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| habshi@anony.net: Aug 17 07:11PM excerpt Bachchan, the 72-year-old star of close to 200 Bollywood films, was the joint-top Indian actor on the list at No 7. He and Salman Khan, the controversial 49-year-old Mumbai-based megastar who has retained his popularity despite a recent homicide conviction relating to the drunken killing of a homeless man, both earned $33.5m. Kumar, the 47-year-old actor and martial artist who has appeared in hundreds of Hindi-language films, made ninth place with earnings of $32.5m, just ahead of Transformers star Mark Wahlberg ($32m). http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/aug/04/robert-downey-jr-best-paid-actor-forbes-jackie-chan-amitabh-bachchan |
| habshi@anony.net: Aug 17 06:22PM excerpt http://www.dawn.com/news/1200439/indias-first-talkie-alam-ara-and-jinnahs-role-in-it India's first talkie 'Alam Ara' and Jinnah's role in it It was somewhere around 1930 when the idea of Alam Ara took root. Having seen Universal Pictures' Show Boat (1929) (a "40 per cent talkie" in his words), at the Excelsior Theatre in Bombay, Imperial Movietone boss, Ardershir Irani began harbouring thoughts of making India's first talking and singing picture. As there was no precedent in India of making a talkie, the odds Irani faced were huge. There were no soundproof stages nor technical know-how to make a film that had sound. Nevertheless, Irani decided to take the challenge head on. He decided to make a screen version of a popular stage play written by the doyen of Bombay dramatists, Joseph David, who agreed to adapt the play for the silver screen. The resulting film was Alam Ara. Alam Ara is a fantasy set piece around typical royal intrigue with a lost-and-found subplot thrown in. The story revolves around the King of Kumarpur and his two wives, Dilbahar and Navbahar, both childless. A fakir predicts that Navbahar will give birth to a son, which gets Dilbahar all worked up. She has designs on army chief Adil, but he spurns her. So Dilbahar has him imprisoned and his pregnant wife banished. Adil's wife dies giving birth to a girl, Alam Ara, who is brought up by nomads. When Alam Ara finds out she is Adil's daughter, she secretly leaves the nomads' camp and makes her way to the palace to attempt to free her father out from prison. There she sees the handsome young prince and the two fall in love. Irani kept his project a secret. He picked up the basics of sound recording from an American expert, Wilford Deming, who had come in to assemble the Tanar recording equipment for Imperial at the astronomical sum of Rs100 a day. Filming was done mostly between 1am and 4am in the night as the studio was close to the railway tracks, and the noise of the trains was unavoidable during the day. Search for the cast Since Alam Ara was a talkie, the casting was of utmost importance. As it was imperative for actors to know the language, Zubeida got the nod to play the title role instead of of the studio's top star, Sulochana. As it turns out, Sulochana was actually an Iraqi Jew whose real name was Ruby Myers. She was not proficient in Urdu or Hindustani and thus lost out on the opportunity to be the first talkie heroine of Indian cinema. For the hero, Irani had all but fixed on Mehboob Khan, the future director of classics like Aurat (1940), Anmol Ghadi (1946), Aan (1952) and Mother India (1957), but then decided to go for a more commercially viable name. As Alam Ara was a tale that also involved stunts and fight sequences, Irani thought of casting the biggest stunt star of silent cinema, Master Vithal, who was called the Douglas Fairbanks of India. Master Vithal had graduated to becoming India's top swashbuckling star after entering the film industry by playing a dancing girl in Kalyan Khajina (1924). He had since joined Sharada Studio and graduated to becoming a dashing action hero. In his eagerness to play the lead role in India's first talkie, he broke his contract with Sharada and signed on with Irani. Sharada, however, refused to take this lying down and filed a case against Vithal for breach of contract. Legal saviour, founder of a nation Coming to Vithal's legal aid was Bombay's leading legal expert at the time: Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Jinnah made a very effective defence of Vithal's right to star in Alam Ara and ensured that Irani got the hero he wanted for his landmark film. |
| habshi@anony.net: Aug 17 06:16PM This actually is a very good movie once you get past the first hour and its highly irritating background piano music. It doesnt make anyone sad unlike Indian instruments , and should be banned in Bollywood movies. Some stereotypes of Xtians , drink a lot , get tatooed as children with crosses and crucifixes , get into bare knuckle fights and speak in English when they get angry, Jacqueline Fernandes is amazingly beautiful and hope to see much more of her. It really gets going when Kareena does the item dance , and the next song when the brothers start training is outstanding , and should have been subtitlied, see links below. The fights are also beautifully choreographed and this movie is a must see, will go well over 100 crores worldwide |
| Geetha Kishore <geethakishore123@gmail.com>: Aug 17 03:35AM -0700 Vh1 Supersonic Arcade is an extension of Vh1 Supersonic. Arcades have been devised for those music lovers, who can`t personally make it to Goa for the Supersonic festival. These large-scale events will travel from city to city, to give the Indian audience a taste of awesome music by top-notch DJ`s. This year, Vh1 Supersonic promise to give their fans a minimum of 3 Arcade tours with the top rank DJ`s from around the world. visit: http://www.meraevents.com/event/vh1supersonic-arcade-skrillex-bangalore&ucode=DMNR |
| Geetha Kishore <geethakishore123@gmail.com>: Aug 17 03:35AM -0700 Vh1 Supersonic Arcade is an extension of Vh1 Supersonic. Arcades have been devised for those music lovers, who can`t personally make it to Goa for the Supersonic festival. These large-scale events will travel from city to city, to give the Indian audience a taste of awesome music by top-notch DJ`s. This year, Vh1 Supersonic promise to give their fans a minimum of 3 Arcade tours with the top rank DJ`s from around the world. visit: http://www.meraevents.com/event/vh1supersonic-arcade-skrillex-bangalore&ucode=DMNR |
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