A court issued summons to Bollywood actor Preity Zinta and co-owner Ness Wadia on Monday for using pictures of freedom fighters in their Indian Premier League advertisements. Zinta and Wadia are summoned on April 2.
The summons were issued by Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Anshul Berry on a complaint filed by city-based NGO Global Human Rights Council (GHRC). GHRC had objected on the use of pictures of freedom fighters, including of Bhagat Singh and Rajguru, in the advertisements of Kings XI Punjab.
"Earlier summons could not reach the accused as they were traveling at various match venues in the country. Now I will personally go to hand over the summons to Preity Zinta and others at the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) stadium," said Arvind Thakur, president of GHRC.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Court summons Preity Zinta
Sunday, March 21, 2010
No Shahrukh in Bollywood film fest in Poland
The fourth Bollywood film festival in Poland opens Monday but this time there won’t be any movies of superstar Shah Rukh Khan.This is the first time this has happened. Though the distributors were keen to organise a special show of "My Name Is Khan", they could not persuade the 20th Century Fox, distributor of the movie, to agree.
Shah Rukh’s popularity in Poland is amazing and every Bollywood buff knows him. His biography has been translated into Polish.King Khan is being replaced by "Singh Is Kinng" (Akshay Kumar). It is a great opportunity for Akshay Kumar to make a place in Polish psyche with his masala dances.
Apart from the Akshay starrer, films selected for screening include "Laaga Chunari Mein Daag", "Tandoori Love", "Amal", "Dulha Mil Gaya", "Jannat", "Blue" and "Videsh".
The festival is being organised by EPLPOL, a prominent distributor of Hindi films, along with Multikino, a chain of multiplexes in Poland. The organisers this time selected cities like Krakow, Wroclaw, Poznan, Gdansk, Gdynia, Szczecin and Zabrze apart from capital Warsaw to screen the movies.
Bollywood films have become a regular diet for Poles. Bollywood has raised the profile of India throughout Poland.
Freida Pinto all set to become the next Bond babe
Dream has come true for ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ star Freida Pinto. The hot lady is all set to turn hotter as she is to become the next Bond babe. This will come by as part of a multi-million pound deal with Hollywood studios. With this deal, Freida will play the suave British secret agent’s love interest in the 23rd James Bond flick.
Sam Mendes has been talking about Bond for months now . The project has been in the pipeline for months and Freida was always the dream Bond girl, but initially she was circumspect about accepting it. But finally she accepted. This could be one of the most ambitious 007 till date. Sam plans to reinvent the genre. Peter Morgan, who wrote ‘The Queen’, has penned the first draft of the script and it promises to be visually stunning.
It will be a typically glamorous and raunchy role and Pinto’s beau Dev has been joking to friends he is cool with seeing Freida rolling around with 007." Dev Patel seems to be thrilled about his girlfriend’s high-profile role.
The 23rd installment of James Bond movie is set in Afghanistan.
