Geeta Krishna's 'Koffi Bar'- a definite boxoffice 'hit'

By M H Ahssan

Ace Director Geetha Krishna, known for making some of the meaningful and trendsetting movies like Sankeerthana, Kokila, Keechurallu and Time, is directing another movie after a long gap. He has started his own production house - Blue Fox – and under this banner he is producing and directing a new flick titled Koffi Bar (aka Coffee Bar). Geeta Krishna's Koffi Bar, starring Shashank and Biyanka Desai in lead roles, has completed its 50 per cent of the shooting in different locales in India. Geeta Krishna of Sankeerthana, Kokila, Keechurallu and Time fame is directing and producing the film under his new banner Blue Fox Cinema.

Speaking about his film, Geetha Krishna told HNN that he believes in five elements for the success of the film. They are, a good story, good screenplay, good music, good lyrics and good cinematography. With all these elements the film gives a good feeling to the audience. Regarding his film, he does not want to reveal the story and the artists because they are the most prominent ones which would also be the main attraction of the film.

Lyrics: Vanamali; Cinematography: Prakash; Music, dialogues, screenplay, production and direction by Geetha Krishna.

Directed and produced by Geeta Krishna on the banner of Blue Fox Cinema, ‘ Gita Krishna Koffi Bar’ is presently busy in regular shooting.

AdLabs of Anil Ambani group of Reliance, signed an agreement with the banner for distribution of the film overseas (US). Gita Krishna says, ‘We are shooting the film with digital camera. Almost 50 per cent shooting was complete and it would be wrapped up by the end of April. It is a complete youthful film. At the same time, we touched several problems faced by the present day society and there will be several thrilling scenes in our movie.’

AdLabs head of operations Udaykumar says, ‘AdLabs has over 390 screens in India, the US and Malaysia. We had distributed several Telugu films across the globe in the past six months. As part of promoting the Telugu films across the world, we signed an agreement with Gita Krishna to distribute ‘Koffi Bar’ in the US.

DigiQuest CEO Kishori Basireddy says, ‘We are providing the entire digital work of the movie.’ Murali, who is making his debut as cinematographer through this movie says, ‘I was trained in the New York University in cinematography and I am very happy to work for this movie.’

Geetha Krishna stated that he believes in five elements for the success of the film. They are, a good story, good screenplay, good music, good lyrics and good cinematography. With all these elements the film gives a good feeling to the audience. Regarding his film, he does not want to reveal the story and the artists because they are the most prominent ones which would also be the main attraction of the film.