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‘Baahubali team heads to Cannes
Found working with Rajeev Ravi very motivating, says Romy
feature story‘Baahubali...’ team heads to Cannes
CHENNAI: Debutante Shaun Romy says she found working with filmmaker Rajeev Ravi in upcoming Malayalam film Kammati Paadam, starring Dulquer Salmaan in the lead, very motivating and invigorating. “Everyone around Rajeev spoke so greatly about his work on the sets. It automatically got me very motivated and the experience of working with him was very refreshing. He’s always calm on the sets and tells his actors to be in the moment,” Romy told IANS. In Kammati Paadam, Romy plays a character from the 1990s. “The only challenge about playing the role was getting the Kochi slang right. The dialect is different, and hence, I found it difficult to emote,” she said adding that getting into skin of the character wasn’t tough. “Once I wore the make-up and costumes, I didn’t find playing a role from the 1990s difficult, because I was also surrounded by people who
looked the same, like they were from the same era,” she said. The film also stars Rasika Dugal and Vinay Fort. She was working with a Bio Technology company before she was signed on for Kammati Paadama.
‘Rajamouli, Big B are my There have been favorite creative people’ areas where the B T Modi government has not had stellar performance and much needs to be done ‘24’: Tiresome time travel tripe with likeable performance by Suriya in security, health B among and education, others “Baahubali: The Beginning” will be leading a panel discussion at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival and is scheduled to be screened at the prestigious film fest IANS, MUMBAI
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he movie Baahubali: The Beginning’s director S.S. Rajamouli and producer Shobu Yarlagadda will be leading a panel discussion at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival. The southern magnum opus will also be screened at the prestigious film fest. Rajamouli, who got the Best Feature Film award at the recently held 63rd National Film Awards, will lead a discussion on virtual reality (VR) at the Marché du Film, a film market event taking place alongside the festival. The film festival will take place from May 11 to May 22.
And the film’s team will be part of the gala on May 16. The director of the film, producer along with Raja Koduri, will lead a panel discussion titled Increasing the Intensity and Scale of Epic Film Experiences through VR at the NEXT Pavilion, read a statement. The panel will discuss new opportunities that a storyteller has today through VR, to create experiences with unprecedented scale and immersiveness, the need for new technology and powerful graphics processors (GPU’s) to build these experiences and challenges in VR production and new ways to distribute these experiences to reach a mass audience.
The interactive panel will be streamed live via the official Facebook page of Baahubali: The Beginning. After the discussion, the film will be screened at Palais K at the Marché Du Film venue in Cannes. Baahubali: The Beginning, which was a box office wonder, has been lauded for being an imaginative film, monumental by its production values and cinematic brilliance in creating a fantasy world on the screen. Post its success, the second part of the film Baahubali: The Conclusion is the second part in the franchise and it is tipped to be made on a higher budget.
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aahubali: The Beginning” star Prabhas is elated over the film getting a National Film Award as well as Amitabh Bachchan picking up the Best Actor honor for Piku. Baahubali: The Beginning director S.S. Rajamouli received the Best Feature Film award at the recently held 63rd National Film Awards. And the actor says
his happiness was doubled as the award ceremony proved to be a visual treat with Rajamouli and Amitabh being captured in the same frame. “It is such a treat to see two of my most favorite creative people in one frame Rajamouli sir and Amitabh sir. They are so inspiring,” Prabhas said in a statement. Prabhas plays the title role in the film, and will be back in the second part of the movie
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e warned. This overblown overbaked sci-fi-meetsmythology-meets-Ekta Kapoor saga of time travel is strictly for Suriya aficionados. As expected, the actor is in full form here. Like Kamal Haasan, Suriya now threatens to become many sizes larger than his films. His recent films have either featured him in more than one role or as bombastic rhetoric-spewing unzippered heroes with motormouthed dialogues that looked designed for Rajinikanth. In 24, Suriya plays three roles. He is Sethuraman, an amiable scientist and his ‘watch mechanic’ (the term is used at least 34 times)
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Film: “24”; Director: Vikram Kumar; Cast: Suriya, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Nithya Menen; Rating: **
son, and his evil twin brother Athreya who slays the scientist and his wife (Nithya Menen) in what could easily be forsaken footage from a Quentin Tarantino film. The sheer gruesomeness of
Menen’s murder should have served as a chilling precursor to Athreya’s ruthlessly evil designs. However, his ensuing actions make him look more like a spoilt silly sibling than a super-villain who
hankers to get his scientist-brother’s time travel watch. The tiresome and over-cute relationship between Mani and his foster-mother (Saranya Ponvanan) seems to have been ripped off from Baahubali. Regrettably “24” has more bark than bite. It sets out to change the way Indian cinema looks at the sci-fi genre. The tension in the plot is substantially diminished by the writer’s zeal to be cleverer than the
audience. Time games are played between the characters with some catastrophic consequences to the narrative’s equilibrium. The special effects and the visual dazzle are largely mediocre. Tirru’s cinematography seems awed by its own wizardry. The action sequences are rugged but inconsistent. What holds this unwieldy saga together to some extent, is Suriya’s ebullient efforts to play the three characters at different scales. Finally though Suriya and the film’s ambitions are defeated by the quality of the writing which at best is mediocre. Suriya deserves better. —Subhash K. Jha
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Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull also deliberates on global trade and regional stability with Barack Obama
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull with Barack Obama. (File photo) Turnbull also Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade “I’ve had a good discussion this deliberates on deal between 12 nations which was morning (Thursday) with Presiustralian Prime Minister signed in February after seven years dent Obama on a range of global Malcolm Turnbull on of negotiations, and Turnbull said and regional issues, one of which global trade and May 12 discussed the while the TPP had been approved was the progress of the TPP trade threat of terror asregional well as in many nations, including Aus- deal,” Turnbull said. stability al trade and regional stability tralia, it was still under review in “As you know, it is another one US President Barack Obama. the Barack US, Xinhua reported. Despite of the big trade deals that has been with Obama oth the US and Australian gov- the delay, the prime minister said agreed (upon). It has to be ratified IANS. CANBERRA
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Obama to visit Hiroshima WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama will later this month become the first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima, the site of AmericaÂ’s devastating nuclear attack which killed 140,000 people. The White House confirmed the historic move in a statement on Tuesday after speculation that the president would include the city in his itinerary as part of his 10th trip to Asia. Obama will visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park with JapanÂ’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on May 27 to highlight “his continued commitment to pursuing the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons,” according to the White House. However, the outgoing US president, according to RT online, was
before the end of the year. So we’re very encouraged by that.” Turnbull said Obama also thanked Australia for its “extraordinary” contribution to the war against Islamic State (IS) in the Middle East, in which Australia has contributed both attack and support aircraft to the coalition effort. “(Obama) briefed me on developments there from his perspective
highly unlikely to offer any kind of official US apology for the devastating bombing. The US dropped nuclear weapons on Hiroshima in 1945 towards the close of the Pacific leg of the global conflict, as Japanese forces were all but defeated. Some 140,000 people were killed from the direct blast and radioactive fallout when America detonated an atomic bomb over the city on August 6, 1945. Around 90 percent of the city was destroyed in the resulting inferno. Secretary of State John Kerry visited Hiroshima in April, becoming the first US secretary of state to visit the city, but offered no apology for the atomic bombings. — IANS
and I did the same from ours. He thanked Australia for what he described as our extraordinary contribution to the battle against IS,” Turnbull said. The prime minister said the conversation also briefly turned to regional stability, with both leaders agreeing with that any issues in the Asian region must be “resolved peacefully”.
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