Shah Rukh, Sonam named worst actors at Golden Kela Awards

Gurgaon, March 13 – Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan was named the worst actor and Sonam Kapoor the worst actress at the third annual Golden Kela Awards Saturday night, a spin-off of Hollywood’s Razzies awards, which recognises the worst in cinema. 

While Shah Rukh won the award for Karan Johar’s ‘My Name is Khan’, where he played a patient of Asperger’s syndrome, Sonam got the award for her home production ‘Aisha’.

Ironically, Shah Rukh has also won the Filmfare award for the best actor for the same film.

‘My Name Is Khan’ also received the worst film award.

Sanjay Leela Bhansali won the worst director award for ‘Guzaarish’. ‘Guzaarish’ also got Black Award for Emotional Blackmail.

Director Ram Gopal Varma was awarded the Bas Kijiye Bahut Ho Gaya Award (Please Stop Its Enough), asking him to stop making films.

The worst supporting actor male went to Arjun Rampal for ‘Housefull’, and worst supporting actress female went to Kangana Ranaut for ‘Kites’.

Interestingly, out of five nominations in the category of supporting actress, three were for Kangana in ‘No Problem’, ‘Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai’ and ‘Kites’.

Bawra Ho Gaya Hai Ke award (Have You Gone Nuts) was given to actor Ben Kingsley for his participation in the film ‘Teen Patti’.

However, there was a special category of ‘Anti-Kela’ awards for the films that were the saving graces of 2010. The awards were for the films that were meaningful and entertaining, while still being in the mainstream.

Those awarded in this category were ‘Udaan’, ‘Ishqiya’, ‘Love, Sex and Dhoka’, ‘Do Dooni Chaar’, ‘Peepli Live’ and ‘Tere Bin Laden’.

‘I think we should learn to make fun of our own work and I think it’s just fun although it’s tough because we make a lot of bad films. It will be easy to choose good films but it will be difficult to choose worst work,’ said Vishal Bhardwaj, producer of ‘Ishqiya, who was present at the award ceremony hosted by Cyrus Broacha in Rockdome at the Ambience Mall in Gurgaon.

‘Ishqiya’ director Abhisek Chaubey added: ‘Nobody wants to admit that they have made the worst film and coming here would be admitting it, nobody really wants to believe that they did something worst. But really hope people who are nominated see the lighter side of it and come here.’

Small-budget film ‘Udaan’ swept this year’s prestigious Filmfare awards and here also it won the Anti-Kela for being 2010’s ’saving grace’.

‘Being given an award by people who are looking for bad stuff in films means a lot,’ said director Vikramaditya Motwane in a video message.

Meanwhile, Aditya Narayan and Pakhi Tyrewala were awarded the Golden Kela for worst debut male and female for ‘Shaapit’ and ‘Jhootha Hi Sahi’ respectively.

Actor Uday Chopra was given the Chimpu Kapoor award (No talent award for relatives of celebrities).

‘Pee Loon’ from ‘Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai’ was adjudged the most irritating song and Sanjay Leela Bhansali won another award for the most atrocious lyrics for song ‘Sau gram zindagi’ from ‘Guzaarish’.

Akshay Kumar-Aishwarya Rai starrer ‘Action Replayy’, which was the big screen adaptation of a play, was given the award for the Most Original Story.

Director Sanjay Sharma’s gay love story ‘Dunno Y… Naa Jane Kyun’ received the Lajja (Shame) award for worst treatment of a serious issue. ‘Ek Second… Jo Zindagi Badal De’ won the When did This Come Out Award.

Rohit Shetty’s ‘Golmaal’ series won the worst triology ever in the history of films and Salman Khan starrer ‘Dabangg’ was given the Ajooba Award for Sheer Awesomeness.

The worst animated film award went to ‘Baru the Wonder Kid’.

Pradeep Sarkar’s ‘Lafange Parindey’ was given the Jajantram Mamantram Award for Worst Named Film.

Singer Sukhwinder Singh was given the Sonu Nigam Award for Career Suicide for his debut in ‘Kuch Kariye’.

Vivek Oberoi-starrer ‘Prince’ was given the Golden Kela for the most ridiculous sequence in the film.

