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President, Shri Pranab Mukherjee on Friday conferred the film awards for the year 2012 in various categories at the 60th National Film Awards Function held at the Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi. In his address, the President, Shri Pranab Mukherjee said, Cinema must be used to portray positive societal values for building a tolerant and harmonious India . The film industry ought to take steps to ensure that cinema was morally energizing.

Sudhir Dedication towards cricket is Amazing   Documentry Film on : Sudhir Kumar Choudhary A Real fan of cricket from Damodarpur, (District Muzaffarpur) is getting real appreciation by his hometown, family and the world. Because of his spirit  company is creating a Documentry film on him named " Beyond all Boundaries "

Aamir Khan's "Peepli Live", a satire on media's trivialisation of farmers' suicide, has been selected as India's official entry at the next year's Oscars in the Best Foreign Film category. "Peepli Live has been selected as India's official entry for the Oscars out of 27 films," Supran Sen, secretary general of the Film Federation of India said.  Written and directed by debutant Anusha Rizvi, the small budget film stars theatre actors and was shot in a small village in Madhya Pradesh. Producer Aamir said he will ensure that the film is seen by the Academy members and will ensure that it gets a good publicity during the awards next year. "This is good news. I feel honoured and happy to be selected to represent my country. The film stands a very good chance.

'Khatta Meetha’ is noise, more noise and only noise.  When Priyadarshan and Akshay Kumar join hands, you expect the cineplex to reverberate with laughter. Let's not forget, the team has regaled us with some terrific entertainers in the past. Naturally then, you expect 'Khatta Meetha' to take the legacy forward. Unfortunately, 'Khatta Meetha' is noise the actors scream a lot in this movie], more noise [the great promotion] and only noise, while the content takes a complete backseat. Although 'Khatta Meetha' shouldn't be compared to this combo's earlier works, since this one's a satire, I have to add that this is their weakest film to date. The first question I asked myself once the movie got over was, what's the story? Okay, okay, neither did Priyadarshan's last few films had a story to tell, but when you attempt a satire, when one talks of the hardships faced by the common man, when one talks of corruption in society, t...

Shahrukh Khan is amazed that his fans are confusing the title of his upcoming project Ra. One with Mani Ratnam's Raavan. Call it Ra. One or Raavan, it sounds the same. However the Baadshah of Bollywood has decided to clear the air once and for all. "Abhishek's Raavan is different from our Ra. One. Our film will release later this year. It's very different from Mani sir's Raavan," he clarifies. Raavan is ace director Mani Ratnam's upcoming big budget bilingual tentatively titled Raavana in Tamil.  The film, said to be the modern adaptation of the epic Ramayana, revolves around Raavan, the ruler of Lanka, who kidnapped Sita. The story culminates with Sita supporting Raavan instead of Rama, who suspects her chastity after having spent so much time in Raavana's custody. Vikram plays the villain. Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai are the lead pair in Hindi, while Vikram will play the lead opposite Aishwarya in Tamil. Music is by Oscar winner A.R....

Mumbai, Making of '3 idiots', which is the most successful film of Hindi cinema, now comes out as a book 'The Original Screenplay' comprising the screenplay and every behind-the-scene happenings. 'The book is the screenplay of the film '3 idiots'. The screenplay is not only be read to understand the film but reading a screenplay itself is an enjoyment,' Vidhu Vinod Chopra, the producer of the film, told IANS after the launch of the book at Landmark, Phoenix Mill here.  'The book also contains every details of how the films was made. Its not only to know the Screenplay but a lot that happened around making of the film,' he added. Inspired from Chetan Bhagat's bestseller 'Five Point Someone', the film revolves around three friends Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan and Sharman Joshi and their college days.  Directed by Rajkumar Hirani, the film also stars Kareena Kapoor and Boman Irani. The book has been compiled by Smriti Kiran, who had...