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The release of Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's production venture "Teen Thay Bhai" has been delayed by two weeks. "The release date is now 15th April 2011, due to unavoidable circumstances," said a press statement by the production house. Earlier it was releasing on April 1, on the same day as Abhinay Deo's directorial debut "Game", starring Abhishek Bachchan and Kangana Ranaut. Mehra has co-produced the film with with PVR Pictures. "Teen Thay Bhai" is Mrighdeep Singh Lamba's directorial debut and stars Om Puri, Deepak Dobriyal, Shreyas Talpade and Ragini Khanna. As obivous from the title, this is a comedy about three brothers who dislike each other and how fate unites them. Looks like the cricket fever is taking a toll on producers to postpone their films.
‘Teen Patti’ partly dubbed for single screen: Ambika Hinduja
The English conversation between actors Amitabh Bachchan and Ben Kinsley in the forthcoming film “Teen Patti” has been dubbed in Hindi for the single screen audience, producer Ambika Hinduja of Serendipity films said. The movie has been directed by Leena Yadav. “In the movie Mr. Bachchan’s character Venkat is narrating his journey to Perci Trachtenberg (Ben Kingsley). Of course, Sir Ben doesn’t speak Hindi. Their conversation is in English. Those particular scenes, which come at a very important juncture in the movie, have been dubbed for the single screen audience,” Hinduja told IANS. “Mr. Bachchan has dubbed for himself and Boman Irani has dubbed for Sir Ben,” she added. Hinduja maintains that though the film is releasing worldwide, it has not been dubbed for the overseas non-traditional market but has been subtitled for some selected regions. “Currently the worldwide release is Feb 26. We are starting with the traditional territories. We have got some non-traditional territories like Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria that have shown keen interest in the film and we are releasing it there. For the Middle East, Gulf and these non-traditional territories we have subtitled the film in English and Arabic,” said Hinduja. Around Rs.30 crore was spent on “Teen Patti.” It is going to have a big release with 900 prints for India and abroad along with 1700 UFOs (digital print). Serendipity films is still negotiating with some countries who have shown an interest in releasing the film. “We have 900 prints for India and overseas along with 1,700 UFOs. Every single day we get calls to release the film in Europe and in some Southeast Asian countries, but you know the deal has to make sense for us so we are going to exploit it peacefully,” said the producer. This is her second film after “Being Cyrus” (2005) which was directed by Homi Adajania and her first mainstream Hindi film. Hinduja involved herself with every frame of “Teen Patti”. “I am the creative producer and was involved in every aspect, stage and process of the film and the making of it. Because it is my second film and the first mainstream film, I wanted to give it my best and establish my company with “Teen Patti”,” said Hinduja. Asked about the genre of the film, she said: “I can’t give a specific genre to “Teen Patti”. It is a thriller, a drama and it’s a film for the global audience. It deals with a universal theme like greed, deception, relationships and most importantly achievements and all of us across the globe can identify with these particular themes. “ The movie was invited by 12 film festivals but Hinduja didn’t accept any of them because of a fear of piracy. “We were invited by 12 film festivals, but piracy is a big threat. For example, the movie ‘What’s your Raashee’ was screened at the Toronto film festival five days before its release and it was out in the market before the release. For a movie like ‘Being Cyrus’ there was no competition in the market, there was no threat; it was first of its kind so we took it to various festivals. It was highly appreciated and after being written about, we released the film,” said Hinduja.
Competition with ‘Teen Patti’, says KCK producer?
“Teen Patti” and “Kartik Calling Karthik” – two awaited movies of the year are releasing on the same day, but Ritesh Sidhwani, the producer of “Karthik Calling Karthik”, doesn’t fear competition. “We have no competition with ‘Teen Patti’. We have only 52 Fridays in a year and with the Indian Premiere League (IPL) and other events that go on in a year, there are only a certain number of weeks that are good for a film’s release,” said Sidhwani. The producer also stressed on the strategy to make a film exciting enough to enthuse the viewer to come and watch it at the theatre. “You have multiple films releasing on the same day, so one needs to create some kind of a demand and mystery about your film. If you manage to convince the audience that this is something different, you need not worry about any competition,” he said. While “Teen Patti” stars Amitabh Bachchan as a mathematician, Farhan Akhtar plays the role of an introvert in “Karthik Calling Karthik”.
