New Delhi: Russian has released a trailer for the first ever feature film to be shot in space.
“The Challenge” was shot aboard the International Space Station (ISS) over the course of 12 days in 2021. It is about a female cardiac surgeon called Zhenya (played by Russian actress Yulia Peresild) who is part of a team of doctors sent to operate on a cosmonaut (played by cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy) who loses consciousness while on the orbital station.
The film is a joint project of Roscosmos, Russia’s Channel One and the Yellow, Black and White studio. Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov, Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov also have parts in the movie.
Overall, about 35-40 minutes of the film’s screen time were to be filmed in orbit.
“The Challenge” will be released on April 12.
“The movie is aimed to popularise Russia’s space activities, as well as glorify (the) cosmonaut profession,” according to Russian space agency Roscomos.
At the time of filming, NASA stated that it “marks the expansion of commercial space opportunities to include feature filmmaking”.
Roscosmos first announced the film project in November 2020 and Peresild, 37, was chosen for the role.
Peresild and producer-director Klim Shipenko travelled to the ISS alongside veteran Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov in October 2021 and filmed the movie over the course of 12 days.
Although “The Challenge” is the first feature-length film to be shot in space, it’s not the first project to be filmed aboard the ISS.
Earlier, Soviet-era cosmonauts filmed aboard Soyuz T-9 and inside the Salyut 7 space station for the Russian 1984 narrative film “Return from Orbit.”
Twenty-four years later, privately-funded astronaut Richard Garriott shot “Apogee of Fear,” a short science fiction film set aboard ISS.
The list also includes a 2002 IMAX documentary narrated by Tom Cruise and a 2012 eight-minute science fiction film by entrepreneur and space tourist Richard Garriott.
In 2020, Cruise, along with director Doug Liman, had revealed plans to travel to the ISS to shoot a feature film in collaboration with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and NASA.
Mumbai: Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan said that he sustained injury during the shooting of his upcoming film, Project K, in Hyderabad.
Big B took to his blog to share on Sunday that he has broken his rib cartilage and stated that he is currently taking rest at his home in Mumbai.
“In Hyderabad at shoot for Project K, during an action shot, got injured, rib cartilage popped broke and muscle tear to the right rib cage. Cancelled shoot, did doctor consult & scan by CT at AIG Hospital in Hyderabad and flown back home,” posted Amitabh Bachchan.
The suffered injury during an action sequence of the film. He unfortunately suffered a muscle tear to his right rib cage.
“Strapping has been done and rest been advocated .. yes painful .. on movement and breathing .. will take some weeks they say before some normalisation will occur .. some medication is on also for pain .. So all work that was to be done has been suspended and canceled dropped postponed for the moment until healing occurs ..I rest at Jalsa and am mobile a bit for all the essential activities .. but yes in rest and generally lying around …” Big B wrote.
Expressing his anguish the actor added, “It shall be difficult or let me say .. I shall be unable to meet, the well wishers at Jalsa Gate this evening .. so do not come .. and do inform as much as you can to those that intend coming …All else is well …” he posted.
Helmed by Nag Ashwin, Project K is a bilingual film shot simultaneously in two languages i.e Hindi and Telugu across various locations. Deepika Padukone and Prabhash are playing the pivotal roles in the film.
In this time of distress, Amitabh Bachchan said he has found his solace in the words of his ‘Babuji’.
The actor wrote in his blog, “Getting time to spend time with Babuji and his genius, his mind his words and his immense creativity .. the essence of life resides in his writings .. and such a learning and amazed joy to be in his company ..There is desire to share .. to share what ever little that I may interpret from his words and his memories of the times spent with him .. to lament the limited .. to be in awe of the vision and the intellect of such a being .. and wonder how ever did one think of all that was written spoken thought by him ..”
Mumbai: Superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s “Pathaan” has become the all-time number one Hindi film in India by raising Rs 1028 crore worldwide since its release in January, said Yash Raj Films (YRF).
According to the studio, the Siddharth Anand directorial raised Rs 1.07 crore nett in India (Hindi – Rs 1.05 crore, all dubbed versions – Rs 0.02 crore) on its sixth Friday.
“The nett collection in India stand at Rs 529.96 crore (Hindi – Rs 511.70 crore, dubbed – Rs 18.26 crore) The total worldwide gross is an incredible 1028 crore (India gross: Rs 641.50 crore, overseas: Rs 386.50 crore)” YRF said in a press note.
