सोमवार, 15 जुलाई 2013

दर्शको के प्यार से मिलती है शक्ति - अक्षरा सिंह

अपनी अभिनय क्षमता, नृत्य कौशल के कारण भोजपुरी फिल्म जगत में अपनी एक अलग पहचान बना चुकी अक्षरा सिंह  आज भोजपुरी के बड़ी बड़ी फिल्मो का हिस्सा तो है ही साथ ही छोटे परदे पर भी एक स्थापित  अदाकारा का दर्ज़ा हासिल कर चुकी है . विरासत में मिली अभिनय के प्रति हमेशा सजग रहने वाली एक सम्पूर्ण अदाकारा अक्षरा सिंह से उनके फ़िल्मी सफ़र पर विस्तृत चर्चा हुई . प्रस्तुत है कुछ अंश - 
प्रश्न-१- आपके फ़िल्मी कैरियर की शुरुवात कैसे हुई ? 
अक्षरा सिंह:-  मैंने जब से होश संभाला अपने माता पिता को अभिनय करते पाया , पर मेर्री इच्छा कभी नहीं हुई की मैं भी अभिनय करूँ , हाँ पर नृत्य का शौख मुझे बचपन से ही था . स्कूल में मेरी पहचान मेरे नृत्य की वजह से ही होती थी . २०१० में अचानक मुझे निर्देशक बबलू सोनी की और से उनकी फिल्म सत्यमेव जयते का ऑफर आया . मैं कोई निर्णय लेने में खुद को असमर्थ पा रही थी , लेकिन दिल के कोने में कहीं न कहीं इस ऑफर को लेकर उत्सुकता थी की इस फिल्म में मुझे रवि किशन जैसे बड़े कलाकार के साथ काम करने का मौक़ा मिल रहा है . मेरे माता पिता से मैंने सलाह ली और हाँ कर दी . मेरी हामी के बाद मुझे रवि किशन से मिलवाया गया . उनकी स्वीकारोत्ति के बाद मुझे उनके साथ काम करने का मौक़ा मिल गया . 
प्रश्न -२-आपको पहली फिल्म से एक्टिंग के क्षेत्र में क्या अनुभव मिला ?
अक्षरा सिंह:-अभिनय की दुनिया ही कभी न पूर्ण होने वाली दुनिया है,न संतुष्टि। एक कलाकार के लिए अभिनय की दुनिया एक  दुनिया है जो उसे अभिनय के लिए प्रोत्सहित  करता रहता है , मैंने कदम रखते ही बड़े-बड़े स्टार्स के साथ बड़ी बड़ी फ़िल्में की . प्रोडूसर से पैसे मिले, डायरेक्टर के गुण और  सहयोगी कलाकारों का स्नेह . कुल मिलकर हर कदम पर मुझे सीखने का मौक़ा मिला. 
प्रश्न-३-आप वर्तमान में सभी भोजपुरी के सुपर स्टार्स के साथ फ़िल्में कर रही है ,क्या क्या सीखने को मिला आपको सुपर स्टार्स से   ?
अक्षरा सिंह:-सीखने को तो हर पल समाज ,लोग,परिवेश,माहौल,परिस्थिति सीखती ही रहती है।मैंने अभिनय से जुड़े आयाम सीख कर ही फ़िल्मी दुनिया में कदम रखा। रंगमंच किया,कथक में डिप्लोमा, वेस्टर्न या मॉडर्न डांस का भी ज्ञान प्राप्त किया,गायकी सीखी ,वेशभूषा हो या रूपसज्जा या हो ड्रायविंग या स्विमिंग ,मतलब हमने अपनी तयारी पूरी करके फिल्म जगत में कदम रखा । हर व्यक्ति की अलग अलग सोच होती है,हमारे स्टार्स भी अलग अलग स्टाइल में माहिर । हमने उनके ताल से ताल मिलाया और काम शुरू किया चाहे वह रवि जी हों , दिनेश लाल यादव जी, पवन सिंह जी हों या खेसारी लाल जी . 
प्रश्न-४ - छोटे परदे पर अनुभव कैसा रहा ? 
अक्षरा सिंह - काफी अच्छा रहा . मुझे ख़ुशी है की मेरे शो जिला टॉप को बिहार यु पी के दर्शको ने काफी पसंद किया है . मुझे रोजाना बधाई के फोन आते हैं . इस शो को देखकर मुझे कई ऑफर भी आये  हैं . टीवी एक ऐसा माध्यम है जिस से हम दर्शको के घर तक पहुच जाते हैं . जिसका फायदा फिल्मो में मिलता है . अच्छा लगता है जब मेरे जानने वाले मुझे जिला टॉप के उपनाम से बुलाते हैं . मैं महुआ टीवी और साईं बाबा तेली फिल्म्स को धन्यवाद देना चाहूँगा जिन्होंने मुझे एक अच्छे शो के लिए चुना. 
प्रश्न-५- आपकी अभिनीत फिल्म "प्रतिघात" प्रदर्शित होने वाली है,दर्शको से आप क्या कहना चाहती है ?
अक्षरा सिंह:-"प्रतिघात'' नारी सशक्तिकरण की एक मिसाल वाली फिल्म है,टीम के सारे लोग गुनिजन डायरेक्टर आनंद गहतराज,जी का कमाल,लेकिन प्रोडूसर नीरज यादव जी ने तो कर दिया
बवाल,रक्षक ही बना भक्षक इस फिल्म में, कमाल की कहानी है मनोज पाण्डेय जी की। दर्शको आप इस फिल्म को देखें और मेरे साथ साथ हमरे टीम के सभी गुनीजनो को अपना आशीर्वाद दें। 
 प्रश्न-६-आपकी कई फ़िल्में आने वाली है कुछ आने वाली फिल्मों के विषय में बताइए?
अक्षरा सिंह:-आने वाली फिल्मो में खेसारी लाल के साथ  बलमा बिहार वाला", पवन सिंह के साथ ठोक देब , "प्यार झुकता नहीं", प्रतिज्ञा २ आदि शामिल है . मुझे ख़ुशी है की मेरी सभी फिल्मो में मेरा किरदार बिल्कुल ही अलग है .  हर फिल्म में मेरे किरदार को दर्शको का प्यार ज़रूर मिलेगा . वैसे भी बिहार के दर्शक मुझे बिहार की बेटी के तौर पे जानते हैं  और वहाँ जाने पर  अथाह जनसमूह का प्यार मुझे मिलता है,वो न कभी मैं भूलती हूँ
और न ही कभी भूलूंगी क्योंकि उनके प्यार से ही मुझे शक्ति मिलती है .  
प्रशन-७-आप दर्शको को क्या सन्देश देंगी?
अक्षरा सिंह:- "मेरा वजूद तुमसे है,मन भी तुम,जान भी तुम,तुमसे है औकात, हजारो बातों में कहना है एक बात, तेरे दम से ही दम है, ना  छोड़ना मेरा साथ" . आप मेरी फ़िल्में देखें और मुझे अपना प्यार और स्नेह दीजिये,मैं हर वख्त कोशिश करती रहूंगी,एक नए किरदार में आपका स्वस्थ मनोरंजन करती रहूँ .........

