James Cameron’s epic “Avatar” takes the highest honors at the Golden Globes with the science fiction fantasy named the best drama and the filmmaker was honored as best director. Avatar is set on a fictional planet called Pandora, a distant four light years from Earth. The film blends cutting edge 3D technology with a sci-fi fantasy theme.
An exuberant Cameron told his fellow Hollywood filmmakers, actors and actresses, that they have the greatest jobs in the world. “I’m very grateful to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, especially on behalf of all the artists that it took to make this film, to create this world, every blade of grass and every creature in it,” he said.
Cameron expressed surprise when picking up his best director award. “Frankly, I thought Kathryn was gonna get this,” he said, referring to his ex-wife, Kathryn Bigelow, hotly tipped for her work behind the camera on Iraq bomb-disposal drama The Hurt Locker. “But make no mistake,” he continued, “I’m very grateful.”
Sandra Bullock was honored for her starring role in the sports drama The Blind Side and the acting prizes for musical and comedy went to Meryl Streep for the Julia Child story ‘Julie & Julia’ with Robert Downey Jr for the crime romp Sherlock Holmes.
Naani is soon joined by her grandson (Zain Khan) with others, keen on following and solving the mystery of the girl. But here the film which was looking like a detective flick changes its color to become a typical bollywood masala film with its own love birds, CID officer and Naani’s own divorcee daughter (Amrita Saluja) and cupid also strike between the two teenagers which not only has dampen the movie but the timing of their romance is really bad.
FIRAAQ relates to lives of common people after the riots in Gujarat, which took place after Godhra incident. Film narrates six different stories not connected with each other. Nor they have similarity, nor do they assemble towards conclusion. These parallel narrative threads revolve in the region of Muslim Hindu Girlfriends, or a Muslim Hindu married couple. There is a transitory mention, that more trouble may be brewing, and we hold our armrests in expectancy of an explosive face-off that unites the contrasting people and pieces of information thus far, particularly with the subplot regarding the acquirement of a revolver by a cluster of vengeful Muslims.
The tale is narrated through two main characters, Dileep Singh (Raja Choudhary) and Dukey Bana (K. K. Menon). Dukey Bana advocates radical ideas for a state for Rajputs only, named Rajputana. Dileep Singh gets carved in the fraudulent world of politics and obsessed love after coming to pass L. L. B. in Rajpur. A host of further characters, each distinctly diverse from one another, plays vital parts in the story. In the midst of them, Prithvi Bana (Piyush Mishra) and Ransa (Abhimanyu Singh) are most fascinating. Fresh talent Ayesha Mohan is also progressing as she steps her way to catch the top. She offers tears and twists at every corner, a good find.
An 18 years old boy named Jamal Malik the street kid or say slumdog from Dharavi the slums of Mumbai is just one question away from winning 20 million rupees on Indian TV show “Who wants to be a millionaire” being watched by whole big nation. The show breaks for lack of time and on suspicion of cheating, police arrests him that how could a slum boy know so much and tortures him. Now the whole story revolves in flash back. Each chapter of boy’s life pinpoints to his answers to each question at TV show. The final day comes and the boy becomes millionaire before 60 million viewers.