Jackie Shroff won the worst casting ever award for his role as Shirdi Sai baba in the film ‘Malik Ek’.

Host Cyrus was at his wittiest best during the award function. Also present were actor Praduman Singh of ‘Tere Bin Laden’ fame and ‘Do Dooni Chaar’ director Habib Faisal. 

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Katrina lashes out at the kiss controversy

Katrina Kaif is awfully busy these days. Amidst a flurry of activity that includes the pre-production work for her home production to launch sister Isabelle, and shooting for films,Kat is caught up rehearsing for her performance tomorrow at the Indian Music Award.

"Yesterday we were told that our performances were called off, and in the morning it's informed that the show is on tomorrow. I am out of my wits, juggling hundred things together," says Kat, this year's hottest item girl, who is set to perform an act inspired by Moulin Rogue tomorrow at the IMA night.

Given the tight situation, there couldn't have been any room for any other discussion today. But Kat surprised us with her forthright clarifications regarding the return of the lip-locking scene with Gulshan Grover for Kaizaad Gustaad's Boom, which is now packed in a new DVD to be launched by the makers of the film soon.

Mind you, Katrina doesn't feel haunted by any kind of her past ghost. "What's there to react in the first place? And what's new about those scenes?" asks an unfazed Katrina. "I don't deny I have done the scenes in the past where I did things that I wasn't comfortable. And in any case, `Boom' and the kissing scenes are all over the internet", states the hottest downloaded Bollywood babe on the net.

The film had some hot lip locking scenes between Gulshan Grover and Katrina, who was a newbie that time. Apparently the hot scenes were removed from the film, when her than beau Salman Khan put pressure on the makers of the film. Does she attribute this sudden but unpleasant development to any specific reason at this point in her career and life? Is someone trying to make some quick buck out of her success or is there a purposeful strategy to malign her?

"Honestly I wouldn't know. I have never interpreted people's intentions. As it is the makers have issued a statement today to the media. And they have denied doing anything like this," clarifies Katrina.

Whatever is the outcome, the fact is success cannot be measured or maligned. And Katrina is a wonderful example of phenomenal success.

Abhishek Bachchan to go by fans’ choice at IMA Awards

Mumbai, March 9 – Actor Abhishek Bachchan, who will perform at the Big Star IMA Awards 2011 Friday, will dance on the songs suggested by his fans. 

When the organising team from Reliance Broadcast discussed with him his performance, Abhishek quickly reverted saying, ‘Let’s ask my fan’s what they would like to see me dance on!’ 

Tarun Katial, CEO of Reliance Broadcast Network Ltd says that Abhishek’s fans from across the country have sent their suggestions.

‘Abhishek has been an absolute sport and his fans across the country from Jammu to Mumbai, have been sending in SMSes in huge numbers. Current hot favourites are songs like ‘Beera…’ from ‘Raavan’. The night of March 11 will see Abhishek dance to the tunes of India, literally,’ Katial said in a statement. 

Reliance Broadcast Network Ltd in collaboration with Star India and Indian Music Academy is launching this integrated music award property, to recognise talents from all over the country and across every genre of music including Hindustani, Carnatic, folk, ghazal, Sufi and qawwali.

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Penelope, Bridges play Beauty and the Beast

Oscar winners Penelope Cruz and Jeff Bridges have posed as fairytale lovers Beauty and the Beast for a new Disney advertisement.

The stars dressed up as the beloved characters for a whimsical campaign for Disney theme parks shot by celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz, reports the Daily Star.

In the advertisement, Bridges looks like a handsome prince lifting Cruz in a yellow ball gown high into the air.

Leibovitz''s latest campaign also features Queen Latifah as Ursula from The Little Mermaid, as well as Olivia Wilde as the Evil Queen and Alec Baldwin as the Mirror from Snow White

Madonna’s ‘W.E.’ to premiere at Venice Film Festival

London, March 4 – Pop diva Madonna’s new film ‘W.E.’ will reportedly premiere at the Venice Film Festival. 

The 52-year-old singer has directed ‘W.E.’ – a two-tier tale about Britain’s King Edward VIII’s relationship with American Wallis Simpson – and the full feature will be shown to critics and audiences at the film festival in September, reports contactmusic.com.

