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ചെന്നൈ: വിവാഹിതനും രണ്ടു മക്കളുടെ പിതാവുമായ നടന്‍ പ്രഭുദേവയുമായുള്ള ബന്ധത്തിന്റെ പേരില്‍ പ്രമുഖ ചലച്ചിത്രനടി നയന്‍താരക്കെതിരെ തമിഴ്‌നാട്ടിലെ വനിതാ സംഘടന പ്രക്ഷോഭത്തിനിറങ്ങുന്നു. ചെന്നൈയില്‍ നടക്കുന്ന ഏതു പരിപാടിയില്‍ പങ്കെടുക്കാനെത്തിയാലും നയന്‍താരക്കെതിരെ കരിങ്കൊടി കാട്ടി പ്രതിഷേധിക്കുമെന്ന് ഝാന്‍സിറാണി മഹിളാ സുരക്ഷാ സംഘം പ്രസിഡന്റും മനുഷ്യാവകാശപ്രവര്‍ത്തകയുമായ കല്‍പന അറിയിച്ചു. വിവാഹ തീരുമാനവുമായി മുന്നോട്ടുപോയാല്‍ ഇരുവരുടെയും സിനിമകള്‍ തമിഴ്‌നാട്ടിലെ സ്ത്രീകള്‍ ബഹിഷ്‌കരിക്കുമെന്നും അവര്‍ പറഞ്ഞു.


ഭാര്യ റംലത്തിനെയും രണ്ടു മക്കളെയും വഴിയാധാരമാക്കി പ്രഭുദേവ നയന്‍താരക്കൊപ്പം ഊരുചുറ്റുകയാണെന്ന് കല്‍പന ആരോപിച്ചു. നയന്‍താരയെ താമസിയാതെ വിവാഹം കഴിക്കുമെന്നും അവര്‍ തനിക്കുവേണ്ടി ജനിച്ചവളാണെന്നും പ്രഭുദേവ മുംബൈയില്‍ പ്രസ്താവിച്ചിരുന്നു. സമൂഹത്തിന് മാതൃകയാവേണ്ട ഒരു കലാകാരനില്‍നിന്ന് ഉണ്ടാവേണ്ടതല്ല ഇത്തരം പ്രസ്താവനകള്‍. ഭാര്യയെ ഉപേക്ഷിച്ച് മറ്റൊരുത്തിയെ വിവാഹം കഴിക്കാനുള്ള തീരുമാനം സ്ത്രീകള്‍ക്കെതിരായ പൊതുപ്രശ്‌നമായി കണ്ട് ഇതിനെ ശക്തമായി നേരിടുമെന്നും കല്‍പന പറഞ്ഞു.

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The Hindu : Front Page : ‘Modern Family,' ‘Mad Men' sweep the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards

The Hindu : Front Page : ‘Modern Family,' ‘Mad Men' sweep the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards: "‘Mad Men,' a dark period drama set in the 60's New York, and comedy series ‘Modern Family,' a mockumentary about three families, won the top honours at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards."

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Vikas Swarup, author: Slumdog Millionaire isn't poverty porn

Slumdog Millionaire isn't poverty porn, says author 18 Jan 2009, 0209 hrs IST, Meenakshi Kumar, TNN  Print   Email   Discuss  Share  Save  Comment Text: NEW DELHI: Diplomat Vikas Swarup, whose novel was used as the basic story of the film Slumdog Millionaire, has an answer to all those crying  Diplomat Vikas Swarup themselves hoarse about the "negative" portrayal of India: Slums are a reality in India.  Swarup, whose 2003 debut novel Q and A, featured slums mainly towards the end, tells STOI the Hollywood-funded, British-made film doesn't depict them as places of "unmitigable despair".  He says on the phone from Pretoria where he is posted as India's deputy high commissioner, "There is nothing negative about the slums as depicted in the film. Slum dwellers are not shown as people wallowing in sorrow. On the contrary, they are trying to make their life better, they have aspirations, dreams and desires. The fact that the slums are giving way to skyscrapers is a reality. In the end, the film is about hope and survival."  Ever the diplomat, Swarup is polite to a faultabout the film straying from the original plot of his novel. Q and A was primarily about luck but the film is about destiny. Swarup's book featured an illiterate boy winning the biggest prize on a quiz show because of miraculous good fortune, namely a full and active life having adventures in orphanages and brothels, with gangsters and Bollywood celebrities.  But Swarup is not worried that the film has changed all that. For him the biggest change is in the name of the protagonist, Ram Mohammad Thomas, who becomes Jamal Malik. "Obviously, unlike a book, a film doesn't have the leisure of space to explain all the details. Anyway, a film is a creative interpretation of a director. He can take liberties with the script," Swarup says this without a hint of disappointment in his voice. Instead, he jokes that if all films were true to the books they were based on, why ever would the books be read?   more

Amitabh Bachchan blasts Slumdog Millionaire for showing India in poor light

Big B blasts Slumdog Millionaire on blog


Indo-Asian News Service
New Delhi, January 14, 2009

Bollywood megastar has slammed Danny Boyle's Golden Globe award winning underdog drama Slumdog Millionaire .
“If Slumdog Millionaire projects India as Third World dirty underbelly developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots, let it be known that a murky underbelly exists and thrives even in the most developed nations,” Amitabh said in a posting on his blog www.bigb.bigadda.com Wednesday from Paris, France.