The movie, a mega comeback vehicle for Shah Rukh after his absence from leading man roles for more than four years, released on January 25 to great hype and record advance bookings.
“It feels incredible that ‘Pathaan’ is now the number one Hindi film in India today! The love and appreciation that has been showered on ‘Pathaan’ by audiences is historic and it shows in the box office result. As a director, I’m proud that I made a film that has entertained people globally,” Anand said in a statement.
The new milestone comes days after “Pathaan” became the highest grossing Hindi film worldwide in the history of Hindi cinema in its initial run. “Dangal” is the highest grossing Indian film with a reported earnings of around Rs 2,000 crore.
In its initial run or phase one of the release, the Aamir Khan-starrer earned over Rs 700 crore. In its second phase, when it was released in theatres in China, the film’s box office crossed the Rs 1,000 crore mark in worldwide gross.
Other Indian films that crossed Rs 1,000 crore mark at the global box office include “Baahubali 2: The Conclusion”, “RRR” and “K.G.F: Chapter 2”.
“Pathaan”, which also stars John Abraham and Deepika Padukone, is an important step in YRF’s spy franchise where characters from different films will cross paths at some point. The film follows the titular spy (Shah Rukh) who comes out of exile to stop terrorist group Outfit X from launching a debilitating attack on India.
It is the fourth film in producer Aditya Chopra’s spy universe, following Salman Khan’s “Ek Tha Tiger” and “Tiger Zinda Hai”, and “War”, featuring Hrithik Roshan.
Mexican actor and producer Eduardo Verastegui visited Culiacán to promote his new film “Sounds of Freedom” directed byr Alejandro Monteverde. The film tells the true story of Timothy Ballard, played by Jim Caviezel, who quit his US government job at the US Department of Homeland Security, to help save the lives of thousands of children. of human trafficking.
The actor and now producer of the film mentioned in a talk about his project in which he calls on the population about the problem of child sexual abuse in Mexico, one of the countries where the largest number of offenses are committed. “More than 21,000 children are exploited, it is a national and global problem, particularly in Mexico and the United States, sadly they are countries with the highest number of providers in child exploitation”, mentioned.
Verástegui raises his voice and calls on society to eradicate the problem of the disappearance of girls and boys, their destiny to be victims of pornography and sexual exploitation. “The importance of the film, this tape not only opens your eyes, it moves your heart and we have to work together to put an end to this situation of reality that we live in, children are not for sale,” he said.
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New Delhi: Actor Ranbir Kapoor has cleared the air on rumours of him headlining former cricketer Sourav Ganguly’s biopic.
At a promotional event for his upcoming rom-com ‘Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar’, Ranbir was asked by the media if he is doing a biopic on Sourav Ganguly.
Responding to this question, Ranbir said, “I think dada (Sourav Ganguly) is a living legend not just in India, around the world. A biopic on him will be very special. Unfortunately, mujhe yeh film offer nahi huyi hai (I have not been offered this film). I think the makers of Luv films are still writing the script.”
However, he confirmed that he is working on the biopic of late singer-actor Kishore Kumar.
“Main 11 saal se Kishore Kumar ke biopic pe kaam kar raha hoon (I have been working on Kishore Kumar’s biopic for 11 years). We have been writing that with Anurag Basu and I’m hoping that it’s gonna be my next biopic. But maine abhi tak dada k upar jo biopic ban rahi hai uske baare mein kuch suna nahi hai (But so far I haven’t heard anything about the biopic being made on dada). So, I don’t know,” Ranbir added.
Earlier on Sunday, Ranbir was spotted playing cricket with Sourav Ganguly at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens.
Several pictures of the duo on the field emerged online.
Ranbir sported a black T-shirt and pants while Sourav wore a white T-shirt and trousers. The words ‘Ranbir’s Makkar XI’ was written on the actor’s T-shirt while Sourav’s T-shirt had ‘Dada’s Jhooti XI’ written on it.
Ranbir’s ‘Tu Jhoothi Main Makkaar’ is scheduled to hit the theatres on March 8.
Vone likes to say that childhood is a paradise. Unfortunately, paradises have a trait of rarely delivering on their promise. It is no coincidence that one often reads about them in narratives of expulsion. And doesn’t paradise rhyme with paradox?
