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  • Veteran journo Rana Yashwant joins Live Times’ for weekend offerings

    Veteran journo Rana Yashwant joins Live Times’ for weekend offerings

    MUMBAI: Veteran television journo Rana Yashwant, famed for his bullish tell-it-like-it-is style, has inked a juicy deal with Hindi news channel Live Times. The partnership will see the straight-talking anchor front two weekend programmes across both television and digital platforms, whilst also getting his fingers into the channel’s special projects pie.

    Live Times bigwigs insist this is far more than just another editorial appointment—it’s a statement of intent in their crusade for credible reporting. Yashwant, the brain behind popular show Ardh Satya, brings a whopping two-and-a-half decades of media experience to the table.

    Dilip Singh, founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of the channel, pulled no punches about the significance of the hire: “In an era when fake news is spreading like wildfire, Live Times stands firmly for fact-based journalism. Rana Yashwant’s joining is not just a matter of joining an experienced editor, but an extension of a reliable editorial thinking.”

    Singh added  that the channel, built on the holy trinity of “credibility, transparency and editorial independence,” continues to bolster its ranks with heavyweight journalists and subject experts, making it an increasingly formidable force in the media landscape.

    Yashwant himself seemed please with his new gig, declaring: “‘In today’s era, there is an abundance of information, but there is a huge lack of trust. In such a situation, Live Times’ gives priority to facts, transparency and public interest. This platform believes in creating effective content instead of making noise. This is not just a new role for me, but a responsibility – to do such journalism that not only informs, but also empowers people and ensures accountability.”

  • Veteran film and TV actor Om Puri passes away

    Veteran film and TV actor Om Puri passes away

    NEW DELHI: Veteran actor Om Puri, who gave countless memorable performances in movies of diverse genres and also on television shows, died at his residence in Mumbai this morning after a massive heart attack. He was 66.

    ‘Puri passed away this morning due to a heart attack at his residence in suburban Andheri. It’s shocking,’ a family source was quoted by PTI as saying.

    From Bollywood to Hollywood, from independent to art films to television, the noted actor, known for his versatility, gave several acclaimed performances. Puri featured in several Indian, Pakistani, British and Hollywood mainstream commercial films. However, as many of his fans said Puri would be remembered more for his stellar roles in TV serial ‘Tamas’ and film ‘Ardh Satya’. He was awarded the Padma Shri, the country’s fourth highest civilian award, in 1990.

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi condoled Puri’s demise and recalled his long career in theatre and films. Minister for information and broadcasting M. Venkaiah Naidu too condoled Puri’s death and remembered his contribution to the Indian film and TV industry. Bollywood celebrities, including Akshay Kumar, Karan Johar, Anupam Kher, Javed Akhtar and Mahesh Bhatt, expressed grief over Puri’s demise, calling it a huge loss to Indian cinema.

    Born in Ambala, Haryana, in a Punjabi family, Puri graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. He was also an alumnus of the 1973 class of National School of Drama, where Naseeruddin Shah was a batch mate. He made his film debut in the 1976 Marathi film ‘Ghashiram Kotwal’.

    Some of his notable films include ‘Bhavni Bhavai’, ‘Sadgati, ‘Ardh Satya’, ‘Mirch Masala’, ‘Dharavi’, ‘Aakrosh’, ‘Maachis’, ‘Gupt’, ‘Dhoop’ and ‘Yuva’. He earned international fame in many British films, such as ‘My Son the Fanatic’, ‘East Is East’ and ‘The Parole Officer’. He also appeared in Hollywood films like ‘City of Joy’, ‘Wolf’, ‘The Ghost and the Darkness’, among others.

  • Veteran film and TV actor Om Puri passes away

    Veteran film and TV actor Om Puri passes away

    NEW DELHI: Veteran actor Om Puri, who gave countless memorable performances in movies of diverse genres and also on television shows, died at his residence in Mumbai this morning after a massive heart attack. He was 66.

