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New Delhi, Aug 10 (Ians) Indian startup employees received an average salary increment of 8 to 12 per cent in 2022-2023, with the variation attributable to individual and company performance, the quality and level of talent, and location, a new report showed on Thursday.

According to the venture capital firm Elevation Capital, the performance of employees continued to hold 50 per cent of the weightage on salary increments while taking on additional responsibilities and receiving a promotion factored in about 20 per cent.

“The shift in the market situation has led to a correction in salaries, though largely at the leadership level. Interestingly, on the other hand, job seekers are willing to wait longer for the right job opportunity than settle for less-than-ideal pay,” said Dipesh Jain, Avp – Talent, Elevation Capital.

Moreover, the report said that the companies delayed salary increments or provided new stock grants instead of cash increments for leadership roles.

For leadership roles,...

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan recalled shooting for a milestone film ‘Sholay’ and how the director of the film Ramesh Sippy did the shooting in a flower valley rather choosing a desert that is more appropriate for a dacoit-based film. He also talked about getting injured on the sets of the film on ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati 14’.

While having a conversation with ‘Kbc 24’ contestant Dipesh Jain, Big B discussed his past and shooting for ‘Sholay” which was a blockbuster film released in 1975 starring him, Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Jaya Bachchan, Sanjeev Kumar and Amjad Khan.

Be it action sequences, dialogues of Gabbar, played by Amjad Khan and Thakur (played by late veteran actor Sanjeev Kumar or Hema Malini as Basanti, or the friendship of Jai and Veeru, played by Big B and Dharmendra, every element of the movie made it an iconic creation.

Big B revealed action sequences shot during the film and getting...

Actor Pushkar Priyadarshi is happy to have got the opportunity to be a part of Ott project ‘Inspector Avinash’. The actor plays the role of Dipesh Jain in it. “I must have probably been trying to get through some roles with actor and casting director Shahid Hasan for over six years now. I have been […]...

National Award-winning actor Manoj Bajpayee on Wednesday said he is used to the fact that all his films which are highly acclaimed Nationally and internationally never get a place in the nomination list of "so-called big mainstream awards". Manoj on Wednesday tweeted a poster of his 2018 movie Gali Guleiyan and wrote, "So used to the fact that all the films of mine which are highly acclaimed nationally and internationally don't even get a place in the nominations list of so called big mainstream awards here, forget about winning. Creative pursuit and exploitation continue! Gali Guleiyan."

(Also Read:?Gali Guleiyan Movie Review: Manoj Bajpayee?s master class in an alluring, provoking labyrinth)

The 49-year-old actor's tweet comes after the nomination list for the 64th Vimal Filmfare Awards 2019 were announced on Tuesday. Gali Guleiyan, which follows the journey of a man who is trapped in the city walls, premiered at the 22nd...

‘Shoplifters’.

The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) today announced the nine films nominated for this year’s Best Asian Film award.

This is the second year Aacta has presented the award, which forms the foundation for the organisation’s Asia International Engagement Program. The award is meant to recognise the calibre of films from the Asian region and their growing popularity in Australasia and around the world – Asian films have contributed $36 million to the Aussie box office in the last 12 months.

This year’s nominees are: Joon-Hwan Jang’s 1987 When the Day Comes (South Korea); Yang Ya-che’s The Bold, The Corrupt and the Beautiful (Taiwan); Muye Wen’s Dying to Survive (China); Dipesh Jain’s Gali Guleiyan (India); Amit V. Masurkar’s Newton (India); Raj Kumar Hirani’s Sanju (India); Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters (Japan), which won the Palme d’Or; Australian director Seth Lareny’s...

Gali Guleiyan

Starring Manoj Bajpai, Ranveer Shorey, Neeraj Kabi, Shahana Goswami, Om Singh

Directed by Dipesh Jain

Rarely does the location serve as an antagonist. In most films the environment that nurtures the plot and the characters is captured with affection.

Not so in Gali Guleiyan. It is the first film I’ve seen that doesn’t romanticize the location that nurtures the characters’ innermost fears of being trapped in the environment that breeds only stagnancy.

