I’m attached to Neerja: Sonam
Actress Sonam Kapoor says she is ‘emotionally attached’ to her forthcoming film Neerja, a biopic on Neerja Bhanot, a valiant flight attendant who saved a number of lives in a plane hijack incident.
“I am very emotionally attached to this film. I met Neerja's mother in 2015 and it was an emotional moment for me. I want this film to reach to the widest audience so that people get to know who Neerja was,” Sonam said.
“I am thankful that I got this opportunity to play this role. I only hope this film reaches everyone,” she added.
The Ram Madhvani-directorial features Sonam as Neerja, a Pan Am chief purser who was gunned down by terrorists when Flight 73 was hijacked to Karachi in 1986.
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For Indian actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, it's a “great honour” to be invited for a special lunch with French President François Hollande, who is in the country on a three-day visit.
Hollande will attend the Republic Day parade on Rajpath as chief guest, becoming the fifth serving French president to do so.
later in the day, a lunch is said to have been organised in his honour by the French ambassador to India, Francois Richier, who has invited the 42-year-old actress.
Steve hopes for a watershed moment
12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen has joined the ongoing controversy surrounding the lack of diversity among nominees at the 2016 Oscars, saying he hopes it will be a “watershed moment” for the industry.
“Hopefully, when people look back at this in 20 years, it’ll be like seeing that David Bowie clip in 1983,” said McQueen referring to an interview Bowie did earlier with MTV where he slammed the network for not showing enough music videos with black artistes.
The video has been re-circulated following Bowie’s death.
“Forgive me; I’m hoping in 12 months or so we can look back and say this was a watershed moment, and thank god we put that right,” McQueen added.
McQueen became the first, and currently only, black director to win a Best Picture Oscar when 12 Years a Slave took home the award in 2014.