BookMyShow.com and PVR Cinemas enter into a 5 year strategic partnership

~ BookMyShow.com to be ticketing partner of PVR Cinemas – targeting Rs.1000 crores worth of movie tickets with this partnership ~
Bigtree Entertainment Private Limited, the holding company of India’s largest entertainment ticketing portal BookMyShow.com, today announced its association with PVR Ltd., the leading entertainment company in India. BookMyShow.com has signed a 5-year deal as the online ticketing partner for PVR Cinemas across India. The companies are targeting ticket sales worth Rs.1000crores over these 5 years exclusively on Bookmyshow.com for PVR Limited besides PVR’s present existing sale of tickets from its Box Office and other channels
Commenting on this development, Ashish Hemrajani, Founder & CEO of BookMyShow.com saidThis association is a great development from the entertainment industry’s perspective, with two significant players in their specialized domain coming together.  We are happy to partner with PVR cinemas, which is continuance in our efforts in making entertainment hassle-free for consumers. The partnership extends to areas outside just pure sales but also to harnessing bookmyshow’s analytical ability to ensure targeting the right content to right users as well as marketing initiatives around non-movies and alternative content”.
Pramod Arora, Group President & CEO of PVR Cinemas said, “In our everlasting zest to provide convenience to our esteemed patrons, we have associated and partnered with Bookmyshow.com as our preferred e-ticketing channel partner. We have been in discussions with BMS for quite some time to work out this association, which shall help us touch millions of new additional customers who may now experience the joy of watching films at PVR Cinema near them. This is another initiative to help augment the box office revenues by reaching out to more and more consumers and achieving better penetration in our micro markets. Besides a better reach, our association with BMS shall also help us in CRM initiatives by deploying tools like KYC (know your customer) to help us serve our customers with their preferred choice of seats, concessions and other soft offerings. To sum up, this association is a sure delight not only for us but for our patrons, film distributors and producers alike!”
Bookmyshow will market and sell tickets of PVR Cinemas, over its web, mobile apps and other affiliate channels. The significant consumer shift over the past few years towards online and mobile sales, with a strong CRM backbone allows better segmentation and analysis in marketing relevant content to users. This shift also helps reduce the burden at the box office by reducing costs and making up for the lack of customer data thereby helping in predictive modeling.
BookMyShow.com is India's premiere online ticketing platform where consumers can search and book tickets for movies, plays, concerts, entertainment performances and sporting events. Besides movie/play tickets, the company is an exclusive ticketing partner for several leading sporting franchises in India including JPSI (Formula1), Indian Premier League, Mumbai Indians, Delhi Daredevils, Punjab Kings XI, Rajasthan Royals, Hyderabad Sunrises, Pune warriors, Aircel Chennai Open, Super Fight League, Yonex Badminton Championships, Sunburn Goa, Norah Jones, Nh7, Swedish House Mafia etc. The company has also expanded its footprint to international markets in New Zealand and Australia.
PVR, a pioneer in Multiplex development in India, is the largest cinema exhibition player in India. The company began its commercial operations in June 1997 with the launch of India's first multiplex in Saket, New Delhi. PVR Cinemas today has a significant presence in 36 cities in India, including Delhi, NCR, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Lucknow, etc. making it the largest cinema exhibition chain in the country.
Amit Khan Saheb, Partner – Vishruta Kaul, Managing Associate and Ayush Soni, Associate from BMR legal advised BookMyShow on this transaction
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About BookMyShow.com: Bigtree Entertainment's BookMyShow.com is the largest entertainment ticketing portal in India with over 90% market share in the online entertainment ticketing space. Headquartered in Mumbai, BookMyShow.com has an enviable kitty of over 1500 screens in more than 100 cities. BookMyShow.com tickets for over 1000 events every year across India. It has a fan following of over 2.0 million Facebook Fans. BookMyShow.com has special downloadable mobile applications for Blackberry, iPhone, Android and Windows phone. It has also been awarded in the category of 'The Hottest Company of the Year-2011-12’ and ‘The Company to Watch Out for' in the prestigious CNBC Young Turks Award. BookMyShow.com is one of the top three entertainment e-commerce websites in India.
