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slap on the face of congress!
it will do the cong good by giving up this anti-bachchan vendetta stuff—and stay away from these thingz (as in this case probabably)
Not v jhappy with abhishrek “sharing” this award or amitabh trying to “bracket him ” as well in this suxess.
agreed that he has made a lot of contributuoin to paa as producer/ actor, but think he should concentrate in getting a gnuine true-blue suxxess OF HIS OWN…
Music, Bollywood glitter at 57th National Film Awards ceremony
New Delhi, Oct 22 – It was an evening to remember — the entire Bachchan clan in attendance, a standing ovation for megastar Amitabh for his fourth Best Actor award, a sensuously sung award-wining Bangla song — at the 57th National Film Awards ceremony here Friday.
The gala witnessed Bollywood dignitaries in plenty but missed the young stars quotient unlike last year when Bollywood dominated the ceremony. However, the Bachchan clan – Jaya, Abhishek, Aishwarya and Shweta – the first family of the Hindi film industry, was there in full strength to cheer Amitabh on his award.
Clad in a black bandhgala, Big B received his fourth national award for R. Balakrishna’s ‘Paa’ from President Pratibha Patil. He had earlier won it for ‘Saat Hindustani’, ‘Agneepath’ and ‘Black’. His son Abhishek, who produced the movie, too received his debut national honour for the best Hindi language film.
‘Paa’ also won the best make-up artist award for Hollywood’s Christien Tinsley and Dominie Till. The best supporting actress award went to Arundhati Naag who played Amitabh’s grandmother in the movie.
Veteran filmmaker D. Ramanaidu was conferred the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke Award. He was accompanied by his actor grandson Rana Daggubati at the ceremony. Other celebrities to grace the event were filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Rajkumar Hirani, Oscar-award winning sound technician Resul Pookutty, Shyam Benegal, Farooque Shaikh and Sushma Seth.
The other top honours went to Malayalam film ‘Kutty Srank’ for best film, Rituparno Ghosh for best director for ‘Abohoman’ and Ananya Chatterjee, best actress for the same movie.
Bollywood singer Shaan alongwith music composer Shantanu Moitra enthralled the audience with a melodious rendition of ‘Behti hawa sa’, which won lyricist Swanand Kirkire his first national award. The song is from Aamir Khan starrer ‘3 Idiots’ that also bagged the national award for the most popular film providing wholesome entertainment.
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra received the Nargis Dutt Award for best feature film on national integration for his ‘Delhi-6′. It also won the best production design for Samir Chanda.
Benegal received the best film on social issues award for his outing ‘Well Done Abba’ while music composer Amit Trivedi was handed over the best music award for his cult compositions in Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Dev D’. Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan took home the Indira Gandhi Award for best debut film of a director for spreading national integration through sports film ‘Lahore’, while veteran actor Farooque Sheikh got the best supporting actor for the same.
Vishal Bharadwaj’s dark thriller ‘Kaminey’ was honoured with a special jury award. It shared the award with Malayalam movies ‘Kutty Srank’ and ‘Kerala Verma Pazhassi Raja’.
Following suit was the best audiography award that was divided into three categories and was handed over to Subhash Sahoo for ‘Kaminey’; Anup Dev for ‘3 Idiots’ and Pookutty for ‘Kutty Srank’.
The Malayalam film also got Jayakumar the best costume designer award as well as best cinematography and best screenplay (original) awards for Anjuli Shukla and P.F. Mathews-Harikrishna, respectively.
Southern music maestro Illaiyaraja bagged the award for best background score for ‘Kerala Verma Pazhassi Raja ‘, which also won the best Malayalam film award.
‘Abohoman’ also got the best editing award for Arghyakamal Mitra and the best Bengali film award.
The best female playback singer award went to Bengali singer Neelanjana Sarkar for her song in ‘Houseful’. Rupam Islam took the best male singer for the Bengali film ‘Mahanager@Kolkata’.
