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Fatlabs
FatLabs is a Canadian home recording studio in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It was established in 2003 by Vikas Kohli. The studio is known for its ability to work with a variety of genres. Filmography Mission Istaanbul FatLabs Vikas Kohli was commissioned to produce and co-arrange the song "Apun Ke Saath" for the Bollywood director Apoorva Lakhia’s major motion picture action film Mission Istanbul which was internationally released on July 25, 2008, and performed by Vivek Oberoi live at the 2008 International Indian Film Academy Awards in Bangkok. Tom, Dick & Harry Rock Again Vikas Kohli produced the song "Tere Pyar Mein", which will be featured in the sequel to the Bollywood major motion picture comedy film Tom, Dick, and Harry (2006 film) featuring Indian pop star Mika Singh. Shanti Baba Ram and the Dancers of Hope Vikas Kohli produced and co-wrote the title track "Dil Yeh" for the film Shanti Baba Ram and the Dancers of Hope, produced by the Canadian Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vikas Kohli
Vikas Kohli is an Indian musician and music producer, whose work covers a variety of genres from punk, jazz, hip-hop, to Country, Metal, and Bollywood pop. He is known for his expertise in song arrangements and his one-on-one artist development. As a producer he is best known for founding Fatlabs. Fatlabs (Music Studio) Fatlabs is a home recording studio in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, founded in 2003. Kohli is best known for his ability to work with multiple genres. He has produced punk, jazz, hip-hop, soul, country, pop, R&B, classical, metal, rock and bhangra albums. He has also contributed songs to Bollywood films. The song he produced for Bollywood film ''Mission Istaanbul'' was performed live at the International Indian Film Academy Awards. He composed a song for the Canadian Film Centre's ''Shanti Baba Ram & The Dancers of Hope'', which aired on Canwest Global. He also composed the song "I Do. Do I?" He's produced two albums with The Responsibles, which were nominate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom, Dick, And Harry (2006 Film)
''Tom, Dick, & Harry'' is a 2006 Indian Hindi-language comedy film released on 12 May 2006. It stars Dino Morea, Jimmy Sheirgill, Anuj Sawhney, Celina Jaitly, Rakesh Bedi, Kim Sharma, Gulshan Grover and Shakti Kapoor. It had music by Himesh Reshammiya who made a special appearance in the film. The screenplay is actually a mixture of two different plots taken from two different films with similar titles: the 1941 American classic '' Tom, Dick and Harry'' and the 1993 Hong Kong hit ''Tom, Dick and Hairy''. It pays a small tribute to Bollywood as it contains multiple references to older films and has a number of Bollywood characters from earlier movies. Plot This is a comedy about three physically impaired men: Tarun/Tom (deaf), Deepak/Dick (blind), and Harshvardhan/Harry (mute). They live together as paying guests, and their life takes an endearing turn when a beautiful girl named Celina comes to live in the bungalow opposite their house. They start making their moves to cast an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masala Mehndi Masti
Masala! Mehndi! Masti! meaning "Spice! Henna! Fun!" is the largest interdisciplinary South Asian arts and entertainment festival outside of South Asia. This free event takes place annually in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (GTA) at the Exhibition Place over a three-day period. The festival exhibits local and international South Asia inspired talent in areas such as music, fashion, dance, theatre, film, visual arts and crafts, literary works, yoga, social issues and more. History The brainchild of Abhishek Mathur and Jyoti Rana, Masala! Mehndi! Masti! was created in 2001 as an opportunity for South Asians of every background and generation in North America to celebrate and embrace their culture as well as a way to create a fun and inclusive experience for other heritages of Toronto to take part in. Since its launch the festival has seen rapid growth. Attendance growth: 25,000 to over 100,000, of visitors of all ethnicities attended from 2001 to 2008. The annual festival brings together p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apoorva Lakhia
Apoorva Lakhia is an Indian film director. Early life Lakhia was born and brought up in Ahmedabad, India. He was educated at the Lawrence School, Sanawar. He dropped out of a filmmaking course in New York University to assist Mira Nair on ''The Perez Family''. He had been an assistant on American films such as '' The Ice Storm'', '' A Perfect Murder'' and '' Addicted to Love''. Career Before becoming a film director, Apoorva was an assistant director for Ashutosh Gowariker's period epic film '' Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India''. As Aamir Khan was looking for someone with Hollywood experience for ''Lagaan'', Farhan Akhtar recommended Apoorva, who had worked with casts and crews in Hollywood. He also worked as the second assistant director for the film '' Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love'' (1996). He made his debut as a film director with the 2002 film '' Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost''. His second film ''Ek Ajnabee'' released in 2005 which starred Amitabh Bachchan and Arjun Rampal in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mississauga
Mississauga is a Canadian city in the province of Ontario. Situated on the north-western shore of Lake Ontario in the Regional Municipality of Peel, it borders Toronto (Etobicoke) to the east, Brampton to the north, Milton to the northwest, and Oakville to the southwest. With a population of 717,961 as of 2021, Mississauga is the seventh-most populous municipality in Canada, third-most in Ontario, and second-most in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) after Toronto itself. However, for the first time in its history, the city's population declined according to the 2021 census, from a 2016 population of 721,599 to 717,961, a 0.5 per cent decrease. The growth of Mississauga was initially attributed to its proximity to Toronto. However, during the latter half of the 20th century, the city attracted a diverse and multicultural population. Over time, it built up a thriving, transit-oriented central business district of its own, which is now known as Mississauga City Centre. Mal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlantic Film Festival
