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Film: Aha nominated for Oscar

A scene of film Aha

Staff Reporter

Bangladesh Oscar Committee has nominated Aha, a full-length feature film by Enamul Karim Nirjhar, for the 81st Academy Award 2008 (Oscar), world's most prestigious award, in Foreign Language Film category.

This was disclosed at a press briefing organised by Bangladesh Federation of Film Societies (BFFS) at Hotel Sheraton in the city on Thursday.

Habibur Rahman Khan, Chief of the Nomination Committee and Chairman of BFFS, Faridur Reza Sagar, Managing Director of Impress Telefilm Ltd, members of the Committee Azad Rahman, Prof Abdus Selim, Abu Musa Debu, Shawkat Jamil and Rokeya Prachi, among others, were present at the conference.

Habibur Rahman said, "We got few films for nomination because of technical requirements for the award. The major causes in this regard are absence of subtitles, quality printing and music."

The 128-minute film 'Aha' has been produced and sponsored by the Impress Telefilm Ltd and Banglalink, a mobile phone operator company.

Featuring the story of a family living in old Dhaka, Aha zooms in on the different issues which the city-dwellers face everyday, like unplanned urbanisation, generation gap and many more.

Saiful Islam Badal has done cinematography, while music Debjyoty Misra does arrangement. Tarreq Anam Khan, Ferdous, Sathi Yasmin, Fazlur Rahman Babu, Progga Laboni, Shahidul Alam Sachchu, Khaled Khan and Gazi Rakayet performed in various roles in the film.

The committee chose Aha out of two films. The other one was Shawkat Jamil's 'Ekjan sange chhilo.' Bangladesh nominated films like 'Matir moina' in 2003, 'Shaymal chhaya' in 2005, 'Nirantar' in 2006 and 'Swapnadanay' in 2007.

Music: Salah Uddin Chinu’s solo album Agniveena released

Entertainment Desk

Recently the first solo album of engineer Salah Uddin Ahmad Chinu 'Agniveena' has been released in the market. Earlier a press show was held in this regard at the Ramna Chinese Restaurant in the city.

Ashok Paul was the music director of the album and Benu Chakraborty was in total coordination of the evergreen collection.

There are 10 songs in the album. These are - 1) Allah ke je paite chai, (Nazrul Sangeet), 2) Takte parghatate (folk song), 3) Amai nohego valobasho (Nazrul Sangeet), 4) Agniveena bajao tumi (Rabindra Sangeet), 5) Sedin du'jone dulechhinu (Rabindra Sangeet), 6) Jouban sorosinire (Rabindra Sangeet), 7) Tumi ki dekhicho kovu (modern song), 8) Rikto hate jare firaye dile (modern), 9) Premer naam bedona (modern song) and 10) Jayeto jaye kaha (Hindi film song).

TV Watch: Mega serial Ghor Kutum on Channel i tonight

Fazlur Rahman Babu and ATM Shamsuzzaman in mega
serial Ghor Kutum on Channel i tonight

Entertainment Desk

Mega serial 'Ghor Kutum' to be aired on Channel i at 7:50pm today. Brindaban Das has scripted the drama, while Salahuddin Lavlu has directed it.

ATM Shamsuzzaman, Fazlur Rahman Babu, Salauddin Lavlu, Chanchal Chowdhury, Mosharraf Karim, AkhM Hasan, Aliraj, Shamim, Sanjeeb, Shoshi, Homaira Himu, Tania, Golam Farida Chhanda, Maya Ghosh, Shirin Alam, among others, performed in the serial.

TV Show: Ntv airs Aim in Life tonight

Kushum Sikdar and co-artiste in drama serial Aim in
Life Ntv tonight

Entertainment Desk

New drama serial 'Aim in Life' to be aired on Ntv at 8:15pm today. The serial is being aired on the channel every Saturday and Sunday. Masud Sezan has scripted and directed the drama serial.

Moshrraf Karim, Kushum Sikder, Raunak Hassan, Tinni, Nafiza, Saju Muntasir, Nafa, Shirin Alam, Rifat Chowdhury, Abdullah Rana, Kochi Khondaker and others performed in different characters in the serial.

Besides, former national cricketer Khaled Masud Pilot, singer SI Tutul and musician Jewel Aich has performed as guest characters in the serial.

Celebrity News: Mahima opens Star World

Bollywood actress Mahima Chowdhury ianugurates Star
World

Entertainment Desk

Bollywood actress Mahima Chowdhury recently visited Dhaka. She inaugurated 'Star World,' the one stop mall with modern facilities, at Molly Capita Centre in Gulshan in the city on September 7.

Outlets of 22 fashion houses of Delhi including best two brands of India 'Pantaloon' and 'Westside' are at Star World.

In the shopping mall, world class other brands will be available in future, said Asadul Amin, Managing Director of Star World.

Hollywood: Drew Barrymore books 'How to Be Single’

Drew Barrymore

Reuters, Toronto

The creative team behind the upcoming romantic comedy "He's Just Not That Into You" is teaming up again for another laugh-infused romance. New Line has picked up the rights to former writer "Sex and the City" writer Liz Tuccillo's best-selling novel "How to Be Single" for Drew Barrymore's production company.

The book follows the dating lives of five single New York women, one of whom, the narrator, is writing a book about how bachelorettes across the world manage. The woman embarks on a trip around the world for the book and gets involved in an international affair, while her four friends duke it out on the New York dating scene. The book was published in June.

Barrymore and production partner Nancy Juvonen will produce, setting Marc Silverstein and Abby Kohn to adapt.

Juvonen and Barrymore are producing "Into You," which Silverstein and Kohn adapted from a nonfiction tome written by Tuccillo and Greg Behrendt. With the strong box office performance of 'Sex and the City' this year and the scheduled February 6 release of "He's Just Not That Into You," New Line is hoping to keep its female-skewing, romantic-comedy streak going with 'How to Be Single.'

Bollywood: Rakhi Sawant wants to marry Salman Khan

Rakhi Sawant

Agency

The bigmouth of Bollywood Rakhi Sawant wants to marry Salman Khan. The actress declared it publicly on the recent show 'Dus Ka Dum', hosted by Salman.

It is a known fact that Katrina Kaif is not willing to marry Salman at this juncture of her career. But that doesn't mean this hunk is running short of proposals. On the finale of Salman's show, Rakhi confessed her liking for Salman and even presented him a ring. The whole incident and event left Salman speechless. He was shocked.

It may be recalled that Salman was disappointed by Rakhi's walkout from 'Nach Baliye 3' after she and Abhishek Awasthi lost the contest, where Salman was a guest. He tried to calm her down, but only in vain. Salman, not bothered about that incident, invited her for his show, where Rakhi showed him her dum.