Dabangg is in trouble yet again!

I am going to sue the makers of Dabangg,” says 45-year-old Om Prakash Jakhar, who has had a harrowing time ever since the publicity for the Salman Khan-starrer began. 

In the background of the hit film’s posters are four phone numbers, belonging to Jakhar’s family and the school that he runs in Rajasthan’s Fatehpur Shekhawati. 20 days ago, when life size posters of the film were put up across the country, Jakhar began receiving calls from people asking to speak with Chulbul Pandey and Munni — Salman Khan and Malaika Arora’s characters from Dabangg. However, ever since the film released, all hell broke loose.

 The film has made my life hell! I get around 500 calls a day. I am unable to concentrate on my work. People call and when I tell them it’s a wrong number, they abuse me. I even get calls from Japan, Saudi Arabia, China and Switzerland,” says Jakhar. “I want them to remove the posters or change the numbers. But all attempts to contact the film-makers have failed. I have now decided to take the film-makers to court, as a last resort.” Jakhar, who has no intention of watching Dabangg, reasons that since he’s had the numbers for a long time, it is not feasible for him to change all of them.

Producer-actor Arbaaz Khan defends, “I am amazed people spotted the number... we didn’t even notice it. I apologise for the inconvenience it has caused him.” The film’s art director, Rahul Nanda, who designed the poster, adds, “We took several newspaper clippings to prepare the art work. This just happened to be one of them. We didn’t notice any phone numbers while finalising the poster.”

In the past, phone numbers accidentally highlighted in Ghajini, Milenge Milenge and Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein have also caused distress to people who owned the numbers.

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Monica BellucciAge: 45 (September 30, 1964)

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Ramayana To Be Distributed By Warner Bros

Hollywood studio Warner Bros Pictures India is going to distribute the animation movie Ramayana, which is the first full length feature of the epic.

The animation movie will be released simultaneously in three Indian languages- Hindi, Telugu and Tamil. It will hit theaters on October 15. Filmmaker Ketan Mehta’s Maya Digital Media has produced the movie, which is directed by debutant Chetan Desai.

In a press release, the deputy managing director (Theatrical) of Warner Bros. Pictures, India, Mr Denzil Dias stated that the epic has taken animation films to the next level in India and people must watch to believe it. He added that Warner Bros. Pictures is very happy to be associated with this film.

The characters of Ram, Sita and Ravan been voiced by Bollywood actors Manoj Bajpai, Juhi Chawla, and Ashutosh Rana respectively.

The producer, Ketan Mehta, said that the film is an attempt to take the most popular Indian mythological story to the global audience. He said that the Ramayana is the tale of the original superhero of India. In his words, with its reach and expertise Warner Bros gives the perfect platform to launch this latest avatar of Ramayana, and through this film mythology meets technology and past meets the future.

Best Feature Film Award for Kutty Srank

Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek in the film “Paa”. The senior Bachchan has bagged his third National Award for his performance in the film. Photo: Special Arrangement

Amitabh Bachchan bags best actor award for his role in ‘Paa'

Kutty Srank, a Malayalam drama starring Mammooty, expressing the different perspectives of three women about the man in their lives, was the biggest winner at the National Film Awards for 2009, sweeping the best feature film award as well as four other categories.

It led a crop of Malayalam films snapping at the heels of the Bollywood pack, which still took the highest number of feature film awards, with 15 awards being given to Hindi films. That included the best popular film 3 Idiots, the best film on national integration Delhi-6, best film on social issues Well Done Abba and the best debut film Lahore.

Silver screen superstar Amitabh Bachchan snagged most of the attention at the announcement of the Awards by the jury here on Wednesday, when he bagged his third award for best actor, this time for his role as a dying 13-year old in Paa. “To portray the role of Auro was not an easy thing,” said jury chair Ramesh Sippy, adding that it was a near-unanimous choice.

The best actress award went to Ananya Chatterjee for her role in the Bengali film Abohoman, which also won the best direction prize for Rituparna Ghosh.

