Film Production
NYIFF 2025 bound ‘Little Thomas’ teaser out now
MUMBAI: As anticipation builds around its world premiere at the New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) 2025, Little Thomas, the upcoming heartwarming children’s film starring Rasika Dugal, Gulshan Devaiah and Hridansh Parekh launched its official teaser on Sunday.
Little Thomas earned three nominations at NYIFF 2025 – including Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Debut Film, marking it a standout film in this year’s lineup.
Slated to be the closing film at NYIFF (20-22 June), Little Thomas offers a tender, nostalgic tale set in 1990s Goa. The story follows seven-year-old Thomas, a young boy on a heartfelt mission to reunite his estranged parents to have a little brother. Backed by Anurag Kashyap, the film marks a refreshing turn in the filmmaker’s career, embracing themes of innocence, curiosity, and emotional resilience.
Directed by Kaushal Oza, the film’s newly released teaser gives audiences a glimpse into the warm storytelling, vibrant visuals, and moving performances that await.
The film is jointly produced by Luminoso Pictures, Civic Studios, Good Bad Films, and Flip Films.
Film Production
Priyanka Kaur Dhillon joins SVF Entertainment as lead for music distribution
A seasoned content dealmaker with 16 years in digital and satellite media joins the Bengali entertainment powerhouse as it pushes into the pan-India music market
Mumbai: Priyanka Kaur Dhillon has made her move. The content acquisitions and commercials veteran, most recently commercial manager at Sony Pictures Networks India, has joined SVF Entertainment as lead for music distribution, stepping into one of the more interesting briefs in regional entertainment right now.
SVF is no ordinary regional label. Over 30 years it has built a formidable legacy in Bengali cinema and music, driven by culturally resonant storytelling and a catalogue that consistently punches above its weight. Its recent success with Chiraiya underlines the point. But the Kolkata-based powerhouse now has its sights firmly set beyond Bengal, most visibly through Legacy, a rap reality series produced in collaboration with hip-hop label Kalamkaar that signals a deliberate push into the pan-India music ecosystem.
Dhillon brings precisely the kind of muscle SVF needs for that expansion. At Sony Pictures Networks India, she led film acquisition and commercials and handled music licensing across the entire satellite network. Before that, she spent nearly 15 years at Hungama, rising to assistant general manager and leading strategic content licensing for the platform’s digital entertainment business, with a particular focus on international markets. Her label relationships span the full roster: Sony Music, Universal Music, Warner Music, Believe International, Tunecore, The Orchard and a clutch of smaller aggregators. She has negotiated and closed deals with Hollywood studios, Bollywood production houses and regional content players alike, building pricing models and deal structures off data analysis rather than instinct.
Announcing the appointment, Dhillon said she was “thrilled to begin this journey with an iconic Bengali music label and content powerhouse,” adding that SVF’s “constant drive to push boundaries” was what drew her to the role.
SVF has spent three decades proving that regional does not mean limited. With a sharp commercial operator now steering its music distribution, its bid to go national just got a good deal more serious.
