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• Abhini is the Executive Director of Indywood Fashion Premier League (IFPL)
• Initiated the fashion theme named “A walk for a cause,” for promoting the weaver’s community in India through IFPL Season 3

Dubai: Prominent Indian fashion choreographer Dalu Krishnadas has announced Kerala-Based Entrepreneur and Abhini Sohan Roy as the brand ambassador of prestigious Mrs. Cosmos Fashion Icon 2020, presented by Dalu Fashion Factory. He made the announcement in his Facebook post.

An unfathomable amalgam of art and trade, Abhini Sohan Roy is a woman with the power to dream and live it. She is everything from Producer at BizTV Network, Managing Director of Aries Telecasting Pvt Ltd, Aries Interiors LLC, the movie production, television, and interior wings of Aries Group of Companies to a graceful dancer. Her abundant aura of self-confidence, is the sheer reason behind her success, making her beyond perfect to be the brand ambassador of this venture.

All the showcased designs during the grand event of Indywood Fashion Premier League Season 3 at Taj Connemara in Chennai on Feb 14th, 2020, were handpicked by Abhini Sohan, who is well known for her impeccable design sense. The fashion and glam event was lined with numerous models and eminent designers of the fashion world. Recognizing the relevance of age-old weaving tradition of India and the significant role it played in shaping the fashion world for ages, IFPL season 3 was themed “A walk for a cause,” which unveiled a more substantial cause of promoting the weaver’s community in India.  Abhini is also the wife of Sohan Roy, who is the CEO of Aries Group of companies based in UAE. Traveling around the world and imbibing fashion from varied cultures and nations, her choice of clothes showcased in the event was subject to great appreciation.

Mrs. Cosmos Fashion Icon 2020 by Dalu Fashion Factory is a platform that encourages women to pursue their fashion dreams even after marriage. Virtual Beauty Pageant MR & MISS COSMOS FASHION ICON 2020 presented by Dalu Fashion Factory, will be the one of a kind event marking history in the world of beauty pageants.

Dalu is striving to bring up numerous married women to achieve their long-term fashion aspirations through this virtual beauty pageant competition. Interested women can contact 9995291089 for more details.

Acknowledging the selfless contribution of Dr. Sohan Roy, Founder Chairman and CEO of UAE based Aries Group of Companies during the COVID-19 pandemic scenario, Bharat Cine & TV Writers Association awarded him with a Certificate of Participation. The award was presented in recognition of Dr. Roy’s outstanding dedication and service to the nation & fight against COVID 19 during the period of lockdown. He was titled and appreciated as “CORONA Warrior” by the association. As a part of its Group’s Social Commitment Scheme, Aries distributed masks to Kerala Police to keep them safe during the COVID emergency in the state. To prevent the exposure of our Police department to any health risk because of lack of healthcare equipment, He also included members of the Police Department along with underprivileged families and other healthcare professionals under the Social Commitment Scheme.
His immediate announcement as soon as the pandemic hit, was to provide 10 ventilators to 10 districts. His other statement was “Support a Family” drive to support 2000 needy families, where he had asked each of the company’s employees to try and help one poor family and take up their responsibility during this crisis period. This campaign was launched considering the hardships daily wagers have to endure during this lockdown period. His 9000sq. Ft house at Desamangalam, Kerala, was also set aside for getting it converted to isolation wards by the state. Apart from delivering 1000 masks, the group has also promised to provide monetary back up to fund the in house masks made by the battalion. Recently, Idukki M.P Dean Kuriakkose inaugurated the Aries Family Help Scheme under which the group provided around 1800 needy families with food through the public kitchen. Aries Group has always played a significant role when it comes to CSR activities.

The company has a remarkable history in helping people cope with turns of unfortunate events, both natural and man-made. When the Kerala flood took a toll on people’s lives, the advanced rescue operations and disaster coping mechanisms carried out by the Aries Group gained much recognition and acknowledgment. Being the founder Chairman of Indywood Billionaires Club, he has been setting a remarkable example for others from the Billionaires in the community to extend their valuable contributions.

