'Chauthi Koot', Nawazuddin's 'Haraamkhor' win big at MAMI

November 6, 2015

Mumbai, Nov 6: Gurvinder Singh's "Chauthi Koot", India's official entry at Cannes this year, bagged the best film award, while actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui-starrer teacher-student love story "Haraamkhor" won the runners up trophy at the closing ceremony of Jio MAMI 17th Mumbai Film Festival.

NawazuddinThe two films were screened in the India Gold section category of competition held during the seven-day festival, which showcased over 200 movies from 58 countries across the world.

"Chauthi Koot" ('Fourth Direction'), set during the Sikh separatist movement of the 1980s, won the Golden Gateway Award for India Gold.

Debutant filmmaker Shlok Sharma's "Haraamkhor" won the Silver Gateway Award in the same section.

Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was the special guest of the evening. He along with filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra was accompanied by the young adults from Jammu & Kashmir, who were flown in to Mumbai to attend the festival.

Superstar Salman Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Riteish Deshmukh, Vidya Balan, Siddharth Roy Kapur, Kiran Rao, Dibakar Banerjee, Jackie Shroff, Radhika Apte and Pan Nalin were among the celebrities, who attended the final night of the festival, hosted by actress Kalki Koechlin.

In the international competition section, Guatemalan- French drama film "Ixcanul" ('Volcano') by Jayro Bustamante, won the top award— The Golden Gateway Award.

The film is also Gautemala's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards.

Bengaluru based director Raam Reddy's debut movie "Thithi" bagged the Jury Grand Prize for international competition.

Special jury mention for achievement in directing was awarded to Cesar Augusto Acevedo for "Land and Shade".

"Ixcanul" actress Maria Telon and Farzana Nawabi ("Mina Walking") got the special jury mention for achievement in acting.

In Dimensions Mumbai, Dhruv Saigal's "Kunal" won the best film honour.

Director Jayaraj won the film for social impact award for his movie "Ottal", which also bagged the Golden Gateway Award for children's feature. French romantic-comedy "One Plus One" ('Un plus une'), directed by Claude Lelouch, brought the curtains down on the festival.

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July 30,2020

New Delhi, Jul 30: On his 47th birthday on Thursday, actor Sonu Sood announced three lakh jobs for migrant labourers on the job portal 'Pravasi Rojgar' that he had launched earlier this month.

The 'Dabangg' actor who has launched several initiatives for helping migrant labourers of the country made the announcement about the additional three lakh jobs on his Instagram account.

Sood posted two flyers of the employment application and shared that the jobs came with additional benefits like PF and ESI.

"On my birthday a small initiative from my side...3 lakh jobs tied up for Pravasirojgar.com. All these will provide good wages, PF, ESI, and other benefits," he wrote in the caption.

He further went on to thank the organisations that had partnered with him for the initiative.
"Thank you AEPC, CITI, Trident, Quesscorp, Amazon, Sodex, Urban Co, Portea, and all others for creating these opportunities with me. #AbIndiaBanegaKamyaab @pravasirojgar," he wrote.

Hailed as the 'messiah' of migrant labourers, Sood has helped hundreds of thousands of migrants to reach their native places amid the coronavirus induced lockdown when many like them were walking back to their homes.

Besides labourers, he has also helped students and other people stranded in different parts of the country amid the lockdown. 

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March 5,2020

Bihar, Mar 5: A complaint has been filed before a court in Bihar against lyricist Javed Akhtar over his remarks on the FIRs being registered against expelled AAP councillor Tahir Hussain in the wake of Delhi riots.

The complaint was lodged on Wednesday by Amit Kumar, a local advocate, before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Thakur Aman Kumar.

On the basis of a newspaper report, the complainant has alleged that Akhtar's remarks were seditious and promoted religious hatred.

The media report was based on Akhtar's tweet of February 27 that "So many killed, so many injured, so many houses burned, so many shops looted so many people turned destitute but police has sealed only one house and looking for his owner. Incidentally, his name is Tahir. Hats off to the consistency of the Delhi police."

The violence in northeast Delhi claimed at least 42 lives and left over 200 injured. The former Rajya Sabha member was heavily trolled for the tweet.

In a subsequent tweet, Akhtar who asserted that he is a non-believer and a rationalist, had clarified that he was not asking "why Tahir but why ONLY Tahir and not even an FIR against those who have openly threatened violence in the presence of the police".

The matter is likely to come up for hearing on March 25.

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July 3,2020

Mumbai, Jun 3: Investigators will subject the cloth allegedly used by actor Sushant Singh Rajput to hang himself to "tensile strength" analysis to determine whether it can bear the weight similar to that of the filmstar, as part of probe into his death, an official said on Friday.

Rajput (34) was found hanging at his suburban Bandra residence on June 14.

According to the investigators, the actor ended his life by hanging himself from the ceiling using a green coloured night gown made of cotton.

No suicide note was found from the spot, the police had said then.

Besides viscera from the actors body, the police also sent the gown for chemical and forensic analysis at the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in suburban Kalina, he said.

It will take at least three more days to get final forensic report, the official said.

To ascertain the exact cause of death, forensic experts will check pattern of ligature marks around the actors neck and also determine the strength of the gown with the help of "tensile strength" analysis, he said.

The tensile strength test will technically establish whether the cloth can bear around 80kg, the weight of the actor, he said.

The test will help determine if there was any foul play, the official said.

Tensile strength is maximum load that a material can support without fracture when being stretched.

Viscera analysis will help in checking whether there were any traces of chemical, poisonous or narcotics substance in his body, the official said.

"Usually, it takes eight to ten working days to get s report from the FSL in regular cases. But since this case is sensitive, experts are taking more precautions to avoid any kind of error in their analysis," the official said.

The forensic report of the actors mobile phone is also awaited, he said.

Recently, the police received the final post-mortem report of the actor from Cooper Hospital, which mentioned the cause of the death as asphyxia due to hanging"

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