Hyderabad, India: The prestigious Indywood IT Excellence Awards 2017 concluded successfully at Ramoji Film City, Hyderabad on 1^st December 2017. The awardwas organised to recognize and facilitate efforts made by IT organisations and personalitiestowards the development of their sector.Mr. Mohammed Ibrahim Al Qahtani, senior advisor to Saudi Aramco was the chief guest of the event.

Recognizing the contributions of an individual over the whole of a career, rather than or in addition to single contributions, Indywood IT Excellence Award – Lifetime Achievement awardwas bestowed upon Mr.V. Senthil Kumar, Co-Founder, Qube Cinema Technologies. Mr.SaiprasadAkkeneni, Director, Prasad Corporation Ltd was honoured with the Personality of the year awardfor his contributions towards the entertainment sector.

Indywood IT Excellence Awards for Entrepreneurs was bestowed upon individuals to recognize and celebrate their ideas, innovation and inspirationthat have made a huge impact onto their industry. The winners included Mr. Rahul Gedupudi, CEO, Kensium Solutions, Mr. Nagarajan, Founder & Managing Director, Winsols Studios Pvt Ltd, Mr. Dasaradha R Gude, Chairman & CEO, Invecas Technologies Pvt. Ltd, Mr. Niranjan Chintam, Executive Chairman, Kellton Tech Solutions Limited, Mr. Varun Chandran, CEO, Corporate360, Mr. Ashok Reddy, Founder & CEO, Landmark IT Solutions and Mr. Hari Bharadwaj, CEO & MD, MyIndMedtech Innovations Pvt Ltd.

Other category awards were also presented during the Indywood IT Excellence Awards 2017. Award for Leader in Technology Innovation was presented to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). Award for Technology Leader of the Yearwas bestowed upon Cisco Systems; Qube Cinema Technologies Pvt Ltdwas honoured with Global Cinema and Technology Innovationaward; Prasad Groupwas honored with Global Cinema and Technology Excellence Award; Tech Mahindra Ltdwas presented with Best Information technology Service provider of the yearaward; CA Technologies was named Leading Technology Service Provider; Most innovative IT all-rounder 2017 was given to Hexagon Capability Center India; Rashi Peripherals Pvt. Ltd.was recognised as Most Valued Distributor of the year; UL Cyber Parkwas presented with the award for Nation’s Fastest Growing IT SEZ Park; Our Own English High School was named Best CBSE School; Sharjah Indian School was adjudged as the Largest Indian community school in the Emirate; Gadgets 360 was honored as India’s Best media based Tech Information provider; Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion Awards 2017for presented to Clockwork Business Solutions Pvt. Ltd; Award for Fastest growing Technology service provider 2017was bestowed upon InsideView Technologies India Pvt. Ltd; Dhanush Infotech Private Limitedwas bestowed withExcellence in Digitizing India Awards 2017, ATG Informatics India Pvt Ltdwas bestowed with Excellence in Innovative information technology Award andInntot Technologies Private Limitedwas presented Innovative Tech Start-up of the Year award.Excellence in Data management company of the year was awarded to PiLogIndia Private Limited; Award for Excellence in Web development and digital marketing was bestowed upon Inovies consulting private LimitedandTechnoware Solutions was named the Tech Start-up of the Year.

A panel discussion on ‘Contributions of IT industry towards transforming the entertainment sector’ was also conducted during the ceremony. The panel discussedpossibilities and the recent innovations made by the IT industry to uplift the entertainment sector and bring it at par with world standards. The session was moderated by Mr. V Rajanna, Vice President & Regional Head, Global Head-Technology Business Unit Head of TCS. Speakers at the session included Mr. Senthil Kumar, Co-Founder, Qube Cinema Technologies and Ms. Ranjana Narawane, Industry Capability Lead for Communication, media and technology at Accenture.

Indywood IT Excellence Awards 2017 was organized as a part of Project Indywood, a US$10 Billion Project to be initiated by a consortium of 2000 Indian corporate and Multi-Millionaires.

Senthil Kumar, Co-Founder of Qube Cinema honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award

Qube Cinema took home top awards at the Indywood Film Carnival being held at Hyderabad. Indywood Film Carnival’s Excellence Awards 2017 aims to recognize the prodigious efforts and contributions of entrepreneurs, technocrats, academicians, organisations to their industry through their ideas, concepts and innovations.

Under the Indywood OTT &Start-upcategory,Qube Wire won the award for ‘Innovative Concept in Theatrical Distribution’.Qube Wire is a self-service, single-window system for global theatrical distribution. With a simple but comprehensive user interface, distributors can manage their digital cinema assets, assign territorial rights for their content and have their Digital Cinema Packages (DCPs) and keys (aka Key Delivery Messages or KDMs) delivered to movie theatres across the world. Theatres can manage their own digital cinema device details and access their Universal Inbox on the Qube Wire service as well.