Old Delhi, Chandni Chowk is the villain of debutant director Dipesh Jain’s haunting parable on desolation and self-destruction. Manoj Bajpai has portrayed loneliness before with remarkable resonance and restrain in Hansal Mehta’s Aligarh. Here it is a quality of exacerbated desolation conveying such ennerving decreptitude that we soon realize we can’t trust Khudoos (Bajpai) to tell the truth to himself, let alone to his only friend Ganeshi or to us, the...

After creating marvels with his work in Hollywood with films like The Unraveling & Catching Fireflies to name a few, Chris Witt has now added his magic-hint to Manoj Bajpayee’s forthcoming psychological thriller film, Gali Guleiyan. He has edited the film at length and the film trailer was surely a proof of his art.

The trailer interestingly narrates a story of a paranoid man who seemed trapped convoyed by constant flashes of incidents back and forth. The arrangement of shots in sync with a mind-bending story-line will surely leave you fascinated.

Chris is overwhelmed by the reactions and responses he’s been receiving ever-since the trailer launch. Talking about the same, he quoted, “I’m proud to say this is my best work in over 20 years of editing! I’m super excited for the world to see Gali Guleiyan! Carefully crafting the performances of our ensemble cast, Gali Guleiyan gave...

The official trailer of Manoj Bajpayee’s upcoming psychological thriller-drama Gali Guleiyan has certainly received tons of applause and appreciation from fans, the industry, and well everyone. In fact, the trailer has already garnered a whopping figure of 2+ million views!

Director-producer Dipesh Jain can’t stop counting his blessings. Coming from a debutant, he feels overwhelmed and elated with this entire episode of receiving positive responses.

Commenting on the occasion, writer-producer-director Dipesh Jain quoted, “Can’t be happier that the trailer has caught on the fancy of people and they are absolutely loving it. The audience should come and watch the film in theatres and I’m sure they will love it. It will be a great ride for them to see Manoj Bajpayee and our other power-packed cast with their powerful performances that has been much-admired/applauded worldwide.”

Gali Guleiyan stars Manoj Bajpayee playing one of the most complex...

We have your look into the maze filled world of Manoj Bajpayee’s psychological drama Gali Guleiyan (In the Shadows). Direceted by Dipesh Jain, in his debut film, tje film will release in theatres Worldwide on 7th September.

The gritty trailer underlines Manoj’s heart wrenching portrayal of a man (named Khuddoos) trapped within the walls and alleys of Old Delhi and his own mind, who attempts to break free to find a human connection. He is ably supported in the film by an ensemble cast of actors par excellence – Ranvir Shorey, Neeraj Kabi and Shahana Goswami along with debutant child actor Om Singh. Shot entirely on locations, Gali Guleiyan is directed by Los Angeles-based debutant filmmaker and winner of Director Guild of America Award, Dipesh Jain.

Not just the stellar cast, the film also boasts of some of the best technicians. Many Oscar, Emmy and Grammy winning/nominated artists...

Two times National Award winning actor, Manoj Bajpayee’s Hindi psychological drama, Gali Guleiyan (In the Shadows) continued its winning ways at the prestigious Indian Film Festival of Melbourne. The film won accolades in two out the four categories that it was nominated in.

Manoj Bajpayee won the Best Actor award for his heart wrenching portrayal of a man trapped within the walls and alleys of Old Delhi and his own mind, who attempts to break free to find a human connection. The nominees in this category included- Akshay Kumar (Padman), Ranbir Kapoor (Sanju), Ranveer Singh & Shahid Kapoor (Padmavat), Varun Dhawan (October), among others.

Gali Guleiyan also earned a Special Jury Mention in the Best Indie Film category.

A visibly happy Manoj said, “It is a fantastic feeling to win the award for the best actor at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne. It is even more satisfying when you...

After bagging many awards in its name, Gali Guleiyan will now be traveling to Indian Film Festival of Melbourne along with the other critically acclaimed films.

Appreciated by critics all over, Gali Guleiyan (In the Shadows) is a psychological drama about an isolated paranoid man, who is slowly losing his grip on reality. The film will be releasing in India as Gali Guleiyan.

