dharmendra and Sanjeev Kumar. In 1975 he completed a hat trick of successes when he directed the “curry western” style action adventure film Sholay, which was the first Indian film released in 70mm with 6-track stereophonic sound. Sholay went on to become one of the biggest hits in Bollywood film history and won Ramesh and the Sippys enormous acclaim and still remains one of best remembered films in Hindi film history to this day. Sholay was awarded Film of the Millennium by the BBC. In 2002, Sholay also topped the British Film Institute’s poll on Indian cinema. With a dialogue that achieved cult-status, the film tells the story of two runaway thieves defending a village against bandits. Commenting on the success of Sholay, Cary Sawhney, Director of the ImagineAsia festival, said: “Sholay has themes akin to the great Hollywood and Italian Westerns, with an action-packed story of everyday heroes defending a village. It also has a spectacular villain, songs and an all-star cast led by the legendary Amitabh Bachchan. It is this mix of elements which makes Sholay infinitely watchable and loved by millions of fans. It is the perfect Hindi film.” His next 3 films Shaan (1980), Shakti (1982) and Saagar (1985) were also successful. Shaan was another big-budget, star-studded production. And Shakti, Sippy’s first film for an outside producer, brought together Dilip Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan in critically acclaimed performances, while Saagar in 1985 saw the return to the silver screen of once teen idol Dimple Kapadia. He then created television history when he directed a successful television serial titled, Buniyaad, which focused on the India and Pakistan Partition and originally aired in 1987. Ramesh Sippy's Buniyaad, is even known as the Sholay of television. Ramesh Sippy is a trustee on the board of MAMI (Mumbai Academy of the Moving Images) responsible for organizing the annual Film Festival in Mumbai. |
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After graduating from Stanford University, Rohan Sippy inevitably followed in the footsteps of his father, the iconic director Ramesh Sippy. He directed his first film in 2003, the romantic comedy drama Kuch Naa Kaho starring Abhishek Bachchan & Aishwarya Rai. “Eye-watering production values and a sparkling performance by Bollywood goddess Aishwarya Rai more than compensate for a thin script in "Kuch Naa Kaho," an impressive debut by Rohan Sippy... (It) ranks as one of the classiest Hindi productions of last year.” (Derek Elley, Variety) Bluffmaster (2005), Rohan’s second film, saw him team up with Abhishek again and a supporting cast of Priyanka Chopra, Riteish Deshmukh, Boman Irani and Nana Patekar. It succeeded as a slickly packaged entertaining con caper with a taut screenplay that is urbanely tongue-in-cheek. It also featured a breakthrough soundtrack - for the first time a Hindi film contained a truly international soundtrack, featuring prominent Pharsi, Scandinavian, & UK Asian Underground artistes. Capping it was Abhishek's singing debut Right Here Right Now, one of the top songs of the year, and whose video won MTV's Most Stylish Song in Film Award for 2006. After co-producing the sleeper hit Taxi No. 9 2 11 featuring Nana Patekar & John Abraham, Rohan is now concentrating on producing more films. He has also written for a variety of publications, serving as a columnist for the Indian Express, and writing for India Today, Mid-Day & Man's World. |
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