Amitabh Bachchan's AB Corp’s hit Gujarati film Saptapadii (THE BUSINESSMAN’s WIFE) is back at Showcase Cinemas in Lowell MA on 29th September at 2pm
BOSTON Connection;
Hit Gujarati film Saptapadii (THE BUSINESSMAN’s WIFE) has a strong BOSTON connection; The script supervisor has been Chirag (Manoj) Shah a NH resident and Whistling Woods International Mumbai Film School Graduate, Boston Scenes filmed by Mike Lennon, Eshani Shah as a Assistant to the Director for Boston Shoot, Shailee Shah, a Boston based UMASS Amherst student making her film career debut with a prominent role in this film which is written by Boston based poet, playwright Chandrakant Shah along with Director Niranjan Thade and popular Gujarati writer Kajal Oza Vaidya with Music by Rajat Dholakia and Piyush Kanojia and produced by Amitabh Bachchan's AB Corp. Worldwide distributed by Mrinal Kapadia and Dr. Devdatt Kapadia of Different Strokes Communications in Mumbai. Top Bollywood Technicians have worked on this film for its post production. TV Asia and Parikh Media Worldwide are USA Media partners!
The film has been screened in Phoenix AZ, Boston MA, Atlanta GA, Tampa FL, New Heaven CT, New York NY, Cleveland OH, Columbus OH, Detroit MI, Louisville KY, Peoria IL, Rock Island IL, Kansas City KS, Las Vegas NV, Jacksonville FL, Houston TX, Dallas TX, Hartford CT, Chicago IL, San Francisco, CA, Washington DC and North Bergen & Edison NJ in USA, Edmonton, Calgary and Toronto in Canada as well as Melbourne in Australia, to rave reviews from viewers. This refreshing modern Gujarati film; ran for 11 weeks in Mumbai creating a milestone for Gujarati films and has been to multiple international film festivals;
2012 Mumbai Film Festival
2012 Vancouver South Asian Film Festival
2012 Jaipur International Film Festival
(Awarded ‘a Special Mention’ by Jury)
2013 Film Festival Australia
2013 Washington DC South Asian Film Festival
2013 Japan South Asian Film Festival (Oct ’13)
2013 JAGARAN India Film Festival



The cast of the film includes:
Swati                          : Swaroop Sampat
Siddharth            : Manav Gohil
Mohsin            : Heet Somani (Introducing)
Shreya            : Shailee Shah (Introducing)
Dr. Patrawala        : Utkarsh Mazumdar
Police Officer            : Homi Wadia
Rohan                : Vihaan Choudhary
Mohsin's Dad            : Dr. Sanjeev Gandhi
Mohsin's Mom            :Purva Parag
Terrorist 1            : Rajendra Gupta
Terrorist 2            : Tarun Shukla
Terrorist 3            : Alekh Sangal
The Children of Primary School, Saputara
Saptapadii (A Businessman’s Wife) Saptapadii: The story traces how a businessman Sid (Manav Gohil) and his wife Swati (Swaroop Sampat) drift apart due to her passionate attempts to cure a 9 year old traumatized child (Heet Samani) and Sid's obsession with expanding his business empire. Intense arguments erupt when Sid finds out that Swati's involvement with the child can have disastrous consequences for his business and family life. Both separate on these arguments. Their daughter (Shailee Shah) studying in USA makes her best effort to bring them together. Does she succeed? Does Swati cure the child?

The film is produced by top Indian actor Mr. Amitabh Bachchan who played an important character of Mayor Wolfsheim in recently released Hollywood film THE GREAT GATSBY.

This is what Zee News had to report on the success of the film when Amitabh Bachchan himself twitted about the film and also posted on his Facebook page:

AB Corp's Gujarati film 'Saptapadii' a hit, Big B elated;
Zee News India

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan is ecstatic after his Gujarati production venture "Saptapadii" opened to rave reviews and is enjoying a successfull run in theatres in second week.

Directed by Niranjan Thade, the film's story, jointly written by Gujarati poet and writer Chandrakant Shah and Kajal Oza Vaidya, revolves around a couple whose life changes after a child, who lost his parents in a terror attack, comes into their lives.

