Goldfish
After making its debut at some of the most prestigious international film festivals like Busan Internal Film Festival (BIFF), New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF), International Film Festival of India (IFFI) and more, Goldfish had the theatrical release in both India and the US on September 1, 2023. In Canada, Goldfish was released on 22, September 2023 and opened in the UK on October 13, 2023.
It is a drama film directed by Pushan Kripalani, produced by Amit Saxena, presented by Anurag Kashyap and starring Kalki Koechlin, Deepti Naval, and Rajit Kapur. The narrative takes place in London, where a young woman with the support of a neighbourhood and a past she had rejected, comes home to deal with her mother’s dementia and the traumas of her childhood.
Goldfish was screened at the parliament house Rashtrapati Bhavan and received great ratings and positive social media responses from viewers.
Kaada
Kaada, a Kannada and English language film of genre drama and thriller, is now under post-production and will be released by end of 2023. The film is about the protagonist Kaada, who is a psychopath with anti-social personality disorder, and features Karthik Jayaram, a prominent Bengaluru-based Indian actor, and Kavya Shetty, a popular Indian model and actor in the Kannada film industry. The film is directed by Vishruth Naik, cinematography by Arun Suresh and Vikas Chandra as the editor.
Marichjhap
An upcoming film about Marichjhap, a Bengali and English language film based on an incident considered to be a dark chapter in the history of Communist rule in West Bengal, the story revolves on the refugees in Bangladesh’s Sundarbans region encounter police surrounding their island in January 1979. The movie is directed by Bauddhayan Mukherji, writer Abhinandan Banerjee and lead actor Adil Hussain. The film had its market premiere at Cannes Film Festival and premiered at Busan International Film Festival.
In The Pipeline
Filmmaker Tigmanshu Dhulia and ‘Goldfish’ producer Amit Saxena sign three film/series deal.
“It is an honour to be associated with such an accomplished director and filmmaker, I am confident this will result in quality content,” says Amit Saxena to the Times of India.
Filmmaker Tigmanshu Dhulia and “Goldfish” Amit Saxena’s Splendid Films have locked a three film/series deal. The “Paan Singh Tomar” director will back the projects through his Tigmanshu Dhulia Films Private Limited.
Splendid has always been collaborating with another creative talent to work on a script for the OTT platform; it is a hilarious comedy with a captivating tale of intrigue, betrayal and loyalty at the same time.
Splendid had commissioned an upcoming budding writer to pen a script for the OTT platform; it is an interesting crime thriller, with intriguing twists and turns.