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August 22, 2005
Oman, it's the newest thing: filmmaking in Muscat
Visvas Paul D. Karra of the Times of Oman reports from Muscat on a new film industry: "Even as Oman’s first feature film, Al Boum, is taking its first tentative steps into the record books of the Sultanate’s film history [there's another first]: Oman’s first bilingual (Arabic and Malayalam) commercial film.... [Producer-director] Gulab Prem Kumar might be the ubiquitous next door neighbour if you walk past him on the street, but this man is all set to walk into the history books pretty soon. [He's] all excited about this bilingual project, which he says, will be ready for release in Oman in 2006, subject to ministry approval.... The script for this film has already been submitted to the Ministry of Heritage and Culture and the Ministry of Information for their approval.... The bilingual film’s storyline is a general subject, a very good family drama, says Prem Kumar. “I will be roping in big artistes from Kerala and Tamil Nadu in India for the Malayalam version while the Arabic version will have Omani artistes on the same sets,” Prem Kumar informed."
Posted by pride at August 22, 2005 09:57 AM
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