Vijayawada. V. Vijayendra Prasad, father of super-duper ‘Baahubali’ director SS Rajamouli and author of Blockbuster films like RRR, regrets having a misconception about RSS. Vijayendra Prasad, who was in Andhra Pradesh’s Vijayawada recently to participate in the release of a book by RSS executive member Ram Madhav, said he had a misconception about the Sangh. He also announced to write a film and web series about the Sangh. Vijayendra Prasad said that if there was no RSS, there would be no Kashmir. It would have merged with Pakistan and then lakhs of Hindus would have been killed.
Rajamouli’s father said that I want to confess in front of everyone that till three-four years ago I did not know much about RSS. I used to think that it was the RSS people who killed Gandhiji, but when I was asked to write a film on the Sangh, I went to Nagpur. There he met RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat. After staying there for a day, I understood what RSS is. I am very sorry that I did not know about such a great organization for so long. He further said that I am giving good news to everyone. I am making a film and web series on RSS. Rajamouli’s father said that the RSS made a mistake of not telling the public about itself. I will fill this gap. I will make such films and web series that people can be proud of RSS.
Actor Kangana Ranaut has shared this statement of Vijayendra Prasad on her Instagram handle. Kangana posted Vijayendra’s statement on the union on social media. This statement of Rajamouli is also very much on social media and people are also praising his frankness. Let us tell you that Gandhiji was assassinated on 30 January in 1948. After which the then Congress government banned the RSS by accusing it of conspiracy to murder.
KRK Says He Wants To Join RSS, Netizens Troll Him With His Old Tweet ( Photo Credit – Facebook ; Twitter )
Self-proclaimed film critic Kamal Rashid Khan aka KRK is well known for picking up fights with Bollywood celebrities on Twitter. Often his tweets create controversies. Recently he was arrested by Mumbai police when he landed at the airport in Mumbai over his controversial tweet in 2020.
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Kamal was in jail until recently, in connection with two cases from 2020 and 2021 – his old tweets and a molestation case, respectively. However, he was later released on bail and he is back to stirring controversies on Twitter.
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KRK early this morning tweeted that he wants to join Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and tagged RRS chief Mohan Bhagwat, and former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. He wrote, Honourable @DrMohanBhagwat Ji, I am ready to join @RSSorg if #RSS needs me. 🙏🏼
@Dev_Fadnavis.”
Soon after his tweets, netizens were quick to remind him of his old tweet wherein he bashed organisations like, RSS, Vishwa Hindu Parishadh (VHP), and BajrangDal. His tweet dates back to 2016, where the Deshdrohi actor wrote, “One day these communal organisations like VHP, RSS, and BajrangDal etc will destroy India completely and the entire world will boycott India.”
Don’t fall in his trap… He is the no.1 hypocrite… Using situation according to his favour pic.twitter.com/zIEKalGNoI
Netizens did not stop there. Some users began trolling KRK for turning back on his opinion. Here are some of the netizen reactions to his latest tweet:
KRK earlier this year made an announcement about his upcoming film Deshdrohi 2, which is the sequel to his 2008 film, and proclaimed that it will be a Blockbuster “bigger than Bahubali”. The poster of Deshdrohi 2 features KRK in all his glory, wearing a black ensemble. Moreover, the poster also reads that the movie has been “directed by KRK produced by KRK” and obviously stars KRK. The first Deshdrohi movie was released (and tanked) 14 years ago.
Chitradurga, July 11 (SocialNews.XYZ) RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat is visiting the Shiva Sharana Madara Channaiah Mutt in Karnataka’s Chitradurga and will meet seer Basavamurthy Madara Channaaiah Sree.
According to information from the mutt, Mohan Bhagwat will stay in the mutt on Monday night and meet various seers representing the backward, Dalit communities on Tuesday.
The development has surprised political observers in the state and assumes importance in view of the assembly elections in 2023. The development is seen as an attempt to draw the backward and the oppressed classes into the BJP fold.
Union Minister for State for Social Justice and Empowerment A. Narayanaswamy is accompanying Bhagwat to the mutt. Basavamurthy Madara Chennaiah Sree is named after the 11th century Kannada poet and seer who was a cobbler by profession. He is regarded as the first vachanakara.
Madara Channaaiah Sree had earlier stated that though there are 52 MLAs in the Karnataka legislature belonging to the oppressed communities it was not possible to capture power. He had given a call to MLAs belonging to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes to stop quarrelling among themselves and unite.
He asked them to come under one umbrella like the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and stop establishing multiple organizations in the name of communities.
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More than 400 women from the rural parts of Maharashtra’s Nanded, who recently cleared their Class 12 board examination, have received job offers from Tata Electronics Private Ltd (TEPL) as part of an initiative of the district administration.
