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Directed by Ryan Kogler, director of Hollywood's successful commercial success in 2015, 'Creed' In the filming box, Michael B Jordan played the lead role and Sylvester Stallone was another important character. Sylvester played the role of Stalin Coach in the film. This year's sequel 'Crude-2' is coming this year.<br />
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According to DNA India, Michael B Jordan and Sylvester Stallone will again be seen in the same role in the 'Creed-2' movie. Stallone will play Michael and Coach as boxer. But this time Steven Kappell Jr is managing the film.<br />
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Stalin has already published a poster for 'Creed-2' via social networking. He wrote, "Creed-2 will fight well in November." Earlier, Michael B Jordan released the film's first look on June 20. Sylvester Stallone himself wrote the script for 'Creed-2'. The film is about to be released on November 2 this year.</div>

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PK has been released on December 5

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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><br /> <span class="hps">Christmas</span> <span class="hps">on</span> <span class="hps">December</span> <span class="hps">5</span> <span class="hps">release</span> <span class="hps">date</span> <span class="hps">has been</span> <span class="hps">starring</span> <span class="hps">Anushka Sharma</span> <span class="hps">PK</span> <span class="hps">Featured</span> <span class="hps">picture</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Aamir</span> <span class="hps">Khan</span> <span class="hps">in the film</span> <span class="hps">for the first time</span> <span class="hps">he has</span> <span class="hps">worked</span> <span class="hps">together</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">In the meantime,</span> <span class="hps">movie trailers</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">music</span> <span class="hps">has campaigned</span> <span class="hps">on various channels</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Happy New Year,</span> <span class="hps">after the</span> <span class="hps">peak</span> <span class="hps">of</span> <span class="hps">Khan</span> <span class="hps">Bollywood</span> <span class="hps">box office</span> <span class="hps">record</span> <span class="hps">of business success</span> <span class="hps">will also</span> <span class="hps">felt that</span> <span class="hps">one</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">The</span> <span class="hps">poster for</span> <span class="hps">the film</span> <span class="hps">to pose</span> <span class="hps">nude in</span> <span class="hps">a</span> <span class="hps">debate</span> <span class="hps">with the</span> <span class="hps">leader</span> <span class="hps">faced</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Anushka</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">announced</span> <span class="hps">he</span> <span class="hps">will soon</span> <span class="hps">be available</span> <span class="hps">at</span> <span class="hps">the</span> <span class="hps">poster of</span> <span class="hps">Aamir</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">But there</span> <span class="hps">is</span> <span class="hps">a naked</span> <span class="hps">anusakake</span> <span class="hps">found</span> <span class="hps">the</span> <span class="hps">police officers</span> <span class="hps">look</span> <span class="hps">anusakake</span> <span class="hps">transistor</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">So</span> <span class="hps">do not</span> <span class="hps">go</span> <span class="hps">thinking</span> <span class="hps">it's</span> <span class="hps">not</span> <span class="hps">making</span> <span class="hps">any gimmicks</span> <span class="hps">Anushka</span> <span class="hps">film.</span><br /> <span class="hps">Four steps</span><span>, as well as</span> <span class="hps">the title</span> <span class="hps">of a</span> <span class="hps">song in</span> <span class="hps">the</span> <span class="hps">film,</span> <span class="hps">great</span> <span class="hps">acting,</span> <span class="hps">fruity</span> <span class="hps">anusakake</span> <span class="hps">be found.</span> <span class="hps">In</span> <span class="hps">some parts of</span> <span class="hps">the song</span> <span class="hps">being aired</span> <span class="hps">now</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">But</span> <span class="hps">we have to wait</span> <span class="hps">for the</span> <span class="hps">release</span> <span class="hps">of</span> <span class="hps">the</span> <span class="hps">song</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Anushka</span> <span class="hps">bright</span> <span class="hps">scenes</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">then</span> <span class="hps">come to</span> <span class="hps">the front of</span> <span class="hps">the audience</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">The</span> <span class="hps">song</span> <span class="hps">can be seen</span> <span class="hps">to be</span> <span class="hps">close to the</span> <span class="hps">tranquil</span> <span class="hps">anusakake</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">Amir</span> <span class="hps">Anushka</span> <span class="hps">romantic</span> <span class="hps">songs</span> <span class="hps">with</span> <span class="hps">tranquil</span> <span class="hps">stay</span><span>!</span> <span class="hps">Many people</span> <span class="hps">think that</span> <span class="hps">maybe it</span> <span class="hps">would be</span> <span class="hps">a little</span> <span class="hps">fishy</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">But</span> <span class="hps">the</span> <span class="hps">director of the</span> <span class="hps">surprise</span> <span class="hps">witness</span><span>.</span> <span class="hps">There are</span> <span class="hps">several</span> <span class="hps">camakai</span> <span class="hps">film</span><span>,</span> <span class="hps">which</span> <span class="hps">only</span> <span class="hps">allows</span> <span class="hps">viewers to enjoy</span> <span 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Raj's 'Taarkanta' in censor board

