TORONTO — Asian Television Network International is launching its flagship series, ATN’s Tribute to 100 Years of Indian Cinema, on Amazon Prime Video in the US and UK, as part of the Prime Video Direct self-publishing service.
ATN’s Tribute to 100 Years of Indian Cinema is a 300-episode series that features celebrities from the world’s largest film industry along with exclusive interviews with movie stars, producers, directors, music composers, singers and choreographers. The series is produced at ATN’s high-definition studios in Markham, Ont.
“This series is a labour of love and is dedicated to the outstanding contribution made by several great legends in the history of Indian cinema. I consider it an honour and privilege to have personally interviewed most of these highly respected and talented celebrities. We are truly delighted to showcase this highly entertaining and unique series, through Prime Video in the U.S. and the UK,” said Dr. Shan Chandrasekar, president and CEO of ATN, in a news release on Monday.
The series features interviews with icons from the Hindi film industry, such as Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand, Dilip Kumar, Sunil Dutt, Amitabh Bachchan, Jitendra, Shatrugan Sinha, Vinod Khanna, Naseerudin Shah, Rekha, Sridevi, Shabana Azmi, Tanuja Mukherjee, Priyanka Chopra, Kulraj Randhawa, Lara Dutta, Pooja Batra, Kabir Bedi, Rani Mukherjee, Nandita Das, Waheeda Rehman, Gulshan Grover, Om Puri, Randeep Hooda, Emraan Hashmi, Nargis Fakhri, Arif Zakaria, and many more.
Among the producers and directors interviewed are Shyam Benegal, Yash Chopra, V. Shantaram, Kidar Sharma, Ramanand Sagar, B. R Chopra, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Mani Ratnam, Ismail Merchant and Anuradha Tiwari, to name a few.
The series also features stars from the Southern India film industry, such as Shivaji Ganesan, Rajanikant, Kamala Hassan, Padmini, Saroja Devi, Jaya Pradha, Anirudh Ravichander and Shobana, as well as from the Punjabi film industry, such as Gurdas Mann, Harman Baweja, Harshdeep Kaur, Malkit Singh, and others.
ATN’s tribute series also includes exclusive interviews with singers and composers, such as “the Nightingale of India” Lata Mangeshkar, Oscar winner A R Rahman, Asha Bhosle, Anu Malik, Vishal-Shekar, Salim Suleiman, Jagjit Singh, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Manna Dey, Shankar Mahadevan, S.P. Balasubramaniam, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Anuradha Paudwal, Udit Narayan, Abhijit, Kailash Kher, Nitin Mukesh, Kanika Kapoor, Pankaj Udhas, Richa Sharma, and more.