Well known American singer, lyricist, and music director, Edon Molla will now be a part of Aries Group’s upcoming movie named “Mmmmm…”. The film is produced by Hollywood Director and poet Sohan Roy and directed by Vijeesh Mani.

Edon Molla has worked with many reputed artists in the American music industry, including the Grammy Award winners. His music has been recognized by New York’s Brooklyn Marathon, independent movies of Europe and America, and various radio stations. Edon’s first album “Alone” had attained lakhs of streams through digital media platforms, in a short span of four months. ‘Mmmmm’ will be his debut project in the Indian music industry. Well known music director, Jubair Muhammad is handling the movie’s music section.

“Mmmmm…” is a movie which stresses on various environmental concepts. Producers reported that Edon decided to be a part of the film after listening to the theme and message the cinema had to offer. Initially, the first few schedules were planned to be shot at international locations. Unfortunately, due to the COVID 19 pandemic, all decided scenes will now be shot in India.

Recipient of numerous accreditations including Guinness World Record in the film field, Vijeesh Mani is directing the movie. The name of the movie was first published on March 10th at Aries Vismayas Max Studio.

Director has announced that artists from Hollywood will be a part of this movie, as it will be released on an international scale. He also mentioned his excitement to be working alongside Sohan Roy, who gifted the world with a foreign movie like DAM 999. Vijeesh has received various acknowledgments like Guinness record for the filming of the tribal language, Guinness record for finishing script in record time, and releasing it in theatres. He has also been bestowed with this year’s Indian Panorama, and many other national awards.

This movie’s producer Dr. Sohan Roy is the Director of the Hollywood movie DAM 999, who has also worked as an inevitable part of numerous other films as a producer, project designer, and actor.

A movie that made us foresee the crumbling of the Mullaperiyar dam predicted to fall in July 2020 by Nostradamus. Even the supreme Indian Parliament standing still in the name of a movie. Two states closed their borders and involving in a fight between each other. Thousands of volunteering protesters flowing into Mullaperiyar daily. Tamil Nadu Government is continuing the ban even after the Supreme court granted permission for the release. They also denied putting up of posters through movie organizations and asking whichever theatre that came forward to show the movie to pay the entire revenue as fine. They banned satellite rights of the film, which almost got to the final step of gaining the most prestigious Oscar and assigning hundreds of Cyber soldiers to tamper with the IMDB rating. Even the history of world cinema hasn’t witnessed such atrocious activities to sabotage a movie. The ban, which gets renewed every six months, got renewed last March 20 again.

This corona era’s holidays are offering a rebirth to the many movies that got sunk in our soul’s Dam. Released 9 years ago, a Hollywood movie, that created a wave of amusement, is brimming up our search engines again as it gears to celebrate its tenth anniversary.

9 main characters, 9 locations, 9 emotions, 9 songs. 9 diverse faces of lost love, National Award winners from 9 different film industries, story developing aligning with the positioning of 9 planets, filming of Ayurveda treatment methods in 9 ways of treatment, above all, a plot that cherished 9 tracts. These 9 are the virtues that made this movie outstanding.

Directed by Dr. Sohan Roy and released in 2011, DAM 999 has novelties numerous enough to fill a dam. Apart from gaining a reputed position among the Oscar-shortlisted movies, the movie’s script, also written by Sohan Roy, was placed in the Oscar Academy Library’s (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) permanent core collection.

In 2011, this movie’s release unleashed a “water bomb” of controversies. It was also an era when the news about central Kerala, which lies in the lap of Mullaperiyar dam, gave sleepless nights to the Malayalee community all around the world. When human lovers, who got a clear picture of the Dam’s hazardous security issues through the visualization of this movie, they resolved to go for a stringent rebellion. But, Tamil Nadu banned the movie’s release.

History is what enlightened the movie’s director on the fact that dams which give people with the boons of water and light, also has the power to put off their life’s light forever. In 1975, 2,50,000 people were mass murdered by Banqiao Dam in China. Wikipedia refers to it as the tallest among the 6 oldest dams across the globe and that it is 7 times taller than Banqiao Dam. These facts vividly explain the intensity of horror that was collecting in the Mullaperiyar dam along with water.