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Muhammad Mustafa Kamal Raj director film 'Taarkanta' has been sent to Film Censor Board for the review and scrutiny of the film and for issuing certificates of its release.</div>
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Raj said, " It has been taken two months for shooting and editing of the film. We have perfectly completed its visual effects and background music. We hope the film will get certificates without any cut."</div>
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Raj is expected to release the film in movie theatre at the end of the month.</div>
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The casts of the film are Moushumi, Arifin Shuva, Meem, Azaz, Faruk Ahmed and others.</div>
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The singers of the film are Bangladeshi Baby Nazneen, Kana, Arfin Roomy, Parvez, Puja, Nawmi, Liza and Kheya and Indian Sunidhi Chauhan, Mamata Sharma and Palak Muchal.</div>
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The ten worst Irish accents in Hollywood movies

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he Irish accent, judging from some of Hollywood's attempts at it over the years, must surely be one of the most difficult for actors to master.</div>
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Read down through our list or use the playlist on the right to listen to the top 10 Worst Hollywood Irish accents!</div>
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1. SEAN CONNERY IN DARBY O'GILL AND THE LITTLE PEOPLE"</div>
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The gold standard to judge against all other bad Irish accents must surely remain Sean Connery's portrayal of Michael McBride, in the Walt Disney classic "Darby O' Gill and the Little People."</div>
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2. SEAN CONNERY IN "THE UNTOUCHABLES"</div>
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That was in 1959; by 1987, when he starred as the tough Irish cop Jim Malone in "The Untouchables," things had scarcely improved (though ironically, he nabbed the Best Supporting Actor Oscar).</div>
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It's not just the Irish accent that the Bond star has grappled with it - no doubt he also made the cut for some Top 10 List of Bad Russian Accents for his portrayal of Captain Marko Ramius,  in  "The Hunt for Red October."</div>
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3. KEVIN SPACEY IN "ORDINARY DECENT CRIMINAL"</div>
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Every so often, U.S. actors - even really good, respected actors like Kevin Spacey - come out with stuff like "Ordinary Decent Criminal," a fairly unremarkable movie save for the fact that the main stars all try to outdo one another on the bad Irish accent front.</div>
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It's a kind of bizarre concoction of various Irish regional accents - a little bit of Dublin, a touch of Northern Ireland - that slips into American every fifth sentence or so.</div>
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It's astonishing that Colin Farrell, a native Dubliner, didn't think of saying to Spacey, "What the f**k, Kevin?! No one in Ireland, and I mean no one, talks like that! Now go get a voice coach and give the Oirish accent a rest!"</div>
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This mustn't have happened - and indeed, the director, Thaddeus O'Sullivan, himself an Irishman, somehow failed to spot that Spacey's co-star, Linda Fiorentino, had an equally ridiculous accent. Shame on both O'Sullivan and Farrell for not spotting these...</div>
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It remains a mystery why this film actually got made, when John Boorman's "The General" - a movie about the same thing - came out before it, and is vastly superior.</div>
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4. TOMMY LEE JONES IN "BLOWN AWAY"</div>
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One of the other stock Irish characters in Hollywood movies is the Irish terrorist. (For example, Sean Bean in "Patriot Games," Brad Pitt in "The Devils Own," Richard Gere in "The Jackal," etc.)</div>
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Perhaps the worst bad Irish accent offender from the Irish terrorist category is Tommy Lee Jones' portrayal of Ryan Gaerity in "Blown Away," above and beyond the worst Northern Irish accent you are every likely to hear. Real-life Northern Irish terrorists must have been disgusted that their movement could be insulted with such a woeful accent.</div>
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5. JULIA ROBERTS IN "MICHAEL COLLINS"</div>
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Like Sean Connery, Julia Roberts is a repeat bad Irish accent offended: in 1996, she played Kitty Kiernan, the lover of Michael Collins in the movie of the same name.</div>
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(Although English actor Alan Rickman, playing Eamon de Valera in that movie does a pretty good job in his Irish accent - shame he didn't pass on any tips to Roberts.)</div>
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6. JULIA ROBERTS IN "MARY REILLY"</div>
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Things went from bad to worse for Roberts in "Mary Reilly," which was also released in 1996.</div>
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In it, she plays the title role, an Irish housemaid who becomes embroiled in a love affair with her employer Dr. Jekyll, and his alter ego, Mr. Hyde.</div>
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Apparently, Roberts had a voice coach for the part - and Roberts spokeswoman told a tabloid, "Julia wants her voice to be authentic."</div>
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Do yourself a favor, Julia - the next time you play an Irish character in a movie, get yourself a new voice coach.</div>
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7. TOM CRUISE IN "FAR AND AWAY"</div>
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To be perfectly fair to the much pilloried Tom Cruise, his Irish accent in "Far and Away" is truly appalling.</div>
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Joseph Donnelly, the 19th century Irish peasant played by Cruise, sounds like how a Hollywood film executive imagines Irish people talk.</div>
