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‘RRR’ composer confident his ‘Naatu Naatu’ song is Oscar-worthy

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January 25, 2023

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'RRR' composer confident his 'Naatu Naatu' song is Oscar-worthy

“Naatu Naatu”, the standout song in the Indian period film “RRR,” has won a Golden Globe and a Critics Choice Award garnered hundreds of millions of views on YouTube and spawned a TikTok challenge.

On Tuesday, it received an Oscar nomination for best original song, making history as the first Indian feature film to be nominated for anything other than best international film at the Academy Awards.

Composer M.M. Keeravani is confident the Oscar statuette is within reach at the ceremony in Hollywood on March 12.
“Yeah, I can see the moment taking its root to the road high and higher, so all fingers crossed and I have full confidence in Oscar too,” he said during a recent interview with Reuters.

Keeravani found out about his nomination on Tuesday while at a recording studio in India doing a session with a programmer and some of his singers.

“They were all very excited and they were jumping out of joy,” Keeravani said with a laugh. “I wasn t jumping because I was surrounded by them and they were suffocating me with their congratulations and their hugs.”

“Naatu Naatu” and Keeravani are competing with some big household names in the best song category, including Lady Gaga s “Hold My Hand” from “Top Gun: Maverick” and Rihanna s “Lift Me Up” from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”.

In the action-Bollywood epic directed by S.S. Rajamouli, “Naatu Naatu” begins when the two leads, played by Ram Charan and N.T. Rama Rao Jr., flaunts their dance skills after being bullied as the only Indian people invited to a British party in colonial times.
When a young British man aims racist insults at the leads, they decide to educate him using the song “Naatu Naatu.”

During the scene, which was shot at Ukraine’s grand Mariinskyi Palace, everyone at the party, including the scoffing British man, tries to master the moves.

“Naatu means ethnicity, ethnic,” said Keeravani. “Whatever I do is purely mine. It’s my own experience, it’s my own way of expression. These are my words, this is my style, look at me, and this is who I am.”

“Naatu Naatu” is the first song from an Indian film to be nominated for an Oscar and the first nominated song in the Telugu language. In 2008, Indian composer A.R. Rahman won the Oscar for the Hindi song “Jai-Ho,” but that was for the U.S.-British production of “Slumdog Millionaire,” which was set in India.

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Fiza Ali had to cry to get payment of her work in industry

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September 23, 2023

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Fiza Ali had to cry to get payment of her work in industry

Renowned Pakistani actor Fiza Ali faced really difficult time in the showbiz industry.

In her latest interview, the actor revealed that she had to cry to get her due payment in this industry.

Fiza extensively talked about the highs and lows of her showbiz career in the interview.

“I can still remember the days when my mother got ill and I had to beg to get my payment of my work,” the actor said.

She added that she sold out her flat and managed the treatment of her mother. Her mother was a cancer patient and she needed money for treatment.

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Peter Hawkings offers slinky designs in Tom Ford debut at Milan Fashion

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September 23, 2023

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Peter Hawkings offers slinky designs in Tom Ford debut at Milan Fashion

British designer Peter Hawkings made his Tom Ford debut at Milan Fashion Week while offering an array of sleek suits, slinky dresses and towering stilettos for women next summer.

Models wore fitted trouser suits as well as jackets paired with tiny matching shorts, figure-hugging long frocks and short leather dresses.

There were also velvet suits, unbuttoned silky shirts and tasselled dresses and skirts.

Show notes said Hawkings took inspiration for the Summer 2024 collection from late Detroit-born Black supermodel Donyale Luna, who was a muse for artist Andy Warhol and photographer Richard Avedon.

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No deal yet as Hollywood writers, studios talk for third straight day

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September 23, 2023

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No deal yet as Hollywood writers, studios talk for third straight day

Striking Hollywood writers and top studio executives met for a third straight day on Friday, ending with a decision to continue talks on Saturday as they try to end a work stoppage that has shut down film and TV production for months.

While workers across the entertainment industry waited for word of the outcome, no agreement was announced as the strike reached its 144th day.

The WGA said in a statement early on Saturday that the two sides would meet again on Saturday.

Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger, Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos, Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav and Donna Langley, chairman of Comcast’s NBCUniversal Studio Group, took part in the talks with the Writers Guild of America (WGA) for a third day.

Representatives for the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents the studios, had no comment.

While the two sides met, union members turned out in large numbers in response to an appeal from WGA negotiators on Thursday to flood picket lines outside the studios.

In the crowd outside Netflix on Friday was “Mad Men” creator and writer Matthew Weiner, who like others voiced optimism that the recent talks signaled progress was being made.

“I’m hopeful,” Weiner said of the possibility that the strike could be coming to an end. “I would like to go back to work and I would like to start mending these relationships.”

Roughly 11,500 WGA members walked off the job in May, demanding higher pay and residuals in the streaming TV era plus limits around the use of artificial intelligence.

Producer and WGA member Al Septien, also picketing outside Netflix on Friday, said he wanted to get back to work, but only under the right terms.

“We’ve been out here a long time. We don’t want to fold for a less-than-fair and good contract for the writers,” he said.

The SAG-AFTRA actors union also is on strike after walking off the job in July.

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