The initiative was taken up by assistant collector Kirtikiran Pujar who heads the integrated tribal project in Kinvat area of Nanded in Marathwada. “Bureaucracy and the corporate world have come together to provide employment to 410 women, who were chosen during a talent drive in Kinwat,” a district official said.
Kinwat is a predominantly tribal area, located some 360 km away from Aurangabad. Pujar got in touch with TEPL and the human resources department of the company responded to the proposal, following which a two-day talent hunt was held on September 6 and 7, the official said.
At least 600 women who recently cleared their Class 12 examination participated in the drive and of these, 410 were selected, he said. The selected candidates will work in different capacities at TEPL’s manufacturing unit at Hosur in neighbouring Karnataka. They will first have to complete their training in Bengaluru, the official said.
Generally, in these parts of the district, once a woman attains marriageable age, preference is given to marriage over higher education. Hence, to put an end to this practice, Pujar came up with this initiative, he said.
Rajaram Madavi, a resident of Talaigudapada village is a proud father, as his daughter is one of the lucky ones to get a job offer. “People from our generation have never stepped out of the tehsil. But thanks to the district administration’s initiative, my daughter is getting an opportunity to travel to Bengaluru and that too for a job,” Madavi said.
For Sheetal Bhise, a resident of Vashi village in Himayatnagar, the initiative has given her the means to contribute to her family’s finances and pursue further studies.
“Women like me wish to do something for their families, but we need a chance to do that. I got this opportunity with the help of officials of the integrated development project and TEPL. I am going to pursue higher studies while working,” said Bhise.
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Speaking about the initiative, Pujar said, “While working in a government job, we get a chance to give back to society. I tried to get in touch with the Tata Group and it gave results.”
“You don’t know how lucky you are to have had your Mam.” Digital Spy has revealed an official trailer for an indie road trip drama titled Joyride, opening in the UK and in Ireland later this month. The film is a heartfelt dramedy about “train-wreck on an adventure” road trip film. Fleeing from his father, 12-year-old Mully steals a taxi and is shocked to find a woman, Joy, in the back seat with a baby. Joy is on her way to an important meeting, and Mully needs to get some distance from his dad, who’s after the cash Mully has with him. The unlikely pair go on a journey across Ireland, gradually finding the friendship, love and learning, they never knew they needed, in each other. Olivia Colman stars as Joy, with Charlie Reid as Mully, plus Olwen Fouéré, Lochlann Ó Mearáin, and Ruth McCabe. This looks like a sweet, amusing, smart film about making a connection with someone. Another nice film about finding a family no matter who it may be.
Here’s the first official UK trailer (+ UK poster) for Emer Reynolds’ Joyride, direct from YouTube:
Joy (Olivia Colman) is on her way to an important meeting when her taxi is hijacked by Mully, who finds her in the backseat with her baby. Mully is fleeing from his dad, who wants the cash that he has taken with him. However, despite the circumstances, the pair form an unexpected bond, becoming two diamonds in the rough on the run in this “train-wreck on an adventure.”Joyride is directed by award-winning Irish film editor / filmmaker Emer Reynolds, director of the documentary films Here Was Cuba, The Farthest, and Songs for While I’m Away previously, directing her very first narrative feature. The screenplay is written by Ailbhe Keogan. Produced by Tristan Lynch and Aoife O’Sullivan. This hasn’t premiered at any film festivals or elsewhere, as far as we know. Vertigo Releasing will release Reynolds’ Joyride in UK + Ireland cinemas starting on July 29th, 2022 this summer. No US release date has been set – stay tuned. Who’s interested?
New Delhi: After Prime Minister Narendra Modi, now the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has lent its support to Vivek Agnihotri’s film on the Kashmiri Pandit exodus, titled The Kashmir Files. The Sangh has called it a documentation of “historical reality” and said “these are facts that must be presented to generations as facts”.
Statements to this effect were made by Ram Madhav, member of the RSS’ National Executive Committee, and Arun Kumar, sahasarkaryavah (joint general secretary) of the organisation, at the launch of the book ‘Conflict Resolution, The RSS Way’ by Sangh ideologue Ratan Sharada and Yashwant Pathak. The book speaks about the RSS resolutions and how the organisation functioned in “resolving conflict” in areas like Kashmir, Punjab and the Northeast.
Ram Madhav called The Kashmir Files a documentation of “historical reality”. “People are talking about The Kashmir Files. These are facts, and these should be presented to generations as facts,” he said.
Meanwhile, Arun Kumar said: “The Kashmir Files now dominates the public discourse, the movie is being widely discussed and debated. The movie narrates the history of a period, 1991 to 1994. The RSS was doing several things in several dimensions during the period. The Sangh was spearheading the Kashmir Bachao movement in India.”