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If Cruise's Irish accent has any redeeming features it's that it might fall into the "It's so bad, it's funny" category of Irish on screen accents.</div>
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It also diverts attention from Nicole Kidman's efforts at an Irish accent in the same movie. (In one scene, Cruise tells Kidman, "Yer a corker, Shannon. What a corker you are!" - a well known Irish pick-up line.) While being fairly feeble, it's not the crime against Irish humanity perpetrated by her ex-husband, to be sure, to be sure.</div>
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8. BRAD PITT IN "THE DEVIL'S OWN"</div>
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While not sinking to the same depths as Richard Gere in "The Jackal," Brad Pitt still manages to embarrass himself - and indeed anyone from Northern Ireland - with his efforts at playing Frankie Gallagher, an IRA man on-the-run.</div>
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Apparently, Pitt spent a few days hanging around Belfast to perfect a Belfast accent. (He was even attacked in West Belfast while he was researching the role.)</div>
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Probably could have done with a few more days in Belfast....</div>
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9. GERARD BUTLER IN "P.S. I LOVE YOU"</div>
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Everyone involved in the making of this film, from the producer to the coffee maker, should be rounded up and shot - it's that bad.</div>
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First on the list to go is Gerard Butler, who plays lovable Irishman Gerry Kennedy, and whose Irish accent is only one of the many problems in this pretty awful film.</div>
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Sean Connery has shown that even Scottish actors can have trouble with an Irish accent - a point also demonstrated by Butler in this movie.</div>
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P.S. Gerry, your accent sucks.</div>
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10. THE LEPRECHAUN IN "LEPRECHAUN"</div>
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Like many of the films featured on this list, this movie falls into the "It's so bad, it's good" category. And it's hard not to laugh at a movie with the tagline, "Your luck just ran out."</div>
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This horror gained something of a cult following, and was also notable for giving Jennifer Aniston one of her first roles.</div>
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Of course, in a movie about Leprechauns, anything less than a ridiculous "Oirish" accent would be a total shock - and Leprechaun doesn't disappoint.</div>
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Set to make her red carpet appearance on 18 and 19 May at the 67th annual Cannes International Film Festival, the actress feels that if one embraces one’s body the way it is, then one would look beautiful.</div>
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“Every year, I have been trying to bring in Indian elements with my look and appearance. When I go on an international platform, I try to promote Indian designers as much as I can because we have such a talented crop in our country,” she said.</div>
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“So whether I am attending fashion shows abroad or press events, I try to add Indian element to my look,” Sonam told IANS in an interview over phone from Mumbai.</div>
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Even for her western look, the daughter of designer Sunita Kapoor and actor Anil Kapoor added a hint of Indian accessories.</div>
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“In one of my previous appearances when I wore a floral Dolce and Gabbana gown, I teamed it up with a neck piece that my mother (Sunita) made. So it was an Indian setting. Even if I don’t wear Indian dress, I try to put in an Indian element consciously,” she added.</div>
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The Aisha actress will attend the festival as the brand ambassador of L’Oreal Paris and this season she will promote an Indian skin tone with the brand’s latest line L’Or Lumière collection.</div>
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“We are trying to do something that is classic, something that is not just fashionable but can be easily related to by regular crowd too. My look is elegant and beautiful and universal. We are trying to promote Indian skin tone through a range of bronze, gold shades along with pops of colours,” she said.</div>
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But the actress has never tried too hard to remain stylish.</div>
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“I try to dress up according to my size. One shouldn’t follow trend and try to be something that you are not and this is what I have been telling to all the regular girls. I have regular kind of body for instance I have got big hips and I have Punjabi arms so I need to dress-up according to my body.”</div>
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“I remember a couple of years back, I did an interview and they asked whether I will wear a swim suit or bikini so my answer was ‘why not, of course, I will wear it as a real girl’. In one of my latest films where I wore a bikini, I didn’t try to become like really skinny and then go for a swimsuit. I wanted to be like a regular girl.</div>
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Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Freida Pinto are the other L’Oreal Paris brand ambassadors from India who will attend the event on 16, 17 May and 17, 18 May respectively.</div>
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So for Sonam, who does she think has made the most impressive appearance on Cannes so far?</div>
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“Nothing is more stylish and sexier than an Indian sari and nothing is more elegant than angrakha and nothing looks better than sherwani,” she said.</div>
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George Clooney gets engaged to British girlfriend Amal

