IMMORTAL MEMORIES - SOME PERSONAL MEMORIES

IMMORTAL MEMORIES - 24TH DEC 2009 JW MARRIOTT

Gurudas Kamat, Mrs. & Mr.Gurudas Kamat
Kiran V.Shantaram, Gurudas Kamat & Yash Chopra

G.V.Films presents

IMMORTAL MEMORIES
An event to honour legends of Hindi Cinema
24th January, 2009 – J.W.Marriott Hotel, Juhu, Mumbai

G.V.Films in association with Sidhesh Films and Strawberry Events organized IMMORTAL MEMORIES, an event to honour the living legends of Hindi cinema. It was truly a night to remember with a number of legendary and present Hindi film personalities gathered at a single venue, sharing their sweet memories. The thought behind the event was to honour living legends by the current generation of artistes in Hindi cinema. It was overall an excellent programme with a few negligible drawbacks like poor sound and unnecessary orchestra etc. Anyway, these can be excused considering debut event and I am sure it will be taken care next time. From the response of legends and celebrities who attended, it can be surely said that IMMORTAL MEMORIES will surely become a must-attend event in the calendar of Indian film fraternity. It was a personal privilege for me to be associated with this event since I got an opportunity to meet so many living legends of Hindi cinema.

Ashok Shekhar
CEO - Strawberry Events


BACKGROUND : Since that historical event in 1896 when Lumiere Brothers demonstrated the art of cinema in Mumbai, the Indian Film Industry today has grown by leaps and bounds. Hundreds of people from different sectors of Film Industry have toiled to make Industry what it is today. The industry enjoys the fruits of hard work of these veterans who are the pillars of the industry. It is the right time to pay them back for their great contribution.

OBJECTIVE : Our objective, rather heartfelt desire is to remember and honor these noble souls. This event is purely a gettogetherof the veterans, where yester year's legends meet today's celebrities and share their memories. As a token of our gratitude to these spirited persons we wish to present Living Legends every year with a commemorative cash gift. This is the beginning and God willing it will never end. As HH Dalai Lama rightly said “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion”. The list of worthy stars is long but we are short listing a few stalwarts for this years honor.

ABOUT THE EVENT : This was an event to felicitate and honour living legends of Hindi cinema who have given their life in the service of entertaining the masses as well as the classes. We intend to present a precious momento as a token of appreciation towards their contribution to Indian cinema. The event is a celebration of creativity of the veterans and remind them that we have not forgotten their contribution and in fact it is due to their hard work that the Hindi film industry is recognized all over the world. We would continue the tradition once every year. This being introduction year, we are mainly covering Hindi films but eventually we would like to cover the entire Indian film industry. The organizing committee consulted the advisory committee consisting of veterans of Indian cinema who will guide the committee on the course of action. We also intend to invite today's celebrities to honour the living legends.

ABOUT US : Strawberry Events has been established with a vision to organize events with focus on the Indian entertainment industry. The company is promoted by Shri Balagiri of G.V.FILMS LTD. & SIDHESH FILMS PVT. LTD., a reputed film production house. Ashok Shekhar, well known T.V. serial producer and son of veteran film artiste Chandrashekhar, is the CEO of the company.

Kiran Shantaram & Salma Agha

Shroff Brothers (Shringar) with Gurudas Kamat

Chandrasekhar, Kiran V.Shantaram, Aruna Irani & M.V.Balagiri
Chandrasekhar, Annu Malik, Yash Chopra & M.V.Balagiri
Nimmi & Gurudas Kamat
Yogesh & Rajkumar Santoshi
Kiran V.Shantaram & Kader Khan
Johny Lever
Aruna Irani & Govinda
Annu Malik & Ravi
Veeru Devgan & Mrs.Gurudas Kamat
Asha Parekh & Gurudas Kamat
Gurudas Kamat & M.V.Balagiri
Babubhai Mistry & M.V.Balagiri
Manoj Kumar & Yash Chopra
Rajshri Parivar & Gurudas Kamat