Just like emotions and consciousness make a man think, it urged Sohan Roy to sit and ponder. Afterward, he filmed the documentary named “Dams: The Lethal Water Bombs” and shared his concerns with society. The short film secured three awards from Los Angeles Movie Festival and Movie awards the very next year itself and continued to acquire about 23 international awards in the coming years.

When a twenty-one-minute movie was subject to acknowledgment, he realized the seamless opportunities a commercial film made on the same concept could receive. It urged him to make a movie on a larger canvas. In contrast to “Titanic” movie’s concept of coincidental disaster, a film which pictures human-made disaster can fulfil the actual goal of the art of movie-making- bringing awareness. With this thought in mind, he started conceptualizing it in him. The director spent the entire savings made through 16 years long hard work for this ten million budget debut film, without fathoming that he is stepping into a great disaster.

By the time “DAM 999” was ready for release, it had already received so many accolades. The movie has cast 16 national award winners, and became the first Indian movie to implement 2D to 3D “conversion technology.” The film was also simultaneously released in 5 world languages. It was shot aboard the largest ship in the world’s history, making it the first Indian film that had incorporated the water graphics technology. DAM999 was the first Indian movie produced in the Hollywood format. It was distributed by the world-famous production and distribution company “Warner Bros.” Banned in the state, even before its release, it became super hit, thanks to the controversies of actor created due to actor Thilakan and Mullaperiyar, etc. These exciting facts made the movie stand out, which comes to a total of nine specialties, including controversies and novelties during release time.

The film was also a “super-hit” in terms of the number of awards it had received. It was also shortlisted for Oscar and received five entries in three categories. Besides this, the movie got selected to compete in twelve categories for the very next year’s Golden Rooster Awards. Dam 999 is also the first Indian movie that to have obtained entry to this award, which is also popularly known as the “Chinese Oscar.”

In the year of 2013, the cinema received “Best Director” and “Best feature film” awards at the Cinerockholm International Film Festival; Three awards including “Special Jury Award,” “Best Movie of Festival” and “Best International Feature Film” from International Film Festival for Environment Health and Cultural Festival; “Best English Film Award” in Sangli film Festival, and more. The movie was also honored with the “Judge’s Favourite Award” at the “Antigua & Barbuda Film Festival” while the organizers honored Director Sohan Roy with a special award.

The movie got selected in about 130 film festivals including the internationally acclaimed Tehran Film Festival, Jaipur International Film Festival, Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Festival, America’s Chain NYC Festival, Louisville International Film Festival, Laughlin International Film Festival, Trinity International Film Festival, and Italy’s Salento International Film Festival. Alongside this, the film had also achieved California’s Global Music Award.

“Biz TV Network” based in UAE is the producer of “DAM 999”. Many National Award winners from different states have associated with the film’s crew. Ajay Vincent and music by Ouseppachan did the cinematography. Vinay Rai, Ashish Vidyarthi, Rajit Kapur, Vimala Raman, Linda Arsenio, Joshua Frederick. The film introduced the latest technologies in sound recording and camera, which Indian cinema had never experienced before.

If there is a record for creating novelty lining a range of innovations, that award will also go to DAM 999. The film had created nine dimensions of aesthetic appreciation to gratify the aesthetic demands of nine different categories of film viewers.

The film imparts scientific facts about a disaster that dams can cause for those who have built up dams of anxiety in their minds, which includes concerns about Mullaperiyar. To music lovers, this movie is a musical entertainer, and it takes the family audience to a state of emotional “sethubandhanam.” For those who believe in India’s indigenous healing practices, they experienced it that way. At the same time, the lovers of astrology will take it as an astrological movie. Apart from that, it will be experienced by those who believe in India’s cultural diversities, as a movie that imparts the cultural traditions to the new generation. The panoramic beauty of various landscapes will enchant travellers because the film depicts multiple sea voyages and navigational characters. The ninth feature of the movie is the romantic experience it gives to both lovers as well as disappointed lovers. It will not be a wonder even if they experience it as a sole dedication to them as the fictional works through the nine emotions of love and despair.

