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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May 30,2020

California, May 30: Priyanka Chopra Jonas on Saturday shared a gorgeous sunkissed selfie sporting cherry lips and beaded dangler earrings.

The multi-talented star who owns a production house put out a morning selfie on Instagram wherein she is seen sporting a white collared top, flaunting her cherry red lips and dangler earrings as she embraces her peach glow in the sheer sunlight, while her shiny curls bounce the sunshine.

Along with the picture, the 'The Sky Is Pink' actor wrote, "A cherry lip and sunshine...maybe even a earring...I'm feeling adventurous."

On sharing the gorgeous selfie, the Chopra received heaps of praises from fans and celebrity followers, and the post reached more than 1.9 lakh likes including one for Sussanne Khan.

Model Masaba Gupta also chimed in the comment section and adored the beauty of the 'Baywatch' star writing, "Stunning" with a heart emoticon.

Currently, the actor is quarantined in her California house along with singer and husband Nick Jonas and has been quite active on social media.

Earlier, Priyanka recalled her parents' service in the Indian Army as America observed Memorial Day, and the 37-year-old actor dug out an old picture of her parents in uniform and posted it on Instagram.

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June 26,2020

Los Angeles, Jun 26: Warner Bros has moved its Christopher Nolan-directed espionage thriller Tenet from July 31 to August 12.

It's the second delay for the highly-anticipated movie, which was originally scheduled to release on July 17 but was postponed to July 31 due to coronavirus pandemic.

Warner Bros. is committed to bringing Tenet' to audiences in theaters, on the big screen, when exhibitors are ready and public health officials say it's time. In this moment what we need to be is flexible, and we are not treating this as a traditional movie release.

We are choosing to open the movie mid-week to allow audiences to discover the film in their own time, and we plan to play longer, over an extended play period far beyond the norm, to develop a very different yet successful release strategy, a Warner Bros spokesperson said in a statement to Deadline.

The studio has also delayed the US re-release of Nolan's sci-fi blockbuster Inception, in honour of the film's 10th anniversary, to July 31.

Tenet features John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Kenneth Branagh, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Michael Caine, Clemence Poesy, Dimple Kapadia and Himesh Patel.

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July 25,2020

Mumbai, Jul 25: Movie theatres have been shuttered for months due to the coronavirus pandemic in the country, but the Information and Broadcasting Ministry has now recommended that the Union Home Ministry allow cinema halls to reopen in August. 

I&B Secretary Amit Khare indicated this at a close-door industry interaction with the CII Media Committee on Friday. He said Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla at the Home Ministry would take the final call.

Khare said that he has recommended that cinema halls may be allowed to reopen all over India as early as August 1, or at the latest, around August 31.

The formula suggested is that alternate seats in the first row and then the next row be kept vacant, and proceeding in this fashion throughout.

Khare said that his ministry's recommendation takes into consideration the two metre social distancing norm, but tweaks it gently to two yards instead. The Home Ministry, however, still has to revert on the recommendation.

Cinema owners, present in the interaction, however, pushed back and said this formula is unwise and merely running films at 25% auditorium capacity is worse than keeping the cinemas shut.

The attendees at the meet included media CEOs like N.P. Singh of Sony, Sam Balsara (Madison), Megha Tata, (Discovery), Gaurav Gandhi (Amazon Prime), Manish Maheshwari (Twitter), S. Sivakumar (Bennett Coleman and Co Ltd), and K Madhavan, Star & Disney, and also Chairman, CII Media Committee.

The OTT platforms present, including Gandhi of Amazon Prime, did not push back. Some Bollywood producers, notably those of Amitabh Bachchan's Gulabo Sitabo, have posted their movies on OTT, rather than live out the lockdown uncertainty.

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