LEGENDS HONOURED
1. Rajshri Parivar (Film Makers)
2. Shroff Parivar (Film Financers/Distributors
3. Shri Manoj Kumar (Writer/Actor/Film Maker)
4. Ms. Asha Parekh (Actress)
5. Shri Babubhai Mistry (Director/Special Effects)
6. Shri Sachin Bhowmick (Writer)
7. Shri Ravi Sharma (Music Director)
8. V.Shantaram Parivar (Film Makers)
9. Shri P.S.Mishra (Sound Recordist)
10. Shri Shanti Das (Art Director)
11. Shri Veeru Devgan (Action Director)
12. Ms. Nimmi (Actress)
13. Shri Ameen Sayani (Radio Announcer/Broadcaster)
14. Shri Yogesh (Lyricist)
15. Ms. Aruna Irani (Actress)
16. Shri Virendra Verma (Journalist)
(Names not in any particular order)


DIGNITARIES/CELEBRITIES PRESENT
1. Shri Gurudas Kamat (Minister of State, IT & Communications, Govt. of India)
2. Shri Yash Chopra (Veteran Film Maker)
3. Shri Lekh Tandon (Veteran Film Maker)
4. Shri Venkatramani & Shri Ganesh (G.V.Films)
5. Shri Dara Singh (Veteran Actor)
6. Shri Chandrasekhar (Veteran Actor)
7. Shri Jagdeep (Veteran Actor)
8. Shammi Aunty (Veteran Actress)
9. Shri Kader Khan (Veteran Writer & Actor)
10. Shri Rajkumar Santoshi (Film Maker)
11. Shri Bijon Das (Art Director)
12. Shri Narendra Singh (Sound Recordist)
13. Shri Govinda (Actor)
14. Shri Raza Murad (Actor)
15. Shri Firoz Khan (Arjun)
16. Dr. Achla Nagar (Writer)
17. Ms. Salma Agha (Singing Star)
18. Shri Annu Malik (Composer)
19. Shri Anil Sharma (Film Maker)
20. Shri Ali Peter John (Journalist)
21. Shri Pradeep Rawat (Actor)
22. Shri Sudhakar Bokade (Film Maker)
23. Shri Ram Mohan (Actor)
24. Lakshmi Rai (Tamil heroine)
25. Shri Johny Lever (Comedian/Actor)
26. Shri Ali Khan (Actor)
27. Smt. & Shri Dr. Ashok Chopra (Actress Priyanka Chopra’s parents)
28. Shri Mukesh Rishi (Actor)
(Names not in any particular order)



QUOTES / CELEBRITY BYTES

Gurudas Kamat : “I have grown up watching films of these living legends and it is an honour to honour them. This tradition of honouring the legends of not only Hindi cinema but Indian cinema should be a regular affair”

Venkatramani : “We would like to remind the living legends that the film industry has not forgotten their contribution and in fact it is due to their hard work that the Hindi film industry is recognized all over the world”

M.V.Balagiri

: “We are indebted to these legends for showing us the way and this event is nothing but a get-together of living legends of Hindi cinema”

Ameen Sayani : “Hindi Film industry unites people from all states and religions. Jai Bollywood, Jai Maharashtra, Jai Hind”

P.S. Mishra : “Sound recording should be such that a blind person coming out of a theatre should say, what a film I have seen”

Annu Malik : “It is a great privilege to be present amongst the august gathering of Hindi cine legends. Honouring Ravi Sahab for me is same as honouring my father”

Ashok Shekhar : “Being son of veteran actor Chandrashekhar, I have been extremely fortunate to learn from him and his great contemporaries who regularly visited my house. It is really a great honour to be on the same dais as these living legends”

Govinda : “The young generation is highly indebted to these legendary artistes and we should never forget the pioneers”

Aruna Irani : “I thank the film industry where a simple girl like me got such honour and recognition”

Johny Lever : “An elderly person saw a poster and requested him to show him ‘Vikram Aur Vetaal’ to which he said it is Amitabh & Abhishek in PAA. Jokes apart, I have personally learnt a lot from these living legends”

Shahrukh Khan (through SMS) : “I would have loved to attend this event specially in view of honouring Manoj Kumar Sahab only if I had not committed my dates”

