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Short film 'Live Your Fairytale' stars slum kids and has no professional actors
A new short film, titled "Live Your Fairytale", features no professional actors, and captures the experience of five slum children who dine in a restaurant for the first time in life. The film by Arsala Qureishi and Jas Sagu had a YouTube premiere on Satu
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Enjoy Oscar treats online
The Dharamshala International Film Festival (DIFF) will launch its year-round programme for 2021 online with the 'DIFF Virtual Viewing Room: Films from the Oscar Season' for one week from April 2 to April 8 in collaboration with Gratitude Films Inc.
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Feeling threatened by Sena, Kangana asks SC to transfer cases to Himachal
Citing threats by Shiv Sena, ruling party in Maharashtra, Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut and her sister Rangoli Chandel have moved the Supreme Court seeking transfer of cases pending against them in Mumbai to a court in Shimla. The petitioners said Shi
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Kerala tribal language film vies for Oscars
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Friday announced the list of 366 movies eligible for this years' Oscars race, which included the Vijeesh Mani directorial film 'Mmmmm (Sound of Pain)', a film in Kurumba language that is spoken by the tri
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My career has never been dependent on my co-actors: Priyanka Chopra Jonas
"There is no rulebook for me and I don't believe in planning too much. I have never allowed my work to define me completely. All my life, I have chosen diverse roles -- across genres, continents and platforms, and my career has never been dependent on my
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Telangana couple names son after actor-philanthropist Sonu Sood
Impressed by actor Sonu Sood's philanthropic work, a couple in Telangana has named their son after him.
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Kumar Sanu: Don't think person like me can do anything in politics
Election time in Bengal is round the corner, and almost every party is looking for celebrity candidates, a trick that never fails. Playback superstar of the nineties Kumar Sanu, who joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) twice and left the party the final ti
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Lucknow's Gulala Ghat to be developed as film location
The Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC), has decided to develop Gulala Ghat as a movie shooting destination to attract the film fraternity to the state capital.
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We need a balanced OTT ecosystem: Vijay Jayapal
Pleased that Indian audiences will finally get to watch 'Nirvana Inn' as it gets set for its 'World Digital Premiere' on Cinemapreneur on December 11, filmmaker Vijay Jayapal whose Hindi-language psychological horror drama starring Adil Hussain, Rajshri D
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Abolish entertainment tax: Sudhir Mishra
"Theaters bring people together and facilitate a community experience. Isnt that public service? It is hard to decipher why we have Entertainment Tax in India. I mean, why would you tax people people for being happy, moved, touched, elevated, inspired and
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Shalini Vatsa & the art of metamorphosis
: Dhanya in ‘Peepli Live, Kanta Bai in ‘Sacred Games, ‘Karma Devi in Gurgaon and Lata Kutty in ‘Ludo -- her quiet (and sometimes not so) intensity ascertains that the screen belongs to her no matter who is sharing the frame with her.
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Women dominate 2021 Grammy nominations
The 2021 Grammy Awards nominations are all about women power with Beyonce, Taylor Swift and Dua Lipa leading the way.Â
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Writing 'The Lost Homestead' was cathartic: Marina Wheeler
A film on Indias last Viceroy triggered a series of journeys to the sub-continent as Marina Wheeler attempted to come to terms with its partition in 1947 and the trauma that it caused to her mother. In this she succeeded admirably but could be treading on
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Race for the Oscars
It took him a while to register the news that his short film 'Kaala', which won the Best Narrative Short Drama award at Cinequest Film & VR Festival in San Jose, USA had directly qualified for the Oscars.
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Malini Awasthi to get gold medal, 33 years late
Noted folk singer Malini Awasthi will collect her gold medal 33 years late after topping her graduation class way back in the late 80s.
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An actor must be thick-skinned: Kriti Kharbanda
Giving up and sitting back has never been an option for actor Kriti Kharbanda who insists that as an actor it is important to be thick-skinned in order to survive. Adding that for an actor, there are always enough people to put him/her down, but very few