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Monday, August 1, 2016

चितवन मा चितुवा

चितुवालाई डार्ट हानेर बेहोस बनाउनु अघि कोठाको वरपर जालीले छेकिएको थियो । अँध्यारो र अप्ठ्यारो ठाउँमा रहेकाले सुरुको एक राउण्ड खेर गएको थियो । दोस्रो राउण्डले लागेपछि चितुवा बेहोस भएको थियो । चितुवा हेर्न बजारबासीको भीड लागेको थियो । प्रहरीलाई भीड थेग्न हम्मेहम्मे परेको थियो । सहर पसेको चितुवा लखेट्ने क्रममा शनिबार बिहान स्थानीयको घरमा पसेपछि बाहिर निस्केको थिएन ।
अनुमानित २ वर्षको भाले चितुवाको उचाई ५९ सेन्टिमीटर रहेको वरिष्ठ वन्यजन्तु प्राविधिक विष्णुबहादुर लामाले बताए । उनका अनुसार १ दशमलव ६९ मीटर लम्बाई चितुवाको पुच्छरमात्रै ६९ सेन्टिमीटर लामो छ । चितुवाको तौल करीब २५ किलोग्राम रहेको उनले बताए । चितुवालाई नजिकै जंगलमा छोडिएको छ । 

Monday, May 16, 2016

RANBIR KAPOOR PURCHASES AN APARTMENT WORTH RS. 35 CRORES AT PALI HILL

While everyone is aware of sky rocketing rates when it comes to Mumbai's real estate, Ranbir Kapoor's new purchase in the city has grabbed the attention of the media. The Barfi actor recently bought an apartment for Rs. 35 crores in the plush locality of Pali Hill in suburban Mumbai. 

Ranbir Kapoor who was said to be in a live-in relationship with co-actor Katrina Kaif in another apartment, started house hunting after the alleged break-up between the two. The new Bandra pad of the actor is a 2,640 sq.ft apartment which was bought at the rate of Rs. 1.42 lakhs per sq.ft. Located at the seventh floor of the Vastu Pali Hill, this deal is said to one of the biggest deals recorded in real estate. From what we hear, one of the major reasons for the same is that the Pali Hill area of Mumbai is occupied by some of the biggest names in Bollywood and further, the said apartment is also in close proximity to Ranbir's ancestral bungalow 'Krishna Raj'. 

Ranbir Kapoor is currently in Morocco shooting with Katrina Kaif for Jagga Jasoos and he is said to be shifting to his new residence once he wraps up the schedule of the same

THE TRUTH ABOUT NARGIS FAKHRI'S DEPARTURE

Everyone has a theory on why Nargis Fakhri suddenly left the country. Here's the truth. Nargis just got tired of trying to be a Bollywood actress. Yes, she upped and left because she couldn't cope with the demands of 'Bollywood'.

Friends say they saw it coming. Her going, I mean. "It has nothing to do with Uday Chopra at all," opines a male colleague who has worked with Nargis. "It has to do with her inability to fit into the Bollywood mould. She is not a coy eyelashes- fluttering bosom-heaving siren. She is more of a guys' guy than a girl. She discusses her breasts and burps in the same breath. She is a misfit. She just got tired of being told to behave like a Bollywood diva." 

When in 2011 Nargis made her debut in Rockstar, she was clueless about what she was doing. Unlike Katrina that other firangi stunner in Bollywood, Nargis didn't pretend to know what she was doing. She very honestly confessed to me that saying those lengthy dialogues was like doing a whole film in Chinese. 

Not much had changed three years later when did item songs in the Shahid Kapoor starrer Phata Poster Nikla Hero and in the Salman starrer Kick

She again honestly confessed to me that mastering those pelvic thrusts in the item songs were killing her. While fumbling to behave like a Bollywood queen Nargis also continued to say the most outrageous things in her interviews. Once she spoke without bashful stopovers, about her breasts. I pulled her up gently reminding her that Bollywood heroines don't talk like that. 

"Really?" she responded with genuine bewilderment. "I guess I still need to learn how to behave." 

To change herself, to conform, to become coy seems impossible for Nargis. She finally took a break and went back home to New York to be with her mother. Whether this break will last a month, as her spokesperson claims, or last for as long as Parveen Babi's break lasted, remains to be seen. 