Kannada film ‘Putaani Party’ and Malayalam movie ‘Keshu’ were given the best children’s film award.
Kishore and Sri Ram shared the best child artist awards for Tamil movie ‘Pasanga’. The film also won the best dialogue award for Pandiraj and was declared the best Tamil film.
Telugu movie ‘Magadheera’ was given the best special effects and best choreography awards for R. Kamal Kannan and K. Siva Shankar, respectively, while the best Kannada movie award went to ‘Kanasemba Kudureyaneri’.
‘Basundhara’, on the other hand, won the best Assamese film award and best Konkani film award was given to ‘Palatadcho Munis’. ‘Natarang’ won the best Marathi film.
Among those present at the gala were S.M. Khan, director of the Directorate of Film Festivals, chairman for feature films jury Ramesh Sippy and minister of Information and Broadcasting Ambika Soni.
Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who won the National Awards for best actor for the role Auro, a 13-year-old child suffering from progeria tells Prabhu Chawla, Editor (Languages) India Today that playing Auro in Paa was not a cake walk.
Resul Pookutty to turn director
By Subhash K. Jha, October 29, 2010 – 11:17 IST
Resul Pookutty Maverick sound designer Resul Pookutty who was propelled to international fame with his skilled use of sound in Slumdog Millionaire is all set to turn director with a film starring Amitabh Bachchan.
Though Resul is reluctant to reveal details, it is apparently an emotional father-son story that Resul has been scripting for some time.
When asked about it Resul says, “It’s something that I’ve been toying with for a long time. But to turn director I need to set aside my work in sound and devote myself entirely to that one thing. At the moment, I’m working on the sound for my second international project after Slumdog Millionaire.”
The film entitled The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel to be shot in Rajasthan and other parts of India gives Resul a chance to work with the young Slumdog star Dev Patel once again. But it is the film’s director John Madden that Resul is most excited to be working with.
Says Resul excitedly, “I’ve been in love with Madden’s film Shakespeare In Love for years. And now I’m getting to work with him and some of the most accomplished British actors like Dame Judi Dench, Julie Christie, Tom Wilkinson and Peter O’Toole.”
Resul is the only Indian in the crew. “Fox Searchlight who had produced Slumdog Millionaire specially asked for me. It feels like a great honour. For the first time since Slumdog…I’ll be doing live sound mixing.”
With projects like these coming his way, Resul finds it hard to wrench himself into a different direction.
About his debut as director, Resul says, “It’s really too early to talk about it. But yes it is a very emotional father-son subject. I’m a great fan of the work of Ritwitck Ghatak and by extension a fan of Ghatak’s disciple Sanjay Leela Bhansali. My film would be from that school. I love the melodrama that underlines the life of characters on screen.”
Resul says he immediately thought of Amitabh Bachchan for the father-son theme. “You can’t blame me for thinking of the best, can you?” says the sound designer currently enjoying the success of his sound design in Robot.
Well the key is that he identifies melodrama there as well. Ghatak certainly wasn’t a stranger to melodrama. But yeah that’s pretty much where one would have to draw the line.
Of course one could also argue that the post-Black Bhansali has more in common with black-and-white era filmmakers as a whole.
SATYAMSHOT 
October 22, 2010 at 9:04 AM
older Abhishek interview:
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October 22, 2010 at 9:08 AM
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October 22, 2010 at 10:37 AM
slap on the face of congress!
it will do the cong good by giving up this anti-bachchan vendetta stuff—and stay away from these thingz (as in this case probabably)
Not v jhappy with abhishrek “sharing” this award or amitabh trying to “bracket him ” as well in this suxess.
agreed that he has made a lot of contributuoin to paa as producer/ actor, but think he should concentrate in getting a gnuine true-blue suxxess OF HIS OWN…
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October 22, 2010 at 10:46 AM
^
lol 🙂
Bachan should Congress should for getting award! Mammooty should have got this time.
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October 22, 2010 at 11:47 AM
Actually Bachchan is the last person the Congress would try and give an award to! Where have you been for the last 15 years?!
