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World Movies, the international movie channel by UTV Network, will screen a line up of international movies “50 Movies To See Before You Die”. The programme started on August 22 and will showcase “the world’s greatest movies handpicked by India’s most celebrated directors and actors,” say the organisers.
Eminent Indian directors like M. Night Shyamalan, Mahesh Bhatt, Anurag Kashyap, Tanuja Chandra and many others will choose their favourite movies and explain why they feel movie fans should not miss these movies under any circumstances, they add. Like the film “Hero”, starring Jet Li is an Oscar nominee and the first foreign language. And it’s a personal favourite of M. Night Shyamalan’s and the director of “The Sixth Sense”, “Unbreakable”, “Signs” and the recent “The Happening”. “The film is so far above other martial arts movies. It’s like watching painting after painting after painting!,” say the director.
Dilshad Master, COO, UTV Entertainment Television, says: “With ‘50 Movies To See Before You Die’, we are taking the movie viewing experience on Indian television screens to an altogether new level. Not only will viewers get to watch 50 of the greatest movies of all time, they will also get to see iconic personalities from the film industry telling them what makes these movies great. This is a truly unprecedented treat for any lover of cinema, and UTV World Movies is proud to be making it possible.”
The programme kicked off with the telecast of the film “The Hero”. The film takes is about China’s warring states period, when the country was divided into seven kingdoms: Qin, Zhao, Han Wei, Yan, Chu and Qi. For years, the separate kingdoms fought ruthlessly for supremacy. The film is directed by Zhang Yimou. On August 29 the film “A Tale of Two Sisters” will be screened. Directed by Ji-woon Kim, the film stars Im Soo Jung, Moon Geun Young, Yeom Jeong-ah and Kim Kap-su. The film is about two sisters who, after spending time in a mental institution, return to the home of their father and cruel stepmother. Once there, in addition to dealing with their stepmother’s obsessive and unbalanced ways, an interfering ghost also affects their recovery. “This is a horrific film that I have never been so scared. It is powerful movie and certainly a happening movie,” says M. Night Shymalan of this film.
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