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Oscar-winning heartthrob George Clooney, one of Hollywood's most coveted bachelors has got engaged to his British lawyer girlfriend, Amal Alamuddin, People magazine reports.</div>
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"George and Amal are trying to keep things very low-key but they also aren't really trying to hide this, it doesn't seem," the celebrity publication reported, citing an unnamed source "with knowledge of the situation."</div>
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"I think it's like they want the people they love to know that this is real, that they plan on being together forever," the source said.</div>
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The engagement happened "not that long ago, I think," according to the source, which added that there don't appear to be any wedding plans yet.</div>
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A different source told the magazine that Clooney and Alamuddin were seen on Thursday at a swank Los Angeles restaurant dining with supermodel Cindy Crawford and her husband, described as longtime Clooney friends. At that time Alamuddin was wearing a "huge ring," the witness told the magazine.</div>
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Clooney, 52, has had a string of younger model and actress girlfriends over the years but shown little interest in settling down.</div>
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Alamuddin, 36, is a British attorney specializing in international law and human rights. Clooney has long shown interest in human rights issues such as the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.</div>
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They came out as a couple in October in London and since have been seen together in New York and on trips to places like Tanzania and the Seychelles Islands.</div>
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Nymphomaniac

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: Having found a love-like feeling for Jerôme (Shia LaBeouf), "restful domestic comfort" has, at the outset of Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac: Volume II, robbed the young Joe (Stacy Martin) of her orgasm. Naomi Wolf documented a similar problem in her 2012 book Vagina; the similarities between Joe and Naomi Wolf end there. For Joe, the loss appears less tied to pleasure than to identity, and so rather than seeing a pelvic nerve man and scheduling back surgery, Joe eventually resorts to K (Jamie Bell), an elfin bloke peddling his masochistic services out of a clinically furnished office. "What do you get out of it?" the adult Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) asks before her first walloping. "That's my business," K replies darkly. "Don't ask again."<br />
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<br />But asking again is a task central to von Trier, one he appears to acknowledge with this and other of the film's self-reflections. Gainsbourg has referred to her scenes with Bell as the most humiliating to perform, which makes sense: They are the most painfully real moments in a film layered with detachment and pretense, most obviously in its depictions of sex, which, in a Dogme-bound perversion, are neither real nor realistic. Instead, a resolve to be plain led to sex that is faked in the most elaborate way, with porn doubles, digital grafting, and prosthetics. What von Trier has repeatedly referred to as "a porn film" is powered by common (if graphic) simulation, wherein each character expresses some part of the director's fractious psyche.<br />
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The conversation at the center of Nymphomaniac occurs between the adult Joe and the passerby (Stellan Skarsgard) who finds her prone and beaten at the beginning of Volume I. His name, Seligman, means "blessed man" in German; it sounds more like "silly man" in Gainsbourg's airy, deceptively girlish voice. They cradle mugs of tea in Seligman's decaying guest room, surrounded by peeling, stained wallpaper and objects — like the fishing lure in Volume I and a Christian icon here — that provide a haphazard structure for Joe's picaresque, shown in flashback, of sexual annihilation.<br />
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At issue is the quality, even the basic quantity of Joe's soul after years of enslavement to her impulses. Joe describes an unresolvable divide between society and sexuality and finds little dear in the human race, especially herself. Seligman claims his virginity makes him a better judge of her character; it certainly lends itself to his relentless countering of experience with knowledge. He compares teenage sex trolling to fly-fishing and S&M to crucifixion; an especially esoteric bit tries Joe's patience. "I think this was one of your weakest digressions," she says coldly.<br />
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But the story is not really the story here. With its dreary pan-continental setting, random chapter headings, wry self-references (notably to Breaking the Waves, Manderlay, and Antichrist), and indifferent handling of continuity (Joe and Jerôme are parents to a perennial infant), Nymphomaniac is a jigsaw opus, an extended and generally exquisitely crafted riff. Story, theme, and character (despite Gainsbourg's captivations) bow to von Trier's gamesmanship, which makes his own promiscuities the film's true subject.<br />
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The images of sexuality are powerfully sterile, often mordantly hilarious. A restaurant scene involving Joe and a vast number of sundae spoons serves no purpose but to set up a visual gag involving a nonplussed Udo Kier. At one point, the screen is held by a merkin so droll that with a mic and a cigarette, I thought, it might crack a few jokes. At another, two African men argue an orgiastic point of order while a naked Gainsbourg sits ignored between them, framed by the impressive drawbridge of their erections. (Joe is rarely the focus of her interludes, nor is her pleasure.) By some mitigating, von Trierian necessity, Joe's suffering — and she is never more wretched than when she finally claws back that orgasm — feels most intimate when Nymphomaniac descends to the gallows.<br />
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Of this compulsive tale of compulsion, virgins may not make the best judges. Which makes its value both harder and more necessary to explain. Rather than answers, I have more questions: about a self-identified nymphomaniac (not sex addict; too bourgeois) who finds ultimate relief not in sexual agency but story. About a director who engineers female avatars that protect and indict him. Who also seeks in narrative the possibility of meaning, or at least respite from some more brutal, less cooperative truth.<br />
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If Joe had been a man, there would be no story, we are told. What about a hoarder, a cutter, a binge eater? Such details are not interchangeable, of course, and bear a certain dramatic recourse, one von Trier appears to at once relish and discount. What does it mean? Why make these choices, which are not random, and then insist on a world in which chaos reigns? I ask again, with pleasure.<br />
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Tribeca: Roman Polanski's Erotic, Furious Venus in Fur and Onur Tukel’s Summer of Blood