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October 22, 2010 at 3:24 PM
here’s a blast from the past.. Bachchan receiving the Filmfare for Hum in 1991:
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October 22, 2010 at 3:38 PM
Music, Bollywood glitter at 57th National Film Awards ceremony
New Delhi, Oct 22 – It was an evening to remember — the entire Bachchan clan in attendance, a standing ovation for megastar Amitabh for his fourth Best Actor award, a sensuously sung award-wining Bangla song — at the 57th National Film Awards ceremony here Friday.
The gala witnessed Bollywood dignitaries in plenty but missed the young stars quotient unlike last year when Bollywood dominated the ceremony. However, the Bachchan clan – Jaya, Abhishek, Aishwarya and Shweta – the first family of the Hindi film industry, was there in full strength to cheer Amitabh on his award.
Clad in a black bandhgala, Big B received his fourth national award for R. Balakrishna’s ‘Paa’ from President Pratibha Patil. He had earlier won it for ‘Saat Hindustani’, ‘Agneepath’ and ‘Black’. His son Abhishek, who produced the movie, too received his debut national honour for the best Hindi language film.
‘Paa’ also won the best make-up artist award for Hollywood’s Christien Tinsley and Dominie Till. The best supporting actress award went to Arundhati Naag who played Amitabh’s grandmother in the movie.
Veteran filmmaker D. Ramanaidu was conferred the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke Award. He was accompanied by his actor grandson Rana Daggubati at the ceremony. Other celebrities to grace the event were filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Rajkumar Hirani, Oscar-award winning sound technician Resul Pookutty, Shyam Benegal, Farooque Shaikh and Sushma Seth.
The other top honours went to Malayalam film ‘Kutty Srank’ for best film, Rituparno Ghosh for best director for ‘Abohoman’ and Ananya Chatterjee, best actress for the same movie.
Bollywood singer Shaan alongwith music composer Shantanu Moitra enthralled the audience with a melodious rendition of ‘Behti hawa sa’, which won lyricist Swanand Kirkire his first national award. The song is from Aamir Khan starrer ‘3 Idiots’ that also bagged the national award for the most popular film providing wholesome entertainment.
Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra received the Nargis Dutt Award for best feature film on national integration for his ‘Delhi-6′. It also won the best production design for Samir Chanda.
Benegal received the best film on social issues award for his outing ‘Well Done Abba’ while music composer Amit Trivedi was handed over the best music award for his cult compositions in Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Dev D’. Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan took home the Indira Gandhi Award for best debut film of a director for spreading national integration through sports film ‘Lahore’, while veteran actor Farooque Sheikh got the best supporting actor for the same.
Vishal Bharadwaj’s dark thriller ‘Kaminey’ was honoured with a special jury award. It shared the award with Malayalam movies ‘Kutty Srank’ and ‘Kerala Verma Pazhassi Raja’.
Following suit was the best audiography award that was divided into three categories and was handed over to Subhash Sahoo for ‘Kaminey’; Anup Dev for ‘3 Idiots’ and Pookutty for ‘Kutty Srank’.
The Malayalam film also got Jayakumar the best costume designer award as well as best cinematography and best screenplay (original) awards for Anjuli Shukla and P.F. Mathews-Harikrishna, respectively.
Southern music maestro Illaiyaraja bagged the award for best background score for ‘Kerala Verma Pazhassi Raja ‘, which also won the best Malayalam film award.
‘Abohoman’ also got the best editing award for Arghyakamal Mitra and the best Bengali film award.
The best female playback singer award went to Bengali singer Neelanjana Sarkar for her song in ‘Houseful’. Rupam Islam took the best male singer for the Bengali film ‘Mahanager@Kolkata’.
Kannada film ‘Putaani Party’ and Malayalam movie ‘Keshu’ were given the best children’s film award.
Kishore and Sri Ram shared the best child artist awards for Tamil movie ‘Pasanga’. The film also won the best dialogue award for Pandiraj and was declared the best Tamil film.
