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  • Bollywood Awards get a Hollywood ambassador

    Bollywood Awards get a Hollywood ambassador

    MUMBAI: Los Angeles-based media mogul and Hollywood.tv CEO and founder Sheeraz Hasan has been named ‘Hollywood Ambassador to Bollywood’ by the Bollywood Group.

    The Bollywood Group is the presenter of the annual Bollywood Awards, which are scheduled to be held on 30 April at the Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City, NJ.

    Hasan’s appointment will be formally presented at the awards.

    Hasan is no stranger to such accolades, having founded his company – Tinseltown Entertainment, Inc – on the premise of building a bridge between Hollywood and Bollywood, the two largest film industries in the world.

    Last year, at the 2004 Bollywood Awards, his efforts were rewarded when he was given the prestigious ‘American Dream’ Award, in recognition of his accomplishments in the entertainment industry.

    Since then, his journey has brought him full circle, from reporting on the headlines to making them himself. He has bagged scores of awards for his successful media ventures, and his highly anticipated autobiography will be released this summer.

    His appointment as ambassador illustrates just how far he has come, from arriving in America two years ago with nothing to becoming one of the shining stars of the international entertainment industry.

    “Being appointed ambassador is not something I take lightly. I am, of course, honoured and grateful that I was chosen. I think I am in a unique position to represent Hollywood in Bollywood and elsewhere in South Asia, being myself a South-Asian who has achieved success here.

    “This is the most competitive business environment in the world, by any measure, and I think both industries could learn a great deal from each other. The opportunities for artistic and business growth are very exciting,” said Hasan.

    The Bollywood Awards will be telecast to an audience of over 250 million people worldwide.

  • Tinseltown TV’s Hasan crowned global ambassador by YHRI

    Tinseltown TV’s Hasan crowned global ambassador by YHRI

    MUMBAI: International media personality and Tinseltown TV founder CEO Sheeraz Hasan was named Global Ambassador for humanitarian interest group – Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI) in a ceremony attended by numerous entertainment industry figures and international dignitaries.

    Hasan joined a pool of roughly 2000 nominees, and was personally selected by YHRI director Mary Shuttleworth on the basis of his global reach to an audience of over 500 million viewers, and his dedication to the cause of universal human rights.

    In announcing the appointment, Shuttleworth said, “Since establishing Tinseltown TV, Sheeraz has used his weekly television broadcast as a voice box for a variety of humanitarian and charitable organisations dedicated to improving the well-being of people of all ethnicities in all walks of life. His personal statements on the show stress the importance of inter-cultural awareness and acceptance, and he promotes peace and harmony among people of different nations by stressing the importance of spirituality and finding strength in what we have in common. It is amazing to see a person so young achieve such unprecedented success in the arena of international broadcasting and entertainment. With a global following from his hit TV show Tinseltown and many awards to his credit, Sheeraz truly is the ‘American Dream’. Youth for Human Rights International is honored to have a person of his caliber as our Global Ambassador.”

    During his tenure as ambassador, Hasan will be traveling to countries around the world and speaking on the importance of global human rights initiatives. At home in Hollywood, he will use his celebrity status to bring publicity and support to the efforts of YHRI, and feature the organisation in regular segments on his Tinseltown TV series.

    Hasan said, “Those of us who have the fortune of living in affluent nations have an obligation to remember the poor, hungry, and disenfranchised populations of the third world, and to use our advantages to help them achieve a quality of life in line with the United Nations human rights declaration, which is the birthright of every human being. So long as poverty and oppression persist in the world, the human race cannot consider itself wealthy or free.”

  • Star Movies presents ‘The Clearing’

    Mumbai, September 6, 2006… This Friday night, Star Movies presents some thrilling entertainment! Based on a real kidnapping that took place in Netherlands, this movie marks the directorial debut of Academy Award nominated producer, Pieter Jan Brugg. Starring Robert Redford, Helen Mirren and Willem Defoe, tune in to the exclusive premiere of The Clearing, this Friday night, September 8th at 9 p.m. only on Star Movies.

    Wayne (Redford) and Eileen (Mirren) Hayes live the American Dream. Together they’ve raised two children and struggled to build a successful business from the ground up. But there have been sacrifices along the way. When Wayne is kidnapped by an ordinary man, Arnold Mack (Defoe), and held for ransom in a remote forest, the couple’s world is turned inside out. Eileen finds her home full of FBI agents, their life under scrutiny. While Wayne is engaged in the negotiation of his lifetime, Eileen works frantically with the FBI to secure his release. The terrifying ordeal causes Wayne and Eileen to reassess their marriage and come to a deeper sense of their commitment to each other. With each passing hour, the need and desire for Wayne to return home safely becomes ever more urgent.

    Dutch born film producer Pieter Jan Brugge, with films like The ‘Insider’ and ‘Bulworth’ to his credit, used the kidnapping of a Dutch industrialist as inspiration for his first film as director, ‘The Clearing’. This is not a film that screams tension, it has thriller ingredients but it’s more concerned with the texture of relationships and the texture of life. It has some powerful and committed performances by Robert Redford and So don’t forget to tune in the exclusive premiere of The Clearing, this Friday, September 8th, 2006 at 9 p.m. only on Star Movies.