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- Laxmikant Shetgaonkar upset with IFFI panel
- Bhansali’s playing safe with Guzaarish
- Goa in top 100 flight search destinations
- Maiden Konkani award for writer
| Laxmikant Shetgaonkar upset with IFFI panel Posted: 11 Oct 2010 09:03 AM PDT he film fraternity in Goa has lambasted Chief Minister Digambar Kamat for including industrialists, their wives and journalists at the expense of film makers in the key decision-making body which is responsible for hosting the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) here. The Federation of Film Fraternity of Goa (FFFG) has also accused a key IFFI official of corruption in the hosting of the festival. Addressing a press conference in Panaji, Laxmikant Shetgaonkar, whose "Man from Beyond the Bridge" won the critics award at the Toronto film festival, said film makers were being given "step motherly treatment" by the Entertainment Society of Goa (ESG) and the governing council which controls its affairs. "There are no film makers at all on the governing council who can guide the ESG, which organises the film festival. One does not understand the logic," Shetgaonkar said. The inclusion of Anju Timblo, who runs a five-star hotel, which is part of a business empire operated by a mining-intensive group; Ranjana Salgaonkar, wife of another mining magnate, in addition to a host of bureaucrats and close aides of the chief minister, has raised several questions about the functioning of the council. The FFFG has also accused the governing council of corruption and said that they had submitted several documents under the Right to Information (RTI) Act to the chief secretary Sanjiv Srivastava to nail down those responsible. "The short film centre (SFC) which is one of the components of the ESG is a scam. While the chief executive officer of the ESG, Manoj Srivastava, publicly claims that he has spent only Rs.18 lakh on the centre, RTI documents reveal that the money sanctioned for this component was Rs.75 lakh plus. Where has the rest of the money gone," asked Arnold D'Costa who is the convenor of the FFFG. Shetgaonkar said the FFFG has demanded deletion of the SFC and the Film T-20 (an IFFI sideshow, a contest in which the top 20 films from Indian cinema are ranked) segment from the memorandum of understanding (MoU) which will be signed with the Directorate of Film Festivals (DFF), a division of the union ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The IFFI gets underway in November this year. Courtesy:B |
| Bhansali’s playing safe with Guzaarish Posted: 11 Oct 2010 07:33 AM PDT The film, which has been set in the Portuguese pockets of Goa, had a lot of English dialogue, which have now been dubbed in Hindi. The film, which had many crucial scenes in English, will now be seen with 95 percent Hindi dialogue to avoid any risk of losing patronage. Our source said, “The film is based in Goa, in a part where the inhabitants are Portuguese, so it was bound to be in English. However now that the film is shot and done with, the producers of the film, UTV as well as Bhansali, felt that the film needed more Hindi dialogue to appeal to wider audiences. The initial thought was that the film will only appeal to the gentry, but they realised that it does strike an emotional chord with one and all. They do not want to limit the prospects of the film by having more English as Hrithik’s last film Kites bore the brunt of having too much of a foreign tongue. However, in this case, there is Sanjay Leela Bhansali and the combination of Hrithik and Aishwarya Rai, so why not go all out and target all sections? Keeping all these aspects in mind, most of the English portions were changed to Hindi. Now the film is 95 per cent in Hindi. The film is based on the concept of euthanasia (mercy killing) and these were shot in English. However, now the producers feel that these scenes need to be made in Hindi. At the end of the day, it is the emotions in the film which count.” The source added, “Bhansali is confident about the film and in the past too his film Black, which had a lot of English dialogue, was a blockbuster. So, he wanted to go by his coNviction even with Guzaarish. But since everyone said that some vital scenes have to be in Hindi, he agreed to this.” Conversely, when contacted, CEO of UTV Motion Pictures, Siddharth Roy Kapoor, denied the story. He said, “That’s not true. It’s a Hindi film made for audiences in India and for South Asians overseas. There is no separate dub at all.” The official spokesperson of Sanjay Leela Bhansali also said, “The film was always in Hindi and shot in sync sound, so there is no question of making any changes.” Theek hai, point noted. Courtesy:TOI |
| Goa in top 100 flight search destinations Posted: 11 Oct 2010 04:12 AM PDT Even though it is off season, Goa broke into the Top 100 online flight search destinations for September 2010, in Skyscanner Travel Trends.
Courtesy:Heraldo |
| Maiden Konkani award for writer Posted: 10 Oct 2010 10:10 AM PDT Konkani Language and Cultural Foundation, in its endeavour to give Konkani literature its due place under the sun, on Sunday announced the setting up of the Vimala V Pai Vishwa Konkani Sahitya Puraskar. This award, that carries a cash component of Rs 1 lakh will be presented to Goa-based writer, Mahabaleshwar Sail, hailing from Majoli near Karwar in Uttara Kannada sometime next month, either in Goa or this coastal city. Basti Vaman Shenoy, president of the foundation, welcoming the gathering at the foundation stone laying ceremony of Smt T Vimala and T V Rama Pai Hostel Block at World Konkani Centre Campus at Shaktinagar here, said the foundation presently is busy with various procedures relating to presenting this maiden award to Sail. “We want to give this award the same seriousness that is attached to the Jnanapith award,” Vaman said. The foundation is seriously toying with the idea of holding this maiden award function in Goa, which is home to many Konkani writers, he said, adding that there are slight fears that the possible dates may clash with the upcoming International Film Festival of India to be held at Goa from November 22 to December 2. In such a scenario, the function may be shifted to Mangalore to which the Goa chief minister would be invited, he noted. Plans are afoot to translate the work of Sail in to other languages, bring out a booklet on his life and accomplishments, he said, adding that the prize money would be the highest ever given in any Konkani literary award. T V Mohandas Pai, director and head, Finacle, administration, human resources, Infosys Leadership Institute and Education and Research, has donated the prize mone Courtesy: TOI |
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