He added that the RSS is the organisation that was pushing the government to hand over Kashmir to the Army. “We felt that sena should be in charge of Kashmir. Hindus were terrorised there, RSS was helping Hindus fight back. We knew, if all Hindus leave Kashmir, then they (Pakistan) would win. Their agendas would be fulfilled,” he claimed.
“We were determined that we would ensure Hindus do not get disconnected from their native land, that is Kashmir. They had to run away temporarily, but they would return to their homeland,” Kumar added.
Ram Madhav said the Sangh had never considered “anyone as our enemy”. “They are all our brothers. We come from the same bloodline and ancestors. We want to reach out to them and bring them (Muslims, Christians) close to us, so that they do not see us as their opponents. They should not think that they are not one of us,” Madhav added.
Echoing this though, Kumar added that the RSS believes in ‘one country, one people’, and never wants to create division among people.
“There is an ecosystem running against us. They are not connected to ground, but we are. We can reach almost half the population in 10 days, that is the reach of the Sangh. People connect with us, and had we done anything wrong, this country would have rejected us. Storms come and go, they ravage some parts, but society rebuilds and things emerge stronger,” he added.
If ever there was a mainstream Hollywood story that had the legs to run on the Indian cinematic terrain, it was Forrest Gump. Advait Chandan’s faithful adaptation of Eric Roth’s sweeping story of a gentle, simple-minded soul running away with the cruel world, promises that instead of opening a box of sweet chocolates, it will offer a box full of gol gappas, the crisp rounds of hollow bread that are consumed with spicy water.
However, writer Atul Kulkarni evades the unhygienic areas that the metaphor suggests it will take us to, and offers us some sanitised and bland water balls in a world that is a lot more complex and political than when Gump emerged on the scene in 1994, starring Tom Hanks.
Over the last three decades, with the shift in culture and advancement in cinematography, the Robert Zemeckis fable has lost some of its feel-good quality and technical brilliance. It percolates into LSC as well; we have already seen shades of Gump in My Name Is Khan and PK. But unlike the two, LSC hardly asks any hard questions. It races past the landmark events since the Emergency, providing more dressed-up nostalgia than nuance or engagement with pressing issues.
The inherent goofy humour of the original is intact and there are some leaps of imagination like Shah Rukh Khan’s cameo, Manav Vij’s turn as a Pakistani mercenary, and Naga Chaitanya as a solider whose ambition is to make briefs and vests. But somehow Kulkarni could not imbue the screenplay with the fragrance of the Indian soil. Despite some enchanting visuals, it remains a copy.
The romance between Chaddha (Aamir Khan) and Rupa D Souza (Kareena Kapoor Khan) fails to create ripples because though Chaddha says he understands love, the writer makes Rupa suffer for her wrong choices in profession and boyfriends. He could have at least asked Shah Rukh for help!
More importantly, Forrest Gump was essentially about how America withstood the internal and external threats in the 1960s and 70s and evolved only to run into new challenges. Here, apart from the anti-Sikh riots that affect a young Chaddha, the rest of the socio-political churn fails to create emotional upheaval. Once the umbilical cord between the events and Chaddha’s life is broken, the screenplay starts resembling Chaddha’s almost neurotic obsession with running. The film talks a lot, almost tutors the audience, and doesn’t allow the visuals to communicate. Pritam’s music isn’t bad, but doesn’t provide the much-needed local flavour to the narrative.
Similarly, Advait is competent, but is like that efficient factory worker who has to make a new product from an old dye. One wonders whether Raj Kumar Hirani and Abhijat Joshi would have been a better choice to bring Forrest closer home.
Laal Singh Chaddha is currently running in theatres
A film adaptation of the arcade Sega classic Streets of Rage is in development, according to a new report.
Deadline claims that dj2 Entertainment, the company behind the Sonic film series, is working on the project.
A spec script for the project was written by Derek Kolstad, the man behind the John Wick franchise, it’s claimed.
Sega has yet to confirm the project, but following the record-breaking success of the Sonic the Hedgehog film adaptation, it’s likely that Sega will want to continue to capitalise on bringing its classic titles to the big screen.
VGC’s Sonic the Hedgehog 2 movie review called it a much better film than the original and said there’s a pleasant surprise to be found in the chemistry between its new characters, which include Tails and Knuckles.
Following the success of Sonic, it’s likely that video game movie adaptations will increase in prominence at the box office.
Film director Jean-Luc Godard, the godfather of France’s New Wave cinema who pushed cinematic boundaries and inspired iconoclastic directors decades after his 1960s heyday, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, his family said.
Godard was among the world’s most acclaimed directors, known for such classics as Breathless and Contempt, which broke with convention and helped kick-start a new way of filmmaking — with handheld camera work, jump cuts and existential dialogue.
“It’s not where you take things from — it’s where you take them to,” Godard once said.
