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  • Kesh King ropes in Imtiaz Ali and Huma Qureshi for TVC

    Kesh King ropes in Imtiaz Ali and Huma Qureshi for TVC

    MUMBAI: Ayurvedic hair care brand Kesh King is set to release its new ad film for which it has roped in actors Imtiaz Ali and Huma Qureshi. The ad film will go on air around mid-March 2016.

    Emami Limited director Priti A Sureka said, “Till now the brand Kesh King used to run mass communication messages focusing only on the functional benefits of the product. Post-acquisition of the brand, we have conducted extensive consumer research which threw up myriad moments of truth in the life of an Indian woman for her falling, damaged, dull and lifeless hair due to daily stress, improper diet, pollution, weather and many other reasons. We have found out that many women tend to suffer from low confidence, low self-esteem and even depression due to problems like excessive hair fall, premature graying and unhealthy hair quality. Basis this insight, we thought of weaving in these consumer findings in our ad story and establish Kesh King as the one stop solution for all these hair woes of women and give them back healthy lustrous hair along with their lost confidence and happiness. We believe that this new film focusing more on the consumer needs will strike a chord with our TG.”

    The storyline of the ad film has actor Huma as a hassled housewife complaining to her husband about her falling, lifeless and dull hair and her distress at people including her husband being indifferent to her agony of having bad hair.  As the husband introduces her to Kesh King and its benefits and helps her to manage her tousled tresses, Kesh King tries to establish itself as a brand that not only takes care of hair woes but also mends relations.

  • Kesh King ropes in Imtiaz Ali and Huma Qureshi for TVC

    Kesh King ropes in Imtiaz Ali and Huma Qureshi for TVC

    MUMBAI: Ayurvedic hair care brand Kesh King is set to release its new ad film for which it has roped in actors Imtiaz Ali and Huma Qureshi. The ad film will go on air around mid-March 2016.

    Emami Limited director Priti A Sureka said, “Till now the brand Kesh King used to run mass communication messages focusing only on the functional benefits of the product. Post-acquisition of the brand, we have conducted extensive consumer research which threw up myriad moments of truth in the life of an Indian woman for her falling, damaged, dull and lifeless hair due to daily stress, improper diet, pollution, weather and many other reasons. We have found out that many women tend to suffer from low confidence, low self-esteem and even depression due to problems like excessive hair fall, premature graying and unhealthy hair quality. Basis this insight, we thought of weaving in these consumer findings in our ad story and establish Kesh King as the one stop solution for all these hair woes of women and give them back healthy lustrous hair along with their lost confidence and happiness. We believe that this new film focusing more on the consumer needs will strike a chord with our TG.”

    The storyline of the ad film has actor Huma as a hassled housewife complaining to her husband about her falling, lifeless and dull hair and her distress at people including her husband being indifferent to her agony of having bad hair.  As the husband introduces her to Kesh King and its benefits and helps her to manage her tousled tresses, Kesh King tries to establish itself as a brand that not only takes care of hair woes but also mends relations.

  • Catch the world television premiere of ‘Dedh Ishqiya’ at 1pm and 8 pm on Sunday 14th on Sony Max

    Catch the world television premiere of ‘Dedh Ishqiya’ at 1pm and 8 pm on Sunday 14th on Sony Max

    MUMBAI: MAX, the premium Hindi movies and special events channel brings you the World Television premiere of the Indian comedy thriller, ‘Dedh Ishqiya,’ at 1 pm and 8pm on Sunday, 14th September.

     

    A sequel to the 2010 film Ishqiya, this zany black comedy thriller directed by Abhishek Chaubey brings together a strong cast comprising of Madhuri Dixit, Arshad Warsi, Naseeruddin Shah, and Huma Qureshi in lead roles. The film which encompasses good camerawork, crisp editing, strong dialogues, terrific Urdu wordplay and crackling humour is guaranteed to keep viewers glued to their television sets over the weekend.