Having been to many renowned International Film Festivals now, the film has garnered appreciation from one and all. In 2017, Gali Guleiyan premiered at the Busan International Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival & Mumbai’s Mami, and also went on to win the Grand Jury award.

It was also screened at the prestigious 42nd Cleveland International Film Festival, the Indian Film Festival of Los Angles and the Atlanta Film Festival amongst others.

Manoj Bajpayee who has been nominated as the best actor for Gali Guleiyan said, “In the...

CinemaWhile Fahadh has been nominated for ‘Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum’, Keerthy has been nominated for her performance in ‘Mahanati’.Digital NativeDigital NativeThe Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (Iffm) is scheduled to take place from August 10 - 22. On the jury are Simi Garewal, Nikkhil Advani, Sue Maslin, Jill Bilcock, Andrew Anastasios and Geoffrey Wright who will be selecting winners under these categories – Best Film, Best Indie Film, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Supporting Role and Best Director. A majority of the films competing for the awards are from Bollywood, such as Padman, Hichki, Padmaavat, Sanju, Secret Superstar and Raazi. Two Tollywood films, Mahanati and Rangasthalam, are also in the competition for the Best Film award. The nominees for the Best Actor award are Ranbir Kapoor (Sanju), Varun Dhawan (October), Fahadh Faasil (Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum), Ranveer Singh (Padmaavat), Akshay Kumar (Padman), Manoj Bajpayee (In the Shadows), Soumitra Chatterjee (Mayurakshi) and Shahid Kapoor (Padmaavat). The heroines vying for the Best Actress award are Keerthy Suresh (Mahanati), Rani Mukerji (Hichki), Vidya Balan (Tumhari Sulu), Deepika Padukone (Padmaavat), Alia Bhatt (Raazi), Bhanita Das (Village Rockstars), Tillotama Shome (Sir) and Zaira Wasim (Secret Superstar). In the Best Director category, the nominations are Rajkumar Hirani (Sanju), Shoojit Sircar (October), R Balki (Padman), Siddharth P Malhotra (Hichki), Advait Chandan (Secret Superstar), Dipesh Jain (In the Shadows), Ere Gowda (Balekempa), Suresh Triveni (Tumhari Sulu), Sanjay Leela Bhansali (Padmaavat), Rima Das (Village Rockstars), Meghna Gulzar (Raazi), Tabrez Noorani (Love Sonia) and Rohena Gera (Sir). Samantha Akkineni has been nominated in the Best Supporting Actor category for her performance in Mahanati. A galaxy of stars, including Freida Pinto, Rani Mukerji, Vicky Kaushal, Ram Charan, Richa Chadha, Rajkumar Hirani, Ali Fazal, Simi Garewal and Malaika Arora, will attend this year’s Iffm. Legendary actors Shashi Kapoor and Sridevi, who passed away recently, will be honoured with special screenings of their iconic films Siddhartha and Chandni, respectively. Also read: Marathon hearing on Section 377 concludes, Sc reserves verdict (Content provided by Digital Native)...

National Award winning actor Manoj Bajpayee’s Hindi psychological drama Gali Guliyan (In the Shadows), directed by the fabulous Dipesh Jain, continues its film festival journey in style. Gali Guliyan, which also stars Ranvir Shorey, Neeraj Kabi and Shahana Goswami along with debutant child actor Om Singh, is a drama about a man trapped within the walls and alleys of Old Delhi and his own mind, who attempts to break free to find a human connection.

The film sold out at the recent London Indian Film Festival and received amazing reviews from critics and audience members. Not only that Manoj won an Icon Award for his performance in the film. Manoj said, “An actor is always in the making, it’s a process that one follows, and getting this honour at the festival is quite remarkable, more so from the perspective that this year, 2 films of mine, Love Sonia and...

Another successful year for the London Indian Film Festival (Liff), with a great collection of films all vying for the ultimate accolade, to be crowned the audience’s favourite movie. Despite some stiff competition, the winner of the Audience Award for Best Film at the festival was Eaten by Lions – a British comedy about two half-brothers who are brought up by their grandma, after their parents are accidentally killed by lions in a safari park. Set in Bradford, the story then follows the aftermath of their Gran’s sudden death which leaves the teenagers looking for family to take them in.

