Hema Malini to do a ballet on Ganga
To highlight the plight of river Ganga, actress-politician Hema Malini said she is working on a ballet on the holy river, “Very soon I am going to come out with a dance ballet on the Ganges. Ganges is not in the right position today. We are talking about cleansing it,” said the actress who is also a Bharatanatyam dancer and choreographer. She said it was the right time for her to make a beautiful ballet on the Ganga. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's project to clean River Ganga, the Centre has set a target of three years to rejuvenate the polluted river and has formed an integrated plan Namaami Gange in this regard.
Actor and film editor Frank Mazzola, who appeared in Hollywood classics like Rebel Without A Cause and Casablanca has died at the age of 79. The actor, born in 1935, found his first starring role at the age of four in The Hunchback Of Notre Dame. His father was a contract player at Fox Studios.
The Delhi Court issued notice to the central government and the Censor Board on two separate pleas challenging the refusal of certificate for screening of two films. Filmmaker Pankaj Butalia challenged the Censor Board's refusal to clear his documentary Textures of loss while production house Sai Cine Productions moved the court against denial of certificate to Punjabi film Kaum De Heere.
Anne to star in Brant’s Grounded
Oscar-winning actress Anne Hathaway will star in George Brant's famous play Grounded, a one woman-show about a fighter pilot whose pregnancy forces her out of the cockpit. It will be staged at New York's famed Public Theatre this spring. The play, to be directed by Julie Taymor of The lion King fame, will begin performances on April 7 for a strictly limited engagement through May 17. The play tells the story of an unnamed ace pilot who, upon learning of an unexpected pregnancy, is reassigned to piloting military drones from the ground in las Vegas, where she struggles to balance hunting terrorists by day and family life at night. Brant's monologue won the 2012 Smith Prize for Political Theatre as well as the Fringe First award.