Saturday 31 May 2014

Amitabh Bachchan & Aamir Khan to launch Dilip Kumar's biography on 9th June

Mumbai: Come June 9th and the long wait for the biography of Bollywood thespian Dilip Kumar will be over! The biography 'Substance and Shadow', which was earlier scheduled to be released on his 91st birthday, is all set to be revealed now in Mumbai, India.

The biography is written by author Uday Tara Nayar, who is also a close family friend of the Bollywood thespian.

The book will be launched by Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan and perfectionist Aamir Khan in the presence of Mr. Dilip Kumar, Mrs. Saira Banu Khan, Ms. Lata Mangeshkar and Ms. Uday Tara Nayar.

The launch event is arranged, managed and executed by Samara Productions, Astrus Talent and Event Management and MOH Entertainment. News portal Glamsham is the Exclusive Digital Partner, Oye 104.8 FM is the Radio Partner while Zoom is the Channel Partner for Red Carpet coverage.

Honey Singh to bring boxing league to India in October

Mumbai, May 31: Super rapper Yo Yo Honey Singh is on to another league, literally. After starting his Global Fighting Championship (GFC), a boxing league in Dubai, the singer has plans to bring the "mother of all boxing events" to India.

Talking about the event which started at the Dubai World Trade Centre Thursday, Honey Singh said: "Film actors, sportspersons, musicians, socialites, royalty and just personal friends...they were all here. I want this to be one of the biggest sporting events from India." Speaking for the first time about his interest in boxing, he said: "My friends Shafiq, A Zak D and Prince Aamir, we are all into boxing. We practice mixed martial arts regularly. There are many wrestlers in my mother's family. So I guess I've inherited my love for wrestling from my mother's side of the family." The "High heels" singer now wants to make boxing an organized sport in India.

"Just as I have broken the monopoly of film music as being synonymous with popular music in our country, I want to prove that cricket is not the only glamorous sport." The singer, who says he has a bank of 200 songs ready, has big boxing plans for India. "In October I'll be bringing the GFC to India. We want to take boxing to the level of cricket. But for that, I need to give serious time to this endeavour. Luckily, I have a bank of 200 songs ready.

"So I don't have to worry about where my next song is coming from," he said. To make boxing a financially viable sport in India, he needs the participation of rich and influential friends. "For the Dubai event, I invited 80 of my personal friends from all over the world. I just had to tell them about the event, and they were there. It's very important to get friends on board, friends who make a difference,"

Mumbai theatre group 'Bread & Butter' wins chance to perform in Manchester festival 'Contacting the World'

Theatre production company Bread & Butter Ent. started by Mumbai resident Medha, began as an expression of her shared love for art and innovation. What started out small became a platform on which she could produce content that was not only unique in the broader sense but also absolutely special to her.

Today, the group has grown and consists of people ranging from Berkley School of Music graduates to those who have picked up their skills just by watching online videos. They have a diverse talent pool, comprising musicians, performers, actors, and even a magician. "Most members are artists and desperately strive to pursue their careers being musicians, actors, painters, singers and dancers. The only member of our company with a job is Nikhil Alves, but he too pursues writing. 'The Untitled', the play we're going to perform at the 'Contacting the World, 2014' festival in Manchester also makes a statement about artists pursuing their art as careers than doing a regular non-creative job. It is a stifling thought for most artists if you ask me," says Medha, who has written and is directing the play.

'Contacting the World' is one of the world's biggest youth theatre festivals. Medha gave us some more insights into the play that won her and her troop the chance to perform in Manchester. 'The Untitled' is a play that was created in collaboration with another theater company from Corby, UK. For over six months, both companies discussed ideas as well as a variety of methods in order to sync their styles and create something that would combine their personal stories and ambitions. "We had tonnes of discussions among ourselves and came up with the concept for this piece. It's a devised piece and most scenes have been written after rehearsals, discussions or brainstorming on ideas. I personally wanted to try new methods of expression as a writer, I have, for the first time, explored spoken word poetry in this play. It is a whole new different style of writing and performance, and I have tried my best to get it right. Let's hope I did," Medha explains.

The team that will be going for the festival consists solely of young artists, all 25 years of age or under. Bread & Butter Ent. will represent India at this global youth theatre festival. The company was chosen after a long and grueling process of auditions and paperwork. Medha spoke about the festival and her reaction to getting selected. "We found out about the festival because, a while ago, I travelled to perform in the UK. As soon as they put up their call for entries, we started the tedious task of form filling, and we got through to the first round. Post that, we had to send audition tapes to the UK, which included videos of company members performing, interacting and ideating together. After a series of such rounds, we finally got selected along with five other companies, including those from Jamaica, Iran and Scotland. We were thrilled to be one of the only six companies chosen from over 36 entries worldwide. Our effort is to create awareness about our project and bring back the tradition of patrons promoting and encouraging art and contributing to it's sustenance as well."