The director of Eaten by Lions, Jason Wingard said, “We’re delighted to win this fantastic award. Eaten By Lions is a modern, relevant comedy dealing with contemporary issues such as diversity and disability, but ultimately captures that life is about relationships and people, and we’re so pleased audiences are connecting with it.

From the moment we see Khuddoos (Manoj Bajpayee in yet another moving and masterful performance), an Old Delhi shopkeeper, we know that this is a man with his own demons, his eyes wary and watchful as he views closed circuit camera footage, his fingers flicking switches that allow him to see what’s happening in his neighbourhood, from cameras that he has jerry-rigged with his skills as a local repairman. When his only friend, Ganeshi (Ranvir Shorey) arrives, we learn that Khuddoos hasn’t left his home in five days, not going to his shop. He’s upset at the footage he’s seen of a woman kissing a man who is not her husband, while her husband and children eat dinner next door. Khuddoos insists on showing Ganeshi the footage, distressed at the thought that this woman might be doing something that will eventually harm her children.

Ganeshi urges...

It has showcased at film festivals around the world to applause, awards and rave reviews and now Dipesh Jain’s Gali Guliyan (In The Shadows) is coming to London and screening at the prestigious London Indian Film Festival. The director’s feature film debut is a dark and atmospheric psychological thriller that expertly explores the roots of paranoia.

To set the scene: In the walled city of Old Delhi, a reclusive shopkeeper (Manoj Bajpayee) spends his days obsessively watching people through hidden closed circuit cameras. When he overhears a boy being beaten by a man, he begins to frantically search for the child. As he becomes lost in the labyrinthine alleys of the city, his grasp on reality falters, until he eventually stumbles across a shocking truth about a father and an abused son.

Director Dipesh Jain, in a fabulous conversation, talked with Stacey about creating the many-layered Gali Guliyan,...

Having premiered at Busan and already received an award from Mumbai Mami International Film Festival, “In the Shadows” is a very interesting movie that deals with the darkest depths of the human mind.

“In the Shadows” runs as part of the 9th edition of the Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival, that runs at 15 cinemas, across London, Birmingham and Manchester, from 21st June to 1st July, with 27 films, including features and short films, in competition. It is the largest South Asian film festival in Europe. Buy your tickets via this website, at respective cinema box offices: http://londonindianfilmfestival.co.uk/

The story unfolds around two axes. The first one revolves around Khudoos, a troubled man who spends his time in his house in the walled city of Old Delhi, obsessively monitoring the people in his neighborhood via a series of hidden cameras he has placed throughout the streets and alleys.

The Bagri Foundation London Indian Film Festival is a cinematic treasure trove of carefully curated premieres of Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi independent films, offering rare glimpses into some of the billion plus lives in the sub-continent. Now in its ninth year it expands out in three cities: London, Birmingham and Manchester.

The programme of dramas, documentaries and shorts explores a compelling slate of controversial, entertaining and thought provoking themes with global resonances. The festival is title sponsored by the Bagri Foundation, which is dedicated to the promotion of Asian arts and culture. The festival also receives grant support from the BFI’s National Lottery Audience Fund.

Opening night

The festival helmer, with an all star Hollywood and Bollywood cast including Demi Moore, Mark Duplass, Freida Pinto, Manoj Bajpayee, Rajkummar Rao, Richa Chadda, Anupam Kher, Adil Hussain, Sunny Parwar and Mrunal Thakur, is the World Premiere of “Love Sonia”, from the...

Manoj Bajpayee has always stood out for his challenging choice of roles. From movies like ‘Satya’, ‘Pinjar’ and ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ to his recent ‘Aligarh’, his performances have remarkably raised the bar of acting in the industry. The actor has now bagged the award for best actor at the prestigious New York Indian Film Festival for his Hindi psychological drama – Gali Guleiyan. As always the actor went deep into character, so much so that he is once again almost unrecognizable.

