Washington: Freida Pinto, who became an overnight celebrity after the multiple-Oscar winning 'Slumdog Millionaire', views her new film 'Trishna' as a 'very beautiful and yet tragic' tale of a village girl torn between her traditional upbringing and the dreams of a girl from modern India. Based on Thomas Hardy's classic 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles', British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom's newest film is set in rural Rajasthan. It has Pinto playing the...
01:23 PM, Jul 15, 2012
New York: Indian actor Freida Pinto took New York City by storm with a glamorous red carpet premiere of her new film 'Trishna' which released Friday at the IFC Centre and Lincoln Plaza in New York and The Landmark in Los Angeles. Other guests attending the July 10 premiere at the IFC Centre in downtown Manhattan included actress Meg Ryan, music mogul Russell Simmons, actor Billy Connolly, and fashion designers...
11:17 AM, Jul 14, 2012
New Delhi: Director Michael Winterbottoms Trishna is getting a limited release in America this week. The film has been appreciated at several film festivals and in Britain prior to this release. Based on Thomas Hardy's classic novel 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles', the film is about two lovers and how their different upbringing causes a rift between them. Freida Pinto is playing the lead role of Trishna who hails from a...
07:26 PM, Jul 12, 2012
New Delhi: Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has a penchant for acting. He will soon be seen in British director Michael Winterbottom's film 'Trishna' that is having a limited release on July 13 in USA. He will be seen as a filmmaker in the film. Anurag's wife and actor Kalki Koechlin will also be seen in the film. Not only this, music composer Amit Trivedi is also doing an important cameo in...
04:49 PM, Jul 11, 2012
New Delhi: 'Trishna' is getting a limited release in US this week. The story describes the life of a woman whose life gets defined due to her love. Trishna (Freida Pinto) meets a wealthy young British businessman Jay Singh (Riz Ahmed) and falls in love with him, but despite their feelings for each other, they cannot escape the pressures of a rural society which is changing rapidly through industrialisation and...
10:22 AM, Jul 11, 2012
London: Slumdog Millionaire star Freida Pinto says she felt drained and exhausted after shooting the new movie Trishna in rural India. The 27-year-old actress, who plays the titular character and shot the film in Rajasthan, said the drama was a struggle to get through, reported Contactmusic. "Sometimes I feel that this film has drained everything out of me. I had nothing left. "When I shot Slumdog Millionaire, I felt like...
11:48 AM, Jul 10, 2012
Mumbai: As part of the strategy to promote 'Trishna', a festival of Mithun's films is being organised. However, the former Bengali superstar has no clue about it Freida Pinto's next international film 'Trishna' is being directed by British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom, who also made the acclaimed 'A Mighty Heart' and '9 Songs'. She plays an unabashed Mithun Chakraborty fan who in one sequence, can't help but dance when she sees...
03:02 PM, Jan 02, 2012
Panaji: Wondering why Hollywood is always obssessed with young look, India's best export to West, actress Freida Pinto says she cannot wait to grow old. The 27-year-old actress, who has starred in many international projects post her rise to fame with 'Slumdog Millionaire', says she wants her face to reflect the experience she would gain in her career. "I don't understand why everyone wants to look young. I can't wait...
03:23 PM, Nov 30, 2011
Panaji: Michael Winterbottom, director of Freida Pinto-starrer 'Trishna' , said he would have 'begged' the Indian actress to play the lead role in his adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel 'Tess of the d'Ubervilles. Recounting how easily he had selected the 'Slumdog Millionaire' star for the role of 'Trishna', Winterbottom said he met her in London for the role. "I would have begged her to do the part, but luckily she...
12:27 PM, Nov 27, 2011
Panaji: A dazzling Freida Pinto Saturday had to parrya few feisty moments from Bengal film journalists who pinned the 'Slumdog Millionaire' star for naming only one Bengali cine great. Pinto, who was meeting the media a day after a special screening of her new Michael Winterbottom directed film 'Trishna', was asked to name one stalwart from Bengal cinema who she revered the most, to which she named legendary filmmaker Mrinal...
11:22 AM, Nov 27, 2011
Panaji: Freida Pinto made her second visit to the India International Film Festival (IFFI) today with a packed screening of her film 'Trishna', a modern retelling of Thomas Hardy's famous novel 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles'. The 27-year-old actress, who walked the red carpet wearing a cream and pink churidar-kurta along with the starcast of the film, said it was great to be back to the festival. "It's great to be...
01:20 PM, Nov 26, 2011
Panaji: Hollywood-based Indian actress Freida Pinto-starrer Trishna will be screened Friday at the 42nd International Film Festival of India here. Trishna is about a woman whose life is destroyed by a combination of love and circumstances. Freida, along with director Michael Winterbottom, co-producers Anurag Kashyap and Sunil Bohra as well as composer Amit Trivedi, will attend the screening. The story is based on Thomas Hardy's classic novel Tess of the...
07:03 PM, Nov 23, 2011
Indian actress Frieda Pinto, who shot to worldwide fame after starring in the multi-Oscar winning film Slumdog Millionaire, has been quietly shooting in Mumbai for her next film Trishna. Although the shooting has been on for one week, the information was kept under wraps. "We didn't want too much attention while shooting for the film...so it was done guerrilla style and not too many people knew about it," a source...
12:46 PM, Apr 16, 2011
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