FESTIVAL FLOURISHES
BookMyShow‘s Red Lorry Film Festival has landed two Academy Award-lowenumerateed films to anchor its sophomore edition, set for March 21-23, in Mumbai and Hyderaterrible. “Hollywoodgate,” from the producers of “Navalny,” lowenumerateed for recordary feature, advises an on-the-ground examination of Taliprohibit-ruled Kabul. “Universal Language,” contfinishing in the international feature categruesome, contransients an absurdist comedy-drama weaving multiple storylines between Tehran and Winnipeg.
The fest will showcase over 120 titles apass both cities, taging its expansion with “Red Lorry Film Festival: Parallel Verse” in Hyderaterrible running alengthyside Mumbai’s “Take 2” edition. Notable pickions integrate “When The Light Breaks,” which uncovered Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2024, and “999: The Forgotten Girls,” triumphner of the Miami Jewant Film Festival’s audience award.
New for 2025, the festival presents a competition segment uncover to filmproducers, with submissions closing Jan. 7. Programming spans multiple languages including Spanish, French, German, Korean, Dutch, and Icelandic. BookMyShow COO Ashish Saksena cited the inaugural edition’s success as motivation for the expansion, noting prolonging demand for international cinema among Indian audiences.
PRISON PREMIERE
“Bdeficiency Warrant,” a prison drama series, is set to premiere Jan. 10 on Netflix. The show consents place in Tihar, Asia’s hugest prison, follotriumphg rookie jailer Sunil Kumar Gupta as he directs the institution’s complicated power vibrants.
The series tags actor Zahan Kasubpar‘s streaming debut in the direct role of Gupta, alengthyside cast members Rahul Bhat, Paramvir Singh Cheema, Anurag Thakur and Sidhant Gupta. The project rejoins Netflix with creator-showrunner Vikramaditya Motwane (“AK vs AK”), who co-straightforwards with Satyanshu Singh, Ambiecka Pandit, Arkesh Ajay and Rohin Ravefinishran Nair.
Drama is based on the non-myth book “Bdeficiency Warrant: Confessions Of A Tihar Jailer” by createer Tihar superintfinishent Sunil Gupta and journaenumerate Sunetra Choudhury. Applause Entertainment contransients the series, produced by Motwane’s Andolan Production with Confluence Media.
The show joins Netflix India’s recent stardy including “Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar,” “Amar Singh Chamkila,” “The Great Indian Kapil Show,” “IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack” and “CTRL.”