The best film award in the non-feature category was shared by The Postman and Bilal.

Malayalam films managed to pick up 10 awards in the feature categories, with Oscar winner Resul Pookutty winning an award for best audiography in Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja. Music director Ilayaraja bagged the best background score award for the same film. The only Tamil film to capture the spotlight was Pasanga, which bagged awards for its child actors and screenplay dialogues, as well as in its own language category.

The award announcements were slightly marred by the number of times that Mr. Sippy apologetically stumbled over the pronunciation of names in non-Hindi languages. The Awards returned to a two-tier format this year, regional juries making a shortlist considered by a central team. The “recall” clause, which allowed the final jury to consider films left out by the lower tier also came into play with the Marathi Natarang and the Bengali Houseful picking up awards.

Bollywood holds sway over National Film Awards, a 4th for Amitabh Bachchan

NEW DELHI: Affirming that its popularity was not restricted to masses but the jury as well, Hindi films dominated the 57th National Film Awards (NFA), which was announced on Wednesday.

While Amitabh Bachchan walked off with his fourth NFA, this time for " Paa", Aamir Khan-starrer " 3 Idiots" bagged the honour for the most popular film. The best debut film by a director went to producer Vivek Khatkar and director Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan for " Lahore". Rakyesh Om Prakash Mehra's " Delhi 6" won the Nargis Dutt award for best feature film on national integration.

An overwhelmed Big B plans to celebrate the occasion by breaking into an Auro jig with son Abhishek after he returns from shooting. "I am really thankful to the government of India and the national award committee for the recognition."

Rancho may have lost out to "Paa", but "3 Idiots" had its share of glory. The director-producer duo of Raj Kumar Hirani and Vinod Chopra has now won national awards for all their three films. Earlier, both the Munnabhai films had bagged the coveted award.

A joyous Chopra said, "It is an overwhelming feeling. It's really a proud moment for our production house."

Malayalam film " Kutty Srank" won the award for the best feature film, and walked off with four other awards, including best cinematography, best screenplay, best costume and a special jury recognition, which it shared with Shahid Kapoor-starrer " Kaminey" and Malayalam film " Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja".

"Delhi 6" was also adjudged for best art direction. "I am very happy that "Delhi 6" has got recognition. The reason we had made this film was that our country suffers from integration, lack of understading between religions. We have got recognition for the cause is an overwhelming feeling."

Veteran filmamker Shyam Benegal's " Well Done Abba" was chosen as the best film on social issues while adman-turned-director R Balkrishnan's "Paa", was also named the best Hindi film, besides adding to the laurel's kitty. "Paa" also bagged honours for best supporting actress (Arundhati Naag) and best make-up (Christein Tinsley and Dominie Till).

Amit Trivedi got the best music director's award for Anurag Kashyap's "Dev-D". The emotional number `Behti hawa sa tha woh' from "3 Idiots" penned by Swanand Kirkere got the best lyrics award.

Ananya Chatterjee was named the best actress for her role in the Bengali film " Abohoman", which also fetched the best direction award for Rituparno Ghosh and best editing for Arghya Kamal Mitra. "Abohoman" was also adjudged the best Bengali film and Farooque Sheikh's role in it got him the best supporting actor award.

Rupam Islam was chosen as the best male playback singer for his rendering of " Kolakata" in the Bengali film " Mahanagar". While the best female playback was awarded to Nilanjana Sarkar for another Bengali movie " Houseful".

Ramesh Sippy, chairperson for the central jury (feature film), said based on discussions, the jury had decided to recall five films, which had not made it to the first list of the regional jury. Of these, two -- " Natrang" (best film in Marathi) and "Houseful" (best female playback) -- won the awards.

The best audiography award was shared by Oscar winner Resool Pookutty for "Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja", Subash Sahoo (location sound) for "Kaminey" and Anup Dev (re-recordist of the final missed track) for "3 Idiots".