Hina Khan: I will share a picture holding my own Oscar one day

Overwhelmed with the experience of meeting Marc, Hina shared on Instagram, 'Meeting mark reassured me more than ever to the fact that being humble and inclusive is the trademark attribute of success. And for the language of Cinema Oscars is like a dictionary, it defines everything!' Thanking Marc Baschet for letting her hold his Oscar trophy and wishing to have one for herself one day, Hina Khan added, 'I grew Years in just a few moments when I met the Oscar winner producer Mark Bachet for (No Mans Land) and this experience is worth a lifetime. Thank you for giving me an opportunity to hold your Oscar (wish I could share the picture) no worries I will share a picture holding my own Oscar one day (inshallah) #DreamBig #WeCanDreamAtleast #LetsLeaveTheRestToAlmighty. Thank you, Mark, for your kind words, hope to work with you soon珞 and thank you @rahatkazmi for introducing me to him.' The Kasautii Zindagi Kay star shared a video where she captured all the awards and certificates won by Marc. Hina Khan created a lot of buzz with her red carpet appearances at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. She not only stunned all with her gorgeous appearances but also released the first look poster of her debut film Lines. Lines is helmed by Hussain Khan and is written by Kunwar Shakti Singh and Rahat Kazmi. Kazmi has also co-produced the film along with Tariq Khan and Zeba Sajid. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Indian Expresshttp://echometer.com/UserProfile/tabid/61/userId/536348/Default.aspx

Girls outsmart boys in Tripura HS

bir Debnath ranked fourth, Shubham Banik fifth and Sagar Paul of Umakanta Academy in Agartala secured the sixth position.Supratima Dutta stood seventh with 466 marks, Pallab Debnath of B.B. Institution with 464 marks came eighth, while Birat Debnath, Rismita Dhar and Krishnendu Saha jointly ranked ninth with 463 marks.Punit Debnath of Chandrapur Government Higher Secondary School in Gomati district was ranked 10th with 462 marks.Tanushree Biswas of Chandrapur Colony Higher Secondary School in Gomati district stood first scoring 451 in total and letter marks in five subjects from the humanities.Twenty-one schools secured 100 per cent pass rate.However, New Hindi Higher Secondary School and Chandrapur Higher Secondary School of West Tripura district had zero pass percentage. Science stream students grabbed the top 10 positions in this year's High Secondary examination, the results of which was declared by the Tripura Board of Secondary Education (TBSE) on Thursday.In terms of pass percentage, girls outshone boys' highest score of 79.1 per cent by achieving 81.91 per cent.Addressing a news conference here, TBSE president Bhabatosh Saha said, "The top 10 positions in the merit list were taken by the science stream students."Altogether 27,155 candidates, including 13,249 girls, appeared for the Higher Secondary exam from 400 schools."This year, the pass percentage increased to 80.51, slightly higher than last year's 78.62," Saha said.He added that 79.05 per cent, 84 per cent and 78.13 per cent of students from humanities, science and commerce streams respectively passed the exam. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttp://www.subzerotyler.com/UserProfile/tabid/61/userId/107524/Default.aspx