About Accel Partners: Founded in 1983, Accel Partners has a long history of partnering with outstanding entrepreneurs and management teams to build world-class businesses. Accel today invests globally using dedicated teams and market-specific strategies for local geographies, with offices in Palo Alto, California, New York City, London and Bangalore, as well as in China via its partnership with IDG-Accel. Accel has helped entrepreneurs build over 300 successful companies, many of which have defined their categories, including 99designs, Actuate, AdMob, Agile Software, Alfresco, Angry Birds (Rovio), Atlassian, BBN, Bonobos, Braintree, Brightcove, Cloudera, ComScore, Diapers.com (Quidsi), Dropbox, Etsy, Facebook, Fusion-IO, Gameforge, GlamMedia, Groupon, Imperva, Infinera, Interwoven, IronPlanet, JBoss, Kayak,Lookout, Macromedia, metroPCS, MoPub, OPOWER, Polycom/PictureTel, Playfish, Portal Software, QlikTech, Rapt, Real Networks, Redback, Responsys, Riverbed, Spotify, Squarespace, SunRun, Trulia, UUNet, Veritas, Walmart.com, Webroot, Wonga, XenSource and Zimbra. In India, Accel has made investments in companies such as Ace Creative Learning, Babyoye, EduPristine, enStage, Flipkart, Forus, FreshDesk, HealthcareMagic, Mitra Biotech, MuSigma, Myntra, Perfint, Probe, PropTiger, QwikCilver, SherSingh, SureWaves, Trivone, Vinculum and Virident. For more information, please visit the Accel Partners web site at www.accel.com find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/accel.  
About Network 18: The Network18 Group is a media and entertainment company with interests in television, internet, films, ecommerce, magazines, mobile content and allied businesses. Through its subsidiary ‘TV18 Broadcast Ltd.’ [BSE: 532800, NSE: TV18BRDCST], the group operates news channels - CNBC-TV18, CNBC Awaaz, CNBC-TV18 Prime HD, CNN-IBN, IBN7 and IBN-Lokmat (a Marathi regional news channel in partnership with the Lokmat group). TV18 also operates a joint venture with Viacom, called Viacom18, which houses a portfolio of popular entertainment channels – Colors, Colors HD,MTV, SONIC, Comedy Central, VH1 and Nick - and Viacom18 Motion Pictures, the group’s filmed entertainment business. TV18 and Viacom18 have also recently announced a strategic joint venture called IndiaCast, a multi-platform ‘content asset monetization’ entity mandated to drive domestic and international channel distribution, placement services and content syndication for the bouquet of channels from TV18,Viacom18 and other broadcasters. TV18 has also forayed into the Indian factual entertainment space through A+E Networks | TV18 (Joint venture between A+E Networks and TV18 Broadcast), which has recently launched a new channel – HistoryTV18. Through ‘Network18 Media & Investments Ltd.’ [BSE: 532798, NSE: Network18], the group operates its digital, publishing and e-commerce assets including moneycontrol.com, ibnlive.com, in.com and firstpost.com. ‘Network18’ also operates e-commerce properties like HomeShop18 and bookmyshow.com and publishes Forbes India, the nation's first local edition of a foreign news magazine title and one of the world’s most influential business brands, in collaboration with Forbes Media. In addition, through ‘Network18’, the group operates Newswire18, providing real time financial information and news terminal services, and Network18 Publishing, a player in the special interest publishing space as well as E18, the group’s event management venture and Sport18, its sports management and marketing venture. ‘Network18’ has investments in Yatra, DEN Networks and other Capital18 portfolio companies. For more information, log on to www.network18online.com
About BMR: BMR Legal was founded in April 2010. With over 20-25 years of experience in managing tax engagements, representing Fortune 500 companies and large Indian business houses, the firm has won the confidence of several multinational and domestic clients, and is the partner of choice for helping clients navigate through the changing tax and legal landscapes that impact business. BMR Legal has enhanced its competencies by including corporate M&A and private equity legal advisory services as well as general corporate law advisory. The firm  is committed to making a difference to clients and to its people, and delivers this through the integrity of its effort and by living its core values. The firm is focused in providing a range of direct and indirect tax advisory, advocacy and dispute resolution services. In addition, it also provides specified regulatory services in the area of foreign direct investment, infrastructure laws and corporate/legal M&A.

