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Pony Verma, Choreographer to wed Prakash Raj

Posted on 03 Feb 2010 at 2:34pm

Pony Verma is a popular choreographer and all set wed with South actor Prakash Raj. PonyVerma and PrakashRaj in the news for the past two years. Prakas Rai also had rumored that he is having an affair with his private secretary/make-up assistant Boney Varma. PrakasRaj taken divorce whom he earlier married with Laithakumari. Now,actor PrakashRaj and choreographer Poni Varma are all set to tie the knot mid this year. PoniVarma waited for big step in her carrier to marry this graet talanted actor. She is ver happy to make the relationship public is that Pony Verma has signed a Priyadarshan film and also work for Sanjay Leela Bhansali in Guzarish. Prakash Raj also planning to slowly, while last time he acted with Salman Khan in Wanted.

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National Awards, Prakash Raj is the winner of best actor | Winners list

Posted on 07 Sep 2009 at 4:38pm

Southern cinema made a clean sweep at the 55th National Awards announced today. Bollywood stars like Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan lost out to Prakash Raj , who bagged the award for Best Actor for his work in Priyadarshan’s brilliant Tamil film Kanchivaram. The film also bagged the Best Film award.

The Best Actress award went to Uma Shree for Girish Kasaravalli’s Kannada film Gulabi Talkies.

Adoor Gopalakrishnan bagged the Best Director award for his Malayalam film, Naalu Pennungal.

Taare Zameen Par bagged the Best Family Welfare Film Title while Shankar Mahadevan bagged the Best Playback Singer for its song, Maa. Prasoon Joshi bagged the Best Lyrics award for the same song.

Pankaj Kapur-starrer Dharam bagged the award for National Integration Award while Chak De! India bagged an award for Best Film in overall entertainment.

Feroz Abbas Khan bagged the Best Screenplay award for his film Gandhi, My Father. His film also bagged the Grand Jury award. Darshan Jariwala, who played Gandhi, bagged the Best Supporting Actor for the film.

Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan and Tamil character actor Prakesh Rai are front runners for the best actor award while Aamir Khan for the best director for his Taare Zameen Par in national film awards for 2007 which are likely to be announced on Monday.

While Shahrukh Khan is in race for his role in Chak De India Prakash Rai is a strong contender for his performance in Kanchivaram directed by Priyadarshan.

Chak De India is also a strong contender for the best film providing wholesome entertainment.

SRK, Aamir lose National Award for to Kanchivaram lead actor

By: Subhash K Jha Date: 2009-09-07 Place: Mumbai

The 55th National Awards, which were to be announced on Friday have now been pushed forward, probably to Monday, because of the tragic death of the Andhra chief minister.

Lost out

In a still from Kanchivaram

It is learnt from reliable sources within the awards committee that both the Khan superstars Shah Rukh and Aamir up for the best actor award for Chak De and Taare Zameen Par, respectively, lost the prestigious award to Tamil-Telugu-Kannada actor Prakash Raj.

Prakash Raj, it is reliably learnt, has won the award for his sterling performance as a silk weaver in Priyadarshan’s Kanchivaram. This would be his second National award. He earlier won the best supporting actor award for Mani Ratnam’s Iruvar. The film has also beaten popular entry Taare Zameen Par.

Another winner….

Contrary to reports in a section of the press, Anil Kapoor’s Gandhi My Father and SRK’s Chak De have lost the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Film On National Integration to Bhavna Talwar’s Dharm. Confirming this, Dharm’s producer Sheetal Talwar says, “Yes,our film has won the Nargis Dutt Award. My wife Bhavna is the first debutant director to win this award . Earlier, it went to stalwarts like Mani Ratnam.”

National Film Awards: Prakash Raaj best actor

Bharati Dubey, TNN 7 September 2009, 03:12pm IST

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MUMBAI: The National Film Awards for 2007 were announced on Monday. It is neither Shah Rukh Khan nor Aamir Khan but Tamil actor Prakash Raaj who

has won the best actor award for 2007 for his performance in Tamil film “Kanchivaram”.

Raaj had earlier won the best supporting actor award for his film “Iruvar” in 1998 and a special jury award in 2003.

Umashree got the best actress award for her performance in Girish Kasaravalli’s Kannada film “Gulabi Talkies”.

“Kanchivaram” has also been chosen as the best film for 2007. Directed by Priyadarshan, the film depicts the lives and times of silk-weavers of Kancheepuram in pre-Independent India.

