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  • Pooja Bhatt to make film on late singer Bhupen Hazarika

    Pooja Bhatt to make film on late singer Bhupen Hazarika

    MUMBAI: Filmmaker and actress Pooja Bhatt will direct a movie on the late poet, composer and singer Bhupen Hazarika.

    Bhatt‘s next film titled ‘Dhumuha‘ is based on the life of Hazarika and his relationship with the filmmaker Kalpana Lajmi who directed several films like Rudaali, Darmiyaan, Daman: A Victim of Marital Violence and Chingaari.

    The legendary singer who died on 5 November 2011 was awarded with the Dada Saheb Phalke Award, Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship, Sangeet Natak Akademi, India‘s The National Academy for music, Dance and Drama.

    In 2012, Hazarika was posthumously conferred India‘s second highest civilian award Padma Vibhushan by President.

    The film will commence its shooting from 31 January 2014 after Lajmi gets ready with the script.

  • Shemaroo releases Lara’s epic 400 innings on DVD, VCD

    Shemaroo releases Lara’s epic 400 innings on DVD, VCD

    MUMBAI: Home video firm Shemaroo has released Brian Lara’s epic innings 400 Not Out.

    West Indian batsman Brian Lara made the highest score in a test innings. The DVD and VCD of the fourth Test innings of West Indies versus England in Antigua 2004 contains the record setting moments and captures history in the making.

    The DVD also includes snapshots of former test players speaking about the epic innings. The digitally mastered all region DVD comes with 5.1 Dolby Digital sound and has interactive menus for easy access to scenes.

    Also.just three weeks after the theatrical release, Shemaroo has released the VCDs and DVDs of the Sushmita Sen and Mithun Chakraborty starrer Chingaari. Director Kalpana Lajmi’s women-oriented films like Daman have made a sound statement in the society and Chingaari too reverberates on a similar theme bringing forth the plight of a prostitute in a distant Indian village.

    Sen plays Basanti, a prostitute, who when mauled, revolts against the evil village priest Bhuvan Panda, played by Chakraborty.