Under the IndywoodPost Production Technology category ,Qube Cinema won for ‘Best Film Mastering’. Qube Cinema masters nearly 1800 + Indian films per year and has mastering facilities in Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad & Kochi. The company also has a mastering facility in Dubai to cater to the mastering of Arabic films.Under the Indywood Theatre Technology category, Qube Cinema bagged the award for ‘Best Technological Projection Services’.Qube Cinema was also the recipient of Indywood IT Excellence award.

Senthil Kumar, Co-Founder of Qube Cinema was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement award.

“Qube Cinema& Co-founder Senthil Kumar have transformed and advanced the digital cinema revolution in India and globally over the last two decades. From mastering to cinema distribution and cinema exhibition, Qube Cinema has changed the landscape of digital cinema technology in India,” informed Sohan Roy, Founder Director of Indywood Film Carnival

“To win the different categories of Indywood awards is a huge honour for us at Qube Cinema. In the digital cinema technology domain, constant innovation is the key to success.Qube Cinema is well known for pioneering new technologies and the entire team at Qube is responsible for us achieving  thebig milestones. I would like to thank Indywood Film Carnival for bestowing us with this honour,”said Senthil Kumar, Co-founder of Qube Cinema.

A Computer Science Engineering graduate from the University of Madras, Senthil Kumar began his career in feature, television episodic and advertising commercial production and post-production in the mid-1980s.

His first entrepreneurial venture was Media Artists, a post-production facility. At a time when computers were just beginning to be used in the media industry, he wrote custom software to assist in such diverse areas as computer graphics and sound effects. Media Artists was the first facility in India to use timecode, the first to use digital audio for music and film mixing and the first to work on surround sound for cinema.

In 1992, Senthil Kumar co-founded Real Image along with Jayendra Panchapakesan to promote Avid non-linear editing systems in the country and digital cinema sound to India partnering with DTS and helped upgrade Indian cinema significantly, both in production and exhibition. Development began on the Qube Cinema product line in 2000, with a Hollywood-based subsidiary being setup in 2005 to promote the products worldwide. Qube Cinema has an entire suite of products required for a practical, commercially viable, end-to-end implementation of digital cinema and has met with considerable success worldwide. The company was renamed as Qube Cinema Technologies in 2016 to reflect the enormous popularity of its product line. The Real Image division of the company continuesto serve the broadcast industry in India.

Senthil Kumar was part of a Government of India Entertainment Industry delegation to Japan and the United States in 2002, and currently serves on the Entertainment Committee of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. Senthil also serves as a Trustee of The Banyan, an organization that champions the cause of the homeless and the mentally ill in India.

About Qube Cinema:

Qube Cinema is a provider of end-to-end digital cinema technology and solutions. The company draws on decades of experience in cinema and provides a seamless digital environment for exhibitors, filmmakers and post-production companies with DCI compliant products that are flexible, reliable and cost-effective.

For further information, visit www.qubecinema.com

About Indywood Film Carnival 2017 (IIIrd Edition) :

The flagship event of Project Indywood, The Indywood Film Carnival, will take place at the world’s largest film studio – Ramoji Film City, in Hyderabad, from December 1-4; 2017.The carnival will consist of four major verticals- All Lights India International Film Festival, Indywood Film Market, Indywood Talent Hunt and the Indywood Excellence Awards.

The event will be attended by over 10,000 people including 3,000 industry delegates from over 75 countries, and is expected to trigger revolutionary changes in the cinema industry worldwide. This will be the first film carnival in the world with a film festival, film market, awards, talent hunt, red carpets, entertainments, conferences, network parties, celebrity sports, investor meets etc., being conducted in parallel at the world’s largest film studio.

For further information, visit www.indywood.co.in

निरहुआ चलल लंदन का फर्स्ट लुक रिलीज

भोजपुरी फ़िल्म जगत की बहुचर्चित फ़िल्म निरहुआ चलल लंदन का फर्स्ट लुक नव वर्ष की पूर्व संध्या पर लांच कर दिया गया है । प्रसिद्ध म्यूजिक कंपनी वर्ल्ड वाइड रिकॉर्ड्स द्वारा इसे सोशल मीडिया पर रिलीज किया गया । जहां दर्शको का भरपुर प्रतिसाद मिला । फर्स्ट लुक लांच होने के कुछ घंटे बाद ही फ़िल्म का टीजर भी रिलीज कर दिया गया । उल्लेखनीय है कि पशुपतिनाथ प्रोडक्शन के बैनर तले बनी निरहुआ चलल लंदन के  निर्माता है सोनू खत्री जबकि सह निर्माता हैं रत्नाकर कुमार और  प्रस्तुतकर्ता हैं अनिल काबरा । फ़िल्म की शूटिंग चार अलग अलग चरणों मे मुम्बई , नेपाल और लंदन सहित कई देशों में हुई है ।

