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It's happy news for comedy freaks. It's the first time that Govinda will be teaming up with Akshay Kumar in a Priyadarshan film. With these two in mind, the resultant film has to be a laugh riot. Both the actors have proved their comic timings in films. Govinda proved it in David Dhawan comedies and Akshay proved himself several times more recently in Priyadarshan's Garam Masala. This the first time these two comedy kings have been teamed up. The film is titled Bhagam Bhaag. Lara Dutta and Paresh Rawal will join the team. It's a going to be a comedy of errors like- It's a Mad Mad World. The film is about theatre group that has to perform in London and the last minute the heroine disagrees to do the do her part. She is basically fed up of the antics of the hero of the play (Govinda) and the villain of the play (Akshay Kumar). The film will be shot entirely in London. This is Priyadarshan's second film to be shot fully outside India. He is excited to work with Govinda as he is working with him for the first time. He is also looking forward to his other serious films.
Madhur plans a sequel of Chandni Bar
In this era of sequels why should Madhur Bhandarkar be left behind? He is planning a sequel of award-winning film Chandni Bar and has tentatively titled it Chandni Bar 2. The idea struck him when recently Mumbai dance bars made news. Madhur has had an informal talk with Tabu who seemed to be very excited about the project. She was the protagonist, Mumtaz, in the original Chandni Bar. Madhur will make the movie only if Tabu agrees to act in it. Madhur Bhandarkar had won a National award for Chandni Bar. The film in the original ended when Mumtaz killed her son keeping it open for sequel.
Anil plans movie for his daughter
Anil Kapoor is all set to produce a film which will focus on bringing the best of the acting skills of his daughter Sonam Kapoor who is today regarded as an exceptionally talented actress and will be soon seen in the forthcoming movie 'Dilli- 6'. According to sources, the film will be based on the classic novel "Emma" written by the British writer Jane Austen. Because of the project being in the initial phase of pre-production stage, no more information regarding the film has been divulged. Sonam Kapoor will be playing the lead role with some established stars in supporting roles. It is a known fact that Anil Kapoor always goes for producing movies only based on the subjects that really strikes and fascinates him and he spares no efforts when it comes to the quality of production. And Sonam also will have a special attachment towards the project, so the film lovers have something to expect and be curious on how the cult novel is going to be adapted for a Hindi film.
Santosh planning a sequel to 'Halo'
Celebrated cinematographer and director Santosh Sivan's appetite for making films with kids and animals in pivotal roles started off with his hugely acclaimed movie 'Halo' which told a story of a little girl named Sasha's search for her puppy after it gets lost in the metropolis of Mumbai. He continued this interest with his recent film 'Tahaan' which again had a child and a donkey in key roles and was about the journey the protagonist undertakes to find his missing donkey named Birbal. Now Mr.Sivan is planning a sequel to 'Halo' which was released in 1997. The idea to make a follow up was born after the film maker recently met all the kids who had acted in 'Halo' and Santosh Sivan began to think about making a film on the life of the kids 12 years after they came together. Santosh says that for 'Tahaan', it was easy to make the donkey do what he wanted as the child artiste Purav had bonded well with animal and it started responding to him and to obey to his orders.
