16-10-2021 The Asian Independent

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16-10-2021 to 31-10-2021
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Kerala State Film Awards: Jayasurya
wins best actor, Anna Benn is best actress
Thiruvananthapuram.
Malayalam actor Jayasurya,
who just a few day backs
wrote himself into the record
books when his 100th film
was released, on Saturday
added another feather to his
crowded cap when he was
named Best Actor by the
jury of the 51st Kerala State
Film Awards.
The jury was chaired by
the popular actress
Suhashini and the awards
were announced here by the
state's Minister for Films
and Fisheries Saji Cherian.
Jayasurya bagged the
award for his stellar role in
the film 'Vellam'. Anna Ben,
who is 26 years old, got the
Best Actress award for her
role in the film 'Kappela'.
This is the second state
award that Jayasurya has
bagged in his two-decadeold
acting career. Anna, who
is the daughter of popular
script writer Benny P.
Nayarambalam, came to the
notice of audiences and critics
with her 2019 debut film,
'Kumbalangi Nights'. Ever
since, she has been flying
high. 'The Great Indian
Kitchen' directed by Jijo
Baby walked away with the
Best Film award. Sidharth
Siva was named Best
Director for the film
'Ennivar'. The Best
Character Actor award went
to Sudheesh; Sreerekha was
named the Best Character
Actress. The hugely popular
film 'Ayyapanum Koshyum'
was adjudged the Best Film
with Popular Appeal and
Aesthetic Value.
M. Jayachandran got the
award for Best Music
Director and Chandru Selvaj
for Best Cameraman for
their contributions to Sanal
Kumar Sasidharan's
'Kayattam', which was one
of the nominees for the Kim
Jiseok Award at the 2020
Busan International Film
Festival.
Lucky Ali impresses with
his best compositions
79th Golden Globe Awards on
Jan 9, 2022, despite controversies
Mumbai.Noted singer, songwriter
and actor Lucky Ali has
impressed the viewers with the
rendition of his best compositions
like 'O Sanam' and 'Gori
Teri Aakhein Kahen' on the final
episode of 'Unacademy Unwind'.
He performed the songs in a new
style that made the lyrics more
refreshing.
Hailing from a musical family,
the love for tunes and
melodies came naturally to
Lucky Ali, and as he puts it:
"The notes always made more
sense than conversations."
Lucky Ali also believes that
"a song is never really over
because it's a continuation. Like
many of the songs that I've
released, now I sing them differently.
So it has a life after release
also".
Talking about his experience
Los Angeles. The Hollywood
Foreign Press Association
(HFPA) has announced that it
plans to present the 79th annual
Golden Globe Awards on
January 9, 2022, disregarding
the many controversies over
racism and sexism in the journalists'
body, and with no telecast
partner in sight to replace
the American network NBC,
which had disassociated itself
from the event earlier this year.
On Friday, the HFPA
unveiled the traditional calendar
with submission deadlines in
various categories. It put to rest
speculation over the fate of the
79th Golden Globes after the
HFPA was plunged into turmoil
by a 'Los Angeles Times' report
in February pinpointing the
organisation's questionable
internal practices and the lack of
diversity.
NBC, which had been the
HFPA's longtime telecast partner,
decided to drop out because
of the internal issues rocking the
organisation. Matters came to a
head when Tom Cruise returned
the three Golden Globes he had
won in the 1990s and Scarlett
Johansson added her voice to
growing criticism of the HFPA.
Since then, the organisation has
said that it had cleaned up its
act under its new German president.
of performing on the show,
Lucky Ali said: "It was done
very professionally as always. It
was a grand show with great
lighting sequences and ample
space for us to ideate with each
other. Many of us had worked
for the first time with each other,
like the three musicians who had
come from Egypt, Delhi and
Dharamsala."
"So, that was the experience
for me, it was just intense. We
practiced till we got the interpretations
right. Till then we didn't
move on stage. It's just a good
example of connection between
different varied artistes, new
artistes. It was my good fortune
to have been in that environment,"
he added.
SL to restart ETA service
for travellers at airport
Colombo.The Sri Lankan government
has announced that it
has decided to restart the onarrival
Electronic Travel
Authorisation (ETA) service at
its airports for fully vaccinated
international travellers.
In a statement on Friday,
Immigration and Emigration
Department Controller General
Sarath Rupasiri said the issuance
of on-arrival ETA would facilitate
tourists who were unable to
obtain an online ETA due to time
constraints in arranging their
journey to Sri Lanka, reports
Xinhua news agency.
Rupasiri said the facility
would be available at the
Bandaranaike International
Airport in Colombo and the
Mattala Rajapaksa International
Airport in Hambantota.
However, despite the facility,
the controller general advised
travel operators to encourage
incoming tourists to obtain the
online ETA prior to their arrival
in the country to avoid unnecessary
delays at the airport.
Sri Lanka saw the highest
tourist arrivals growth in
September with 13,547 arrivals
while the country recorded
37,000 visitors from January to
September.
IS claims responsibility for
Kandahar mosque bombings
New Delhi. In a statement on its
Telegram channel, the Islamic
State (IS) terror group on
Saturday claimed that its
Khorasan branch (IS-K) carried
out the twin bombings inside the
Shia mosque in Kandahar, that
claimed the lives of 63 people
while injuring 83 others.
In the statement, the terror
group said that two IS-K suicide
bombers carried out the attack
on Friday inside the Bibi Fatima
Shia mosque in the city's police
district one (PD1) when hundreds
of worshippers were offering
prayers, Khaama Press
reported.
The statement said that the
first suicide bomber detonated
his explosives in the hallway of
the mosque and while the second
did it inside.
Initial reports had said that
there were three suicide bombers
who shot at security guards of
the mosque and then entered and
detonated their explosive vests.
It is the second deadly attack
by the group in the past two
weeks targeting the Shia
Muslims in Afghanistan.
Friday's attack came exactly
after a week when another Shia
mosque in Kunduz city was hit
by a suicide bombing which
claimed the lives of at least 50
people.
The IS-K had claimed responsibility
for the attack, which was
the deadliest since the US forces
left Afghanistan at the end of
August.
Earlier this week, Russian
President Vladimir Putin had
said that a large number of IS
militants have been entering
Afghanistan which can threaten
the security of Central Asian
countries.
The Taliban, which took over
Afghanistan in August, said the
IS were only making trouble but
were not a threat.