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Hollywood calling Evelyn Sharma

Evelyn Sharma has worked with interesting makers like David Dhavan, Rohan Sippy, Divya Khosla Kumar, Ayan Mukerji and Imtiaz Ali in Bollywood flicks like Main Tera Hero, Nautanki Saala, Yaariyan, Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani and the upcoming Jab Harry Met Sejal. 

But she really surprised the industry further, when she recently became the only speaker from our entertainment industry to address an audience including global leaders on world peace and unity at US president Donald Trump's National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC. 

Now it seems Evelyn has a new list of surprises up her sleeve. Turns out, her frequent trips to Los Angeles were not about a boyfriend, but movies in the West. "Super exciting times. Nice to get inquiries and read scripts in LA," she's just tweeted. 

What's more! Rumour has it that Evelyn also has an agent in the US. So don't be surprised if she's the next from Bollywood to add to the escapades of Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone and Irrfan Khan's in Hollywood. 

And while some of our actors have been prepping their creative juices and boosting their adrenalin looking at international movies, Evelyn's not even stopping at that. Her recent trip to the States, had New York based music producer Brooklyn Shanti fly down to LA to make more music with her. 

Yes! She's written and recorded a few new songs and shot a music video on her recent trip. Need we say, the numbers can be expected to even better her last attempt at singing 'Something Beautiful'. 

Plus, apart from Jab Harry Met Sejal, Evelyn will also be seen playing the lead opposite Amit Sadh in Jack & Dil. So her year ahead promises a lot.

बारिश में फैशन का नया दौर

मौसम की पहली बारिश में आई एन आई एफ डी इंस्टिट्यूट की नई शाखा का भव्य लोकार्पण किया गया। एम ई टी (मुंबई एजुकेशन ट्रस्ट) के अंतर्गत फैशन की नई शाखा के भव्य शुभारम्भ के मौके पर नरेंद्र कुमार, निशा हरले, पंकज भुजबल, शबीना खान, इमाम सिद्धकी, अनिल खोसला आदि जानी मानी हस्तियों ने शिरकत की। डिजाइनर इमाम सिद्दीक़ी ने छात्रों को स्टेज पर चलना, स्माइल, फोटो पोज देने के संबध में विस्तृत जानकारी दी। उन्होंने इंस्टीट्यूट से लंदन फैशन वीक में जा रही डिजायनरों को टिप्स देते हुए कहा, 'एवरी डे इज फैशन शो एंड द व‌र्ल्ड इज योर रनवे'। सिर्फ शाहरुख और आमिर ही एक्टर नहीं है दुनिया का हर एक इंसान भी एक्टर है और जिंदगी में अपना रोल निभा रहा है। जो जितना अच्छा रोल निभा रहा है वह उतना ही अधिक सफल है।'

इस सी फेसिंग भव्य संस्थान में वाई-फाई सुविधा से लेस कंप्यूटर लैब, स्पेसियस क्लास रूम, कैंटीन, लाइब्रेरी इत्यादि है।

New Music Friday- IMAGINE DRAGONS EVOLVE # 1 in India

The highly anticipated album by Imagine Dragons titled ‘Evolve’ has officially arrived. Followed by the release of the global smash hits ‘Believer’, ‘Thunder’ & ‘Whatever It Takes’ the whole album released worldwide on 23rd June.

Since making their full-length debut with 2012’s multi-platinum Night Visions, Imagine Dragons have drawn worldwide adoration for their anthemic yet moody alt-rock. On their third album Evolve, the Grammy Award-winning band shift perspective and take on a brighter but more layered emotional outlook

Throughout Evolve, Imagine Dragons find unlikely glory in intense self-reflection. On “Whatever It Takes,” the band turns self-doubt into a soaring, shimmering epic driven by heavy beats and Reynolds’s rapid-fire flow. Another moment of reckoning, “Thunder” brings waves of majestic harmonies and warped vocal effects to Reynolds’s recounting of his life’s journey so far.

The staggering album features a diverse tracklist showcasing 11 powerful tracks by the American Rock band.

