Celebrate Maha Sivarathri in a festive manner dailynews.lk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailynews.lk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Ernakulam leg of the 25th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) kickstarted with the critically acclaimed Bosnian film Quo Vadis, Aida? being screened in front of a full house. State Cultural Affairs Minister A K Balan inaugurated the festival at the inauguration ceremony organised at the Saritha theatre complex in Kochi. The inaugural ceremony was conducted in compliance with strict COVID protocol, including thermal scanning and social distancing. 80 films from over 30 countries are lined up for the screening In his inaugural address, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said an uncompromising political stance was what defined the festival in the global cultural map, noting that the international competition category offers entry to movies only from the third world countries. At the inaugural function, as many as 25 lamps were lit symbolising the 25 years of the festival. Culture Affairs Minister A K Balan presided over the function while Kerala Assembly Speaker P Sreeramakris
Celebs attend the 25th International Film Festival of Kerala indiatimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from indiatimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Making of biopic on Bangabandhu progressing fast: Hasan
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DHAKA, Feb 9, 2021 (BSS) – Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud today said making of biopic ‘Bangabandhu,’ a joint venture of Bangladesh and India, is progressing fast as lion portions of the film have already been completed.
The minister made the comments after inspecting the making of the film, based on life and works of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, at Mumbai Film City, India, said a press release received here.
Prominent Indian filmmaker Shaym Benegal is directing the film commencing the birth centenary of Bangabandhu.
Health Education and Cultural Affairs Minister of Maharashtra Amit Deshmukh welcomed Hasan upon his arrival in Mumbai.
Nkrumah Mausoleum Is a Japanese Idea – Part 1
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He prides himself with being a very good historian, so I expected Capt. (Retired) Nkrabeah Effah-Dartey to know that it was a visiting Japanese Prime Minister who first asked to be shown the tomb of Ghana’s first postcolonial leader, President Kwame Nkrumah, assuming the same to be located somewhere in the Greater-Accra Metropolis, only to be disappointingly informed that he needed to travel by road some 200 miles west towards Ghana’s border with the Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire), to the village of Nkroful, before he could be shown Nkrumah’s tomb. If memory serves me accurately, that Japanese Premier would eventually make it to Nkroful and to the tomb of Ghana’s globally celebrated African Show Boy, to lay a wreath on the tomb or in the tomb of the immortalized Ghanaian leader.