After ‘Kites Hollywood editor for Teen Patti
First it was Anurag Basu’s “Kites” that had Brett Ratner from Hollywood to put together the material. Now director Leena Yadav has roped in Oscar winning editor Hughes Winborne to edit her film “Teen Patti”, which is releasing Friday. Winborne, who has edited Will Smith starrer “In Pursuit Of Happyness” and “Seven Pounds” and also won an Oscar for his editing in Paul Haggis’s “Crash”, has ‘re-edited’ “Teen Patti”, which was first edited by Kaushik Das. “We needed that international sensibility to be placed on the footage. We sent a subtitled print to Hughes. But he soon did away with the subtitles. He got all the Hindi jokes and punchlines,” Yadav said. Why was it felt that a Hollywood editor would be able to give “Teen Patti” the global cut? “It’s really about getting the rhythm right. The Western audience has a different pace for movie viewing. That pace worked beautifully in my film,” said Yadav. An international editor was not all that “Teen Patti” got from abroad. The film also imported a stunt coordinator. The German stunt director Armin Sauer, who has worked with global biggies like Matt Damon in “The Bourne Supremacy” and Ralph Fiennes in “The Constant Gardener”, had been called to supervise the stunts. Yadav let go of all stops and made sure she pulled the punches as hard as Armin. “These stunts that Mr. Bachchan has performed are very real, very raw. Not for a second was I allowed to feel like a woman on the sets. Agreed there were a lot of men on the set and two intimidating stalwarts like Mr Amitabh Bachchan and Sir Ben Kingsley. But any director regardless of gender would have fely equally intimidated by these two stalwarts.” It’s generally said that female directors have a much tougher time directing a film than their male counterparts. Yadav says she has never had to suffer because of her gender. “Not once did I feel I was disadvantaged by my gender. On the sets, my authority was never questioned. Whether it was legends like Mr. Bachchan and Sir Ben or the newcomers, they all surrendered to my vision,” she said.
Parent and teen weight relate to feeding practices
A new study helps identify which parents of teens are most likely to use feeding practices that have been linked with unhealthy outcomes, researchers say. Parents most often pressure their teen to eat when neither they nor the teen are overweight, while when parents and teens are both overweight, parents most often use food restriction, the researchers found. Previous research has shown that when parents use restriction and pressure-to-eat feeding practices, children and adolescents are at higher risk for being overweight and having eating disorders, said lead author Jerica M. Berge of the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis, in email to Reuters Health. She and her colleagues analyzed data from two studies involving more than 3,000 parents and more than 2,000 teens. Teens had their height and weight measured by trained professionals at school, and parents filled out a questionnaire at home, self reporting their own heights and weights. Parents also reported how often they encouraged their child to eat more at mealtimes and how often they restricted sweets, high-fat foods or their teen's favorite foods. In about 1,200 cases, parents were overweight or obese but their teen was not. In almost 900 cases, both parent and child were overweight. In almost 700 cases, the parent and child were both not overweight, and in only about 300 cases the parent was not overweight but the teen was. Pressuring kids to eat was more common when both parties were not overweight, compared to pairs who were overweight or had differing statuses. Similarly, food restriction was most common for pairs that were both overweight or obese, compared to those who were both not overweight or who differed between parent and child, the authors reported in Pediatrics. Clare Collins, professor in nutrition and dietetics at The University of Newcastle in Callaghan, Australia who wasn't involved in the new study, noted in email to Reuters Health that the surveys were taken only at one time point so it is unclear from the results if parent feeding practices go on to influence future eating and weight status in the adolescents. "The problem with restricting food from a child or pressuring a child to eat more is that prior research has shown that it may have unintended consequences such as, a child becoming overweight or obese, or engaging in disordered eating behaviors such as, binging or purging," Berge said. "Rather than restricting or pressuring your child to eat, it is more helpful for parents to make sure that there are a variety of healthy food options in the home, or on the table, for children to eat and then allow the child to decide how much they eat," she said. Having unhealthy food in the fridge and on the table and telling a teen they cannot eat it is not helpful and sets up food fights, Collins said. But keeping unhealthy food out of the house in the first place does work and helps keep harmony in your house, she said.