The Atlantic International Film Festival is a major international film festival held annually in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada since 1980. AIFF is the largest Canadian film festival east of Montreal, regularly premiering the region's top films of the year, while bringing the best films of the fall festival circuit to Atlantic Canada. In 2017, the festival rebranded itself as the FIN Atlantic International Film Festival, with the FIN blending a dual reference to a fish's fins due to Halifax's connection to the ocean fisheries, and the conclusion of a film. In 2023, the festival dropped the "FIN", and returned to its previous branding as the Atlantic International Film Festival. Events AIFF holds multiple events throughout the year. The Atlantic International Film Festival is an 8-day event, screening films from Canada and around the world, and showcasing Atlantic Canadian films and artists. During the first three days of the Festival, AIFF simultaneously runs AIFF Partners, an inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ReelWorld Film Festival
Reelworld Film Festival, founded in 2001 by Tonya Williams, is held annually in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The festival screens film and provides professional development for Canadian racially diverse and indigenous filmmakers and media artists. History Reelworld was founded by Tonya Williams, who noted the lack of opportunities for minorities to break into the film industry. The festival's mandate states that they showcase diverse work from Canada and abroad while bringing together assorted communities. Reelworld has started a number of initiatives directed towards diverse artists. In 2020 Williams launched Access Reelworld, a casting database to help publicize and promote minority actors. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, the 2020 festival was presented entirely online. In 2024, Williams was named the recipient of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television is a Canadian non-profit organization created in 1979 to recogniz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBC Television
CBC Television (also known as CBC TV, or simply CBC) is a Television in Canada, Canadian English-language terrestrial television, broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcasting, public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952, with its main studios at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto. Its French-language counterpart is Ici Radio-Canada Télé. CBC Television is available throughout Canada on over-the-air television stations in urban centres, and as a must-carry station on cable and satellite television providers, and live streamed on its CBC Gem video platform. Overview CBC Television provides a complete 24-hour network schedule of news, sports, entertainment, and children's programming; in most cases, it feeds the same programming at the exact local times nationwide, except to the Newfoundland Time Zone, where programs air 30 minutes "late". On October 9, 2006, at 6:00 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canwest
Canwest Global Communications Corporation, which operated under the corporate name Canwest, was a major Canadian media conglomerate based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with its head offices at Canwest Place (now called 201 Portage). It held radio, television broadcasting, and publishing assets in several countries, primarily in Canada. Canwest was founded in 1974 by Izzy Asper through the formation of CIII-TV in Toronto under the Global Television Network. The company expanded through the 1980s and 1990s, with the initial public offering in 1991 as a publicly traded corporation and the international expansion of its operations in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom and Turkey. Throughout the years, under Leonard Asper, who became its president and CEO in 1999, Canwest grew into a major media powerhouse by acquiring media properties such as Western International Communications and the Southam newspaper publishing. In 2007, with Goldman Sachs, Canwest acquired the bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Jewison
Norman Frederick Jewison (July 21, 1926 – January 20, 2024) was a Canadian filmmaker. He was known for directing films which addressed topical Social issue, social and political issues, often making controversial or complicated subjects accessible to mainstream audiences. Among numerous other accolades, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director three times in three separate decades, for ''In the Heat of the Night (film), In the Heat of the Night'' (1967), ''Fiddler on the Roof (film), Fiddler on the Roof'' (1971), and ''Moonstruck'' (1987). He was nominated for an additional four Oscars, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award, and won a BAFTA Award. He received the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences's Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 71st Academy Awards, 1999. Born and raised in Toronto, Jewison began his career at CBC Television in the 1950s, moving to the United States later in the decade to work at NBC. He made his feature film de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Showtime (TV Network)
Showtime (also known as Paramount+ with Showtime) is an American pay television, premium television broadcaster, television network and the flagship property of Showtime Networks, a sub-division of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global. Showtime's programming includes original programming, original television program, television series produced exclusively for the linear network and developed for the co-owned Paramount+ streaming media, streaming service, Art release#Film, theatrically released and independent film, independent Feature film, motion pictures, documentary film, documentaries, and occasional stand-up comedy television special, specials, Television film, made-for-TV movies, and softcore pornography, softcore adult programming. Headquartered at Paramount Plaza in the northern part of New York City's Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway district, Showtime operates eight 24-hour, linear Multiplex (television)#Pay television multiplexes, multiplex channel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deepa Mehta
Deepa Mehta, (; born 15 September 1950) is an Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, best known for her Elements Trilogy, Fire (1996 film), ''Fire'' (1996), ''Earth (1998 film), Earth'' (1998), and ''Water (2005 film), Water'' (2005), the last being nominated for Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Best Foreign Language Film at the 79th Academy Awards, Academy Awards. ''Earth'' was submitted by List of Indian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, India as its official entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and ''Water'' was Canada's official entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, making it only the third non-French-language Canadian film submitted in that category after Attila Bertalan's 1990 invented-language film ''A Bullet in the Head (1990 film), A Bullet to the Head'' and Zacharias Kunuk's 2001 Inuktitut-language feature ''Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner''. She co-founded Hamilt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
