Haider bags five national awards, Kangana Ranaut is best actress

March 25, 2015

New Delhi, Mar 25: Vishal Bharadwaj's Haider, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet set in Kashmir in the tumultuous 1990s, won big at the 62nd National Film awards with five awards, while Kangana Ranaut bagged the best actress for her clinching role as a shy Delhi girl on a solo honeymoon in Paris in Vikas Bahl's Queen. Chaitanya Tamhane's Court won best film while Kanada actor Vijay won best actor for Nanu Avanalla Avalu. Queen also bagged award for the best Hindi feature film.

national awardsOmung Kumar's biopic Mary Kom won an award for being the best popular film providing wholesome entertainment, while Srijit Mukherji bagged the best director award for Chotuskone. Chotuskone also won the best cinematography (Sudeep Chatterjee) and best original screenplay (Srijit Mukherji).

Shahid Kapoor-starrer Haider, set in 1995 and taking on the conflict and civil disappearances in Kashmir. It won the awards for best screenplay dialogues (Vishal Bharadwaj), best male playback singer (Sukhwinder Singh in Bismil), best music direction (Vishal Bharadwaj), best costume designer (Dolly Ahluwalia), and best choreography (Sudhesh Adhana).

In its announcement, the jury noted that Tamhane's Court won for its "powerful and stark depiction of the mundaneness of judicial procedure … forced us to reflect on the heart-wrenching insensitivity of institutional structures". The movie, which premiered at Venice Film Festival and also picked up the best film in the internation film category at Mumbai International Film festival, will hit the theatres on April 17

28-year-old Ranaut, who won the award for the second time after the best supporting actress award in 2008 for Fashion, was rewarded "for an endearingly etched out performance that is grounded in contextual specificity and at the same time is disarmingly spontaneous", observed the jury. She will be seen in Tanu Weds Manu Returns next.

The awards, decided by a nine-member jury headed by P Bharathiraja and Kamal Swaroop, were announced in a press conference in Delhi. This year, the awards went to a movie in a language which has not been awarded before: Rabha film Orong, directed by Suraj Kumar Duwarah. "We were delighted by Orong, and we applaud the attempt for being the first movie in the Rabha language," said Bharathiraja. Another feature film that was awarded in a language not specified in schedule VIII of the Constitution was Rajeev Bhatia's Haryanvi film Ragdi The Honour.

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July 24,2020

New Delhi, Jul 24: With more than 50 movies under her credits and being one of the few actors from Bollywood to make a strong imprint in Hollywood, actor Priyanka Chopra started it all by winning Miss India 2000 pageant.

Chopra who is currently celebrating the completion of 20 years in the entertainment industry, on Friday looked back and reacted to the video where she was crowned as Miss India.
The' Fashion' actor shared a video on Instagram, where she is seen watching the throwback video. The 'Dostana' actor recalled winning the title and joked about her sense of style and poses back then.

Sharing the reaction video, she wrote: "Alright guys, we're doing this! I'm watching footage from my Miss India pageant in 2000! This is where it all began... If you've never seen these before, you are in for quite a treat. #20in2020 @feminamissindia."

Throughout the video, the 'Gunday' actor is seen casually commenting on her hairstyle, enacting her own movement on stage, and also recalled her luscious hair, which she now wonders where it all got lost.

However, she took a moment to appreciate the "clever and profound" answer she gave for the question that won her the crown.

While watching the winning moment, the 'Don' star noted how she never expected to win it. She explained that she had a train booked as she was to go back and take her board exams.

Going through the old photographs that run parallel to the video, she says: "These pictures are hard to look at." Pausing at a particular photograph, she laughs and says, "I don't even know how to do that pose."

"Well, this is where everything started. These are the pictures that sent me to Tinseltown," said the actor towards the end of the video.

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May 24,2020

Los Angeles, May 24: Hollywood star Salma Hayek says her daughter Valentina Pinault is a talented 12 year old who wants to be a director and star as a lead in a film one day.

The Oscar-nominated actor shares Valentina with husband, French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault.

Hayek said she has confidence in her daughter's abilities and believes she has a long way to go.

"She has so many talents. She draws, she wants to shoot movies - both as a director and as the lead - and she writes great pieces. Sometimes when I read her work, I have an urge to produce these stories.

"But she tells me that she will do it by herself when she's older. I don't know what's coming next for her but it seems that she has a lot of ways to go," the actor told HELLO! magazine.

Hayek, 53, added she is concerned about Valentina who has always lived a sheltered life.

"Valentina has always done what she wanted, I've never made her do anything and this means she hasn't yet learned how to oppose pressure, how to overcome obstacles.

"I know by experience that only the overcoming of some difficulties can lead you in the right direction," she said.

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May 12,2020

Mumbai, May 12: Superstar Salman Khan on Tuesday released his latest romantic single "Tere Bina" featuring Jacqueline Fernandez while in quarantine at his Panvel farm house.

The actor, along with close family and friends from the industry, including Iulia Vantur, Waluscha De Sousa, is living in the farm house. This is the second song Salman has released amid the coronavirus pandemic, after "Pyaar Karona."

"About seven weeks ago, when we came to the farm, we didn't know we will be here under a lockdown. So we wanted to do things to keep ourselves busy. That's when we decided to do these songs. We launched 'Pyaar Karona' and now, we are launching 'Tere Bina'," Salman said in a statement.

The song, sung and directed by Salman, is composed by his friend Ajay Bhatia and written by Shab bir Ahmed.

The actor said he had the song "Tere Bina" with him for quite a while but because it wasn't fitting into any of his film, he decided to release it now.

Jacqueline said she didn't think they would be able to shoot the song, which they finished in four days of evening shoots, with such limitations.

"We are used to shooting songs on a large stage with grand production costs. There are costumes, hair, make up. All of a sudden, we find ourselves with a team of three people. For the first time, I was checking lighting and moving props around. It was a great experience and it taught us how to make the most of what we have," she said.

Salman recently sent out food packets and ration from his farm house to those affected by the lockdown.

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