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‘The Artist’ is a delight to watch: Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan, who is recuperating at home after abdominal surgeries, is enjoying a “no time-table” life. Apart from doing other things, he watched Oscar-winning film The Artist and said it was a “delight” to view the silent black and white French movie. “Being by myself and almost in solitary confinement, is getting contagious. I am beginning to rather like this state. Nowhere to go, nothing obligatory to perform, random timings and the liberty to do what I desire. I eat whenever, sleep whenever, watch a movie whenever and happy doing so,” Big B posted on his blog.
He added: “I watched a lovely film ‘The Artist’ via the UFO set up in the house and it was a delight to see a black and white, silent movie in February of 2012!! In an age when color and music and speech and sound play such an important role in cinema today, it was most innovative on the part of the makers to present something like this. I believe it is up for the Oscars, which are out tomorrow on Sunday.”Click here to read more
He added: “I watched a lovely film ‘The Artist’ via the UFO set up in the house and it was a delight to see a black and white, silent movie in February of 2012!! In an age when color and music and speech and sound play such an important role in cinema today, it was most innovative on the part of the makers to present something like this. I believe it is up for the Oscars, which are out tomorrow on Sunday.”Click here to read more
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Resul Pookutty to work on Dhanush-Aishwarya film `3′
Academy Award-winning sound designer Resul Pookutty has been roped in for the Kolaveri di film
Oscar-winning sound engineer Resul Pookutty, who won the international honour for his work in Slumdog Millionaire, has been roped in for megastar Rajinikanth‘s daughter Aishwarya’s directorial debut 3. “It’s a great pleasure telling you guys that Oscar-winner Resul Pookutty sir will be working with us in our film ’3′. God bless,” Dhanush, the film’s lead actor and Aishwarya‘s husband, posted on micro-blogging site Twitter Click here to read moreIndia out of Oscar race – again
National Award-winning Adaminte Makan Abu did not get nominated at the Oscars’ next round. Meanwhile, Cineswami also gives his take on UTV Motion Pictures’ 2012 slate of films
Nine films will advance to the next round of voting in the Foreign Language Film category for the 84th Academy Awards or Oscars to you and I. Sixty-three films had originally qualified in the category, including India’s entry Adaminte Makan Abu, the Malayalam film directed by Salim Ahmed. Sadly, not having the nous of an Aamir Khan, Ahmed was unable to parlay the selection into a place in the shortlist, let alone a nomination in the final five. Thus, Lagaan, Salaam Bombay and Mother India remain the only Indian films to receive Oscar nominations. Click here to read moreAamir Khan’s ‘Dhobi Ghat’ loses out in BAFTA 2012 final nominations race
Aamir Khan’s production Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries) had been nominated in the Longlist of the 2012 BAFTA Film Awards, but didn’t get enough votes to make it further
Aamir Khan Productions’ film Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries), directed by Kiran Rao and toplining Aamir Khan, Prateik, Monica Dogra and Kriti Malhotra, had been nominated in the 2012 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards Longlist in Film Not in English Language category. But it has lost out in the race to the final nominations of the prestigious awards. The film did not get enough votes in the final round although it was a strong contender, having stood against 285 other movies to make it to the list of top 15 in the category. Click here to read moreAamir Khan’s ‘Dhobi Ghat’ nominated for BAFTA
Brand new daddy, Aamir Khan has one more reason to celebrate now. After Dhobi Ghat released, Aamir confessed that he missed a chance to romance wifey Kiran Rao in the movie because she didn’t want to act in it. “She is a better actor than me. I hope we get to see her on Indian screen in a film or a theatre or play. I have told her so many times she is very talented and she must act,” the actor had said at the DVD launch of Dhobi Ghat. But looks like the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) didn’t really mind. The movie made it to BAFTA Awards’ Longlist in Film Not in English Language category. After competing with 285 other movies DG made it to the list of 15 movies that were shortlisted. Aamir is not unfamiliar to his movies making it to nomination lists. Aamir’s Lagaan became the third Hindi-language film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2002, Taare Zameen Par and Peepli:Live became India’s official entry to the Academy Awards. And now Dhobi Ghat. But this time, we do hope that the movie goes a step further and wins the award. Fingers crossed.
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Why did girl-next-door Freida Pinto go topless?
The Slumdog Millionaire actor did a racy photoshoot for a US-based magazine. Did she really need to…
When we first heard that Freida Pinto had shed her girl-next-door image and actually gone topless for an American magazine, we were shocked. Weren’t you, too? Why in the world would she do that? Then we got thinking, and we realised that it’s not so shocking, after all. Click here to read more
