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Movie Review: ‘Barad’ is a socially oriented issue based film

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Producer: Devendra Kapnis
Director: Tanaji Mahadeo Ghadge
Star Cast: Suhas Palshikar, Rajan Patil, Shahaji Kale, Bharat Ganeshpure, Sanjay Kulkarni & Nandkishor Chaughule

BARAD a barren land of fertile dreams Alkud is a typical small village in Maharashtra with an agrarian economy and a simple life, like any other village. The urban way of living fascinates, but the economy doesn’t allow. The story starts with a survey conducted by a government agency at Bardi, the barren land adjacent to the village. Anna, a village veteran, is called for, as a witness to the survey. Anna enquires about the survey. The information by the officer contains some crucial words in English. Anna & Appa try to conclude a meaning, guessing remains their only access to what this survey is all about.

The only good thing about Barad is the performance of all the veteran actors as well as some of the newer brigade of actors.

The film as no relief as far as entertainment quotient is concerned. It is a total issue based film and urban audiences will hardly relate to it.

The rural problem tackled is appreciative. Yet the film sounds more like a documentary, moving at a snail’s space, than a feature film.

Movie Review: ‘Pinddaan’ is a classy & fascinating film worth watching at least once

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Pinddaan

Producer: Uday Pictures
Director: Prashant Patil
Star Cast: Siddharth Chandekar, Manwa Naik, Paula MacGleen, Prasad Pandit, Sanjay Kulkarni, Madhav Abhyankar, Farida Dadi,
Shubhangi Latkar, Pradeep Patwardhan, Vanita Shinde, Sanjay Gagnani. Milind Dastane & Priyanka Tataria

Devkar (Siddharth Chandekar) is a documentary film maker in Channel 6 in London and his colleague & intimate friend Roohi (Manwa Naik) is a cinematographer in the same channel. They both come to India on an assignment. Besides Ashutosh also has to do a pinddaan (Post Death Rituals) for his grandmother. One day on the river bank Manas Ganga he meets a British girl Anna (Paula McGleen), they keep meeting and gradually Ashutosh falls deeply in love with Anna.

Prashant Patil with his excellent directorial skill has succeeded in maintaining a firm grip on this mystic love story bordering somewhat on super natural element. Performance wise Siddharth Chandekar is superb. Manwa Naik is good, but she hardly has anything much to do. On the other hand Paula McGleen has done justice to her role. The supporting cast is also adequate.

The title Pinddaan itself is totally misleading and irrelevant for a serene & mystic love story like Pinddaan. Another hindrance is the overdose of English dialogues especially between Siddharth & Manwa.

Marathi Cinema is coming of age by making use of foreign locales and bold love making scene which may not go down well in the interiors.

Rajasthan Home minister abuses former PM Manmohan Singh, then says sorry

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Gulab Chand Kataria

New Delhi: Rajasthan Home Minister Gulab Chand Kataria on Sunday kicked up a storm for allegedly using foul language while referring to former prime minister Manmohan Singh during a meeting of BJP workers in Churu. Kataria later apologised, saying that a word he used was “inappropriate”.

Comparing Prime Minister Narendra Modi to his predecessor, Kataria said: “Desh ka pradhan mantri pehle Manmohan Singh jab America utarta tha, toh sa** ko receive karne kay liye aira-gera nathu khaira mantri ja karke airport se lekar ata tha. Lekin ab Hindustan ka pradhan mantri jab jata hai, toh Obama swayam uth karke jata hai uski agwani karne ke liye. (When prime minister Manmohan Singh used to go to America, the sa** was received by ordinary ministers at the airport. But now, when India’s prime minister goes, [US President Barack] Obama himself comes to receive him.”

Later, the minister tendered an apology on Twitter but insisted that he did not say anything derogatory about the former prime minister.

Congress leader and former chief minister Ashok Gehlot sought action against Kataria for the speech. “The BJP must take strong action against him and he should be sacked from his post. The BJP’s leaders are shamelessly saying whatever they want. They have literally crossed all limits,” said Gehlot.

The Congress also criticised the minister’s derogatory tone while referring to the former PM in his nearly half-hour speech. Congress state president Sachin Pilot said that “the state home minister’s comments about a former PM only reflect the state of his mental faculties”.

(Agencies)

Karnataka MLA Ambareesh submits one-line resignation; Speaker rejects it

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Bengaluru: As discontent simmered over the reshuffle of his ministry by Chief Minister Sidddaramaiah, cine-actor turned politician Ambareesh today resigned as Member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly.

Ambareesh sent a one line resignation letter addressed to the Assembly Speaker through his personal assistant, the move coming a day after Siddaramaiah dropped 14 ministers and inducted 13 others in the major revamp.

Deputy Speaker Shivashankara Reddy, who is officiating as the Speaker’s post is lying vacant with Kagodu Thimmappa being appointed as the cabinet Minister, has not accepted the letter as the Member himself did not submit it.

“Ambareesh has sent a letter of resignation through some other person; any such letter will be considered valid if the member himself submits it. I have sent it back,” Shivashankar Reddy told media.