French President Emmanuel Macron, in a Twitter post, said: “We are losing a national treasure.”
Godard died peacefully and surrounded by loved ones at his home in the Swiss town of Rolle, on Lake Geneva, his family said in a statement. The statement gave assisted suicide as the cause of death.
A medical report recently revealed the director had “multiple invalidating pathologies,” according to the family statement, which did not specify the conditions.
Face of New Wave movement
Godard was not alone in creating France’s New Wave, a credit he shares with at least a dozen peers, including François Truffaut and Eric Rohmer, most of them pals from the trendy, bohemian Left Bank of Paris in the late 1950s.
Godard is seen in March 1960 with actress Jean Seberg, the co-star of Breathless. (AFP/Getty Images)
However, he became the face of the movement, which spawned offshoots in Japan, Hollywood and, more improbably, in what was then Communist-ruled Czechoslovakia, as well as in Brazil.
“We owe him a lot,” former French culture minister Jack Lang wrote in an emailed statement to Reuters. “He filled cinema with poetry and philosophy. His sharp and unique eye made us see the imperceptible.”
Among those he influenced were American directors Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino.
British director Edgar Wright said on Twitter on Tuesday that “perhaps no other director inspired as many people to just pick up a camera and start shooting.”
Godard was born into a wealthy Franco-Swiss family on Dec. 3, 1930 in Paris. His father was a doctor, his mother the daughter of a Swiss man who founded Banque Paribas, then an illustrious investment bank.
This upbringing contrasted with his later pioneering ways. Godard fell in with like-minded folk whose dissatisfaction with humdrum movies that never strayed from convention sowed the seeds of a breakaway movement that came to be called the Nouvelle Vague.
‘Sometimes reality is too complex’
With its more forthright, offbeat approach to sex, violence and its explorations of the counter-culture, anti-war politics and other changing mores, the New Wave was about innovation in the making of movies.
“Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form,” Godard said.
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After working on two films by Jacques Rivette and Rohmer in 1951, Godard tried to direct his first movie while traveling through North and South America with his father, but never finished it.
Back in Europe, he took a job in Switzerland as a construction worker on a dam project. He used the pay to finance his first complete film in 1954, Operation Concrete, a 20-minute documentary about the building of the dam.
Returning to Paris, Godard worked as spokesman for an artists’ agency and made his first feature in 1957 — All Boys Are Called Patrick, released in 1959 — and continued to hone his writing.
He also began work on Breathless, based on a story by Truffaut. It was to be Godard’s first big success when it was released in March 1960.
The movie stars Jean-Paul Belmondo as a penniless young thief who models himself on Hollywood movie gangsters and who, after he shoots a police officer, goes on the run to Italy with his American girlfriend, played by Jean Seberg.
In 1961, Godard married Danish-born model and actress Anna Karina, who appeared in a string of movies he made during that decade, including My Life to Live, Alphaville and Crazy Pete — which also starred Belmondo and was rumoured to have been shot without a script. The marriage to Karina ended in 1965.
Godard is shown between Bill Wyman, left, and Mick Jagger while directing Sympathy for the Devil, on July 30, 1968. (Huton Archive/Getty Images)
In Week End, his characters lampoon the hypocrisy of bourgeois society even as they demonstrate the comic futility of violent class war. It came out a year before popular anger at the establishment shook France, culminating in the iconic student unrest of May 1968.
That same year he directed an experimental documentary featuring the Rolling Stones, Sympathy for the Devil.
Godard also launched what was to be a career-long participation in collective film projects, with directors such as Roger Vadim, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Roberto Rossellini.
Films steeped in politics
He switched to directing films steeped in leftist, anti-war politics through the 1970s. His controversial modern nativity play Hail Mary grabbed headlines when Pope John Paul II denounced it in 1985.
Godard harboured a life-long sympathy for various forms of socialism depicted in films ranging from the early 1970s to early 1990s. In December 2007 he was honoured by the European Film Academy with a lifetime achievement award.
Godard, seen at the 50th Cannes Film Festival in France in 1997, rarely ventured outside of Europe for work. (Getty Images)
Godard took potshots at Hollywood over the years.
He remained home in Switzerland rather than travel to Hollywood to receive an honorary Oscar at a private ceremony in November 2010, alongside film historian and preservationist Kevin Brownlow, director-producer Francis Ford Coppola and actor Eli Wallach.
Recent works, however — among them Goodbye to Language in 2014 and The Image Book in 2018 — were more experimental and slimmed the audience largely to Godard geeks.
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Godard married his second wife, Anne Wiazemsky, in 1967. He later started a relationship with Swiss filmmaker Anne-Marie Mieville.
Godard divorced Wiazemsky in 1979, after he had moved with Mieville to the Swiss municipality of Rolle, where he lived with her for the rest of his life.
