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Haider bags five national awards, Kangana Ranaut is best actress

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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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February 27,2020

Mumbai, Feb 27: Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan on Wednesday said it's with constant education that a country, a family can move forward as there is never an end to learning.

In December last year, when the actor visited the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne, the La Trobe University announced the 'Shah Rukh Khan La Trobe University PhD Scholarship'. At the event to announce therecipient of the scholarship here on Wednesday, Shah Rukh said it was his honour to lend his name or be attached to the scholarship.

"I am a big believer in education. I truly believe that the way forward for any country, any family, city, state is by educating itself more and more.

"There is never an end to education. I've come to realise the more I know, I figure out, the less I understand. It's very important to keep educating ourselves for the rest of our lives.

"I've always believed education in India and elsewhere in the world, is the most important step forward for any nation," he said.

The scholarship aims to provides an opportunity for an aspiring female researcher from India to undertake research.

The 54-year-old superstar said what also will help taking the world move ahead is educating women.

"Related to the fact, is of course, education of women, empowering women, to look after themselves to look after their families...

"If you are able to empower them with education, the world goes even further forward," the actor added.

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July 31,2020

Mumbai, Jul 31: Maharashtra Leader of Opposition and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Friday said that the Enforcement Directorate should carry out an investigation in actor Sushant Singh Rajput's suicide case.

"There is a huge public sentiment about handing over #SushantSinghRajput case to CBI but looking at the reluctance of State Government, atleast @dir_ed ED can register an ECIR since misappropriation and money laundering angle has come out," tweeted Fadnavis.

Meanwhile, Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said that no FIR had been registered in Maharashtra yet and that the case must be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

"There is a confrontation between two states and there has been no FIR registered yet in Maharashtra. Chirag (Paswan) had spoken to CM Thackeray that there should be CBI probe. All political leaders are demanding for it. It should be handed over to CBI," Paswan said.

A team of the Bihar Police that arrived in Mumbai on Tuesday, recorded statements of two persons, including actor Sushant Singh Rajput's sister, on Wednesday in connection with the case.

An FIR was filed by Sushant Singh Rajput's father against actor Rhea Chakraborty in Bihar on Tuesday.

Rajput was found dead in his Mumbai residence on June 14.

According to the Maharashtra Police, statements of 41 people, including filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, film critic Rajeev Masand, director-producer Sanjay Leela Bhansali, and filmmaker Aditya Chopra have been recorded in the investigation so far.

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August 4,2020

New Delhi, Aug 4: Almost two months after the demise of late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, actor Preity Zinta on Tuesday watched his last film 'Dil Bechara' for the second time and said it was an 'emotional roller coaster'.

The 'Kal Ho Na Ho' actor shared a picture of one of the scenes from the film on Instagram and thanked film director Mukesh Chhabra for doing justice to the 'Kai Po Che!' actor's last film.

"Saw #Dilbechara again Thank you @castingchhabra for doing full justice to Sushant's last movie," she wrote in the caption.
"It was surreal, a tearjerker and an emotional roller coaster all the way," she added.

She also praised Sushant's co-actor Sanjana Sanghi for doing a "fab job" in the film which happens to be her debut flick.

"@sanjanasanghi96 U and the rest of the cast did a fab job. Congratulations to all of you. #Bittersweet #MissU," the 45-year-old actor further wrote.

Produced by Fox Star Studios, 'Dil Bechara' has been adapted from the famous John Green novel 'The Fault In Our Stars.'

Rajput was found dead at his Mumbai's Bandra residence on June 14.

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