Standing among giants

on Howard grew up in Hollywood working with the giants of the entertainment industry, and it gave him a fine appreciation for giants. That is why, even though he's more of a sports fan than an opera aficionado, he decided to make a documentary about opera's Sultan of Swat: Luciano Pavarotti, the King of High Cs, a man of gargantuan talent and appetite, swathed in women and Hermes scarves, who died in 2007 and is perhaps inadequately immortalised on iTunes and YouTube."Seeing Michael Jordan take off at the free-throw line and slam dunk was mind-blowing," Howard said. "In the same way, it's hard to imagine that human beings can hit these notes."Larger than lifeOver lunch at Patsy's Italian restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, the 65-year-old actor-director said he was fortunate with the quality of the archival footage he and the other filmmakers got. Those included a video clip of Pavarotti's early triumph as Rodolfo in La Boheme" in Reggio Emilia, Italy, in 1961, with the audience gasping, and interviews with the singer's first wife, Adua, his three older daughters and two of his "secretaries," as the long-term loves who were part of Pavarotti's entourage were known."Opera's Golden Tenor," as Time called Pavarotti in a 1979 cover story, was a volcanic life force whose voice could give you goose bumps and make your ears ring. His range of Bs, Cs and Ds, with a romantic, gleaming timbre, was "one of those freaks of nature" that came along only once in a century, as one conductor told Time.The singer explained that his famous connection with the audience came from imagining his voice travelling along a separate thread to each member of the audience, with their applause sending back oxygen.Pavarotti never learned to read music, relying on his own primitive sign system of arrows and other indicators that he would write into his scores.He wasn't a tormented artiste. The rotund Italian tenor was joyous and generous, raising money for children in war-torn places including Bosnia and Kosovo, bringing opera to the people and travelling with his own prosciutto slicer, pots, pans and kilos of tortellini and cheese.The Met kept a buffet in the wings so he could snack between arias. His abrasive former manager, Herbert Breslin, wrote in The King and I, his dishy memoir written with Anne Midgette, that Pavarotti - whose weight swung between 240 and 350 pounds - had to have gained and lost about 5,000 pounds during their years together.Pavarotti's first wife, Adua, says in the film that her former husband could be a diva: "He got used to having everything. If he had asked for chicken's milk, they would have probably milked a chicken."Passed on Star WarsHoward himself cannot sing, even though at age seven he played the redheaded Winthrop Paroo in the movie version of The Music Man. "They put up with the fact that I could barely carry a tune," he said. "I got the lisp down, my dad taught me the lisp, but the singing was always problematic."Despite his own pitchiness, Howard steeped himself in Pavarotti's work and came up with a novel structure: to use the arias to fashion an opera about the tenor himself, with original remastered tracks at Abbey Road, the famous recording studio in London."We drew from 22 different operas, maybe 90 pieces of music," the director said. "A Vucchella, about a woman being like a little flower, for when he rediscovered love. Pagliacci, the clown, when he was struggling to perform. Tosca, when he knows he's coming to the end."The film shows the opera star's superstitious side. He kept a bent nail found in backstage scenery (or planted there by his assistants) in his pocket for luck. Breslin revealed that Pavarotti had two other superstitions: He banned the colour purple and was skittish about the number 17, preferring to spend the 17th of any month in bed."I used to have a lucky hat," Howard recalled about a plaid newsboy cap a mentor gave him. But after he lost it, he stuck with one good luck charm: "My wife"- Cheryl, a writer - "has been in everything I've ever done that's not a documentary."If there was a phrenology skull mapping the cultural touchstones for baby boomers, Howard would be all over it, with The Andy Griffith Show, The Twilight Zone, The Waltons, Dennis the Menace, Gunsmoke, Gomer Pyle, I Spy and Happy Days.He might have been an even greater part of the cultural landscape if he had been more excited when George Lucas, who directed him in the 1973 classic American Graffiti, told him about his next idea."George tried to explain it as a kind of Flash Gordon movie but with better special effects," Howard said. "And I thought it sounded like a pretty terrible idea. Sci-fi was really a B-minus genre. I liked Planet of the Apes all right but I couldn't possibly imagine what he was trying to do."By the time he realised Star Wars was a hot project, he couldn't even get an audition.How did he never rebel?"You know, my version of rebellion, as I think about it, was this," Howard said. "Early on, I could see what people's expectations for my behaviour would be and I did not want to fulfil their cliche sense of what a kid actor or a teen actor would be. And also, I'm an introvert."Kids would taunt me. Burbank is a working-class town. I got bullied and stuff in school because I was Dopey Opie. I went to public school when I wasn't doing the show. And it was pretty tough. I became very good at wrestling."Brian Grazer, who has what he calls "the longest partnership in Hollywood history" with Howard, met him in 1979 and later formed Imagine. In 1982, they produced the movie Night Shift with Henry Winkler and Michael Keaton about a proper, introverted guy who teams up with a jangly, extroverted guy. It echoes their own odd-couple relationship. Grazer soon discovered Howard's stubborn streak. He would beg Howard to talk at meetings with studio chiefs to no avail. But Howard had "a sixth sense," Grazer said, about "what was transpiring" in a deal and who was "a scumbag".Grazer said that going full-bore into documentaries makes perfect sense for Imagine given that many of their company's critical successes - Apollo 13, Frost/Nixon, 8 Mile, Friday Night Lights, A Beautiful Mind and Rush - were true stories or inspired by true stories.When Howard directed Apollo 13, he said that there was only one negative card written by an audience member after a test screening.Taking the camera to ParadiseHoward has already directed two music documentaries. The first, Made in America, about Jay-Z's festival in 2012 in Philadelphia, he agreed to do on a whim because his family was out of town. Then he made The Beatles: Eight Days a Week in 2016."I was talking to Paul," the director recalled, "and he said, 'Look, I know you have final cut. The only thing is, so much has been made about the difficulties that we had later and they still resonate with me. But it's only been in the last couple of years that, when I see a photograph of John and I, I just think, man, we were a great team. And we were great friends.'"He is also working on a documentary about the aftermath of the wildfire that consumed Paradise, California."My mother-in-law used to live in Paradise and I have a lot of relatives and in-laws in Redding, California, nearby," he said. "And suddenly there was this fire that wiped out a town. It's a survival story. Will the town make it? Will the individuals within the town choose to keep the community together? What does that kind of devastation really feel like?"Sara Bernstein, an executive vice-president in Imagine's new documentary unit, said that she and Howard went to film in Paradise soon after the fire."People were walking through the rubble of their burned-down homes, their lives destroyed, and yet they were so excited to see Ron Howard in their town," she said. "They would shout out, 'Hi, Opie!' and then pour their hearts out to him on camera. And it really hit me that for the people of Paradise, who have lost every tangible memory of their life, Ron represents a living memory to them. They were not just talking to a world-famous director, but they were opening up to an old friend. And that's the magic of Ron Howard." DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttp://wiznotes.com/UserProfile/tabid/84/userId/189556/Default.aspx

