16% of Indian Panorama films in IFFI 2009 are from Reliance

Reliance BIG Pictures to catalyze the rapid globalization of Indian cinema- Mahesh Ramanathan, COO ,Reliance BIG Pictures.
The 40th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) is screening four major productions of Reliance Big Pictures in the Indian Panorama Section.This is out of 26 films selected in this section(16 % ).These are Shob Charitro Kalponik, Ijjodu, Janala and Kutty Srank. Mahesh Ramanathan, COO, Reliance BIG Pictures said, "The unprecedented success of Reliance BIG Pictures at international festivals has extended to the home turf as well. Our films have been honored in 35 top cities around the globe within last one year. The recognition will inspire the team at Reliance BIG Pictures to catalyze the rapid globalization of Indian cinema
Reliance BIG Pictures , RBEL's motion picture brand, has built a formidable Indian film production slate in English, Hindi and several other Indian languages, which it markets and distributes worldwide.The slate has projects with leading production houses and marquee Indian directors, both mainstream and arthouse, including Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Rakesh Roshan, Farhan Akhtar, David Dhawan, Indra Kumar, Anurag Basu, Kunal Kohli, Priyadarshan, Madhur Bhandarkar, Sudhir Mishra, Shaji N. Karun, Shyam Benegal, Rituparno Ghosh, Buddhadeb Dasgupta, M.S. Sathyu and Amol Palekar. In Hollywood, RBEL has signed development deals with Julia Roberts' Red Om Films, Nicolas Cage's Saturn Productions, Jim Carrey's JC 23 Entertainment, George Clooney's Smokehouse Productions, Chris Columbus' 1492 Pictures, Tom Hanks' PlayTone Productions, Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment, Jay Roach's Everyman Pictures and Brett Ratner's Rat Entertainment. RBEL's associate company ADLABS is India's largest film processing, exhibition and services company. Reliance ADA Group is among India's largest private sector, business houses and has interests in communications, financial services, health, energy, infrastructure and media & entertainment.