Archive for the ‘Breaking News’

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    SRK Detained!
    Shah Rukh Khan Sorry about the sensationalistic headline, but it could be worse as many Western newspapers are reporting the detention of ShahRukh Khan today at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, USA as the holding of the “King of Bollywood”. On his way to an Independence Day celebration in Chicago, he was detained by US Immigration and Customs...
    by t! at August 15th, 2009 at 04:08 pm
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    Sharmila, Uma Da Cunha in Cannes juries
    Actress Sharmila Tagore and film critic-programmer Uma Da Cunha will serve in the Cannes Juries this time. And that’s the only Indian representation in the festival, which does not have any Indian entry this year also. Tagore will be in the main competition jury, headed by French actress Isabelle Huppert. Da Cunha will be a member of the Un Certain Regard section...
    by Runumi G at May 4th, 2009 at 04:05 am
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    Sen’s Wagah wins Berlin Today Award at Berlinale
    Supriyo Sen’s short film Wagah, made to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall as part of a Berlinale project, has won the Berlin Today award at the ongoing Berlin Film Fetival. Wagah, which seeks to interpret the ritual of every evening’s closure of the gates on the India-Pakistan border crossing in a larger context, was among the...
    by Runumi G at February 10th, 2009 at 04:02 am
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    A unique actor boards the bus – Good bye Nagesh sir
    What would you call an actor who can make you laugh with your gutts in one second and in the next micro second make you reach out for the hand kerchief to wipe your tears? What would you call an actor whose presence simply overshadows even the superstars and super actors like Kamal Hassan and Shivaji Ganesan? What would you call an actor who worked 20 of the 24 hours in...
    by V.P. Jaiganesh at January 31st, 2009 at 12:01 am
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    BAFTA 2009 Nominations
    After the glitz of Golden Globes, we are now getting to awards that are taken seriously for their quality rather than glitz and regional preferences alone. Note that the eligibility is Jan1st to Dec 31st in a calender year for all the films released in Britan. So Persipolis may be a carry over and just like This is England got nominated in the Globes this year. Already...
    by ravptor at January 15th, 2009 at 04:01 pm
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    Slumdog Millionaire WINS at Golden Globes
    In the last 8years that I have been following the Globes and Oscars, this is one time I was up cheering for a film so hoarse. Every time Jai Ho was playing for a win for Slumdog, my aspirations of Indian Films being truly world-class are being realized. The debate may go-on and on and on about whether we need to really care for films made about India depicting its poverty...
    by ravptor at January 11th, 2009 at 08:01 pm
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    Asian Fest of 1st Films Awards for Firaaq, Little Zizou
    Great news on Firaaq front. Nandita Das’ directorial debut has won the Best Film, Best Screenplay and the Foreign Correspondents Association Purple Orchid Award for Best Film awards at the The Asian Festival of 1st Films in Singapore. “Nandita successfully takes the theme of sectarian violence, something which is so apparent in today’s society, and looks...
    by Runumi G at December 10th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
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    Freedom ..terrorism …cynicism … I thought my jokes were bad …..
    Freedom ..terrorism …cynicism … I thought my jokes were bad ….. The past few days vaguely reminded me of how joker holds Gotham city at ransom in the dark knight. The past few days have also reminded me of Ardhasatya. The past few days i have been noticing people getting angry at the attack in mumbai. I’ve noticed the infiltration of security in...
    by kartik krishnan at November 29th, 2008 at 01:11 pm
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    Pryas Gupta’s The Prisoner keeps Indian flag flying high at Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2008
    Farah Khan’s Om Shanti Om expectedly fell by the wayside, in the face of of highly-superior cinema in the competition for Best Feature film at APSA 2008 (Honk Kong auteur Johnnie To’s Sparrow, Turkish Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Cannes best director award-winning scorcher Three Monkeys and Kazakh stunner Tulpan by Sergei Dvortsevoy), but a small Indian film,...
    by Runumi G at November 12th, 2008 at 04:11 am
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    DEV.D : The trailer is here!