    The plot is about the irrepressible con men duo of Khalujan (Naseeruddin Shah) and his nephew Babban (Arshad Warsi),who get separated due to a jewellery theft and find themselves in Mehmudabad.  In this town, Khalujan dons the role of a Urdu poet to win the heart of the nawab’s widow Begum Para (Madhuri Dixit) who is organizing a mushaira to choose her new husband.  Tune in to watch how the story unfolds to reveal a kidnapping plot, a love triangle and a violent shootout.

    Commenting on the mature romance that defines the film, veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah, says, “The film is a modern take on a Muslim social. It depicts a man falling in love with a completely desirable and unattainable lady and the process he goes through.  What the lady is going through is not quite clear. That’s what adds mystery and enigma to her character in the film.”

    Talking about working alongside Naseerudin Shah, leading Bollywood actress, Madhuri Dixit, says, “For me it was an opportunity to work with him and I am so honoured to have done that. The first film that I saw of Naseerji was ‘Masoom’. I have been a big fan of his acting. I think he is a brilliant actor.”

    Get mesmerized with Urdu poetry, by catching the world television premiere of ‘Dedh Ishqiya’ at 1pm and 8pm on Sunday, 14th September only on Sony MAX

  • Winners of the L’Oréal Paris Femina Women Awards 2014

    Winners of the L’Oréal Paris Femina Women Awards 2014

    MUMBAI: L’Oréal Paris, the world’s No. 1 beauty brand and Femina, India’s largest women’s magazine once again came together to celebrate India’s women achievers at the third edition of the L’Oréal Paris Femina Women Awards 2014 at The Leela, Mumbai. The awards celebrated ‘Women of Worth’ in India, honouring women who work selflessly for their communities across 14 categories including Social Impact, Community Causes, Science & Innovation and Education amongst others.

    Honouring women with extraordinary accomplishments and exceptional commitment to their careers and communities, the L’Oréal Paris Femina Women Awards brought to the fore the strength and contribution of Indian women to society.  The nominees were shortlisted after an extensive research process while identifying each one’s key contribution in their respective fields.

    Manashi Guha, GeneralManager, L’Oréal Paris said, “It gives us immense pleasure to see the L’Oréal Paris Femina Women Awards grow as a platform that recognizes strong women so committed to the society around them. L’Oréal Paris firmly believes in women empowerment and applauds any woman who bravely takes on a challenge and converts it into an opportunity. I would like to congratulate these Women of Worth for their exemplary work and thank them for inspiring women everywhere to empower themselves and lead an extraordinary life.”

    Sharing his views on organizing these awards, Tarun Rai, CEO, World Wide Media said, “Over 50 years Femina has celebrated and inspired the modern Indian woman through its pages. It was only fitting that we institute and award for women achievers across a variety of fields. In its third edition the L’Oreal Paris Femina Women Awards will celebrate the achievements of 62 nominees. 15 of them will walk away with the stunning ‘Tangram’ trophy.”

    The evening saw distinguished women from various walks of life being felicitated for work done in diverse fields. Sonam A. Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Katrina Kaifalong withAkshay Kumar, Huma Qureshi, NehaDhupia andAnupamKher, Dr. Swati Piramal, Sabyasachi, ZarinaScrewalafrom the esteemed jury members presented the awards. Other guests present at the awards included DiaMirza, Kunal Kapoor, Mini Mathur, SonaliKulkani,  PriaKatariaPuri, PoojaBedi, KalkiKochelin, Neel Bhoopalam, Nimrat Kaur.

    With power packed performances by IshaSharvani, Aditi Mittal &SwanandKirkirethe ceremony brought alive the essence of womanhood in India and made the evening an occasion to remember.

    Rounding off a successful third year of the awards Tanya Chaitanya, Editor, Femina said, “L’Oreal Paris Femina Women Awards 2014 are an out-and-out celebration of the deserving yet the unsung. Women who work tirelessly towards causes close to their heart, chasing excellence in all that they do, women who believe in taking the community along, women who make a huge difference to their surroundings. It is Femina’s honour to have such women achievers step up and take a bow before the world in a befitting all-out extravaganza that the L’Oreal Paris Femina Women Awards 2014 is. Thank you, ladies!”