Commenting on the award, the actor said, “When we didn’t get an award for Aligarh (2016), Hansal personally was very disappointed as Aligarh was a special film for both of us. Nyiff is a very prestigious award as Indian films are selected with great care and curation. This time, I’m happy that I got this award for a film which has been a difficult journey, a film that taught...

Delhi's dark alleyways get their closeup in filmmaker Dipesh Jain's Gali Guliyaan (In the Shadows), a psychological thriller about paranoia, isolation, and the long lasting effects of trauma. Khuddoos (Manoj Bajpayee) is a loner, a man who lives vicariously through his neighbors and who sees the world through the dozens of security monitors he has set up in his sparse office. He's obsessed with watching, with the voyeurism that makes him both all-knowing and invisible at the same time. He speaks only when necessary, and one gets the impression he'd forget to eat if he weren't reminded. His only real connection is to his friend Ganeshi (Ranvir Shorey), who helps to makes sure Khuddoos is fed and taken care of and protects him from the...

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Having premiered at Busan and already received an award from Mumbai Mami International Film Festival, “In the Shadows” opens this year’s Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles in the best way.

The story unfolds around two axes. The first one revolves around Khudoos, a troubled man who spends his time in his house in the walled city of Old Delhi, obsessively monitoring the people in his neighborhood via a series of hidden cameras he has placed throughout the streets and alleys. His only friend, and in essence benefactor, is Ganeshi, who tries to help him any way he can, with little success though. Eventually, Khudoos takes wind of Idris, a boy who is abused by his father, outside of his cameras, and decides to take action.

This “discovery” initiates the second axis, where we watch the life of Idris, his relationship with his loving mother and abusive father who...

Current Mpm Film and Premium Films sales executives Ricardo Monastier and Leslie Saussereau will combine forces on the international sales front.

Paris-based auteur-focused Mpm Film and shorts specialist Premium Films have joined forces to create a single sales entity called Mpm Premium, combining their industry know-how and network.

Under the new structure, current Mpm Film and Premium Films sales executives Ricardo Monastier and Leslie Saussereau will combine forces on the international sales front.

Mpm Film founding chief Marie-Pierre Macia and producer Claire Gadéa and Premium Films founder Jean-Charles Mille will oversee management of the company.

“The market is evolving and we have to adapt. The fusion allows us more flexibility and better reactivity thanks to a bigger team, with complementary abilities and a wide expertise. We plan to optimise our investments and be more present on the international markets,” Macia, Gadéa and Mille said in a joint statement.

“It’s more and more difficult for auteur films to find...

Features will screen in five sections including a Jean Vigo retrospective.

The 23rd Vilnius International Film Festival Kino Pavasaris in Lithuania will open with French director Xavier Legrand’s Custody.

The family drama picked up prizes across Europe last year including the Silver Lion for best director at Venice Film Festival and the audience award at San Sebastian.

Running from March 15-29, the festival will show features across five sections: Festival favourites; Discoveries; Critics’ choice; Masters; and retrospectives of 1930s French director Jean Vigo and Lithuanian classics about childhood. It is Lithuania’s largest cinema event; last year’s festival had over 100,000 attendees.

Also screening at Kino Pavasaris are Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman’s Oscar-nominated Loving Vincent; Robin Campillo’s Cannes-winning Bpm (Beats Per Minute); Iram Haq’s What Will People Say which won audience awards at AFI and Goteborg Film Festival; and Michaël R. Roskam’s Racer And The Jailbird starring Matthias Schoenaerts and Adele Exarchopoulos...

A thriller whose tense, dystopian atmosphere distantly recalls Coppola’s The Conversation, Dipesh Jain’s Hindi language feature In the Shadows (Gali Guliyan) explores the roots of paranoia in a loner intent on spying on his neighbors. Here the protag's obsession expresses itself through cheap, jerry-rigged surveillance cameras that he watches with morbid fascination. Earning a jury mention at the Mumbai film festival's Asian Gold competition, this first feature boasts promising intensity, even if its narrative complexity feels contrived. And the shadows cast over an innocent psyche can feel very heavy-handed and downbeat.

