Eros International Upcoming Films 2016: Over 65 films!

Eros International has announced their 2016 upcoming movies line-up, which is a long list of more than 65 films in multiple languages. The biggies include Housefull 3, Dishoom, Hera Pheri 3 and Shivaay.

The year will see the release of films like R. Balki’s ‘Ki & Ka’, starring Arjun Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor Khan, set for April 1; the hit franchise comedy Housefull 3 set for June 3 and Rohit Dhawan’s Dishoom, starring John Abraham and Varun Dhawan scheduled to release on July 29.

Neeraj Vora’s Hera Pheri 3, starring John Abraham, Abhishek Bachchan and Paresh Rawal, will hit screens on August 12. Riteish Deshmukh and Nargis Fakhri starrer Banjo is slated for August 19.

Nitya Mehra’s ‘Baar Baar Dekho’, a love story starring Katrina Kaif and Siddharth Malhotra, will release on September 9.

Dum Laga Ke Haisha actors Ayushmann Khuranna and Bhumi Pednekar will return on the silver screen with ‘Manmarziyan’, which will release on September 23.

Ajay Devgn’s highly ambitious directorial venture ’Shivaay’ will release in time for Dilwale on October 28. This will be followed by ‘Rock On 2’, which will release on November 11.

Eros International will also present Saif Ali Khan’s Chef and Amyra Dastur, Diganth Manchale’s ‘Ticket to Bollywood’.

In the Tamil industry, Eros will present films like ’24’, starring Suriya, Samantha; Siddharth and Hansika Motwani’s ‘Uyire Uyire’ and Suriya, Anushka Shetty and Shruti Haasan’s “Singam 3”.

“We have seen an excellent 2015 with the resounding success of ‘Tanu Weds Manu Returns’, peaking with the multiple-record breaking ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ and ending the year with our crowning glory ‘Bajirao Mastani’.

“We are at a very exciting phase in Eros and have an equally promising slate coming up in 2016 that will reinforce and further strengthen our leadership position in the Indian media and entertainment industry,” Sunil Lulla, managing director, Eros International Media Ltd, said in a statement.

“We hope and believe that 2016 will be just as magical as 2015,” he added.

Amongst other big releases from different regional industries that will be presented by Eros include “Sardaar Gabbar Singh” (Telugu), “White” (Malayalam), “Praktan” (Bengali) and “& Jara Hatke” (Marathi).

Eros International Upcoming Movies in Hindi

• Ki & Ka
• Housefull 3
• Dishoom
• Baar Baar Dekho
• Rock On 2
• Shivaay
• Happy Bhaag Jayegi
• Manmarziyan

Other than that, Eros will team up with Aanand L Rai’s joint production company Colour Yellow Production. The films will include ‘Nil Battey Sannata’ that has received a good response at various festivals including the 20th Busan International Film Festival, 59th BFI London Film Festival with Swara Bhaskar wining the Best Actress at the Silk Road Film Festival of China. The biggie will be Rai’s own directorial film, which will go into production this summer – it’s rumoured to feature Shah Rukh Khan in the lead.

After co-producing films like Goliyon Ki Rasleela Ram Leela and Bajirao Mastani, Eros and Bhansali Productions will be joining hands on more co-productions, details of which will be announced at a later date.

Also scheduled to go on floor this year will be Eros and Phantom’s socio-drama superhero film ‘Bhavesh Joshi’ starring Harshvardhan Kapoor to be directed by Vikramaditya Motwane.

Other films slated to release in 2016 include Hansal Mehta’s critically-acclaimed Aligarh, Marathi director and National award winner Ravi Jadhav’s Hindi debut Banjo starring Riteish Deshmukh and Nargis Fakri, director Mohit Jha’s sports drama Saat Kadam and Pawan Kripalani’s psychological thriller Phobia starring Raadhika Apte.

Eros will also release Vinay Sapru and Radhika Rao’s musical love story Sanam Teri Kasam starring newcomers Harshvardhan Rane and Pakistani actress Mawra Hocane; Do Lafzon Ki Kahani by Deepak Tijori with Randeep Hooda and Kajal Agarwal as the lead pair along with Saif Ali Khan starrer Chef, a remake of 2014’s Hollywood hit Chef.

EROS REGIONAL LANGUAGES

The company’s regional slate includes Marathi films like Sanjay Jadhav’s Guru, National award winning director Sujay Dahake’s Phuntroo, and Prakash Kunte’s & Jara Hatke.

Eros has already released the Telugu films – Balakrishna’s Dictator on 14 January, Pawan Kalyan’s Sardar Gabbar Singh, Mammootty’s Malayalam films White and Fahad Fazil’s Nale along with 2 Penkuttikalfeaturing Tovino Thomas, Amala Paul, Anju Kurian and Anna Fathima.

Following the release of Bengali film Monchora by Sandip Ray with Abir Chatterjee and Raima Sen in January, Eros will release Prakton directed by Shiboprasad Mukherjee starring Prosenjit Chatterjee and Rituparna Sengupta paired together after a decade.

The Tamil movies’ in the pipeline include the Sivakarthikeyan starrer Rajini Murugan that released earlier this month; Suriya’s 24 directed by Vikram, Enkitta Mothathe, which is cinematographer Natarajan Subramaniam’s (Nutty) debut as an actor with Sanchita Shetty directed by Ramu Chellapa, actor Jaya Prada’s first Tamil production Uyire Uyire, Suriya’s Singam 3, Kai Neelam directed by Nalan Kumarsamy, Oru Kidayin Karunai Mamu directed by Suresh Sangiah and an untitled film starring mega star Karthi.

The company is also collaborating with Harry Baweja to co-produce the sequel to the 3D animation film, Chaar Sahibzade, titled Chaar Sahibzaade 2 (Rise of Banda Singh Bahadur) followed by another 3D animation film Guru Tegh Bahadur.