    ‘Puri passed away this morning due to a heart attack at his residence in suburban Andheri. It’s shocking,’ a family source was quoted by PTI as saying.

    From Bollywood to Hollywood, from independent to art films to television, the noted actor, known for his versatility, gave several acclaimed performances. Puri featured in several Indian, Pakistani, British and Hollywood mainstream commercial films. However, as many of his fans said Puri would be remembered more for his stellar roles in TV serial ‘Tamas’ and film ‘Ardh Satya’. He was awarded the Padma Shri, the country’s fourth highest civilian award, in 1990.

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi condoled Puri’s demise and recalled his long career in theatre and films. Minister for information and broadcasting M. Venkaiah Naidu too condoled Puri’s death and remembered his contribution to the Indian film and TV industry. Bollywood celebrities, including Akshay Kumar, Karan Johar, Anupam Kher, Javed Akhtar and Mahesh Bhatt, expressed grief over Puri’s demise, calling it a huge loss to Indian cinema.

    Born in Ambala, Haryana, in a Punjabi family, Puri graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. He was also an alumnus of the 1973 class of National School of Drama, where Naseeruddin Shah was a batch mate. He made his film debut in the 1976 Marathi film ‘Ghashiram Kotwal’.

    Some of his notable films include ‘Bhavni Bhavai’, ‘Sadgati, ‘Ardh Satya’, ‘Mirch Masala’, ‘Dharavi’, ‘Aakrosh’, ‘Maachis’, ‘Gupt’, ‘Dhoop’ and ‘Yuva’. He earned international fame in many British films, such as ‘My Son the Fanatic’, ‘East Is East’ and ‘The Parole Officer’. He also appeared in Hollywood films like ‘City of Joy’, ‘Wolf’, ‘The Ghost and the Darkness’, among others.

  • Sadashiv Amrapurkar passes away

    Sadashiv Amrapurkar passes away

    NEW DELHI: Veteran Marathi and Bollywood actor Sadashiv Amrapurkar known for his negative and comic roles passed away of lung infection on 3 November at a  suburban hospital in Mumbai after battling with the disease for over a fortnight.

     

    Hospital sources said Amrapurkar was put on ventilator support and had been in a critical condition for the past few days. He was 64 and is survived by his wife and three daughters.

     

     The actor is remembered for several films and for his hard-hitting negative and sometimes comic roles in movies like Ishq, Aankhen, Gupt, Hukumat, Chor Machaye Shor and several others.

     

     Prime Minister Narendra Modi condoled the death of the veteran actor who he said, will be remembered for his versatility. “We will remember Sadashiv Amrapurkar as a versatile actor, popular across generations. RIP. My deepest condolences to his family,” read a post on Modi’s Twitter handle @narendramodi.

     

     With strong roots in rural and Marathi theatre, Amrapurkar made his film debut with Govind Nihalani’s acclaimed Ardh Satya in 1983. His performance in the film as a local mafia don won him several awards.

     

     Having established his acting credentials with the film, he went on to have a thriving career in both offbeat and Hindi commercial films for nearly two decades.

  • Films form important component of Festival of India in Peru

    Films form important component of Festival of India in Peru

    NEW DELHI: Indian films are making a global presence it seems. At the Festival of India in Peru that was recently inaugurated by vice president Hamid Ansari, few new Indian films and old classics including Raja Harishchandra (silent), Taare Zameen Par (Hindi), Ghare Bhaire (Bengali), Ardh Satya (Hindi), Bobby (Hindi), A Wednesday (Hindi) and Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa (Hindi) are being screened. The Indian Film Festival is being coordinated by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry.

     

    An India-Peru Literature Festival and an Indian Classical Dance Festival is also being held as part of the fest.

     

    Ansari’s visit is the highest ranking bilateral visit since year 1998 from India to Peru. The Festival would manifest many elements of long, rich and diverse Indian cultural heritage and would be the largest Indian cultural festival ever held in Latin America and the Caribbean. This reflects the special place that Peru enjoys among Indians.

