Mangal Pandey hearing deferred

A local court in Ballia on December 8 deferred hearing in the case filed against actor Aamir Khan,producer Bobby Bedi and director Ketan Mehta alleging wrong portrayal of war hero Mangal Pandey in the film Mangal Pandey: The Rising.

A local court in Ballia on December 8 deferred hearing in the case filed against actor Aamir Khan,producer Bobby Bedi and director Ketan Mehta alleging wrong portrayal of war hero Mangal Pandey in the film Mangal Pandey: The Rising.

The civil judge,junior division,posted the matter for hearing on December 21 after judicial work was postponed in the wake of terrorist blasts in Varanasi recently. The petition was filed by Santosh Pandey,who claimed that Mangal Pandey hailed from Nagwa village and was his great-grandfather. Earlier the court had rejected the Bollywood trios claim that the petitioner was not a descendant of the war hero.

It was five years ago that the film was released and Santosh had filed a suit in the court alleging that the hero of the 1857 uprising was wrongly portrayed in the mega-budget film.

Nirvana 13 due in March

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Nirvana 13 is a psychological thriller to be produced and directed by debutant Jitin Rawat. Based on the topic of mercy-killing,it deals with life,death,religion and spirituality. Starring Marathi actor Sandeep Kulkarni in the lead,the film is in its post-production stage and is getting ready for release in March 2011.

FTII offers fellowship to scholars

As part of its ongoing Golden Jubilee celebrations,the Film and Television Institute of India has awarded three Fellowships to Dr Madhuja Mukherjee from Kolkata,MD Soni,Jaipur and Prof Pradeep Dixit,Pune.

Dr Mukherjee,a lecturer at Jadavpur University,Kolkata,has been awarded the fellowship for her research in regional film history,while Soni,a journalist,will be researching on Rajasthani cinema.

The research topic of Prof Dixit,a former student of FTII,is PBS viewership of television. The research projects will be completed within a year.

The RJD’s key face and Leader of the Opposition (LoP) Tejashwi Yadav, party supremo Lalu Yadav’s son, will again contest from his stronghold Raghopur.

Amid Mahagathbandhan crisis, RJD unveils list of 143, drops 36 MLAs, focuses on ‘M-Y’

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The RJD, lead player of the Mahagathbandhan, released its full list of 143 candidates for the November Bihar Assembly elections. Its key face Tejashwi Yadav will contest from Raghopur, and 41 sitting MLAs have been renominated. The party has dropped 36 sitting MLAs and fielded young leaders, signaling a bid to consolidate its core Muslim-Yadav vote base. The Congress has fielded 60 candidates.

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