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Tribeca: Roman Polanski's Erotic, Furious Venus in Fur and Onur Tukel’s Summer of Blood

ollowing on the heels of 2011’s Carnage, Roman Polanski again transports the stage to the screen with Venus in Fur, an adaptation of Dav...

Tom Hiddleston Threatens to One Day Play a Normal Guy

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Tom Hiddleston can pull off extreme looks. In The Avengers, he strutted around in Loki's two-foot horned helmet. For Midnight in Paris, he finessed F. Scott Fitzgerald's prim finger waves. And in his latest, Jim Jarmusch's vampire romance Only Lovers Left Alive, Hiddleston lounges bare-chested in velvet-cuffed robes. The only style he can't swing — at least, as far as casting directors seem to think — is modern, everyday mortal.<br />
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Consider his last 12 months. As if out to prove his range, the 33-year-old British actor played a god in a Marvel blockbuster (Thor: The Dark World), took Only Lovers to Cannes, clocked three months performing Coriolanus in a 250-seat London theater that was once a banana-ripening house, and, three days after the closing curtain, bounced to Toronto, where he's shooting the Victorian ghost story Crimson Peak with Guillermo del Toro. ("He's like a great Mexican bear," he laughs. "I hug him every day, repeatedly.") Even with all that, there's a huge swath of things he has yet to do: contemporary thrillers, clever dramedies, romantic comedies and anything, well, normal.<br />
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"It's crazy, because I was born in 1981 and I'm alive and well in 2014 — it's not that I'm conscientiously not doing contemporary stuff," insists Hiddleston. "I think it's really difficult to make a good romantic comedy. I'd love to play them; they just don't tend to come my way at the moment. I'm taking it as a compliment one way or another, but it's very much an ambition of mine to wear jeans."<br />
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Tom Hiddleston Threatens to One Day Play a Normal Guy

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Apu returns with "Daring Lover"

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Apu returns with "Daring Lover"

After a long absence, actress Apu Biswas returns on the silver screen in Badiul Alam Khokan's "Daring Lover". "Daring...

Frozen soundtrack no.1 for 10th week

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Disney’s Frozen soundtrack has spent a 10th non-consecutive week at the top of the Billboard 200 chart in United States.</div>
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The album becomes one of only 11 albums to have topped the US chart for 10 weeks or longer.</div>
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It has now also equalled The Lion King’s chart-topping record for an animated film.</div>
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The soundtrack, which includes the Oscar-winning track "Let It Go", sold 133,000 copies in its 20th week in the chart, reports BBC online.</div>
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"Let It Go" is number 11 in the UK singles chart and has spent 18 weeks in the top 40, according to the official chart company.</div>
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The soundtrack beat off competition from Pharrell Williams’ Girl, which sold 29,000 copies and climbed seven places to number two on the Billboard 200 chart.</div>
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Last month, Frozen became the highest-grossing animated film of all time.</div>
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The film recently reached $1.072 (£644.5m) billion at the worldwide box office, overtaking the revenue of previous record holder Toy Story 3.</div>
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Frozen, which stayed in the top 10 films on domestic box office charts for more than three months, has also now become the 10th-largest grossing film in cinema history.</div>
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Disney’s Frozen soundtrack has spent a 10th non-consecutive week at the top of the Billboard 200 chart in United States. The album bec...