But one thing is for sure. Nargis can never be the typical Bollywood diva. It's too much of an effort for her. 

COOKING UP ENTERTAINMENT: CINEMA ON FOOD

By this time next year, Saif Ali Khan will play the chef reconnecting with his estranged family with a food van in the Indian remake of Jon Favreau's 2014 Chef. Interestingly, it brings together the makers of two 100-plus crore grossers of 2016 in India-Favreau of Jungle Book and director Raja Krishna Menon of Airlift. Favreau had himself essayed the lead role in the original.

Food for thought: Will it be a guaranteed hit? Seems so, given its feel-good family story and fun ambience! But then Saif Ali Khan has played a chef with elan even before-in the 2005 rom-com Salaam Namaste, where again it was about finally reconnecting with his lost, live-in love, Preity Zinta. The film was a massive hit in Australia where it was shot, did well abroad and was a modest success in Indian cities.

But there's more news for the gourmands: Nana Patekar will similarly replace Prakash Raj, in the latter's Hindi debut as director, Tadka (loosely meaning the tempering done to a dish with oil and spices after it is cooked). Prakash had played the hero in the original Tamil version that he also directed, Un Samayal Arayil. The multi-lingual hit (in the South languages) has an interesting concept-four people unconnected with each other are finally brought together by-you guessed it!- food!

A 2016 release declared a clean success-that is, everyone from producer to distributor to exhibitor made profits-is the film Ki & Ka, a love story directed by R. Balki. The narration had leading man Arjun Kapoor drooling over the concept. In this film, he played a rich heir who prefers to be a homemaker while his executive wife works. He naturally is a skilled cook, rustling up exciting food too, and for the role, Arjun learnt how to cook, cut vegetables, and flip omelets like a seasoned cook and so on. In the 2010 flop Break Ke Baad, Imran Khan too had played a rich man's son whose dad wants him to join his business.

Hindi cinema is now as much of a global addiction as Indian food. In fact, our spicy gastronomic and celluloid recipes both keep winning new devotees all over the world every day. It is not for nothing that Kangana Ranaut, as Rani, attracts a European chef even in Queen as she prepares and serves spicy golgappeto the foreigners in their home country to win a cooking competition.

Off-screen, Elli Avram, who has mentally made India her home even before she settled here as an actor, even popularized Indian street-food on a cookery show for a leading Swedish channel recently.

Nevertheless, food has not been all that common as a theme in Hindi cinema. We do suspect Balki of being a great foodie though, for in his debut film Cheeni Kum, he got Amitabh Bachchan to play a 64 year-old pompous chef and restaurant owner in London, who falls for a 30-something girl whose father is younger to him! And in his production English Vinglish, a simpleton housewife (Sridevi) is an expert cook and sellsladdoos that she makes at home. Her cooking skills help her when she enrolls in an English conversational class in USA while on a trip.

Some 44 years ago, Hrishikesh Mukherjee spun a wonderful concoction called Bawarchi, in which Rajesh Khanna entered a dysfunctional joint family's household as a cook and all-purpose helper and gradually showed each member the error of his or her ways. He strategically won them over, literally using the proverb that the way to a man's (and in this case also a woman's) heart went through their stomachs!

In 1998, David Dhawan, ever the Hrishi-da aficionado, made Govinda reprise a similar role in his part-reworking of Bawarchi as Hero No.1. While the former film, well ahead of its times, did not do too well but became cult later, the latter was an instant hit.

A film that did well in certain centers was the amusing Mahesh Bhatt movie Duplicate with 'two' Shah Rukh Khans. The straight one is a chef and he is arrested as he is mistaken for a wicked and criminal lookalike.

Probably, the most extensive look at food in recent times was Daawat-E-Ishq, in which the chef hero (Aditya Roy Kapur) has a famous restaurant and who falls head-over-heels for a young girl (Parineeti Chopra), hell-bent on punishing suitors who ask for dowry. Obviously the resolution of their story was connected withkhaana as well. Sadly, this fairly riveting film came a cropper at the box-office.