These many reasons are enough to curb an average person’s curiosity about why there are so many “nines” in the title of DAM 999. Doesn’t it feel like the director has synchronized nine features in production, release, and appreciation into the title? But this is not the secret behind the “nines”… That is the twist!

Vishakham Thirunal Ramavarma, the ruler of the erstwhile Travancore princely state, had signed an agreement with the British for 999 years, known as “Periyar Paattakkarar” ( Periyar Lease Agreement). The British people were authorized to construct the Mullaperiyar Dam and to distribute the water of Periyar to Tamil Nadu via the Vaigai river for 999 years. This agreement came into force on 1886 October 29. The Achyuthamenon Government had renewed the agreement post-independence.

Nobody has any grievances in supplying water to Tamil Nadu. But isn’t it atrocious to argue that Kerala has no right to rebuild the Dam for 999 years? Will a Dam which starts to give away after about a hundred years stay secure for 999 years?

Was that 999 suffixed to “DAM” because the “999” is a more significant water bomb than the Dam itself?

Only the movie’s everything, its director, ostracized before years and who still wanders around without getting moksha knows it!

13.05.2020, Saudi Arabia: UAE-based Aries Marine Services Est is one among the very few listed NDT companies based in Saudi Arabia that have received the approval of Saudi Aramco, the largest multinational petroleum and natural gas company in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Aries Marine has received approval for its Conventional NDT services. Recently, Aries Marine also secured the approval of SABIC, which has accelerated the organization’s reach in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Reckoned as one among the best inspection and maintenance companies in the world, Aries Marine and Engineering Services boasts of the most extensive Inspection and Non-Destructive Testing division in the Middle East. The team consists of experienced destructive and non-destructive testing (NDT)/ OCTG/Thermography/Eddy current/QC/Welding/ Painting inspectors.

On this remarkable achievement, Dr. Sohan Roy, Founder Chairman and CEO, Aries Group, quoted, “I am thrilled and proud of our team’s success. We started the procedure for Aramco’s approval two years ago, with lot investment in NDT facilities in the country. And Finally, today, this dream has come true. Aries has always believed in providing world-class quality and reliable services to our clients across the globe. With this certification, we have not just inched one step closer to improving our range of services but have also updated our efficiency to execute NDT tasks. We are thankful to the Aramco team for their technical and quality audits and timely support to help us succeed in gaining this prestigious milestone. Aries is now into comprehensive Visual Asset Management Platform with the support of various advanced engineering & inspection techniques like aerial/underwater drones, rope access, 3D scanning,IHM surveys & other advanced NDT methods as well”.

Besides, Aramco, the NDT division of Aries Marine, is approved by many major oil and gas companies, including ADNOC, QP, EMARAT, ENOC,KNPC,BAPCO and EMARAT. The company also expects to achieve Helideck audit approvals, MAADEN entry, ISO 17025 soon.

About Aries Group

Aries Group of Companies is a 100% service-oriented business consortium that has become one of the trusted brands in the world maritime market in the Engineering & Inspection sector. From investing in Research and Development to delivering innovative technology solutions, Aries has not just created an impressive line-up of creative concepts and products but has touched the lives of millions of people across the globe. With 53 companies, 1800 employees, 16 countries, Aries Group holds firm to its one philosophical mission: To achieve excellence in quality, reliability, safety, training, and operational efficiency. As of today, Aries serves over 5200 clients in the maritime, Oil & gas, media and infrastructure industries, from 77 countries across the globe. Besides being the largest Marine consultancy firm in Middle-East, Aries is also World’s No1: largest ISO 9001:2015 Certified Ballast water engineering consultancy and UT firm for ship hull surveys. Website: www.ariesmar.com

About Saudi Aramco

Saudi Aramco is a multinational petroleum and natural gas company based in Saudi Arabia. Over the past 80 years, we have become a world leader in hydrocarbons exploration, production, refining, distribution, and marketing. The company continues to deliver on their core mission of reliably supplying energy to the Kingdom and the world, and continue to progress towards becoming the world’s leading integrated energy and chemicals enterprise, a top refiner and a creator of energy technologies.