‘Hollywoodgate,’ ‘Common Language’ Set at India’s Crimson Lorry Fest

FESTIVAL FLOURISHES

BookMyShow‘s Crimson Lorry Movie Pageant has landed two Academy Award-shortlisted movies to anchor its sophomore version, set for March 21-23, in Mumbai and Hyderabad. “Hollywoodgate,” from the manufacturers of “Navalny,” shortlisted for documentary characteristic, gives an on-the-ground exam of Taliban-ruled Kabul. “Common Language,” contending within the global characteristic class, gifts an absurdist comedy-drama weaving a couple of storylines between Tehran and Winnipeg.

The fest will show off over 120 titles throughout each towns, marking its enlargement with “Crimson Lorry Movie Pageant: Parallel Verse” in Hyderabad working along Mumbai’s “Take 2” version. Notable alternatives come with “When The Mild Breaks,” which opened Un Sure Regard at Cannes 2024, and “999: The Forgotten Women,” winner of the Miami Jewish Movie Pageant’s target audience award.

New for 2025, the competition introduces a contest phase open to filmmakers, with submissions ultimate Jan. 7. Programming spans a couple of languages together with Spanish, French, German, Korean, Dutch, and Icelandic. BookMyShow COO, cinemas, Ashish Saksena cited the inaugural version’s good fortune as motivation for the growth, noting rising call for for global cinema amongst Indian audiences.

PRISON PREMIERE

“Black Warrant,” a jail drama collection, is ready to premiere Jan. 10 on Netflix. The display takes position in Tihar, Asia’s greatest jail, following rookie jailer Sunil Kumar Gupta as he navigates the establishment’s complicated energy dynamics.

The collection marks actor Zahan Kapoor‘s streaming debut within the lead function of Gupta, along solid participants Rahul Bhat, Paramvir Singh Cheema, Anurag Thakur and Sidhant Gupta. The venture reunites Netflix with creator-showrunner Vikramaditya Motwane (“AK vs AK”), who co-directs with Satyanshu Singh, Ambiecka Pandit, Arkesh Ajay and Rohin Raveendran Nair.

Drama is according to the non-fiction e book “Black Warrant: Confessions Of A Tihar Jailer” via former Tihar superintendent Sunil Gupta and journalist Sunetra Choudhury. Applause Leisure gifts the collection, produced via Motwane’s Andolan Manufacturing with Confluence Media.

The display joins Netflix India’s fresh slate together with “Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar,” “Amar Singh Chamkila,” “The Nice Indian Kapil Display,” “IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack” and “CTRL.”