The track-list for Evolve is as follows:

1.       I Don’t Know Why

2.       Whatever It Takes

3.       Believer

4.       Walking The Wire

5.       Rise Up

6.       Make It Up To You

7.       Yesterday

8.       Mouth of the River

9.       Thunder

10.   Start Over

11.   Dancing In The Dark

 About Imagine Dragons

Formed in 2009, Imagine Dragons first revealed their emotionally charged and inventive sensibilities with a series of independently released EPs that earned them a grassroots following. Signed to KIDinaKORNER/Interscope by hitmaking producer Alex Da Kid, the band greatly expanded their fanbase with the release of their multi-platinum breakthrough single “It’s Time” (featured on the 2012 EP Continued Silence). With their past hits also including “Radioactive” (a diamond-selling smash that won Best Rock Performance at the 2014 Grammy Awards), Imagine Dragons went on to see Smoke + Mirrors debut at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 album chart upon its release in early 2015.

Golden Period 1950-60s with Trinity of Dilip- Raj-Dev triumphant at Osian’s Greatest Indian Show on Earth 2

Mughal-e-Azam remains favourite of serious Memorabilia collectors 

“The value of film memorabilia is there till the time technology replaced hand-painted posters and showcards with printed ones. If we had not placed credible financial value on these related objects of our film culture, the desire to preserve, love and respect our cinematic heritage would have been much more difficult to emerge,” said Neville Tuli, Chairman - The Osian's Group. His words rang through Osian's The Greatest Indian Show On Earth 2 - Vintage Film Memorabilia, Publicity Materials & Arts Auction where film lovers from the world over flocked to take home a piece of Indian cinematic history to be hopefully preserved forever.

Dilip Kumar's rare set of an original watercolour, mixed media and collage showcard artworks of Ram Aur Shyam that saw the actor in a first double role, sold for Rs.3,36,000. Kranti unique 12-sheeter teaser went for Rs.3,00,000. Sohrab Modi's Sikender sepia-toned photographic stills mounted on lobby cards sold for Rs.78,000. Mehboob Khan's Andaz hoarding with Raj-Dilip-Nargis portraits sold for Rs.1,20,000. A Kal Aaj Aur Kal six-sheeter poster of three generations of the Kapoor Family sold for Rs.54,400 while a Bobby Golden Jubilee trophy sold for Rs.74,400. Dilip Kumar's Mela's rare set of 6 original mixed-media collage artworks sold for Rs.48,000. Aan stills, a set of 4, sold for Rs.52,800, to name a few. 

Rare Artworks  from the  later 1990s onwards period such as Shah Rukh Khan's doodle, ink on paper, sold for Rs.1,20,000 while Aamir Khan's frontal portrait in poster paint on cardboard in Mangal Pandey by Balakrishna sold for 64,500 while MF Husain's Gaja Gajamini in Paris photographic collage and ink on paper sold for Rs.1,44,000. The price of all works can be seen at www.osianama.com. 

At the auction, original Artworks by Satyajit Ray, Mani Kaul, jostled for space with film legend, Dilip Kumar; the cinematic epic, Mughal-E-Azam, to the unique jubilee trophies of Bobby, Deewar, Heera and others; from original publicity-material art for Andaz (1949), Anari (1959), Guide (1965), Deewaar (1973) and others to rare vintage twelve and six-sheeter posters of Kranti (1981), Silsila (1981), Kal Aaj aur Kal (1971) and others; to rare posters, showcards, lobby cards, photographic stills from the golden 1950’s period to the era of Amitabh Bachchan to the current trinity of Salman-Shah Rukh and Aamir. 

Osian’s Chairman, Neville Tuli, highlights the role of auctions in this preservation process: “Today centers of research, museums, archives, collections, related to not just Indian film but all cinemas will emerge deeper and faster with India as a potential hub. It is not very far away when the finest scholars and researchers will flock to India to understand the profound role the cinematic and related arts have played in developing culture and a thousand influences thereon. The auctions have facilitated this journey just like Film Festivals facilitate a film appreciation culture. One has to only see the growth of the Hollywood memorabilia market to understand the vast energies that get energized when the film fraternity, media and the public work in unity to respect one’s history, and hence one’s current creativity.”