Director Senthil Kumar talks about his movie which became the highest grosser in Telugu cinema.
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A three-member team of I&B ministry officials is expected to visit the crisis-hit FTII soon to find a solution to the 70-day-old strike by the students
Gajendra Chauhan is just one the many troubles that ail the national film institute. But all may not be lost yet.
The Malayalam actor has signed on to star in Abhay Simha's Kannada film Shikari. Talks are on to rope in Konkana Sen Sharma as the female lead.
At a time when many women were forbidden by their caste-conscious families from taking up acting assignments in an industry not deemed respectable, Phalke wanted to cast his wife as the female lead in Raja Harishchandra.
A local court on Wednesday granted bail to all the five students of Film and Television Institute of India, arrested for "gherao" and alleged illegal confinement of director Prashant Pathrabe on Monday evening.
Reema Kaur is one of the students on strike for nearly three months at the FTII. The Delhi resident feels the campus that had been a cocoon for her in the last three years has turned into a revolution ground demanding change -- and she is happy to be a part of it.
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Pune's Wisdom Tree Festival is a tribute to the contribution made by the Film and Television Institute of India to the Indian film industry.
'What a tragic loss for cinema, for India.'
The agitating students will meet officials from the information and broadcasting ministry on October 1.
This is Gajendra Chauhan's resume: ...an actor who is best known for his portrayal of the eldest Pandava 'Yudhishthira' in the Mahabharat (TV series). He has worked in around 150 movies and over 600 TV serials
Expressing "shock" over police crackdown in Pune's Film and Television Institute of India, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday offered to provide space to agitating students for their classes in the capital.
The stock of Dixon Technologies (India), the country's largest listed electronic manufacturing services (EMS) player, was up 6 per cent in 10 trading sessions, boosting the gains over the last three months to 21 per cent. The gains came following reports that Dixon will produce laptops in India in partnership with US and Chinese firms under the production-linked investment (PLI) scheme. It recently signed an agreement to make smartphones for Xiaomi India.
'What should surprise BJP supporters is Modi's call for 'stability' at the manifesto launch, a theme that he and his team members had not touched ahead of the Lok Sabha polls in 2014 and 2019.' 'The last time the party called for 'stability at the Centre' was in 1998 and 1999,' recalls N Sathiya Moorthy.
The FTII students, faculty and alumni have reacted sharply against the measure arguing that it conveyed a wrong impression of the situation at the Film and Television Institute of India and projected the students as "criminals or terrorists".
Kanhaiya, accompanied by a delegation of JNU students and members of All India Students Federation, met the Congress vice president at his residence in Tughlaq lane area.
The incident took place after some slogans were raised after the match on Sunday night.
'I always say you really cannot own a recipe.' 'In India, where, we have been cooking for thousands of years, how can you put a finger and say, 'This is mine'?'
The future of the Make in India campaign looks bleak with a generation of ill-educated jobseekers -- and especially dark if they are cannon fodder for caste riots or put behind bars for breaking India, says Sunil Sethi.
Dixon Technologies right now is a beehive of activity. It is building a new facility in Noida to make 1.3 million laptops for Taiwanese PC maker Acer. The facility must be up and running in four months. The pace of activity will only increase. Last week Dixon won a similar contract from Lenovo, the Chinese personal computer maker and the third largest information technology (IT) hardware brand in India, to assemble laptops and notebooks. Though the clientele in these two cases is Taiwanese and Chinese, Dixon is a company reaching for the stars with its feet planted firmly in the Indian government's policy.
FTII students stuck to their demand for revoking the appointment of Chauhan as chairman of its governing council
As the strike by the Film and Television Institute of India students entered the fifth day, the Information and Broadcasting ministry on Tuesday offered to discuss "all relevant issues" after they stuck to their demand for revoking the appointment of actor and Bharatiya Janata Party member Gajendra Chauhan as chairman of its governing council.
Asked about action taken against those spreading fake news, and publishers of anti-national material, he said more than 60 accounts have been blocked including those on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
'Saurabh Shukla and Annu Kapoor are the biggest pillars of Jolly LLB 2. I used to joke that Subhash (Kapoor, director) has got six actors from the National School of Drama and four actors from the Film and Television Institute of India and I am the only one from Khalsa College.' Akshay Kumar holds on to his humour, as he celebrates the success of his new film.
Prashant Pathrabe, a 1992 batch officer of IIS, has been given temporary charge as director of the FTII.
Modi's BJP has promised more revdis or freebies for these assembly elections than ever before, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
Rahul will meet the President seeking his intervention for resolving the issue related to the FTII, Congress sources said.
An entire nation waited, praying and hoping fervently, as the countdown to touch down on the moon wound to a slow close on Wednesday with many thousands gathering in schools, places of worship and elsewhere and scientists doing last minute checks to ensure Chandrayaan-3 makes a soft landing on the lunar south pole.
The Information and Broadcasting ministry has not yet responded on the demand of the Film and Television Institute of India students to remove television actor and Bharatiya Janata Party member Gajendra Chauhan from the post of chairman of its governing council even as their strike entered the fourth day on Monday.
Asked about the students' agitation in FTII, he said he will talk about it only after taking charge but added that it was a "difficult situation" and he hoped to do his best.
He also said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to take part in an event related to the pran pratishtha on any day during January 20-24.
The Army chief said the nation is passing through a challenging period.
The notice said defiance of the directive would result in a strong administrative action which may include rustication as well.
