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Written by Rahul on 04 September 2009
Washington, September 4 (ANI): Actress Hilary Swank has urged people to support a new scheme to rehouse unwanted pets.
The ‘Million Dollar Baby’ star became an ambassador for the Home 4 the IAMS Holidays Pet Adoption Campaign, which helps animals in shelters find new owners.
“I’m so proud to be working to help raise awareness about the importance of pet adoption,” Contactmusic quoted her as saying.
“Last year, the program’s adoption goal was to get one million pets adopted in just three months, but this year the goal is even bigger.
“We’re on a mission to find loving homes for 1.5 million orphaned pets between October 1st and January 4th,” she added.
The animal loving Oscar-winner has previously adopted many pets, most recent being her two dogs, Karoo and Rumi. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 21 April 2009
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Child star Rubina Ali may have gained an overnight stardom with Oscar winner SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, but 9 year-old slum kid isn’t having the best of the times as it should have been. Infact the girl is trapped in a new dilemma.
If the current reports are to be believed than it is being stated that British tabloids have accused the father of Rubina Ali of allegedly trying to sell her off for a whopping sum of Rs 20 million. The tabloids claim to have done a sting operation against the father. In a bid to escape poverty and life in the slum father Rafiq Qureshi and an uncle had put Rubina up for adoption to the tabloid’s undercover reporters posing as a wealthy family from Saudi Arabia. However Rafiq denied the claim and said that he had gone to meet an Arabian sheikh to discuss about an ad film and had no plans to sell off his daughter.
Reportedly Rubina’s real mother Khurshid, who separated from her husband eight years ago, claimed that Rubina’s future is in danger if she remains with Rafiq. She even approached the police for that matter. The other day Khurshid arrived at Bandra’s Gharib Nagar slums where Rubina lives, and abused everyone. She tried to attack Rubina’s stepmum Munni, but others intervened. Meanwhile, Rafiq’s relatives arrived and tried to convince the media how loving a father Rafiq was and why Rubina should live only with him. Later the police recorded the statements of Khurshid, Rafiq and Rubina.
It is being said that Rubina’s statement did not match with that of Rafiq’s. While on camera she maintained her father’s statement. But off camera she held that when her father asked if she would like to go to Saudi Arabia she was quite gung-ho about it. And all set to go to Saudi.
Well all we can say is that Rubina’s life is not as ordinary as that of slum kid anymore.
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Written by Rahul on 21 April 2009
New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) Filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra says he has found a special friend in Oscar-winning music maestro A.R. Rahman, who has created music for two of his movies.
‘Rahman and I kind of discovered each other during ‘Rang De Basanti’ (RDB). With him, it’s not project-to-project … Ours is a collaborative effort and it’s a great team,’ Mehra told IANS.
The two not only meet and talk but also keep in touch via the Internet.
‘We keep meeting, talking, discussing ideas over the Internet and Skype (Internet telephony) about the movies I want to make and about the music he’s churning, etc,’ the director added.
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Written by Rahul on 21 April 2009
Mumbai, April 21 (IANS) He is known for making designer films, but Karan Johar recently shot some key sequences of his ‘My Name Is Khan’ in a slum here with ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ kid Tanay Cheda.
Karan said Tanay, who played the ‘middle’ Jamal in the multiple Oscar-winning film, made Shah Rukh Khan’s childhood look convincing for the film.
The director chose him to play young Shah Rukh because of not only his facial likeness to the star but also Tanay’s instant connectivity with the Mumbai slums and thereafter the Western audience.
‘Tanay is exceptionally talented. He was able to imbibe Shah Rukh’s character traits and use them to make SRK’s childhood look convincing,’ said Karan.
The scenes with Tanay were shot in Borivali along with actress Zarina Wahab, who plays Shah Rukh’s mother in the movie. The director now intends to cast Tanay as junior SRK whenever required, much in the way that Master Mayur played the young Amitabh Bachchan in a series of films.
Though the take-off point for ‘My Name Is Khan’ is 9/11, not a single shot is taken in New York. The film is set in Los Angeles and San Francisco – two of the most expensive cities in the US for shooting.
While Karan Johar’s production of Rensil de Silva’s Kareena Kapoor-Saif Ali Khan film on terrorism will have Philadelphia masquerading as New York, his own directorial take on terrorism and the isolation of the working-class Muslim has gone to two US cities.
Karan shot in LA earlier this year and leaves for San Francisco in May for a 40-day schedule.
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Written by Rahul on 21 April 2009
Mumbai, April 19 (IANS) ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ child star Rubina Ali’s mother Khushi is aghast by reports that her ex-husband was prepared to sell their daughter for 200,000 pounds (over Rs.14 million), but said her elder daughter had informed her about the matter two weeks ago.