Sanjay Dutt (Message) : “Last moment emergency has prevented me to attend this event which I would have loved to specially in view of the fact that you are honouring Dutt family”

CREDITS

PRESENTED BY :
G.V.Films

PROMOTED BY :
Sidhesh Films

ADVISORS :
Shri Chandrashekhar, Shri Lekh Tandon,
Shri Kader Khan, Shri Ali Peter John and Ms.Kanchan Adhikari

CONCEPT & DIRECTION :
M.V.Balagiri & Ashok Shekhar

EVENT MANAGEMENT :
Strawberry Events

CREATIVE ADVISOR :
Suresh Amin

COMPERE :
Dabboo Malik & Divyanka Tripathi

CHOREOGRAPHY :
Lollypop

SPONSORS :
Geetanjali Lifestyle, Uttam Steel, SkyNest Services, UB Group, MF Fiesta

OUTDOOR PARTNERS :
Bright & Global

CREATIVE & MARKETING :
Manish Popat & Tanaaz Bakhtiar (Pro-active Entertainment)

VIDEO CLIPS :
Nissar Bhanvadia Digital Media Vision

ART DIRECTION :
Kumar Sagar & Vilas Virafdar (K.V.Arts)

CELEBRITY MANAGEMENT :
Shri Ali Peter John & Shri Sangeet Kumar

VIDEO :
Naveen Shetty (Turning Point )

PUBLICIST :
Jagdish Aurangabadkar … 9869039355 &
Indermohan Pannu … 9820118122

PRINTING :
Prakash Arts & Om Copy Centre

MANAGEMENT TEAM :
Shekhar Desai, Rajesh Gupta, Deepika Tharwani, Esha Makwana,Maya Manghani, Bhushan Naik, Vinit Maru, Kiran Dhavan, Nazia, Manisha

EVENT BRANDING :
Qamaal Mustafa Sikander alias graphikamaal


FOR FURTHER DETAILS, PLEASE CONTACT :
G.V.FILMS STRAWBERRY EVENTS SIDHESH FILMS
5,Pace House, 7 Swastik Society, Gulmohar Road, Vile Parle (W), Mumbai-400056.
Ph. : 022-26135904/5 Fax : 022-26135907 Email : info@strawberryevents.net

IMMORTAL MEMORIES

Since that historical event in 1896 when Lumiere Brothers demonstrated the art of cinema in Mumbai, the Indian Film Industry today has grown by leaps and bounds. Hundreds of people from different sectors of Film Industry have toiled to make Industry what it is today. The industry enjoys the fruits of hard work of these veterans who are the pillars of the industry.

It is the right time to pay them back for their great contribution.

OBJECTIVE
Our objective, rather heartfelt desire is to remember and honor these noble souls. This event is purely a gettogether of the veterans, where yester year's legends meet today's celebrities and share their memories. As a token of our gratitude to these spirited persons we wish to present 11 Living Legends every year with a commemorative cash gift. This is the beginning and God willing it will never end. As HH Dalai Lama rightly said “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion”. The list of worthy stars is long but we are short listing 11 of the stalwarts for this years honor.

ABOUT THE EVENT :

This is an event to felicitate and honour living legends of Hindi cinema who have given their life in the service of entertaining the masses as well as the classes. We intend to present a precious momento as a token of appreciation towards their contribution to Indian cinema. The event is a celebration of creativity of the veterans and remind them that we have not forgotten their contribution and in fact it is due to their hard work that the Hindi film industry is recognized all over the world. We would continue the tradition once every year. This being introduction year, we are mainly covering Hindi films but eventually we would like to cover the entire Indian film industry. The organizing committee will consult the advisory committee consisting of veterans of Indian cinema who will guide the committee on the course of action. We also intend to invite today's celebrities to honour the living legends.

ABOUT US :

Strawberry Events has been establishedwith a vision to organize events with focuson the Indian entertainment industry.The company is promoted by Shri Balagiriof SIDHESH FILMS PVT. LTD., a reputedfilm production house.Ashok Shekhar, well known T.V. serialproducer and son of veteran film artisteChandrashekhar, is the CEO of thecompany. He is in film and televisionindustry since last 35 years. He has beenassociated with Shri Shakti Samanta andShri Pradeep Sharma for many of theirblockbusters. He is the man behind manyall time hit serials, most prominent beingPARIVARTAN, NAMASKAR, SATURDAYSUSPENSE, BHABHI, among others.

