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1 CINEMA Longest uncut animated shot Aroop Dwivedi directed, animated and edited the short film Aai aka A Mother a 10-min black and white traditional animated film. The animation was done with 6,000 hand drawings done by Aroop and was completed in roughly four years. The film first premiered in Bangalore Film Festival on July 21, 2014 and later on at other fests too and has won 3 best animation film awards. Shortest film Dystopia written and directed by Manu Kallikad is the shortest film with a run time of 8 seconds. The film highlighting the issue of environmental degradation was screened for a select crowd at the Rasmi Film Society in Malappuram, Kerala on July 23, The film was shot on Nicon Cool Pix 510 camera by MG Guruprasad and edited by Bineesh Muthukad. Most roles in a single film Harish Raj enacted 16 roles in the Kannada film Shri Sathyanarayana which was released in theatres on March 11, He essayed the role of the lead character Sathyanarayan and 15 other cameo roles with screen time ranging from 1-5 min. The film is produced and directed by Harish Raj and has Ramya Barna as the female lead. WR: Longest running film Yash Chopra s Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge completed a 1,046 weeks run at the Maratha Mandir theatre on Oct 30, The film starring Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol in the lead was first released in theatres on Oct 20, , 10:42

2 A swiss tribute The Swiss Government paid another tribute to the legendary film maker Late Yash Chopra by unveiling a 350 kg bronze statue of him with his film camera inside the Kursaal area in Interlaken on May 4, The event was organised by Interlaken Tourism and Jungfrau Railways who had earlier named him Ambassador of Interlaken in 2011 and had named a train after him respectively. Highest collection by a dubbed film Baahubali-The Beginning directed by SS Rajamouli in Telugu which was released across India in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi on July 10, 2015 collected approximately Rs 100 crore in the domestic market from the Hindi film alone. In the weeks that followed it also became the highest grossing movie with reports of collecting Rs 650 crore overall. Oldest debut in film Chinnakrishnan Kaliyaperumal (b June 10, 1924) from Ariyalur, Tamil Nadu acted as a lead in the Tamil short film 93* Not Out written and directed by Arudra Saravanakumar. The film is a story of an old man who after a pacemaker implant develops a desire to ride a cycle and to buy a book and how he finally achieves it at an age of 93. The film has won around 7 awards and has been showcased in various national and international film festivals. 185 Most short films released consecutively (online) Tanmay Shah from Ahmedabad, Gujarat wrote and directed 52 short films and each of them were released on YouTube on Friday every week starting from Jan 2, 2015 to Dec 25, The films were shot, edited within the week and released on Friday on the YouTube channel FridayFictionFilms. Each film had a new script and new actors. These 1-7 min films were based on various social and environmental issues. 185

3 Short film with most songs Tamil film Noe directed by Venkat Lakshmanan and produced by 6g Studios features six songs in the 13 min 46 sec long film which showcases the story of an orphan boy. The lyrics were written by Vignesh Jeyapal and put to music by Al Rufian. The film was showcased to a select crowd at MM Preview Theatre in Chennai on Feb 7, Most National Awards won Rajiv Mehrotra, Managing Trustee & Commissioning Editor of Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT) has won 28 National Awards as Director/ Producers of documentaries as of May 2, The films have also won over 255 awards and earned 1,440 festival screenings across the world. PSBT is an independent and not-for-profit film production body managed by a group of eminent filmmakers nurturing documentary film production. It has mentored and produced more than 634 documentaries by 450 filmmakers, most of whom are starting out talents, since its inception in The films produced by PSBT are telecast every week on Doordarshan and Lok Sabha Television. Some selective films have been showcased by BBC, Channel 4 in the UK and Discovery South Asia also. PSBT is led by eminent filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan (chairperson), Shyam Benegal, Kiran Karnik, Mrinal Sen, Sharmila Tagore, Fali S Nariman, Sunita Narain and Rajiv Mehrortra. 186 WR: Most prolific lyricist Shitala Pandey (b Feb 24, 1958) better known as Sameer Anjaan is one of the most sought-after lyricists in the Indian film industry. Starting in 1983 with Hindi film Bekhabar he has written lyrics for over 3,500 songs for Hindi and Bhojpuri films as of Dec 15, He has also written lyrics for music albums and won various national awards. He has done a maximum number of films (146) with the music-director duo Anand-Milind, writing approximately 899 songs for them. 186