‘Though my elder daughter Sanaa informed me of the matter almost two weeks ago, I did not believe he (Rafiq Qureshi) would actually agree to do this,’ a shocked Khushi told IANS here Sunday.
Khushi said that Qureshi and his second wife Meena were always ‘crazy for money’.
‘Now that my daughter has achieved international fame, they want to capitalise on it at any cost,’ she said.
British news website News of the World had reported that Qureshi wanted to get rid of poverty and become a millionaire by selling his nine-year-old daughter after it conducted a sting operation.
Qureshi demanded 200,000 pounds from the News of the World’s undercover reporters who posed as a wealthy family from Dubai. He told the fake sheikh this week: ‘I have to consider what’s best for me, my family and Rubina’s future.’
While Qureshi’s phone was constantly switched off, his neighbour and friend Yakub Abdul Sheikh confirmed that the incident had occurred a few days ago, but nobody really took it seriously as Rubina’s father said he had been ‘misunderstood’ by the foreigners.
‘Qureshi later told me that since the foreigners were speaking in Arabic, he misunderstood what the interpreter was saying,’ Sheikh said.
Sheikh claimed that Qureshi had told him he had no intentions of giving away his daughter in adoption for 200,000 pounds to an Arab family as reported by the British media.
‘Qureshi feels that the issue was blown out of proportion because of the miscommunication with the foreigners,’ Sheikh said.
Rubina’s mother also said that Qureshi should be made to account for the money the nine-year-old had earned from the multiple Oscar-winning film and added that the money be spent to admit the girl to a good hostel.
‘That money should be put aside in a separate deposit in Rubina’s name and she should be admitted to a good hostel. She can be taken care of and can also pursue her studies and acting career simultaneously,’ Khushi said.
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Written by Rahul on 09 April 2009
Legendary Ghazal singer Jagjit Singh said that it was beyond his reasoning as to why the Jai Ho song in Slumdog Millionaire won two Oscars. The singer voiced his opinion during the launch of his album Inteha.
He added that though he is happy that India has won the Oscars, he could not understand on what basis the song was considered for the Oscars.
The album was released by sitarist Anoushka Shankar 35000 ft above sea level. There are eight songs in the album, which are mainly romantic.
Of course there are some songs on life and philosophy too, adds a source.
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Written by Rahul on 06 April 2009
This has been a season which has seen music composer AR Rahman sweeping the music awards at almost every award function that was held in the year. Now a double Oscar winner, as well, there is perhaps little that is left for him to achieve.
But now it seems that he is all set to acquire another feather in his cap, which is that of a doctorate from the Middlesex University. The university is celebrating the tenth year of its regional office in India and wants to confer an honoury doctorate on Rahman. The ceremony is likely to take place in the campus on July. In return, Rahman is trying to work out something by which the students from his music conservatory can receive a bachelors degree from Middlesex, and also spend the final year studying at its London campus.
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Written by Rahul on 19 March 2009
Rajkot, Mar 19 (ANI): With general elections round the corner, it is not only hectic schedule for politicians of all hues, but also for a good number of music composers.
These music composers are busy creating new lyrical jingles and songs lauding the achievements of major political parties and even individual candidates in the fray.
For instance, budding singers and music composers in Rajkot have come together to make the most of the election fever.
“The words of the song have been changed keeping election in the mind. I feel the song which has already won an Oscar award will benefit the Congress party and also will make an impact with the voters,” said Kinjal Joshi, a singer.
With an aim to spice up its election campaign, Congress party has bought the rights to play ‘Jai Ho’, the Oscar-winning song from the movie ‘Slumdog Millionaire’.
Congress leaders said this particular song which means ‘Let Victory Prevail’, will be played during rallies in villages, rural towns and even cities to lure the voters.
Indeed, the elections have been a sort of blessing in disguise for the music composers. Until the other day, they were reeling under the current economic downturn.
“We do not owe allegiance to any of the parties. We have kept in mind the requirements of the political parties and accordingly we have composed the songs. If the parties like these, we will be paid well and it will improve the prospects of artistes like us,” said Utpal, a music composer. By Suresh Parikh (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 18 March 2009
Islamabad, Mar 18 (ANI): After taking the British and US audiences by storm, Oscar-winning film ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ is all set to hit the Chinese theatre.
Directed by Danny Boyle, the film has secured a coveted slot as one of 20 major foreign movies that China will import this year, reports The News
Zhang Hongyan, a publicist for Hong Kong-based Edko Film, has revealed that the film will be released in at least 2,000 theatres across China on March 26.
Boyle will attend the movie’s premiere in Beijing a day before.