The resignation letter states he is resigning as MLA of Mandya constituency, without assigning any reason.

Ambareesh was the Housing Minister before he was dropped.

He had earlier also served as Member of Parliament and was Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting, but had resigned from the Lok Sabha membership, expressing dissatisfaction with the Cauvery Dispute Tribunal award.

Ambareesh’s supporters in Mandya continued their protest for the second consecutive day today.

They had blocked the Bengaluru-Mysuru Highway yesterday.

Resentment is brewing within Congress after the reshuffle, with several dropped Ministers and those who were aspiring to join the cabinet openly expressing their unhappiness against the party leadership.

The ministers who faced the axe are: Qamarul Islam, Shamanoor Shivashankarappa, V Srinivasa Prasad, M H Ambareesh, Vinay Kumar Sorake, Satish Jarkiholi, Baburao Chinchansoor, Shivaraj Sangappa Tangadagi, S R Patil, Manohar Tahasildhar, K Abayachandra Jain, Dinesh Gundu Rao, Kimmane Ratnakar and P T Parameshwar Naik.

Srinivasa Prasad and Islam are among others who have made no secret of their displeasure over being dropped.

Supporters of Srinivas Prasad had called for a bandh in Chamarajanagar and Nanjangud today.

Similar protests by supporters of various aspirants Congress MLA’s and dropped Ministers have been reported from different parts of the state.

(Agencies)

Dinesh Gundu Rao appointed KPCC working President

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Bengaluru: Dinesh Gundu Rao, who was among the 14 ministers dropped in the Karnataka cabinet reshuffle, was today made State working Congress President.

The announcement was made by AICC General Secretary Janardan Dwivedi, who said party chief Sonia Gandhi has approved the move.

Son of former Chief Minister R Gundu Rao, Dinesh is a three-time MLA and has been national spokesperson of the party.

At present, Home Minister G Parmeshwar is also the PCC Chief.

There has been talk of Energy Minister D K Shiva Kumar likely to be made the PCC chief.

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah yesterday dropped 14 ministers and inducted 13 members into his Council of Ministers in a bid to give a face-lift to his three-year old government.

Assembly elections in the state are two years away.

(Agencies)

Subhash Ghai institutes Lata Mangeshkar scholarship at Whistling Woods International

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Subhash Ghai

With his Film & Media Arts institute Whistling Woods International (WWI) entering its 10th year, and having had the success of it being rated as one of the 10 best film schools in the world, Founder & Chairman Subhash Ghai is delighted to announce a scholarship for meritorious yet indigent students in the name of Padmashri awardee Lata Mangeshkar ji.

The LATA MANGESHKAR SCHOLRSHIP will carry a 100% fee waiver for a 2-year / 3-year programme at Whistling Woods International.

Subhash Ghai and Meghna Ghai-Puri, President of Whistling Woods, accompanied by a few students, met Lata ji at her residence yesterday. The purpose was to invite her to receive the ‘2016 Whistling Woods Maestro Award’ for her legendary contribution to Indian Cinema, at its 9th Convocation on July 18, 2016. She gracefully accepted the invitation, and had all praise for the vision of Subhash Ghai & Mukta Arts in setting up of Whistling Woods International in 2001, as an institute of global standards in the education of the art, commerce and science of Cinema. As she said in her video message that she recorded for the institute, “I am honoured to receive such a prestigious award from a world-class institute like Whistling Woods International and I bless them for a great future.”

During this meeting, Lata ji also happily accepted a proposal from Meghna to institute an annual scholarship at WWI in her name. Lata ji said “I am deeply touched by this great gesture of Subhash ji, Meghna and their team. It’s an honour for me.”

Subhash Ghai added “It is our great honour to have Lata ji’s acceptance for our attempt to inspire the next generation of Indian filmmakers. This scholarship in the name of India’s pride and an institution for us all, Lata ji, will continue to benefit students for decades to come.”

Subhash Ghai also revealed that while WWI does provide scholarships to meritorious yet indigent students every year, this is the 2nd special 100% scholarship instituted in the name of a legend of Indian Cinema. Three years ago, Whistling Woods International had announced the DILIP KUMAR SCHOLARSHIP and over the past 3 years, three students have availed of this scholarship (2014 – Amit Hegde, 2015 – Rohit Valecha & 2016 – Amol Srivastava).

Whistling Woods International, currently has over 700 students in several schools (Filmmaking, Acting, Animation, Music, Media & Communication and Fashion & Design) at its Filmcity campus. WWI has collaborated with TISS for its degree courses and is privileged to host a YouTube Space, a Sony Media Lab & RedEducation, within its campus.

Egypt’s Morsi sentenced to life imprisonment over espionage charges

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Egypt’s Morsi sentenced to life imprisonment over espionage charges

by Adham Youssef

The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced Saturday former president Mohamed Morsi to life in prison, along with two other defendants, in the “Qatar espionage” case.

