CIFF Summer 2010 Trend Forecast Copenhagen International Fashion Fair (CIFF) has asked French trend agency, NellyRodi, to compile a forecast for summer 2010 ( - 2011 for us southerners). These are the four main trends for the ready to wear market. + Full Story
A Recipe for Success Success, we all know we want it but how exactly do we define it? And, how do we ensure we achieve it? Jenny Searle talks to some of South Africa's fashion successes. + Full Story
Puma focuses on Africa ahead of the World Cup Friday, 17 July 2009
Whilst the continent is getting ready to host the football World Cup in 2010, Puma is also setting its sights on the region. With partnerships with national teams, supporting local industry, using sub-Saharan cotton and dyes, the equipment and... + Fll Sotruy
Black Coffee duo, Jacques van der Watt and Danica Lepen, showed their Summer 2010 collection at Berlin Fashion Week last week. Diarise the Black Coffee show at the Sanlam SA Fashion Week Collections on 16 September this year.
Jekhane Ashray (2009) Bengali Movie Review-Trailer-Preview Jekhane Ashray is a 2009 Bengali Film Directed and produced by Amitabha Mitra starring Mahua Raychowdhury, Debraj Ray, Gita Dey, Joy Bandyopadhyay, Soumitra Bandyopadhyay in lead roles. Jekhane 2009 Cast Ashray: Mahua Raychowdhury, Debraj Ray,...
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Keno Kichu Kotha Bolo Na-Critic’s Review and Storyline Keno Kichu Koth Bolo Naa is a story of a deaf and dumb girl Rajashri (priyanka) in love with a poor boy Somu (Rahul) who earns his living by painting hoardings. Rajashri’s father Krishnakanta Chatterjee(Ashok Kumar) fixes her marriage with another guy Bikash (Premjeet), who is a fraud. So, the lovebirds elope and given shelter by a kind-hearted man (Santu Mukhopadhyay). But the two are tracked down by local police officer (Supriyo dutta), appointed by Bikash. Somu is badly beaten But Krishnakanta realizing that Bikash is a fraud ,saves the lovebirds and story ends happily.
Reading the storyline , the first question that should come to you is, haven’t we seen all this last year in Rahul-Priyanka’s debut film? Yes,apart from the fact that Priyanka is deaf and dumb, and a happy ending, the basic storyline is almost similar, though the interpretation is quite weak compared to Chirodini Tumi Je Amar. After watching Bhalobasha Zindabad and this movie, I get the feeling Rahul-Priyanka are failing to step beyond Chirodini Tumi Je Amar,which is not appreciable. The acting is pretty ordinary from all the actors, though Priyanka stands out among others. The cinematography and music are quite good, though we have heard better compositions from Jeet Ganguly (music director) before. There are plenty of unrealistic sequences that are quite expected from a Swapan Saha movie, but still one cannot digest the fact that hero bites villain’s ears and tears it, or the ending, which is expected to be emotional, but turns out quite funny. My rating:1.5 /5
Morninf Walk (2009) Critic’s Review and Storyline Professor Joymohan (Kher) stays alone in Kolkata. He is a heart patient and when he gets a severe heart attack on his birthday he realizes he needs to spend as much time with his family in Mumbai as possible. He then goes to Mumbai to his son Indra (Rajat), daughter in law Rita (Divya) and grand daughter Gargi (Avika). While Indra and Gargi are delighted, Rita is not so happy about his arrival. She makes her displeasure more vocal. Joymohan starts going for morning walks to the nearby park in the mornings. During one such morning walk he meets his old student Neelima (Tagore) and her daughter Anjali (Nargis) who wants to do a doctorate in the US. What secret Joymohan and Neelima share and what happens after it comes out forms the rest of the plot.
Bhalobasa Bhalobasa (Bengali: ভালবাসা ভালবাসা "Love Love") (2008) is a Bengali film by Rabi Kinagi.This movie is the second film of both Hiran Chatterjee and Srabanti Malakar.Hiran Chatterjee's first film was Nabab Nandini opposite of Koyel Mullick in 2007 and Srabanti Malakar's first film was Champion opposite of Jeet in 2003.After five-week running success prompted producer Ashok Dhanuka add one more song Bol raja chai kemon rani,to the film after shooting it right after Kali Puja.This is the first bengali film which were shoted at Salzburg in Austria. [2][1][3]This film is actually inpired from Telugu bolckbuster musical and romantic movie Bommarillu directed and co-written by Bhaskar, starring Genelia D'Souza and Siddharth Narayan.[4] The film primarily revolves around a father and son relationship with the father's dote on his son ironically leaving a bitter taste with the latter. The son's choices and his wants to achieve something in life are always subdued by his father's.The father has a justification in the form of his dream, that is to build a dream house. When it comes to his son's marriage, the son breaks his shackles of respect only to experience the newly found independence. The film concludes with the father's repentance on his foolishness and the happy marriage of the protagonists.
Our love will bloom always fairer, fresher, more gracious, because it is a true love, and because genuine love is ever increasing.
It is a beautiful plant growing from year to year in the heart, ever extending its palms and branches, doubling every season its glorious clusters and perfumes; and, my dear life, tell me, repeat to me always, that nothing will bruise its bark or its delicate leaves, that it will grow larger in both our hearts, loved, free, watched over, like a life within our life...
Love Aaj Kal starring Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone in lead roles with Rahul Khanna and Rishi Kapoor in supporting roles. The film is directed by Imtiaz Ali and produced by Saif Ali Khan & Dinesh Vijan.It is supposed to be inspired by a taiwanese film by Hou Hsiao-Hsien called “Three Times”.
London, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan Friday became Dr. Shah Rukh Khan. He was presented an honorary doctorate in arts and culture by Bedfordshire University at a ceremony here for his contribution to culture.
Les Ebdon, vice chancellor of the university, presented the honorary doctorate to Shah Rukh.
Dressed in the traditional scholar’s robe, the Indian superstar looked slightly bemused as he walked into the hall in a procession of scholars led by Ebdon.
Shah Rukh was nominated by Routes to Roots, an NGO that works across the SAARC region to bring South Asian people together, for the doctorate “in recognition of his exceptional achievement as a film actor and producer”.
Indian High Commissioner Shiv Shankar Mukherjee and Rakesh Gupta of Routes 2 Roots were also present.
The term television channel generally refers to either a television station or its cable/satellite counterpart (both outlined below). Sometimes, especially outside US and in the context of cable/sattelite television, it is confused with the term television network, which (when properly used) describes a group of geographically-distributed television stations that share affiliation/ownership and some or all of their programming with one another. The term may also refer to a physical or virtual location over which a television channel (in the above sense) is distributed. For example, in Northern America, "channel 2" refers to the broadcast band of 54 to 60 MHz, with carrierfrequencies of 55.25 MHz for NTSC analog video (VSB) and 59.75 MHz for analog audio (FM). Channels may be shared by many different television stations or cable-distributed channels depending on the location and service provider. This terminology may be muddled somewhat in other jurisdictions, for instance Europe, where terrestrial channels are commonly mapped from physical channels to common numerical positions (i.e. BBC One does not broadcast on any particular "channel 1" but is nonetheless mapped to the "1" input on most British television sets). On digital platforms, such (location) channels are usually arbitrary, due to virtual channels.
The kingfisher was sitting lonely in the gathering dusk on a dead branch sticking out of tar black water. Our handkerchiefs were proving too inadequate to keep the stench out of our nostrils. With each stroke of the oar, a thick liquid similar to burnt lube oil splashed up. The sound of the oar was blunt and heavy, like hitting mud with a stick.
We were surprised at the kingfisher -- the first sighting of any bird that depends on water for survival. It means there must be fish too in this muck that we still call a river -- Buriganga. Our hope evaporated soon as the kingfisher dived and picked up an insect, looking like the ones you find in your septic tank. When fish is gone, sewage insects are the only feed.
Ripe jackfruit, pineapple, papaya or mango--all fruits flooding the city markets look great but lack usual scent and taste as traders use chemical compounds to ripen them artificially, posing a serious health risk to the consumers.
Sources said fruit growers and traders are using different harmful chemicals including growth hormone, insecticides and other chemicals like carbide and formaline in the fruits from the orchard to market for making quick cash.
Carbide, a chemical compound used for manufacturing dry cell batteries, is now being used in mango, banana and papaya for bringing colour.
“A couple of days ago, my husband bought a jackfruit which was soft like a ripe one. But we could not eat it because it was totally tasteless and stinky. I guess it was artificially ripened,” said a housewife from Mirpur when asked about the seasonal fruits.
The Deputy Commissioners (DCs) of four districts, who were asked by the High Court (HC) on June 25 to take measures to protect the rivers under their jurisdiction, are now 'doing some home work' in this regard on the basis of newspaper reports as none of them received the court order officially until writing of this report yesterday afternoon.
Name. Yuna Japanese Name. Yūna Japanese Pronuciation. Yu-nuh Nicknames and Names given. Miss Yuna, Lady Yuna, Lady Summoner, M' Lady, Yunie. Yoona (A Pronuciation in Japanese) Name in language. Okinawan Element. Dark, Moon, Night Meaning of name. Hibiscus Height. 5'3 Birthplace. Bevelle Birthstone. Aquamarine Zodiac. Pisces Age. 17 (FFX)
Sam has been involved in the Australian arts industry for the past 15 years where she has worked as a dancer, producer, director, choreographer, teacher and administrator. Her formal training includes a BA in Dance from the University of Western Sydney, a post-graduate diploma in Arts Management from UTS and most recently she has completed a post-graduate diploma in Movement Studies from the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA) with an experiential focus on direction, performance methods and teaching. Sam is currently head of movement for the Actors
Martians Still Avoid Detection April 7, 2001: After two failed Mars missions, NASA launches the Mars Odyssey spacecraft. Six and a half months and 286 million miles later it enters into orbit around the red planet. Through August, 2004, it records radiation levels and its mapping of hydrogen levels helps scientist find polar
he terms "fashionable" and "unfashionable" were employed to describe whether someone or something fits in with the current or even not so current, popular mode of expression. However, more so in the modern era items termed 'not so current' may indeed fit into the term 'Retro.' Retro fashion allows rule shifts, such as 'old is suddenly new,' thus fashionable. The term "fashion" is frequently used in a positive sense, as a synonym for glamour, beauty and style. In this sense, fashions are a sort of communal art, through which a culture examines its notions of beauty and goodness. The term "fashion" is also sometimes used in a negative sense, as a synonym for fads and trends, and materialism. A number of cities are recognized as global fashion centers and are recognized for their fashion weeks, where designers exhibit their new clothing collections to audiences. These cities are Paris, Milan, New York, and London. Other cities, mainly Los Angeles, Berlin, Tokyo, Rome, Miami, Hong Kong, São Paulo, Sydney, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Madrid, Mumbai, Vienna, Moscow, New Delhi and Dubai also hold fashion weeks and are better recognized every year.