The film stars Abbie Cornish, Andrea Riseborough and Laurence Fox apart from Madonna’s 14-year-old daughter Lourdes, who has been given a cameo in the film.

The 52-year-old earlier said she had put her music career on hold so she could concentrate on her family life and the movie.

‘I haven’t really been focused as much as I should be on the music part of my career, because the movie has consumed every inch of me. Between that and my four children, I don’t have the time or energy for anything else,’ she said.

Aishwarya Rai, Kareena Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra in run for fun, fearless award

New Delhi, March 4 – Bollywood beauties Aishwarya Rai, Kareena Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra are in the run for Cosmopolitan Magazine’s fun, fearless awards, to be held in Mumbai Saturday.

 

The three actresses are competing in Fun, Fearless Female All Time Reader’s Choice Award this year.

Other categories include – Fun, Fearless Power Couple award, for which the nominees are – Kareena Kapoor-Saif Ali Khan; Hrithik Roshan-Sussanne Khan and Arbaaz Khan-Malaika Arora Khan.

There is also a Fun, Fearless Male 2010 Reader’s Choice Award, and Ranbir Kapoor, Shahid Kapoor, Salman Khan, and Arjun Rampal are competing for the title in this category.

The event, in its third edition now, takes place annually in India, Britain and the US. 

“The Fun, Fearless Female Awards is a cult, one-of-its-kind event that celebrates all that’s iconic of the Cosmo woman – her attitude, drive, and the never-say-never spirit,” Nandini Bhalla, editor of Cosmopolitan, said in a press statement.

The organisers are expecting a star-studded turnout at the event Saturday at the Taj Land’s End, Mumbai.

“The response has been tremendous – from readers, Bollywood favourites, and the industry. The Fun Fearless Awards are a pat on the back to women (and some special men) from different areas of life-acting, music, theatre, and more.

“Last year’s awards saw a great turnout – Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Katrina Kaif, and more. And this year’s awards promise to be bigger, better, and more Cosmo than ever,” said Mala Sekhri, chief operating officer, Lifestyle Magazines, India Today Group.

Kate Winslet says no to botox

London, Mar 2 – Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet has no intention of going under the knife – because she is satisfied with her body.

 

“No, I have never tried any of that stuff. I don’t have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else’s or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are,” she said.

The star was talking to the April edition of U.S. Glamour magazine, for which she posed in a figure-hugging Victoria Beckham dress, reports the Daily Mail.

The 35-year-old admitted that she hadn’t always been as confident in her looks.

“When I was heavy, people would say to me – and it was such a backhanded compliment – they would say, ‘You’ve got such a beautiful face.’”

“In the way of, like, ‘Oh, isn’t it a shame that from the neck down you’re questionable.’” (ANI)

Abhishek, Aishwarya, Mallika dazzle on Oscar red carpet

Los Angeles, Feb 28 – Bollywood star couple Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai, along with Mallika Sherawat, dazzled in their finery at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards red carpet here.

Abhishek and Aishwarya got a chance invite to the prestigious event, where Hollywood’s Who’s Who gathers to celebrate international cinema. The duo was holidaying in Los Angeles and were not at all prepared to attend such a high-profile event at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood Sunday night.

However, last minute help from their designer friends helped them put their best foot forward at the red carpet.

Aishwarya sparkled in an off-shoulder Armani Prive bronze gown and kept her look minimalistic with just a pair of dangling earrings and hair on one side of the shoulder. 

Abhishek looked dapper in a traditional, formal black tuxedo.

Mallika, one of the most talked about Bollywood glamour girls, flaunted a sequinned white gown, with a daring front slit and a plunging neckline – just as she likes it always!

Among other Indians at the Oscars this year were composer A.R. Rahman, who was nominated in two categories – best original score and best original song – for his work in Danny Boyle’s “127 Hours”. However, he lost out on both the titles.

Nevertheless, Rahman wore a charcoal Corneliani suit and a blue tie to the red carpet, and took a proud walk with his wife Saira Banu, who chose a beige Indo-western ensemble with a golden Judith Lieber clutch.

