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Roger Nair Productions has acquired the Canadian rights of writer/director Mani Ratnam's 'Guru' from Kaleidoscope Entertainment/ Mr. Bobby Bedi. A Star studded World Premiere of Mani Ratnam's much anticipated 'Guru' will premiere in Toronto, Canada on January 11th 2007 at the prestigious Elgin & Winter Garden Theatre Centre, where most of Hollywood films are premiered. This has been path breaking and a landmark deal between Canada and India, in the process making Canada an official territory for Bollywood films. ROGER NAIR PRODUCTIONS and its directors ROGER NAIR (CEO-TORONTO) and PADAMM KUMAR (COO-INDIA) have entered the distribution market in a big way for CANADA territory and will be buying films for NORTH AMERICA and EUROPE as well. Roger Nair productions will hold a world premiere in Toronto with most of the cast and crew attending on January 11th 2007 including Aishwarya Rai, Abhishek Bachchan, R Madhavan, AR Rahman and Mani Ratnam. The film opens in theaters Canadawide Cineplex, AMC and Empire January 12th, 2007
Roger Moore releases 'bond' secrets
Being James Bond is not easy according to the 80 years old Second successful player in the legacy of the super spy series. Sir Moore played the top spy role for two decades from the 1970s. Now, he is going to release his memoir, 'My Word Is My Bond' on 4th of November. Moore seems to be in a mood to disclose many adventures that went miserable and how he overcame them by his undiluted courage during the shoots. Moore replaced Sean Connery's monopoly in 1973. His films include "The Spy Who Loved Me," ''Live and Let Die," ''The Man with the Golden Gun" and "A View to a Kill." He also recounts one meeting with a young sensation at that time and informed that the director is a huge Bond fan. The young director was willing to direct one of the Bond flicks. Impressed with the offer Moore rushed to the producer Albert R Broccoli and informed about the development. However, Broccoli refused to acknowledge the idea and posted a quick question about the director's percentage share with the BO. The reason behind is that no director of Bond series got a cut in the BO profits as a policy. The young director later made Indiana Jones and Spielberg remained a period Bond, according to Moore.
Abhi and Ash upsets Roger Federer
Tennis star Roger Federer got the shock of his life upon his arrival at the Hilton Toronto hotel. The sports person has come to Toronto to take part in the Rogers Cup. He as usual went to the star hotel and asked for the suite room which is called as the Federer suite as an honour for his talent and sporting achievements. And guess what reply this world celebrated player got from the hotel staff. They requested him opt for some other suite as the opulent space named after him had been given to a celebrity couple from India. Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwrya Rai were staying in Federer suite. They had come to Toronto for the first show of the 'Unforgettable World Tour. The hotel authorities were not very keen on giving the suite to Abhi and Ash as it was reserved exclusively for Roger Federer and till date he has only stayed there whenever he came to Toronto. But the local promoter of the world tour Moe Jiyani insisted that the luxury suite should be given to the celebrities from India and finally the hotel staff had no other option than to give in. Roger federer had no other option than to accept the other suite offered to him.
Colombia peace: Farc leaders 'could disown rogue unit'
The senior command of the Colombian Farc rebels has said it will disown one of its guerrilla units if it refuses to demobilise. A commander in eastern Colombia said units that did not accept peace terms being finalised with the government would have to leave the organisation. On Friday, a senior Colombian official said two Farc units were refusing to lay down their arms. Alejandro Ordonez said they were heavily involved in drug trafficking. President Juan Manuel Santos has said that rebels who reject the peace deal will end up in prison or in the grave. Mr Ordonez's office is independent of the president and he has been a critic of the peace talks that have been taking place for more than three years in Havana. Cocaine and mining On Wednesday a Farc unit, the First Front "Armando Rios", published a pamphlet in which it said that its members would not demobilise. The First Front operates in remote jungle areas, some close to the border with Brazil. Most are nature reserves or indigenous areas where the rule of law is absent and where cocaine cultivation and illegal mining are rife. Ivan Cepeda, a senator who has followed the negotiations closely in Havana, told BBC Mundo: "At the beginning of the talks it was expected that a small percentage of the rebels would not want to participate in the disarmament or in the peace process." Mr Cepeda said he did not believe the Front's refusal to lay down arms would put the peace talks at risk and he said he believed the majority of the Farc would end up accepting the peace terms. Experts say that while most rebels will be willing to embrace a new way of life after the peace accord, the demobilisation could open the way for smaller criminal bands to take over the drug cultivation and illegal mining the guerrillas have long practised in the Colombian jungle.
