Draft:Gemini Film Circuit

Credits

Descriptions by
Misterious_Guy, rj4712, and Camenati

Captures by
Camenati

Video captures courtesy of
hindi film collection, Soundr rama and Shane Latto The Wilkins Coffee Guy 2009

Not to be confused with Gemini Studios.

Background

Gemini Film Circuit is a Chennai-based film distribution and production company founded in 1995 by Ravi Shankar Prasad as a successor to Gemini Studios. They went on to produce many successful Tamil-language films up until 2013, when Kadal flopped at the box office. They would not produce another film until 6 years later with Unda.

1st Logo (August 12, 2004-July 27, 2007)

Visuals: Filmstrips are flying with a grid of the Gemini statue on a moving blue mist background. When the screen zooms to the last frame after around three-four seconds, a grid Gemini statue transmogrified into a sliver picture of it and turns around for a few seconds. Then it sets up to face the northeast direction, as opposite to facing the viewers at the first logo. "GEMINI FILM CIRCUIT" flashes in for 2-4 seconds, then "ஜெமினி பிலிம் சர்க்யூட்" or "జెమిని ఫిలిం సర్క్యూట్" flashes back, being these texts the translations in Tamil and Telugu (respectively) of the previous text. The logo cuts out after a few seconds.

Technique: CGI.

Audio: A majestic fanfare, coming with the rendition of the previous trumpet music, this time played on a synth trump. Between the first section is a synth shooting stock effect. After the synth trump, there goes another synth stock effect, then a synth majestic finish. Overall, a mix of orchestral and synth.

Availability: Seen on Shankar Dada MBBS, Vasool Raja MBBS, and Shankar Dada Zindabad. As a distributor, no logo appears since they weren't involved in the films. The Telugu version has been seen on the Telugu dubbed version of Aaru ("Six").

2nd Logo (December 9, 2005)

Visuals: Unknown.

Technique: Unknown.

Audio: Unknown.

Availability: Only in the Tamil dub of Aaru.

3rd Logo (September 4, 2009-February 1, 2013, June 14, 2019-)

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Visuals: Same as the Eastman color variant of the Gemini Studios logo but with a more bluish tint.

Variants:

• Starting in 2012, the logo was remade in CGI where the clouds are more realistic and the statue and structure have more detail.
• A 75th anniversary variant gives the logo even more detail where the cloud background is different and slowly zooms in, the structure has a wooden texture, and the text was replaced with "GEMINI". After the twins rotate, the text "When the bugles blow there is a Great Show" fades in underneath the company name, followed by a stamp reading "75 YEARS" appearing on the right side of the screen. This variant was used until 2020.
  • One version of this variant has the company name reading "GEMINI AUDIO". This can be seen on Gemini Audio's YouTube channel.

Technique: Live-action in the 2009-2012 version, and CGI in the 2012-present version.

Audio: The trumpet fanfare used in the Gemini Studios logo, but with more reverb.

Availability: Seen on Kutty, Thupakki, and Vilaiyattu Pillai. The 75 Years variant debuted on Unda, the studio's first film for 6 years.