Rosario Dawson, Paul Rudd, Eva Mendes public foreplay at Spirit Awards

London, Feb 28 – Actress Rosario Dawson was photographed grabbing actor Paul Rudd’s crotch while he in turn grabbed actress Eva Mendes’ right breast at the Spirit Awards.

It all started when Rudd, 41, and Mendes, 36, arrived at the podium to present the Best Screenplay prize at the bash held to honour independent filmmakers, the Sun reported.

Dawson, 31, then inexplicably joined them on stage at the Santa Monica, California event, and made a beeline for Rudd’s testicles, grabbing them tightly with her right hand.

Rudd was shocked at first but did not bother to release her grip, much to the amusement of Mendes.

As he stood with his man bits in the palm of Dawson’s hand, cheeky Rudd swung his left arm around Mendes and grabbed her boob with his right.

The bizarre three-way foreplay had the audience open-mouthed before Rudd and Mendes finally got on with the job of announcing the winner. (ANI)

Oscar Awards 2011: complete winners list

Finally, the much-expected 83 Annual Academy awards 2011 have been announced at a grand functions held at the Kodak theatre, Los Angeles. Movies like The King's Speech and Inception have shared top spot in the winners list of Oscar Awards 2011 by bagging four awards each, while The Social Network managed to occupy second spot with three Oscar gongs.

The King's Speech won four top awards in the categories like Best Picture, Best Actor (Colin Firth), Best Director (Tom Hooper) and Best Original Screenplay (David Seidler). Leonardo DiCaprio's movie Inception has also got four awards in the Best Cinematography, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing and Best Visual Effects categories.

The following is the complete winners list of the 83rd Annual Academy Award announced Sunday:

Best Picture: The King's Speech

Best Actor: Colin Firth, The King's Speech

Best Actress: Natalie Portman, Black Swan

Best Supporting Actor: Christian Bale, The Fighter

Best Supporting Actress: Melissa Leo, The Fighter

Best Directing: Tom Hooper, The King's Speech

Best Foreign Language Film: In a Better World, Denmark

Best Adapted Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin, The Social Network

Best Original Screenplay: David Seidler, The King's Speech

Best Animated Feature Film: Toy Story 3

Best Art Direction: Alice in Wonderland

Best Cinematography: Inception

Best Sound Mixing: Inception

Best Sound Editing: Inception

Best Original Score: The Social Network, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

Best Original Song: We Belong Together from Toy Story 3, Randy Newman

Best Costume Design: Alice in Wonderland

Best Documentary Feature: Inside Job

Best Documentary (short subject): Strangers No More

Best Film Editing: The Social Network

Best Makeup: The Wolfman

Best Animated Short Film: The Lost Thing

Best Live Action Short Film: God of Love

Best Visual Effects: Inception

The King’s Speech bags four top honours at Oscar awards

After winning seven awards at BAFTAs, The King’s Speech is once again making it big. This time, it shines at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards 2011, which has been held at the Kodak theatre, Los Angeles. The Tom Hooper-directed historical flick was nominated in 12 categories and has managed to receive the top four honours at the Oscar Awards 2011 on Sunday.

Firstly, The King’s Speech has won the top-most honour of Oscars, the Best Motion Picture, beating nine hit movies. Secondly, Colin Firth, who played Prince Albert, Duke of York/King George VI in the film, has bagged the Best Actor gong for his wonderful performance. Thirdly, Tom Hooper has walked away with Best Director award. Finally, David Seidler has received the Best Original Screenplay award.

The King's Speech is a British Historical drama about the King George VI. Though movie got rave reviews, some film reviewers had the accused the movie bosses of twisting some historical events. It has been made the whopping budget of £8 million and it has topped the Box Office records for several weeks with its collections reaching $235,468,702 across the globe.

However, the film The King's Speech has already been screened at several International Film Festivals. Earlier, it has topped the winners list of BAFTA Awards 2011 by bagging seven top awards out of its 14 nominations. It has also bagged one Golden Globe award out of its seven nominations.

Natalie Portman wins best actress

Los Angeles, Feb 28 – Actress Natalie Portman won her first Oscar for best actress for ‘Black Swan’ at the prestigious 83rd Academy Awards here Sunday night. 

