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  • Delhi to be recreated in Karjat for Kick

    Delhi to be recreated in Karjat for Kick

    Sajid Nadiadwala’s directorial debut Kick has recently been in the news after Salman Khan was unable to complete the shoot in UK. Hence the schedule of shooting was shifted to India which will commence soon. Despite the fact that the action scenes are required to be shot at Connaught Place, Paharganj and Karol Bagh areas and other popular areas of Delhi, the actor will not visit the city.

     

    An expensive set of a whopping Rs 15 crore is supposed to be erected in Karjat, near Mumbai, which will resemble these popular locations. Also, according to Sajid’s statements, the autos, the buses and other local elements will be brought to the set to create an authentic ambience. After this, Salman will fly to London to shoot a major chunk which still remains unfinished because of the visa controversy.

     

    Besides Salman, Kick stars Jacqueline and Randeep Hooda and is scheduled to release in Eid next year.

  • Julian Assange hits out The Fifth Estate accusing it of fanning the flames

    Julian Assange hits out The Fifth Estate accusing it of fanning the flames

    MUMBAI: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has hit out on The Fifth Estate, said to be based on WikiLeaks, his secret-spilling website and has termed it to be a “massive propaganda attack”.

    Speaking to students at Britain‘s prestigious Oxford University by videolink from the Ecuadoran embassy in London, Assange said that he had acquired a copy of the script for The Fifth Estate, that is due to release in November next.

    “It is a lie upon lie. The movie is a massive propaganda attack on WikiLeaks and the character of my staff,” Assange is reported to have said.

    Assange also accused the film for “fanning the flames” of war against Iran by implying that the Islamic republic was working on a nuclear bomb. Reading from the script, he said the opening scene was set inside a military complex in Iran with documents containing nuclear symbols.

    “How does this have anything to do with us?” Assange questioned.

    DreamWorks Studios had on Tuesday announced that it had begun shooting the WikiLeaks film that stars British actor Benedict Cumberbatch as Assange.

  • BBC World News picks Jon Sopel as lead anchor

    BBC World News picks Jon Sopel as lead anchor

    MUMBAI: BBC News presenter and reporter Jon Sopel has been appointed as one of the lead anchors of BBC World News.

    Sopel will present an afternoon show that will launch early next year from the channel’s new home at New Broadcasting House in central London.

    Sopel will continue to present on the BBC News Channel and BBC One, in addition to his BBC World News role, as well as being deployed on domestic and international live coverage reporting across BBC TV channels and on the web.

    Global News controller of English Richard Porter said, “We’re delighted that such a well-respected presenter as Jon is joining the BBC World News team. He has a wealth of experience, from his international reporting from Paris and the US, and as a presenter on The Politics Show, the BBC News Channel and BBC News at One. I’m sure he will be a great addition to the team.”

    Sopel added, “I am absolutely delighted to be joining the channel to create a new show at a time when BBC World News is going from strength to strength, both in terms of investment and ambition. I just can’t wait to get started.”

    Sopel is currently in the US covering this year’s presidential campaign.

    He brings international and UK experience to his new role. He is currently one of the lead anchors at the BBC News channel in the UK, where in the past few years he has anchored coverage from the Middle East during the Israel Lebanon war; Sri Lanka after the tsunami; New Orleans after Katrina; Beijing for the Olympics, and South Africa for the World Cup.

    Sopel also served as the Paris correspondent for BBC News.

  • Dhulia to Indianise Shakespeare’s Hamlet

    Dhulia to Indianise Shakespeare’s Hamlet

    MUMBAI: With his last film Paan Singh Tomar garnering both critical acclaim and audience response, Tigmanshu Dhulia will adapt William Shakespeare‘s tragic play Hamlet in Hindi.

    The project will be produced by Goldie Behl and his sister Shrishti Arya under the Rose Movies banner. Abhishek Bachchan has been tipped to play the title role.

    The project was first discussed with filmmaker Behl over a decade, when Dhulia was writing Behl’s film Bas Itna Sa Khwab Hai in 2001. That‘s when Dhulia suggested him a Hindi adaptation of the William Shakespeare play.

    “Tigmanshu and I go back a long way… We started our careers around the same time in Rose Movies. So it feels great that he‘s coming back home but this time as a director. We both are very passionate about adapting ‘Hamlet‘ as its the ultimate revenge drama,” observed Behl.

    The last movie released under the Rose Movies banner was London, Paris, New York.

  • First Bengali film festival in London from 18 May

    First Bengali film festival in London from 18 May

    MUMBAI: For the first time ever, a three-day Bengali film festival titled Pratidin Probash Parboni Film Festival has been organised in London from 18 to 20 May.

    The festival has been organised to give the expatriate Bengalis a fair idea about the contemporary changes, turns and twists in the Bengali film industry, which is on a resurgent phase. The festival will mark the world premiere of debutante director Partho Sen’s Balukabela.Com.

    The 3 day film festival will feature finest array of contemporary Bengali cinema. Films that would be featured in the festival are Egaro on 18 May, Balukabela.com, Aparajita Tumi and Elar Char Adhyayall on 19 May, Royal Bengal Rahasya, Bhooter Bhobishyat and Nobel Chor on 20 May.

    The event will have the presence of names like Paoli Dam, Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Swastika Mukherjee, Locket Chatterjee, Rudranil Ghosh and Anirudhya Roy Chowdhury.

