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Upcoming Bollywood Releases in 2011

RUN BHOLA RUN

Release Date: 4th February, 2011

Banner: Shree Ashtavinayak Cinevision Ltd.

Producer: Dhilin Mehta

Writer & Director: Neeraj Vora

Genre: Comedy, Action

Cast: Govinda, Tusshar Kapoor, Celina Jaitly & Ameesha Patel

Music: Pritam

Synopsis: The film’s plot centers on two convicts who escape from jail.

Media Consultant: Parag Desai

HAUNTED

Release Date: 15th April

Produced By: BVG Films (A division of ASA

Productions & Enterprises) & DAR Motion Pictures

Director: Vikram Bhatt

Genre: Horror, 3D

Cast: Mahakshay Chakraborty, Tia Bajpai

(Introducing), Achint Kaur, Arif Zakaria & Sanjay

Sharma

Music: Chirantan Bhatt, Toshie, Shahib & Others

Synopsis: India’s First 3D Horror film made by Vikram Bhatt, the Director of Raaz & 1920. ‘Haunted’ is Vikram’s most expensive and most ambitious project till date.

Media Consultant: Parag Desai

ROCKSTAR

Release Date: 2011

Banner: Shree Ashtavinayak Cinevision Ltd

Presented by: Eros International

Producer: Dhilin Mehta

Director: Imtiaz Ali

Genre: Drama, Romance

Cast: Ranbir Kapoor & Nargis Fakhri

Music: AR Rahman

Media Consultant: Parag Desai

RASCALS

Release Date: Jul / Aug, 2011

Banner: Sanjay Dutt Productions. & Rupali Aum

Entertainment Pvt Ltd

Producer: Sanjay Dutt, Sanjay Ahluwalia & Vinay Choksey

Director: David Dhawan

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgn, Arjun Rampal &

Kangana Ranaut

Music: Vishal & Shekhar

Screenplay: Yunus Sajawal

Dialogues: Sanjay Chhel

Synopsis: ‘Rascals’ is a comedy about two cool competing conmen trying to out-scheme each other in consistently amusing and surprising setups.

Media Consultant: Parag Desai

Rohit Shetty’s Untitled Film

Release Date: 2011

Banner: Reliance Big Pictures

Director: Rohit Shetty

Starring: Ajay Devgn

Genre: Action

Comments: Remake of a Tamil hit film ‘Singam’

Media Consultant: Parag Desai

Bol Bachchan

Release Date: Diwali 2011

Banner: Shree Ashtavinayak Cinevision Ltd & Ajay Devgn Films

Producer: Dhilin Mehta & Ajay Devgn

Director: Rohit Shetty

Starring: Ajay Devgn, Abhishek Bachchan

Genre: Comedy

Hollywood Releases 2011

‘127 Hours’ – 28th January

Banner: Fox Star Studios India (Twentieth Century Fox)

Release Date: 28th January 2011

Genre: Thriller, Drama

Director: Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, 28 Days Later)

Music: AR Rahman

Cast: James Franco, Kate Mara (Brokeback Mountain)

Synopsis: 127 HOURS is the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston’s remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah. Over the next five days Ralston examines his life and survives the elements to finally discover he has the courage and the wherewithal to amputate his own arm, scale a 65 foot wall and hike over 8 miles before he is finally rescued.

‘Alpha & Omega’ – 4th Feb

Banner: Fox Star Studios India (Twentieth Century Fox)

Producers: Crest Animation Studios

Release Date: 4th February 2011

Genre: 3D Animation

Directors: Anthony Bell and Ben Gluck

Voice Overs: Justin Long, Hayden Panettiere, Dennis Hopper (in his last film appearance), Danny Glover and Christina Ricci

Synopsis: “Alpha & Omega” is about two young wolves at opposite ends of their pack’s social order, who are thrown together into a foreign land and need each other to return home; but love complicates everything.

‘Black Swan’ – Mar 25th

Banner: Fox Star Studios India (Twentieth Century Fox)

Release Date: 25th March 2011

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Director: Darren Aronofsky

Cast: Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder

Synopsis: The film revolves around a production of Swan Lake by a prestigious New York City ballet company. The production requires a ballerina to play both the innocent White Swan and the sensual Black Swan. One dancer, Nina (Portman), is a perfect fit for the White Swan, while Lily (Kunis) has a personality that matches
the Black Swan. When the two compete for the parts, Nina finds a dark side to herself.

‘RIO’ – 8th April

Banner: Fox Star Studios India (Twentieth Century Fox)

Release Date: 8th April 2011

Genre: 3D Animation

Director: Carlos Saldanha (Ice Age: the Meltdown & Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs)

Voice Overs: Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, George Lopez, Jake T. Austin, Jamie Foxx, Rodrigo Santoro, Tracy Morgan, Will.I.am, Jane Lynch, Leslie Mann, Wanda Sykes

Synopsis: Set in the magnificent city of Rio de Janeiro and the lush rainforest of Brazil, the comedy-adventure centers on Blu, a rare macaw who thinks he is the last of his kind. When Blu discovers there’s another – and that she’s a she – he leaves the comforts of his cage in small town Minnesota and heads to Rio.

‘Big Momma’s House 3’ – May 13th

Director: John Whitesell (Big Momma’s House 2)

Producer: David Friendly (Big Momma’s House, Dr. Dolittle)

Production Start: May 13th, 2010

Story: After stints as an undercover grandmother and an undercover nanny, FBI agent Malcom Turner (Martin Lawrence) adds “undercover housemother” to his resume in the upcoming Big Momma’s House 3. In this hefty new comedy, Big Momma is hired to go deep undercover by the Headmistress of the Atlanta Girls’ School for the Arts.

Cast: Branden T. Jackson, Martin Lawrence, Jessica Lucas

‘X Men: First Class’ – June 10th

Banner: Fox Star Studios India (Twentieth Century Fox)

Release Date: June 10th, 2011

Genre: Action adventure

Director: Matthew Vaughn

Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Kevin Bacon, January Jones, Rose Byrne, Nicholas Hoult, Jennifer Lawrence, Oliver Platt, Zoë Kravitz, Caleb Landry Jones

Synopsis: Professor Xavier’s goals are to promote the peaceful co-existence of mutants and humans.

X-MEN ORIGINS: FIRST CLASS is about the first group of students at Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters.

‘Caesar: Rise of the Apes’ – 22nd July

Banner: Fox Star Studios India (Twentieth Century Fox)

Release Date: 22nd July, 2011

Genre: Sci-Fi, Action

Director: Rupert Wyatt (The Escapist)

Cast: James Franco, Frieda Pinto

Special Effects: Weta Digital (Avatar)

Synopsis: James Franco is set to play a scientist working on a cure for Alzheimer’s by testing on apes. When test subject Caesar suddenly begins to rapidly evolve, the scientist takes him home to remove him from the cruel lab doctors.

‘Darkest Hour’ – 9th Sept

Banner: Fox Star Studios India (Twentieth Century Fox)

Release Date: 9th September 2011

Genre: Action thriller

Director: Chris Gorak (Right at Your Door)

Cast: Olivia Thirlby and Emile Hirsch

Synopsis: Four young people find themselves stranded in Moscow, fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack.

Other Planned Releases:

Alvin & The Chipmunks 3

Love & Other Drugs, etc

–Showbiz PR Wire