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  • Sharmila Tagore to get lifetime award, Zohra Sehgal to get Minar-e-Delhi at first DIFF

    Sharmila Tagore to get lifetime award, Zohra Sehgal to get Minar-e-Delhi at first DIFF

    NEW DELHI: Veteran thespian Sharmila Tagore is to receive the lifetime achievement award while centurion Zohra Sehgal will be awarded the Minar-e-Dilli award at the first Delhi International Film Festival later this month.

    A total of 174 films from 32 countries including at least 20 per cent from the SAARC countries will be screened at the Festival to be held from 21 to 27 December. It will be inaugurated by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit at Sirifort Auditorium but the screenings will be held in the three auditoria of the NDMC Convention Centre.

    Tagore unveiled the Golden Minar and the Silver Minar awards of the Festival at a press meet organised by the Social Circle which is organising the festival for which around 700 entries were received. Delhi Tourism is also collaborating in the Festival.

    She also released the DVD of a song, ‘Yeh Dilli Hai’, written by Rani Malik and sung by Ravinder Singh who was present.

    Tagore said passion was an important ingredient for starting any new venture and she had found this in ample measure among the organisers. She particularly appreciated the focus on south Asia.

    DIFF Founder President and senior journalist Ram Kishore Parcha said the festival had been timed to coincide with 100 years of Indian cinema and a century of Delhi as the capital of India.

    Parcha said there had been a vacuum of an international film festival since the International Film Festival of India was shifted to Goa, and there was also a need to have a filmmaking hub in north India. This festival would fulfill all these needs. He said in reply to a question that DIFF had been registered as a brand for ten years.

    Festival Secretary Suresh K Goswami (a senior filmmaker himself) introduced various sections of the Festival and said there will be as many as 16 films from Pakistan with ‘Lamha’ from that country being the closing film. The Polish film ‘80 Million’ by Waldemar Krzystek is the opening film.

    The World Cinema section will showcase films like “Daughters of Hill” by Patrizia landi, “The Artist” by Michel Hazanavicius, “Jeremiah” by Eran Paz, “Love Bird” by Susan Collins, “The Sunshine” in The Corner by Sun Hao Young, “Mar” by Caner Erzincan and many more. India’s Zia-Us-Salaam is on the International Jury.

    Parcha said while international Film festivals were being held in many cities like Mumbai, Goa, Kolkata, and Thiruvananthapuram, there was none in Delhi.

    Parcha announced that a film library of DVDs of classics was being established at the Indian Media and Communication Centre in Gautam Nagar in south Delhi.

    A script writing workshop by Tigmanshu Dhulia and a Mohammed Rafi evening on the singer’s birth anniversary later this month will form part of the Festival.

    The legendary Malayalam Filmmaker and Dada Saheb Phalke awardee Adoor Gopalakrishnan is Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Festival. The Board consists of Anurag Kashyap, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Sandeep Marwah, Shriram Raghavan, Uma Da Cunha, Shiney Ahuja, Yashpal Sharma, Shonali Bose, Sushma Parcha and Bela Negi from India, Alain Jallladeau, Phillip Jalladeau from France, Jamal Shah, Satish Anand from Pakistan, Sajedur Rehman Firoze from Bangladesh, Reza Degati from Iran, Andrej Karawakoski Avner Faingulernt, Erez Pery, Lina Murad from Syria, and Kai Syng Tan from London. About 80 Actors from India and overseas are also connected with this festival.

    The best amongst selected films will be honoured with the Golden Minar and Silver Minar awards respectively. The festival in its first edition will not only honour the films, filmmakers, artists and writers, but will also honour outstanding persons who have excelled in their contribution towards the welfare of society and the people with Minare Dilli award.

    Classic Films from Overseas and India are included as special sections along with Delhi Scope section in the festival. Retrospective, Tributes and Homage sections will include films of Dev Anand, Balraj Sahni and other legendary filmmakers and actors. This section will also include films of Adoor Gopalakrishnan and the distinguished actor Soumitra Chatterjee from Bengal.

    A special section called NRI Cinema has been included in the festival. Under this section at least 15 films by Non Resident Indians living in different parts of the world will be show cased. In this section films like “A Gran Plan” by Sangeeta Nambiyar of Singapore, “Oas” by Shiv Tiwari of New York, “The Happy Pulse” by Jay Bajaj of Canada, “Children of God” by Foukia Akhtar of United Arab Emirates will be showcased and the best film will be awarded the Golden Minar. There will be a special emphasis on women filmmakers in this section.

    In addition to the Non Resident Indian Films, a section dedicated to the NRI writers has also been specially included in the festival in which a poetry collection book shall be launched as well. The book is edited by none other than the well-known senior journalist, Poetess and writer, Anita Kapoor from California. The best poem in this collection will be honoured with the Silver Minar.

    Three seminars and some workshops shall be organized during the festival. The Festival has a dedicated section for the artwork from all over the world, the theme of which is the Cinema and Delhi. The art work will have a special exhibition during the festival and the best artwork will be honoured with the Silver Minar Award.

