Saturday, March 6, 2010
Friday, March 5, 2010
Bollywood actress Vidya Balan wallpaper #m1
Vidya Balan’s performance in the film ‘Paa’ was highly acclaimed and won her the Filmfare Best Actress Award. Her next release, Ishqiya, in which she played a plotting, crafty widow Krishna, who is staying alone in her old house, also got excellent reviews. Her project entitled Chenab Gandhi directed by Vibhu Puri reportedly features Amitabh Bachchan, Rajeev Khandelwal and centers on Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, and it is under production. Also, director Nikhil Advani has announced in late January 2009 that he is to work with Vidya, in a film titled Chand Bhai and Akshay Kumar will be her co-star. Balan will also star in UTV's No One Killed Jessica alongside Rani Mukherjee, reports say.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Meryl Streep as Julia Child
In 1977 Meryl Streep made her film debut with Julia, but won both critical and commercial success with her roles in The Deer Hunter (1978) and Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), the former giving Streep her first Oscar nomination and the latter her first Oscar win. She later won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Sophie's Choice (1982). So far Streep has received 16 Academy Award nominations, and has won two. Her current nomination is her 16th nomination for her role as Julia Child in Julie & Julia. Though it will be showdown between Meryl Streep and Sandra Bullock for this year's Best Actress Academy Awards trophy, there are many Oscar-watchers and forecasters who feel that Bullock is the front runner for her role in The Blind Side. But some others reasons that it is Streep's chance to shine, as the Julie & Julia star hasn't won an Oscar for nearly 30 years.
The film depicts events in the life of Chef Julia Child, contrasting her life with Julie Powell, who aspires to cook all 524 recipes from Child's cookbook during a single year, a challenge that she described on her popular blog. Nora Ephron's screenplay is adapted from two books: My Life in France, Child's autobiography, written with Alex Prud'homme, and a memoir by Julie Powell. In 2002, Powell started blogging her daily experiences cooking each of the 524 recipes in Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and she later began reworking that blog. The film is the first major motion picture based on a blog.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Vidya Balan: 55th Filmfare Awards
Vidya Balan is seen with her 2010’s Filmfare Best Actress Award for her role in Paa. Balan has been honoured earlier with Filmfare Best Female Debut Award in 2006 for Parineeta, in addition to Filmfare Face of the Year (2006).
Monday, March 1, 2010
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Kalki Koechlin won Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award
Indian actress of French descent Kalki Koechlin, 27, who debuted in Anurag Kashyap's critically acclaimed Hindi film Dev D, playing the character of Chandramukhi, won the Best Supporting Actor (Female) Award for her role in the film. Kalki was born to French parents in a small village in Pondicherry. Her parents had come to India 38 years ago. They are devotees of Sri Aurobindo. She was doing modeling assignments for Television commercials before being short-listed for the role of Chandramukhi in 'Dev D'. Kalki speaks Tamil, English and French while she had to learn Hindi to prepare for her role in Dev D.
Rahman wins Filmfare Award the 25th time
The music maestro A R Rahman, after winning accolades around the world, once again created history by winning a Filmfare Award for the 25th time. Actresses Tabu and Kajol presented him the Best Music Award for ‘Delhi 6’ on Saturday night at the Yashraj studios in Mumbai, where the Filmfare Award ceremony was held.
Filmfare Awards: Paa wins Best Actor & Best Actress Awards
The 2009 movie ‘Paa’, directed by R. Balki (R. Balakrishnan) starring Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Vidya Balan in the lead roles won the two major awards at the Filmfare Awards for Best Actor (Amitabh Bachchan) and Best Actress (Vidya Balan). The film was produced by Amitabh Bachchan Corporation and Sunil Manchanda. Celina Jaitley, who was looking awesome in her Cavalli gown, said, “I’m definitely rooting for Paa.”
And the awards for Paa are:
Best Actor in Leading Role (Male): Amitabh Bachchan (in his absence Vidya Balan received the award). Vishal Bhardwaj who was on stage said, "Diye ko ujaala dikhaane jaisa hai.”
Best Actor in Leading Role (Female): Sri Devi and Boney Kapoor presented the award to the lovely lady Vidya Balan.
Earlier Paa has already received 14 nominations and won 4 awards at the Star Screen Awards, including Best Actor (Male) for Amitabh Bachchan, Best Actor (Female) for Vidya Balan. Also it won 2 Stardust Awards in 2010: Star of the Year Award (Male) for Amitabh Bachchan and Stardust Best Supporting Actor Award for Abhishek Bachchan.