Another six defendants received death sentences after the Grand Mufti argued that the “crime of the defendants are similar to that of treason” whose punishment should be death.

The presiding judge, Mohamed Shereen Fahmy, also sentenced Morsi to another 15 years for a different charge in the same case.

Fahmy employed several nationalist connotations while reading the court’s decision.

The session witnessed a heavy presence of security forces in the fortified Police Academy in downtown Cairo

Morsi and the other defendants are accused of leaking national security documents and information related to national security to Qatar during Morsi’s presidency.

Gulberg massacre: Ehsan Jafri’s firing provoked mob, says judge

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Ehsan Jafri

Ahmedabad: Ruling out any conspiracy angle in the 2002 Gulberg Society massacre, a special court on Friday said firing by former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, in which one person was killed, provoked and infuriated the mob that led it to the “killing frenzy”, but asserted that the firing cannot condone the acts of the mob.

“It was the private firing by Shri Ehsan Jafri that acted as a catalyst and which infuriated the mob to such an extent that it went out of control, the limited police force available there had no means to control or disperse such mob, which had gathered in large numbers post the incident of private firing,” special SIT court judge P.B. Desai said in his order.

“Shri Ehsan Jafri had perpetrated acts of firing from his weapon from different locations within Gulberg Society upon the mob, causing injuries and the death of one person, which in my opinion was the catalyst, which provoked the mob to such proportions that it went out of control and thus resulted into the killing frenzy, where a large number of innocent persons lost their lives,” the court said.

Rejecting the conspiracy angle, the court said it was “unnatural” that things turned “ugly” all of a sudden after 1.30 (on February 28, 2002) pm “as if some tap was turned on, which resulted in a flood of water and the carnage was perpetrated”.

The court, however, added that this fact cannot “in any manner excuse or condone the acts of the mob, which perpetrated the violence needlessly upon innocent men, women and children and hacked them to death and ensured that many others were burned to death in the carnage that followed such private firing.”

“The incidence of Gulberg society is in fact a culmination of a series of incidents, which happened at different time frames. Suddenly transgressing into this grave and heinous carnage which has resulted in the death of such large number of women, children and elderly,” it said while rejecting conspiracy theory.

“The carnage took place on account of a spontaneous gathering of a large mob on accounts of the news having spread that number of persons of the majority community have been injured/killed in a private firing by Shri Ehsan Jafri, which further resulted in the entire carnage taking place,” it said, while rejecting the conspiracy theory.

The court sentenced 11 convicts to life imprisonment in the case of burning alive of 69 people, including Jafri, in the 2002 post-Godhra violence.

The court also awarded 10-year jail term to one of the 13 convicted for lesser offences while 12 others have been given seven-year sentence each.

(Agencies)

Former cricketer Chetan Chauhan is NIFT chief

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New Delhi: Former cricketer and two-time Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP, Chetan Chauhan, was today appointed as the Chairman of the prestigious National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT).

According to a report in The Indian Express, Chauhan thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah for his appointment, and said that he had already held “a few informal meetings” at his new office.

Chauhan, a senior BCCI official, runs a cricket academy and a printing press while also holding the position of vice-president of the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA).

Speaking of how his time would be divided between all his commitments, Chauhan was quoted as saying ‘I will spend 60 per cent of the time in DDCA, 30 per cent at NIFT and 30 per cent in my business.’

The appointment of the chairman and non-official members of the Board of Governors of the NIFT are made by the President.

(Agencies)

First batch of women fighter pilots inducted into IAF

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Hyderabad: The Indian Air Force on Saturday inducted its first batch of women pilots, comprising three cadets into its fighter squadron.

Bhawna Kanth, Avani Chaturvedi and Mohana Singh, will undergo another six months of training in the Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer before they start flying the fighter jets in regular missions like their male counterparts.

They graduated from the IAF academy in Dundigal in December and proceeded to specialised fighter training in the IAF establishment in Hakimpet in Andhra Pradesh.

Six female cadets were competing to become fighter pilots after the government, in a landmark move, approved an IAF plan in October to induct them as fighter pilots. However, only three female trainees were selected for the fighter stream.

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar was present to witness the passing-out parade at the Indian Air Force Academy in Hakimpet, Hyderabad.

First batch of women fighter pilots inducted into IAF

Hyderabad, Jun 18 (Agencies): The Indian Air Force on Saturday inducted its first batch of women pilots, comprising three cadets into its fighter squadron.

Bhawna Kanth, Avani Chaturvedi and Mohana Singh, will undergo another six months of training in the Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer before they start flying the fighter jets in regular missions like their male counterparts.

They graduated from the IAF academy in Dundigal in December and proceeded to specialised fighter training in the IAF establishment in Hakimpet in Andhra Pradesh.

Six female cadets were competing to become fighter pilots after the government, in a landmark move, approved an IAF plan in October to induct them as fighter pilots. However, only three female trainees were selected for the fighter stream.

Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar was present to witness the passing-out parade at the Indian Air Force Academy in Hakimpet, Hyderabad.

(Agencies)

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