MY STRENGTHS

With my wife Rani Shekhar, son Vishal Shekhar and daughter Madhuri Shekhar at an event.

HAPPY DIWALI & PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR

Dear friends,

I wish you all a very happy diwali and prosperous new year ahead. I take this opportunity to thank all my associates, partners, colleagues, friends and relatives for their kind co-operation and also for all the best wishes sent to me on the launch of my new companies RAPS TELEFILMS PVT. LTD. and STRAWBERRY EVENTS PVT. LTD. I also thank everyone on behalf of my father, veteran Hindi film personality SHRI CHANDRASHEKHAR for their good wishes.

Ashok Shekhar
CEO

PATI PATNI AUR PATNEE

A few stills from the pilot episode of my new comedy show PATI PATNI AUR PATNEE.

KISSE PYAR KAROON PREMIER

My pictures with Gurudasji Kamath (Cabinet Minister for Information Technology), Producer Balagiri & my father, Chandrashekharji at the premier of KISSE PYAR KAROON in Cinemax.

Welcome to my blog

Hello and welcome to my blog,

I am glad to introduce myself, Ashok Shekhar, Hindi feature films and television serials producer, working in this field since last 35 years.

I am now currently working on EVERGREEN MEMORIES - LIVING LEGENDS OF HINDI CINEMA. This is an event to felicitate and honour living legends of Hindi cinema who have given more than 50 years of their life in the service of entertaining the masses as well as the classes. We intend to present a precious momento as a token of appreciation towards their contribution to Hindi cinema. The event is a celebration of creativity of the veterans and remind them that we have not forgotten their contribution and in fact it is due to their hard work that the Hindi film industry is recognized all over the world. We would continue the tradition once every year. The event will be followed by cocktail & dinner. This being introduction year, we are covering Hindi films but eventually we would like to cover the entire Indian film industry like Marathi cinema, Gujarati cinema, South cinema, Bhojpuri cinema and other regional films in India. The organizing committee consists of veterans of Indian cinema who will guide the committee on the course of action. We also intend to invite today’s superstars like Shri Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Govinda etc. to honour the living legends who gave them and all of us this platform.

PROFILE

Father's Name : CHANDRA SHEKHAR (Veteran film legend)
Date of Birth : 5 – 12 – 1955
Telephone : 022-2624 4446, Cell : 98193 51255
E Mail : ashokeshekhar@gmail.com
Qualification : B.A.

PROFESSION
FILM & TELEVISION SERIAL PRODUCTION – PRODUCER FOR MANY SERIALS & ALSO WORKED AS SUPERVISING / LINE PRODUCER, HEAD OF PRODUCTION, CONCEPT WRITER.

EXPERIENCE
A) Worked with legendary film maker Shakti Samanta (Shakti Films ) as ‘Production Controller’ from 1974 to 1984 for their films.

1. “ BARSAAT KI EK RAAT ”
Artiste : Amitabh Bachchan, Rakhee, Amjad Khan

2. “ MAIN AWARA HOON”
Artiste : Sanjay Dutt, Jaya Pradha, Raj Babbar,
Rati Agnihotri and Shakti Kapoor.

3. “ AAMNE SAMNE”
Artiste : Mithun, Bindiya, Shakti Kapoor.

4. “ AYAASH ” : Artiste : Sanjeev Kumar, Rati Agnihotri, Arun Govil

5. “ KHWAB” : Artiste : Mithun, Ranjeeta, Yogita Bali, Naseeruddin Shah

B ) Worked with legendary film maker Mr. B.R. Chopra ( M/s. B.R. Films ) as ‘ Assistant Director’ for films “AWAAM” and “DEHLEEZ”.