The childhood memories of the actor Joachim Meyerhoff were published in 2013 under the title “When will it finally be like it never was”. Paradox is no word for it, you also hear utopia and nostalgia and irony, the remedy for the melancholy. Meyerhoff grew up in the paradise of central western Germany, in a prosperous country with modernization conflicts. And of course, paradise isn’t that easy when you inevitably have adult parents and then, as in the case of little Joachim, two older brothers. Even the word nestling cannot gloss over the fact that this position in the family has many snags.
A lot of work went into the “period detail”
Well, Josse, as Joachim is called, shouldn’t really complain. Because in daily sight live people who have it even harder than him. “Brain” is what one of the brothers prefers to call them, but there are also a whole lot of other inadmissible words in circulation about the patients of a psychiatric clinic, who are more or less family members at the Meyerhoffs. The father is a doctor in this clinic, the apartment is on campus, there are a few crazy people sitting in the living room from time to time, to use only the most everyday of the discriminatory terms that children like to burn their mouths with. “Calling her that was perfectly normal for us. Even the parents used one of these expressions every now and then when we were alone.”
“Among us” is the actual theme of Meyerhoff’s bestseller, because the narrator, looking back at his childlike self, is no longer among us, but rather a result of the complicated equations that represent families. Joachim remembers Josse, he slips under the covers in the teenager’s room again, he sits again at the family table when they cook it up on Sundays, and he tries again to understand what must have been going on in his mother’s mind when she spoke Italian very well telephoned intimately with a man who also seemed to have something to do with ideas of paradise.
The border between paradise and expulsion
A film adaptation of Meyerhoff’s successful book was obvious. With Sonja Heiss, a director who has an interesting niche in German cinema has now taken on the task: one could speak of an author’s comedy. Heiss already presented something like this in 2015 with “Hedi Schneider is stuck”, with Laura Tonke in the leading role of a woman who is confronted with panic attacks. It wasn’t really mainstream in terms of subject, so it wasn’t Karoline Herfurth or Alireza Golafshan, it was more like something like Berlin School in a funny way. In the same breath, the absurdity of the Berlin School label would have crossed the dividing line between normal and crazy.
The film “When will it finally be like it never was” does not have to emancipate itself from the original. It’s more about giving concrete form to the evocation of a world that one finds in Meyerhoff. That’s why Heiss depends a lot on the aspects that are always negotiated in the first half of the Oscars: equipment, costume design, and the soundtrack. A lot of work went into the “period detail”, the English technical term for a genre that has gained in importance in times of many retro references. The recent past is occupied with hundreds of personal madeleines; What Proust used to say was pasta, Meyerhoff is a veritable hodgepodge of references to time and ephemeral fashions. And Heiss can also use successful slapstick scenes that are already very entertaining in the book, for example the clinic visit of a prime minister who markets himself as “The big clear one from the north” and is attacked by a patient named Rudi.
At its core, however, it is about a childhood that falls apart from within, like Josse’s family. Father and mother (both great in their own way: Laura Tonke and Devid Striesow) don’t pretend to the children, they are simply mysterious in a way (also for themselves) that one only learns to understand as the normal state of life over the course of many years. As an adolescent, you try to answer the questions that you cannot ask directly in pop culture. And with that you have the mixture of “When will it finally be like it never was again” quite well together. Somehow everything feels strange, but you feel every second that something very sad is actually going on.
The small act of strength with which Josse keeps pushing the beds of his parents together, who have just grown apart, as they say, this rebellion against the inevitable also marks a border between paradise and expulsion. Not even a muscular man could force together the centrifugal forces that exist between people. And Josse is rather slender, he just has to remember things in order to write them down later. This later becomes then again with Sonja Heiss. The back and forth hits her quite well.
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Mumbai: Bollywood actor-producer Arbaaz Khan, who was recently seen in the streaming series ‘Tanaav’, started his career with a negative role in ‘Daraar’.
One would wonder as to why the son of a legendary screenwriter (Salim Khan of Salim-Javed) and the brother of one of the biggest superstars of India — Salman Khan, would make such an unconventional choice.
Well, it was because the opportunities for Arbaaz, as he admitted, were very few and he was looking to dive into showbiz as early as possible.
The actor told IANS: “The opportunities were very less and there were only a few directors with whom an actor would have wanted to work then. Honestly, I was just waiting to start work.”
Arbaaz, who hosts the long-format talk show, ‘The Invincibles with Arbaaz Khan’ on Bollywood Bubble, further mentioned: “At the end of the day, I too had responsibilities, my father had such a terrific body of work, my brother (Salman Khan) was already a big star by then.”