The best child actor award went to Sharad Goyekar for his role in the Marathi film “Tingya”.

Darshan Zariwala got the best supporting actor award for his role in Feroz Abbas Khan’s film “Gandhi My Father”. There was also a special jury award for this film, which explores the troubled relationship between Harilal Gandhi and Mahatma Gandhi.

“Chak De India” bagged the award in the wholesome entertainment category and “Taare Zameen Par” in the family welfare category.

Playback singer Shankar Mahadevan has won the award for the song “Meri Maa” from the film “Taare Zameen Par”.

The jury was headed by Sai Paranjpe; other members included Ashok Viswanathan and Namita Gokhale. About 102 films and 106 non-feature films were considered.

The list had been finalized last week but because of the death of Andhra Pradesh chief minister YSR Reddy, the announcement was postponed.

Feroz Abbas Khan wins National Film Award

Feroz Abbas Khan, the theatre and film personality has bagged two National Film Awards, including Special Jury Award for best film and Best Screenplay Award for his film Gandhi My Father. He was also recently felicitated by Harvard University.

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National Film Awards

NOTED THEATRE and film personality Feroz Abbas Khan has bagged two National Film Awards, including Special Jury Award for best film and Best Screenplay Award for his film Gandhi My Father. A third award for best supporting actor also went to Darshan Jariwalla for Gandhi My Father.

At the forefront of Indian theatre today, Feroz Abbas Khan is recognised as much for exploring new forms, as for bringing Hindi theatre, mainstream recognition. In a career spanning more than two decades, he has directed some of India’s finest acting talent, both from stage and cinema.

From the intensely contemplative to the utterly exhilarating, from autobiographical one man shows to two character plays to full scale musicals….his pioneering productions have travelled extensively in India and abroad. His plays have been staged to packed audiences and international critical acclaim. The Lincoln centre and the United Nations in New York, the Memorial Hall-Stanford University, the Universal Studios Amphi-theatre in Los Angeles, the Waterman’s Arts Centre in London and the Durban Playhouse in South Africa are some of the theatres he has performed at. He continues to travel with his powerful plays to Europe, North America, far East Asia, Middle East, South East Asia and South Africa.

In line with a belief, that any pursuit of excellence, must go parallel to continued relevant social contribution; Feroz Abbas Khan’s theatre company has been silently but significantly associated with various committed social organisations; supporting and helping them raise funds and awareness.

As the first artistic director of the prestigious Prithvi Theatre in Mumbai, the throbbing hub of the young, the talented and the restless; Feroz, along with the late Jenniffer Kapoor spearheaded the International Prithvi Theatre Festival.

Proficient in various languages, he blends the Eastern tradition of story telling with Western sensibilities and modernity. His production of Peter Shaffer’s epic play ‘The Royal Hunt of The Sun’ and the recent contemporary Indian adaptation of Arthur Miller’s classic ‘Death of a Salesman’ are considered landmark events in Indian theatre.

His English theatre production of Mahatma v/s Gandhi created a sensation wherever it was staged. Major newspapers in India wrote laudatory editorials, news channels like BBC and NKK in Japan featured it in their prime time news and The New York Times called it ‘The finest English play to emerge from India in a long time’. Some of the finest acting talents like Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Anupam Kher, Kirron Kher, Farooque Shaikh, Seema Biswas, Satish Kaushik, Boman Irani and others have given their finest performances under his direction.

With ‘Gandhi- My Father’, Feroz made his first foray into the arena of motion picture. He was recently felicitated by Harvard University with a special screening followed by a discussion.

Prakash Rai also known as Prakash Raj, is an Indian actor and producer in Kannada, Tamil and Telugu language films. He made his debut in kannada movie “Anukoolakkobba Ganda” in 1991. Now he is one among the most popular actor in all south Indian movies.

National Award for the best actor has been given to Prakash Raj, who is an south indian most popular actor. Bollywood stars like Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan were on the listing top in the rank and of their performances and many of the fans expected the award will get one of the khan, but did’nt happened. Prakash who bagged the 55th National Awards for Best Actor for his work in Priyadarshan’s brilliant Tamil film Kanchivaram. The film also bagged the Best Film award.

The Best Actress award went to Uma Shree for Girish Kasaravalli’s Kannada film Gulabi Talkies.

Adoor Gopalakrishnan bagged the Best Director award for his Malayalam film, Naalu Pennungal.

