LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Eros International Plc (NYSE:EROS) (“Eros”), a leading global company in the Indian film entertainment industry, announced today that its majority-owned subsidiary, Eros International Media Limited, released its film line up for calendar year 2016. The Company plans to release over 65 films across multiple languages this year, making it the largest slate by any Indian studio.
Commenting on the company's line-up, Sunil Lulla, Managing Director, Eros International Media Ltd said, “We delievered an impressive 2015 film slate with successes such as Tanu Weds Manu Returns, Bajrangi Bhaijaan and Bajirao Mastani. We have an equally promising film slate for 2016 that will reinforce and further strengthen our leadership position in the Indian Media and Entertainment industry. We will continue to diversify our presence across different film genres, budgets and languages further allowing consumers access to content whenever and wherever they want it. Importantly, we will soon showcase to the world the first set of films under our Trinity franchise banner. In addition to a series of exciting directorial ventures by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Kabir Khan, Aanand L Rai, and others, we believe Eros’ compelling content will continue to captivate audiences worldwide.”
In 2015, Eros remained the box office market leader with three out of the top five grossing Bollywood films. The Company was also recently recognized at the Stardust, Sony Guild, Screen and Filmfare awards receiving a total of 46 awards for its films.
Eros will continue its association with talented producer-director, Aanand L Rai and their joint production company Colour Yellow Production to produce and release a slate of projects including, Nil Battey Sannata, Happy Bhaag Jayegi, a comedy that pairs Abhay Deol and Diana Penty and Manmarziyan, a romantic drama.
Eros’ 2016 film slate comprises a mix of high-profile, content led films in Hindi and other regional languages including Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Punjabi. Examples include regional releases like Sanjay Jadhav's Guru, award winning director Sujay Dahake's Phuntroo, Prakash Kunte & Jara Hatke in Marathi and Telugu super star Balakrishna’s Dictator, which released on January 14, 2016. The Company also has a strong Tamil pipeline set up with the release of Rajini Murugan earlier this month and a series of Tamil films that will release later this year, including Suriya’s 24, Enkitta Mothathe, and Uyire Uyire to name a few.
During Diwali 2016 Eros will release Ajay Devgn’s action drama, Shivaay. After the back-to-back strong successes of Goliyon Ki Rasleela Ram-Leela and the latest epic blockbuster Bajirao Mastani, Eros and Bhansali Productions will take their association forward with additional co-productions, details of which will be announced soon.
Finally, Eros will release Vinay Sapru and Radhika Rao’s musical love story Sanam Teri Kasam starring newcomers Harshvardhan Rane and Pakistani actress Mawra Hocane as the romantic leads; Do Lafzon Ki Kahani by Deepak Tijori with Randeep Hooda and Kajal Agarwal as the lead pair, as well as Chef, starring Saif Ali Khan, a remake of 2014’s Hollywood hit Chef.
The selected 2016 film slate follows:
# | NAME | RELEASE DATE | PRODUCER / DIRECTOR | Cast | |||||
Hindi | |||||||||
1 | Sanam Teri Kasam |
05-Feb-16 |
Jhoom Jhoom / Radhika Rao-Vinay Sapru | Harshvardhan Rane & Mawra Hokane | |||||
2 | Aligarh | 26-Feb-16 | Eros / Hansal Mehta | Manoj Bajpai & Rajkummar Rao | |||||
3 | Do Lafzon ki Kahani | 04-Mar-16 | Deepak Tijori | Randeep Hooda & Kajal Agarwal | |||||
4 | Ki & Ka | 1-April-16 | Eros / R. Balki | Arjun Kapoor & Kareena Kapoor | |||||
5 | Nil Batey Sannata (The Classmate) | 22-April-16 | Eros-Colour Yellow-Jar Pictures | Swara Bhaskar | |||||
6 | Saat Kadam | 20-May-16 | Eros / Mohit Jha | Amit Sadh, Deeksha Seth, Ronit Roy | |||||
7 | Phobia | 27-May-16 | Eros / Pawan Malhotra | Radhika Apte | |||||
8 | Housefull 3 | 03-Jun-16 | Eros-Nadiadwala / Sajid Farhad | Akshay Kumar, Riteish Deshmukh, Abhishek, Nargis, Jackie, Lisa | |||||