    Tauba tera jalwa Tauba tera pyaar Tera emotional atyachaar YES IT IS, but before we move on to that, allow me to inflict upon thee some “emotional atyachaar“! Love it or hate it, No Smoking has been one of the most discussed and debated film all over the blogosphere for the last one year, and continues to be so and Anurag Kashyap is here to stay. And if the...
    by Jahan Bakshi at November 3rd, 2008 at 05:11 am
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    IFFI: Indian Panorama Announced
    The seven member Jury for Feature Films, headed by Shri K. N. T. Sastry, has recommended 25 films in all after screening 104 films. The films selected are: S. No. TITLE LANGUAGE DIRECTOR 1. YARWING KOKBOROK JOSEPH PULINTHANATH 2. SUMMER 2007 HINDI SUHAIL TATARI 3. VILAPANGALKKAPPURAM MALAYALAM T.V. CHANDRAN 4. GULMOHAR MALAYALAM...
    by Runumi G at October 24th, 2008 at 05:10 am
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    OSO, TZP, Mahek nominated for top honours at APSA
    Farah Khan’s blockbuster Om Shanti Om, Aamir Khan’s directorial debut Taare Zameen Par and Kranti Kanade’s Mahek have been nominated for top awards at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, 2008. In the individual categories, actor-director Rajat Kapoor has been nominated in the Best Actor category for his performance in Pryas Gupte’s The Prisoner (he...
    by Runumi G at October 1st, 2008 at 07:10 am
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    GLOBAL MOBILE FILM FESTIVAL
    An announcement that might be handy to you: The GSMA, the global trade group for the mobile industry, and Mofilm, a pioneer of short films for mobile and on-line distribution, has announced the first Global Mobile Film Festival at the Mobile World Congress in 2009, with an official ‘call for films’ to international film-makers today. The Global Mobile Festival...
    by Runumi G at September 29th, 2008 at 02:09 am
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    Bachchan’s Blog and Points to Ponder…
    I have been reading Amitabh Bachchan’s blog for the past few weeks. And I must say I am amazed and appalled that an artist of his stature after having contributed enormously to our film industry, after having entertained 4 generations of movie-goers, having been instrumental in putting India in the minds and hearts of scores of non-Indians around the globe should...
    by Valli Bindana at September 10th, 2008 at 10:09 am
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    No more notes to play on this violin
    It was 1987 deepavali – when I remembered to have caught the glimpse of an ecstatic violin experience in doordarshan chennai. It was like violin heard never before. No slow and gentle strokes that reeked of utmost seriousness and devotion. It was a classical maestro Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan at his cheerful best on a happy day. He simply rocked and played devotional...
    by V.P. Jaiganesh at September 9th, 2008 at 01:09 am
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    Dada Saheb Phalke Award for Tapan Sinha
    Tapan Sinha, the man who has given some beautifully-crafted films like Kabuliwalla, Khudito Pashan, Sagina Mahato and Ek Doctor Ki Maut, is the Dada Saheb Phalke Award winner for the year 2006. A committee comprising Shyam Benegal , Gautam Ghosh, A Nageshwar Rao, Sharmila Tagore and Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia recommended Sinha’s name for the top cinematic honour...
    by Runumi G at July 21st, 2008 at 09:07 am
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    54th National Film Awards Announced
    The 54th National Film Awards for the year 2006 were announced today. The whole awards & entries list is here: http://pib.nic.in/archieve/others/2008/jun/54th_nfa.pdf. However, some salient features: 1. At last, Soumitra Chatterjee has won a national award for the best actor – for the Bengali film Podokkhep. In 2001, he had won a special jury award for Goutam...
    by Runumi G at June 10th, 2008 at 01:06 am
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    Life, a full circle for Dith Pran
    Theres no way I can remotely hope to recount the effect of watching “The Killing Fields”, no amount of words can effectively portray the heart wrenching effect the movie had on me and millions who saw it. Regardless of ‘when’ you watch it, it still resonates within you, the emotional aspect of the story as much as the craft of narrating this true...
    by DPac at March 30th, 2008 at 08:03 am
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    WELCOME to my rampage
    An unidentified brown man (insert ethnicity/race you despise) was finally arrested in Manhattan’s Flatiron District after a bloodlust rampage that has left in its wake, 3 dead and 22 injured from serious stab wounds. The victims include 5 women, and two grade school children. He was brought down by another brown man (insert ethnicity/race you like) Striker, a soccer...
    by dabba at March 15th, 2008 at 04:03 pm
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    Farewell to Sujatha – a sad loss for all writers
    Can’t write much, can’t talk much. Just heard (or rather read) the news here Tamil Writer Sujatha is dead The key person behind the development of the Electronic Voting Machine and an eminent writer, S Rangarajan alias Sujatha, has died. To be very honest, I have never read a single sujatha’s story (I cant read/write Tamil unfortunately). Although...
