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Amitabh Bachchan and Karen Johar
Caption:Amitabh Bachchan and Karen Johar
Headline:31st Annual Toronto International Film Festival - "Never Say Goodbye" Press Conference
Venue:Sutton Place Hotel
Location:Toronto, Ontario Canada
Date:September 10, 2006
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Caption:Amitabh Bachchan and Karen Johar
Headline:31st Annual Toronto International Film Festival - "Never Say Goodbye" Press Conference
Venue:Sutton Place Hotel
Location:Toronto, Ontario Canada
Date:September 10, 2006
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Toronto Film Festival
Toronto Talkies: SRK, Big B mobbed
CNN-IBN Indira Kannan
Posted Monday , September 11, 2006 at 15:19
Updated Monday , September 11, 2006 at 16:45
Toronto: Frenzied fans lined up to catch a glimpse of superstars Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday with Karan Johar's Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna (KANK) as one of the Gala Presentations.
The film festival, which has emerged as one of the most prestigious and influential events, is showing over 350 films from over 60 countries. It runs from September 7 to 16.
“It’s a very big deal that it is part of the Gala Film on such a big International platform. It’s an honour and we are thrilled to be here. Mr Bachchan, Shah Rukh and I miss Rani and Abhishek, Preity and Kiran a lot,” said Director Karan Johar.
In the shadow of the spectacular Canadian National Tower, an endless queue snaked its way to the Roy Thomson Hall to witness a Bollywood spectacle.
“It shows the importance of Indian cinema and it’s recognition eventually,” said Amitabh Bachchan.
KANK, which broke opening weekend box office records for Hindi films in North America, leads a sizeable Indian contingent at the Toronto International Film Festival this year.
“When I come to such a festivals, I hope I am bringing to the rest of the world a part of our cinema and introducing it to them,” said Shah Rukh.
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Toronto Talkies: SRK, Big B mobbed
CNN-IBN Indira Kannan
Posted Monday , September 11, 2006 at 15:19
Updated Monday , September 11, 2006 at 16:45
B'WOOD SPICE: KANK leads a sizeable Indian contingent at the Toronto Film Festival this year.
The film festival, which has emerged as one of the most prestigious and influential events, is showing over 350 films from over 60 countries. It runs from September 7 to 16.
“It’s a very big deal that it is part of the Gala Film on such a big International platform. It’s an honour and we are thrilled to be here. Mr Bachchan, Shah Rukh and I miss Rani and Abhishek, Preity and Kiran a lot,” said Director Karan Johar.
In the shadow of the spectacular Canadian National Tower, an endless queue snaked its way to the Roy Thomson Hall to witness a Bollywood spectacle.
“It shows the importance of Indian cinema and it’s recognition eventually,” said Amitabh Bachchan.
KANK, which broke opening weekend box office records for Hindi films in North America, leads a sizeable Indian contingent at the Toronto International Film Festival this year.
“When I come to such a festivals, I hope I am bringing to the rest of the world a part of our cinema and introducing it to them,” said Shah Rukh.
ibnlive.com
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Toronto Film Festival
I've started believing I'm a star: SRK
CNN-IBN, Indira Kannan
Posted Tuesday , September 12, 2006 at 19:26
Updated Tuesday , September 12, 2006 at 19:39
Shah Rukh Khan is at the Toronto Film Festival where his film Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna was screened as part of the gala presentation. CNN-IBN correspondent Indira Kannan caught up with the actor.
Indira Kannan: Your film Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna was a gala presentation at the Toronto film festival. The film dealt with some fairly difficult issues and yet managed to break box office records in North America and England. Did you anticipate such a response?
Shah Rukh Khan: I did anticipate that the film would incite people to ask questions because whenever you deal with reality in a non-real way, people do take it seriously. It is a nice thing and shows that the audiences are amazingly intelligent and are not willing to take anything without discussing it.
Indira Kannan: You are sporting a new look these days (a beard). What is the reason behind it? Some of the fans say that it is a scruffy look but most of them like it a lot.
Shah Rukh Khan: This look is for my latest film Chak De India in which I play a Muslim character. Muslims are supposed to have beards and it’s the same reason why they are stopped at airports and frisked. I play this guy who is a little sad in life. He has just one aim, which is to see the Indian tri-colour hoisted with all the other countries’ flags. He lives this dream and the story unfolds.
I want to do a film on hockey, which is our national sport but sadly is being neglected due to certain reasons. It has been delegated to some third and fourth stand now. I used to be a hockey player. I want to bring back those memories. So to pay my tribute to the national game I would want to play such a role.
Indira Kannan: You were mobbed at the red carpet event for KANK in Toronto. Is there any country in the world where you think you will not be mobbed?