    The organisations that have partnered with the festival are Broadway International Film Festival, Los Angeles, South Cinema South Film Festival, and JMT from Israel, Slade school of fine arts, London, Film factory china, Turkish Film Industry, Cinetech Nationale Mexico, Brazil films, Media Box Bangladesh, Hunarkada from Pakistan, Film Boutique from Germany, Second largest Nantes film festival of France and French cultural centre.

  • Edinburgh Napier University honours Sharmila Tagore

    Edinburgh Napier University honours Sharmila Tagore

    MUMBAI: The Edinburgh Napier University has presented veteran yesteryear actress Sharmila Tagore with an Honorary Doctorate of Arts for her outstanding contribution to Indian cinema.

    “Sharmila has had an astonishing career and her films are enjoyed all over the world. She is an excellent ambassador for Indian culture and at the same time, through her various charity endeavours, is a strong advocate for the educational rights of children in India,” Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Edinburgh Napier University professor Dame Joan Stringer has been quoted to have said.

    The actress, who is the great grand-niece of Noble laureate Rabindranath Tagore, joined leading figures from the world of foreign affairs, education and almost 1000 students at the ceremony to collect the award.

    With a glittering career spanning six decades, Sharmila has won National Film Awards and Filmfare awards for her performances in films like Apur Sansar, Kashmir Ki Kali, An Evening in Paris, Aradhana and Amar Prem.

    “It is indeed a privilege to be conferred an Honorary Degree by Edinburgh Napier University. It recognises the significant influence of Indian Cinema on the global cultural arena and the small role that I have played in its history. As we celebrate a hundred years of Indian Cinema, this is both a happy and humbling moment,” said Sharmila Tagore while accepting her Doctorate.

    The honour comes just months after the University‘s Institute for Creative Industries opened The Scottish Centre for Tagore Studies (ScoTs), the first centre of its kind in the UK.

    ScoTs promotes Indian culture, education, philosophy, art and literature by highlighting the legacy of Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913.

  • Haroon Rashid finishes film in one take

    Haroon Rashid finishes film in one take

    MUMBAI: After Roop Tera Mastana… from Aradhana which was supposedly canned in a single take on Rajesh Khanna and Sharmila Tagore by Shakti Samanta, filmmakers have often tried to do such sort of achievement.

    The latest is debutant director Haroon Rashid who has completed a feature film of two hours and twenty minutes length in just one take without a single cut. Rashid claims that the film, titled One Shot Fear Without A Cut, is qualified as the world‘s longest one-take film and has been sent to the Guinness book of world records for the same.

    The film’s story revolves around the TRP game of media and how a team of a particular television channel gets trapped in this race and desires to get fame and recognition overnight. This greed of theirs takes them to a haunted place, uninhabited for several years. The crux of the film follows hereon.

    Rashid who wrote and directed the film had to double up as the cinematographer as well after many DOPs (director of photography) deserted him midway after a few days of rehearsal.

    On the challenges, Rashid said, “We shot a full-length film with songs, dance, real-time action and chase scenes spread across seven kilometers on actual locations. We were very accurate in what we did because if one would have gone wrong we would have had to do it all over again.”

    To make sure nothing went wrong, Rashid rehearsed with his crew for a few months. “We rehearsed for almost five months before shooting the film and we got it right in the seventh or eighth final take,” he pointed out.

    The film is a magnificent presentation of a very well synchronized team-work. Covering four locations over a distance of seven kilometers, starting from the sea to the road, road to the jungle and jungle to the final building, again all in one shot was no easy task.”It took a lot of courage, passion, trust and faith to achieve our goal, “observed Rashid.

  • Gitanjali Group ropes in Sharmila Tagore and Soha Ali Khan as brand ambassadors

    Gitanjali Group ropes in Sharmila Tagore and Soha Ali Khan as brand ambassadors

    MUMBAI: The Gitanjali Group has roped in Sharmila Tagore and Soha Ali Khan as the brand ambassador for its ‘Nizam Collection‘.

    The new collection boasts of exquisite jewellery crafted in classic gold and set with uncut diamonds and coloured stones, inspired by the rich cultural heritage of the golden era in the history of Indian art, craft and culture during the Mughal, Rajput and Nizam periods.

    The group also unveiled its new campaign with the mother-daughter duo of the royal Pataudi family.

    The new campaign captures the essence of the brand symbolising luxury, class and exclusivity with each exquisite piece. The TV commercial showcases how Nizam jewellery, known to make the wearer feel like a Royal Princess, seduces a modern day girl to bring out the lady in her.

    It involves an interaction between the mother and daughter while they are dressing up for an important family occasion. Khan, who at first dismisses the traditional attire, converts herself to that look and the campaign captures those moments of transformation and transition that she goes through from being a modern looking girl to emerging as a royal princess as she adorns herself with Nizam jewellery.

