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[Nasheman news] Director Krish Jagarlamudi is done with the bickering with Kangana Ranaut.

“I’ve had my say. No more. If she wants to believe she directed all of ‘Manikarnika’, so be it. Everyone knows the truth,” asserts Krish and vows to not get into any more war of words with the film’s aggressive leading lady and co-director.

However, one major issue that needs to be addressed is the singing and dancing that the Queen of Jhansi is seen indulging in with her subjects. In an elaborate song and dance sequence, Rani Laxmibai embarrasses the hell out of her husband, the King of Jhansi (played by Jisshu Sengupta) by dancing with the people of their state in a pregnant condition.

A source very close to the film says that the song and dance during times of raging battles was Kangana’s idea.

“Ek toh Rani, opoopar se garbhbati (firstly a queen and above it, pregnant). How can she be shown dancing in that unbecoming fashion? Krish was totally against the idea. The song-and-dance was added on by Kangana after Krish left,” the source says.

Significantly, when another Queen, Padmavati in an epic film in January 2018, Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s “Padmaavat”, got up from her throne to take to the dance floor with her ladies-in-waiting, all hell had broken loose.

Deepika’s Rani Padmaavati was shown dancing to the Ghoomar song in the most graceful and queenly manner in a closed environment with the women from her durbar.

Bhansali said: “We wanted the Ghoomar song and dance to retain its purity since this was being performed by Rani Padmavati. Every step and every move in the dance form celebrates the grace of royalty. 

“This is our dance tribute to the brave Rajput women of Rajasthan. I heard how little children performing the Ghoomar dance at a school in India were stopped. 

“I’d like to tell those disruptive elements that you can’t stop something as beautiful and innocent as this from reaching out to the hearts of people across the world.”

Bhansali’s heart swells with pride to see Ghoomar reaching into the hearts and feet of American kids.

Says the director: “What better illustration of Prime Minster Narendra Modiji’s Make In India policy? I feel our culture is so rich and varied. We’ve so much to give the West. Why not take our culture and art forms to the West rather than continuously borrow their lifestyle and culture?”

All hell had broken lose with fringe groups demanding that the song-and-dance be removed or else they would cut off Deepika’s nose.

Says a source very close to the “Padmaavat” team: “When we showed Deepika dancing in the Queen’s inner chambers, we had to digitally cover Deepika’s midriff before the censor board allowed the Ghoomar song. 

“Now in ‘Manikarnika’, again about a Queen, Kangana’s Rani Laxmibai jumps off her seat and breaks into a street-side jig with the commoners. That was okay? What is good enough for Rani Laxmbai is not befitting for Rani Padmavati? Please figure out that one.”

When pressed for a response, Krish said: “I don’t know where the singing and dancing came from. It wasn’t there when I was directing ‘Manikarnika’.”

The question remains: Why was it not right for Rani Padmavati to dance when everyone seems okay with the Rani Of Jhansi shaking a leg, midriff forgotten?

[Nasheman news] Mumbai Noted actor Manoj Bajpayee has condemned Thursday’s terror attack on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) convoy in Jammu and Kashmir, and said the Central government is capable enough to tackle the situation.

Manoj said this here on Friday while interacting with the media at Cine And TV Artistes’ Association (CINTAA) and 48 Hour Film Project’s first edition of ‘Act Fest 2019’, along with Sara Ali Khan, Ronit Roy and Divya Dutta.

The citizens of the country should have faith in them (government) and support them in such trying circumstances, he said.

In the worst-ever terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir since militancy erupted in 1989, a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) suicide bomber on Thursday rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a CRPF bus in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district, killing at least 45 troopers and leaving 38 critically wounded.

“Words will fall short to express our anger for this kind of heinous act. My prayers are the families of soldiers who have lost their dear ones in the tragedy and it’s their irreparable loss,” Manoj said.

