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Oscar Awards 2012 winners: Bollywood tweets
Bollywood wrote about the 84th Academy Awards winners on social networking site Twitter
Looks like most people in Bollywood were asleep during the live telecast of the 84th Academy Awards. Some enthusiastic ones were wide awake though, and tweeted as the award ceremony was being aired. Amitabh Bachchan did not tweet but wrote about the winning film The Artist on his blog before the Oscars. He said, “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.” The others who tweeted included Neil Nitin Mukesh, Celina Jaitly, Shreya Ghoshal and Rajat Kapoor. Some film journalists were also tweeting incessantly. Amongst all the buzz, we liked what a music channel tweeted. Take a look at Click here to read more4 Comments
India 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 moreShahrukh Khan to promote Malayalam film
Shahrukh Khan is all set to do a cameo in the promos of Malayalam film Father’s Day. The film is directed by Kalavoor Ravikumar. Alongside SRK, Oscar-winning sound designer Resul Pookutty will also appear in the promotional campaign. In fact, it was Resul who helped rope in Shahrukh for the promo. Ravikumar recently met the actor at a Mumbai studio and narrated the script. Shahrukh readily agreed to help in the promotions. Father’s Day stars Shaheez and Miss Kerala Indu Thambi in the lead along with Revathy, Shankar, Suresh Krishna, Vineet, Jagathy , KPAC Lalitha and Lal among others. The film is being produced by Bharat Cinemas.
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Aamir Khan’s ‘Lagaan’ in Time magazine’s All-time 25 Best Sports Movies
Cricket-based Bollywood film Lagaan in which people of a small village in Victorian India stake their future on a game of cricket against their ruthless British rulers, has been included in a list of the 25 best sports movies by Time. The magazine said it was the “longest and the most enthralling underdog sports movie ever”. The Aamir Khan-starrer, which was nominated for the Oscars, was a huge success not only amongst movie lovers but also cricket fanatics. “Even those who know none of cricket’s complicated rules will bounce in their seats to AR Rahman’s irrepressible tunes; here, one can immediately and fully accept the Bollywood trope of music and dance as an expression of life’s deepest, most soaring emotions”, the magazine said. This sure will be a proud moment for Mr Perfectionist of Bollywood.
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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
