Film Bazaar sees increased activity

GOA -- India's annual film market the Film Bazaar (Nov. 14-27), which is organized by the National Film Development Corp., saw a flurry of activity this edition. Sales agents Fortissimo Films will represent debutant helmer Anand Gandhi's "The Ship of Theseus" internationally, excluding South Asia, and has also boarded the film as co-producer. Pic, which is in post, stars Egyptian thesp Aida El-Kashef and Bollywood's Sohum Shah and Neeraj Kabi. "Lorna's Silence" associate producer Christoph Thoke has announced a January 2012 shoot for 2010 Bazaar alumnus "Television" to be directed by Bangladesh's Mostofa Sarwar Farooki. Thoke is producing through his shingle Mogador Film. France's Eaux Vives Productions are co-producing. The NFDC has joined helmer Q's "Tasher Desh" as co-producers. Pic is a production between India's Overdose Art, Anurag Kashap Films, Dream Digital and Belgium's Entre Chien Et Loup. The film has just wrapped principal photography. Bikas Mishra's "Chauranga" won the Indian tourism ministry's $20,000 cash award for the best film in the co-production market. And four Bazaar projects -- Khanjan Kishor Nath's "The Bicycle," Haobam Paban Kumar's "The Gun," Manjeet Singh's "Mumbai Cha Raja" and Satish Manwar's "What's Your Religion?" -- have been chosen to participate in the Rotterdam fest's Rotterdam lab in 2012. Contact the Variety newsroom at news@variety.com