Category: What’s Happening
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Abhishek teases Aishwarya at TIFF gala of `Husband Material’
TORONTO: Director Anurag Kashyap and his cast couldn’t have asked for more as his film Husband Material (Manmarziyan) got prime-time gala presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) here. Introducing the film to the audience at the iconic Roy Thomson Hall, Anurag said he could do this film only because “I was allowed to…
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Dev Patel: I felt compelled to be part of Hotel Mumbai
By Gurmukh Singh TORONTO: Slumdog Millionaire actor Dev Patel, who plays the role of Sikh waiter Arjun in Anthony Maras’ film Hotel Mumbai about the November 2008 terror attacks, says he felled compelled to be part of the film after his family watched the city burning on TV screens. Underpinning his old link with the…
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Set in Delhi’s Majnu-Ka-Tilla, Tibetan film premieres at TIFF
Indo-Asian News Service TORONTO: Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam’s film The Sweet Requiem, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) on Sunday, highlights the tragedy and fortitude of Tibetan refugees escaping to India through the high mountainous passes. Set mostly in Delhi’s Tibetan settlement at Manju-Ka-Tilla, this film is the couple’s follow-up to…
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Bal Gosal for mayor of Brampton: I have the momentum in my favour
BRAMPTON: Though Indo-Canadians have made their mark in provincial and federal politics in Canada by becoming MLAs, MPs and ministers, they have failed badly in municipal elections. Even though all the MPs and MPPs (equivalent to MLAs) from Brampton are Punjabis, the city has just only one Punjabi councillor — Gurpreet Singh Dhillon. But things…