बड़े बजट की इस फ़िल्म के निर्देशक हैं चंद्रा पंत जबकि फ़िल्म  में जुबली स्टार दिनेश लाल यादव निरहुआ , आम्रपाली दुबे , सुनील थापा , सबीन श्रेष्ठ, मनोज सिंह टाईगर , किरण यादव  , गोपाल राय , अनूप अरोरा आदि मुख्य भूमिका में हैं । फ़िल्म के संगीतकार हैं मधुकर आनंद, लेखक है संतोष मिश्रा और प्रचारक हैं उदय भगत । निर्माता सोनू के सी ने बताया कि निरहुआ चलल लंदन ना सिर्फ एक महंगी फ़िल्म है बल्कि बड़े कैनवास पर बनी एक संपूर्ण मनोरंजक फ़िल्म है ।  Uday Bhagat (PRO)

KTK Films have announced SANTAAP-THE ANGER( in Hindi). The film is being produced by Tanvi Kakaria and Taufeeq Ahmed and is directed by Rakesh Kakria from his own story.  Screenplay: Vikas Vashisht. Dialogue: Chand Mehta. Lyrics: Kuku Prabhas, Chand Mehta. Music: Navin Manish, Chhanda and Rahul Bhatt. Editor: Rakesh Kakria. Publiicty Designer: R. Rajpal. The cast and other credits of the film are being finalised. The film will be shot mostly in Lucknow, Kanpur and Allahabad locales of UP from February  2018 onwards.

Hyderabad, India: The prestigious Indywood Built In India Excellence Awards 2017 concluded successfully at Ramoji Film City, Hyderabad on 4^thDecember 2017. The awardwas organised to recognize and facilitate efforts made by organisations to boost the concept of ‘Make in India’ and make our country proud in the international front.The Esteemed Award Presenters for the eventwere Nanda Narrainen, Head – Film Industry, Board of Investment, Mauritius ; Mrs.SandhyaPuttyahJugnauth, Ministry of Arts and Culture, Mauritius and Mohammed Ibrahim Al Qahtani, Senior Advisor, Saudi Aramco.

The award winners included Bharat Electronics Limited (Public Sector – Electronics); HMT (Public Sector – Precision engineering); KINFRA (Public Sector – Infrastructure Development); ITI LIMITED (Public sector – Telecommunications); JSW Energy Limited (Manufacturing – Power); Kirloskar Ferrous Industries Limited (Manufacturing – Minerals and Metals); VOLTAS Domestic Projects Group (Manufacturing –Build Environment); Essar Heavy Engineering Services            (Manufacturing – Heavy engineering); Titan Company Limited (Manufacturing – Consumer goods); BLUE STAR VRF V Plus (Manufacturing – Indigenous innovative product); Kwality Photonics Pvt. Ltd. (Manufacturing – LED Products); Tibrewala Electronics Limited(Manufacturing – Electronics); Rupa& Company Ltd Garments(Knitwear); Soch Apparels Pvt. Ltd. (Garments – Ethnic wear for women); K.P.R. Mill Ltd. (Textiles); Dfrnt Clothing Pvt Ltd (Garments – Club wear); Future Group (Organised Retail); NCC Limited (Infrastructure Developer); Golden Gate Properties (Residential property developer); Al Qabandi United Company (Employer of  Indian Diaspora); ULCCS           (Inclusive infrastructure development); Kancor Ingredients Ltd (Agro products – Natural  food Ingredients); AVT Naturals Products Ltd (Agro products – Beverages); Prasad Seeds Private Limited (Agro products  – Seeds) and RENTOMS (Real Estate Development) and MAK Group (Residential property developer)

A panel discussion on ‘Encouraging Make In India in the Entertainment Industry’ was also conducted during the ceremony. The panel members were Rakesh Dash, Corporate Strategy & Planning-Voltas Ltd. (A TATA Enterprise) ;Sohan Roy, Chairman, Aries Group of Companies and Founder and Director Indywood Film CarnivalandPratapVallikadan, Business Head, Kancor Ingredients Limiteddiscussedthe opportunities and different ways entertainment industry can be a part of the ‘Make in India’ culture. The session was moderated by Satyajeet Kumar Singh, Regional Sales Manager, Tibrewala Electronics.

Indywood Built In India Excellence Awards 2017 was organized as a part of Project Indywood, a US$10 Billion Project to be initiated by a consortium of 2000 Indian corporate and Multi-Millionaires.

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