Shah Rukh Khan: I just hope so. I have started believing the myth that I am a big star and that everybody in the world knows me. The Time magazine says that maximum number of eyeballs turn towards me. So it would be a little strange if I land somewhere where no one looks at me.
Indira Kannan: So your message to the people is ‘come on and hug me’.
Shah Rukh Khan: No, my message to my fans is ‘thank you for hugging me for so long’. I ask them to keep on hugging me. I would say that if you can bear me for any longer, then keep on hugging me. And I also say ‘thank you for hugging me’. I apologise to those who did not find me smelling great when they hugged me.
Indira Kannan: Thank you for talking to us.
Shah Rukh Khan: Thank you
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I've started believing I'm a star: SRK
CNN-IBN, Indira Kannan
Posted Tuesday , September 12, 2006 at 19:26
Updated Tuesday , September 12, 2006 at 19:39
LOOK AT ME: "It would be a little strange if I land somewhere where no one looks at me," SRK said.
Shah Rukh Khan is at the Toronto Film Festival where his film Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna was screened as part of the gala presentation. CNN-IBN correspondent Indira Kannan caught up with the actor.
Indira Kannan: Your film Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna was a gala presentation at the Toronto film festival. The film dealt with some fairly difficult issues and yet managed to break box office records in North America and England. Did you anticipate such a response?
Shah Rukh Khan: I did anticipate that the film would incite people to ask questions because whenever you deal with reality in a non-real way, people do take it seriously. It is a nice thing and shows that the audiences are amazingly intelligent and are not willing to take anything without discussing it.
Indira Kannan: You are sporting a new look these days (a beard). What is the reason behind it? Some of the fans say that it is a scruffy look but most of them like it a lot.
Shah Rukh Khan: This look is for my latest film Chak De India in which I play a Muslim character. Muslims are supposed to have beards and it’s the same reason why they are stopped at airports and frisked. I play this guy who is a little sad in life. He has just one aim, which is to see the Indian tri-colour hoisted with all the other countries’ flags. He lives this dream and the story unfolds.
I want to do a film on hockey, which is our national sport but sadly is being neglected due to certain reasons. It has been delegated to some third and fourth stand now. I used to be a hockey player. I want to bring back those memories. So to pay my tribute to the national game I would want to play such a role.
Indira Kannan: You were mobbed at the red carpet event for KANK in Toronto. Is there any country in the world where you think you will not be mobbed?
Shah Rukh Khan: I just hope so. I have started believing the myth that I am a big star and that everybody in the world knows me. The Time magazine says that maximum number of eyeballs turn towards me. So it would be a little strange if I land somewhere where no one looks at me.
Indira Kannan: So your message to the people is ‘come on and hug me’.
Shah Rukh Khan: No, my message to my fans is ‘thank you for hugging me for so long’. I ask them to keep on hugging me. I would say that if you can bear me for any longer, then keep on hugging me. And I also say ‘thank you for hugging me’. I apologise to those who did not find me smelling great when they hugged me.
Indira Kannan: Thank you for talking to us.
Shah Rukh Khan: Thank you
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'The Namesake'
This undated photo supplied by Fox Searchlight, shows a scene from Mira Nair's latest film 'The Namesake ', which had its first screening at the Toronto Film Festival Monday, Sept.11, 2006. Starring Kal Penn, center, 'The Namesake' is a portrait of a Bengali family's bittersweet assimilation into American culture and the clashes the second generation has with the traditional ways of its elders. 'The Namesake' is due in theaters early next year. Tabu, left, plays his mother in the film
sources: AP Photo/Fox Searchlight/yahoo
This undated photo supplied by Fox Searchlight, shows a scene from Mira Nair's latest film 'The Namesake ', which had its first screening at the Toronto Film Festival Monday, Sept.11, 2006. Starring Kal Penn, center, 'The Namesake' is a portrait of a Bengali family's bittersweet assimilation into American culture and the clashes the second generation has with the traditional ways of its elders. 'The Namesake' is due in theaters early next year. Tabu, left, plays his mother in the film
sources: AP Photo/Fox Searchlight/yahoo
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shahrukh looks so great with that stubble, its for a film. go to shahrukhkhan.org to see video footage of him at TIFF.
did i mention i met sharukh and aishwaryia? and also this new boy who thinks he is the hottest man on earth. bollywoods new tom cruise... with a pointy nose... anyway you know who ij mean..
he had awful awful style just like in the movie
he had awful awful style just like in the movie
Mira Nair's take on Namesake
Indira Kannan
CNN-IBN
Posted Wednesday, September 13, 2006 at 16:45
Updated Wednesday, September 13, 2006 at 18:00
The film is based on author Jhumpa Lahiri’s book by the same name.