“I feel scared and hurt… I get angry whenever I hear of such evil acts… I am feeling really sad to hear about what has happened in Jammu and Kashmir,” Sara Ali Khan said.

More than 2,500 CRPF personnel were travelling in the convoy of 78 vehicles when they were ambushed on the Srinagar-Jammu highway.

The Pakistan-based JeM terror group has claimed responsibility for the attack that took place about 20 km from Srinagar.

  
A Glittering Ceremony For “Power Brands Bollywood Film Journalists’ Awards 2019!” Held 

 The 2019 Power Brands-Bollywood Film Journalist’s Awards was organized recently by Planman Motion Pictures at Hotel Novotel Mumbai. Padmavat took home 16 roaring lions. Badhai Ho took away 7 roaring lions including “Best Film”. Andhadhun & Tummbad bagged 6 roaring lions each & Sriram Raghavan bagged “Best Director” award for Andhadhun.

 The glittering event also saw 2 mega book launches!! The big one was the launch of a young 18 year old author Che Kabir Chaudhuri’s book “Discover The Superhero In You” published by Times Group Books. The book which is about life’s lessons from superhero films & comics, was launched by Miss universe Sushmita Sen who also got the special Power Brand Superhero Award. Launching the book Ms. Sen was in full praise of the book saying such insight & depth is absolutely amazing!! Mr . Chaudhry said that he believed that there was a lot to learn in life from comics & Superhero films & he wanted to prove that.

 The other book was launched by Rock Star who has taken YouTube by storm namely Guru Randhawa. This coffee table book, “Bollywood Power Brands” also published by Times Group Books is authored by Rajita Chaudhuri & Dr. Arindam Chaudhuri & is on the most powerful people in Bollywood. They called it their tribute to the movers & shakers of Bollywood. 

Sanjay Khan was also there in full force with his family namely  Zarine, Suzanne, Farah, Zayed & Simone. So was the lifetime award winner, Manoj Kumar, who spoke with full gusto & said that being in a wheel chair he is hardly a power brand anymore.

 Sanjay Khan emphasized on the need for national integration & Malaika Arora also got a special Power Brand Fashion Icon award. From Neena Gupta, Pankaj Tripathi, Shriram Raghavan, Gajaraj Rao, Ronit Roy to Shefali Shah, Neeraj Kavi, Nushrat Bharucha, Farah Khan, Ali Fazal, Amit Trivedi &  Amit Sharma all the winners praised the fairness of the awards & thanked the journalists who voted for them. Sushmita Sen, Malaika Arora, Nushrat Bharucha & Manjari Fadnis dazzled the red carpet. 

The Power Brands Bollywood Film Journalists Awards are the only awards in the country where more than 20 of the leading film journalists of this country do an open ballot voting for all categories & disclose who they voted for online 2 weeks before the award ceremony. 

Where awards are given irrespective of the winners presence as they are declared a fortnight in advance at least. Where the runners up are also awarded with the title of associate winners. There are no nominations & journalists are free to give anyone their vote amongst the films released last year. 

Basically it’s the only credible awards in the country and for the same it has garnered huge appreciation, though still only in its 3^rd year.

  The list of key winners this year are:

 Best Feature Film Winner – Badhaai Ho – Junglee Pictures/ Vineet JainAssociate Winner – Andhadhun – Viacom18 Motion Pictures.  