He added, “So, it was important for me to take the plunge. In showbiz, you expect your break at the age of 21 or 22 but, once you’re in your mid 20s and you haven’t started working, there’s pressure on you to work, earn and deliver. So, I thought the film was good and the negative shade of my character did not matter to me.”
“So, it was more of a work call, I got the award in my very first film. I agree that for a long time I was typecast as an actor after that film but that also gave me work. Kaam karna important hai na (To work is all that matters, right?) And, I changed that particular image over a period of time”, he concluded.
Mumbai: Kangana Ranaut has once again targeted filmmaker Karan Johar but this time it’s a film he has backed with his Dharma Productions – ‘Selfiee’. The Bollywood actress called the movie a “flop” and even compared the first day collections to her film ‘Dhaakad’.
Kangana slammed filmmaker Karan’s co-produced film ‘Selfiee’ starring Akshay Kumar and Emraan Hashmi on the day it hit screens.
Kangana wrote on her story: “Karan Johar movie Selfie has hardly made 10 lakhs on the first day I don’t see even one trade or media person talk about it forget mocking or bullying him the way they harass me.”
In her next post, Kangana re-shared an article, the headline of which read: “‘Male version of Kangana Ranaut!,’ Netizens react as Akshay’s ‘Selfiee’ fails to impress viewers, may be his 6th flop film in a row.”
She captioned it: “I was looking for news about selfie flop I found all the news is about me. Yeh bhi meri hi galti hai (This is also my fault). Wah bhai Karan Johar wah.”
‘Selfiee’ is the official Hindi remake of the Malayalam film ‘Driving License’. It’s backed by Karan Johar’s Dharma Production along with Magic Frames, Prithviraj Productions, Cape of Good Films and Star Studios.
Hyderabad: Celebrities are very picky when it comes to choosing a project. Over the years, we have seen several stars have walking out of the films that are offered to them or not signed them at the first place due various reasons — from character to dialogues to creative opinions. Recently, Tollywood‘s Stylish Star Allu Arjun too backed out from one of the biggest Telugu projects.
Fans were left shocked when the reports of the ‘Icon Star’ Allu Arjun walking out of Venu Sriram’s highly anticipated project, ‘ICON’ surfaced online. Bunny was initially enthusiastic about the film, and the reasons for which and why he left the project are unknown.
Venu Sriram, who had said that this project was his dream film, was devastated by the news of Bunny’s exit from the film. With the lead actor gone, the director was pressured to restart the casting process once again. Energetic Star Ram was also considered for the role at first, but it now latest reports have it that Natural Star Nani might replace Allu Arjun in the film.
Nani’s potential involvement has sparked interest in the industry, as he is well-known for his versatility and acting abilities. Furthermore, Nani and Venu Sriram have a track record of success together, as they previously delivered the blockbuster hit ‘MCA’.
While the plot and the other cast members of the film are still unknown, Bunny’s departure has piqued the audience’s interest. Fans are eager to see how the film will turn out under the direction of Venu Sriram.
Hyderbad: Jr. NTR will work with director Koratala Siva on his 30th film, tentatively titled ‘NTR 30’. The film was announced some time ago, it is yet to get the release date. After the 2016 hit ‘Janatha Garage’, this will be their second collaboration.
According to reports, Bollywood actress Janhvi Kapoor is set to make her Tollywood debut with this film. In the movie, she will be seen romancing Jr. NTR. Now, an exciting update on the yet-to-be-titled venture has surfaced.
If the recent reports are to be believed, Saif Ali Khan is in talks to play the antagonist in Jr. NTR’s next film. Buzz has it that this Bollywood actor has offered a large salary for the role. Saif has also given the project his approval and expressed a strong desire to work on it. However, an official announcement can only be expected once things become a little more official.
Apart from this, we have also seen that Saif is set to star in upcoming pan-India project ‘Adipurush’, where the actor will be seen playing the role of Lankesh Ravana, alongside Prabhas and others.
Coming back to NTR 30, the pre-production for the film is currently underway, filming for the action comedy is expected to begin on February 23. Anirudh Ravichander will compose the music and R. Rathnavelu will take over cinematography works. NTR 30 will be produced by Nandamuri Kalyanram under the banner of NTR Arts in collaboration with Yuvasudha Arts.
