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Kaleidoscope Entertainment

Kaleidoscope Entertainment
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Foundation date 1 january 1989

Kaleidoscope Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. (or KEPL) is an Indian film and television production company. Films produced by them include Bandit Queen, Fire, Electric Moon, Saathiya, Maqbool, American Daylight, and The Rising. Kaleidoscope is regarded as one of the leading production houses in the Indian film and television Industry, and one of the few that have created content that has successfully crossed over to western audiences.

KEPL was started by producer Bobby Bedi, who remains it's Managing Director.

KEPL has worked with some of the finest talent in the Indian Movie industry from Shekhar Kapur, Vishal Bhardwaj, Aamir Khan, Abbas Tyrewala to International Stars such as Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and A. R. Rahman.

Kaleidoscope Entertainment is the production company this has created the Mahabharata 360 Project, encompassing film, Television, Animation, Gaming and mobile products.
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Filmography of Kaleidoscope Entertainment (11 films)

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Production

Chintu Ji
Chintu Ji (2009)

Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Rishi Kapoor, Kulraj Randhawa, Priyanshu Chatterjee, Saurabh Shukla, Sophie Choudry, Annu Kapoor

Rishi (Rishi Kapoor), the son of legendary Raj Kapoor, decides to try his hand at politics, and to garner support, re-locates to his birth village, Hadbahedi. The village is located in an isolated area where most trains do not stop, and electricity is only available for 6 hours a day. He decides to shoot a film 'Khooni Khazana' with Producer/Director, Malkani. Once there, he secretly makes a deal to lend his name to an alcoholic beverage, in exchange for a plot of land in nearby Triphala, and one Crore Rupees, while pledging to the naive villagers that he has no intention to re-locating anywhere. Misled villagers believe Hadbahedi will get popular and modernized, and decide to assist him with all their might. Things escalate into chaos, and anger, when they find out that their valuables are being stolen, and the women being molested, by the film crew, while the police accuse them of harboring a terrorist who was responsible for the 13 December 2001, attack on the Indian Parliament.
Fire
Fire (1997)
, 1h48
Directed by Deepa Mehta
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about families, Feminist films, Films about music and musicians, Politique, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Musical films, Political films, Bollywood, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Nandita Das, Shabana Azmi, Javed Jaffrey, Vinay Pathak, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Ram Gopal Bajaj

The film opens with young Radha sitting in a mustard field with her parents. Her mother tells her a story of a person who wanted to see the ocean; then she explains that sometimes one must learn to see some things (through her mind's eye) without looking.
Bandit Queen, 1h59
Directed by Shekhar Kapur
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Erotic, Biography, Action, Historical, Crime, Western
Themes Feminist films, Films about music and musicians, Politique, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Musical films, Rape and revenge films, Political films, Bollywood, Auto-justice
Actors Seema Biswas, Nirmal Pandey, Aditya Srivastava, Hemant Pandey, Dolly Ahluwalia, Saurabh Shukla

Bhind, 1968 Phoolan is married to a twenty-something fellow called Puttilal (Aditya Shrivastava). Though child marriages are customary during that time, Phoolan's mother Moola (Savitri Raekwar) objects to the timing of the match. Phoolan's aging father Devideen (Ram Charan Nirmalker) conforming to his culture, regrettably disagrees, and Phoolan is sent off with Puttilal.

Distribution

Let Us Prey, 1h32
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Liam Cunningham, Jonathan Watson, Pollyanna McIntosh, Bryan Larkin, Hanna Stanbridge

A mysterious man, known only as Six (Liam Cunningham), arrives in a remote part of Scotland and soon finds himself in the cells of the local police station. As the clock marches on towards midnight, all the deepest, darkest secrets of the criminals and officers in the building are laid bare, causing them to turn violently on each other.
Elfie Hopkins
Directed by Ryan Andrews
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Jaime Winstone, Ray Winstone, Steven Mackintosh, Rupert Evans, Kate Magowan, Aneurin Barnard

Elfie Hopkins tells the story of twenty-two-year-old slacker (Jaime Winstone), a "wanna-be" detective, set in a sleepy hunting village. She is a stoner and an animal lover, and haunted by the death of her mother and surrounded by her broken father and alcoholic step-mother, Elfie seeks solace and inspiration from the old school detectives in The Maltese Falcon and Chinatown. She entertains herself, along with her geeky best friend, Dylan (Aneurin Barnard), by investigating the villagers and upsetting everyone with their imaginative allegations. Elfie's mundane existence is thrown for a spin with the arrival of a family of trendy city dwellers, the Gammons.
Tracker
Tracker (2010)
, 1h42
Directed by Ian Sharp
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Films set in Africa, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Ray Winstone, Temuera Morrison, Andy Anderson, Jed Brophy

Arjan van Diemen (Winstone) is a renowned Afrikaner commando leader of the Second Boer War, and a master tracker. After the end of the war, after the defeat by the British, he emigrates from South Africa to the British colony of New Zealand but is recognised by Sergeant Saunders, a British soldier who also fought in the Second Boer War, and is arrested upon entry. However Major Carlyle, also a Second Boer War veteran on the British side, and now the officer in charge of the British Garrison in New Zealand, respects van Diemen as a former opponent and releases him.
Mangal Pandey: The Rising, 2h30
Directed by Ketan Mehta
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Musical films, Political films, Films about Islam, Bollywood
Actors Aamir Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Toby Stephens, Ameesha Patel, Kiron Kher, Om Puri

The film begins in 1857, when a large part of India was under the control of the British East India Company. Mangal Pandey (Aamir Khan) is a sepoy, a soldier of Indian origin, in the army of the East India Company. Pandey is fighting in the Anglo-Afghan Wars and saves the life of his British commanding officer, William Gordon (portrayed by Toby Stephens). Gordon is indebted to Pandey and a strong friendship develops between them, transcending both rank and race.
Saathiya
Saathiya (2002)
, 2h18
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Rani Mukherjee, Vivek Oberoi, Tanuja, Shahrukh Khan, Tabu, Sharat Saxena

Aditya (Vivek Oberoi) and his friends are searching for Aditya's wife Suhani (Rani Mukherji). She has been missing for hours, a few days after having a fight with Aditya, due to their failing marriage. But Aditya now realizes that he loves her more than anything and is devastated that he can't find her.