Mamata probe into poll funds

Which bank, how much, through whom, the entire operation.. Everything will come out," she added.On Tuesday and Wednesday, The Telegraph reported the sale of electoral bonds worth Rs 370 crore in Calcutta in May this year and the Calcutta Main Branch of the State Bank of India selling electoral bonds valued at Rs 1,389 crore between March 2018 and May 2019.The figure makes Calcutta second only to Mumbai, the financial capital, in drawing money through the anonymous route ever since the scheme opened last year."This election was no ordinary election. (Something like) this had never happened," Mamata said.Referring to the Lok Sabha election results in Bengal in 1984 and 2009, when the Opposition secured victories in a large number of seats, she said there had been no post-poll violence, nor was there any muscle-flexing by those who made gains."Had the verdict (this time) been spontaneous, a true people's mandate, there would not have been this tandav," Mamata said."They know the real conspiracies will be unearthed, that is why this tandav," the chief minister said.She castigated the BJP for its alleged culture of murder and violence to expand the party's base in Bengal and accused it of "lighting naked funeral pyres of terror".The chief minister urged the people against letting the BJP advance in the state."Giving money, getting people killed - it has become so easy.. Who are the planners? Who are the conspirators? Everything must be found out," Mamata said at Nimta."You (the BJP) have not even won here yet, you merely won 18 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats though jochchuri (fraud), through lukochuri (hide and seek), spending thousands of crores.," the chief minister said."They are lighting naked funeral pyres of terror.. Bengal is not the place for terror, it is the place for peace," she added. DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttp://kiredu.ru/UserProfile/tabid/182/userId/44380/Default.aspx

