Vidya Balan and screenwriter Anjum Rajabali threw their weight behind the protesting students of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) by signing an appeal to President Pranab Mukherjee to intervene and resolve the issue. Vidya, a part of FTII Society and Rajabali, the head of screenplay writing at the premier institute, joined 190 filmmakers President. The letter urges the President to declare FTII as a centre of excellence and an autonomous institution.
“The Ministry had arbitrarily chosen Shri Gajendra Chauhan as the Chairman of the Governing Council. This appears to have been done in haste, sans due diligence or widespread consultations,” the letter says.
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People like Aditya Chopra and Karan Johar are completely inspired by his (Barjatya's) kind of filmmaking.
He changed the way marriages are celebrated in India.
He got the whole value, family system back which is the fabric of India
After his impromptu gig in Delhi a couple of months back, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin is back in India, but with his crew — Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman and Will Champion. They were spotted shooting with few children for a music video. The pics coming from the shoot suggest that Coldplay has recreated some sort of Holi in Mumbai.
Kate Hudson says she was given her first pair of high heels by her famous mother Goldie Hawn when she was all of 12. “I must have been twelve (when I got my first pair of high heels), and it was graduation. My mum didn't let me wear heels back then, but I used to go in her closet and try hers on, of course. I wore a sundress that had a big skirt and it was white with little cherries on it. My mum bought me my first pair of high heels that day, they must have only been an inch or so,” Hudson said.
“They were bright red and she gave them to me all wrapped up. I was happy. So my first pair of heels were bright red pumps, which I couldn't have been more excited about,” she added.