Portman beat Annette Bening for ‘The Kids Are All Right’, Nicole Kidman for ‘Rabbit Hole’, Jennifer Lawrence of ‘Winter’s Bone’ and Michelle Williams of ‘Blue Valentine’. 

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Tom Hooper wins best director for ‘The King’s Speech’

Los Angeles, Feb 28 – Director Tom Hooper has walked away with the Academy award for best direction for ‘The King’s Speech’.

Hooper beat Darren Aronofsky (‘Black Swan’), David O. Russell (‘The Fighter’), David Fincher (‘The Social Network’) and Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (‘True Grit’) to win the prestigious award.

‘The King’s Speech’ is the story of King George VI of Britain, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it. 

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Harvard gives Shakira 2011 Artist of the Year award

Washington, Feb 28 (IANS/EFE) - The Harvard Foundation has presented Colombian singer Shakira with its 2011 Artist of the Year award, an annual prize bestowed by the university’s centre for intercultural arts and science initiatives to honour the philanthropic activities of musicians, actors and writers. 

Shakira, who is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and founder of the Barefoot Foundation to provide education and nutrition for children in impoverished parts of Colombia, accepted the prize at a cultural festival held Saturday at Harvard, the Boston Herald reported on its website.

After expressing her thanks for being honoured in this way, Shakira urged the university’s students to take advantage of their own opportunities and work to improve educational conditions in underdeveloped countries.

The director of the Harvard Foundation, S. Allen Counter, said that the Colombian artist was selected to receive the prize for her ‘distinguished history of creativity’, as well as for her charitable contributions.

The singer, who has sold some 50 million albums during her career, continues to promote her bilingual work ‘Sale el sol/The Sun Comes Out’, which includes her hit ‘Waka Waka’ which she popularised at the South African World Cup.

The Foundation’s Artist of the Year award has been presented in the past to actresses Salma Hayek and Sharon Stone, actors Will Smith and Jackie Chan, and to jazz musician Herbie Hancock, among others. 

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‘In A Better World’ wins Oscar for foreign language film

Los Angeles, Feb 28 – Danish director Susanne Bier’s ‘In A Better World’ won the Oscar for foreign language film at the 83rd Academy Awards here. 

The film was competing with ‘Biutiful’ (Mexico), ‘Dogtooth’ (Greece), ‘Incendies’ (Canada) and ‘Outside The Law’ (Algeria). 

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Christian Bale picks best supporting actor Oscar

Los Angels, Feb 28 – Actor Christian Bale took home his first Oscar by winning the best supporting actor at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards here for his role in ‘The Fighter’. 

The actor plays a troubled boxer Dicky Eklund in the movie, which also stars Mark Wahlberg.

Bale was competing with John Hawkes (‘Winter’s Bone’), Jeremy Renner (‘The Town’), Mark Ruffalo (‘The Kids Are All Right’) and Geoffrey Rush (‘The King’s Speech’) for the award.

‘The Fighter’ is about two brothers Dicky Ecklund (Bale) and Micky Ward (Wahlberg) who, against all odds, come together to train for a historic title bout that will unite their fractured family and redeem their past. 

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Rahman loses Oscar for ‘127 Hours’ original score

Los Angeles, Feb 28 – Indian music maestro A.R. Rahman lost the Oscar for best original score to composer duo Trent Rezmor and Atticus Ross who won it for ‘The Social Network’ at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards here. 

Rahman is also nominated in the best song category with Dido and Rolo Armstrong, who have penned the lyrics of ‘If I Rise’.

Earlier this year, the 45-year-old had also lost the Golden Globe award as well as British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award for best original music in ‘127 Hours’. 

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Atwood wins best costume design Oscar for ‘Alice in Wonderland’

Los Angeles, Feb 28 – American designer Colleen Atwood won the Oscar award for her costume designs in Tim Burton’s ‘Alice In Wonderland’ at the 83rd Academy Awards here. 

This is the third Oscar for Atwood since she started designing for movies in 1984. She won the golden statuette earlier for her work in ‘Chicago’ (2002) and ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’ (2006).

The Academy award for best makeup went to Rick Baker and Dave Elsey for ‘The Wolfman’, while Richard King took home the best sound editing award for his work in ‘Inception’.

Oscar for sound mixing went to Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo and Ed Novick for ‘Inception’. 

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