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Rangoli Chandel reacts to rumours of Kangana Ranaut's Mental Hai Kya takeover: 'Nepo gang wants to harm her career

' Everytime nepo gang wants to harm Kangana&dhapos;s career they make such articles viral, truth is every director isn&dhapos;t looking to baby sit a thumb twiddling dumb star kid, some rather have a partner who is watching their back...(contd) https://t.co/8ZuDKZRgpu — Rangoli Chandel (@Rangoli_A) June 6, 2019 Bharat box office day 2: Salman, Katrina films earns estimated Rs 71 crore Rangoli even claimed that Kangana 'gave a break' to directors Anand L Rai and Vikas Bahl. 'Kangana has to push her directorial to accommodate brilliant new age makers who are hoping to break through in Bollywood, she is one of those rare actress who has given break to directors like Aanand L Rai, Vikas Bahl,' she wrote. It was with Bahl's Queen that Kangana rose to fame and bagged her first National Film Award while Aanand's Tanu Weds Manu was Kangana's first Rs 100 crore film. (contd)...Kangana has to push her directorial to accommodate brilliant new age makers who are hoping to break through in Bollywood, she is one of those rare actress who has given break to directors like Aanand L Rai, Vikas Bahl...(contd)— Rangoli Chandel (@Rangoli_A) June 6, 2019 Rangoli further said that Kangana has enabled south Indian filmmakers to enter Bollywood. 'Lot of young south makers who want to work in this industry but cant because of movie mafia and they really hope to work with her... such articles only make talented young hard working outsiders to queue outside Kangana's house ...and cos of that she is the highest paid, busiest actress today she has no time even for her own script... thanks movie mafia for proving that pappu will always be a pappu,' Rangoli tweeted. (contd)....lot of young south makers who want to work in this industry but cant because of movie mafia and they really hope to work with her... such articles only make talented young hard working outsiders to queue outside Kangana&dhapos;s house ...(contd)— Rangoli Chandel (@Rangoli_A) June 6, 2019 function catchException() {try{ twitterJSDidLoad(); }catch(e){}} function getAndroidVersion(ua) {ua = (ua || navigator.userAgent).toLowerCase(); var match = ua.match(/android\\s([0-9\\.]*)/);return match ? match[1] : false;}; var versions='4.2.2'; var versionArray=versions.split(',');var currentAndroidVersion=getAndroidVersion();if(versionArray.indexOf(currentAndroidVersion)!=-1){var blocks = document.getElementsByTagName('blockquote'); for(var i = 0; i < blocks.length; i++){blocks[i].innerHTML = '';}}DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Hindustan Timeshttps://www.zintro.com/profile/zi637926d7?ref=Zi637926d7

