Sanjay wrote:
hal wrote:
Hey guys, the release of the "Parineeta" DVD will be on September 13th. And it will be loaded with features and directors commentary (first time in Indian cinema) and other stuff. Looks like VVC wanted every nook and cranny cornered for this DVD which explains why it took such a long time to release. Kudos!!!
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Excel Home Videos is a joke. I recently watched another DVD, 'Khamosh Pani', released by them, and it was a totally trash DVD. The sound was 'mono', although the cover quite prominently displayed 5.1 sound. To make things worse, throughout the film there is an annoying 'humm', disturbance in the background. As for the video, the less said the better. The cover states that the film is presented in 16:9. Before you go thinking that the film is presented in an anamorphic/enhanced for 16:9 format, be informed that is not the case, but rather, what they mean by "presented in 16:9' is that they have cropped (chopped) off the sides of the 2.35:1 film to a 16:9 image. The quality of the picture itself is also crap. It is a testimony to how good the actual film is that I even bothered to sit thru the entire film and bear the agony of the crappy Excel Home Videos' DVD.

PS: I wrote an email regarding the Khamosh Pani DVD and sent it to 4 different people within Excel Home Videos, but i never received any reply.

As a follow up to my previous post in this matter, I did receive an email from Mr. Shabbir Kapasi: Quote:
Dear Sanjay,

My sincere apologies in delay for replying to your below e-mail, would request you to give more details about you so that we can get the necessary refund or exchange done. Also request you to give me your telephone number and I would speak to you personally and explain to you on the below.

Regards,
Shabbir

I wrote back with my Cell phone number and within minutes of sending my email I got a call from Shabbir. He was apologetic about the 'Khamosh Pani' DVD and although he gave some flimsy excuse that there was a screw up in the production and that they had recalled the initial lot of DVDs, I still think it is quite noteworthy for him to take the trouble of replying and then calling me. Shabbir also offered to refund my purchase price or have the DVD exchanged for another title. I told him I'd rather just wait and replace it with the future corrected DVD release of Khamosh Pani. I then mentioned the forthcoming 'Parineeta' DVD release and he promised that it would be a 'World class' DVD and that it will also be the 1st Indian DVD with DTS sound. I guess we can discount the Universal release of 'Wedding Monsoon' as the first Indian DVD with DTS, since it was a Canadian production and the DVD a Hollywood release.
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but world class dvd from India!! I am scratching my head kuch jamti nahin