‘I don’t believe I’m successful’
Having won both critical as well as box-office applause for his role in the Salman Khan starrer Bajrangi Bhaijaan, actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui says he still does not consider himself to be successful.
“I don't believe that I am a successful person. I just like doing different roles, I have a passion for that,” Siddiqui said.
When asked what changes he feels in his life after the success of the film, which has grossed more than `300 crore, the 41-year-old actor said, “I am the same as a person. I don't change but only the perception of people changes about me”.
He will be seen playing the role of villager Dashrath Manjhi, who single-handedly carved a road through a mountain in 22 years with a hammer and a chisel in Ketan Mehta’s next directorial venture Manjhi.
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Director Shoojit Sircar says the rise of empowered female characters in movies are a testimony to the growing importance of women in real-life. Sircar, who showed Deepika Padukone as an independent daughter in Piku and Dolly Ahluwalia as a widowed mother who runs a small parlour in Vicky Donor, said because he views women in the society as progressive, he shows them in the same light in his movies.
“Earlier, women were dependent on the men of the family, as they were the only bread earners. But today, women don't want to be dependent on men. Hence, me and my writer are able to blend them in such a way in our characters,” Sircar said.
Sircar made his directorial debut with the 2005 romantic-war-drama Yahaan has also dabbled with different genres of films but he says that he makes only those movies he believes in.
Jennifer visits hospital for kids
Actress Jennifer lawrence, who was in the city to film her upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse, made a surprise visit to a children's hospital. The actress went to Shriners Hospitals for Children on Saturday, and even posed for photographs with the children and staff members there. The Facebook page of the hospital read: “A very special visitor stopped by our Canada hospital today. Jennifer lawrence is in Montreal filming a new movie and she made time to visit some of our #ShrinersCanada kids and staff. Everyone had a great time (sic).” In one photograph, the actress posed alongside a little boy in a wheelchair. Another image showed her posing alongside a boy with a walker and some staff members. She also signed on the cast of another boy's arm.