Swaroop Sampat and TV actor Manav Gohil play lead roles in the movie that has got an overwhelming response at the box office.

"AB Corp. produced Gujarati film 'Saptapadii' now running successfully in Gujarat and Mumbai in second week. Mumbai seeks to increase the number of screens! The film has received special mention for the Green Rose at the Jaipur Film Festival," Amitabh wrote on his Facebook page.

Amitabh wrote that everyone who has seen the film has enjoyed it.

"Being talked of as the 'turning point' in Gujarati Cinema. Go and see it!! It will give huge boost for the Gujarati film industry," he added.

AB Corp.'s move into regional cinema seems to be yielding favourable results. Earlier, their Marathi film "Vihir" too won accolades.

"AB Corp. has been actively involved in producing and promoting regional cinema. Our film 'Vihir' in Marathi won several awards of recognition across the globe at various festivals," Amitabh wrote.


AUDIENCE REACTIONS
From Arizona
•    Hello from Arizona!! We watched the movie as a family in Scottsdale, AZ and enjoyed it. The story is also about social responsibility. The English subtitle is added plus for kids. Recommend to all Gujarati and non-Gujarati friends!! It's a movie for everyone who enjoys Bollywood. – Hiteshree Parikh
From Boston:
•    This film hits at the very core of what we are all about – helping others.- Samir Desai
•    That was one of the most wonderful movie I saw. The theme , dialogues, acting , location, music was just a smooth flow -- full of passion and touching the spirit of human being.- Dr. Dinesh Patel
•    Congratulation. It was one of Best Gujarati Movie I have ever seen. It excelled in every aspect & you should consider more of it. – Dr. Kishore Mehta
•    I really liked the last scene of the movie where Manav talks about how much do I need to make you happy and that he wants to reinvest in social programs. Nicely shown how an event like this brings a turn in someone's life. – Gaurav Shah
•    It was a pleasure watching the movie with Sawroop Sampat. Former Miss India, 1979!! It's a must see movie- Jigna Yash Shah
•    Saptapadii is an amazing modern Gujarati film. I recommend this movie to all my friends and their friends to watch along with their spouse and kids, because: 1. Outstanding way to convey an important message to our community 2. A unique message for a married couple 3. Displaying passion and commitment to change something important- Rakesh Kamdar
•    The message was clear ..n story was so good ...great job chandu n Eshani Shah...guys don't miss this movie has three show this weekend. ..- Jay Patel
•    The only thing I would add is that my tween/teenager kids also loved it and understood ALL of it. Go see the movie with y our kids and grand kids. The only thing I need now is the CD with all those songs !!! – Alkesh Shah
From NJ
•    I saw Gujarati movie after very long time. It was very nice movie, seems scripted for American-Gujarati Audience. In our Gujarati home - Our Gujarati is mixer of English - Gujarati. It was showing up/down in relationship. Relationships were going down, Problems were going up. It seems sun was about to set, and darkness about to increase but suddenly sun rises up. When there is a hope, there is a solution. In one word - Movie was showing Sunrise at Sunset - Athamta Suraj No Udai. Congratulations to Chandubhai and all Hardworking Associates. Thank you again. - Harish Hathiwala,CPA
•    We enjoyed the movie. Congratulations to Chandrakant Shah.His boldest step is to keep the movie length appropriate to the subject. Almost all Indian movies are stretched making them annoying and often boring. Chadrakant has shown respect for audience's time and inteligence.- Dhiraj Davda
•    Thank you very much to you and to all the Executive Committee members of the Academy for providing us an excellent opportunity of watching a very thought provoking and modern age movie, that too at no cost. Please convey our congratulations also to Mr. Chandrakant Shah and his daughter for giving an excellent film to the Gujarati people. I recommend that every Gujarati should watch the movie at the earliest. We all wish a grand success to Chandrakantbhai and his team for this movie in India and all over the world wherever there are Gujarati people. Looking forward for more and more such films and dramas. Thanks.-Niranjan.Gandhi.

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