  • Zee News ropes in Kiran Bedi for highlighting women achievements

    Zee News ropes in Kiran Bedi for highlighting women achievements

    MUMBAI: Zee News has roped in retired IPS officer and social activist Kiran Bedi to anchor a new 13-episodic series, Kiran Aur Kirnae.

    Starting 14 March, Kiran Aur Kirnae will air every Sunday at 6.30 pm wherein Bedi will talk to successful women achievers on the screen.

    The channel claims that as the entire country is discussing about whether the woman reservation bill should be passed or not, it is its responsibility to takes on a mission of educating the country and enlightening them about the power of women.

    Bedi will meet the women icons in India like Sania Mirza, Uma Bharti, Chanda Kochchar, Sharmila Tagore and Saina Nehwal. They will talks about the obstacles they have faced and challenges they have taken up to reach where they are today and become the role model of many.

    In her new avtar as a news reporter on the channel, Bedi will highlight the achievements of these women icons. She will argue that if a woman can successfully manage her career and home, then she can also take part in the political system of her country and work with her male counterparts towards the betterment of the nation.

  • TV content code to be in place soon

    TV content code to be in place soon

    NEW DELHI: The Indian government is close to finalising the content code for television and films, which is likely to re-write the business of broadcasting vis-à-vis prime time viewing.

    According to a government official in the information and broadcasting minister, the content code is likely to be notified by month-end or early November.

    “We are in the process of finalizing the content code and would like to get it in place as soon as possible,” an official in the I&B ministry said.

    The content code is aimed at having a uniform yardstick for films and television content.

    If the code gets in place, then quite a few popular TV soaps are likely to get re-classified and would have to be aired at timings set by the government.

    The official said that the government is worried about complaints relating to content on TV and would like to regulate the same.

    The content code is likely to classify TV content into categories, including whether it’s fit for unrestricted viewing or not.

    This would be the first time that the Indian government would bring under censor regulations (mainly meant for films) TV content, which has been left out of regulation.

    The Indian film censor board chief and veteran actress Sharmila Tagore had exhorted the government to remove overlaps in the functioning of censor board and a proposed broadcast regulator.

    She also called for “transparency” while forming the proposed Broadcast Regulatory Authority of India (Brai), which is supposed to deal with content regulations.

    Regulating content or complaints relating to TV shows is part of the government’s overall aim to address issues on content.

  • B’cast Bill: Film censor board chief seeks clarifications

    B’cast Bill: Film censor board chief seeks clarifications

    NEW DELHI: Indian film censor board chief and veteran actress Sharmila Tagore today exhorted the government to remove overlaps in the functioning of censor board and a proposed broadcast regulator.

    She also called for “transparency” while forming the proposed Broadcast Regulatory Authority of India (Brai).

    “There has to be some sort of uniformity at some level… and identify where there are some overlaps,” Tagore, chairperson of the Central Board for Film Certification (CBFC), was quoted by the Press Trust of India as saying.

    She, along with some other government officials and industry representatives were participating in a day-long seminar on the draft ‘Broadcasting Services Regulation Bill – 2006’, which was organized by industry chamber Assocham.

    Tagore’s apprehensions stems from the fact that the censor board and the proposed Brai might end up doing similar works like certifying content for television channels.

    In the absence of a regulatory body, the government has mandated that only `U’ (or for unrestricted viewing) censor certified films promos, music videos and songs should be aired on TV music channels.

    Information and broadcasting secretary S K Arora assured the industry gathering that the government was open to suggestions and comments on the proposed Brai and the Bill.

    “The government is open to suggestions and can incorporate fresh ideas and issues we may have omitted (earlier in a draft that was readied for the Cabinet),” he said.

  • B’cast Bill: Film censor board chief seeks clarifications

    NEW DELHI: Indian film censor board chief and veteran actress Sharmila Tagore today exhorted the government to remove overlaps in the functioning of censor board and a proposed broadcast regulator.

    She also called for “transparency” while forming the proposed Broadcast Regulatory Authority of India (Brai).

    “There has to be some sort of uniformity at some level… and identify where there are some overlaps,” Tagore, chairperson of the Central Board for Film Certification (CBFC), was quoted by the Press Trust of India as saying.

    She, along with some other government officials and industry representatives were participating in a day-long seminar on the draft ‘Broadcasting Services Regulation Bill – 2006’, which was organized by industry chamber Assocham.

    Tagore’s apprehensions stems from the fact that the censor board and the proposed Brai might end up doing similar works like certifying content for television channels.
    In the absence of a regulatory body, the government has mandated that only `U’ (or for unrestricted viewing) censor certified films promos, music videos and songs should be aired on TV music channels.

    Information and broadcasting secretary S K Arora assured the industry gathering that the government was open to suggestions and comments on the proposed Brai and the Bill.

    “The government is open to suggestions and can incorporate fresh ideas and issues we may have omitted (earlier in a draft that was readied for the Cabinet),” he said.