The early days of Farooki

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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: georgia, Regular; font-size: 12px; line-height: 22px;">Mostafa Sarwar Farooki needs no introduction to the country's film and TV fans. He has created an identity as a filmmaker, and has brought home international acclaim with his works. The talented filmmaker recently talked to The Daily Star about his past endeavours in the field and golden childhood times.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: georgia, Regular; font-size: 12px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: georgia, Regular; font-size: 12px; line-height: 22px;">“In my younger days in Nakhalpara, we spent our time playing pranks on local boys, introducing funny creative games and setting up stages for plays, I think that the seeds of filmmaking were sown in me at that time. The golden days at Nakhalpara still resonate in my mind.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: georgia, Regular; font-size: 12px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: georgia, Regular; font-size: 12px; line-height: 22px;">“Although I'm not so talented, I am lucky to have secured a position in the film world. Actually I can't create anything new until I am pushed by someone. I always received huge acclaim from the audience for my insight into the very psyche of my characters. I would say that both the light and dark sides of the life clearly emerge in my films.    </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: georgia, Regular; font-size: 12px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: georgia, Regular; font-size: 12px; line-height: 22px;">“As Nakhalpara is a microcosm of people from different districts, I could easily mix with a wide range of residents. As such, it is easy for me to read ordinary people's minds even though I did not go to university. And I think such ability is far better than achieving fancy degrees from iniversities.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: georgia, Regular; font-size: 12px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: georgia, Regular; font-size: 12px; line-height: 22px;"> “When I was a tenth grader, I hung out with the seniors in Shahbagh and after the SSC examinations I would spend a lot of time at Aziz Super Market. I met renowned personalities like Waheedul Haque and of course Belal Chowdhury, who is a father-figure to me. I am ever grateful to this man.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: georgia, Regular; font-size: 12px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: georgia, Regular; font-size: 12px; line-height: 22px;">“I spent several nights in Public Library and at a tea stall in Suhrawardy Uddyan along with Badal, Zahid Bhai, Palash, Abdullah Rana, Pathik Nabi, Marzuk Russel and Tokon Thakur.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: georgia, Regular; font-size: 12px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: georgia, Regular; font-size: 12px; line-height: 22px;">“The movie I first watched at Shahin Cinema Hall was “Sishnag”. When my projects “Third Person Singular Number” and “Television” were released at the theatre I felt the presence of little Sarwar when I watched the films.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: georgia, Regular; font-size: 12px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: georgia, Regular; font-size: 12px; line-height: 22px;">“I presented my first love story on 'Television' that my wife knew very well about. She was the younger sister of one of my friends in Nakhalpara. But, finally she broke off the relationship. After the break up, I was determined to be a successful man one day so that she would realise what a great mistake she had made.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: georgia, Regular; font-size: 12px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: georgia, Regular; font-size: 12px; line-height: 22px;">When I was younger, I failed at soccer and cricket despite repeated attempts. Finally, I started writing poems but fate betrayed me here too as Tokon Thakur and Marzuk Russel were already established poets. I definitely subscribe to the adage that failure is the pillar of success. It made me start working very hard.”</span></div>
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Actor Govinda`s wife Sunita, who accompanied her husband to International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) 2014, says that her daughter Narmada has refused 30 films in three years.</div>
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Narmada has been planning to make her debut for a long time and when asked when will she be launched, Sunita said: "She has refused 30 films in last three years. <img alt="narmadaa-producer" class="jwMediaContent image" data-jadewitsmedia="{'status':'success','id':'26598','ext':'jpg','thumb':'//en.prothom-alo.com/contents/cache/images/110x110x1/uploads/media/2014/04/27/535cf340cf582-narmadaa-producer.jpg','path':'media/2014/04/27/535cf340cf582-narmadaa-producer.jpg','name':'narmadaa-producer','pushClass':'jwMediaContent','type':'image','title':'Gavinda' daughter Narmadaa','width':'650','link':'','target':'','alt':'narmadaa-producer','height':'','align':''}" height="456" src="http://en.prothom-alo.com/contents/cache/images/650x0x1/uploads/media/2014/04/27/535cf340cf582-narmadaa-producer.jpg" style="margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;" title="Gavinda' daughter Narmadaa" width="640" /><br style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />She wants to do Govinda kind of films. She wants to do comedy films. She is in talking terms with many people now let`s see."</div>
