Akshay Kumar and Prabhu Dheva team up for an action entertainer

Akshay Kumar and Prabhu Dheva get filmy

Akshay Kumar and Ashvini Yardi’s Grazing Goat Pictures, have teamed up with Prabhu Dheva to make a masala entertainer, in which Kumar will be seen playing the lead role. The actor, who is currently working on Gabbar and will soon start working on director Abhishek Sharma’s Shaukeen, starts work on this project towards the end of this year and the film is scheduled to hit the screens by 2015.
Prabhu Dheva confirmed this news and mentioned that he is very excited to work with Kumar again. “This will be an action entertainer of the next level. We had built a good rapport during the making of Rowdy Rathore, and I am sure we will surprise the audience with this project,” the director stated. Although he is currently busy with Action Jackson, Dheva added that he will have a meeting with the Grazing Goats team to decide on the shooting date and only then he would decide which film takes off first. “Right now, my priority is to complete the work on Action Jackson. I’ll be in a position to reveal the starting date of our shoot only once we finalise the entire cast,” he added. When asked if he is considering Sonakshi Sinha, the director laughed and stated that it was too early to lock the female lead, as the hunt was still on.
Meanwhile, Yardi took to her twitter account and tweeted, “Very excited about Grazing Goat Pictures new film project. Keeping my fingers crossed.” This is the second time Kumar will be working with Dheva, their last venture being Rowdy… in 2012. The project, which is yet untitled, will be their biggest production venture till date. For the announcement, Kumar and Dheva also shot for a special photoshoot, which was done by photographer Dabboo Ratnani.

 

Vikram Malhotra’s Abundantia Entertainment Private Ltd. announces a line-up 11 films

Vikram Malhotra, former COO of Viacom18 Motion Pictures has announced 11 films that will be made under his production banner Abundantia Entertainment Private Limited. The films will be released over a period of two years. The company, that was formed in August 2013, has brought on-board new strategic investors to support its growth and expansion plans.
Combined with a strategic stake acquisition of Crouching Tiger Motion Pictures, promoted by Rajnish Khanuja, the studio announced multiple film deals with production houses with directors like Neeraj Pandey (A Wednesday, Special 26), Shoojit Sircar (Vicky Donor, Madras Café) and Nikhil Advani (D-Day, Kal Ho Na Ho) as well as up-coming talent like Soumik Sen (Gulaab Gang) and several debutant directors. The slate of 11 films across the first two years carries a combined value of approximately Rs. 250 crore. At various stages of production, the films will release from mid-2014.
Abundantia has also announced the arrival of new strategic investors like RW Media (RWM) – a company with significant interest in the Indian media and luxury space. RWM along with a Singapore-based investment fund have acquired a significant minority stake in Abundantia, which will continue to be held in majority, and independently managed, by Malhotra.