Another flop that was fully food-centric was the 2005 Ramji Londonwaley, about a village cook sent to London to a fancy restaurant and his subsequent misadventures there. In Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana, it was all about a secret chicken recipe and its economic impact on a family. The interesting premise was marred by an overlong, tedious and needlessly dark narration for what was essentially a comedy. Kunal Kapoor was the grandson searching for the secret of his now-senile grandfather's special recipe that made their family restaurant a hit.

Many other films have also been named after food items without any connection with delicacies in their storylines, like Chocolate (a thriller) and Barfi! (an off-beat romance). But in the ultimate analysis, it's all about cooking up that filmi recipe that is considered delicious and consumed with relish by most of the audience.



PRIYANKA CHOPRA WRAPS UP THE SHOOTING OF BAYWATCH

The sensational Priyanka Chopra, who made splash all over (quite literally) with the Hollywood flick Baywatch, has now finally wrapped up shooting for the film. Priyanka Chopra, who was visibly in an extremely emotional mood, posted the following picture on Instagram, which has her kissing (presumably a good bye kiss) to her co-star. 

Priyanka Chopra captioned the photograph as "And it's a picture wrap on #Baywatch .. Such a beautiful epic team on an epic film. @therock @zacefron @sethnodrog @bubbakrush @kellyrohrbach @ilfenator @thejonbass @alexannadaddario and the entire crew that worked endlessly to make this happen.. Lots of amazing hugs and love came my way.. Much love and gratitude right back.. C you soon!".

BOX OFFICE: AZHAR BECOMES EMRAAN HASHMI'S SIXTH HIGHEST OPENING WEEKEND GROSSER

On Friday last week, we saw the release of the Emraan Hashmi, Nargis Fakhri and Prachi Desai starrerAzhar. Directed by Tony D'Souza, the film which is based on the life of ex-Indian cricketer Mohammed Azharuddin received positive reviews from the critics. 

In this box office report, we take a look at the Opening Weekend collections of
 Azhar while comparing them to Emraan Hashmi's previous releases. The film managed to collect Rs. 20.80 cr on its Opening Weekend, thus coming in the sixth place behind Emraan's previous releases like Raaz 3 that collected Rs. 36.02 cr, The Dirty Picture that collected Rs. 32.70 cr, Jannat 2 that collected Rs. 24.03 cr, Murder 2 that collected Rs. 22.35 cr and Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai that collected Rs. 22.01 cr. 

However, the film does manage to surpass Opening Weekend collections of Emraan Hashmi's other releases like
 Ek Thi Dayaan that collected Rs. 18.07 cr, Raja Natwarlal that collected Rs. 17.40 cr andHamari Adhuri Kahaani that collected Rs. 16.49 cr. 
Movie
Release
Weekend (CR)
Raaz 3
07-Sep-12
36.02
The Dirty Picture
02-Dec-11
32.70
Jannat 2
04-May-12
24.03
Murder 2
08-Jul-11
22.35
Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai
30-Jul-10
22.01
Azhar
13-May-16
20.80
Ek Thi Daayan
19-Apr-13
18.07
Raja Natwarlal
29-Aug-14
17.40
Hamari Adhuri Kahani
12-Jun-15
16.49
Dil To Bachcha Hai Ji
28-Jan-11
15.00
Mr. X
17-Apr-15
13.99
Ungli
28-Nov-14
12.80
Shanghai
08-Jun-12
12.10
Crook
08-Oct-10
7.00
Rush
26-Oct-12
2.10


OMG! NARGIS SUFFERING FROM NERVOUS BREAKDOWN

There has been a lot of speculation about Nargis Fakhri's recent no-show at events for her new release, Azhar. It is said that she is unwell and has flown off to New York. It has also been reported that she has had a nervous breakdown.

The hottie will also be missing from the promotions of her next film, Housefull 3. To quell rumours doing the rounds, her spokesperson yesterday released a list of illnesses that the actress is suffering from.

Nargis is said to have...

1. A torn hamstring.

2. Anterior knee ligament thinning.

3. Mild socket dislocation.


4. Burning of the stomach lining.

5. Lead and arsenic poisoning.

6. Fever of about 101 degrees right through.


Now, that's serious. Nargis sure needs a lot of love and care. Get well soon.

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