Best Director Winner – Andhadhun – Sriram Raghavan Associate Winner – Raazi – Meghna Gulzar

 Best Actor Male Winner – Sanju – Ranbir Kapoor Associate Winner – Padmaavat – Ranveer Singh 

Best Actor Female Winner – Raazi – Alia Bhatt  Associate Winner – Padmaavat – Deepika Padukone Associate Winner – Hichki – Rani Mukerji

 Best Supporting Actor Male Winner – Sanju – Vicky Kaushal Associate Winner – Badhaai Ho – Gajraj Rao Associate Winner – Stree – Pankaj Tripathi

 Best Supporting Actor Female Winner – Badhaai Ho – Neena Gupta Associate Winner – Badhaai Ho – Surekha Sikri 

Best Music Director Winner – Andhadhun – Amit Trivedi Associate Winner – Padmaavat – Sanjay Leela Bhansali 

Best Background Score Winner – Tumbbad – Ajay-Atul / Jesper Kyd Associate Winner – Padmaavat – Ankit Balhara –  Sanchit Balhara & Sanjay Leela Bhansali

 Best Cinematography Winner – Padmaavat – Sudeep Chatterjee Associate Winner – Tumbbad – Pankaj Kumar

 Best Story Adapted Winner – Raazi – Bhavani Iyer & Meghna Gulzar Associate Winner – Simmba – Yunus Sajawal, Sajid Samji & Vakkantham Vamsi 

Associate Winner – Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran – Saiwyn Quadras, Sanyuktha Chawla Sheikh & Abhishek Sharma

Best Story Original Winner – Badhaai Ho – Shanatanu Srivastava, Akshat Ghildial & Jyoti Kapoor 

Associate Winner – Andhadhun – Sriram Raghavan, ArijitBiswas, Pooja LadhaSurti, Yogesh Chandekar & Hemanth Rao

TV Actor Krushna Abhishek’s new movie Sharmaji Ki Lag Gai’s trailer & poster was launched recently. Nilkanth Regmi, Vanshmani Sharma of Rock Mountain Productions in association with Tweet Entertainment recently organized the trailer & the poster launch of their new Comedy film titled Sharmaji Ki Lag Gayi at The View Preview. Well-known directors like Anil Sharma & Mehul Kumar came specially to launch the poster of the film. Krushna Abhishek, Mugdha Godse, Brijendra Kala, Hemant Pandey, Himani Shivpuri, Sunil Pal, choreographer Lollypop, Vinay Anand, Kashmeera Shah, Aarti Singh also came to attend the event. The credits of the film are songs written & composed by Praveen Bhardwaj, directed by Manoj Sharma, asspsiat producers are A K Arora & Vatsal Baxi & c0-producer is Kamal Kishore Mishra. The film will be released on 15^th Mar, 2019 all over. Zee Music Company is releasing the music.

Nasheman News :  Producer Boney Kapoor has taken the rights of Egyptian drama “Hepta: The Last Lecture” to remake the film in Hindi and other languages in India.

The film will be produced by Kapoor’s Bayview Projects and co-produced by Fresh Lime Films, read a statement issued on the former’s behalf.

Based on Mohamed Sadek’s best-selling book, “Hepta…”, directed by Hadi El Bagoury, revolves around the seven stages of love.

Kapoor said: “India and Egypt have been strongly influencing each other’s culture, arts and architecture since ancient times.

“It is a pleasure to cooperate with Egyptian cinema. I strongly believe that this is only the beginning and we shall soon be seeing films from Egypt and India being remade in their respective languages.” 

Kapoor is also remaking Hindi film “Pink” in Tamil. Titled “AK 59”, it features superstar Ajith, and is currently being shot.

Nasheman News :  Falguni Shah and Prashant Mistry of Indian origin have lost at the ongoing Grammys, which is also being attended by Grammy and Oscar-winning Indian musician A.R. Rahman.

London-based Indian music producer, mix and mastering engineer Prashant Mistry’s album “Symbol” was nominated for the Best Immersive Audio Album at the 61st Grammy Awards. The honour went to “Eye In The Sky – 35th Anniversary Edition”.

Falguni, on the other hand, was nominated for her album “Falu’s Bazaar” in the Best Children’s Music. The award was given to Lucy Kalantari & The Jazz Cats for “All The Sounds”.

Meanwhile, Rahman tweeted a photograph that featured him, his daughter Raheema and others, ahead of the ceremony on Sunday night. He captioned it: “All set to go for Grammy Awards night.”

