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  • Cure acne without elaborate face packs

    Face packs made from a concoction of natural ingredients can clear off acne from your face. Single ingredients like unprocessed honey, toothpaste and vinegar can also do the job well. Vedika Trivedi, a professional from Jawed Habib's hair and beauty salon chain, explains how to use them effectively: Raw honey: Apply unprocessed honey directly on the affected area. Its antiseptic properties ...

  • Riteish Deshmukh to produce biopic Pocket Dynamo

    Bollywood actor Riteish Deshmukh is all set with plans for his second production - a biopic titled "Pocket Dynamo". It will be produced under his banner Mumbai Film Company (MFC). The film is based on the life of a wrestler Khashaba Jadhav, who won independent India's first Olympic medal in 1952. Confirming the news through an official statement, Riteish said: "We have acquired the rights for ...

  • Bhushan Steel to double Odisha plant capacity

    Indian steelmaker Bhushan Steel Limited (BSL) Saturday said it was all set to double the annual capacity of its steel plant in Odisha to six million tonne by the end of this year. The plant at Meramandali in Dhenkanal district, about 150 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, was commissioned in 2006. It has an annual output of three million tonnes. In the first phase, the company invested ...

  • Weve ended up becoming film family Kunaal Roy Kapur

    His elder brother is associated with a film production banner, while his younger brother is a video jockey-turned-actor. Director-actor Kunaal Roy Kapur feels even though they are not really a film family, but they have ended up being one. They entered filmdom via different routes - elder brother Siddharth Roy Kapur is the managing director, Studios, Disney UTV, while their younger brother ...

  • Ajay Devgn to attend Singam 2 audio launch

    Bollywood film "Singham" fame Ajay Devgn, director Rohit Shetty and Kannada actor Kicha Sudeep will attend the audio launch of Suriya-starrer Tamil action-drama "Singam 2" here June 2. "Bollywood 'Singham' actor Ajay Devgn, director Rohit Shetty and Kannada actor Sudeep will grace the audio launch of Suriya's 'Singam 2', which will take place on June 2," said a statement from the production ...

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Umberto D. [DVD]

Umberto D. [DVD]

Film scholar and critic Andr Bazin captured perfectly the essence of Italian neorealism when he described it as an ideal synthesis between the rigor of tragic necessity and the accidental fluidity of everyday reality. Ironically, he wrote these words in response to a screening at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival of Vittorio De Sicas Umberto D., which most historians date as the last neorealis ... ...

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  • UPs power crisis spells trouble for SP

    With mercury soaring in Uttar Pradesh and the grim power situation disrupting life, protests have become the order of the day, spelling trouble for the Samajwadi Party government. In the last 10 days alone, people resorted to violence in more than two dozen places across the sprawling state over incessant power cuts and the alleged indifference of officials. In Lucknow, residents vandalised ...

  • Pakistan urges Afghanistan to consider regional implications of arms deal with India

    The Foreign Office in Pakistan has urged Afghanistan to consider the regional security situation while pursuing an arms purchase deal with India. At a media briefing on Friday, Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jillani said as a sovereign country Afghanistan can pursue its own policies, but it should mind the overall peace and security situation in the region. According to Dawn News, Jillani was ...

  • BCCI chief Srinivasan to meet arrested Meiyappan may be asked to step downUpdateSrinivasan

    Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president and India Cements owner N.Srinivasan is likely to meet his arrested son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan here around 6 p.m. on Saturday evening. According to television reports, Mumbai Crime Branch officials confirmed that Srinivasan had got in touch with their seniors on Saturday morning to seek permission to meet Meiyappan, who was arrested late ...

  • Hoodas love lost for Gujarat Modi

    Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and his government may not have much to do with Gujarat and its Chief Minister Narendra Modi but they leave no opportunity to show that Haryana and Hooda are way ahead of their Gujarati counterparts. Be they his rallies or statements, Hooda does not let go any occasion to first draw a comparison and then to claim that Haryana and his government are ...

  • Im not here to be a star Ranbir Kapoor

    Born in a family of cinestars, Bollywood's star actor Ranbir Kapoor says he never entered filmdom with the intention of becoming a star. He also said the current crop of actors are no comparisons to the likes of Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan, who have an "aura" about them. Ranbir, who has proved his mettle film after film since debuting with unimpressive "Saawariya" in 2007, credits the media ...

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