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SRK & Twitter, simply cherry on a cake
Jan 7th
Shah Rukh Khan is a hit on Twitter. So is his imposter. The actor, who goes by the ID ‘iamsrk’ on the microblogging site, joined Twitter at 2:38 am on January 3, and the fake Shah Rukh followed up with the similar sounding ID ‘imsrk’ just an hour later, at 3:31 am.While the real Shah Rukh is amassing followers at a record speed, having a total of 41,890 followers so far, the fake ID is also garnering popularity, with over 3,190 followers already.
Interestingly, while Shah Rukh Khan follows 12 people, including actors Uday Chopra, Priyanka Chopra, Abhishek Bachchan and filmmaker Karan Johar, the fake one, only follows two — Johar, and The Onion, an American news source.
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James Cameron: Titanic to Avatar
Dec 19th
Titanic won so many awards. The Titanic director, James Cameron, recently directed world’s costliest movie, Avatar. Avatar is an American 3-D science fiction epic film written and directed by James Cameron, and was released on December 18, 2009 by 20th Century Fox.
And the Franch honor goes to “Lata Mangeshkar”…
Dec 4th
India’s most beautiful and enigmatic voice from bollywood is indeed that of Lata Mangeshkar. The French Film Festival honored Lata Mangeshkar at its inaugural ceremony. She has been honoured with France’s highest civilian award, the Insignia of ‘Officier de la Legion d’Honneur’ (Officer of the Legion of Honour).
“I turned 81 on September last. But I am very young at heart. So I have reversed the order of the figure. I feel like an 18-year-old,” Lataji said while accepting the award.
Lataji also said in very humble & sweet tones that she was very grateful to the film industry for her achievements. She further said that she was an Indian singer and she owed all her success to the Indian audience.
She is the second Indian to be given this prestigious award by France. The first star to be given this honor was none other than the bollywood superstar Mr.Amitabh Bachchan.
A.R. Rahman is nominated for Grammy, Hurray
Dec 3rd
Jai Ho is ringing again in A.R. Rahman’s heart because, the best music director, has been nominated in Grammy. He gets two Grammy nominations, best soundtrack for motion pictures, television or other visual media category for the film and other in the best song for motion picture, television and other visual media category for – “Jai ho”.
A.R. Rahman won two Oscars for “Slumdog Millionaire”, which was the very first Oscar for A.R.Rahman. He also won the best original score award at the 2009 Golden Globe Award. Amazing Victory. The 52th edition of the Annual Grammy Awards will be held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles Jan 31 next year. Let’s hope that Rahman’s music spread the magic again.