    Winners of the third edition of L’Oréal Paris Femina Women Awards 2014

    L’Oréal Paris Femina Women Awardswere setup in 2012 by two formidable women-centric brands L’Oreal Paris and Femina to honour and provide a platform for women achievers who have done exceptional work in their respective fields. L’Oréal Paris, known for its powerful slogan ‘Because You’re Worth is not just the World’s No.1 beauty brand, but also a brand that embodies self-confidence and empowerment. Femina is synonymous with celebrating women and their achievements and has done pioneering work in putting these achievers in the spotlight for over five decades. Held on an annual basis, the awards will continue to honour and celebrate women achievers for their significant accomplishments towards the evolution of society.

  • Eros Now brings Ek Thi Daayan online

    Eros Now brings Ek Thi Daayan online

    MUMBAI: Ek Thi Daayan starring Emraan Hashmi, Huma Qureshi, Konkona Sen Sharma and Kalki Koechlin which released in April, this year, has been released online on Eros Now.

     

    With apps available for Android, Apple & Amazon, Eros Now ensures that its subscribers have easy and straightforward access to the online platform, along with top quality video as well as English subtitles for international audience.

     

    Ek Thi Daayan is about a childhood witch revisiting the protagonist, Emraan Hashmi. Hashmi is a renowned professional magician. While he performs his tricks, Qureshi, monitors his shows on close circuit. The film did moderately well at the box-office domestically.

     

    All users need to do is subscribe to www.erosnow.com, and enter the world of uninterrupted entertainment.

  • Ek Thi Dayan: A modern take on witch lore

    Ek Thi Dayan: A modern take on witch lore

    MUMBAI: Superstition about witchcraft is a worldwide phenomenon but beliefs differ from continent to continent. In India, witches are supposed to be found only in deep jungles late at night. Hence, the areas where such jungles exist have more people believing in witches and their sightings. Balaji‘s Ek Thi Dayan binds itself with no such borders and decides to invade a Mumbai mansion. Ek Thi Daayan is about a childhood witch revisiting the protagonist, Emraan Hashmi. It seems like she gets reincarnated every 20 years. After all, why should the privilege of reincarnation be limited only to humans? According to this film, a witch need to be reincarnated too to take her beau back with her no matter how many incarnations it takes!









    Producers: Shobha Kapoor, Ekta Kapoor, Vishal Bhardwaj, Rekha Bhardwaj.
    Director: Kannan Iyer.
    Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Huma Qureshi, Konkona Sen Sharma, Kalki Koechlin, Rojotava Dutta, Pawan Malhotra, Bhavesh Balchandani, Visshesh Tiwari, Sara Raj Arjun.


    Hashmi is courting Huma Qureshi and both plan to adopt an orphan (Bhavesh Balchandani) even before they are married. They are a rare couple who, without a justification, want to adopt an orphan instead of making their own kids. Later in the film you learn that the witch story is all about sacrificing a child on 29 February every leap year that coincides with lunar eclipse for her to sustain. As a result, the couple had no time to marry and produce a child and needed one off the shelf for the script‘s sake!


    Hashmi is a renowned professional magician. While he performs his tricks, Qureshi, for whatever reason, monitors his shows on close circuit. During one of his shows, things go wrong as he hears eerie voices distracting him from his act, almost costing his assistant girl her life. Hashmi feels he is being stalked. His past seems to have caught up with him. He takes the help of the psychiatrist whom he had consulted as a child. Under a spell, Hashmi is made to recall his childhood experience thus taking the story forward in a flashback.


    Young Hashmi (played by Visshesh Tiwari) is reading a book on witches and occult and learns that by pressing the button 6 in the lift, 666 being the sign of devil, the lift will take him straight to hell which is supposed to be somewhere underground! He makes a trip with his sister (Sara Raj Arjun) only to have a witch chase him. It would seem that Hashmi is actually from the witch‘s world too and the witch has always loved him and hence has come to take him back.


    Instead, having come in the form of Konkona Sen Sharma, she seduces his widowed father, Pawan Malhotra. It is 29 February and an eclipse and the young Hashmi is a worried lad; his book warns about this and there is murder in the air. His fears prove right; the witch manages to kill his sister as well as his father. He survives because he follows his book which says if you cut off a witch‘s hair, she loses all her power. Hashmi grows up to become a magician as predicted by the witch because a lizard had fallen on his head!