Yalda Hakim uncovers untold story of Yemen: The Most Dangerous Journey on Earth'_BBC World News

Yalda Hakim is based on London and joined BBC World News in December 2012 as a presenter and correspondent. She made her on-screen debut in March 2013 presenting a special three part series of Our World entitled, Iraq: Ten Years On.
Before joining BBC World News Yalda was the presenter of SBS Dateline in Australia. From a headline-making investigation in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province to her reporting from Libya during the Arab Spring, Yalda has built up a wealth of journalistic experience around the world.
While reporting for SBS’s Dateline show for the last four years, Hakim delivered stories from the Middle East, the United States, Africa and Europe. In March 2012, Hakim was the first western journalist to visit one of the villages in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, where US soldier Staff Sgt Robert Bales is alleged to have shot and killed Afghan civilians. Hakim’s report ‘Anatomy of a Massacre’ traced the steps of the rogue soldier to help shed new light on the events of that night. It made headlines around the world, particularly in the United States, with extensive coverage across the major news networks.
Other career highlights include interviewing the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, and travelling with him to Pakistan for talks with President Asif Ali Zardari and Iran’s leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about peace in the region. She was also on the ground in Libya as the people fought for freedom from Gaddafi’s rule, and reported on the resulting refugee crisis in Tunisia as thousands fled the conflict.
She presented Dateline from a range of locations including from Ground Zero in New York as the world marked ten years since the 9/11 terror attacks; from the streets of Juba, South Sudan, as thousands celebrated the new country’s independence, and from Afghanistan ten years into the US-led invasion, where she interviewed a failed suicide bomber in one of the country’s most notorious prisons.
Hakim was born in Afghanistan and moved to Australia in the late 1980s after her father fled Kabul with his family when Russia invaded. She began her career as a cadet journalist at SBS’s World News Australia. She filmed her first story for Dateline in 2008 called ‘Yalda’s Kabul’, where she returned to Afghanistan. Hakim was also a finalist for the Australian Young Journalist of the Year Award and won the United Nations Media Peace Prize for Best Australian Television News coverage in 2009.
As well as English, Hakim speaks five other languages including Farsi, Urdu, Hindi, Pashto and Dari, and is currently learning Mandarin.

