By IANS,
Mumbai: Industrialist Anil Ambani, who feels movies speak a language that transcends borders, said that Reliance Entertainment will hopefully act as a game changer and help the best in the business to realise their hopes.
“Movies speak a language that transcends borders and boundaries. At Reliance Entertainment we are here to act hopefully as a game changer, as we are helping the best in the business to realize their hopes. We want to do movies that entertain, enlighten and elevate you. We want all of you to be in them, to direct them and write them,” Ambani said at a function he hosted here.
“We hopefully want to make movies with a difference for audiences across the globe. We want to help you discover new dreams and new ideas. We want to be with you on this very exciting journey of cinema where technological wizardry meets the craft and is able to touch our lives.
“We hope that people have an unlimited appetite for anything with imagination and hopefully we will satisfy it. I believe a new world beckons, a Pandora, not of Greek mythology but the one that ushers in a big and wonderful universe that dazzles across all so let us fly into this exciting journey of future together.”
Anil and Tina Ambani organised a party Sunday to celebrate the success of some of Reliance BIG Pictures’ recent releases including “Paa” and “3 Idiots” as well as the honours that “Rock On!” and “Shob Charitro Kalponik” received at the National Film Awards.
The who’s who of Bollywood and celebrities from various walks of life descended for the party including Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Amar Singh, Yash Chopra, Shah Rukh Khan, Rakesh Roshan, Hrithik Roshan, Suzanne Roshan, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Rajkumar Hirani, Karan Johar, R Balki, Farhan Akhtar, Ritesh Sidhwani, Ramesh Sippy, Rohan Sippy, Ashutosh Gowarikar, Imtiaz Ali, Boney Kapoor, Sridevi, Dev Anand, Shyam Benegal and many more.
“As a company Reliance always looks for new frontiers for doing the unthinkable and as I look around this room I see every reason for this conviction to be fulfilled. I want to personally thank each one of you that you are here this evening,” Ambani said.
“There are amongst us great actors, wonderful directors and even more amazing story tellers which is why tonight we are here to celebrate each and every one of you, your talent and your creativity, your courage and your pride,” he added.
Some of the much awaited movies from Reliance Big Pictures stable are “Kites”, “Raavan”, “Don 2”, “Well Done Abba”, and “Mirch”.
Reliance Big Entertainment Limited (REBL) has partnered with Hollywood biggies as well. It has collaborated with Steven Spielberg & Stacey Snider in the new DreamWorks Studios.
Additionally RBEL also has unique creative partnerships for film development and production with Brian Grazer & Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment, Nicholas Cage’s Saturn Productions, Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment, Tom Hank’s Playtone Productions, George Clooney’s Smokehouse Productions, Chris Columbus’ 1492 Pictures, Jay Roach’s Everyman Pictures, Jim Carrey’s JC 23 Entertainment, Brett Ratner’s Rat Films, Julia Robert’s Red OM Films, Deepak Nayar’s Kintop Pictures and others.