Slumdog wins three awards at BIFAS

London (PTI): Slumdog Millionaire, an English movie based on the award-winning novel of Indian Diplomat Vikas Swarup, won three awards at the British Independent Film Awards (BIFAS) ceremony here.

The story of the Danny Boyle's film featuring Anil Kapoor revolves around a Mumbai teenage boy who astounds all by doing well on 'Kaun Banega Karorpati', Indian version of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire quiz show.

The film won the award in the category of best film, best director and best newcomer (for its British lead actor).

The former artistic director of the Royal Court theatre, Boyle, was talk of the night and is already on many pundits' Oscar prediction lists.

Earlier, he has directed films like Trainspotting showing Edinburgh heroin addicts and The Beach in which Leonardo DiCaprio played the main role.

The young lead actor of Slumdog Millionaire, Harrow-born Dev Patel, best known to British audiences as Anwar in E4's Skins, won the best newcomer award.

The film tells the story of a Mumbai street child. As he does well on the quiz show, flashbacks chronicle his life, the realities of which Danny Boyle does not flinch from showing.

Boyle's film, a third of which is spoken in Hindi opens in the UK on January 9 but has already down well on the festival circuit and opened to fantastic reviews in the US.
Source: http://www.hindu.com/

Priyanka Chopra performs with 'Son Of a Bitch'

Priyanka Chopra performs with 'Son Of a Bitch'

Bollywood is known to be the 'Masala Industry' for nothing. The reason being this is one place whereby you can find millions of masala. After having tasted 'videsi' tadka like, the latest one being Snoop Dogg in Singh Is Kinng, Bollywood is all set to say hello to an underground club called…hold your breath… 'SoB' (son of a bitch) in Goldie Behl's much anticipated venture Drona. The song 'Oopcha' (whatever that means) which features none other than the sexy Priyanka Chopra, also features 'SoB'. For starters, 'SoB' are a troupe from New Jersey and are known to perform at all the celebrity do in New Jersey. News has it that Goldie Behl was so tad impressed with these guys that he actually brought them from New Jersey to Mumbai! And for those who have seen the guys performing simply swear by their blessedly agile bodies! Speaking about his choice of the boys, Goldie said, "When I saw these boys perform at a high profile club in New Jersey, I was completely blown away. These guys were really good. From there on, we initiated to get these guys down to Mumbai and start rehearsals for the song and it hardly took them two days of practice to get into the groove of the music and perform to their best take after take". But there was something exceptional done by the boys that touched Goldie the most. Says Goldie, "What was really special was that after we finished shooting, they actually performed the entire song for all of us, at one go as a thanks giving gesture". Wonder when Bollywood will be touched by such professionalism!

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Amitabh Bachchan opens diabetes charity in Britain:

Bollywood's Bachchan family togetherness is at an all-time high as they perform live in concerts across the world.

Their last stop is London where they perform over the weekend to a packed house at the O2 arena with a capacity of 20,000. It was largely a Bachchan family affair with Aishwarya gushing about why it was so special for her.

"Doing it with the love of my life. Wonderful to have pa, my father in law and my mother in law with us. It's a real honour," said Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.

"Getting to be very embarrassing. With your permission can I leave now," said Amitabh Bachchan.

The other stars who have on the Unforgettable tour with the Bachchans are Abhishek and Aishwarya's good friends Priety Zinta and Ritesh Deshmukh.

"Aishwarya really looked after me and pampered me, it is very cute," said Priety Zinta, actor.

"Mr Bachchan is so amazing on stage," said Ritesh Deshmukh. The last tour of this scale in Europe was Shah Rukh Khan's Temptation two months ago acknowledged as the most successful Bollywood showing overseas so far.

The London concert will probably decide whether the Bachchans have upstaged King Khan.

Source: http://movies.ndtv.com