Film Festival

Sri Lanka rolls out the red carpet for IIFA

The 11th edition of the IIFA Weekend began here on Thursday with the host country Sri Lanka rolling out the red carpet for Bollywood actors who are participating in the extravaganza despite calls to boycott the event.

Stars such as Salman Khan and Hrithik Roshan are participating in the controversy-ridden event which has been boycotted by the South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce as a mark of protest against the alleged mistreatment of the Tamils in the country.

The arriving stars were given a warm welcome by the Lankan fans at the Bandaranaike International Airport today.

Roads leading from the airport at Katunayake to Colombo were manned by police and army personnel and a pilot vehicle escorted all guests along the hour long drive from the airport to the city.

For the first time, IIFA brand ambassador Amitabh Bachchan is not attending the three-day event which has come to be known as the ‘Bollywood’s Oscars’ outside Indian shores.

The megastar is currently shooting in Gujarat while his actor son Abhishek is in Istanbul for a film shoot and daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai is in Paris to promote a brand.

Shah Rukh Khan who has not attended the IIFA weekends since 2005, has decided to give it a miss this time as well citing the ongoing production of Ra.one.

But Sri Lankan cricket captain Kumar Sangakara applauded the film personalities for their “courage and conviction” in coming to Colombo despite obstacles.

Sangakara who will play a charity match against a team led by Hrithik and Sunil Shetty said that his countrymen were “true fans” of Bollywood stars and expressed confidence that his country would live up to the challenge.

Actor Vivek Oberoi who has spoken up against the protests said that though he had a special relationship with Tamil Nadu, he believes that the IIFA event will actually benefit the displaced Tamil population of Sri Lanka.

“My foundation-Yashodhara Oberoi foundation has worked for the rehabilitation of 3,000 Tsunami affected families in Tamil Nadu. Any platform that does good work is a good platform. My foundation and IIFA along with Tamil NGOs and Sri Lankan NGOs are joining hands to build homes for war affected people in Northern and Eastern Sri Lanka,” he said.

Jacqueline Fernandez, the Sri Lankan beauty queen who debuted in Bollywood with Aladin opposite Riteish Deshmukh thanked the film fraternity for supporting her country.

Variety of events

The IIFA weekend will see many events including film launches, a charity cricket match and a fashion show, leading up to the gala award ceremony on Saturday.

Salman along with co-star Sonakshi Sinha will walk the ramp at the fashion extravaganza to showcase his upcoming film Dabangg.

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksha will inaugurate the FICCI-IIFA Global business forum on Friday which will be attended by prominent personalities from the field of business, entertainment and cricket from both countries.

Films like Help, Lamha and Knockout will be showcased while there will be a sneak preview of Kingdom of Dreams where Hussain Kuwajerwala, Isha Sharvani and Gauhar Khan will perform a piece from the soon to be launched theatre production.

The grand finale of the three day extravaganza, the IIFA awards on June 5, will see star studded performances from Hrithik Roshan, Salman Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Bipasha Basu, Riteish Deshmukh, Vivek Oberoi and Jacqueline.

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Sri Lanka rolls out the red carpet for IIFA

The 11th edition of the IIFA Weekend began here on Thursday with the host country Sri Lanka rolling out the red carpet for Bollywood actors who are participating in the extravaganza despite calls to boycott the event.

Stars such as Salman Khan and Hrithik Roshan are participating in the controversy-ridden event which has been boycotted by the South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce as a mark of protest against the alleged mistreatment of the Tamils in the country.

The arriving stars were given a warm welcome by the Lankan fans at the Bandaranaike International Airport today.

Roads leading from the airport at Katunayake to Colombo were manned by police and army personnel and a pilot vehicle escorted all guests along the hour long drive from the airport to the city.

For the first time, IIFA brand ambassador Amitabh Bachchan is not attending the three-day event which has come to be known as the ‘Bollywood’s Oscars’ outside Indian shores.

The megastar is currently shooting in Gujarat while his actor son Abhishek is in Istanbul for a film shoot and daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai is in Paris to promote a brand.

Shah Rukh Khan who has not attended the IIFA weekends since 2005, has decided to give it a miss this time as well citing the ongoing production of Ra.one.