4 C I N E M A & T H E A T R E Highest earning stars Shah Rukh Khan with an earnings of $33 million ranks 86 th in the Forbes Global Celebrity list. Akshay with $31.5 million earnings was 94 th in the list. Film with prisoners and police as cast Hindi short film Shuddi A New Beginning directed by Sanjeev Sharma has a cast of police officers and prisoners serving life term of the Central Jail of Jaipur, Rajasthan in October The 5-min black and white film written and directed by Sanjeev was based on Mahatma Gandhi s life during his prison stay. The film was shot during a fiveday film workshop from Oct 13-17, 2014, conducted for the prisoners of Jaipur jail and was screened there on the last day. Largest social film making competition YES Foundation, the CSR wing of Yes Bank, organised a countrywide short film making challenge, YES! i am the CHANGE 2015, on social issues and received 2,755 films and over 1.4 lakh team registrations for the project from 2,500 cities from July 23 Oct 6, The competition was done in four categories Corporate (July 23-27, 2015), NGO (July 23-27, 2015, Student (August 15-19, 2015) and Open (Oct 2-6, 2015) with participants working in the specific area. A jury consisting of 19 eminent personalities selected 45 winners spread across the four categories. Most filmmaking aspects handled Director Producer Syed Rafi handled 16 segments of filmmaking for two Telugu feature films, Madhuram and Inkennallu. Besides producing, directing and acting, the story, screenplay and dialogues were written by Syed. He also wrote the lyrics and sang for the film. The other departments he was credited for in the film are music direction, choreography, action director, art director, costume, production designing, casting director and dubbing artiste. The films were released under the banner of Rafi s Movie Inkennallu on Dec 30, 2011 and Madhuram on July 12, THEATRE Largest student-teacher participation theatre act Talegaon Dabhade Shikshan Mandal organised the largest theatre play with 3,022 students from 23 schools enacting the play Janta Raja at the Thor Samajsevak Nathubhau Bhegade Patil School ground on Feb 19, The staff from the schools also appeared in some scenes of the play while the elderly role of Shivaji and some others were performed by members of Talegaon Shikshan Mandal. Janta Raja is a historical Marathi play written by Babasaheb Purandare based on the life of Chattrapati Shivaji Raje Bhosle

5 WR: Most performances as Charlie Chaplin II Rajan Kumar (b Jan 5, 1979) of Munger, Bihar, presently residing in Mumbai has been donning the role of legendary Charlie Chaplin, entertaining audiences on television shows and at various hotels with a perfect imitation of the actor. He had completed 4,002 shows by May 27, 2016 and spent 12,100 hr in performance. Most simultaneous performance of a play Satvika Theatre factory organised the performance of the one-man show 55 Nimishada Ondu Premakathe with nine actors at nine different venue starting at 7.15 pm in Bengaluru on July 18, The play was enacted by Manjunath at Kappana House (JP Nagar); Dattaraj Hegde at Vijayanagar Bibma (Hampinagara) ; Rajguru Hosakoti at Ravindra Kala Kshetra (Sampangi Rama Nagar); Purushotham at Vijayanagar Library (Vijayanagar); LA Siddalingeshwara at Dr VM Ghatge Convention Centre (Old Airport Road); Govindaraj at Udayabhanu Kala Sangh (Kempegowda); Vivek Simha at KH Kalasoudha; Sunil Kulkarni at Kannada Sahithya Parishat (Chamarajpet); and Shreyas K Aradhyamath at KV Subbanna Aapta Rangmandira (JP Nagara). The 55-min long play is directed by Rajguru Hosakoti. Marathon one-man show Korukonda Ranga Rao (b August 1, 1965) from Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh performed oneman shows or mono acts continuously for 10 hr 9 min at the Vysakhi Jalaudyanavanam Auditorium, Visakhapatnam on Feb 1, He started the performance at am and finished by 8.21 pm. He performed 40 mono-plays in the marathon event and through each play gave a social message to the viewers. 188 First policeman to win Merlin Award Subhash Bhaskar Dagadkhair (b May 5, 1962), a Police Inspector in Mumbai, Maharashtra has learnt magic as a hobby, showing magic tricks to young and old. He performs tricks which he has picked up from all over the world. On April 25, 2016, the CEO of International Magicians Society, USA, Tony Hassiny came to Mumbai to honour Subhash with the Merlin Award, the first Indian policeman to get this prestigious award. Note: The Merlin Award to magic is what the Oscar is to movies, what the Emmy is for television and what Tony is to theatre. Performance of one play in multiple language (one day) Ideas Unlimited presented the play Mohan No Masalo directed by Manoj Shah in three languages Gujarati, Hindi (Mohan Ka Masala) and English (Mohan s Masala) at Prithvi Theatre in Mumbai at pm, 6.00 pm and 9.00 pm respectively on June 10, Pratik Gandhi enacted the role of Mahatma Gandhi in all the 90-min monologue which tells about the Mahatma s childhood and how it shaped his future. The Gujarati script was written by Satya Mehta, Hindi by Mihir Bhuta & Arpit Jain and English was written by Ishan Doshi. 188

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