Telugu movie ‘Magadheera’ was given the best special effects and best choreography awards for R. Kamal Kannan and K. Siva Shankar, respectively, while the best Kannada movie award went to ‘Kanasemba Kudureyaneri’.
‘Basundhara’, on the other hand, won the best Assamese film award and best Konkani film award was given to ‘Palatadcho Munis’. ‘Natarang’ won the best Marathi film.
Among those present at the gala were S.M. Khan, director of the Directorate of Film Festivals, chairman for feature films jury Ramesh Sippy and minister of Information and Broadcasting Ambika Soni.
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October 22, 2010 at 7:41 PM
Damn, I didn’t realize ROM won a national for Delhi-6! I almost feel vindicated…
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October 22, 2010 at 9:31 PM
of course one wishes Mehra’s ‘art’ had been rewarded more than the ‘national integration’ thing!
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October 23, 2010 at 2:05 PM
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October 24, 2010 at 10:20 AM
Thanks for sharing the video.
I got a link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40_GuKfEPE0&feature=player_embedded
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October 24, 2010 at 4:42 PM
8 part video
Playing Auro was not easy: Big B
October 24, 2010
Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who won the National Awards for best actor for the role Auro, a 13-year-old child suffering from progeria tells Prabhu Chawla, Editor (Languages) India Today that playing Auro in Paa was not a cake walk.
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Video/117628/42/Videos/playing-auro-was-not-easy-big-b.html
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October 28, 2010 at 6:04 AM
Congress didnt get the award for Amit-ji. Why would they?
It was Ramesh Sippy.
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October 29, 2010 at 10:12 AM
Resul Pookutty to turn director
By Subhash K. Jha, October 29, 2010 – 11:17 IST
Resul Pookutty Maverick sound designer Resul Pookutty who was propelled to international fame with his skilled use of sound in Slumdog Millionaire is all set to turn director with a film starring Amitabh Bachchan.
Though Resul is reluctant to reveal details, it is apparently an emotional father-son story that Resul has been scripting for some time.
When asked about it Resul says, “It’s something that I’ve been toying with for a long time. But to turn director I need to set aside my work in sound and devote myself entirely to that one thing. At the moment, I’m working on the sound for my second international project after Slumdog Millionaire.”
The film entitled The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel to be shot in Rajasthan and other parts of India gives Resul a chance to work with the young Slumdog star Dev Patel once again. But it is the film’s director John Madden that Resul is most excited to be working with.
Says Resul excitedly, “I’ve been in love with Madden’s film Shakespeare In Love for years. And now I’m getting to work with him and some of the most accomplished British actors like Dame Judi Dench, Julie Christie, Tom Wilkinson and Peter O’Toole.”
Resul is the only Indian in the crew. “Fox Searchlight who had produced Slumdog Millionaire specially asked for me. It feels like a great honour. For the first time since Slumdog…I’ll be doing live sound mixing.”
With projects like these coming his way, Resul finds it hard to wrench himself into a different direction.
About his debut as director, Resul says, “It’s really too early to talk about it. But yes it is a very emotional father-son subject. I’m a great fan of the work of Ritwitck Ghatak and by extension a fan of Ghatak’s disciple Sanjay Leela Bhansali. My film would be from that school. I love the melodrama that underlines the life of characters on screen.”
Resul says he immediately thought of Amitabh Bachchan for the father-son theme. “You can’t blame me for thinking of the best, can you?” says the sound designer currently enjoying the success of his sound design in Robot.
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October 29, 2010 at 10:13 AM
Bhansali might call himself a disciple but I’m amazed Pookutty thinks there something common between Ghatak and him!
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October 29, 2010 at 10:29 AM
Well the key is that he identifies melodrama there as well. Ghatak certainly wasn’t a stranger to melodrama. But yeah that’s pretty much where one would have to draw the line.
Of course one could also argue that the post-Black Bhansali has more in common with black-and-white era filmmakers as a whole.
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