The film is about two Indian couples living in London and ideally should have been shot as a bi-lingual or in English. The main cast is done by Prashant Narayanan, Aruna Shields, Naved Aslam, Lucy Hassan.
In the movie, Aruna plays a wife who finds out that her husband is having an affair with another woman, and she in turn sets out to have an extramarital affair with the husband of that woman. According to Aruna nudity is not the highlight of the movie. There is nude scenes in the movie but is shot from sideways, or pixeled out.
Society is not willing to take extra marital affairs, they take it as accidents which happends to others. You will get shocked when it happens to you. It is a take on four dramatic characters. Mrs. Singh (Aruna Shields), an agony aunt columnist, is obviously agonized upon discovering her husband’s infidelity. Mr. Singh (Naved Aslam) and Mrs. Mehta (Lucy Hassan) are having an extramarital affair without the slightest pang of guilt. His wife however has full faith in Ashwin’s talent that one day he will be a very rich and famous painter. This causes Mrs. Singh (Aruna Shields) and Mr. Mehta (Prashant Narayanan) to be drawn to each other and seek comfort in each other’s company.
While he is confident in his art, in his personal life Ashwin is unable to stand up for himself. He is someone who is living on his wife’s money and loves her so much.
It is one of the few adult films bollywood has to offer. In one way the film is a type of wife swapping, eventhough unintentional. Director has approached the subject with maturity and causoin, this makes the film a good one. The film seems to be generating a lot of buzz only for the kissing and the nude scenes. Though Aruna Shields was cool about being in her birthday suit, it was Prashant who kept fumbling and fluffing. The movie is not meant to titillate anyone so there were no vulgar scenes. Every shot is done very aesthetically.
It’s a bold film, not just in terms of the sheer physicality of it but also because Pravesh has dared to raise some uncomfortable questions where (other) people tend to play safe.
Cast: Aruna Shields, Naved Aslam, Lucy Hassan, Prashant Narayanan
Mr Singh Mrs Mehta is directed by Pravesh Bhardwaj.
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Katy Perry is urging Rihanna to do a strip tease for her during her Bachelorette Party.
The Singer is all set to marry British Comedian Russell Brand, she has asked Rihanna to organize a Bacheloratte party for her for her wedding.
Perry has decided she won’t hire a professional exotic dancer for the event, because she wants Rihanna to show off her body in a sexy striptease.
Katey Perry reportedly told DJ Nina,”(Rihanna) has all these ideas about everything. You see people coming and they strip at your bachelor party but I want her to strip at my bachelorette party. She’s going to get the message right now. She’s hot, I love her. She’s just the coolest chick and I want all of her clothes. We have a lot in common. We like to hang out every once in awhile; sometimes we’ll see each other at different events.”
“I don’t know if she started this rumor that she’s going to do it (the bachelorette party) or if she just hopped on the bandwagon of the rumors like, ‘I’m going to do it!’ That’s the one thing that I don’t have to plan, which I’m really excited about.”
Recently Perry banned all men from the set of her “California Girls” video – because she didn’t want them to see her naked. But guy men and girls were allowed in the set.
Katy Perry initially dated Gym Class Heroes frontman Travis McCoy, whom she befriended in a recording studio in New York, for several years. They became very serious about their relationship before the 2008 Warped Tour. However they broke off in December 2008. The couple reconciled after few months, only to broke off again. Katy is engaged to marry Russel Brand after he proposed her in December 2009.
Katy Perry was born in Santa Barbara, California to two pastors.
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WASHINGTON – The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to essentially alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan conflict itself, according to senior American government officials.
The formerly unknown deposits – including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium – are so huge and contain so many minerals that are necessary to modern industry that Afghanistan could ultimately be developed into one of the most important mining facilities in the world, the United States officials believe.
An internal Pentagon memo, for example, states that Afghanistan could turn out to be the “Saudi Arabia of lithium,” a key raw material in the manufacture of batteries for laptops and BlackBerrys.
The huge scale of Afghanistan’s mineral wealth was discovered by a small team of Pentagon officials and American geologists. The Afghan government and President Hamid Karzai were just briefed, American officials said.
While it could take many years to build up a mining industry, the potential is so great that officials and executives in the industry believe it could attract heavy investment even before mines are cost-effective, providing the possibility of jobs that could distract from generations of war.
“There is stunning potential here,” Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of the United States Central Command, said in an interview on Saturday. “There are a lot of ifs, of course, but I think possibly it is hugely significant.”
The value of the newly discovered mineral deposits dwarfs the size of Afghanistan’s existing war-bedraggled economy, which is based largely on opium production and narcotics trafficking as well as aid from the United States and other industrialized countries. Afghanistan’s gross domestic product is only about $12 billion.