Taare Zameen Par bagged the Best Family Welfare Film Title while Shankar Mahadevan bagged the Best Playback Singer for its song, Maa. Prasoon Joshi bagged the Best Lyrics award for the same song.

Pankaj Kapur-starrer Dharam bagged the award for National Integration Award while Chak De! India bagged an award for Best Film in overall entertainment.

Winners List

Best Actor Award : Prakash Raj for the film ‘Kanchivaram’.

Best Actress Award : Umashree for the film ‘Gulabi Talkies’.

Best Screenplay award : Feroz Abbas

Best Supporting Actor : Darshan Zariwala for film “Gandhi my Father.”

Best Supporting Actress: Shefali Shah for the film “The Last Lear”

Best Lyrics : Prasoon Joshi for the song ‘Ma..’ of ‘Taare Zameen Par’.

Best Film of the year : Kanchivaram

Best Director : Adoor Gopalakrishnan for film ‘Naalu Pennungal’ ( 7th time)

Best Film of the year : Kanchivaram

Best film for overall Entertainer : Chak De India

Best Family Welfare Award : Aamir Khan’s ‘Taare Zameen Par’

Best Film award for national integrity : Dharam

Best Playback singer : Shankar Mahadevan for the Song ‘Ma’ (‘Taare Zameen Par’).

Best Screenplay : Feroz Abbas Khan for “Gandhi my Father”.

Best Music Composer : Ouseppachan for ‘Ore Kadal’.

Best English Film: The Last Lear

The list of winners in some of the other categories are:

Best Film on Social Issues: Antardwandwa (Hindi)

Best Children’s Film: Foto (Hindi)

Best Animation Film :Inimey Naangathan (Tamil)

Best Supporting Actress: Shefali Shah (The Last Lear; English)

Best Child Artist: Sharad Goekar (Tingya; Marathi)

Best Female Playback Singer: Shreya Ghoshal (Jab We Met; Hindi)

Best Cinematography: Shankar Raman (Frozen, English)

Best Editing: B Ajith Kumar (Naalu Penugal; Malayalam)

Best Art Direction : Sabu Cyril (Om Shanti Om; Hindi)

Best Costume Designer: Ruma Sengupta (Krishnakanter Will, Bengali)

Best Make-up Artist attanam Rasheed (Paradesi, Malayalam)

Best Special Effects :M/S Indian Artists (Shivaji, Tamil)

Best Choroegraphy :Yeh Ishq Hai, Baithayi Bithaye (Jab We Met)

Best Book on Cinema : From Raj To Swaraj: The Non-fiction film in India

Best Film Critic :V K Joseph (Malayalam)

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Thoranai Movie Review | Pista Movie Review

Posted on 29 May 2009 at 5:32pm

Thoranai is the latest movie released in two languages in Tamil and “Pista” in Telugu starring Vishal and shreya and the story is based on the search of his brother.

Vishal (Murugan) is joyful guy who comes to the Chennai in search of his lost brother Ganeshan who ran away from his town due to his mother’s severe treatment. but the picture starts showcasing the mafia look played by Tamizharasan (Prakash Raj) and Guru (Kishore), vishla search leads to the group of these people who do a underground dealing with lots of clashes but Vishal’s brother is being involved into the group that unaware to the Vishal.

Thoranai seems to be not much held for the Vishal, he may have to dissappoint with his role in the movie, because the movie as already gone down in very 4 shows their are no crowd at the ticket window even it is released in various locations, the main draw back of the film is giving uwanted huge and over dailogues and showing over heroism that doesn’t suit at all to the Vishal’s in his early carrier in the film industry,lots and lots of stunts of yesteryear Tollywood style (1 Man Vs 30 Bullies),However an ordinary youngster (although hefty in looks) cannot walk straightaway into
horrendous gangsters’ and minister’s house without being stopped by anyone… Are the securities sleeping 24/7?

The questione arosed from many people, that scene made so funny and ridiculus, every time Vishal keeps uttering a punch dialogue, they’re so ludicrous.

Even from the popular co-artist Praksh Raj given so boaring dailogues. Prakash Raj and Kishore have nothing to do other than clashing with each other.comes to comedy is just made justice.

But overall Thoranai is sait to be one more flop for the youngster, even the experianced artist inthe picture not able to perform well because of its script.

Star-casts: Vishal, Shriya Charan, Prakash Raj, Kishore, Santhanam, Shiyaji Shinde, Santhanam, Lal, M.S. Bhaskar, Paravai Muniyamma, Sriman and many others.

Direction: Saba Ayappan