He has been updating about the ceremony to his millions of fans on Instagram by posting photographs from there. It includes a photograph featuring the legendary singer Dolly Parton on stage.

[NASHEMAN NEWS] If you were one of the three Khan superstars in Bollywood, then 2018 was definitely not your year. While Shah Rukh Khan has delivered what looks like a box office debacle in “Zero”, quite recently his Khan fellow-superstar Aamir Khan too came up with one of the biggest duds of his career, “The Thugs Of Hindostan”.

Earlier during the year, Salman Khan’s “Race 3” underperformed abysmally at the box office.

Is the Khan triumvirate losing its touch?

Says trade analyst Amod Mehra: “The writing is very clear on the wall. It is time all three Khan superstars switched to more mature roles. Or else they would no longer be superstars.”

However, film and trade analyst Girish Johar doesn’t see the setbacks of 2018 as detrimental to the Khans’ careers. “The three Khans are SUPERSTARS, a film here or there doesn’t matter. Their fan following does not decrease nor does their stardom get affected. Yes, all three failing together in one year does raise eyebrows but I am sure they are bound to bounce back with their next outings. Also yes, they have to be much much more careful as audiences are growing, their taste patterns are changing faster…so what they bring to the table has to be extraordinary as anything below neither suits their stature nor is it any longer expected from them.”

What next for the Khans?

While Salman Khan has the eagerly-awaited Eid release “Bharat” which spans the lifestory of one man from India’s independence in 1947 to present day, Aamir Khan is taking a sabbatical from the big screen to do a web series based on the Mahabharat. Shah Rukh Khan is not committed to any new project.

All three Khan superstars need to sit and do some serious career thinking and revamping. Their fan-following remains intact. Only their selection of roles needs to change.

Warns critic Raja Sen: “Their films may have underperformed this time, but each of the three Khans is just one hit away from being on top of the heap again. Any obituaries or celebrations by gleeful rivals would be premature.”

 

Actress Malobika MJ All Set To Make Her Debut As A Singer 

Actress Malobika MJ debuts as singer with music video “Kill Karda” to be choreographed by Ganesh Acharya. 

By the way actress Malobika MJ has already done 3 big music videos & above all 6 Bengali film as a main lead heroine.

 

Malobika MJ has just sang her 1^st ever song named “Kill Karda” written by Shabbir Ahmed & composed by Raaj Ashu. The video is being choreographed & directed by Ganesh Acharya. The music video was shot just in 2 days at Angel Studio, Mumbai.

 Malobika MJ had done the rehearsal for just 3 days before shooting the video. 

[Nasheman news] Mumbai For filmmaker Karan Johar, walking the ramp at the Royal Opera House here brought back a flurry of childhood memories.

Karan was one of the star showstoppers apart from Tabu for designer Gaurav Gupta’s opening show for the Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) Summer/Resort 2019 at the iconic venue, which continues to hold significance in the cultural fabric of contemporary Mumbai.

After the show here on Tuesday night, he said: “This is very emotional moment for me. I have so many memories of watching movies in this particular space. Royal Opera House is where I have come as a child several times, watched movies, and I can’t believe that this has now transformed into this hugely iconic space.

“Just walking the ramp in this particular place makes me feel like life is completing an entire circle.”

While talking about life in circles and orbiting things that are beautiful, Karan said these things make him think of Gupta. whose work, he feels, comes with an edge.

On walking the ramp, the filmmaker who was dressed in black with a red embellished blazer adding spunk to the look.

“When I heard Tabu was opening the show, it was kind of a given that I will be here because Tabu and I go a long way back and I do believe in what Gaurav said that she is truly one of the country’s best actors — versatile like Gaurav’s garments, adaptive like Gaurav’s garments and timeless like Gaurav’s garments,” said Karan, who was recently in Davos for the World Economic Forum.