Heart rate in teen boys linked to violent crime in adulthood
Boys with a low resting heart rate during their teen years may be at increased risk for committing violent crimes as adults, a Swedish study suggests. A low resting heart doesn't necessarily signal a problem. According to the American Heart Association, lower heart rates are common in people who are very athletic, because their heart muscle is in better condition and doesn't need to work as hard to maintain a steady beat. But previous research has also linked a low resting heart rate to antisocial behavior in children and adolescents, the study authors note in JAMA Psychiatry. A slow heart rate may increase risk-taking, either because the teens seek stimulating experiences or fail to detect danger as much as their peers with normal heart rates, researchers say. For the current study, a team led by Antti Latvala of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and the University of Helsinki in Finland explored the link between young men's heart rates when they entered military service around age 18 and their odds of later being convicted of crimes as adults. The study included 710,000 participants born between 1958 and 1991 who were followed for up to 36 years. Compared with about 140,000 young men with the highest resting heart rates (above 83 beats per minute), those with the lowest heart rates (no more than 60 beats per minute) were 39 percent more likely to be convicted of a violent crime and had a 25 percent higher chance of getting convicted of nonviolent crimes. "It is obvious that low resting heart rate by itself cannot be used to determine future violent or antisocial behavior," Latvala said by email. "However, it is intriguing that such a simple measure can be used as an indicator of individual differences in psychophysiological processes which make up one small but integral piece of the puzzle." Researchers are not certain why a slow heart rate might be linked to violence or risk-taking. A low resting heart rate may be an indicator of chronically low physiological arousal - indicating biological underpinnings - and that may cause people to seek stimulating experiences. Or, Latvala and colleagues write, the low heart rate could be a sign of blunted psychological responses to situations that usually produce stress or anxiety in others, and this might lead to fearless behavior. Over the course of the study, about 40,000 men were convicted of violent crimes after an average follow up of 18 years. In addition, roughly 104,000 men were convicted of nonviolent crimes after an average follow up of 16 years. Men who had the lowest resting heart rates during adolescence were also more likely to be killed or injured in assaults or to experience accidents serious enough to merit medical attention or result in death, the study found. "This is a novel finding and it provides support for a more general association between low heart rate and risk-taking behavior," Latvala said. The study only focused on men, and the results may not apply to women, the researchers acknowledge. Because the data on crimes was drawn from a registry for convictions, it's also possible that the results might be different for crimes that don't result in convictions. Even so, the findings raise a host of ethical and legal questions about whether and to what extent the criminal justice system should weigh the potential for low resting heart rate to influence behavior, Adrian Raine, a researcher in criminology and psychology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, noted in an accompanying editorial. A low resting heart rate can reflect a lack of fear, Raine told Reuters Health by email. "If you lack fear, you're more likely to commit crime because you're not concerned about getting caught," Raine said. "And, if you're a fearless risk-taker, you're more likely to put yourself in social contexts where you run the risk of violence victimization, and have more accidents due to a reckless disregard for your own safety." While we might not blame a victim of violence for having a low resting heart rate and ending up in a risky situation, the notion of considering this a mitigating factor in punishing violent criminals is much thornier, Raine added. The findings also raise questions such as whether car insurance premiums should be higher for people with low resting heart rates, or whether parents of children with low heart rates might seek help before kids grow up to become violent adults, Raine said. "These findings raise some provocative issues," Raine said.