The company produced their first show ‘Papier Mache Petals’, 3 years ago, and it was entered in one of the biggest youth theatre festivals of India - Thespo. The play explored the issues of love, life, existentialism, rhythms, dances and passions. It received a positive reaction from the Thespo team as well as the audiences, and went on to get selected as one of the four plays of Thespo for the year 2010 (from over 100 entries from across the nation). "I started my company in 2010, with a play called Papier-Mache Petals that got great reviews post it's premier show."

Medha also gave us a little bit about why she got into theatre, and why it's so important to her: "For me, theatre is the most real form of expression for an actor. The truth in your work is evident right then and there, with cuts, retakes, close-ups, chroma etc. Theatre is extremely challenging and that's the biggest high it gives me as an actor. Having started writing and directing plays, the challenge has only upped its difficulty quotient. I love being on stage, observing things off stage, imagining and writing more and more experimental theatrical concepts. It is all addictive!"

She adds, "I have been doing theater almost all my life. From a very young age I got involved in plays in school and college. I started doing professional theater when I just passed my 12th grade and did my first professional play at Prithvi when I was 17. I worked with names like Ramu Ramanathan, Jaimini Pathak etc and soon got noticed and was picked up for TV commercials."

The main hurdle these youngsters face is funding. Although the festival covers their stay and their internal travel when in Manchester, the group has to take care of its flights from Mumbai to the UK, a huge expense. But determined to make it to the competition that they've given tireless hours, sleepless nights and all their heart and soul to, Medha and Bread & Butter Ent. have started a crowd funding website to help raise the funds. They've also approached certain companies and organisations that might help them with the funding.

HRD minister intervenes, DU VC denies suspending officials (Second Lead)

New Delhi, May 31 Following HRD Minister Smriti Irani's intervention, Delhi University Vice Chancellor Dinesh Singh Saturday said no suspension order was issued to five officials for leaking documents related to her educational qualifications. Friday, DU joint dean of students's welfare and media coordinator Malay Neerav confirmed the report that five non-teaching staff below section officer level of the School of Open Learning (SOL) were suspended for leaking documents pertaining to the minister.
Saturday after Irani said in a tweet that she has personally asked the VC to reinstate the officials, the latter issued a statement denying they were suspended. "The university has learnt that no suspension order has been issued to the employees of SOL," DU Vice Chancellor Dinesh Singh said in a statement.
Irani is at the centre of a controversy over her educational qualifications that has led to a full-blown war of words between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party.
The Congress had alleged Irani misrepresented her educational qualifications in her election affidavits.
The Congress said Irani when she was contesting the 2004 Lok Sabha election mentioned her qualification in her affidavit as Bachelor of Arts which she passed from Delhi University's school of correspondence in 1996.
But in her affidavit for this year's general polls, the actor-turned-politician mentioned her educational qualification as Bachelor of Commerce Part I, School of Open Learning (Correspondence), University of Delhi in 1994.
The Congress has protested against an "undergraduate" being appointed the HRD minister.
The BJP countered it with questions about Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's academic background.

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Friday 30 May 2014

TV actress Barkha Bisht plays gangster ,Fashion line inspired by YRF films launched in Mumbai,Businessman arrested for firing at bar manager ,Citylights is a must watch

Review: Citylights is a must watch

A hard, unrelenting film that doesn’t give in to over-sentimentality, Citylights is like the city of Mumbai -- it beats you down and when you are broken, takes you in its arms and loves you.

Suparn Verma, who has directed films like Aatma, Acid Factory and Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena, raves about the film.

‘poverty is a disease,’ says a character in Hansal Mehta’s latest film Citylights.

Poverty is like working in a coal mine, you can clean yourself as much as you want but it embalms itself in your DNA.

We have all seen bad times, the degree might vary. We tend to romanticize that part during the good times; it makes us get up and go on because we cannot go back. It is our boogeyman -- that thing in the closet waiting for us if we stop moving.

Citylights is an official adaptation of British film Metro Manila -- a fact reiterated six times during the opening credits. But the manner in which it’s adapted makes the film a story of India, a story of every small town family that dares to dream and moves bed and board to the city of dreams -- Mumbai.

Mumbai is a city that will break you, beat you down, spit on you and test you. If you still manage to get up, it will take you in its arms like a mother, love you and lull you till it breaks you down again the next day.

The only way to get what you want in this city is to love it but break it down because if you are not happy, there is no love in your heart.

City Lights tells the story of an immigrant from Rajasthan, who moves to Mumbai with his wife and daughter and their struggle for survival.

The film has a big heart and is a payback of sorts.

If Shahid was Hansal Mehta giving love to Rajkummar Rao, Citylights sees the latter reciprocating in kind to the director.

Rajkummar’s performance captivates you from the first frame as he transforms his mannerisms, speech and style and draws upon the worst days of his life to have his hopes and dreams swim in his eyes. This National Award-winning actor deserves every accolade sent his way. The scene where he comes drunk to his wife and breaks down will leave you numb with its raw intensity.

Debutante Patralekha, as Rajkummar’s wife, is a treasure trove of talent. Her delicate demeanour is a mask for the beast she hides within herself.

