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24 FPS Award goes global with entries from Canada and China
MUMBAI: The 6th annual 24 FPS Awards, organized by Maya Academy of Advanced Cinematics (MAAC) will be held at the SRPF Grounds in Mumbai on 6 November.
Notably, the awards has gone global this year, with as many as 14 entries from animation students of Canada and China.
This year, the 24 FPS Awards will have a record participation of over 800 delegates with more than 200 film entries from across India for 21 different award categories.
Like every year, this year too the award has attracted a good response from Bollywood and industry professionals. Some of the entries from Bollywood include Quick Gun Murugan, What‘s your Rashee, Chandni Chowk To China, Ghajini, Raaz The Mystery Continues, Delhi 6 and 8×10 Tasveer which will compete for the Best Studio category award.
In the advertisements section, entries have come from TVCs like Happy Dent Wave, Coke, Chloromint, Videocon LCD and Whirlpool Water Purifier that will compete for the Best TVC of the year.
Jury members of this year‘s awards include Kireet Khurana of 2NZ, Merzin Tavaria from Prime Focus, Shelley Page from DreamWorks Animation, Nilesh Sardesai from Prana and Krishnakant Mishra of Sony Imageworks
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Said Sanjiv Waeerkar, chief creative officer of MAAC, “As 24 FPS has entered its 6th annual edition, we wanted to take it to a different level as compared to its previous editions and what better way to give audiences the power to judge an entry of their choice.
“Introducing the viewer‘s choice awards in 24 FPS is aimed to take the awards beyond the animators and professional fraternity. The new award will engage the youth in the target age group that we cater to. So, this year people from anywhere can cast their votes on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Orkut, that have all the 73 entries uploaded on the sites.”
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Dhurandhar the revenge storms past Rs 1,000 crore in a week, rewrites box office records
Aditya Dhar’s spy thriller sets fastest run to Rs 1,000 crore with record-breaking weekday hold
MUMBAI: The box office has a new juggernaut—and it is moving at breakneck speed. Dhurandhar the revenge has smashed past the Rs 1,000 crore mark worldwide in just a week, clocking a staggering Rs 1,088 crore and resetting the rules of the blockbuster game.
Backed by Jio Studios and B62 Studios, and directed by Aditya Dhar, the spy action sequel opened to the biggest weekend ever for an Indian film globally—and then refused to slow down. Unlike typical tentpole releases that taper off after Sunday, this one powered through the weekdays with rare muscle, posting Rs 64 crore on Monday, Rs 58 crore on Tuesday, Rs 49 crore on Wednesday and Rs 53 crore on Thursday.
The numbers stack up to a formidable first-week haul. India collections stand at Rs 690 crore nett and Rs 814 crore gross, while overseas markets have chipped in Rs 274 crore, taking the worldwide total to Rs 1,088 crore in just eight days.
The film’s opening weekend alone delivered Rs 466 crore, laying the foundation for what is now being billed as the fastest climb to the Rs 1,000 crore club in Indian cinema. Every single day of its first week has set fresh benchmarks, from the highest opening weekend to the strongest weekday hold—metrics that typically separate hits from phenomena.
A sequel to the earlier hit Dhurandhar, the film has not just built on its predecessor’s momentum but obliterated previous records, emerging as the biggest global blockbuster run by an Indian film to date.
At this pace, the film is not merely riding a wave—it is creating one.