But Sri Lankan cricket captain Kumar Sangakara applauded the film personalities for their “courage and conviction” in coming to Colombo despite obstacles.

Sangakara who will play a charity match against a team led by Hrithik and Sunil Shetty said that his countrymen were “true fans” of Bollywood stars and expressed confidence that his country would live up to the challenge.

Actor Vivek Oberoi who has spoken up against the protests said that though he had a special relationship with Tamil Nadu, he believes that the IIFA event will actually benefit the displaced Tamil population of Sri Lanka.

“My foundation-Yashodhara Oberoi foundation has worked for the rehabilitation of 3,000 Tsunami affected families in Tamil Nadu. Any platform that does good work is a good platform. My foundation and IIFA along with Tamil NGOs and Sri Lankan NGOs are joining hands to build homes for war affected people in Northern and Eastern Sri Lanka,” he said.

Jacqueline Fernandez, the Sri Lankan beauty queen who debuted in Bollywood with Aladin opposite Riteish Deshmukh thanked the film fraternity for supporting her country.

Variety of events

The IIFA weekend will see many events including film launches, a charity cricket match and a fashion show, leading up to the gala award ceremony on Saturday.

Salman along with co-star Sonakshi Sinha will walk the ramp at the fashion extravaganza to showcase his upcoming film Dabangg.

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksha will inaugurate the FICCI-IIFA Global business forum on Friday which will be attended by prominent personalities from the field of business, entertainment and cricket from both countries.

Films like Help, Lamha and Knockout will be showcased while there will be a sneak preview of Kingdom of Dreams where Hussain Kuwajerwala, Isha Sharvani and Gauhar Khan will perform a piece from the soon to be launched theatre production.

The grand finale of the three day extravaganza, the IIFA awards on June 5, will see star studded performances from Hrithik Roshan, Salman Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Bipasha Basu, Riteish Deshmukh, Vivek Oberoi and Jacqueline.

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Superficially, the short film shows a debate of whether Muslim women, in France, should wear a veil or not? The actual aim of the film is to show tolerance. It debates about a immigrant’s freedom to follow his / her beliefs even though they go against the country’s customs.

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Adharottar – Short Film (With English Subtitles) – Adharottar narrates the story of a girl who turns her story book upside down and the stories go topsy turvy, leaving the girl with various riddles as illusion and reality go hand in hand. Click on http://www.rajshri.com/Listing/Short-Films/Free-Hindi-Short-Films-Online to watch more in the short films category.

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Song -aye malik tere bande ham..enjoy The song is a very inspiring song.(with lyrics)
Movie -Do aankhen barah haath (1957) दो आँखें बारह हाथ
Singer -Lata Mangeshkar
Lyricist -Bharat Vyas
Music Director -Vasant Desai
cast -v. shantaram ,sandhya

ABOUT MOVIE DO AANKHEN BARAH HAATH :-
Do Aankhen Barah Haath (English: Two Eyes & Twelve Hands,Hindi – दो आँखें बारह हाथ )is a 1957 Hindi film directed by the Indian film director V.Shantaram, who also starred in the film. It is considered one of the classics of Hindi cinema and is based on morals of Gandhian philosophy. It won a Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival and it was the first Indian film to win a Golden Globe Award. The film is also remembered for its theme song, Aye maalik tere bande hum, sung by Lata Mangeshkar and written by Bharat Vyas.

The film was inspired by the story of an ‘open-prison’ experiment in the princely state of Oundh near Pune, which was recounted by screenwriter G. D. Madgulkar to V. Shantaram. In 2005, Indiatimes Movies ranked the movie amongst the Top 25 Must See Bollywood Films.[2] During the filming
V. Shantaram battled with a bull and he hurt his one eye during the stunt, though luckily his eyesight survived.The film was later remade into the Telugu color film Maa Daivam (1976) starring NTR and Jayachitra. The Hollywood film The Dirty Dozen (1967) also appears to have been inspired by this film.

Story of the movie:- Do aankhen barah haath :-

The film portrays a young jail warden, Adinath9V.Shantaram), who rehabilitates six deadly prisoners released on parole into persons of virtue.

He takes these six notorious, surly murderers and makes them work hard with him on a dilapidated country farm and produces great harvest. He wants to rehabilitate them through hard work and kindly guidance.

