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Spanish director Ezequiel Guerisoli is an ISKCON devotee and has made Mother Ganga which is a documentary on India's greatest river, the holy Ganges. It is a 50-minute documentary and it begins at Ganga Sagar on the Bay of Bengal where Ganga meets the sea to its source Gomukh high in the Himalayas. The 1600 mile-long journey is coordinated with state-of-the-art special effects and animation images. It has been inspired by Jaya Vijaya Das's book Our merciful Mother Ganga. Mother Ganga was shot in the year 2003 over a period of two months and the team has traveled from Ganga Sagar, West Bengal to Gomukh. German producer Bhaktivaibhava Swami also raised the funds to make the movie.
My mother is my hero: Sonali Bendre
Sonali Bendre's real life hero? The actress calls her mother her hero for raising three daughters with very limited resources and giving them wings despite being not so educated. She admits this kind of heroism is not so uncommon in the country. "My mother has done a great job with her kids," the 38-year-old actress said in a group interview. "The daily struggle of raising three daughters with a very limited income, yet seeing to it that they get a good upbringing, giving her daughters the wings even after not being so educated - that person is my hero," Sonali added. Having said that, she feels that "this kind of heroism is in most of the women in India because they all are doing that." Hailing from a middle-class family, Bendre entered filmdom through ads and later rose on the firmament with her work in "Sarfarosh", "Zakhm", and "Duplicate". After playing a successful innings, she tied the knot with filmmaker Goldie Behl and settled down. Mother of a seven-and-a-half-year-old son, she has an immense respect for women who balance family and work. "I had the luxury of making a choice (whether to work or not). All the women don't have this luxury and I really don't know how they do it. If I had to do everything on my own, I would have fallen apart," she confessed. "I have an immense amount of respect for women who leave their kids and go to work, because they have to. They don't have a choice. I couldn't have done that," she added. After becoming a mother, Sonali cut down on her work as her priority was to be a hands-on mother. Off and on she appears on the small screen as a judge of reality shows. "From what I know and what I have read, the first seven years of a child's life are very important - be it for their emotional quotient, body type, IQ or habits," she said and added that much of a child's personality evolves in the first seven years. "So for me, it was very clear that the first seven years of my son's life should be good," said the actress who recently judged "India's Best Dramebaaz". Sonali wishes for longish maternity leaves than the prevailing one for new moms. "I really wish that at work place if we could let a woman have maternity leave for the first couple of years, so that she can take care of her child, because what a mother can give during that period nobody else can give," she said.
Raju Khan: My Mother is the Ultimate Choreographer
'Filmmaking has changed. Choreography has changed accordingly,' says veteran Choreographer Saroj Khan's son Raju Khan who is basking in the glory of his dance moves in Hrithik Roshan's 'Krrish'. He has choreographed over 1500 songs and has also won a national award for Lagaan. He is starting on his directorial venture Showbiz under Mahesh Bhatt's banner. 'I can't talk about 'Showbiz' right now as we are still at the scripting stage and it won't be proper to say anything about it,' he says. His views about his first love Choreography are rather radical. 'There was a time when along with the lead pair, dozens of chorus dancers gyrated their bellies needlessly. Songs then were meant as a breather where people went out and smoked. Today, the duration of a film has been curtailed. Mostly songs that add to the story are kept so the choreography has to be more meaningful and it has to take the story forward. I think the ego should go out of a dancer to make the song look more plausible. He doesn't have any other option if he wants to be around for long,' he says. And what's his opinion on her mother who is instrumental in the success of Madhuri Dixit and Sridevi? 'I sincerely feel she is the ultimate Choreographer. She actually knows what it means to make musical steps according to her own liking.' The new generation of Choreographers is ruling the roost right now. They are young, hip and prone to fast-success. Maybe they should take a cue from Raju Khan's long-n-successful career and aspire for a longer career rather than doing too many things simultaneously.
Amitabh Bachchan`s mother passes away
93 year old Teji bachchan well-known as Amitabh Bachchan's mother and Hindi poet Harivansah Rai Bachchan's wife, passed away on Friday. Teji has been not keeping well from almost a year. She was admitted in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in Lilavati hospital Mumbai, and there only she took her last breath. musicmazaa conveys heartfelt condolences to the Bachchan family.
Tara as unwed mother in Amy's SUNO NA
Amy Thanawala, erstwhile assistant to Sanjay Leela Bhansali ('Khamoshi') and John Mathew Mathan ('Sarfarosh') makes her directorial debut with 'Suno Na', being made under the banner of Cinema-Kollage. The film is now complete and being readied for early release. The film revolves around an unwed mother. Spurned by her lover, she takes an extreme step and decides to commit suicide. However, it dawns on her about the child she has been carrying. Why kill the innocent unborn for no fault of hers? She decides to move to a city, find work, give birth to the child and start a new life. The film takes a humorous turn when the mother and the child in the womb start talking to each other; even sing a duet. The child wants to know many things, including about her father. The story also revolves around three men who come in her life during these nine months. Tara Sharma plays the leading role in the film. This is her first film after her marriage.
Vidya takes care of Mother Earth
Vidya Balan did not just add Bollywood Glamour to the event but also did her bit to create more awareness and contribute to the well being of our planet. On the eve of the world environment day on June 4, the actress became part of the initiative organized by LANXESS India and Save The Children India organization to make the earth greener by planting 100 tree saplings. Vidya's showbiz career is also flourishing like a fast growing sturdy young tree. The latest advertisements of the communication major Airtel in which she bagged the role opposite the south superstar Madavan was received well by the public and became the talk of the town. She was also chosen as the brand ambassador of the international electronics major Toshiba. She is the heroine of the B-Town's latest stud Shahid Kapoor in the acclaimed director Aziz mizra's latest film 'Kismat Konnection'. The homely looking Vidya recently signed a deal with the Bling Entertainment Solutions.The Talent and celebrity Management Company will now handle and give the required advice for all her endorsement contracts to be signed in the future. The upcoming actress who now looks more beautiful than ever before is going slow but very steady taking extra care in signing new projects with utmost care to preserve her fast rising star status.