The rags-to-riches tale has crossed the 200 million dollar mark at the international box office.
According to estimates, Slumdog came second at the global box office in the wake of its Oscar wins, behind Warner Bros’ ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’.’
The story about an 18-year-old slum boy has won eight Oscars out of the 10 categories it was nominated for. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 08 March 2009
London, March 8 (ANI): UK’s political party The Liberal Democrats was left red faced after it used Kate Winslet’s pictures in an advertisement without her consent.
Party leader Nick Clegg, a pal of the actress’ director-husband Sam Mendes, was left guarding his pride after a snap of the Oscar winner was made to appear promoting a Lib Dem awards ceremony.
The picture, apparently showing her at the recent Lib Dem Council Awards in Harrogate, was featured in the party’s conference brochure.
It allegedly offered the belief that Winslet, who has always sealed her political affiliations, was a Lib Dem supporter.
“They did not request permission to use the image and, so far, Kate has not been made aware of its use. I am not aware of her political position,” the Independent quoted her rep as saying.
However, a Lib Dem spokesman insisted: “It was a humorous piece for a fairly low-key event.”
On being questioned if the ad backed the idea of depicting the star as a party supporter, he added: “That is not the idea…. We are more than happy to make it clear that it is not the case.” (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 07 March 2009
Sydney, Mar 7 (ANI): Aussie pop star Kylie Minogue says she was thrilled to work with Oscar winning music director AR Rahman in Bollywood film Blue.
The 40-year-old singer plays herself in the film, and also performs a set-piece song-and-dance routine in the underwater thriller starring Akshay Kumar, Sanjay Dutt and Katrina Kaif.
“It was an incredible experience (to work with AR Rahman),” the Sydney Morning Herald quoted her as saying.
“I met AR Rahman at the BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) awards (in London last month). I couldn’t believe I was doing a song with him in Bollywood so soon after,” she added.
The film is about a sunken treasure ship and is said to have been inspired by the Hollywood production, The Deep.
On being asked if she would like to be a part of some of the Bollywood movies in future, Minogue said she would certainly consider.
“I got a lot of love here. Right now this feeling is just sinking in but certainly in future I will do more if I get the chance,” she said.
“I didn’t know much of Hindi but it does not matter because everyone was very cooperative and I had fun and joy.
I wanted to be part of Bollywood for a while and it was great opportunity that came by,” she added. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 06 March 2009
Thiruvananthapuram, Mar 6 (ANI): Resul Pookutty, the triumphant Oscar winner returned home to a rousing welcome in Kerala on Friday.
The State Government accorded him a grand welcome at a function held here.
Pookutty, who hails from Kerala’s Kollam district said, “This is a grandeur welcome that anybody can hope to get. I am completely elated. I can’t explain. I don’t have words.”
Pookutty, who won the sound mixing Oscar for Slumdog Millionaire, will be in Kerala till March 13. During this period, he will attend several events across the State.
A programme in his honour will be held at MSM College in Kayamkulam, from where he graduated.
He will also travel to Trissur and Kozhikode for public events.
A. R. Rahman and Pookutty won three Oscars for India as the “Slumdog Millionaire” juggernaut swept the Oscar awards.
“Slumdog Millionaire” is a movie about a young man looking for love and competing for money on the Indian version of the television game show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire”. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 06 March 2009
New York, Mar 6 (ANI): Legendary actor Kirk Douglas has not given up his job as an actor even at the age of 92.
The “Spartacus” star has been nominated for a Best Actor Oscar three times, but he has still retired.
Douglas is gearing up for the debut of “Before I Forget,” his one-man show opening on March 7 at the aptly named Kirk Douglas Theatre in LA.
When asked how he will cope with the demands of a 90-minute solo production at his age, the actor replied in the positive.
“The jury is still out. Let’s see if I can do it. I certainly will try,” the New York Post quoted him as saying. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 06 March 2009
Melbourne, Mar 06 (ANI): Hollywood actress and late Heath Ledger’s former lover Michelle Williams will take of his Oscar award, which will go to his daughter Matilda, until the girl turns 18.
Matilda will be the owner of the Oscar, which will always remind her of her talented father, but The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has decided that Matilda’s mother Michelle will take of it until Matilda turns 18.
Heath Ledger’s parents Kim and Sally, who accepted the Academy award on his behalf, said that the Oscar might go back to Australia.
“She can’t sign for it until she’s 18, so it stays in trust here or in Australia,” News.com.au quoted Kim as saying.
However, Academy spokesperson Leslie Unger confirmed that Williams, who lives in Brooklyn, New York, with Matilda would receive it and it would stay with them in Brooklyn, New York.
“We expect a representative of the Ledger estate to bring the statuette in tomorrow so that the engraved plate can be affixed,” Unger told the L.A. Times newspaper.
