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Suriya’s Singam Vs Ajay Devgn’s Singham At The Box Office (Photo Credit – Amazon Prime Video)

Remakes are highly criticized nowadays as they have become mere tools for minting money. However, back in the day, well-made remakes were in full form and loved universally for their entertainment quotient. One such classic film is Singham, which gave us the iconic character of Bajirao Singham, nailed by Ajay Devgn. Even at the box office, it was a huge success, racing ahead of the original film starring Suriya. Keep reading for a detailed throwback to their theatrical run!

First, coming to the Og, Singam featured Suriya as the lead. Released on May 28, 2010, the Tamil action entertainer opened to mixed reviews from critics upon its release. However, that didn’t affect its theatrical run as the film enjoyed favorable word-of-mouth and went on to become a huge success at ticket windows, backed by...

Ardaas Sarbat De Bhale Di Worldwide Box Office (Closing Collection) ( Photo Credit – YouTube )

Ardaas Sarbat De Bhale Di, aka Ardaas 3, has ended its global journey after spending over 40 days in theatres. Starring Gippy Grewal, Gurpreet Ghuggi, and Jasmin Bhasin, the film started off well and maintained momentum in the long run. It’s a big winner at the worldwide box office, but unfortunately, it missed the milestone of 50 crores. Keep reading for a detailed closing collection report!

Written and directed by Gippy Grewal, the Indian Punjabi film was released in theatres on September 13. Upon its release, the film opened to mostly favorable reviews and word-of-mouth. Also, due to the padding of a successful franchise, it held its ground well in the long run, in both India and overseas. As a result, it managed to score above 40 crores gross globally.

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Gippy Grewal’s Ardaas Sarbat De Bhale Di goes steady at the box office! (Photo Credit – Instagram)

The Punjwood industry is also not lagging in enticing the masses with some quality content. The Gippy Grewal directorial and starrer Ardaas Sarbat De Bhale Di is a prime example. The movie has managed to impress the audience both critically and commercially. Let us look at the 6-day box office collection of the Punjabi film.

Ardaas Sarbat De Bhale Di Box Office Collection Day 6

Talking about the 6-day box office collection of Ardaas Sarbat De Bhale Di, the India net collection of the movie comes to 6.45 crore. The Gippy Grewal film seems to be going steady for now. After the Diljit Dosanjh and Neeru Bajwa starrer Jatt And Juliet 3, this appears to be another Punjwood film striking a massive chord with the audience.

Ardaas Sarbat De Bhale Di Successfully Recovers Its Budget

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Punjabi actor Gippy Grewal on Monday announced that the third franchise of ‘Ardaas’, titled ‘Ardaas Sarbat De Bhale Di’ is set to hit the theatres on September 13, this year. The emotional family drama stars Gippy, Jasmine Bhasin, and Gurpreet Ghuggi.

Taking to social media, Gippy shared a poster, which features a beautiful mountainous landscape with Gurudwara in the middle.

The post is captioned: ” ‘Ardaas Sarbat De Bhale Di’ third franchise of ‘Ardaas’. Releasing worldwide in cinemas on September 13, 2024″.

Jasmine took to Instagram stories, and penned a small note, which reads as: “Honoured to be the part of one of the most successful franchise #ardaas thank you @humblemotionpictcures @gippygrewal.”

Expressing his excitement on the film’s release date, Gippy said: “The ‘Ardaas’ franchise holds a special place in my heart. Its core message of kindness and faith has the power to unite people. I’m thrilled to share this new chapter...

Jasmin Bhasin, known for her captivating performances and diverse choices, is all set to enchant audiences once again as she joins the cast of “Ardaas Sarbat De Bhale Di,” the eagerly awaited third chapter in the Ardaas series. Jasmine shared a glimpse of her enthusiasm with a post featuring the clapboard as they begin shoot, accompanied by the caption, “Meet Bani from ’Ardaas Sarbat De Bhale Di’.”

In a heartfelt quote, Jasmine expressed, “I am very happy and excited to be a part of ‘Ardaas Sarbat De Bhale Di’. This year I wish to stay busy and do many movies with roles that entertain the audience. This project is another very special one, so stay tuned as Bani is ready to bring something fresh to the screen.”

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Actress Jasmine Bhasin is excited to be part of the cast of ‘Ardaas Sarbat De Bhale Di’, and said this year she wishes to stay busy and do many movies with roles that entertain the audience. ‘Ardaas Sarbat De Bhale Di’ marks Jasmine’s fourth film in the Punjabi film industry after her debut ‘Honeymoon’. The third chapter in the ‘Ardaas’ series, will feature Jasmine as Bani.

Talking about the same, Jasmine expressed: “I am very happy and excited to be a part of ‘Ardaas Sarbat De Bhale Di’. This year I wish to stay busy and do many movies with roles that entertain the audience. This project is another very special one, so stay tuned as Bani is ready to bring something fresh to the screen.”