    by kartik krishnan at February 28th, 2008 at 03:02 am
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    Rs 1 crore prize money in Osian’s Cinefan
    This surely marks a high in the Indian film festival circuit! According to an announcemnt today, Osian’s-Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema will give away over Rs 1 Crore (approx. USD 250, 000) in Prize Money for its Competition Sections and Lifetime Achievement Awards. The festival will celebrate its 10th Anniversary in New Delhi from 10-20 July, with its Mumbai...
    by Runumi G at January 16th, 2008 at 06:01 am
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    Oscar’s – Care and Not Care
    Hi Folks, The next round of Oscar Foreign Film categories were announced and of course Eklavya did not make it: Here is the list that did make it to Phase 2: The films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are: Austria, “The Counterfeiters,” Stefan Ruzowitzky, director Brazil, “The Year My Parents Went on Vacation,” Cao      Hamburger, director Canada,...
    by Vivek Kumar at January 15th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
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    SOMETHING GOOD ON TV
    SOMETHING GOOD ON TV 1. If you want to show your expensive glazed bathroom tiles without inviting anybody at your home; just get a dead cockroach in your bathroom & contact INDIA TV or any Indian news channel – I am sure that Mr. Sharma will cover your dead cockroach as “BREAKING NEWS”. 2. If you have capability to get tears without glycerin; just...
    by Shailesh Limbachiya at January 10th, 2008 at 03:01 am
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    38th IFFI-Goa : Indian Panorama announced
    The Indian Panorama for the 38th IFFI (Goa, Nov 23-Dec 3) has been just announced. Lenin Rajendran’s “Ratri Mazha” (Night Rain) in Malayalam and Samir Chanda’s “Ek Nadir Galpo” (Story of a River) will represent India in the Asian-African-Latin American Competition section. The Panorama section will open with another Malayalam film, Shyamaprasad’s “Ore...
    by Runumi G at October 16th, 2007 at 06:10 am
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    The Oscar Debate
    iView Author: PRANAV SINGH (New Delhi, India) EMAIL: pranav.singh [at] gmail.com The Oscars controversy refuses to die. Almost every year, we witness a sort of circus over which movie to be sent to Oscars. Last year it was RDB versus ‘ Lage Raho…’ Although the debate never stooped to the level it has this year. With the judiciary coming into the picture, the...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at October 4th, 2007 at 01:10 am
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    Prison Heat
    Warning: This post contains content that may be found objectionable by some sensitive souls. It was late 90’s. I was a grad student – and I had a car and the cable TV… HBO, Sundance, USA, Showtime, Comedy Central, and… hold your breath… Playboy. During then, this one time, we (my gang and I) saw this movie called Prison Heat or something...
    by wb at August 26th, 2007 at 09:08 pm
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    India “happening” in LA
    Folks, Article in Variety indicates that India is no longer “flavor of the month,” for LA, but is on the way to becoming Londonisque, where the curry is now a British “national” dish. Read on – Choice of films though is dissapointing methinks —READ ON!!! Warner Bros. on Tuesday unveiled its first India production, the action comedy “Made...
    by Vivek Kumar at August 21st, 2007 at 06:08 pm
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    Khoya Khoya Chand, dil dosti etc : ‘First Look’ Thoughts
    Writing this post as I am going through a glossy book that introduces Sudhir Mishra’s Khoya Khoya Chand and a flier on Manish Tiwari’s directorial debut dil dosti etc, both products of Prakash Jha Productions. Sudhir’s film will release on October 26, and Manish’s on September 28. Manish Tiwari, as the flier introduces him, is a PhD from Cambridge...
    by Runumi G at August 14th, 2007 at 08:08 am
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    Benegal gets Dada Saheb Phalke
    Hi friends. One great news – Shyam Benegal has been chosen for the Dada Saheb Phalke Award. He truly deserves it for all the great films he has made, though personally I feel he has slowed down a lot bit in recent years. Here’s the official announcement: Shri Shyam Benegal one of the pioneers of new Indian Cinema has been selected for the prestigious Dadasaheb...
    by Runumi G at August 8th, 2007 at 01:08 am
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    EXCLUSIVE TRAILER OF JOHNNY GADDAAR
    And it’s again a first for PFC… for the first time the blogger community gets to see an exclusive first – the trailer of an eagerly awaited movie… and the honor for that goes to … JOHNNY GADDAR by Sriram Raghavan who made the taunt thriller… Ek Hasina Thi… The trailer’s a Whammo… this looks like a movie which will rise...
    by oz at August 2nd, 2007 at 01:08 am
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