“This will become the backbone of the Afghan economy,” said Jalil Jumriany, an adviser to the Afghan minister of mines.
American and Afghan officials agreed to discuss the mineral discoveries at a difficult moment in the war in Afghanistan. The American-led offensive in Marja in southern Afghanistan has achieved only limited gains. Meanwhile, charges of corruption and favoritism continue to plague the Karzai government, and Mr. Karzai seems increasingly embittered toward the White House.
So the Obama administration is hungry for some positive news update to come out of Afghanistan. Yet the American officials also recognize that the mineral discoveries will almost certainly have a double-edged impact.
Instead of bringing peace, the newfound mineral wealth could lead the Taliban to battle even more fiercely to regain control of the country.
The corruption that is already rampant in the Karzai government could also be amplified by the new wealth, particularly if a handful of well-connected oligarchs, some with personal ties to the president, gain control of the resources. Just last year, Afghanistan’s minister of mines was accused by American officials of accepting a $30 million bribe to award China the rights to develop its copper mine. The minister has since been replaced.
Countless fights could erupt between the central government in Kabul and provincial and tribal leaders in mineral-rich districts. Afghanistan has a national mining law, written with the help of advisers from the World Bank, but it has never faced a serious challenge.
“No one has tested that law; no one knows how it will stand up in a fight between the central government and the provinces,” observed Paul A. Brinkley, deputy undersecretary of defense for business and leader of the Pentagon team that discovered the deposits.
At the same time, American officials fear resource-hungry China will try to dominate the expansion of Afghanistan’s mineral wealth, which could upset the United States, given its heavy investment in the region. After winning the bid for its Aynak copper mine in Logar Province, China clearly wants more, American officials said.
Another complication is that because Afghanistan has never had much heavy industry before, it has little or no history of environmental protection either. “The big question is, can this be developed in a responsible way, in a way that is environmentally and socially responsible?” Mr. Brinkley said. “No one knows how this will work.”
With virtually no mining industry or infrastructure in place today, it will take decades for Afghanistan to exploit its mineral wealth fully. “This is a country that has no mining culture,” said Jack Medlin, a geologist in the United States Geological Survey’s international affairs program. “They’ve had some small artisanal mines, but now there could be some very, very huge mines that will require more than just a gold pan.”
The mineral deposits are scattered throughout the country, including in the southern and eastern regions along the border with Pakistan that have had some of the most intense combat in the American-led war against the Taliban insurgency.
The Pentagon task force has already started trying to help the Afghans set up a system to deal with mineral development. International accounting firms that have expertise in mining contracts have been hired to consult with the Afghan Ministry of Mines, and technical data is being prepared to turn over to multinational mining companies and other potential foreign investors. The Pentagon is helping Afghan officials arrange to start seeking bids on mineral rights by next fall, officials said.
“The Ministry of Mines is not ready to handle this,” Mr. Brinkley said. “We are trying to help them get ready.”
Like much of the recent history of the country, the story of the discovery of Afghanistan’s mineral wealth is one of missed opportunities and the distractions of war.
In 2004, American geologists, sent to Afghanistan as part of a broader reconstruction effort, stumbled across an intriguing series of old charts and data at the library of the Afghan Geological Survey in Kabul that hinted at major mineral deposits in the country. They soon learned that the data had been collected by Soviet mining specialists during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, but cast aside when the Soviets withdrew in 1989.
All the 5 parts are written with the same sort of passion and honesty. Each story gets its own importance.All the 5 parts are written with the same sort of eagerness and honesty. Each tale gets its own significance. Everybody has problems in life, the picture starts by introducing such prolems faced by our center characters.
A muslim youth’s wife suffers a miscarriage due to a rally organised by Hindus and is trying to prove that he is not a terror.
Saroja is a lady desparately trying to escape from the brothel with her co-workers. The role of a prostitute ‘Saroja’ is done by Anushka Shetty and shows off her slim belly to prove that yoga can flatten belly.
A rock star who desparately trying to make it big in the music world is the third character.
Ramulu an old man sets out on a journey with his daughter-in-law to get some money home for his sons educaation.
Ramu wants to befriend a rich girl and looking for money to entertain her.
In Vedam each individual delivers their most excellent. The cameos by Bhramanandam and Krish himself were suitably written too. ‘Vedham’ will create a modern cult of picture making, as of the reaction it is receiving right now.
MM Keeravani composed the music written by Sirivennela Seetarama Sastry, Sahiti, E S Murthy and Keeravani.
Main characters of the movie is played by Manoj Manchu, Manoj Bajpai, Satyam Rajesh Allu Arjun, Anushka Shetty, Lekha Washington, Brahmanandam and Others.
