IANS- “Period. End of Sentence”, an India-set film on the taboos around menstruation and featuring the real ‘Pad Man’, picked up an Oscar in Documentary Short Subject category at the 91st Academy Awards ceremony. The film, backed by Indian producer Guneet Monga’s Sikhya Entertainment, is about women in India fighting against the deeply rooted […]
IANS- No host, a historic push to a superhero movie, a backlash to plans to give away some awards off-screen: much drama surrounds the 91st Oscars even before the main show. But the question that lingers on is whether “The Favourite” and “Roma” — the BAFTA winners — will continue their golden run or […]
IANS- Action came to a halt for cricketers Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh, Mohammad Kaif and Suresh Raina, who were in the midst of shooting an ad here, as they joined artists and technicians representing 24 film associations in a two-hour protest against the Pulwama terror attack at Filmcity in Goregaon here on Sunday. Spearheaded […]
Subhash K. Jha(IANS) – Actress Tanushree Dutta, the harbinger of the #MeToo movement in the Indian entertainment industry, has been invited to the Harvard Business School in Boston, US, as a guest-speaker. She says she is quite excited, but also a bit nervous. Excerpts from the interview: Q: How does it feel being invited […]
IANS- Former US First Lady Michelle Obama joined artistes Lady Gaga, Jada Pinkett Smith and Jennifer Lopez on the Grammy stage here to talk about the impact of music on her life. After singer Alicia Keys, the host of the ceremony on February 10, welcomed the guests and spoke about the “shared global language” […]
Milinda Ghosh Roy(IANS)- Yann Martel, the Canadian author of the Man Booker Prize-winning “Life of Pi”, finds India diverse, dazzling and a place with a great tradition of storytelling and says the country may very well be the backdrop of one of his future novels. In a freewheeling interview with IANS, Martel, who first […]
Ritu Jha – More than 400 people – elected officials, entrepreneurs, academics, community leaders and law enforcement personnel – took part in the 70th Republic Day Celebration hosted by the Indian Consulate in San Francisco January 26 at the India Community Center in Milpitas, California. The police officers were a precautionary measure, standing in […]
IANS – Three films — “Green Book”, “First Man” and “Ready Player One” — backed by Anil D. Ambani-owned Reliance Entertainment’s Amblin Entertainment have scored a total of 10 nominations for the 91st Academy Awards. The nominations were announced in Los Angeles on Tuesday. “Green Book” finds a spot in five categories: Best Picture, […]
IANS- “Period. End of Sentence”, an India set film on the taboos around menstruation and featuring the real ‘Pad Man’, has made it to the Oscar nomination, it was announced here on Tuesday. The film has made it to the top five nominees of the Documentary Short Subject category. Other nominees include “Black Sheep”, […]
Sugandha Rawal, IANS – M. Night Shyamalan, the US-based Indian-origin filmmaker, feels the wave of tribalism is taking over the world with people getting scared about losing their distinct identity. But the filmmaker says it is time to join the “larger group” and embrace the power of diversity. The filmmaker is looking forward to the […]