The story opens with William S. Burroughs’s wry observation: “There...

Film Bazaar: Three of the Work-in-Progress Lab projects at this year’s Film Bazaar are international co-productions, suggesting Indian filmmakers are getting to grips with the complexities of working with Europe.

Among the line-up of rough cuts screening at the market are Dipesh Jain’s In The Shadows, a co-production between UK-Indian production house Exstant Motion Pictures, founded by Shuchi Jain, and German producer Lena Vurma’s Dragonfly Films.

“Shuchi came on board early to produce and finance the film, but we didn’t have a huge amount of sales experience, so Lena joined to help us produce and handle sales on the film,” said Dipesh Jain, who met Vurma at Film Bazaar in 2013.

Starring Manoj Bajpayee and Belgian actress Laura Verlinden (The Brand New Testament), the film is a psychological drama about a man who is trapped within the walls of Delhi’s old city and his own mind.

The Wip line-up...

In the start of the year 2016, the talented actor Manoj Bajpayee had given the audiences a visual treat with his outstanding performances in the critically acclaimed films Aligarh and Budhia Singh: Born To Run. The actor soon will be seen in a never seen before comic avatar in Saat Uchakkey where he will tickle your funny bones with his comic timing. In Aligarh, the two time National Award winning actor made alive the character of a 64-year-old gay professor Dr. Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras, who was detained from his job due to his sexual orientation. The film had received a standing ovation at the Busan Film Festival and also made a mark in national film festivals is on its way for another international recognition.

The prestigious South Asian Film Festival of Paris (Ffast) which is in its 4th edition has invited the fine actor Manoj Bajpayee as honorable chief guest to...

Dipesh Jain, Indian born screenwriter and director based in Los Angeles, has a number of short films to his credit, including 11 Weeks. And his list of achievement now includes being a Berlinale Talent.

An initiative of Berlin International Festival, Berlinale Talents is an annual get-together of 300 film professionals from all over the world. An array of programmes including summit, project labs, studios and Talent Press are organised. It has emerged as one of the major talent film programmes in the world with various regional offshoots.

Excerpts from a conversation with Jain:

Dipesh Jain

1. What motivated you to apply for Berlinale Talents?

I learnt about Berlin Talents a while back. It is a great platform for young filmmakers – meet and interact, discuss films and find future collaborators and partners. I live in Los Angeles and there, young and upcoming American writer/directors talk mostly about Sundance and Tribeca and their artist programs.

Sanjay Shah

Three Indian film professionals are participating in the Berlinale Talents this year – documentary filmmaker Nishtha Jain, Producer Sanjay Shah and screenwiter Dipesh Jain. An initiative of Berlin International Film Festival, Berlinale Talents is an annual get-together of 300 film professionals from all over the world.

Sanjay Shah headed the production of Miss Lovely and is now gearing up to start his career as an independent producer with his own banner Salaam Cinema. Excerpts from a conversation:

1. What motivated you to apply for Berlinale Talents?

I heard about the programme from a post-production technician I worked with in Berlin in 2012. I missed the Berlinale Talent Campus 2013 deadline and decided to apply the following year.

2. How do you think it can help in your career?

​Berlinale Talents is a great platform for me to network with film professionals from all over the world​and get feedback on my current projects. I...

Berlinale Talents, the creative and networking platform of the Berlin International Film Festival, has selected three Indians for its 2014 edition: Producer Sanjay Shah, documentary filmmaker Nishtha Jain and director/screenwriter Dipesh Jain.

Berlinale Talents, which was earlier known as Berlinale Talent Campus, selects professionals in the first ten years of their filmmaking career and invites them to meet or work with first-class experts in an array of project labs, studios and workshops, including various one-on-one meetings.

With its motto for 2014 being “Ready to Play? – Breaking the Rules”, Berlinale Talents will encourage its 300 budding filmmakers to experiment with unusual ways of bringing their stories and characters to life on screen.

Sanjay Shah has produced Ashim Ahluwalia’s Miss Lovely which hit the theatres last Friday. The film received a world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012. Shah is also selected for The Campus Post-Production Studio, a technical workshop that coaches...