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"Narmada doesn`t like to work under pressure. Yes being a star kid there will be a lot of expectations from her as she will also be compared to her father Govinda," she added.</div>
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"Before doing any films he takes my opinion on that and if I don`t like the subject, he doesn`t do that film. I am the boss at home (laughs). Its been 30 years of our marriage and it has been a great journey so far. He is a wonderful husband, father, son..."</div>
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<span class="jw_media_holder jwMediaContent" id="media_0" style="display: inline-block; margin: 0px 0px 10px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 634px;"><img alt="katrina." height="640" src="http://en.prothom-alo.com/contents/cache/images/650x0x1/uploads/media/2014/04/27/535cf533cb9b7-katrina..jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="640" /></span><br style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Katrina Kaif has got hurt while rehearsing dancing together with Hrithik Roshan in the much-awaited film, "Bang Bang".</div>
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In her attempt to match up with the Hrithik Roshan's dancing skills, Kat had a muscle pull, reports Znews.</div>
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With Katrina getting hurt this time, rumor has it that the much expected release of 2014 "Bang Bang'' has turned into a jinx. Earlier, it is Hrithik that kept delaying the shooting of the film.</div>
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You can be a passionate artist who has the potential to be an extraordinary performer. And Dubai has no shortage for talented people. The city, with its vibrant cultural diversity, has a pool of talent in the field of music, art and filmmaking, among other forms of art.</div>
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However, unless there is a platform to display creative talents, every artist knows that his life’s work is pointless.</div>
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As a welcome relief, that is where BreaKThrough comes in. BreaKThrough is the UAE’s first mixed arts platform that aims to nurture and promote the arts and entertainment scene by bridging the gap between rising and established artists and their respective art forms.</div>
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The first installment of the mixed arts show opened to a small, intimate crowd on Friday (March 28) at the Courtyard Playhouse.</div>
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Two acts consisting of seven performers performed spoken word, dance and music; and screened original films. The brainchild of Indian national Fabian Martin and Russian national Elena Solina, the first installment was a smashing success among those who attended.</div>
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Solina, who is an entrepreneur and the manager of the band ‘Behold the Locus’, said: “The whole point of BreaKThrough is to create a platform for passionate artists who are eager to perform.”</div>
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Martin, the lead guitarist and spokesperson of Behold the Locus, who worked alongside Solina to make BreaKThrough a reality, said: “This is something I have been working on for about a year now. It is something all of us are passionate about. Dubai has several big venues for big performers and big artists. But there is nothing for smaller artists, which is not very encouraging for young upcoming artists.”</div>
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The acts included Jruzz Merca, a Dubai-based Commercial photographer and videographer; contemporary dance duo Guin and Talin Harbiyan; solo dancer Tara Tibos; poets Daabelle Gutierrez, and Zeina Hashem Beck; filmmaker Faisal Hashmi; and musicians Behold the Locus, and The Younglings.</div>
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Martin added: “We are looking to make this a monthly event and are open to getting artists from different creative backgrounds.”</div>
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Award winning UAE based short filmmaker Faisal Hashmi, who premiered his short movie ‘Scrambled’, said: “The event was great mainly because it was a cozy setup and even if people goofed up, the crowd encouraged them to carry on.”</div>
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Tara Tibos, who performed a contemporary/ballet piece, said: “My piece basically depicts the life of a dancer. The sacrifice, hard work and dedication that comes along with taking up the career of a dancer.”</div>
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Bollywood's biggest awards show in America

