Cannes (IANS): Aishwarya Rai, a regular at the Cannes Film Festival red carpet and L’Oreal brand ambassador, is going beyond her glitz and glamour tag. She is beginning to reinvent herself on the global scene as an activist for social and humanitarian causes.
As a step in that direction, the Bollywood diva will, alongside Queen Noor […]
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Economy and migration of studio work elsewhere put many LA staffout of a job
Bruce McCleery hardly had a day out of work in 25 years. As one of Hollywood’s most sought-after lighting technicians, he worked on big-budget movies like Independence Day and Mission Impossible III. He travelled the world as part of an […]
Jamshedpur (Jharkhand) (PTI): Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire will be the inaugural movie at the 14th Jamshedpur International Film festival beginning here on March 14.
The week-long festival, hosted jointly by a local film society “Celluloid Chapter” and Tata steel, will have Indian Panorama comprising five movies, including Annirudha Roychowdhury directed Bengali film Antoheen, Rituporno Ghosh directed The […]
Thiruvananthapuram (IANS): A grand welcome awaits Oscar winner Resul Pookutty, who will arrive here on Friday. A cavalcade of over 100 vehicles will take him to his village, where a reception will be hosted in his honour — the first of a series of felicitations in Kerala for the Mumbai-based sound technician.
“Every villager is excited […]
Chennai (PTI): After Slumdog Millionaire, movie goers may soon get another insight into slums with Malayalam director Rajiv Anchal all set to make a multi-lingual film based on a novel revolving around a don emerging from Mumbai’s Dharavi shanties.
If Slumdog Millionaire narrated the story of Jamal Malik, an 18-year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, […]
Los Angeles (PTI): Slumdog Millionaire, undoubtedly has brought the best out of Kerala-born sound engineer Resul Pookutty besides helping him win an Oscar.
Pookutty has also won a BAFTA and a Cinema Audio Society (CAS) award for best
sound mixing for the film. Hailing from a small village of Vilakkupara in Kerala’s Kollam
district which didn’t have electricity, […]
London (PTI): Having pocketed both the Golden Globe and the BAFTA awards, Indian composer A R Rahman, who has floored the international audience with his music in ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, is now hoping for the biggest one - the Oscars.
Rahman scooped the BAFTA award in the Best Music Score category for ‘Slumdog’, the rags-to-riches story of […]
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Chennai: Indo-Korean Cultural and Information Centre here will host the second Women’s Film Festival (WFF), Chennai, from March 1st to 8th. The Inko Centre is organising the festival in association with National Film Development Corporation (NFDC), National Film Archives (NFAI), , The Directorate of Film Festivals of India (DFFI), The Indo- Cine Appreciation […]
Durban (PTI): Noted Indian-origin director in South Africa Anant Singh plans to produce a documentary on Barack Obama, the first African-American President of the US.
Anant Singh has produced over 45 films in the last 15 years, including ‘Cry, the Beloved Country’ which starred Academy Award nominees James Earl Jones and Richard Harris.
Singh will be directing […]
London (PTI): After bagging four Golden Globes, British Indian film ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ has earned 11 nominations at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards (BAFTA) with music director A R Rahman being nominated for the Best Music Score.
The BAFTA nominations for ‘Slumdog’ come days after the film stormed away with four prizes at […]