“Soon after that, we expect the statuette to be delivered to Michelle Williams,” Unger added.
Heath, who died of drug overdose, met Michelle while filming Brokeback Mountain. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 05 March 2009
New York, March 5 (ANI): Robert De Niro and Al Pacino have filed a lawsuit against a US watch company and a film distributor for 10 million dollars claiming identity theft.
The Hollywood veterans are suing Tutima USA over images from their recent film “Righteous Kill”, which were used for the brand’s promotion purposes without their consent.
Similarly, distributor Overture Films have also been dragged to Manhattan Federal Court for getting into “an unauthorized commercial tie linking the movie and the stars with Tutima”, reports the New York Daily News.
According a source close to the Oscar winners, the onscreen product-placement deal was not to be stretched to any off screen endorsements, which were published in The Wall Street Journal, Men’s Vogue, etc and on Tutima’s Web site.
The suit stated, “De Niro’s and Pacino’s contracts specifically prohibit the use of their names, voices or likenesses in commercial tie-ins without their prior written consent.” (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 05 March 2009
Washington, Mar 5 (ANI): Oscar-winning movie ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ has crossed the 200 million dollar mark at the international box office.
According to early weekend estimates, Danny Boyle’s flick came second at the global box office in the wake of its Oscar wins, behind Warner Bros.’ ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.’
‘Slumdog Millionaire’, which tracks the journey of an 18-year-old boy from rags-to-riches, has won eight Oscars out of the 10 categories it was nominated for, reports Variety.
The flick has not only earned the Best Director gong for Boyle, but also the Best Film award.
It also bagged awards for Original score, Original song, Film Editing, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, and Best Sound Mixing. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 05 March 2009
Washington, Mar 4 (ANI): George Clooney and Megan Fox are two such celebrities with whom most Internet users would like to party, according to a new online poll.
The ‘Transformers’ star and beloved bachelor Clooney have topped a new men’s lifestyle poll by Asylum.com.
The male and female visitors to the website were asked about the Hollywood heartthrobs they would most like to party with, reports Contactmusic.
Forty per cent of the users voted Fox, who was closely followed by Tina Fey, Paris Hilton and Oscar winner Penelope Cruz.
Clooney has left behind the likes of Owen Wilson, Olympic star Michael Phelps and Jeremy Piven to capture the top position in the poll. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 05 March 2009
Washington, March 4 (ANI): Gwyneth Paltrow has dropped the premiere appearance of her latest movie ‘Two Lovers’ after falling sick.
The actress, who stars along with Joaquin Phoenix, was scheduled to arrive at the screening of the film on March 4 in London.
But the plans were trashed after the star fell under the weather though details about her condition remained unknown, reports Contactmusic.
The Oscar winner plays the role of a volatile neighbour to Pheonix in the Brooklyn-set romantic drama.
As Michelle Rausch, she tries to lure Pheonix’s character Leonard and steps over her clean-cut image by baring her breasts and shooting for a raunchy phone sex scene for the movie. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 04 March 2009
Sydney, Mar 3 (ANI): Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire’s plot is “patently ridiculous conceit”, says British-Indian author Salman Rushdie.
According to Rushdie’s article in Britain’s Guardian newspaper, the central feature of the film – that a boy from the Mumbai slums manages to win the Indian TV version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire – “beggars belief”, reports The Sydney Morning Herald.
“This is a patently ridiculous conceit, the kind of fantasy writing that gives fantasy writing a bad name,” the author of The Satanic Verses said in the article.
Going by Rushdie’s comments, the film’s central weakness was that it was adapted from a book by Indian diplomat-novelist Vikas Swarup called Q and A, which is itself “a corny potboiler with a plot that defies belief”.
“It is a plot device faithfully preserved by the filmmakers, and lies at the heart of the weirdly renamed Slumdog Millionaire. As a result the film, too, beggars belief,” wrote Mumbai-born Rushdie.
Rushdie signed off by saying: “We can only hope that the worst is over, and that better movies, better musicals and better times lie ahead.”
Last month, the author marked the 20th anniversary of the Islamic death sentence imposed on him by Iran following the publication of The Satanic Verses. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 04 March 2009
London, March 3 (ANI): Bikini clad Kim Kardashian posed for her 2010 calendar under the scorching Mexican sun.
The head-turning model uploaded her behind-the-scenes snaps on her website, which depict her showing off her curves, reports the Sun.
The Playboy pin-up has previously attributed her curves to a tough routine and had even created her own fitness DVD.
Kardashian recently refused to do her famous back pose at the Stardust Pictures Pre-Oscar bash after an alleged wardrobe malfunction. (ANI)
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