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  • Stage set for the sixth ‘Indian Telly Awards’

    Stage set for the sixth ‘Indian Telly Awards’

    NEW DELHI: The stage is set for the sixth edition of the Indian Telly Awards, the oldest and most credible annual celebration of creative excellence in the Indian television industry.

    The glittering ceremony, host to the who’s who of the Indian television firmament, will be held tomorrow at the Chitrakut Grounds in Mumbai’s western suburb of Andheri.

    The brainchild of indiantelevision.com founder Anil Wanvari , the awards celebrate excellence and are given out to the best performances, programmes and various other important categories which determine talent in the television industry during the year.

    Labeled as the Oscars of the Indian television industry, the Emmys of India – the sixth Indian Telly Awards are this time going to honour winners who have been nominated in more than 30 popular categories.

    Various TV celebs have been roped in to render performances on the night of the event. To name just a few, TV actor Sangeeta Ghosh would be delivering an inaugural performance and the team of the TV show Left Right Left would also be presenting an act.

    Akashdeep Saigal (Ansh of Kyunki…) and Ejaz Khan (Kavya of Kavyanjali) are all set to keep the audiences wanting for more with their dance performances and Naveen Prabhakar of The Great Indian Laughter Challenge fame will keep the audience rolling with his completely new and never seen before comedy act.

    Nominees of the top three popular categories are:

    – Best Television Personality:
    Javed Jaferi
    Rajdeep Sardesai
    Navjot Singh Sidhu
    Ram Kapoor
    Ronit Roy

    – Best Actor (Male)
    Rajeev Khandelwal – Left Right Left
    Eijaz Khan – KKavyanjali
    Ronit Roy – Kasautii Zindagii Kay
    Shakti Anand – Ek Ladki Anjaani Si
    Ram Kapoor – Kasamh Se …
    Arvind Rathod – Thodi Khushi Thode Gham
    Hussain Kuwajerwala – Kumkum.. Pyara Sa Bandhan
    Pawan Shankar – Siddhanth

    – Best Actor (Female)
    Sangeeta Ghosh – Viraasat
    Aamna Sharif – Kahiin To Hoga
    Anita Hansnandani – Kkavyanjali
    Saakshi Tanwar – Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii
    Smriti Irani – Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi
    Shweta Tiwari – Kasautii Zindagii Kay
    Kanchi Kaul – Ek Ladki Anjaani Si
    Sarita Joshi – Baa Bahoo Aur Baby

    The entire list of the nominees is available at www.indiantellyawards.com.

  • SRK to be honoured at Dubai International Film Festival

    SRK to be honoured at Dubai International Film Festival

    MUMBAI: The Dubai International Film Festival (Diff) has announced this year’s festival will honour Shah Rukh Khan, Oliver Stone and Nabil El-Maleh and for their outstanding contribution to cinema, as part of the Diff Salutes programme.

    The festival will run from 10-17 December 2006 at the Madinat Jumeirah. Diff Salutes is a retrospective tribute that celebrates the work of distinguished film makers from Asia, the Arab world, and Hollywood. This follows last year’s In the Spotlight segment, which honoured Oscar-winning American actor Morgan Freeman, the Egyptian “king of comedy” Adel Imam, and Indian producer-director Yash Chopra.

    Diff chairman Abdulhamid Juma said, “Within three years, Diff has come a long way in capturing the attention, participation and awareness of the regional and international film industry. The presence of these legends will confirm the festival as a forum that celebrates milestone cinema.

    “Retrospective screenings of their acclaimed work will provide further momentum to Diff’s objective of inspiring an emerging generation of film makers, who we think will take the industry to new levels of growth.”
    Stone has won the Oscar thrice. Stone won two oscars for the Vietnam films Platoon and Born On The Fourth of July.

    At the forefront of several genre trends, his films are well crafted epics that deal with the effect of history on the individual and vice versa. A distinct feature of Oliver Stone’s movies is the unique use of cameras and film formats, as seen in JFK (1991) and Natural Born Killers (1994). Stone’s most recent film, World Trade Center, follows the thread of his earlier works in documenting events in the US that impact people’s lives.

    King Khan has appeared in over 55 films. Two of his films were India’s official entries in the Oscars: Paheli (2006) and Devdas (2002).

  • 83 countries invited to submit foreign language films for Oscars

    83 countries invited to submit foreign language films for Oscars

    MUMBAI: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Ampas) in the US has invited 83 countries to submit films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 79th Academy Awards.

    The Oscars will take place on 25 February, 2007, at the Kodak Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center. In the US it will air on ABC while in India it will air on Star Movies. To qualify for the 2006 awards year, a film must be released in the submitting country between 1 October, 2005 and 30 September, 2006 and be publicly screened in 35mm or 70mm film for at least seven consecutive days in a commercial motion picture theater.

    The dialogue track must be predominantly in a language or languages other than English. Accurate English subtitles are required. Entry forms must be received at the Academy by 2 October, 2006, and film prints must be received by 13 October. Only one picture will be accepted from each country. Five films will be chosen.

    Since the category’s establishment in 1956, 102 different countries have submitted films to compete for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. The 1956 award went to Italy for La Strada.Most recently, the South African film Tsotsi won the Oscar over a field of nominated films from France, Germany, Italy and the Palestinian Territories.

    Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan will receive this year their first invitation to participate. The last time India featured was in 2001 when Lagaan was nominated. There have been cases when a film has not been nominated because it was not in the language of the submitting country.

    An example was last year when Austria submitted Cache that some critics felt was the best foreign film of 2005. Unfortunately as the film was in French it was deemed ineligible. The director Michael Haneke is Austrian. Then there was the case of The Motorcycle Diaries in 2004. As it was a co-production between three countries no one country was willing to submit it.