Showing posts with label Texas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Texas. Show all posts
Spending time with family is therapeutic for me-Ileana Dcruz
7:56 AM
The actress flew down to Texas to meet her family post lockdown and says it was good for her mental health
Onkar Kulkarni (BOMBAY TIMES; November 18, 2020)
Ileana D’Cruz is in Karnal, Haryana where she has resumed shooting for Unfair & Lovely with Randeep Hooda. She recently spent a month with her family in the US. The actress, who was all by herself through the Coronavirus lockdown in Mumbai, rushed to Texas during the Unlock phase. Talking to BT about it, she says, “I met my mom, brother and sister after a long time. I felt such an overwhelming sense of relief on seeing them. It’s only after meeting them that I could breathe again in peace. I didn’t realise how much I needed it. I was trying to be strong when I was alone for five months during the lockdown. I was pushing myself, saying that I can survive without seeing my family. But when we reunited, I wondered how I functioned without them.”
Ileana cherishes her one-month stay there, and says she got pampered by her mother, who cooked delicious food for her. The two also had unending conversations for hours. “I remember how mom chased me around the house for the initial one week, looking for an opportunity to hug me. But I’d run away from her, reminding her that I had to be quarantined (laughs!),” she recalls.
Talking to BT earlier, Ileana had opened up about the therapy sessions she was undergoing during the lockdown. However, she tells us that she didn’t need therapy when she was with her family. “The family time did wonders for my mental health. For me, spending time with family is therapeutic! It’s the most soothing thing in the world,” she says, adding that she will be back in the US with her family by the year end. “I have decided that I am going to end the year with my family by my side. Also, December is Christmas time, and I always bring in the festival with my folks,” she reveals.
Meanwhile, talking about the experience of shooting for a film in the pandemic, Ileana says, “We are taking supreme levels of precautions to feel safe while shooting in these times. There have been occasions like my birthday (November 1) and even Diwali, but we didn’t really celebrate as such as we wanted to focus on work and finish it off smoothly.”
It's a race against time for USA cinemas
9:05 AM
Box Office India Trade Network
The cinemas in USA were expected to open in the first and second week of July but now it seems a race against time and they will have to delay the opening. The government has given the go ahead but its unlikely that many state governments will now allow due to rising cases of Coronavirus. It is very difficult to see cinemas opening up in early July in most of California, Texas or Florida though New York could see cinemas return.
The importance of USA cinemas is due to content. There are cinemas open in many places in the world and more will open in early July but the content has to come from Hollywood and that can only happen when majority of the cinemas in USA open which is the domestic market for Hollywood. TENET was scheduled to be a 17th July release but was then pushed to 31st July and now moves to 12th August as the opening of cinemas gets delayed. MULAN is now scheduled to be the first major release but a lot depends on how many cinemas will be open by that time in USA.
The markets which are open with a healthy number of screens at present are as follows.
South Korea (did not shut down)
Japan (shutdown for 2-3 weeks in April)
Vietnam
Hong Kong
Thailand
Australia
New Zealand
UAE
Netherlands
Denmark
Switzerland
Sweden
Norway
Finland
Iceland
Czech Republic
Croatia
Slovakia
Estonia
Hungary
Italy
Spain
Germany
Poland
South Korea and Japan are seeing the best turnout and here the former country did not shut down theatres while the latter had for a very limited time. As the reopening of cinemas in US is delayed it will put the date for India further also as the content for India will also come from Hollywood as cinemas try to reopen.
South Asian flavours to take over Texas this April with the third Indie Meme Film Festival
8:00 AM
Ask The Sexpert, Ribbon among Indian projects to be screened at the Indie Meme Film Festival
Sanyukta Iyer (MUMBAI MIRROR; April 3, 2018)
Two Indian films set in small-towns — Nishil Seth’s Bhasmasur, about a 10-year-old boy and his debt-ridden father, and Puloma Pal’s Turup, that tackles issues of class, caste, gender, religious identity and patriarchal attitudes — are US-bound. The films will have their American premieres at the third Indie Meme Film Festival in Austin from April 19 to 22.
The fest’s US-based founders Tripti Bhatnagar and Alka Bhanot say their mission is to promote socially relevant independent cinema from South Asia. This edition will have a line-up of films, documentaries and shorts from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan and Iran. “The fest is more of a movement as we have year-round screenings in Dallas and Austin of films that address issues like child abuse, sex trafficking, organ trade, disabled athletes and acid attacks, among others,” Tripti informs.
This year, some of the highlights include Tibetan filmmaker Tian Tsering’s Barley Fields On The Other Side Of The Mountain, which follows a teenage girl who must choose between family and a journey to freedom, and Vaishali Sinha’s Ask The Sexpert, a documentary on Dr Mahinder Watsa, Mirror’s popular 93-year-old columnist. While Tian and Vaishali will interact with fest attendees in person, Rakhee Sandilya, whose Kalki Koechlin and Sumeet Vyas-starrer Ribbon is also up for a screening, will be present through Skype. “Also present will be acclaimed Pakistani-Canadian filmmaker Arshad Khan, whose autobiographical docu-feature, Abu, delves into the challenges of growing up as a gay man in Pakistan, where homosexuals are regarded as deviants and a dishonour to the family,” Tripti adds.
Other Indian films at the festival include the 2017 Malayalam crime-drama, Angamaly Diaries, a free-for-all screening of the Naseeruddin Shah-starrer Gujarati drama, Dhh, premiere of Punjabi drugs-drama Taala Te Kunji, coming-of-age Marathi drama Chumbak, which is the festival’s closing film, with filmmaker Sandeep Modi and his team in attendance, and Jackie Shroff, Neena Gupta-starrer, Khujli.
Dr Mahinder Watsa in Ask The Sexpert; Naseeruddin Shah in Dhh
Fan accuses Ayushmann Khurrana of being an imposter?
7:41 AM
DNA (October 28, 2014)
Ayushmann Khurrana went for a holiday to Texas last
year and was accused of being an imposter! He went to a DVD store to
check if his film Vicky Donor was available there. There was a group of
Indian boys who kept looking at him. Finally one boy walked up to him
and asked him if he was Ayushmann. Even though the actor confirmed he
was, the lad refused to believe him and told him that he was a lookalike
before walking away from him! Asia bhi hota hai!!
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