'Salt N Pepper' fame Aashiq Abu who had been in the pre-production work of his 'Idukki Gold' has suddenly shifted his plans and announced his new movie in the title '22 Female Kottayam'(22FK). Another small film featuring Rima Kallingal and Fahad Fazil in the lead cast, the new movie will be scripted by Abhilash Kumar with the support of Shyam Pushkaran. The movie which carries an interesting tag line 'No...
05:25 PM, May 25, 2012
Jaipur: Aamir Khan's highly acclaimed 'Satyameva Jayate' has inspired a sarpanch in a Rajasthan village to register police cases against women and families who go for tests to detect and abort the girl child. "Illegal sex determination is rampant in the Shekhawati region (Jhunjhunu, Churu and Sikar districts)," sarpanch Randheer Singh of Budania village told IANS. The village, some 200 km from here, is home to some 5,000 people. Randheer...
02:09 PM, May 24, 2012
Sao Paulo: A Brazilian airline says one of its female pilots tossed a passenger off a flight because he was making sexist comments about women flying planes. Trip Airlines said in a statement on Tuesday that the pilot rejected the man before takeoff as he made loud, sexist comments upon learning the pilot was a woman. The jet continued on to the state of Goias after a one-hour delay. The...
02:53 PM, May 23, 2012
Remember last Diwali, the festival season in the last week of October with three big releases Ra. One, Velayudham and Ezham Arivu? The Malayalam industry looked almost a loser as these three films ruled the screens of Kerala for nearly one month and there were hardly any good cinemas left to screen the homemade ones. The bad season during Christmas and New Year made things worse. But things have changed...
08:53 PM, May 20, 2012
When we first heard the song 'Chillane', we suspected something in its lyrics that posed a contempt on the tenderness of female psyche. But after watching the movie, which intelligently narrates the transformation of a gullible, 22 year girl into bold, tough women, in between the repetition of the same song in the title cards and final credit rolls, we are in all admiration for you, Aashiq Abu. You definitely...
10:15 AM, May 19, 2012
New Delhi: They are in themselves formidable power centres in India. And they are all women. Mayawati, J Jayalalithaa, Mamata Banerjee and Sheila Dikshit form the awesome female quartet who have not only defied the glass ceiling of India's politics marked by patriarchy and sycophancy, but have also proved to be larger-than-life figures within their parties. Despite their aura and popularity, all's not well in the powerful female quartet's camps....
04:19 PM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Aamir Khan-hosted Satyamev Jayate has made a definite impact on Sunday morning programming, according to the latest TAM data released by Star Plus. The first episode of the show on female foeticide opened with an aggregate rating of 4.09 across the country. It was reportedly viewed by 27 million viewers. This figure holds true for the entire country including cable and satellite (C&S) households and terrestrial homes...
12:00 PM, May 17, 2012
New Delhi: After the opening episode of the Aamir Khan-hosted Satyamev Jayate that focussed on female foeticide cases in the country became a talking point with the Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot himself meeting with the star to apprise the latter of the state's endeavour to put an end to this practice, Rajasthan's minister of state for health Rajkumar Sharma hit back recently, saying that Aamir was doing this just...
09:34 AM, May 17, 2012
The 18th of May was scheduled to witness at least five releases in Mollywood. Hero, Thiruvambady Thampaan, Namukku Parkaan, Ezham Sooryan and Vaadhyar were all trying to be on theatres to make the best of the summer holidays. But the latest report says that all these films are now shifted to coming weekends due to unavailability of release centers. An interesting position that was never witnessed in Mollywood, the problem...
03:18 PM, May 16, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Fahad Fazil, the latest heartthrob in the Malayalam film industry, has played down his disastrous debut despite being launched by his illustrious father Fazil in 2001, saying the failure was his and not that of his father. "Please don't blame my father for my failure because it was my mistake that I came into acting without any preparation," said Fahad who returned with a bang in his second outing....
03:59 PM, May 15, 2012
Jaipur: A Rajasthan minister has hit out at Bollywood star Aamir Khan for sensationalising female foeticide cases in the state, saying the government was already working on the issue before the actor's campaign. Minister of State for Health, Rajkumar Sharma said that it was not right on the part of Aamir to highlight Rajasthan as the only state where the cases of female foeticide are rampant. "There was an impression...
10:53 AM, May 15, 2012
(The fact that we need an education from a Bollywood actor being paid an astronomical sum to understand our social woes is as much a ...
10:51 AM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: The second episode of Aamir Khan's much talked about television show Satyamev Jayate deals with the issue of child abuse. Given the huge positive feedback generated by the pilot episode that tackled the contentious subject of female foeticide both in rural and urban India, the second episode is even more explosive in form and content. According to the sources, Aamir has been working with a string of NGOs...
11:54 AM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: It's not easy to get the kind of response Aamir Khan's show 'Satyamev Jayate' is receiving. The TV show has generated a lot of enthusiasm towards the issue of female foeticide. The first episode of 'Satyamev Jayate' had featured some alarming stats about the mindset of the society towards different sexes. However, some of the states have shown the will to change the mindset as an after-effect of...
01:14 PM, May 12, 2012
New Delhi: The second episode of Aamir Khan's much talked about television show Satyamev Jayate deals with the issue of child abuse, according to sources. Given the huge positive feedback generated by the pilot episode that tackled the contentious subject of female foeticide both in rural and urban India, the second episode is likely to be even more explosive in form and content. According to the sources, Aamir has been...
03:23 PM, May 11, 2012
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