Aisha Sharma to make southern film debut with 'Rogue'
Actress Aisha Sharma will be making her Telugu and Kannada film debut with upcoming bilingual film "Rogue", which went on floors in Bangkok sometime ago. "Aisha has already joined the sets in Bangkok. While she plays the second lead, Amyra Dastur plays the leading lady," a source from the film's unit told. The film, which is being helmed by Puri Jagannadh, marks the debut of its lead actor Ishaan. Aisha was supposed to make her Telugu film debut with "Shivam", which released earlier this year. She was initially signed on for the project but was later replaced. Meanwhile, Aisha has also been roped in for the Telugu remake of Malayalam blockbuster "Premam". "Aisha will reprise Madonna Sebastian's role from the original. She will join the sets from January next year," the source added. The "Premam" remake is tentatively titled "Majnu" in Telugu and features Naga Chaitanya as the male lead.
Facebook denies ‘systematic’ content bias, but admits possibility of rogue employees
Facebook says that it has found no evidence of ‘systematic’ political bias related to its Trending Topics section, but acknowledges the possibility that rogue employees could have impacted the controversial feature. The tech heavyweight has been thrust into the spotlight following a Gizmodo report that stories about conservative topics were prevented from appearing in Facebook’s trending module. “Our investigation could not exclude the possibility of isolated improper actions or unintentional bias in the implementation of our guidelines or policies,” wrote Facebook’s General Counsel Colin Stretch, in a letter to Sen. John Thune, chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, who is investigating the allegations of political manipulation. Citing an unnamed former journalist that worked on Trending Topics, Gizmodo reported earlier this month that stories about the CPAC meeting, Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, and other conservative topics were prevented from appearing in the trending module. The stories were trending organically among Facebook’s users, the report said. Facebook reiterated its recent denial of any bias regarding political content in the letter to Thune. “Our investigation has revealed no evidence of systematic political bias in the selection or prominence of stories included in the Trending Topics feature,” wrote Stretch. “In fact, our analysis indicated that the rates of approval of conservative and liberal topics are virtually identical in Trending Topics.” However, in an attempt to improve the service and “minimize risks where human judgment is involved,” Facebook is making a number of changes to Trending Topics, according to the general counsel. The company has already updated its guidelines and conducted refresher training for all reviewers, he explained. It is also implementing “additional controls and oversight” around the review team, as well as “robust escalation procedures.” Additionally, the social network, which has more than 1.6 billion users, is dropping its reliance on news outlets to help determine what gets posted as a trending topic. In the letter to Thune, Facebook said that reviewers accepted topics related to both the 2015 and 2016 CPAC events. “In 2016, although topics related to CPAC were accepted on other days of the conference, one topic related to CPAC itself was not accepted on its first day, March 2, 2016,” he wrote. “Our investigation concluded that this decision was likely the result of the fact that on that day -- the day after the Super Tuesday electoral contests -- reviewers accepted at least 15 topics related to the Republican presidential primary.” The firestorm over the Gizmodo report prompted Facebook to invite leading conservatives to the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., last week to discuss the allegations. Following the meeting, Dana Perino, co-host of Fox News Channel’s “The Five,” said that Facebook recognizes that it has a “trust problem” with conservatives. Several unnamed former Facebook “news curators” told Gizmodo that they were told to artificially “inject” certain stories into the trending news section, even if they weren’t popular enough to justify inclusion. In some cases the stories weren’t even trending at all, according to the report. The former curators, who were all contractors, also were reportedly instructed to not add news about Facebook into the trending section. The curators interviewed by Gizmodo worked for the social network across a timespan from mid-2014 to December 2015. Related: Facebook CEO Zuckerberg wants to tear down neighboring homes In the letter, Stretch said that Facebook’s Trending Topics “injection tool,” which is rarely used today, was used more frequently in the past to address limitations in the module. “We found no evidence that the injection tool was used to advance any particular political agenda,” he wrote. “Over time, adjustments to the trending algorithm have dramatically reduced the need for its use.” The general counsel explained that Facebook uses algorithms to “surface” trending topics and personalize them for each user. However, Stretch explained that human intervention is also needed to overcome current limitations in the algorithm. “To sort the meaningful trends from gibberish and duplicates, and to write headlines and descriptions in clear, natural-sounding language,” he wrote. The trending section, which appears to the right of the Facebook news feed, was introduced in January 2014. Facebook describes the module as a product “designed to surface interesting and relevant conversations in order to help you discover the best content from all across Facebook.” Thune, who met with Stretch May 18, described the company’s letter as a step in the right direction. “Facebook has recognized the limitations of efforts to keep information systems fully free from potential bias, which lends credibility to its findings,” he said, in a statement Monday. The company, he added, “has been forthcoming about how it determines trending topics, and steps it will take to minimize the risk of bias from individual human judgment.”