Comprehensive Vedam Review is here. Vedam movie is produced by Yarlagadda Shobhu and Devineni Prasad for Arka Entertainment.
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Right combination of food helps you reduce your tummy faster.
How much calories, fat and sodium you should be consuming on a daily basis? In addition to regular work out, you’ll also want to add some fat burning foods to your diet to help slim your waistline.
I have listed number tips to help on this case…
It is important to eat food that are high in protein and fiber as these foods burn the fat around you. It is important to eat food that are high in protein and fiber as these foods burn the fat around you.
Fiber content in the food helps for the easy passage of stool and thus helps to reduce the stomach bolt.
Proteins (also known as polypeptides) are organic compounds made of amino acids arranged in a linear chain and folded into a globular form.
Did you know that it takes more energy to digest protein than it does to digest fat? So the more protein you eat, the more energy your body burns.
So what are the protein rich food?
- Low Fat dairy products
- Eggs
- Beans
- Oatmeal
- Olive oil
- Whole grains
- Salmon and tuna
- Turkey and beef
You can check out the details of these Stomach Flattening Foods here.
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Pokkiri Raja is the most recent picture by the ever green Mammootty. A picture with out tale and logic. However, it is going to be an additional hit in Tamil and Malayalam as it is a mass entertainer. The society is seeking for such movies rather than high-quality movies. There was days when Mammooty used to do only excellent malayalam movies, however nowadays the actor is trying to maintain equilibrium between both ends.
The narrative of Pokkiriraja is very ambiguous. Pokkiri Raja picture is about two sons Raja and Surya (Mammootty and Prithviraj) of an idealistic school instructor who turn into dadas. One of them run away from home and grow to be a big dada while the brother stays at home and turns into a local dada. The complete plot is created around two feudal families battling over a temple festival in a village; a typical tamil picture style.
Later on the 2 dadas run into eachother in a big city and sparks fly as they do not recognize that they are brothers. Nothing new about the story if it is there. Newcomer Vyshakh is doing the direction.
The dialogues go like this: Mammootty claims he is not insecure of the childish Prithviraj as he has just started taking tiny steps. The whole narrative where the two actors share the screen are interspersed with such talk.
And, when Prithviraj talks about the dress code in night clubs, the elder one claims that he has been the style icon for the youngsters for a long time. This goes on and on.
Both Mammootty and Prithviraj have ample scope to entertain their hardcore followers. Mammootty is trying out little bit comedy along with dance as it is the present trend.
Prithviraj packaged as a healthy entertainer does not disappoint. One just hopes that this manufactured worship does not go to his head. Editor have done a brilliant work by picking all those small romantic sequences from a lengthy picture and compile to a gorgeous to watch 3 mints video as the song “Manikkinavin”. All in all for the legitimate viewer, it is a disappointment. But it will turn out to be a super hit.
Finally, Pokkiriraja may hypothetically achieve the super hit status with the help of the fans. But, for the real viewer, it is a disappointment. A comprehensive PokkiriRaja Review is given here.
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Star autobiographies are a dime a dozen these days, but supermodel-turned-TV personality Tyra Banks is joining a somewhat unusual association: celebs who have turn into writers.
Banks, 36, has just finalised a three-book agreement with Random House. The series of novels, named as “Modelland,” will be aimed at young adults. The series will feature models having extraordinary powers, however Banks has said a few characters might be centred on individuals she knows.
Although it is unusual for celebs to create works of this kind, it is far from unheard of. One little-known celebrity author is Bill O’Reilly — that’s right, the gentleman from Fox News — who in 1998 wrote a killer story called “Those Who Trespass.” Also musician Jimmy Buffett, who in 2004 published an American westerner named, “A Salty Piece of Land.”
We wish best wishes for Tyra Banks in this new adventure.
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Miss Michigan, Rima Fakih makes the first American of Arabian descent to win the Miss USA throne. The 24-year-old Arab-American from Michigan beat out 50 other women to take the 2010 Miss USA title, and will represent the United States at the Miss Universe pageant.
Rima Fakih Swim Suite
Interviewers were interested in learning her viewpoints on whether or not birth control pills should be paid for by health insurance, at which she answered, “I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it’s a controlled substance.”
Earlier, in the Miss USA pageant last night actor Oscar Nunez asked Miss Oklahoma, Morgan Elizabeth Woolard (runner-up), her opinion on Arizona’s new immigration law, and whether or not the federal government or the state should gain authoritative order to search suspected persons of immigrating illegally, instead of law enforcement officials.
