Phalke Academy honours Greats of Bollywood

Dada Saheb Phalke Academy will honor veteran producer Surinder Kapoor. He will be presented the greatest glory of the Indian film industry- L.V. Prasad Phalke Award. Surinder Kapoor along with his entire family and Ramesh Prasad, MD & Chairman of Prasad Group of Company, will attend the Dada Saheb Phalke Jayanti celebrations which will to be held on 4th May in Mumbai at Bhaidas Hall.

The other recipants of the award will be the versatile actor Manoj Kumar, who will be conferred upon with Phalke Ratna, Shammi Kapoor who will be awarded the Phalke Legend, Shamshad Begum who will receive Phalke Golden Singer Award and Prithvi Raj Kapoor with the Phalke Kalpataru Award.

Firaaq gets its eighth award at Istanbul film festival

Nandita Das`s directorial debut 'Firaaq' won the Special Jury Prize at the 28th Istanbul Film Festival for "conveying a message of hope". The award was presented to Nandita by Maud De Boer Buquicchio - Deputy Secretary General of the Film Award of the Council of Europe.

It is the eighth international award for film which has already won awards in film festivals in Greece, Singapore, Dubai, Karachi and San Jose.

Set in the aftermath of Gujarat riots in 2002, the film deals with the issues related to violence and its effect on human psyche.

Seems Firaq is all set to be one of the all time real life movies which will be remembered for a long time.

AR Rahman in Billboard Hot 100 Singles

As the Pop stars running the show of late it seems that the classical guys will have a tough time ahead. But the master musician – Dr. AR Rahman had other ideas.

Following his double win at the Oscars, the entire Indian music scene has been put on the international map of tunes.

However, the best part is that Rahman has been voted as the first Indian musician to be listed among the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 Singles. This recognition comes after the recent release of the Pussycat Dolls version of his Oscar-winning song 'Jai Ho' which quickly moved the single from number 100 to number 15 on the charts, and it shows no signs of slowing down.

Well, with this recent development all one can just say is “Jai Ho”.

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