More On Race for Oscar
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Reliance bullish over Oscar with 'Bridge of Spies'
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NEW DELHI-- With nominations across six categories, including Best Picture, Anil Ambani-led Reliance Entertainment is among the front-runners for the 88th Academy Awards for the "Bridge of Spies", which it presented with Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks Pictures and Fox 2000 Pictures.
The Tom Hanks-starrer, a dramatic thriller set against the backdrop of a series of historic events, is competing for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay...Read More |
Despite Four Regional Films Vying, India Out of Oscars Race
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By Sugandha Rawal
LOS ANGELES-- Indian regional films “Court”, "Jalam", "RangiTaranga" and "Nachom-ia Kumpasar", which were vying for a spot in different categories of the upcoming 88th Academy Awards, couldn't make it to the nominations list of this year's Oscars.
The nominees for the 88th Academy Awards were announced here on Thursday by Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs, actor John Krasinski and filmmakers Guillermo del Toro and Ang Lee.
While filmmaker Chaitanya Tamhane's debut Marathi film “Court”... Read More |
Books
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| Bookends: Uncommon reflections of a literary kind |
By Vikas Datta
They can recount all facets of the human condition and activities - be it a young woman's quest for an orgasm, a man retracing the journey of the beer that sustained the British Empire while toting a barrel of it, others following the routes, on similar beasts, taken by the Crusaders or Genghis Khan's hordes, provide histories of things as diverse as salt, smiling, colours, doubt, and Monopoly, help to analyse emotions, irrationality, companies, and so on. So why can't there be books about books and reading?
After all, there are plays about plays...Read More |
Fashion
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| Ajmeri people found my ancestral home: Pakistani designer |
NEW DELHI-- Noted Pakistani designer Yousuf Bashir Qureshi, who is in India on a personal trip, says the ancestral home that he was able to track down in Ajmer was with the help of its "generous and kind" people and not his own relatives.
Qureshi, who is in India for his friend's wedding, says he knew that he had an ancestral home in the country and thought that the trip was a good opportunity to locate it. Read More |
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