Oddball Motion Pictures

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Oddball Motion pictures is the brainchild of Nitin Upadhyaya, who has been working in the industry for the last 12 years and has played a pivotal role in multiple successful Bollywood projects like Ek Villain, Azhar, Ragini MMS, and Kya Kool Hai Hum franchisee. With an entrepreneur mindset, Nitin Upadhyay proceeded to start his own production house - Oddball Motion Picture

Oddball always believed in a good script is the soul of a good film. The script selection process follows three layers of rigorous checks by various department HODs consisting of Directors, Production Head, and team members to shortlist a script.

Once the script is finalized, the casting team conducts deep research to find the right casting for the scripts, as we at Oddball believe that a right casting is equivalent to the half job done.

A detailed blueprint is created by the department HODs in consultation with the Directors and Producers to make sure all the necessary checkpoints are chalked out in terms of Recce, location scouting, props, secondary casting well in advance to allow a smooth ride for the actual shoot.

Oddball motion pictures have created many high profile productions, beginning with Behen Hogi Teri starring National Award winner Raj Kummar Rao and multi-talented Shruti Haasan. The project was helmed by debutant director Ajay K Pannalal.

After getting success in Punjabi films and music industry Ajay K Pannalal wrote a slice of life script Behen Hogi Teri. Ajay wrote the central character by taking inspiration from his sister and brother in law, as they faced problems to get married. This realistic approach to the storytelling and grounded characters impressed Nitin Upadhyaya to approve the script.

The film is based in Lucknow where central characters Gattu and Binny stay in the same vicinity in the old town of Lucknow. The production team along with Director of photography recceed the whole old modelled Lucknow as Nitin believed that real location of Lucknow will act as a character on its own and will add an intriguing tinge to the storytelling. The Principle photography in Lucknow was shot for 24 days, sometimes it was difficult to shoot as the cast of the film including veterans like Gulshan Grover and Ranjeet are very popular actors in Hindi Heartland, thus attracting the masses to the shooting locations. It was the first film to be shot in Lucknow metro.

Nitin ensured to leave no stone unturned to hire the best technicians in the industry, one of them being Avinash Sonawane, a national award winner for critically acclaimed blockbuster Sairat. Nitin and Ajay decided that the background score should give a narrative of the heartland and have a command over Hindi and folk music hence it was decided that the Punjabi Stalwart musician Jaidev Kumar who rose to fame with 90s blockbuster song DIL LE GAYI KUDI GUJRAT DI will be trusted with the background score.

The first look of the film was launched with a song Jai Maa which was a rehash of blockbuster song Kala Chasma featuring Siddartha Malhotra and Katrina Kaif. The song opened with a great review and industry bigwigs like Anurag Kashyap, Siddartha Malhotra and many others were intrigued to see Rajkummar Rao in an altogether different avatar.

The trailer was launched on 1st May 2017 and within 24 hours of its release on Youtube, became the #1 trending video beating Bahubali 2 hysteria around social media and was trending #5 on Twitter.

The Songs had a massive following as it marked the comeback of international artists Rishi Rich and Juggy D along with popular rapper Raftaar. A remixed version titled Jaanu Meri Jaan and a playback song by the popular singer Arijit Singh was the rage in radio channels and hits the charts on Jio saavn and various other song sharing platform.

The marketing team of Oddball designed a very catchy phrase BEHENZONED where people have to share their story of getting a person tagged as a brother from their partner, the phase even hogged a limelight in The Kapil Sharma Show, when the cast appeared on the show for promotion and #Behenzoned was trending on Twitter.

The film was a mighty hit on satellite premiere, data from BARC shows that film debuted with over 4 million impressions on TV pushing broadcaster & pictures to the top rank in Hindi movie category that week. It was also the third-highest Hindi movie genre on a paid platform for a subsequent airing for a week with a million impressions.

Post-release the film has been provided with a subsidy for its quality and providing wholesome entertainment from the Honorable Chief Minister of State of Uttar Pradesh, Shri Yogi Aditya Nath Ji.

Subsequent productions from Oddball include Footfairy, a bilingual film shot in Hindi and Marathi starring Gulshan Devaiah, Sagarika Ghatge and, Kunal Roy Kapoor. Kanishka Varma is an ardent fan of Hollywood biggie David Fincher's neo-noir suspense drama. He took the inspiration from the character of novels written by John .E. Douglas, Ex FBI agent who had solved various murder mystery and serial killings. Kanishka Varma always had Gulshan Devaiah who is known for his versatility in his mind to play the lead role of a CBI officer, and in first narration, Gulshan Devaiah gave his nod to the film. Nitin Upadhyaya has in his mind to shoot the film in Hindi and Marathi. Kanishka Varma with his vast experience of working as an assistant director helped him to plan film better as the film was shot in Hindi and Marathi both in just span of 30 days as the deadline was of 34 days, Kanishka quoted in the daily newspaper “The crew and team of oddball were so much prepped and planned that the shoot was completed in record time”.

