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Film News: Swapnadanai on Emirates flights

Entertainment Report

For the first time international airlines agency Emirates has included Bengali films as its in-flight entertainment system.

In the flights of Emirates, world famous films including films of Impress Telefilm Ltd are being presented to its travellers. Each film airs for two months in different routes of the airlines.

The film 'Swapnadanai,' presented by Banglalink, to be aired in the airlines in October.

Singer Mahmuduzzaman Babu, Fazlur Rahman Babu, Rokeya Prachi, Momena Chowdhury, Shamima Islam Tushti, Ratan, Shyamoli, Shoma, Golam Rasul Babu, Shah Alam Kiron and members of Barendra Natyagoshthi have performed in various roles in the film.

Anisul Haque has written and scripted the film. The shooting of the film was held in various villages of Porsha thana in Naogaon with English subtitles. It is a full-fledged movie with Dolby sound system.

Eid Drama: Smita, sada jama eishob on Rtv

Entertainment Report

Special Eid drama 'Smita, sada jama eishob' to be aired on Rtv at 8:00pm today. Shibu Kumar Shil has written the story of the drama and Mezbaur Rahman Sumon has directed it.

Joya Ahsan, Sobyasachi, MM Morshed, Sohel Khan, among others, performed in the drama.

Story of Smita, sada jama eishob:

Smita and Sumon are students of a university. They liked each other. But they did not tell that they loved each other. Both of them are from middle class families. One day they went to a shop and liked a white frock. They did not like other ones. But price of the frock was Tk 4,000. They did not have that amount of money and they return home.

Then they were thinking how they would manage the money. Smita collected money from her student' father in lieu of her body and Sumon collected money from his friends. Then both of them came to that shop. But the shop was shut down. They did not understand anything. The story of the drama went on to the ending.

Eid Special : O bondhu amar on ETV tonight

Entertainment Report

Eid special celebrities talk show 'O bondhu amar' to be aired on ETV at 10:30pm today. Fatema Shilu has produced the show.

Film actor Ferdous and dance artiste Shibli Mohammad will be present as today's guests at the show. Duration of the show is 22 minutes.

Ferdous and Shibli Mohammad will discuss about their lifestyles and professional activities. They will share how they have passed Eid day. They will take part in a conversational session.

The participant artistes will talk about the meaning of friend and will tell who is their friends and why.

Eid Drama: Banglavision airs Anekdin por tonight

Entertainment Report

Special Eid drama 'Anekdin por' to be aired on Banglavision at 8:20pm on fourth day of the Eid programmes.

Shibu Kumar Shil has scripted and Mezbaur Rahman Sumon has directed the drama.

Aupi Karim and Anisur Rahman Milon have performed in lead roles in the drama.

Story of Anekdin por:

Dark road. Prisila was passing the road by a yellow taxicab. When she was in jam, an anonymous enters his car. But she cannot see anything as because there was dark. She only saw a knife.

The anonymous snatched alls from Prisila. But she did not a word. When the person left her and get outside of the car Prisila identified him. That was Ayudh. They face a true reality.

Eid Show : Krishoker Eid ananda on Channel i today

Entertainment Report

Like previous years farmers' game show 'Krishoker Eid ananda' to be aired on Channel i at 2:30pm today.

This year the show will present different types of activities. Shaykh Siraj has made the show. He will also moderate the show.

Most of the people of our country are farmers. To keep in mind this matter, the programme has been made with the participation of the farmers. For the first time, different activities like Olympic games including water polo are included in the show. Besides, other farmers' suitable games and competitions are also included in the show.

Hollywood: Chrissie Hynde was never one to pretend

Los Angeles Times

It's a bright, sunny morning after a gig, and Chrissie Hynde is doing what any good rock star would: hanging out in her hotel room, casually flipping the pages of a magazine and eyeballing porn. Not the kind about sex -- the kind about luxury goods.

"I opened this thing while I was waiting," Hynde, 57, says, referring to the high-fashion magazine on the square glass top of the breakfast table where she's seated in West Hollywood, reading photo captions sarcastically.

"Why crave crocodile when you can clutch alligator?' By Chanel, no less -$39,450 so you can clutch alligator! What [moron] would even entertain such a thing? . . . Here's a good one: 'A capricious bag is a must-have' -- of course, we all need one -- 'so why not go bold with Derek Lam's gorgeous navy croc version, Nedra crocodile handbag . . . $29,995.'

That's pornography," she says, practically spitting out the word. "Sorry. Does no one have any shame anymore?"

Moral outrage surfaces often in any conversation with the firebrand front woman of the Pretenders. For three decades she's been the quintessential female rocker, but she's been a strict vegetarian and ardent animal-rights advocate even longer.

She's angry about mistreatment of animals, the economy and the paving over of small-town America. That last subject inspired the title of the Pretenders' first album in six years, "Break Up the Concrete," which uses a throbbing Bo Diddley beat under Hynde's message advocating the destruction of the substance that's encasing ever more of the planet.

"We like to travel on trains," she says. "That's part of the whole drive: Reinstate public transportation, especially trains. Get out of the cars. Destroy all the streets and roads and bridges and dams. Just get rid of it.

"Obviously," she adds, "that's the best-case scenario. That's not going to happen. But think small. . . . Do the things you can do. Stop paying the slaughter man. Stop paying the factory farmers. Stop supporting the corporations that are destroying everything. And everyone can do that. These are simple things. Make your life more simple."

She and her bandmates also have simplified musically on the new album, which sounds intensely raw and stripped-down. She's joined in the current configuration by guitarist James Walbourne and bassist Nick Wilkinson. In perhaps as big a surprise as the addition of steel guitarist Eric Heywood (ex-Son Volt), Pretenders founding drummer Martin Chambers stepped aside for the recording in favor of superstar session man Jim Keltner.

The 11 songs were recorded in Los Angeles over a relatively brief 12 days, with the band producing, and the songs seem to sprout organically from American roots music: elemental rock, R&B, soul and a bit of country twang from Heywood.

"That's really kind of what the record's all about, I suppose: simplicity. Getting away from all the razzmatazz, the excess," she says.

The rockers carry an in-your-face punch that's counterbalanced by the sweetness and vulnerability of ballads. Spiritual exploration wrestles with earthly distractions in the barnstorming "Boots of Chinese Plastic," mirroring Hynde's quest to balance the ephemeral with the eternal.