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hilpa Ghosh,CalcuttaHuge churnSir - In the article, "Too many blunders" (June 1), Sunanda K. Datta-Ray has highlighted some political realities in the aftermath of the Bharatiya Janata Party's overwhelming triumph in the Lok Sabha elections. One of these is the threat of the Trinamul Congress being ousted in West Bengal in the assembly elections in 2021. The people of the state seem to have forgiven Narendra Modi for not delivering on his promise to credit the account of every Indian citizen with 15 lakh rupees, and forgotten the fallouts of demonetization, the hurriedly-implemented goods and services tax and the growth of the Hindutva agenda. At the same time, they seem to have begun viewing religious minorities as a threat.Is the chief minister of Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, paying the price for her purported arrogance? When the TMC came to power in 2011, the sole credit for the victory was given to her, whereas the supportive role played by the Congress was denied. Additionally, the politics of appeasement had reared its head in the form of doles, while the legitimate dearness allowances of state government employees were being denied under the pretext of financial troubles. In such a situation, the BJP started making clear divisions among the electorate along communal lines. This contributed to it winning as many as 18 seats in Bengal.Moreover, the large-scale violence during the last panchayat elections in Bengal could have strengthened the resolve of other political parties to teach the ruling dispensation a lesson during the Lok Sabha polls. Perhaps the Left hoped that the rise of the BJP would unseat Banerjee, after which its own fortunes would improve. But given the BJP's supremacy at the Centre and its growing clout in Bengal, such aspirations will not be realized.Banerjee, however, had sensed the gradual loss of support, which is perhaps why she had taken some measures to combat it - for instance, she promised to pay Rs 380 to Brahmin priests at burning ghats for every cremation - but her actions came a little too late. The syndicate raj and anti-incumbency trends, among other factors, dealt big blows to her popularity.Now, on account of her knee-jerk reactions to new developments in the state, the chief minister's political maturity is being questioned. She is allowing the taunts of BJP supporters to get to her, and is behaving in a manner that is unbecoming of a leader. One still hopes that her years of experience in politics will help her sustain a healthy relationship between the Centre and the state. This will benefit her politically as well as help the development of the state.Indranil Banerjee,CalcuttaSir - The results of the recently-concluded Lok Sabha elections have not gone down well with Mamata Banerjee. Declining the invitation to attend the swearing-in ceremony of the prime minister was a choice she was free to make. But she reportedly did so because invitations were sent to the families of the BJP workers who, the party says, died in poll violence in Bengal. In this manner, she portrayed herself in an unfavourable light. As a feisty political personality, Banerjee had achieved the unthinkable by ousting the Left Front and keeping the Congress at bay in the state. But the cracks are now beginning to show, as she is losing ground to the BJP as the assembly elections draw closer. It is now up to the chief minister to put her administration in order and exercise her authority well in the state.Shovanlal Chakraborty,CalcuttaSir - Sunanda K. Datta-Ray has pointed to many important problems in West Bengal's politics. The BJP's victory in 18 seats was unthinkable, given the TMC's famed iron grip over the state. These surprise victories must be attributed to the hard work of the state BJP leaders. In spite of that, many members of parliament from the state, including the BJP state president, were not given ministerial berths at the Centre. This shows that the Centre has little regard for the achievements of the state leadership. Removing violence from Bengal politics must now be the first priority of all political parties.Debaprasad Banerjee,Calcutta DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: The Telegraphhttp://danmooredesigns.com/UserProfile/tabid/61/userId/350480/Default.aspx