The film has a set tone visually which was a difficult task to achieve in time as Director of photography Pratik Deoa was quoted “After I read the script, Kanishk and I had long brainstorming sessions. We broke down all the character’s spaces and scenes into a treatment. Based on our discussions I developed a mood board for the entire film, which became a guiding bible for the colours, camera movements, and lighting in the film. Working on this mood board is an essential part of my pre-production process. It becomes that reference point for everything from costume colours, set colours, makeup tonalities to the final colour grading process in post-production, hence making the look of the film come together”. The film's background score was given by award-winning music director Mangesh Dhakde.

The film was very special on its own as it was a direct tv premiere as Zee was repeating its trend after a long 27 years on & pictures. The film garnered positive critical response, based on the reviews by professional critics. Good word of mouth publicity played a part in its popularity besides the positive reviews. The Republic news channel rated the film entertaining saying that Gulshan Devaiah’s character as Vivaan Deshmukh is really great to watch. His thought princess and how he eliminates the suspects is extremely intriguing to watch. The plot weaves in the jump scares and dreadful music very well. Moumita Bhattacharjee from rediff wrote “Footfairy is a must-watch for anyone who enjoys a psychological crime thriller”, The reviews in Rediff, Indo Asian News Service, CNN-IBN, Zee News, Hindustan Times, and The Hindu were unanimously positive, and noted script, direction, cinematography, and acting as strong points of the film. The film's massive rage on TV premiere garnered more than 10 million viewership count. After seeing the critical and positive response Nitin upadhyaya is intended to make footfairy into a series.

Ridicoolas, starring Sacred Games fame Rajashri Deshpande and Nishan Nanaiah in the lead, the 21 min film premiered on zee5. The movie is directed by Geetika Sood who has been closely associated with Bollywood biggies like Shaadi Ke Side Effect, Main Tera Hero, Azhar and various successful films. The short film has managed to impress the critics and audiences with its hard-hitting narrative and impressive performance by its lead cast.

ODDBALL Motion Pictures have made their presence in international markets too with its upcoming venture A Life Lost and Found by the prestigious Hong-Kong Asia film financing forum which selects 25 films all over Asia. Oddball has also ventured in line producing the songs from the most expensive Nepalese film shot with Sunny Leone in London

Our upcoming projects include Quickie a teen comedy directed by Pradip Atluri extensively shot in London and other parts of United Kingdom which marks a comeback of Darsheel Safary who rose to fame with a critical blockbuster Taare Zameen Par. The first look of the film was launched on Valentine's day with Darsheel Safary in a new look which was covered by the whole section of electronic and print media, the poster and comeback were tweeted by various film pundits including Taran Adarsh.

We have also stepped into a regional cinema through Sur Lagu De starring National Award Winner Vikram Gokhale and Suhasini Mulay. And Daav the Marathi version of Footfairy which are set to release on Zee Talkies and Netflix India.

Our country is a fascinating land that’s so much more than its cultural history and diversity. What makes our country so special yet so accessible is the spirit of billions of Indian living through difficult surroundings and breaking the orthodox rules along their way. We take great pride to say that there is a fighter in every Indian and this list honours Major Priya Jhingan. Oddball motion pictures acquired the rights to make a biopic on the life of Major Priya Jhingan, the first woman cadet to join the Indian Army in 1992 .enrolled as cadet no..001, Priya Jhingan became the first woman along with 24 spirited women. This was the first batch of trailblazers for women in armed forces

Major Priya Jhingan was recently accorded by the Honourable President Ram Nath Kovind alongside 99 other maverick women, for being the first to break the glass ceiling and first to male a career in male-dominated roles.

Oddball Motion pictures was delighted to announce development on the eve of 69th republic day of India. Nitin A Gokhale with his longstanding experience as a conflict reporter and defence analyst will Be collaborating on the project that will adapt his book (Securing India The Modi Way: Pathankot, Surgical strike and more) to the silver screen.

Oddball Motion Pictures is committed to providing a gritty and realistic account of the events that Were set in motion right after the grim news of the Uri attack in September 2016.The surgical Strike In the wake of the Uri attack proved to be the befitting reply India needed to send to the enemies within Pakistan. The prompt decisions made by the then Defence Minister Late Manohar Parrikar And Prime Minister Narendra Modi, NSA Ajit Doval and their active roles will also be highlighted in the film.

Late Manohar Parrikar, Ex defence Minister and Ex-Chief Minister of Goa, who led the 2016 strike had graciously granted his support to Nitin Upadhyaya and Writer Nitin A Gokhale for the making of the film. Late Manohar Parrikar Quoted “I am happy to see Nitin Gokhale book being adapted for a feature film by Oddball Motion Pictures. This will make many more people aware of important steps, including proactive surgical strikes taken by the government to secure the country. I wish the oddball and his team a great success”

We have been one of India’s finest line production companies, accoutered and experienced in providing production services across the country and globe. We have now become one of the most preferred Production Services partners in India and Europe. We have shot extensively in various locations across India including Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Kolkata, Delhi, Punjab, and Himachal Pradesh as well as in London, Europe, Edinburg, and the whole United Kingdom. We have a vast knowledge of the opportunities and challenges faced across several regions all over the world.

Oddball Motion Pictures offer various production services which include - Location Scouting, Budgeting, Casting, Permits, Travel & Accommodation, Crew Hiring, and Post Production. We will soon begin production in the other parts of the world in the United States, Australia, and various other countries, with a few groundbreaking films that will be released next year. We will also be developing fresh and intriguing content for a Digital and Television format.