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ighlighting the international appeal of India's Bollywood film industry, the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards event is being held in the US for the first time in Tampa, Florida, Saturday.</div>
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"This year, Bollywood, its glittering stars and its legions of fans, have come to Tampa," National Public Radio (NPR) reported noting, "At nearly all of the events held this week in downtown Tampa, the soundtrack has been throbbing Indian pop.</div>
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"At an outdoor dance concert, several thousand people -- mostly Indian-Americans -- gathered at a park on Tampa's waterfront."</div>
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"DJs provided the music and there were food vendors, families on blankets and even a flash mob courtesy of a couple of dozen young people breaking out into a choreographed dance routine," NPR said.</div>
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In the past, these Bollywood awards have been held in international cities like Bangkok, Amsterdam and Singapore. But "they wanted to introduce the Bollywood brand to the United States," Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn told NPR.</div>
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"It had never been here before, so they picked a city where there's a big Indian-American community, with the biggest media market in the state of Florida. So it made sense for a lot of reasons, and one thing we know how to do is put on a big show."</div>
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"This is nothing but glitz and glam and lights and music and beautiful people," Buckhorn said.</div>
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Indian-Americans and some non-Indian fans have flocked to the Bollywood events this week,</div>
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Tickets to Saturday night's awards spectacular at Tampa's football stadium go from a hundred dollars into the thousands.</div>
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More than 20,000 people are expected, and IIFA estimates the worldwide TV audience in the hundreds of millions, according to NPR.</div>
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There are also red carpet events this week, where fans can see their favourite stars up close, NPR said.</div>
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One of those stars is Anil Kapoor, well known even to Western audiences for his role in "Slumdog Millionaire". Kapoor was everywhere in downtown Tampa this week; dancing, cutting ribbons and doing his best to charm fans and the media.</div>
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"Congratulations to all the people of Tampa Bay. Tampa Bay, we love you, you're the best," he said to excited fans.</div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Director</strong>:  Khalid Mahmood Mithu<br style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Stars</strong>: Bidya Sinha Mim, Emon, Kalyan Corraya and many others<br style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Runtime</strong>: 102 min<br style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Strength</strong>: Cinematography, direction and story<br style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Weakness</strong>: Acting, slow at times<br style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Showbiz Rating</strong>: 2/5<br style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Plot</strong>: From its apparent triangular love story, it conveys Kabita's attempt to address the Oedipus complex of the children.<br style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Review</strong>: National Award winning director Khalid Mahmood Mithu attempts to bring diversity in storytelling and a shift in presentation in his movie 'Jonakir Alo (The Glow of the Firefly)'. The movie is about Kabita's (Bidya Sinha Mim) complicated triangular love story with Shuborno (Emon) and Shomudro (Kalyan) at one hand and her attempt to solve the 'one house, one room' crisis of the marginalized people that poses threat to the psycho-sexual development of the children.<br style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" />     Being inspired by S.M Sultan's philosophy that the children living in a single room house while see their 'father over their mother in the darkness of night' creates a sense of fear about their father, Kabita shows her earnest desire to solve the crisis and work for the children. She finally comes up with the idea of temporary partition system that would allow privacy for the couple in the family and ensure children of a normal growing up environment. On the other hand, the unfortunate Kabita, who is unable to concieve, struggles to maintain her family but in vain. However, her love affairs outdo the tension of her family bond. She cannot decide who to choose from Shomudro and Shuborno.<br style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" />Unlike the traditional bangla movie, it does not represent the patriarchal society as commanding over the women. Rather it shows how patriarchal commands yields to the fights of a woman through Kabita's success in bringing her husband Shuborno back to her. The cinematography and dialogue are above average. The viewers might be somewhat bored at times due to the slowly developing plot and lengthy story but the song 'Ahoban' will stand out from the rest.<br style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;">Reviewed By Mohammad Zahidul Islam</em></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Director</strong>: Kar Wai Wong<br style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Writer</strong>: Kar Wai Wong<br style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Stars</strong>: Brigitte Lin, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Chiu Wai Leung, Faye Wong<br style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Runtime</strong>: 102 min<br style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Strength</strong>: Story, Cinematography, Music<br style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Weakness</strong>: Confusing at some segments<br style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Showbiz Rating</strong>: 4.5/5<br style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Plot</strong>: Two melancholy Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant he frequents.<br style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Review</strong>: Wong Kar Wai is definitely one of the legends of world cinema. For him, Chungking Express was a small-budget movie that he made quickly in the middle of another of his epic films. Eventually, Chungking Express became an international super hit. There are two stories in the movie which touches each other but never collides. Therefore, it can't be an Innaritu copy. Rather, there is a lot of French New Wave influence in the movie. Shot in crammed spaces of Hong Kong apartments and buildings, everything looks in-your-face to the audience. Camerawork takes a lot of maneuvering to shoot in tight spaces. Both stories are about love and loneliness in a concrete jungle that is Hong King. Even in the density, people are lonely and always looking for love. I am sure that any guy watching this movie will have a crush on Faye Wong dancing to the music. Chunking Express is an entertaining in a unique way which can only be felt, because, the movie depends so much on music and style rather than dialogue.<br style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;">Reviewed by Zia Nazmul Islam</em></div>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Director</strong>: Neil Burger<br style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Writer</strong>: Evan Daugherty, Vanessa Taylor<br style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Stars</strong>: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Kate Winslet, Ashley Judd, Maggie<br style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Runtime</strong>: 139 min<br style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Strength</strong>: Cinematic Effects, Cinematography, Music<br style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Weakness</strong>: Acting, length of the movie<br style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Showbiz Rating: </strong>3/5<br style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Plot</strong>: In a world divided by factions based on virtues, Tris learns she's Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it's too late.<br style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Review</strong>: “Divergent,” a film based on author Veronica Roth's young adult series of the same name, attempts to carve its place among other blockbuster teen movies like “The Hunger Games” and “Harry Potter.” And despite its less fantastical story set in the not too distant future, it has been well received by the young audience. It's the first of a trilogy. Based on the idea that total conformity will eventually lead to the best kind of divergence within the population—smart, kind, brave, honest and selfless rebels—“Divergent” creates its own dystopian fantasy in a futuristic Chicago. The interplay with the city, including lovely shots of a totally dark skyline, a creepy marshland that surrounds downtown and extras climbing over every spare piece of the L, was very fun to watch. The special effects and electronic soundtrack that take the audience up and over the landscape, including a pretty cool zip-line ride at night, are a testament to what the film does best: showing off cool effects. The rest of the film, being ever true to the book, follows Tris, played by Shailene Woodley, as she bucks against the system that created her. In Tris' world, teens must choose to belong to a faction that will eventually supersede their families: the brave Dauntless, intelligent Erudite, selfless Abnegation, kind Amity and honest Candor. Woodley does a lovely job as Tris, managing to play up her faults as a naive and somewhat abrasive teenage girl who grows to the occasion and follows her spirits. Kate Winslet as the evil Jeanine and Theo James as the love interest, brilliantly named Four, act as much-needed eye candy beside Woodley and offer some acting to get excited about. It is between these three characters that audiences will find Divergent's unexpectedly humorous moments and its necessarily poignant ones. It's a fun film for those who are looking for new female characters to root for, and don't mind a few basic flaws in the story.</div>
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