GoanTimes September, 06 2019 issue

08 Cinema
Friday, September 06, 2019 | www.goantimes.titosgoa.com | 12 Pages
Netflix, Hotstar to
be regulated? Centre
mulls certification for
streaming platforms
Top officials of the Ministry of
Information and Broadcasting are
planning to meet representatives from
OTT (Over the Top) platforms — referring
to content made and streamed by online
platforms, rather than through satellite
or cable — as well as legal experts and
others for certifying online content.
According to the Economic Times,
the I&B ministry will hold talks with
all major OTT players such as Hotstar,
Voot, ZEE5, Arre, SonyLIV, ALTBalaji,
Reliance Jio, Netflix and Eros Now,
as well as legal experts and other
stakeholders. This comes just days after
Union I&B Minister Prakash Javadekar
invited suggestions for certification
of online content from members of the
film industry during a meeting he held
on August 31.
Prakash Javadekar invited
suggestions when he unveiled the new
logo and certificate design of the Central
Board of Film Certification (CBFC).
Bear Grylls looks
unrecognisable after
suffering a deadly
allergic reaction to
Bee sting
Bear Grylls was recently in news for
his wild journey with Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, where people got to
see the unknown side of PM Modi as
he ventured into the Indian wilderness
to create awareness about animal
conservation & environmental change.
Now, Bear Grylls is in news once
again for his new show 'Treasure Island'
and how he got knocked out by a bee
sting, while filming it.
45-year-old Grylls is known to be
the ultimate survival expert. There's
literally nothing this man can't tackle
in the wilderness...except for bees
because he is allergic to bee stings.
And that's exactly what landed him
in a life-threatening situation with an
unrecognisable swollen face.
Despite getting stung by a bee, Grylls
continued to keep the cameras rolling.
Realising the gravity of the situation,
his crew and the doctors available at the
shoot rushed to him and treated him.
Sridevi's wax
statue unveiled at
Madame Tussauds
in Singapore
The late actor's husband Boney
Kapoor and her daughters Janhvi
and Khushi were present at the
unveiling.
Sridevi's iconic 'Hawa Hawai' avatar
came alive at Madame Tussauds
museum in Singapore on Wednesday
with the launch of her wax statue.
Complete with her golden gown and a
golden crown, the wax statue captured
her iconic look in the song ‘Hawa
Hawai’ from the movie Mr India.
The late actor’s husband Boney
Kapoor and her daughters Janhvi and
Khushi were present at the unveiling.
Boney Kapoor teared up ahead of
the unveiling and broke down while
speaking about Sridevi and the process
before her statue was unveiled.
Sridevi’s wax figure is the only one of
its kind in the world and an exclusive
addition to Madame Tussauds
Singapore, a release by the museum
had said. Created posthumously, a
team of 20 skilled artists worked closely
with Sridevi’s family over the course
of five months to replicate her pose,
expressions, make-up and iconic outfit.
Superstar Sridevi, who reigned
the Bollywood box-office of the
eighties, died on February 24, 2018, by
accidentally drowning in a bathtub at a
Dubai hotel.
Ram Kapoor claims
90% of aspiring actors
don’t have any work
& they spend their life
giving auditions
Ram Kapoor who is best known for his
role as Mr Walia in Kasamh Se and as
Ram in Bade Achhe Lagte Hain was the
talk of the town recently when before
and after pictures of himself after losing
oodles of weight did rounds on the
internet. The actor is one of the popular
and versatile actors who dabbled
in various mediums in his 20-year
career. And during an interview with
Hindustan Times, he claimed that he is
happy and content with how his journey
has been till now. He said, "There aren’t
too many challenges. Life is fun, and
fortunately, work has been coming to
me regularly from the last 20 years.
Now, I can be picky and choosy about
what I want to do. If I want to take a
year off, I can do that without any fear."
He also opened up on how aspiring
actors hardly get any projects and how
they mostly spend their life giving
auditions. He said, "It’s extremely tough
(in today's time), especially for aspiring
actors to get work. Apparently, about
90 percent of them don’t have any work.
They spend their whole life giving
auditions. I think a mere two percent
manage to make a successful career."
He also shared his struggles during
the initial days. He revealed that
during the initial five to eight years of
his career he was just one more name
in thousands. He said how there were
times when he didn't have any work for
six months and had enough money. But
he made sure to make it big.