CNN-IBN correspondent Indira Kannan caught up with the filmmaker to know her take on the film and the role fabulously essayed by Tabu in the film.
Indira Kannan: The theatrical release of the movie has been delayed till next year. Were you disappointed with that announcement?
Mira Nair: The filmmaker in me is of course impatient to have the world see the film. But I am keener that the film is presented in a very careful marketing campaign. It will make it appear the very universal story that it is. So, I am in very good hands with Fox Searchlight and look forward to the film.
Indira Kannan: How strongly and at what points did you feel that you had to be faithful to the book that inspires this film? Did you feel that you had to bring out your own interpretation in it?
Mira Nair: The idea was to be faithful to the spirit of the book. But as a director and a filmmaker I have to make the emotional and visual landscape my own.
The most beautiful aspect about Namesake was that it gave me the ability to unite the story of the two cities – Kolkata and New York where I grew up. I filmed the two cities as if they were one.
Indira Kannan: What was Jhumpa Lahiri’s reaction after seeing the film? Has she seen it as yet?
Mira Nair: Jhumpa has seen it many times. The first time she saw it in a rough video form, she came to me and sobbed. She literally cried for five minutes after seeing the film. I cried as well.
Indira Kannan: You said that at the red carpet screening of Namesake, the character of Ashima Ganguly was really the anchor of the film. How do you think Tabu essayed that role?
Mira Nair: I think some angel must have cast a spell on me when I found Tabu for playing the character of Ashima in the film. She has the gravity in her eyes of playing someone who is an innocent bride at 20 to someone who has seen life at 49.
Amitabh Bachchan and Karan Johar were among the audience at the screening of the film.
These are the people whom I really love and revere. They were simply knocked out with the beauty and gravity of Tabu’s performance in the film. I really feel blessed to have her.
Indira Kannan: Thank you for talking to us.
Mira Nair: Thank you.
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Indira Kannan
CNN-IBN
Posted Wednesday, September 13, 2006 at 16:45
Updated Wednesday, September 13, 2006 at 18:00
NAME SAKE: A still from Meera Nair's Namesake starring Tabu and Irfan Khan premiered at the Toronto film festival.
Toronto: After the gala opening of Karan Johar’s Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (KANK) at the Toronto International Film Festival, director Mira Nair’s critically acclaimed film Namesake premiered at the festival to packed houses. The film is based on author Jhumpa Lahiri’s book by the same name.
CNN-IBN correspondent Indira Kannan caught up with the filmmaker to know her take on the film and the role fabulously essayed by Tabu in the film.
Indira Kannan: The theatrical release of the movie has been delayed till next year. Were you disappointed with that announcement?
Mira Nair: The filmmaker in me is of course impatient to have the world see the film. But I am keener that the film is presented in a very careful marketing campaign. It will make it appear the very universal story that it is. So, I am in very good hands with Fox Searchlight and look forward to the film.
Indira Kannan: How strongly and at what points did you feel that you had to be faithful to the book that inspires this film? Did you feel that you had to bring out your own interpretation in it?
Mira Nair: The idea was to be faithful to the spirit of the book. But as a director and a filmmaker I have to make the emotional and visual landscape my own.
The most beautiful aspect about Namesake was that it gave me the ability to unite the story of the two cities – Kolkata and New York where I grew up. I filmed the two cities as if they were one.
Indira Kannan: What was Jhumpa Lahiri’s reaction after seeing the film? Has she seen it as yet?
Mira Nair: Jhumpa has seen it many times. The first time she saw it in a rough video form, she came to me and sobbed. She literally cried for five minutes after seeing the film. I cried as well.
Indira Kannan: You said that at the red carpet screening of Namesake, the character of Ashima Ganguly was really the anchor of the film. How do you think Tabu essayed that role?
Mira Nair: I think some angel must have cast a spell on me when I found Tabu for playing the character of Ashima in the film. She has the gravity in her eyes of playing someone who is an innocent bride at 20 to someone who has seen life at 49.
Amitabh Bachchan and Karan Johar were among the audience at the screening of the film.
These are the people whom I really love and revere. They were simply knocked out with the beauty and gravity of Tabu’s performance in the film. I really feel blessed to have her.
Indira Kannan: Thank you for talking to us.
Mira Nair: Thank you.
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Bollywood mingles with Hollywood in Toronto
September 15, 2006
If anyone wondered why The Namesake director Mira Nair and its star Tabu got a subdued welcome at the , Toronto International Film Festival they should know it was exactly what the distributor Fox Searchlight and Mira wanted.