Citylights is just the start of the actress who is going to astound audiences in days to come. She gets under the skin of her character so well, especially when she is sparring against Rajkummar, she simply ceases to exist as the person, but vanishes under the skin of her character.

The surprise factor of Citylights is Manav Kaul in the role of Rajkummar’s supervisor at a security firm.

The way he builds his character, starting off tongue-in-cheek, his story within stories -- symbolic of him entangling more and more in his own web -- exposing his vulnerability all with a smile on his face. I can’t wait to see more of this fine actor, so confident of himself that he always pushes himself in the background, a rarity that makes him work.

It is a quality shared by all the accomplished actors in the film industry, be it Irrfan Khan, Manoj Bajpayee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Pankaj Kapur, they tend to draw away attention from themselves. This makes you notice them even more.

One of my favourite scenes in Kahaani is when Vidya Balan is alone in her hotel room, looking out of the window. She gave director Sujoy Ghosh the moments he and his editor Namrata Rao needed to create that pregnant pause tying up the story.

Rajkummar and Patralekha present Hansal and his talented editor Apurva Asrani (Satya, Chhal, Shahid) with such profound expressions and still moments, knowing what the director needs at those points in the story.

Hansal’s choice of cinematographers has always been adventurous in his films. In City Lights, he works with Dev Agarwal whose minimal use of lighting and natural sources to create frames adds the right amount of grittiness and reality to the film, which has some amazing imagery of the concrete prison called Mumbai.

Composer Jeet Ganguly and lyricist Rashmi Singh leave a haunting impression with Sone Do and Muskurane’s terrific use in the film.

Producers Mahesh and Mukesh Bhatt and Fox Studios deserve kudos for backing such a raw, visceral film.

What makes City Lights memorable is how Hansal Mehta infuses his struggle into it.

I have known Hansal for a better part of my life; we have seen both good days and bad. In this film, he gathers all his pain, pours it in a glass and makes Rajkummar drink it.

A hard, unrelenting film that doesn’t give in to over sentimentality, Citylights is just like the city of Mumbai. It beats you down and when you are broken, takes you in its arms and loves you.

Businessman arrested for firing at bar manager in Mumbai

A businessman was arrested by police on charges of firing at a bar manager in western suburb of Amboli early today.

The businessman, Vikram Kumar (50), a regular visitor of Escape Bar at Amboli, was allegedly evesdropping on the SMSs of a female employee of the bar. The female employee had lodged a complaint with the bar manager Jitendra Kumar Jha against Kumar. When Jha asked Kumar to apologise to the female employee for the same. In a fit of rage, Kumar pulled out his licensed revolver and opened fire at the manager. Injured Jha has been admitted at Kokilaben Ambani hospital. Kumar has been booked under Sections 307 (attempt to murder) and 354 (assault or criminal force on woman with the intent to outrage her modesty) of the Indian Penal Code. The revolver was seized by the police, sources added. UNI ST SS NP1630 NNNN

Fashion line inspired by YRF films launched in Mumbai

After serving fashion connoisseurs of the national capital with its cinema-inspired line, Yash Raj Films' fashion brand Diva'ni has been launched in this entertainment and financial capital, which was attended by Rani Mukerji.

Rani looked the perfect Indian newlywed and sported sindoor and a chuda.

The store is a tribute to Mumbai for the city's contribution to cinema, said a statement.

From bridal and couture to western, one can find everything at the flagship store at Santa Cruz.

The brand's first store in New Delhi's South Extension, has turned out to be a success.

It's almost a year since Diva'ni was first unveiled in Mumbai on the occasion of the late Yash Chopra's birth anniversary. It was an evening that showcased the late director's legendary love for bringing out the diva in every woman.

Diva'ni is a fusion of cinema and fashion.

YRF, which has set several fashion trends across its over four decade-old existence through films like Lamhe, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Dil To Pagal Hai, Mohabbatein, Bunty Aur Babli and Band Baaja Baaraat, has tied up with ethnic wear brand Karol Bagh Saree House (KBSH) for the label.

TV actress Barkha Bisht plays gangster with 'oomph'

Mumbai, May 30 : The upcoming episode of crime-based show "Encounter" will feature TV actress Barkha Bisht as a gangster who uses her looks to get into the crime world.

Barkha will be seen playing gangster Unnati.

In the episode, Unnati with the help of her lover Ulhas, essayed by TV actor Behzad Khan, makes a mark in the underworld. The love story of the duo ends when Unnati's insecurities and betrayal lead to the encounter of Ulhas, said a statement.

"I said yes to the character as soon as I read the script. I play a seductress and it was very challenging for me. It was a very exciting experience for me to shoot for the episode of 'Encounter'. I hope my fans love my work," said Barkha.

Hosted by actor Manoj Bajpayee, the show brings stories of encounters between Mumbai police and gangsters.

Himanshu Malhotra will be seen as police officer Tilak Nambiar in the show and he said that the experience was "satisfying".

"The role was pretty intense and heroic. I am fortunate that I got an opportunity to play someone like him. For me, this was definitely one of the most interesting roles that I have done," he added.