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  • Micromax presents the Vh1 Ticket To Ride Contest to the 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards

    Micromax presents the Vh1 Ticket To Ride Contest to the 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards

    MUMBAI: With the onset of the New Year, it is time to gear up for the biggest musical festival. Hollywood is all set to welcome the 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards. The glitz, the glamour, the shutterbugs are sure to explode through your television screen but WAIT! Vh1 gives all their fans a chance to witness the legendary night – LIVE, a chance to watch their favorite artist give some splendid performances! The awards will also be aired LIVE exclusively on Vh1, 27 January, 2014 LIVE at 6:30am with a prime time repeat at 9pm.

    Vh1 has always believed in giving its fans a chance to witness the biggest music awards night LIVE! So here is your exclusive chance to win a trip to the 56th Grammy Awards through the Micromax presents Vh1 Ticket to Ride Contest and rub shoulders with the biggest music stars of the world! The contest begins from December 17, 2013 until January 7, 2014. Now, all that the fans need to do is, log on to this link www.vh1.in/grammys, answer a few simple questions and win a chance along with a friend to experience 56thAnnual GRAMMY Awards.

    To make the experience larger than life, the channel has roped in renowned fashion designer duo Shivan and Narresh to style the winner for the awards night in LA.

    Ferzad Palia, Sr. Vice President and General Manager – English Entertainment, Viacom18 Pvt Ltd said, “Ticket To Ride Contest is a platform where fans get a chance to witness the biggest music awards of the world. This year, to make it extra special for the winner we are giving them a chance to wear an ensemble designed by one of the leading fashion designers of the country. Like it’s rightly said ‘Watching them isn’t the same as watching with them’”

  • Thai Film industry looking for Indian movies to be produced in Thailand

    Thai Film industry looking for Indian movies to be produced in Thailand

    MUMBAI: In a media interaction at the 44th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Panjim, Goa today, the lead actor of the Thai film, Only God Forgives Vithaya Pansringarm said that Thailand has a great opportunity for production of Indian movies. He said that Thailand, being a film destination for Hollywood/international movies, production of Indian films is also possible there. He added that Indian movies are liked in his country and DVDs and films with Thai subtitles are also available in the Thai market.

     

    In the film Only God Forgives, Pansringarm played a retired police officer’s role who believes that he`s God and an Angel of Vengeance who also has a responsibility to protect his society from any bad karma or bad spirits. The film talks about a young lady’s struggle to avenge the murder of her brother on the demand of her mother, in Bangkok.

     

    Producer of Thai film Tang Wong, Soros Sukhum said that his film is part of independent cinema and Thailand film industry should make film based on modern concepts in place of superstitions. Soros Sukhum has also supported the idea of producing more films in Thailand. Tang Wong is about four Bangkok boys who had taken different wishes to perform a performance of a traditional Thai dance, if their wishes are fulfilled. The struggle to perform this dance is the main theme of the film.

  • ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ avoids NC-17 after sex cuts

    ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ avoids NC-17 after sex cuts

    MUMBAI: Director Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf Street of Wall Street has garnered an R rating – instead of the dreaded NC-17 – after the filmmaker agreed to trim certain nudity and sex scenes, insiders confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.

    Initially, the Classification and Ratings Administration Board indicated that Wolf of Wall Street, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as disgraced Wall Street broker and hedonistic party boy Jordan Belfort, was destined for the more restrictive rating because of abundant, explicit sex (not to mention drugs).

     

    Scorsese and Paramount, which is distributing the movie in North America, had several exchanges with the ratings board in terms of what was needed to secure an R rating.

     

    After cuts were made, the studio announced it would open Wolf of Wall Street on 25 December. Indications were that the running time had been reduced to two hours and 45 minutes, but the final count is two hours and 59 minutes, including credits (without credits, it is two hours and 53 minutes).

     

    At that length, Wolf of Wall Street has the distinction of being Scorsese’s longest film, beating Casino by a minute.

  • Matt Smith is ready for a new journey

    Matt Smith is ready for a new journey

    MUMBAI: Matt Smith is almost inseparable from the character he plays on Doctor Who. On one of the longest running sci-fi series, the actor has made a special space for himself. But then like everything else, this three-and-a-half year journey too has come to an end. The actor is set to leave the show by the year end to start a new chapter in Hollywood.