The film ends with the death of the warden at the hands of his enemies, and manifests how reformed his pupils after all his work with them.

Awards
Won :-
1958: National Film Award for Best Film
1958: Berlin International Film Festival: OCIC Award
1958: Berlin International Film Festival: Silver Bear, Special Prize
1959: Golden Globe Awards: Samuel Goldwyn Award
Nominated
1958: Berlin International Film Festival: Golden Bear

Lyrics:-

aye maalik tere ba.nde ham
aise ho hamaare karam
nekii par chale.n
aur badii se Tale.n
taaki ha.nsate huye nikale dam

jab zulmo.n kaa ho saamanaa
tab tuu hii hame.n thaamanaa
vo buraaI kare.n
ham bhalaaI bhare.n
nahii.n badale kii ho kaamanaa
ba.Dh uThe pyaar kaa har kadam
aur miTe bair kaa ye bharam
nekii par chale.n …

ye a.ndheraa ghanaa chhaa rahaa
teraa inasaan ghabaraa rahaa
ho rahaa bekhabar
kuchh na aataa nazar
sukh kaa suuraj chhipaa jaa rahaa
hai terii roshanii me.n vo dam
jo amaavas ko kar de puunam
nekii par chale.n …

ba.Daa kamazor hai aadamii
abhii laakho.n hai.n isame.n kamii.n
par tuu jo kha.Daa
hai dayaaluu ba.Daa
terii kRipaa se dharatii thamii
diyaa tuune jo hamako janam
tuu hii jhelegaa ham sabake Gam
nekii par chale.n …
ABOUT V.SHANTARAM :-

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Tujh se naraz nahin zindagi by Amanat Ali on Zee TV contest. Lyrics by Gulzar for Indian movie Masoom. Note the standing ovation asking for more, tears, tributes to the great ghazal lyricist Gulzar and the singer from Faisalabad, Amanat Ali, doing justice to the poetic words on Zee TV contest. Amanat Ali – Tujhse naraz nahin zindagi – Zee TV contest. Lyrics by Gulzar for Indian movie Masoom. Tributes to the great ghazal lyricist Gulzar and the singer from Faisalabad Amanat Ali doing justice to the poetic words. Amanat Ali, born on 10 October 1987 in Pakistan, was the winner of “Sa Re Ga Ma Pa” – Indian Singing Challenge 2007 on Zee TV. He was a finalist on “Sa Re Ga Ma Pa” Challenge 2007. He received 334,314,257 votes in the final two weeks. Many respected Bollywood stars of the Indian film entertainment industry, such as choreographer Farah Khan (2007 film Om Shanti Om director) and Indian ghazal singer Jagjit Singh, heralded him as a “great discovery” and remarked that Amanat Ali “goes beyond Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007″. Many say that a selection of his performances over nine weeks (May-Oct 2007) (including: “Hungama hai kyun”, “Mitwa” and “Tujh se naraz nahin zindagi”) were sung in a unique manner, with judges saying that Amanat Ali’s performances were better than the original. Amanat Ali, from Faisalabad/Pakistan, is the son of Pakistani singer Nazakat Ali. His two uncles, Hasan Sadiq and Sharafat Ali, religious eulogies (naats, noha, dhamals, and hamds). Earlier in his life, he performed with another great singer, Nusrat Feteh Ali Khan (1948-1997), who was also from Faisalabad, Pakistan. Amanat Ali has sung for the Bollywood music director Bappi Lahiri for the movie “Bal Ganesh”. He has also sung the title song for K C Bokadia’s “Junoon”; and for music directors Vishal-Shekhar in the film “Dostana” 2008. His concert tours included summer 2008 in the USA, and released his album “Khoram” in February 2009. Zee TV clip. Only the best lyricists, musicians and singers perform for http://www.youtube.com/spsyed live shows, mehfils, ghazal nights…

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Cooking with Stella

GALA
Toronto International Film Festival
Atlantic Film Festival

Opening Night Gala
Cinéfest – Sudbury’s International Film Festival
Edmonton International Film Festival

Official Selection
Calgary International Film Festival
Vancouver International Film Festival
Valladolid International Film Festival
Middle East International Film Festival

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The Opening for the Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival

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The director and stars of ‘What’s Your Raashee’ talk about their expectations at the Toronto International Film Festival.

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