Taking to Instagram, Jasmine shared a glimpse of her enthusiasm with a post featuring the clapboard as they begin shoot, accompanied by the caption,...

Mumbai, Jan 15 (Ians) Punjabi superstar Gippy Grewal is set to take the ‘Ardaas’ franchise forward with its third installment.

The film, titled ‘Ardaas Sarbat De Bhale Di’ went on floors in Chandigarh on Monday.

It stars Gippy Grewal along with Jasmin Bhasin, Gurpreet Guggi and Prince Kanwaljeet Singh is produced by Gippy Grewal, Kumar Mangat Pathak, Ravneet Kaur Grewal, Abhishek Pathak and Divay Dhamija.

Like the earlier two franchises, Ardaas Sarbat de Bhale di will also be a socially relevant family drama high on emotions while being entertaining.

Talking about the film, Gippy Grewal said, “‘Ardaas’ is very close to my heart as I became a director of the film. The audiences have given the franchise much love and I feel an added responsibility towards them, to give them a film that will entertain and touch a chord with them. It’s not a film for me, it’s an...

Memfis Film-produced feature is a follow up to the director’s hit 2000 film ’Together.’

Anja Lundqvist and Gustaf Hammarsten appear in this first-look image for Swedish director Lukas Moodysson’s Together 99, the follow-up to his hit 2000 feature Together.

REinvent is now starting pre-sales on the film, which has sold to September Films for Benelux. Sf will distribute in the Nordics.

Memfis Film produces Together 99. Now in post, it is set in 1999, 24 years after the first film, when the commune has now dwindled down to just two people who decide to have a reunion with their old friends.

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Kimberly Akimbo, Assassins, Prayer for the French Republic and The Chinese Lady were among the Off Broadway productions receiving multiple nominations for this year’s Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off Broadway, announced today.

Among the innovations in this year’s 37th Annual Lortel Awards are the first non-gendered performance categories, and the first-ever Lortel for Outstanding Ensemble. In the new Ensemble category, the inaugural nominees are the casts of English, Oratorio For Living Things, and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992.

Kimberly Akimbo and Oratorio For Living Things scored the most nominations, with six each, while Black No More and On Sugarland received five. Assassins, Prayer for the French Republic and The Chinese Lady each have four nominations.

The awards will be handed out on Sunday, May 1, at NYU Skirball in Manhattan. The Lucille Lortel Awards are produced by the Off-Broadway League and Lucille Lortel Theatre, with additional support provided by Tdf.

Following the success of their films, ‘Manje Bistre’, ‘Ardaas’ and ‘Ardaas Karaan’, Humble Motion Pictures will now carry forward the legacy of their biggest laughter-ride production Carry On Jatta, with, Carry On Jatta-3 on 29th June 2023. The producer, Gippy Grewal shared the poster of the film on the official social media platform of Humble […]...

Exclusive: The National Hispanic Media Coalition revealed its lineup for the upcoming 7th Annual Offical Latino Film and Arts Festival to be presented virtually from Nov. 26 to 28.

Titles include Welcome to Our World, directed by Alfredo Ramos, with performances by Danny Trejo, Emilio Rivera, and Valente Rodriguez. The feature tells the story of Freddie, a young and irresponsible supermarket box boy who is forced to rise to the occasion when his father (Trejo) has a work-related accident. Freddie must now assume the role of “the man of the house and keep the family from going homeless with hilarious results.

“The Nhmc is proud to work with Official Latino and HBO to ensure that our stories are being told and that we are creating space for Latino artists to thrive,” said Brenda Castillo, President and CEO of the Nhmc. “ The more we can uplift and promote Latinx talent in the entertainment industry,...

An early concern of social media was what would happen to a person’s online presence when they died. As Facebook gained traction, the accounts of those who’d recently passed away became living memorials, with friends and loved ones posting comments in remembrance. Sometimes an estate would continue to post on a deceased loved one’s behalf, raising questions about what exactly it means to honor the dead. In music, as streaming platforms similarly reconfigure our relationships with the artists we love, posthumous releases have thrived, presenting another awkward tension.

John Waters has released Prayer to Pasolini in conjunction with his 75th birthday on April 22nd. A tribute to controversial Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, Waters’ audio set is currently available in digital format. A 7-inch vinyl version of the two-part title track is available as part of Sub Pop Singles Club Vol. 6 and is limited to 1000 copies.

The directors were both maligned in the Seventies for Waters’ Pink Flamingos and Pasolini’s final work, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, over explicit scenes that led to the films being banned.

Amid a dearth of new major releases, exhibitors are pleased with the staying power of Roadshow Films’ Rams, which held onto the top spot at the box office over its second weekend, as well as Rialto’s Honest Thief and R & R Films’ Never Too Late.

The only major opener for the weekend was Studiocanal’s Radioactive, bowing in third on a middling $178,416 from 180 screens with previews.

Directed by Marjane Satrapi, the drama stars Rosamund Pike as Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie as she tries to explain to the world previously unknown radioactive elements. It soon becomes evident that her work could lead to applications in medicine that could save thousands of lives, or applications in warfare that could destroy them by the billions.