     

    Interestingly, Matt has already done an American fantasy-neo-noir film, How to Catch a Monster, the directorial debut by Ryan Gosling opposite Christina Hendricks. It is a story of a single mother who is swept into a dark underworld, while her teenage son discovers a road that leads him to a secret underwater town.

  • Wine Spectator raises a toast to Brangelina Wine

    Wine Spectator raises a toast to Brangelina Wine

    MUMBAI: Actor Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s wine has been named one of the world’s best.

     

    Wine Spectator released its annual Top 100 list, the Hollywood couple’s 2012 Jolie-Pitt & Perrin Côtes de Provence Rosé Miraval ranks No. 84 in Wine Spectator’s Top 100 list of the best wines of 2013. The magazine describes the wine as “Refined and elegant, offering pure and concentrated flavors of dried red berry, tangerine and melon.”

     

    “The focused finish features flint and spice notes, with a hint of cream,” the description added.

     

    Jolie and Pitt’s foray into wines is a joint venture with established vintner Marc Perrin. When the first 6,000 bottles of the 2012 vintage were put on sale earlier in the year during spring, they sold out within five hours.

  • Jennifer Hudson takes the Hollywood walk of fame

    Jennifer Hudson takes the Hollywood walk of fame

    MUMBAI: Jennifer Hudson became the first American Idol contestant to have her prints on the Hollywood walk of fame. She came seventh in the third season of the show but went on to garner accolades such as The Academy Award and the Grammy.

     

    Music legend and Clive Davis honoured the singer with the award. Apart from singing, she has also dribbled in acting making her debut in 2006’s Dreamgirls as well as Sex and the city. She has performed at instances such as Super Bowl XLIII, American Idol, and The Oprah Winfrey Show.

     

    She is the 2512th person to be awarded the Hollywood walk of fame. She has also recorded her third album to be released in 2014.

  • Julia Roberts presented BAFTA to great friend George Clooney

    Julia Roberts presented BAFTA to great friend George Clooney

    MUMBAI: It was great moment for the Hollywood fraternity to see two of their best actors — Julia Roberts and George Clooney — come together on stage and appreciate each other.

     

    At the 2013 BAFTA LA Awards on Saturday night, Roberts, who co-starred with Clooney in Ocean’s Eleven presented the 52-year-old with the Stanley Kubrick Award for Excellence in Film.

     

    Reportedly, Julia was in a very jolly mood when she came on stage. She joked: “There are two obvious reasons why I was chosen to do this: one, Brad Pitt was out of town. Two, Matt Damon, he’s in town, but he was unavailable.”

     

    However, the actor took a serious turn to praise Clooney, who has been her co-actor, director and producer too. “All of which he is immeasurably gifted at,” she said.

     

    How could Clooney not have reciprocated? He equally appreciated the Pretty Woman actor. “It has been such a pleasure to watch the woman you have become. It’s very hard for me to be just straight nice because she’ll get me later. But just an amazing mother, an amazing wife and a great, great friend. It’s really an honour to have her here.”

     

    And they had a nice evening even after they stepped down from the stage. They sat next to each other and were seen laughing and chatting.

  • 24 has attracted youngsters to TV: Anil Kapoor

    24 has attracted youngsters to TV: Anil Kapoor

    KOLKATA: Whether it’s on the social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, or applauds from the Hollywood counterparts, Anil Kapoor’s Hindi adaptation of the international TV series, 24 has been received quite well.

     

    Basking in the glory of his debut television production, the actor on Wednesday said that the biggest achievement of the thriller is that it has managed to hook youngsters. “The best thing is that youngsters who never used to watch TV are hooked to it. They have something to watch now. Even men have something to watch on TV besides the family soaps. I have heard that women and kids also like it,” said Anil while addressing reporters.

     

    “Usually my family is divided in opinion when it comes to my ventures. There is groupism in my family, but everybody loves 24,” added the 56-year-old, who was last seen in films like Shootout At Wadala and Race 2.

     

    Directed by Abhinay Deo, 24 airs on Colors on Friday and Saturday. In the show, Anil plays the lead role of Jai Singh Rathod, the chief of an anti-terrorist unit. The show captures 24-hours of Rathod’s life where he struggles to prevent the assassination of a prime ministerial candidate and also save his daughter and wife who have been kidnapped by terrorists.

     

    Anil cleared the air about the show being adapted to the big screen saying he had only the rights to the TV format.