    “Next year we have plans to make it more elaborate, including the mainstream movies, which are also assuming a new glossy look with shots in foreign locales. There is a sizeable Bengali population about 250000 in UK spread over places like Edinnburgh, Glasgow, Bermingham and next year we would shuffle the film screenings at different venues to reach everybody,” said Sayantan Das, one of the organisers.

    The film festival has been sponsored by Universal Success Enterprises (USE), is powered by Camellia Group and the TV partner is Channel 10.

  • London Indian Film Fest to open with Gangs Of Wasseypur

    London Indian Film Fest to open with Gangs Of Wasseypur

    MUMBAI: The third annual London Indian Film Festival (LIFF), which will run from 20 June to 3 July, will open with Anurag Kashyap‘s action-packed ‘Gangs Of Wasseypur‘.

    Based on true incidents, the film is a revenge story set in the dynamic socio-political milieu of erstwhile Bihar, Wasseypur, a town in the district of Dhanbad.

    The festival will also screen a selection of cutting edge films from some of India‘s and the UK‘s hottest independent talents for the UK audiences. Remarked Festival Director Cary Rajinder Sawhney, “We aren‘t just showing Indian films for Indian audiences, but opening the door to the rich diversity of cinema in India today, to all audiences.

    Some of these films are kicking out the old stereotypes of Indian cinema, while the best filmmakers are starting to be recognised on the world stage, where they belong. It‘s great to be premiering these cutting-edge new films in London during a year when the city is celebrating its cultural richness.”

    The LIFF also has films and events for a wide range of audiences and includes industry events at BAFTA, exploring Indian/UK co-production and specially commissioned music and performance pieces. For the first time, the festival is also teaming up with Tate Modern to present a rare showcase in Indian experimental film made in Bangalore.

    The full programme of the London Indian Film Festival will be released on 21 May.

  • Jonathon Frid dies at 87

    Jonathon Frid dies at 87

    MUMBAI: Jonathan Frid, the original Barnabas Collins, passed away late last week at age 87 from complications following a fall, according to his co-star Kathryn Leigh Scott. His death comes on the eve of Tim Burton‘s big-screen adaptation of Dark Shadows hits the single screen.
     
    The Canadian-born Frid was a Shakespearean actor who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and studied at the Yale School of Drama, and who always seemed a little bemused by the role that ended up winning him fame.

    Grieved Johnny Depp in a report, “Jonathan Frid was the reason I used to run home from school to watch Dark Shadows. His elegance and grace was an inspiration then and will continue to remain one forever more. When I had the honor to finally meet him … [he] generously passed the torch of Barnabas.”
     
    Frid, along with other cast members from the show, have cameo appearances in the film.

  • Harud cleared by Censors, to release in April

    Harud cleared by Censors, to release in April

    MUMBAI: Aamir Bashir‘s directorial debut, Harud (Autumn), is set to release in April.

    The film is the story of Rafiq and his family who are struggling to come to terms with the loss of his older brother Tauqir, a tourist photographer, who is one of the thousands of young men who have disappeared, since the onset of the militant insurgency in Kashmir. After an unsuccessful attempt to cross the border into Pakistan to become a militant, Rafiq returns home to an aimless existence. Until one day he accidently finds his brother‘s old camera.

    Despite being acclaimed internationally in film festivals at Toronto, London, New York, San Francisco and Dubai, the film failed to receive the government‘s censor certificate and, hence, never got to release in India.

    According to Bashir, the issue has now been resolved and his film is set for release.

    Bashir is currently writing the script of his next venture titled ‘Winter‘.

  • Michael to kick off London Asia Film Fest

    Michael to kick off London Asia Film Fest

    MUMBAI: Ribhu Dasgupta’s Michael will kick off the 14th London Asian Film Festival due from 16 to 24 March.

    “This debut work takes its place in India’s emerging independent cinema which attempts to portray its current social predicament head on, no holds barred. The film, produced by Anurag Kashyap and starring Naseeruddin Shah, follows the lives of a chain of people as they merge and get lost in Kolkata‘s landscape,” reads the official website of the festival.

    Other films that would also be screened alongside are Michael Winterbottom’s Trishna, Salim Ahamed’s Adaminte Makan Abu, Italo Spinell’s Gangor, Shoaib Mansoor’s Bol and Rubaiyat Hossain’s Meherjaan.

    Taking an award for his work on disability in Indian cinema will be Sanjay Leela Bhansali. His films Black and Guzaarish will also be screened at the festival.

    Abhishek Bachchan will open the London Asian Film Festival along with writer and British comedian Meera Sayal.

  • Sanjay Bhansali to be honoured at London Asian Film Fest

    Sanjay Bhansali to be honoured at London Asian Film Fest

    MUMBAI: Sanjay Leela Bhansali will be honoured for his work on disability in his last film Guzaarish in 2010 in Tongues on Fire – The London Asian Film Festival at a ceremony on 24 March.

    Two films of Bhansali, Black and Guzaarish, will be screened at the festival.

    “We‘re very excited to have invited director Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who will be here on 21 March until the closing night awards ceremony on 24 March at BAFTA,” said a statement of the Festival. “Tongues on Fire will be giving him an award in recognition of his work on disability in the film. Sanjay will also be delivering the Nargis Dutt lecture at the University of Westminster (Regent Street campus) on 22 March,” the statement added.

    Guzaarish saw Hrithik Roshan play a quadriplegic former magician attempting to end his own life through euthanasia.

    Tongues on Fire – The London Asian Film Festival takes place from 16 to 24 March.