User:Fahadksamaar/FAHAD SAMAR

BOMBAY TALKIE IS A FILM PRODUCTION COMPANY ENGAGED IN PRODUCING COMMERCIALS, DOCUMENTARIES, TELEVISION SOFTWARE AND FEATURE FILMS. IT IS HEADED BY FAHAD SAMAR, WHO BEGAN HIS FILM CAREER WITH MERCHANT IVORY PRODUCTIONS IN 1984 AND WORKED AS AN ASSISTANT DIRECTOR ON SEVERAL INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILMS SUCH AS MAURICE, THE PERFECT MURDER AND THE DECEIVERS. FAHAD HAS ALSO SCRIPTED AND CO-DIRECTED A SHORT FILM, "THE DOLL'S WEDDING" FOR MERCHANT IVORY WHICH HAS BEEN TELECAST ON CHANNEL '4' IN ENGLAND AND CANAL PLUS TELEVISION IN FRANCE. HE HAS WORKED AS AN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ON SIX AWARD WINNING DOCUMENTARY FILMS SHOT EXTENSIVELY AROUND

INDIA. FAHAD HAS, OVER THE PAST 15 YEARS, WRITTEN,

DIRECTED AND PRODUCED SEVERAL COMMERCIALS, TELEVISION

SHOWS, FEATURES AND DOCUMENTARY FILMS FOR THE INDIAN

AND INTERNATIONAL MARKET. FAHAD SAMAAR HAS ALSO DIRECTED SEVERAL MULTIPLE

CAMERA SETUPS.

MULTIPLE CAMERA SETUP LIVE EVENT SHOWS

FASHION SHOW			:	FTV. CONCERT				:	SONY TELEVISION
 * THE R.D.BURMAN CONCERT	:	SONY TELEVISION
 * THE SANSUI AWARDS		:	SONY TELEVISION
 * THE FILMFARE AWARDS		:	SONY TELEVISION
 * ETC NAVRATRI			:	ETC CHANNEL
 * ABU JANI/SANDIP KHOSLA
 * HELEN THE GOLDEN GIRL

MULTIPLE CAMERA TELEVISION SHOWS

CELEBRITY CHAT SHOW, HOSTED BY MALAVIKA SANGHVI, FEATURING PROMINENT GUESTS LIKE DILIP KUMAR, SUNIL DUTT, PROMOD NAVALKAR AND RAMESH SIPPY. VIDEO CLIPS FOR HOME TV WHICH WAS PRODUCED IN COLLABORATION WITH ACTION TIME, U.K.	MEIN BANDH HO
 * AFTER 8 WITH MALAVIKA SANGHVI : - A HALF HOUR
 * “DUNIYA GOL HAI" - A 26 EPISODE SERIES ON HOME
 * BOMBAY TALKIE HAS PRODUCED TWO COUNTDOWN SHOWS, “THE COCA COLA POPPADUM SHOW" AND “HUM APKE HAIN KOUNTDOWN" FOR SONY ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION.
 * HE HAS ALSO DIRECTED ‘ARCHANA TALKIES' FOR SONY TELEVISION
 * HUM TUM EK CAMERE	: HFCL NINEBROADCASTING LTD
 * TAAL MAAL KA SAWAAL 	: HFCL NINEBROADCASTING LTD
 * LIFESTYLE GURUS 		: ZEE CHAKRA

SOME OF BOMBAY TALKIE’S PRODUCTIONS INCLUDE
 * BOMBAY TALKIE HAS PRODUCED AND DIRECTED ‘DANCE DIVAS’, A REALITY BASED DANCE COMPETITION ON ‘ZOOM TELEVISION’.  ‘DANCE DIVAS’ WAS ONE OF THE HIGHEST RATED SHOWS  ON ZOOM TELEVISION.
 * OVER 80 COMMERCIALS FOR PRODUCTS AS DIVERSE AS CITY WALK SHOES, REVLON LIPSTICKS, ATCO WEIGHING SCALES, FANTASY LAND, BPL MOBILE PHONES, CEAT AND OLIVIA COSMETICS TO NAME A FEW.
 * A DOCUMENTARY ON THE RIVER GANGA, COMMISSIONED BY THE BIRLA GROUP AND DISTRIBUTED INTERNATIONALLY.

COMMISSIONED BY SHYAM AHUJA AND SHOT ON LOCATION IN BENARES, RAJASTHAN, PARIS AND NEW YORK. COUNT DOWN SHOW ON CHANNEL V WAS PRODUCED BY BOMBAY TALKIE FROM MARCH 1994 THRU DEC'1995 DURING WHICH PERIOD IT BECAME THE # 1 SHOW ON CHANNEL V.
 * A DOCUMENTARY ON THE HISTORY OF THE DHURRIE,
 * BPL OYE - THE INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED TOP 20

“SUPERHIT MUQABLA" FOR NIMBUS TELEVISION. “SUPERHIT MUQABLA" WAS THE HIGHEST RATED SHOW ON THE D.D.METRO CHANNEL, WATCHED BY AN ESTIMATED 50 MILLION VIEWERS EACH WEEK AND WAS THE LONGEST RUNNING SPONSORED PROGRAMME ON INDIAN TELEVISION.
 * FAHAD SAMAAR HAS ALSO DIRECTED 110 EPISODES OF

ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION NETWORK (ETC), DURING WHICH PERIOD IT BECAME THE MOST HIGHLY WATCHED MUSIC CHANNEL IN INDIA.
 * HE WAS CONSULTING HEAD OF PROGRAMMING AT


 * HE HAS PRODUCED AND DIRECTED ‘STARTOON TOP TEN', INDIA'S FIRST ANIMATED TELEVISION SHOW, FOR THE STAR PLUS CHANNEL.


 * BOMBAY TALKIE HAS PRODUCED A 90 MINUTE TELEFILM, ‘JANNAT TALKIES' FOR HFCL NINEBROADCASTING LTD., FOR THEIR ‘DIRECTOR'S CUT SERIES', WHICH WAS TELECAST ON D.D.METRO.


 * “SUR" A MUSIC VIDEO FOR TIMES MUSIC.

HAS BEEN OPTIONED BY EMG, UK FOR DEVELOPMENT INTO A FULL LENGTH FEATURE FILM STARRING BAFTA AWARD WINNING BRITISH ACTRESS, BILLIE PIPER.
 * FAHAD’S ORIGINAL ENGLISH FILM SCRIPT, ‘INDIA UNPLUGGED’,

BOMBAY TALKIE HAS PROVIDED PRODUCTION SERVICES FOR GRANADA TELEVISION AND LINE PRODUCED ‘SHARPES PERIL’, THE INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED MINI SERIES STARRING SEAN BEAN. THE 2 HOUR SERIES WAS SHOT ENTIRELY IN KHAJURAHO AND ORCHHA IN INDIA IN 2008.

BOMBAY TALKIE HAS ALSO PROVIDED LINE PRODUCTION SERVICES TO GRANADA FOR “A PASSAGE TO INDIA”.