11/25/2007 11:36:00 AM
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Chandigarh, November 24 The annual function of DAV Model School, Sector 15, scheduled for on Monday, i.e., November 26, is all set to be an event extraordinaire with much pomp and glitz expected for the show.
Famous Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut, who is also an alumnus of the school, is going to be the chief guest at the show.
Announcing the highlights of the show during a press conference today, Dr Rakesh Sachdeva, Principal of DAV Model School and Professor S C Gupta, Chairman, Kalpana Chawla Memorial Education Society and the sole sponsor of the mega event, informed that bollywood sensation and alumnus of DAV school Kangana Ranaut will be participating in the event to make it memorable.
Dr Sachdeva said that the event is going to be both unique and novel as for the first time a school will set up such a large stage and professionally managed paraphernalia.
Prof S C Gupta said that Kalpana Chawla Memorial Education Society is sponsoring the show in totality with a firm conviction that the path-breaking event would mark the beginning of an era of shows that will showcase talent and expose students to superior performing skills to be exhibited by trained professionals.
While Kangana will interact with students on and off the stage, the event will be marked by Saraswati Vandana, to be followed by songs and dances in Bhojpuri, Marathi and Punjabi Dances, and the annual prize distribution ceremony.
11/25/2007 11:35:00 AM
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| File pic of Parveen Babi in Yeh Nazdeekiyan (1982) |
The bikini has never had it easy in these parts. When the Miss World contest was held in Bangalore in 1996, the city erupted in protests. Women's groups objected to the commodification of women's bodies, fundamentalist groups raged that it was against Indian culture while Left groups accused the Karnataka government of selling out. To avoid further conflict, the organisers shifted what they suspected to be the root of the problem to the Seychelles - the bikini round.
A Miss World contest today is unlikely to be mobbed by picketing crowds, but the anxieties around the bikini continue. The organisers of a Miss India Bikini 2007 contest were recently surprised when three Bollywood celebrities one after the other turned down their lucrative offer to walk the runway in a bikini at the contest. Next, a young actress announced that she would never wear a bikini like her mother, also an actor, who had made "the biggest mistake" by wearing one in a film forty years ago. Now this young lady hardly qualifies as a prude having recently done some remarkably explicit scenes in a regional film. So should we be surprised to hear such regressive comments? Not really.
When in Bollywood, do as Bollywood does. Such clichés are the staple of Bollywood. The bikini in some form or the other has become an acceptable part of Bollywood's grammar, but the bikini-wearer herself is still a pariah. Women in the glamour industry won't bat an eyelid while shooting in bikinis for international assignments, but will valiantly resist in India—or at least state their reservations loudly in public - acutely aware that such an act will amount to transgressing some unspoken cultural boundaries.
In the eyes of the public, the bikini-wearer is often seen as having crossed the final frontier of Indian values and traditions, and becoming one of "those women" - sexually aggressive, "characterless", out of control and endowed with all the qualities of Western female sexuality that the bikini symbolises.
As many young women in the glamour industry have found out the hard way, those who accept a bikini assignment are often singled out for all such work in the future - condom ads, swimsuit calendars, item numbers - and spend much of their time fire-fighting the consequences of the act or warding off dodgy offers. Given this ground reality, it is no wonder that women in the industry have to repeatedly state their essential goodness and Indianness by periodically denouncing the bikini.
This does not, of course, mean that Indian actresses or models don't shoot in such garments. Indeed where would Bollywood and the world of beauty pageants be without them? Either the garment itself must be a disguised version of the bikini - a bikini blouse with a sari or a modern choli, something that can be justified back home as "in India only". Or it must be couched in some language other than that of freedom and choice.
Even if they spent months pursuing the Yashraj item number or bikini shoot, they must underplay their eagerness or willingness and dramatise the trauma and difficulties they had in doing it, or tom-tom the aesthetics of the maker. "It was an exam, I had to do it. No choice," beauty pageant contestants will shrug. "I only did it because I knew they would make it classy not vulgar," the item girl will say. "The role demanded it. It had to be done," the actress will insist. "I was fooled into it by the photographer," a young turk might genuinely rue. (All this before they visit Tirupati, wear a multitude of gems to ward off planetary obstructions, walk to Sidhhivinayak barefoot, marry a tree if they are manglik, observe karvachauth or do whatever it takes to demonstrate their love for tradition and culture.)
The problem with such denouncements is that they only add to the arsenal of the moral police who believes that women's "character" has everything to do with what they wear. The message is that "only bad women wear bikinis". The implication is that women who wear such clothes get sexually harassed, and have no one to blame but themselves. They 'asked for it'.
A bikini has nothing to do with being good or bad and statistics on crimes against women show that what women wear has no bearing on sexual harassment faced by them. Yet the fear of being associated with bikinis only compounds these dangerous misconceptions, adding a greater burden to women to take responsibility for their own safety.
Ultimately though, it is impossible to not sympathise with the realities women in the industry live with and the stigma they constantly struggle to keep at bay. Who knows what Sharmila Tagore or Dimple Kapadia went through in their personal lives after wearing their famed two-pieces?