Premiering as the Closing Night Gala at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, Radioactive has gone straight-to-streaming in other major markets such as the US and UK given the pandemic.

Nick Cave’s Idiot Prayer livestream concert — featuring the singer performing solo on piano without an audience at London’s Alexandra Palace — will be released as a live album and theatrical film.

Idiot Prayer – Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace — out November 20th on CD, vinyl and streaming and available to preorder now — features all 22 songs from the unique June 2020 gig.

“The film Idiot Prayer evolved from my Conversations With… events. I loved playing deconstructed versions of my songs at these shows, distilling them to their essential forms. I felt...

In Todd Snider’s mind, the most unusual aspect of Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires’ wedding in 2013 wasn’t that Snider was asked to marry them or that he wasn’t legally ordained to do so until that day. It was what Snider was asked to recite: “Prayer,” an obscure song by the late John Hartford. “Every morning I wake up,” it begins, “Saying in the back of my mind/’This could be my last day on Earth/This could be the last time/I’ll ever feel … the warmth...

Members of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television voted to crown Sophie Deraspe’s “Antigone” as best film at the Canadian Screen Awards Thursday, presented virtually by broadcasters CBC and CTV.

The film, a contemporary spin on the Greek tragedy, also won awards for lead female actor for Nahéma Ricci, female actor in a supporting role for Nour Belkhiria, adapted screenplay for Deraspe, and editing for Geoffrey Boulangé and Deraspe.

Variety’s review of the film, which was named best Canadian feature at the Toronto Film Festival, said it “feels refreshingly liberated by the spirit of Sophocles’ original material.” The “impassioned” film was “electrified by a performance of immense self-possession and dignity from revelatory new star Nahéma Ricci,” the critic wrote.

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn won the prizes for directing and original screenplay for “The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open.” The film also took the cinematography award for Norm Li.

U.K. rapper Stormzy appeared on The Tonight Show to perform his recent song “Crown.”

The live rendition of the track, which comes off his sophomore album Heavy Is the Head, marks Stormzy’s U.S. television debut.

The rapper appeared on a mostly dark stage, accompanied by a choir and a live band to showcase the emotional song. The song — produced Mj Cole and Jimmy Napes, who co-wrote the track along with Stormzy — reflects on power as the rapper offers a twist on the phrase “heavy is the head that wears the crown.

Gippy Grewal?s second instalment in the Ardaas series - Ardaas Karaan released the poster today. Gippy Grewal had announced Ardaas Karaan earlier in September 2018 as Ardaas 2. Gippy Grewal had also revealed in an interview that the film was earlier titled as Zindabad Yaarian.

Ardaas Karaan, a Punjabi social drama directed and co-written by Gippy Grewal is a sequel to Ardaas that had released in March 2016. Produced by Humble Motion Pictures; Ardaas Karaan stars Gippy Grewal, Japji Khaira, Meher Vij, and Yograj Singh. The film is scheduled for release on 19 July 2019.

The principal photography of the film began in January 2019 in Surrey, British Columbia where with Baljit Singh Deo as cinematographer. Today the first look poster of the film was released presenting the cast and the release date. The film is scheduled to release on 19 July 2019.

The 45-seconds teaser of Ardaas Karaan has no dialogues but still speaks volumes about what the film holds. The song/shabad in the background is a pure spiritual experience. Ardaas, meaning Prayer, is an ineffable feeling that one just cannot describe. It is strengthening, positive, and has the power to heal. A deeper connection is built when one closes eyes, folds hands, and bows down to seek the blessings of the Almighty. Some similar feelings have gushed through everyone?s heart and mind when the teaser of upcoming film Ardaas Karaan released.

Ardaas Karaan?s teaser features Gippy Grewal?s younger son Gurfateh Singh Grewal aka Shinda, and Gurpreet Ghuggi. The, beyond beautiful, lyrics of the background track- ?koi vi akkad bacheyan nede aaun na dinde ji, naam da gehna mann apne cho laun na dinde ji, naal naal chalde ne raah bhatkaun na dinde ji? Sat Gur Pyare?? touches...

Punjabi superstar actor-singer-director Gippy Grewal who made his disastrous Bollywood debut with Second Hand Husband last year is back in Bollywood with a song. He has just rendered the title number in Aditya Chopra's Befikre which will be filmed on Ranveer Singh. Though Gippy is not allowed to say much about the number, one hears it will be shot to steamy visuals of Ranveer Singh making love to Vaani Kapoor. Says Gippy, "Yes, I am back in Bollywood with a song for a Yash Raj film. Also, I'm directing a film in Hindi. It's a remake of my directorial debut in Punjabi Ardaas." Gippy says his directorial debut was far removed from what audiences normally expect from him. "I directed Ardaas, so I could speak on matters that I am not able to address in my films as an actor. When I direct a film I don't want to be bogged down by expectations.