“Its just that the Slumdog Millionaire idea authored by an Indian and conceived and cinematically put together by a westerner, gets creative global recognition,” he added.

The 66-year-old also talked about the changing trend in recognition of Indian cinema.

“The commercial escapist world of Indian cinema had vociferously battled for years, on the attention paid and the adulation given to the legendary Satyajit Ray... and not a word of appreciation for the entertaining mass-oriented box office blockbusters that were being churned out from Mumbai.

“Ray portrayed reality. While, the other - escapism, fantasy and incredulous posturing. Unimpressive for Cannes and Berlin and Venice (film festivals),” he explained. Read it all here

Slumdog Millionaire is poverty porn

Poverty-Development: Slumdog Millionaire is poverty porn

Slumdog sweeps US critics' awards

Dev Patel plays a contestant on Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
Danny Boyle's film Slumdog Millionaire has swept the Critics' Choice Awards in Los Angeles, winning five prizes, including best film and director.
Dev Patel, who stars in the rags-to-riches story about an improbable winner of Who Wants to be a Millionaire, was named best young actor.
The movie also collected the trophies for best writer and composer. more from BBC

Animation film made on Lalu Prasad Yadav

Animation film made on India's Railway Minister

Sat, Jan 3 05:50 PM
Patna, January 3 (ANI): Animation film made on India's Railway Minister and popular politician, Lalu Prasad Yadav in Patna has become an istant hit. The film is produced by Pawan and animation is done by Gopala.

Pawan, who besides producing the film has also done the characterization and conceptualization of the film, said that the reason for making a film on Lalu was that he wanted to present him in different light. more

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Movie deal for 9-year-old dating author

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Fox studio has acquired film rights to Alex Greven’s ‘How to Talk to Girls’

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Fox is ready to take advice from a 9-year-old.

The studio has acquired the film rights to “How to Talk to Girls,” a cute 46-page self-help tome written by Alex Greven, a Colorado fourth-grader.

Greven wrote “Girls” as a handwritten, $3 pamphlet sold at his school book fair. He wrote it after he noticed his peers were having some trouble talking to the ladies, though the book is geared for all ages.

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Among his advice:

• Comb your hair and don't wear sweat pants.
  
• Control your hyperness (cut down on sugar if necessary).
  
• A crush is like a love disease that can drive you mad.
  
• It is easy to spot pretty girls because they have big earrings, fancy dresses and all the jewelry, but they are like cars that need a lot of oil.

Soon enough, HarperCollins picked up the book. It came out in November and quickly became a hit.  more

Slumdog scoops Indie film awards

Slumdog Millionaire sees a young boy enter Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? A movie about a poor Indian boy who wins a game show fortune has taken three prizes, including best film, at the British Independent Film Awards. Slumdog Millionaire, which is not out in the UK until January, also won best director for Danny Boyle and best newcomer for 18-year-old Dev Patel. Political drama Hunger also took three prizes, with Michael Fassbender named best actor for playing Bobby Sands. Harry Potter star David Thewlis picked up an outstanding contribution prize. The 45-year-old, who plays Remus Lupin in the wizarding franchise, is also known for his roles in Mike Leigh's Naked and Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven. more

Kuzhalmannam Ramakrishnan in the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest performance of a hand-drum

Guinness record for longest hand-drum

IANS

Saturday, November 29, 2008  14:34 IST

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Noted mridangam exponent has made his way into  lasting for 301 hours.

 Ramakrishnan set the record for his marathon performance at the Nadalaya Auditorium of Nehru College of Aeronautics and Applied Sciences in Comibatore from August one to 13 this year.
    

The certificate from the Guinness approving the feat was received by Ramakrishnan earlier this week, sources close to the artiste said.
    

It noted that Ramakrishnan's performance had been confirmed as the new Guinness Record for the longest marathon hand-drumming by any artiste.
    

In 2005, he had enthralled the music lovers by playing for 101 hours non-stop in Kannur.  more

Yash Chopra gets int'l 'lifetime achievement' award

Wed, Nov 12 12:50 PM

A Kazakh comedy about a family coping with the harsh life of sheep and goat herding on a barren landscape took top honours at the second annual Asia-Pacific Screen Awards on Tuesday.

The movie "Tulpan", the first feature film by Kazakh documentary-maker Sergey Dvortsevoy, is set in southern Kazakhstan and tells of a young nomad who returns from military service to a family yurt and tries to win the heart of his neighbour, Tulpan.

The film, which won several awards including the top prize in the Un Certain Regard sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival, beat Hong Kong's "Men Jeuk" (Sparrow), Turkish film "Uc Maymun" (Three Monkeys), "Om Shanti Om" from India, and China's "The Red Awn" for top prize.

Yash Chopra, founder of Yashraj Films and a major player in the Indian film industry, was awarded the FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers Associations) Award for outstanding achievement in film in the Asia-Pacific region.  more