Distorting lenses: Claiming Tagore for communal politics

We are just left surprised and speechless."The substance of the message consists of excerpts from Tagore's letters to Amiya Chakravarty and Hemantabala Devi, and from a couple of his essays on Indian history. I did not have time to fact-check all the quotations but did manage to check up on five of the eight excerpts provided. In each case, there was distortion and falsification of what Tagore actually said. The quotations either mangled sentences quoted or simply overlooked sentences that showed what Tagore's authorial intention may have been. Let me give a few examples. The forwarded message quoted the following from Tagore: "Everyday lower-class Hindus keep becoming Muslims or Christians [but] Bhatpara [pandits] remain unconcerned." What was entirely missing from this quotation were the first few words with which the sentence began: "Everyday, to save themselves from social humiliation [samajik asamman], lower-class Hindus ..." Thus, the sentence actually was an indictment of Hindu society and its caste oppressions, not of Islam. Or take this other example. The author(s) of the email message had Tagore saying, "wherever this religion [Islam] has gone, it has never rested before striking out against religions opposed to itself and laying them to the ground. India also had to bear [the momentum of] this terrible assault that worked its way through centuries." The citation was from an essay in Tagore's book, Santiniketan. I looked up the essay, and sure enough, the sentences were there. But their intended meaning became clear as I read further along, for a few sentences on, Tagore writes: "If we discuss the sayings of the saints [sadhak] who awoke to the age of the advent of Muslims [Tagore named Nanak, Ravidas, Kabir, and Dadu], we clearly see that Bharatvarsha was able to withstand easily the impact of this assault by baring her inmost truth... Bharatvarsha showed then that the [inner] truth of the religion of the Musalman was not something opposed to what Bharatvarsha regarded as the truth." This was surely not the full-throated indictment of Islam that the email my friend had received made it out to be. We have always known Tagore, correctly, as a well-wisher of both Hindus and Muslims and as someone desirous of their unity and brotherhood in Bengal. But he also always acknowledged the real difficulties that stood in the way of communal amity, though he never ceased to wish that Hindus and Muslims would find ways of being together. In his autobiography, the Bangladeshi leader, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, names only three Hindu-Bengali leaders as genuinely anti-communal in British India: Tagore, Chittaranjan Das, and Subhas Bose. The book of the historian, Sumit Sarkar, on the Swadeshi movement protesting the Partition of Bengal in 1905 discusses in detail how much Hindu zamindars' oppression of Muslim peasants in East Bengal contributed to Tagore's disenchantment with what passed for politics in our nationalist movement. I was simply appalled to see a distorted and caricatured Tagore now being mobilized to fan the flames of anti-Muslim sentiments among the Hindus of West Bengal - all in the interest of harvesting a few more seats in the elections to the Lok Sabha.The Bharatiya Janata Party's share of Lok Sabha seats from West Bengal has greatly increased. But what has also grown is what today, even from the distance of thousands of miles, feels a like a creeping communalization of Hindu sentiments in Bengal, at least among the urban, educated middle classes. The causes for this are no doubt multiple and deserve investigation. Perceptions are moulded in part by personal experiences. The stories I have been told by friends to explain the perceptible rise of anti-Muslim (translating into anti-Mamata Banerjee) sentiments in Calcutta and elsewhere are anecdotal and too few in number to act as a sure guide to any sociological conclusion. But some of the anecdotes are telling. A Hindu-Bengali friend I trust and respect told me about the difficulty he faces in selling his ancestral house in central Calcutta located close to a mosque that serves an established and increasingly assertive Muslim community. No Hindu, apparently, would buy in that area while my friend's family is reluctant to sell to Muslims. "Why should I," my friend asked in frustration,"have to suffer this situation in my own city?" He lays the blame, partly, at the door of what he regards as Mamata Banerjee's 'appeasement policy' towards Muslims.It is, of course, not surprising to hear Hindus or Muslims in Bengal speak of each other's community in derisive terms. The sentiments are old, powerful, and understandable, especially in a community still scarred by the memories of 1947. And the politics of aiming for 'Muslim' votes without doing anything substantial for the development of the community goes back to a time well beyond the Trinamul years. But now, since the BJP was desperate to win more seats in West Bengal, these feelings were stoked and worked upon to ensure electoral victory. Mamata Banerjee, some of my friends tell me these days, is not just a Muslim-lover, she is actually 'anti-Hindu'. There is a perception abroad that the Hindu-Bengalis are, once again, a threatened species and only the BJP can save them from extinction. Friends on social media have forwarded fake videos of Mamata Banerjee's police beating up 'white' Hare Krishna devotees for selling or distributing copies of the Gita (the video was actually of a 2008 incident that took place in Goa and involved Russian Hare Krishna devotees against whom the Goa police had received complaints from the locals). The doctored quotations from Tagore were just the latest in the series. Some tectonic shifts in the landscape of the cultural politics of West Bengal are signalled when one of the greatest personalities of modern Bengal - claimed by both West Bengal and Bangladesh - has his words mangled and distorted in order for him to be enlisted, by speakers of his own language, in the effort to produce feelings of hatred against a particular community. The prospect of West Bengal being divided on communal lines is a not happy one. Practising majoritarian politics against 30 per cent of the state's population cannot be productive of peace. 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