According to NYDailyNews.com and KGUN, Woolard said the creation of Arizona’s law, SB1070, was “perfectly fine.”
Woolard, who opposes both illegal immigration and racial profiling, said further, “I see both sides of the issue.”
Rima Fakih
Miss Michigan Rima Fakih was surrounded by contestants after she was crowned Miss USA 2010 on Sunday, May 16, 2010, in Las Vegas. Miss Oklahoma Morgan Elizabeth Woolard was the runner up.
The adorable beauty queen already has had some racy photos leak from an earlier contest where she was the winner of “Stripper 101″.
Rima Fakih Miss USA
Congress agreed Thursday to restore jobless benefits to hundreds of thousands of Americans whose unemployment checks were cut off during a partisan debate over whether the cost should be added to the federal deficit, and President Obama signed it into law hours later.
On 59 to 38 vote, the Senate approved an $18 billion measure to continue unemployment benefits until June 2 and to block scheduled cuts in Medicare payments to doctors. The House then passed the measure on a 289 to 112 vote.
The bill is designed to buy lawmakers time to negotiate an extension of a current law allowing the jobless to collect as many as 99 weeks of unemployment aid. Benefits were interrupted to more than 200,000 people after Senate Republicans demanded that the cost of the bill be financed with savings elsewhere in the budget.
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said “our debt and deficits are as much of an emergency as unemployment, yet Congress continues to pretend it can spend and borrow without restraint.”
Democrats balked, saying the bill was an emergency and could be paid for with borrowed money. “We should not balance the budget on the backs of unemployed Americans who, through no fault of their own, are struggling to get by in this recession with out a pay day — they need these unemployment benefits,” said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont).
Republican Sens. George V. Voinovich (Ohio) and Olympia J. Snowe and Susan Collins, both of Maine, joined Democrats in voting for the extension.
The US would start accepting petitions from today for the H-1B visa applications, for the fiscal 2011 without any cutoff date as in the past.
As mandated by the US Congress, the fiscal year cap (numerical limitation on H-1B petitions) for 2011, beginning October 1, 2010, is 65,000.
Additionally, the first 20,000 H-1B petitions filed on behalf of individuals who have earned a US master’s degree or higher are exempt from the H-1B cap.
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has not announced any cutoff date for accepting the visa petitions; as was the practice till the year before when the US agency used to receive applications several times the number mandated by the Congress and had to resort to computerized draw of lots to identify successful applicants.
“USCIS will monitor the number of petitions received and will notify the public of the date on which USCIS received the necessary number of petitions to meet the H-1B cap,” an official media release said.
Even as there is signs of revival of US economy, but the continued high unemployment rate is likely to result in much longer time to fill up the pool of 65,000 H-1B visas for 2011 could, similar to last year’s scenario in which the number of petitions for 2010 H-1Bs didn’t get near the cap until December 2009.
“If needed, USCIS will randomly select the number of petitions required to reach the numerical limit from the petitions received on the final receipt date. USCIS will reject cap-subject petitions that are not selected, as well as those received after the final receipt date,” it said.
The USCIS said petitions for new H-1B employment are exempt from the annual cap if the beneficiaries will work at institutions of higher education or related or affiliated nonprofit entities, nonprofit research organizations or governmental research organizations.
Petitions filed on behalf of beneficiaries who will work only in Guam or the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands are exempt from the cap until December 31, 2014.
Is H1B right for you.
H1B is no more a good option for professionals. Greedy Employers try to suck the H1B candidates till the last drop of blood. Over the years one will loose opportunities for promotion, carrier development, family attachment etc…
Even if they approve the visa, there is a high likely chance that it will be denied at the stamping stage. Many employers like to pass on the cost of visa application/ renewal/ extension etc to the employees, which will be around $5000.00 if you are a three member family.
Worst case, dependents (spouse/children’s) are not allowed to work till they get green card, or they get another H1 visa. If you covert to H1 status, in order to maintain the status, your spouse may be forced to take up job in a different city.
If you have a kid, it will cost you over $1000.00 /month as day care expense (if your spouse is working). Ladies (on H1B) will be in more trouble, as you may have to postpone the child birth, till you have the Green card. It is estimated that it will take 15 to 20 years for you to get the Green card in hand, as per the ongoing backlog. In these 20 years you will face many up downs in life (visa denials, renewal, attorney fees, etc..) Every time you change the job, you will need new visa stamping. You have to go out of country for the Visa Stamping. After sep11, there are not issuing visa with in the country. You have to travel outside the country for visa renewal.
Visit websites like http://www.trackitt.com, http://www.murthy.com/ etc.. to know about the plight of H1B employees. Times of India is not conducting any research and publishing unrealistic things.
