Freida Pinto avoids mirrors
Actress Freida Pinto says she isn't interested in the way she looks and often avoids looking at her reflection in the mirror. The Slumdog Millionaire star isn't interested in constantly checking her appearance and is aware her beauty often works against her when it comes to landing gritty roles, although she is keen to change people's opinion of her. “It's not necessarily the way I see myself. I don't even look at myself in the mirror. But I'm aware of the perception and I always say that if it's because of that one line in Slumdog... where latika is described as ‘the most beautiful girl in the world', then I have to do everything that I can to change that,” Pinto said.
I thoroughly enjoyed shooting the film in sync sound. It breathes life into a film, especially with artistes who speak the language in which you're making the film. The experience was so good that I'm thinking of making more films in sync sound |Mani ratnam
French film Dheepan, parts of which have been shot in Tamil Nadu, will vie at the competition section of the 68th Cannes International Film Festival. The last Indian film to compete for coveted Palm D'Or at the prestigious gala was Shaji N Karun'sSwaham in 1994.Dheepan is a movie with an Indian connect at the gala after 21 years. Balaje, who will be walking the Cannes red carpet with the film's crew, said: “It feels good to have worked with Jacques Audiar's Dheepan. We have a great production talent in India and some of the finest film shooting locations in the world. I'm very confident that India can make a global footprint with its production strengths.”
Antonio ‘still loves’ his ex-wife
Antonio Banderas has admitted he still has feelings for his ex-wife Melanie Griffith and insists they are still good friends. “Obviously, it has been a year full of changes. Sometimes in life the circumstances make you wreck everything to build it again. Things come naturally, people are not bad or good, no one is going to be the good guy or the bad guy during a break-up, things come to an end naturally. It's been tough, a long time relationship is now broken. But well, we have changed our status. I still love her very much and we still have a good friendship,” Banderas said. The pair was married for 19 years before Griffith filed for divorce.