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India’s Frames Global Content Market Blooms Under Guidance of ‘Bandit Queen’ Producer Bobby Bedi
The B2B meetings at Mumbai's annual Frames media conference have now bloomed into the full-fledged Global Content Market.
Bedi’s credits include some of the landmark titles of Indian cinema, including Shekhar Kapur’s international breakthrough film “Bandit Queen” (1994), Deepa Mehta’s controversial “Fire” (1996), Rani Mukerji-starring relationship drama “Saathiya” (2002), Vishal Bhardwaj’s “Macbeth” adaptation “Maqbool” (2003), Stanley Tong’s Jackie Chan starrer “The Myth” (2005) and Gurvinder Singh’s Rotterdam title “Crescent Night” (2002). He has signed a deal with a Saudi Arabian company to adapt one of his iconic films in Arabic, with a local writer and what he describes as a “very big musical project.” “We believe that for entertainment to succeed in the Middle East, it must originate there, not from the West, not from here,” Bedi said. Outside of the mainstream local productions, there are still some steps needed to bring the [independent] films to foreign markets, and I think this is a good place for filmmakers to develop those networks and international collaborators.”
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