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Aamir’s “Peepli Live”, a satire on farmer suicides in India (Film Review)(0)
The story centres on two poor farming brothers, Natha (Omkar Das Manikpuri) and Budhia (Raghubir Yadav), in the small village of Peepli, who are about to lose their land due to outstanding government debt. A village politician suggests they commit suicide, so the family (the mother, Natha’s wife and his two kids) can pay the debt with the 100,000 rupees compensation…
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The Emperor’s Islamophobia
Shah Rukh Khan, one of the best known actors from Bollywood was detained for questioning in Newark airport in US (15th August). The actor who is a global icon of sorts was grilled by the US official as his name is a Muslim one, and the legendary actor felt humiliated with the treatment meted out to him.
Bharat Ratna for Dilip Kumar: Bollywood rallies support
The Indian film fraternity is trying to seek 100,000 solidarity comments on a social networking website to urge the government to confer the prestigious Bharat Ratna upon Bollywood thespian Dilip Kumar.
Sound of India: Resul Pookutty
Noted sound engineer Resul Pookutty, 37 is from Vilakkupaara village near Anchal, Kollam in Kerala. He won an Oscar for his work of sound mixing in the movie Slumdog Millionaire. He is a graduate of Film and Television Institute of India, Pune and has been in the music industry for 13 years now with more than ten blockbusters to his credit.
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