Plan Colombia's mixed legacy: coca thrives but peace deal may be on horizon
In the lowlands surrounding the town of La Hormiga, coca was once king. Fields of the bright green bushes stretched to the horizon in every direction and farmers were flush with cash. The surrounding municipality was the one with the most coca crops in the country that produced the most cocaine in the world. This was “ground zero” for Plan Colombia, a massive multipronged effort funded by nearly $10bn in US aid that started in 2000. The plan aimed to recover a country that was in the grips of drug mafias, leftist guerrillas and rightwing militias, and whose institutions malfunctioned and economy faltered. Fifteen years on, cattle graze where coca once grew by the side of the road and cacao is more easily spotted than coca. Farmer Fulgencio Quenguan traded his coca for fish farming. “I don’t make as much money but no one can take this from me,” he says as he scales a few tilapias for a customer in his own shop in town. Today, Colombia is a country transformed. It has one of Latin America’s healthiest economies, violence has dropped dramatically and the country is on the verge of ending more than half a century of internal conflict with Farc guerrillas who appear prepared to sign a peace deal in coming months. At a White House ceremony on Thursday, Barack Obama and Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos will make a pitch for increased aid for Colombia once a peace accord is signed, while celebrating the successes of Plan Colombia. But here in Putumayo, Plan Colombia has a mixed legacy. Plan Colombia’s first target was to reduce the amount of coca in Putumayo by half in five years. It did that and more. The total area planted with coca dropped from just over 66,000 hectares (163,020 acres) in 2000 to less than 9,000 hectares (22,230 acres) in 2005. But the crops and related violence moved elsewhere in the country, and after some 4m hectares (9.88m acres) of coca were sprayed with herbicide in 15 years, coca production is on the rise again and Colombia remains the world’s top producer of coca and cocaine. “Coca is stubborn,” says farmer Quenguan. He hasn’t grown coca on his 12-hectare (30-acre) farm in the village of Los Laureles for more than 10 years. But there’s one bush that, no matter how many times it has been sprayed with herbicide, no matter how many times he cuts it down, keeps popping back up. “Bad weeds never die,” he says, reciting an age-old Spanish adage. Plan Colombia has become a catch-all phrase for several different strategies. It is most widely understood as a US aid package to Colombia which has totaled about $10bn since 2000. More broadly, it was a joint US-Colombian strategy to strengthen the military, state institutions and the economy. “There is this idea that it is some vast orchestrated project but Plan Colombia doesn’t exist as such,” says Winifred Tate, author of Drugs, Thugs and Diplomats, a study of US policymaking in Colombia. Rather, it has been a series of programs whose emphasis has expanded and recalibrated over the years, she says. Initially, Plan Colombia was described as a counter-narcotics and military strengthening strategy and the focus was on massive drug crop spraying, building up military capacity and offering some incentives to coca growers to switch to legal crops. Andres Pastrana, the Colombian president under whom Plan Colombia began, says the strategy was a turning point in the country’s decades-old war. “Before the Plan, security forces were on the defensive and on the verge of military defeat [by guerrillas],” he told the Guardian in an emailed response to questions. Afraid of getting bogged down in a Vietnam-style quagmire, Congress initially restricted the use of donated helicopters and other hardware strictly to fighting drug production and trafficking. A battalion of 3,000 men trained by US special forces could not be used to combat the guerrillas or paramilitaries unless their targets were clearly protecting drug labs or coca fields. “Those limitations ... on the use of Plan Colombia caused (operational) problems,” said Pastrana, who will also be at the White House ceremony. That ended after the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington, when the US became openly engaged in fighting “narco-terrorism” in Colombia. That is where Plan Colombia did succeed: in helping the Colombian government take control – in some areas for the first time – of its territory, fighting back guerrillas to mountain and jungle redoubts and driving them to begin peace negotiations with the government in 2012.
Planning to join social media soon, says Suriya
Tamil actor Suriya, who is awaiting the release of Tamil actioner "Anjaan", Tuesday said he is likey to join soon social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. "I plan to join Twitter and Facebook to stay connected with my fans," Suriya told reporters here at an event. He was speaking at the success meet of "Anjaan" teaser, which has registered one million hits within two days of its release. Directed by N. Linguswamy, "Anjaan" features Suriya as a gangster in Mumbai. It also features Bollywood actors Manoj Bajpai, Vidyut Jamwal, Dalip Tahil and Murali Sharma in important roles. Speaking about the film, Suriya said: "Shooting for 'Anjaan' was a wonderful experience. It will not be one of those films that come and go. Even after weeks in cinemas, it will continue to draw audiences." Filmmaker Linguswamy, who has collaborated with Suriya for the first time, said it was "a dream come true to work with him". "I have been under a lot of pressure while working on the film because I have to satisfy Suriya's fans. It's a stylish film and it was encouraging to work with an actor like him," he added. Jointly produced by Thiruppathi Brothers and UTV Motion Pictures, "Anjaan" is slated to release Aug 15.