     

    When he was quizzed about not foraying on television earlier, Anil said, “I had been offered to judge reality shows, but I didn’t feel good enough. However, with 24, it felt like my calling. I have never been scared of failure and I thought the maximum that could happen was the show wouldn’t work,” he said.

     

    On a lighter note, he expressed how he wanted the master blaster Sachin Tendulkar, who recently announced his retirement plans from Test cricket, to continue playing cricket for the rest of his life. “I wish he could go on and on for life, but Test cricket is a physical sport, and gradually youngsters have to take over. The demands are tough on the body,” he said.

  • Debutante director Somshukhlla makes her global mark with Sandcastle

    Debutante director Somshukhlla makes her global mark with Sandcastle

    MUMBAI: Sandcastle, a simple film with a complex message, written and directed by Indian debutante director Shomshukhlla has been nominated at several International Film Festivals including the Tenerife and London International Film Festival and screening in Hollywood LA Femme Fest.

     

    The film is about the journey of a woman in modern India finding her identity. It will be screened at Hollywood’s LA Femme Film Festival at the Regal Stadium 14 La Live, and has been nominated in the Best Foreign Language Feature Film category at the London International Film Festival (LIFF) 2013. The film also had four nominations at the Tenerife International Film Festival 2013 in London on October 12, including nods for Best Feature Film, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Cinematography.

     

    Some important and rather poignant messages are conjured up in this bright and beautiful journey of a woman building her life. The ending is settling and although the film has had its share of surreal moments, Sandcastle reads much like a wonderfully crafted manuscript.

     

    “The film addresses the unsatisfied longings of a seemingly comfortable middle-class Indian woman. India is waking up to good stories, with substance, new voices, ideas and perspectives, redefining the lost glory of story-telling. I am lucky that I am getting to be a part of it,” says Somshuklla.

     

    Sandcastle tells the story of Sheila, (Shahana Chatterjee) whose upper middle-class life in India isn’t as perfect as she hoped it would be. Sheila is a home-maker, an aspiring writer and loving mother. From an outsider’s perspective, it would seem like she has the perfect life. Her husband is a wealthy advertising maverick and she is part of the elite middle-class of Indian society. But like the shifting of the sands, is it all slipping through her fingers? How will she build her own dreams? In all that she has, does she really have a voice of her own?

     

    The story of Sandcastle reflects one’s belief in the ability to build a perfect life. But even in perfection there is emptiness and wanting. What is perfect to one person is misery for another. The film focuses on contemporary women in urban India and the changes in society that have moulded these women as an independent and self directing force of nature. Shomshuklla shows two colliding worlds of fateful acceptance and feminine Indian independence and individuality.

  • Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson hosts his first tv production ‘The Hero’ on AXN

    Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson hosts his first tv production ‘The Hero’ on AXN

    9 ordinary men and women; one extraordinary host and a search for ‘The Hero.’ Testing the physical abilities of the 9 contestants with extraordinaire challenges and testing their moral fiber with desirable temptations. Each week, the contestants will be tested physically, mentally, and morally, as they try to prove that they truly deserve the title of ‘The Hero’ and the life-changing chance of winning up to a million dollars in prize money. ‘The Hero’ will challenge the competitors to prove they’ve got what it takes to be heroes, pushing them to the limits to see what they are willing to overcome, undergo or sacrifice for the sake of their fellow contestants. The contestants include a fitness instructor, a single mother with 5 odd jobs, a construction worker, a trauma surgeon, a professional WWE wrestler and a married police officer.

     

    From the wrestling ring to the Hollywood screens, the legendary Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson now makes his way to your home though television. The World’s most celebrated Wrestler turned Hollywood Actor is taking up another new role of a Host and Executive Producer for ‘The Hero’ that premieres at 10 pm on 18th October exclusively on AXN. Dwayne ‘Rock’ Johnson will serve as The Hero’s mentor and motivator, encouraging the contestants to reach far beyond their personal limits. In the end, one player will rise above the others, overcoming obstacles he/she never thought possible in order to become a true hero.

     

    ‘The Hero will test the emotional, physical and characters of the contestants through the 8 episodes of the series. Catch all the action, suspense and thrill with Dwayne being a Rock stellar mentor with an unwavering moral compass. The Hero premieres on 18th October at 10 pm exclusively on AXN