    Now the witch is back and Hashmi suspects Kalki Koechlin is the one since as she has suddenly come on the scene from Canada and wishes to buy out his haunted house. Hashmi‘s doubts about Koechlin grow stronger when a balcony barricade gives way and his wife, Qureshi, falls four floors to the ground.


    It is 29 February and eclipse again and Hashmi realises the only child that the witch can kill this time is his own adopted child, Balchandani. When he does not find him anywhere, he knows the only place the child could be is hell. Since he knows his way around, he enters hell to save the boy. There he is surprised by the real witch but manages to save the child and render the witch ineffective by cutting her hair until a sequel (which a viewer is threatened with at the end) needs her back.


    For a supernatural/ horror genre, the film is too long at 134 minutes. The script has similarities to recent films, Aatma and Raaz2, and hence is too predictable. The first half is okay but the director loses grip as the second half goes haywire. Music is weak. The dialogue is uninspiring. As for performance, Sen Sharma is the best of the lot while Qureshi keeps making smiley faces so much she drips syrup. Koechlin is only a red herring and as such has nothing much to do. Child artistes are all good but Sara Raj Arjun is the most natural while Visshesh Tiwari and Bhavesh Balchandani also do very well.


    Ek Thi Dayan has had a weak opening despite Ram Navmi holiday in many parts and with negative word of mouth its prospects are poor at the box office.

  • Huma Qureshi to star in Dedh Ishqiya

    Huma Qureshi to star in Dedh Ishqiya

    MUMBAI: Huma Qureshi, the Gangs of Wasseypur fame, has replaced Kangama Ranaut in the sequel of Ishqiya.

    The film is under pre-production. While Arshad Warsi and Naseeruddin Shah are returning for the sequel, the film will also star Madhuri Dixit.

     
    It is scheduled to go on the floors in February.

    Vidya Balan had played the lead role in the original comedy thriller which was released in 2010 and produced by Vishal Bhardwaj.

  • IFN chefs experiment with Chicken Khurana

    IFN chefs experiment with Chicken Khurana

    MUMBAI: UTV Spotboy and Anurag Kashyap Films Pvt Ltd (AKFPL) the producers of upcoming comedy Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana have joined hands with India Food Network (IFN) available on YouTube to create an exclusive rendering of the popular Chicken Khurana recipe by its select chefs.

    As part of the promotion for the movie, IFN‘s chefs Joel D Souza, Kalyan Karmakar, Veena Gidwani and Archana Arte, took up the challenge by coming up with their best interpretations of the Chicken Khurana recipe.

    While some chefs prepared an authentic Punjabi Dhaba dish, some added a twist to popular dishes like Chicken Tikka and Tandoori Chicken. The chefs used Punjabi ingredients and improvised to get the perfect flavours.

    Ping Digital Network acquisitions director Anagha Rajyadhyaksha said, “The entire cooking session saw tremendous ingenuity on part of our chefs. We could never imagine that you could replicate a dhaba style cooking in your kitchen. One of our chefs, Archana, actually used charcoal to cook the chicken and create that asli Chicken Khurana feel.”

    Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana is the story of a quirky Punjabi family in pursuit of a secret recipe that will enable them to reclaim their pride and wealth. The film is directed by Sameer Sharma and stars Kunal Kapoor, Huma Qureshi and will hit theaters on 2 November.

  • UTV, Anurag Kashyap to co-produce Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana

    UTV, Anurag Kashyap to co-produce Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana

    MUMBAI: UTV Spotboy and Anurag Kashyap have again teamed up to produce Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana (LSTCK).

    LSTCK, directed by Sameer Sharma, is a wholesome family entertainer that celebrates the two Indian obsessions- food and family.

    The film is the story of a Punjabi joint family with inherent humour, drama, confusion and emotion over the secret recipe for a famous chicken curry called ‘Chicken Khurana‘.

    LSTCK stars Kunal Kapoor and Huma Qureshi (who has acted in Anurag‘s Gangs of Wasseypur) in the lead roles.

    UTV Spotboy and Anurag Kashyap had earlier collaborated on Dev.D and Udaan.