9 | Happy Bhaag Jayegi | 15-July-16 | Eros-Colour Yellow / Mudassar Aziz | Abhay Deol & Diana Penty | |||||
10 | Dishoom | 29-July-16 | Eros-Nadiadwala / Rohit Dhawan | John Abraham, Varun Dhawan, Jackie Fernandez | |||||
11 | Phir Hera Pheri 3 | 12-Aug-2016 | Eros-Firoz Nadiadwallah / Neeraj Vora | John Abraham, Abhishek Bachchan, Paresh Rawal | |||||
12 | Banjo | 19-Aug-16 | Eros / Ravi Jadhav | Riteish Deshmukh & Nargis Fakhri | |||||
13 | Baar Baar Dekho | 09-Sept-2016 | Excel-Dharma / Nitya Mehra | Siddharth Malhotra & Katrina Kaif | |||||
14 | Manmarziyan | 23-Sept-2016 | Eros-Colour Yellow | Ayushmann Khuranna & Bhumi Pednekar | |||||
15 | Shivaay | 28-Oct-2016 | Eros/Ajay Devgn | Ajay Devgn | |||||
16 | Rock On 2 | 11–Nov-2016 | Excel / Shujaat Saudagar | Farhan Akhtar, Arjun Rampal | |||||
17 | Chef | 2016 | Eros/Wave Group/Alumbra Entertainment | Saif Ali Khan | |||||
18 | Ticket to Bollywood | 2016 | Eros | Amyra Dastoor, Diganth Manchale | |||||
Tamil | |||||||||
19 | Rajini Murugan | 14-January-16 | Ponram | Sivakarthikeyan, Keerthy Suresh, Samuthirakani, Rajkiran, Soori | |||||
20 | 24 | 14-April-2016 | Studio Green / Vikram Kumar | Suriya, Samantha | |||||
21 | Enkitta Mothathey | 2016 | RV Films / Ramu Chellapa | Nutty, Sanchitha Shetty, Parvathy | |||||
22 | Uyire Uyire | 2016 | Eros / Jaya Prada | Siddharth, Hansika Motwani | |||||
23 | Singam 3 | 2016 | Studio Green / Aadnah Arts | Suriya, Anushka Shetty and Shruti Haasan | |||||
24 | Kai Neelam | 2016 | Aadnah Arts / Nalan Kumarsamy | Vijay Sethupathy, Samuthrakani | |||||
25 | Untitled | 2016 | Aadnah Arts / Lingusamy | Karthi | |||||
26 | Oru Kidayin Karunai Mamu | 2016 | RV Films / Ramu Chellapa | ||||||
Telugu | |||||||||
27 | Dictator | 14-Jan-2016 | Eros / Sriwass | Balakrishna | |||||
28 | Sardaar Gabbar Singh | 08-April-2016 | Eros & North Star / K S Ravindra | Pawan Kalyan | |||||
Malayalam | |||||||||
29 | 2 Penkuttikal | 22-January-16 | Eros / Cinema Cooks & Eiffel Entertainments | Tovino Thomas, Amala Paul, Anju Kurian, Anna Fathima | |||||
30 | White | 14-April-16 | Eros/ Uday Amanthan | Mammootty, Huma Qureshi, Shankar Ramakrishnan | |||||
31 | Nale | 27-May-16 | Director Cutz / Siju S. Bawa | Fahad Fazil, Malavika Mohan, Esha Talwar, Mukesh | |||||
Bengali | |||||||||
32 | Monchora | 01- January-16 | Sandeep Ray | Abir & Raima Sen, Saraswat Chatterjee | |||||
33 | Praktan | 15-Apr-16 | Eros / Shiboprasad Mukherjee | Rituparna Sengupta & Prosenjit Chatterjee | |||||
Marathi | |||||||||
34 | Guru | 22-Jan-16 | Eros / Sanjay Jadhav | Ankush Chaudhari & Urmila Kanetkar | |||||
35 | Phuntroo | 11-March-16 | Eros-Spice Entertainment / Sujay Dahake | Ketaki Mategaonkar | |||||
36 | & Jara Hatke | 8-April-16 | Eros / Ravi Jadhav | Indraneil Sengupta & Mrinal Kulkarni | |||||
Punjabi | |||||||||
37 | Chaar Sahibzaade 2 | 10-Jun-16 | Eros / Harry Baweja | ||||||
38 | Guru Tegh Bahadur | Nov 2016 | Eros/ Harry Baweja |
Note: Due to the uncertainties involved in the development and production of films, the date of their completion can be significantly delayed, planned talent can change and, in certain circumstances, films can be cancelled or not approved by the Indian Central Board of Film Certification. The company’s planned release slate is therefore illustrative and subject to change.
About Eros International Plc
Eros International Plc (NYSE: EROS) is a leading global company in the Indian film entertainment industry that acquires, co-produces and distributes Indian films across all available formats such as cinema, television and digital new media. Eros International Plc became the first Indian media company to list on the New York Stock Exchange. Eros International has experience of over three decades in establishing a global platform for Indian cinema. The Company has an extensive and growing movie library comprising of over 3,000 films, which include Hindi, Tamil, and other regional language films for home entertainment distribution. The Company also owns the rapidly growing OTT platform ErosNow. For further information please visit: www.erosplc.com.