     

    The inaugural function was attended by the Peruvian First Vice President Marisol Espinoza and a number of senior dignitaries from the Indian and Peruvian side.

     

    Indian Culture Secretary Ravindra Singh who is in Peru to mark the occasion said the Festival is expected to bring the Indian and Peruvian people closer to each other and will enhance people to people contact.

     

    Highly reputed Indian writers like Arun Kamal, H S Shivaprakash, K Satchidanandan, Purshottam Agarwal, Shyama Prasad Ganguly, and Ms Karabi Deka Hazarika participated in the symposium on India-Latin America: Literary Exchanges and Influences and Contemporary Literary Trends and their Challenges in a Multilingual Society in addition to a session on poetry reading.

     

    Several noted Peruvian Writers including Jose Leon Herrera, Pablo Carreno Cabrejos, Jose Ignacio Lopez Gaston, Marcel Velaquez Castro, and leading poets Carlos German Belli, Mario Montalbetti, and Marcos Martos would be participating in the Literature Festival. The Literature Festival is being coordinated by the Sahitya Academy.

    The Indian Dance Festival in Peru is titled ‘Nrityarupa’, the mosaic of Indian dance which encapsulates the experience of Indian dance as it has evolved in various parts of the India. It offers a glimpse of the great mosaic of cultures that constitutes the Indian Nation, and demonstrates in a creative, kinetic form their dynamics in relation to each other. Six dance forms representing the diversity of India’s culture have been chosen for this presentation to audiences in Latin America: Bharatanatyam of Tamil Nadu, Kathank which is pre-eminently the dance of northern India; Odissi from Odisha in eastern India; Manipuri from north-eastern State of India; Kathakali of Kerala at Southern tip of the Indian peninsula; and Chhau which covers a wide swathe of territory in eastern States of the Union.

     

    One seamless presentation of these dances has been visualized by leading to a jubiliant finish. The Indian Dance Festival is being coordinated by the Sangeet Natak Academy.

     

    The Festival of India in Peru is being coordinated by the Culture Ministry in association with the Sahitya Academy, the Sangeet Natak Academy and the I&B Ministry.

     

    Meanwhile, India and Peru have signed a Letter of Intent for enhancing cooperation in the fields of dissemination and promotion of cultural heritage of each other´s countries.

     

    The two sides underscored the importance of further deepening bilateral cultural relations through cultural exchanges and cooperation in diverse art forms such as painting, dance, theatre, literature, craft, etc. as well as holding of cultural festivals in each other´s countries from time to time. 

  • Govind Nihalani turns to animation films

    Govind Nihalani turns to animation films

    MUMBAI: Known for his serious films like Aakrosh, Vijeyta and Ardh Satya, filmmaker, director and cinematographer Govind Nihalani is returning to films after a eight-year hiatus with an animation feature film titled Kamlu-Happy Happy.

    The 84-minute film has a simple message about the impossible dreams and friendship with adventure and four songs. “It is definitely a departure from my type of films. It‘s not a serious film. I love animations and have long been working on this film,” commented the filmmaker.

    The film depicts loads of positive values about dreams coming true, bonding with friends and loved ones. It is all about dreaming of the impossible. The protagonist of the film is a baby camel in Rajasthan who wants to fly. The film is for both adults and children and is full of adventures.

    Set in Rajasthan, the film follows the style of mainstream American animation though the storytelling is of another kind. Even the characters have been styled in a different manner; with their bodies shaped in V shape. The story is set against the Spartan backdrop of Rajasthan while the interiors have been designed using actual havelis complete with murals on the wall and even signs of decay on the walls.

    About the making of the film Nihalani said, “Being newcomers, we had to plan ahead and everything was pre-decided. Not only that, we had readied the background score well in advance and the scenes and character movements were planned in sync with it.”