NEIL NITIN MUKESH'S GUN BACKFIRES WHILE SHOOTING FOR DUSSEHRA - THROWS GUN POWDER ON HIS FACE


Neil Nitin Mukesh is totally in action mode these days. All for his next action venture – Dussehra. While essaying a cop’s role, Neil had to majorly undergo action sequences with ropes, guns, etc. While all his action scenes went pretty well as planned, except for one such scene where he had to shoot with a gun.
It was an action packed day at Kamalistan Studio on Monday for Neil Nitin Mukesh. Action Director Eijaz Javed was directing the stunts and the set was tensed. Neil was to fire a gun shot. And as Neil began firing the bullet, he didn't realize that the gun powder flew back on his face. While they continued with the re-takes and the shoot, it was suddenly that Neil's face began feeling the burning effect. The gun got nasty and it had thrown back some gun powder on Neil’s face.The actor was left with red eyes and irritation all over his face. Everyone rushed to him and ice pack was applied to soothe it. it took a while to settle the burning sensation. Producers Aparna suggested Neil to take rest for the day, but he took rest for an hour and the shoot was resumed.
The actor had almost become used to high octane action stunts, but he definitely wasn’t expecting the gun to get nasty with him during the shoot. When asked Neil, he comments ‘It was totally unexpected. It is an action thriller and we have been doing some exceptional stunts for it. We have done huge shoots at filmcity for over fifteen days for the action scenes and this was kind of fag end of the action scenes. Initially I didn’t pay attention, but later the irritation increased and it became unbearable. These minor hiccups are part and parcel of shoots, am hale hearty and shooting again is what matters, Neil said with a smile.’
Dussehra is a political action thriller being produced by Aparna Hoshing under the banner of RASH Productions, and is being directed by Manish Vatsalya. Neil Nitin Mukesh plays a encounter specialist in the movie

BBC World News named #1 international news channel in India

 
BBC is the leading cross platform news brand among business elite 
The latest Ipsos PAX survey (Q1 2013) has named BBC World News as India’s leading international English news channel. In addition to being named the top cross platform news brand among frequent travelers[1] and business elite such as BDMs and top managers, the BBC was the only international news brand in India to show cross-platform audience growth quarter on quarter2 
BBC World News also continues to reach the young affluent population, with over half of the channel’s viewers falling into the 25-39 age groups.
Among top managers, BBC World News also outperforms India’s leading national channels from other genres, including Hindi and English General Entertainment, sport, and music channels3.
 
Jim Egan, Chief Executive Officer, BBC Global News Ltd says: “The sustained growth of BBC World News and BBC.com/news in India is a testament to our continued investment in bringing our international audience unrivalled, trusted journalism and content. The channel’s move to its new headquarters in Central London earlier this year was an exciting step to giving our viewers access to state-of-the-art HD studios, fresh programming and talent and we’re proud that our audience in India is responding to those changes.” 
The Ipsos PAX study surveys international and local media consumption and product consumption among affluent adults and business professionals in the cities of Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore.

KableOne & Saga Studios Present Lakadbaggey

After much anticipation, Lakadbaggey — a KableOne Original in association with Saga Studios — has finally premiered, and it’s already creati...