C ) Worked with M/s. TUTU Films & Padmini Films as ‘Production Controller’ for 5 years 1986 to 1991 for their following films:

1. “ MAR MITANGE ” : Artiste : Jeetendra, Mithun, Madhavi, Bhanu Priya, Amrish Puri, Kadar Khan, Shakti Kapoor.

2. “ AMIRI GARIBI” : Artiste : Jeetendra, Rekha, Rishi Kapoor, Neelam, Poonam, Pran, Raj Babbar, & Shakti Kapoor.

3. “ DAV PECH ” : Artiste: Jeetendra, Bhanu Priya, Prem Chopra, & Shakti Kapoor.

D) Worked with M/s. J.S.K. Combines ( Madras ) Producer – Nitin Kapoor & Jaya Sudha for their films “ MERA PATI SIRF MERE HAI ” as Production controller. Artiste : Jeetendra, Rekha, Radhika, Gulshan Grover, Shakti Kapoor, and Utpal Dutt.

E) T.V. serial “ PARIVARTAN” Produced for UTV (already telecast on ZEE T.V. 145 episodes ) Weekly. Artiste : Beena, Govind Namdev, Rupa Ganguly, Jatin Kanakia, Rajiv Verma Directed by : Bharat Rangacharya – Vijay Pande

F) T.V. serial “ NAMASKAR” Produced by me, later joined hands with UTV Artiste: Anjan Srivastav, Shoma Anand, Shagufta Ali, Amita, Dinesh Hingoo ,Kalpana Iyer, for channel EL TV. Directed by : Deepak Bakshi.

G) Produced independently,following “SATURDAY SUSPENSE“ for ZEE T.V. Under my own banner “SHEKHAR TV & VIDEO”

1. SATURDAY SUSPENSE – “ FOREST OFFICER” (Already telecast ) on 19th September, 1998 at 8 pm. Artiste: Anooop soni, Pooja Madan, Rajendra Gupta, Sonia Kapoor. Directed by : Vivek Agnihotri.

2. SATURDAY SUSPENSE – “THE PICTURE” (Already telecast ) on 21st November, 1998 at 8 pm. Artiste: Pallavi Joshi, Rakesh Thareja, Madan Jain. Directed by : Vivek Agnihotri

3. SATURDAY SUSPENSE – “THE TENANT” (Already telecast) on 2nd January 1999 at 8 pm Artiste : Gracy Singh, Salil Ankola, Muni Jha Directed by : Vivek Agnihotri

4. SATURDAY SUSPENSE – “COFFEE HOUSE” (Already telecast) on 22nd March, Artiste : Girish Malik, Vaidehi, Reena Wadhwa, Raju Kher Directed by : Shahjahen

5. SATURDAY SUSPENSE – “SCAM’’ ( Already telecast ) on 22nd May, 1999.
Artiste : Supriya Karnik, Amar Talwar, Mahavir Shah, Shakti Singh.

6. SATURDAY SUSPENSE – “THE TRAP(Already telecast on ZEE TV )Artiste : Divya Seth, Dipen Vartak, Shakti Singh Manoj Joshi, Milind Gawli. Directed by : Shahjahen

H) Produced T.V. serial “ NAQAAB” Directed by Bhattacharya, Written by : Pammi Somel. Artiste : Iravati, Raju Kher, Vaishnavi, Anju Mahendru Rajiv Verma, Harsh Chhaya and Dharmesh Vyas. Already aired on DD-1 in the year 2006.

I) “SHAGUN” a daily soap as Executive producer for UTV aired on star T.V (for first 30 episodes.)

J) “CATS” as Executive producer for UTV – already aired on Sony T.V

K) “BHABHI” Originally Produced and got approved on Star TV by me, later on as per channels instructions joined with UTV and produced for them as Executive Produce. Aired 1328 episodes on Star Plus- Mon to Fri at 1.30 noon.

L) “PIYA KA GHAR” as executive producer from Epi. No. 375 onwards on Zee TV, Monday – Thursday 2 pm
M) “YEH KAISA BANDHAN” co-produced for Applause ( Birla Group) Awaiting approval. Written By – Rajesh Beri, Directed By – Irfan Shaikh

N) Produced “PATI PATNI AUR PATNEE…” Comedy. Awaiting approval.