How many blank calls they got, stalkers they had to encounter, sleazy grins from co-actors they had to endure or sullen silences from lovers, accusing looks from elders and no-eye-contact from male relatives? Wearing a bikini is part of the performance alright. But at the end of the day, after pack up, they go back to real lives with real relationships built on the damning sexual moralities of Indian society in which women are always up for trial.
11/25/2007 11:34:00 AM
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Bollywood most sensational star
Salman Khan can't far away from the rumors for sometime. Star is always in air whether his brainsick actions and movies or his romances with various actress including Somi Ali, Aishwarya Rai,
Katrina Kaif and recent romance with his Partner Lara Dutta. After break up with Aishwarya Rai he was going along Boom Girl Katrina Kaif and concentrated on his upcoming movies. Both of them praised each other very warmly as well Katrina entered in Khan Brothers' production camp.
But it seems that was not too longer and with the releasing of Govinda,
Katrina Kaif,
Salman Khan and Lara Dutta starrer comedy movie
Partner Salman Khan gets the friendly hand of sizzling Lara Dutta. In the film industry it is in light that both are like each other company and Salman Khan has recommended Lara Dutta to Producers to take in their films. As we know Lara Dutta and her ten years old relationship with Kelly Dorji had broken up in the past. So she also needs a nice friend like Salman who gives her few films in his friendly package.
11/25/2007 11:33:00 AM
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Beautiful
Ayesha Takia is one of them actresses who have a number of flop films in her account but praises by her works and for the good looking face. She works in both streams in bollywood as well as Telgu film industry.
Ayesha Takia's last movie was
John Abraham starrer
No Smoking directed by Anurag Kashyap in which she did double role the film was also get down at the box office.
Ayesha Takia next coming
movie De Taali which is based upon a story about three friends will come in 8th February, 2008. Even
De Taali working title is JAlSA but its theme mainly about friendship directed by E. Niwas. De Taali is produced by Ravi Walia and starring by
Ayesha Takia with her co stars like Aftab Shivdasani, Ritesh Deshmukh, Rimi Sen, and Saurabh Shukla.
De Taali has been visualized in the locations of Auckland (New Zealand), Bangkok (Thailand) and Mumbai (India). Forthcoming movie has the melodious songs composed by Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani.
11/25/2007 11:32:00 AM
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Madhuri Dixit is the one on whom Yashraj Films has pitched in its all, in Aaja Nachle.
The last time Madhuri Dixit came to India for a shooting schedule of Aaja Nachle, a few fans collected at the hotel she was staying in and clamoured to speak to her. The hotel personnel tried to do their duty by dissuading them.
Unknown to everyone concerned, Madhuri's four-year-old son Arin sat watching the entire scene from their room's window. After a few minutes, he leaned out and yelled, "Hey, she's right in here, ", gesticulating wildly towards their room. Madhuri dissolves into laughter as she relates the incident. Yet she's the one on whom Yashraj Films has pitched in its all, in Aaja Nachle.
No one else in this film seems to matter. It's Madhuri Dixit all the way, pirouetting out of all the hoardings, all the way from the suburbs to town, whether on reality show, hoardings or others. Is she going to be part of the hoopla? "Yes, I'm attending all reality shows too. There's so much noise in the entertainment industry, that you have to shout above the din. They do it in Hollywood too."
Does it scare her, a 40-year-old heroine with two children, to be wholly and solely responsible for selling a film, perhaps the only such case in Bollywood today? "It's flattering," she says. Then adds quickly, "No, no. That's a very superficial thing to say, and it's not what I mean. Perhaps the mystique of my coming back after so many years, is the reason behind all this. People are curious and I'm selling that."
11/25/2007 11:31:00 AM
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Shilpa Shetty, the winner of Big Brother in UK, was in London's West End to promote her latest show "Miss Bollywood".
The "Miss Bollywood" is a musical extravaganza that combines spectacular choreography and staging and tells the story of 'Maya', a young classically trained choreographer who finds herself thrust into the limelight where she must sink or swim. Her tribulations include the unwanted attentions of a famous but predatory choreographer and a jealous diva. Shilpa Shetty leads a cast of 40 dancers and performs some of the Indian film industry's most popular songs in the show.
Shilpa Shetty said "I am quite excited to perform on December 12, because we are going to be doing our last show at the Royal Albert Hal - It's such a huge honour and privilege. So, when you come in and talk about "Miss Bollywood" and you see the reception you get here, it's just amazing because I think this is truly one of the first for the Bollywood fraternity to get this kind of reception from the mainstream."
She added "It all about believes in yourself, believing in your talent and not giving up easily in life."
This fun-filled musical is a celebration of Bollywood's kitsch and splendour as well as it's unique brand of humour in a colourful, contemporary and yet cultured representation of Bollywood.
The show is produced by international impresario and promoter Farhath Hussain, Ajmal & Raj Kundra.
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