Whistling Woods Internatio​nal saw Imtiaz Ali, Ranbir Kapoor & team of the film share their experience​, Rockstar Style

Imtiaz Ali, the Director of “Rockstar” visited Whistling Woods International to share his experiences and inspirations with an ecstatic bunch of students. He had a wonderful experience with the students who were absolutely smitten by the enthralling filmmaker. Also present were other crew members from the movie Dileep Subramaniam, Sumit Basu, Sunaina Bhatnagar who left no stone unturned in explaining the sounds, editing, different cultures used in the film, songs, locations used, artists, usage of colour and so many more aspects that were new learning for the students of Whistling Woods.

When Amara Miller brokeGeorge Clooney’s teeth!!

Golden Globe winner George Clooney who has been receiving tremendous acclaim for Fox’s The Descendants, revealed a funny incident that tookplace while shooting!
Speaking post his Best Actor win, theactor, when asked about his experience with child actress Amara Miller, spokeabout the time she broke his teeth!
Amara, who plays his onscreendaughter, gave the actor a memory to remember her by on the sets.
“She came up behind me while we were sitting out in Kauai,” Clooney said backstage at the Awards,“She took her hand and smacked me over the head because that’s what she doesand it was funny.”
The so called light smack resulted insomething else! “It broke my two front teeth and I had to go shoot!” he added.However, the clever actor quickly thought of a way to salvage the situation.
“I had to get crazy glue and gluepieces of my teeth back together to finish the shot,” Clooney said. “Alexander, the director came back and saw me gluingmy teeth in...”
Well, now that’s what we calldedication to work!
Catch the multi- award winning The Descendants as it releases January26th in India.

First look of Steven Spielberg'​s War Horse

 From director Steven Spielberg comes“War Horse,” an epic adventure for audiences of all ages. Set against asweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, “WarHorse” begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey anda young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they areforcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of thehorse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of allthose he meets — British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer andhis granddaughter — before the story reaches its emotional climax in the heartof No Man’s Land.
The First World War is experiencedthrough the journey of this horse—an odyssey of joy and sorrow, passionatefriendship and high adventure. “War Horse” is one of the great stories offriendship and war— a successful book, it was turned into a hugely successfulinternational theatrical hit that is arriving on Broadway next year. It nowcomes to screen in an epic adaptation by one of the great directors in filmhistory.
DreamWorks Pictures’ “War Horse,”director Steven Spielberg’s epic adventure for audiences of all ages,is a tale of loyalty, hope and tenacity set against asweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War.

What are the smaller Social Networks trying to prove?

Facebook is still the leading social media community, but according to a recent study, 2011 saw Twitter, Tumblr, and Pinterest have more successful years. Behind Facebook are two growing social networks you might not be aware of, Tumblr and Pinterest. They have fewer users than Twitter and even MySpace, but they command quite a bit of time.
Pinterest, a Palo Alto-based startup, is quietly becoming one of the most-trafficked social networking sites on the web. A virtual pin board that tracks users' interests is a social platform worth watching. The site is most popular with females and arts and crafts enthusiasts between the ages of 25 and 44, and its user base is anything but typical — at least for a social network.
comScore‘s 2011 social networking report puts Pinterest's U.S. unique visitors at 4.9 million for November 2011. The site first got on comScore's radar in May 2011 with 418,000 unique U.S. visitors. What Pinterest lacks in visitors it makes up for in stickiness: visitors spent an average of 88.3 minutes at the site in November, third only to Facebook (394 minutes) and Tumblr (141.7 minutes).
It may be the sleeper hit of the year, but investors are certainly awake to its potential. The startup has raised more than $37 million in funding from a who’s who list of venture capitalists, including Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Ron Conway, Max Levchin and Michael Birch.
The undisputed laggard in time spent per visitor is Google+ with a mere 5.1 minutes per U.S. unique visitor. That's less than half the time spent at MySpace (12.0 minutes), a third of time spent at LinkedIn (16.0 minutes) and almost one-fifth of the time spent at Twitter (24.4 minutes).
The blogging platform gained nearly three million new unique visitors, growing 18% from 15.9 million to 18.8 million uniques. Meanwhile, the online pin-it site boomed by nearly 55%, from 4.85 million to 7.51 million uniques.
MySpace may not be losing users directly to these pseudo-rivals, but it’s definitely continuing to hurt. Worldwide, it has fallen from 81.5 million to 61.0 million from November to November. And in the US, the drop is even more pronounced, dropping from 54.4 million to 25.0 million.
Based on all these numbers, 2011 was a banner year for the next era of public self-expression and sharing. The ugly, hacked-up MySpace user profiles of past years are less popular than ever, and users are busy sharing through their beautiful Tumblr themes, through Twitter’s simple 140-character messaging service, and through their online Pinterest pinboards.
Sharing of ideas and personal expression through micro-blogging or communities like Tumblr is growing exponentially. So much so, that we saw Facebook roll out its “Subscription” feature in an attempt to counter the loss of sharing activity to other social communities. It will be interesting to see whether Facebook’s “Subscriptions” will gain traction in 2012 or communities like Pinterest will continue to grow.
Both Tumblr and Pinterest are gaining users, and users are spending more time on these sites. While they haven’t reached the levels of Facebook and Twitter, they are growing, gaining buzz among users and catching marketers’ eyes—and will be worth following in 2012.
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‘NEIL NITIN MUKESHTO ENCOURAGE THE CAUSE OF GREEN ENVIRONMENT’

After the release of his latest flick ‘Players’ , Neil NitinMukesh has taken up the initiative of making the environment green. TopgearMagzine has taken up the initiative of planting seeds for the greenerenvironment. Neil Nitin Mukesh added". I would urge everyone to join us in doing our bit for the environment.the actor after being associated with the cause will now encourage people toplant seeds and grow as much plants as they can. Tarun Rai,Chief Executive Officer shared his happiness on being associated with NeilNitin Mukesh ‘ It is an honour to be associated with Neil Nitin Mukesh, I thinkhis face and name with us will help us take this cause forward easily’.