Given the full-house attendance (over 350 press and industry delegates) and the demand for the gala screening of the film in Toronto, it was evident that The Namesake was going to be one of the must-see movies at TIFF. But Fox Searchlight has decided to open the film only in March (and that also means it won't be in this year's Oscar race) to build publicity and goodwill for it.
The publicity will be built mostly through festival screenings but Nair and her cast will start giving lengthy interviews only around the movie's release. It was Tabu's first appearance at TIFF.
Nair returned to the Toronto festival with memories of September 11, 2001, the very day her film Monsoon Wedding had a press screening. But the press conference, scheduled for 11 am, which was to be attended by Naseeruddin Shah, had to be cancelled.
Nair says it was the scariest day of her life -- her husband and son were in their New York home on the day of the attack. She was also concerned for her friends in New York, and more than anything else, she was also worried what could follow the devastating attacks.
Text: Arthur J Pais | Photographs: Getty Images
also rediff.com
Bollywood mingles with Hollywood in Toronto
September 15, 2006
She believes that Monsoon Wedding, which was shown to a standing ovation in Toronto the next day, was something of a healer. "The film has personal tragedies, and yet people overcome them, and live a life," she had said in an interview then.
Nair returned to the Toronto festival a year later as one of the directors of 11/09/01, a collection of short films about and inspired by the terror attacks. Her story focused on a missing Pakistani believed by the authorities to be one of the terrorists. But the real life story had a poignant revelation; the young man had died trying to save people.
Since many of the episodes of September 11 looked harshly at American foreign policy, the French-made film became instantly controversial. But a controversy doesn't guarantee a box-office hit. It flopped in Canada and released a year later by a small distributor in America, and with little publicity, it made no impact.
Her new film, based on Jhumpa Lahiri's best-selling novel of the same name, also deals with loss and redemption in an immigrant family. The film, like the book, also focuses on the cultural and emotional gaps between the immigrants and the mainstream America.
As in Monsoon Wedding, the new film too sends out the message that all people have similar passions, concerns, and domestic problems, she says.
Films like The Namesake, in which Kal Penn plays a second generation Indian American, help Americans to know the 'others' in their amidst, she said in an interview this week. "Movies, as we know, it's the biggest export there is of American reality, everywhere in the world," she explained. "The irony is the rest of the world knows much more about America than America knows about others."
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First Look: Tabu is back!
We haven't seen Tabu on the marquee in a full-fledged role for a long, long time.
Except for a half-baked role in Yash Chopra's Fanaa, the actress hasn't been in a film for almost a year.
But she has been busy, and here's proof.
Tabu's next film, The Namesake, is ready, and has been lapped up by audiences at the ongoing Toronto International Film Festival. It was premiered at the festival on September 11.
Directed by Mira Nair, the film -- based on a best-selling novel by Jhumpa Lahiri -- also stars Irrfan and Kal Penn.
Here, the director-actress strike a pose for the portrait session of The Namesake at TIFF.
Photograph: Getty Images
also: rediff.com
We haven't seen Tabu on the marquee in a full-fledged role for a long, long time.
Except for a half-baked role in Yash Chopra's Fanaa, the actress hasn't been in a film for almost a year.
But she has been busy, and here's proof.
Tabu's next film, The Namesake, is ready, and has been lapped up by audiences at the ongoing Toronto International Film Festival. It was premiered at the festival on September 11.
Directed by Mira Nair, the film -- based on a best-selling novel by Jhumpa Lahiri -- also stars Irrfan and Kal Penn.
Here, the director-actress strike a pose for the portrait session of The Namesake at TIFF.
Photograph: Getty Images
also: rediff.com
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31st Annual Toronto International Film Festival - Arrivals for "Kabul Express" Press
Caption:John Abraham
Headline:31st Annual Toronto International Film Festival - Arrivals for "Kabul Express" Press Conference
Venue:Sutton Place
Location:Toronto , Ontario Canada
Date:September 14, 2006
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Caption:John Abraham
Headline:31st Annual Toronto International Film Festival - Arrivals for "Kabul Express" Press Conference
Venue:Sutton Place
Location:Toronto , Ontario Canada
Date:September 14, 2006
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31st Annual Toronto International Film Festival - "Kabul Express" Press Conference
September 14, 2006 - Sutton Place
Toronoto, Canada
John Abraham
Kabir Khan, director
Arshad Warsi
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September 14, 2006 - Sutton Place
Toronoto, Canada
John Abraham
Kabir Khan, director
Arshad Warsi
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Mira Nair, director and Tabu at the "The Namesake" Premiere, Visa Screening Room
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also: www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/2006
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