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What Will People Say
''What Will People Say'' ( no, Hva vil folk si) is a 2017 internationally co-produced drama film directed and written by Iram Haq. The film's scenes set in Pakistan were all shot in India, mostly in Rajasthan. The film had its world premiere at the 42nd Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2017. It was selected as the Norwegian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Plot The film is inspired by director Iram Haq's own life. 16-year-old Nisha is living a double life with her parents in Oslo, Norway. She plays basketball with her Norwegian friends, parties, drinks, and has a Norwegian boyfriend named Daniel. At home, she behaves like a docile daughter in her traditional Pakistani Muslim family. One night, Nisha's father, Mirza, catches Nisha with Daniel in her room and angrily beats him. Neighbors hear the screams and call the police, and Nisha is taken to a child welfare agency. There, Nisha blames herself fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iram Haq
Iram Haq (born January 1, 1976) is a Norwegian-Pakistani actress, screenwriter and Film director, director, best known for her feature film, ''I Am Yours (film), I Am Yours'' and ''What Will People Say''. Early life Haq, a Norwegian-Pakistani, studied art direction at Westerdals School of Communication in Oslo. She came from a conservative Muslim family who immigrated to Norway. Her upbringing and life events were later a huge inspiration for her movie ''What Will People Say''. Career Haq worked for many years as an actor, actress, appearing in theatre, film and television, including ''Import-Export (film), Import-Export''. She also wrote and starred in the short film ''Old Faithfull'' which was selected for the short film competition at the Venice Film Festival in 2004. She made her directorial debut with the short film, ''Little Miss Eyeflap'' which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010. Haq's feature film debut, ''I Am Yours'' premiered at the Toronto Internationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekavali Khanna
Ekavali Khanna is an actress who stars in Bollywood, Hollywood and Bengali films. Early life Born in Kolkata, Khanna attended Modern High School and is a graduate of Delhi University. She is of mixed Punjabi and Goan heritage. Khanna divides her time between both Mumbai and Kolkata depending on her work, and culturally identifies as a Bengali. Career Ekavali Khanna made her debut with ''Kaun Kitne Pani Main'', directed by national award winner Nila Madhab Panda in the year 2014. The same year she worked with another national award-winning director Dr. Chandra Prakash Dwivedi in the film ''Zed Plus'' as the parallel lead opposite Adil Hussein. In 2014 and 2015 she did two more films: ''Daasdev'' by Sudhir Mishra and ''Satra Ko Shaadi Hai'', directed by Arshad Sayed. She also did a guest appearance in ''Bollywood Diaries'' directed by K.D Satyam. Her next release in 2015 was ''Dear Dad'', opposite Arvind Swamy, directed by Tanuj Brahmar. In 2017 she acted in ''Bioscopewall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Norwegian Submissions For The Academy Award For Best Foreign Language Film
The Kingdom of Norway has submitted films in the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film category at the Oscars since 1957. They only submitted two films in their first twenty years, but they became a regular fixture in the competition in 1980, failing to submit a film only once, in 1983. The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. It was not created until the 1956 Academy Awards, in which a competitive Academy Award of Merit, known as the Best Foreign Language Film Award, was created for non-English speaking films, and has been given annually since. , six films from Norway have been nominated for the award: '' Nine Lives'' (1957), '' The Pathfinder'' (1987), '' The Other Side of Sunday'' (1996), ''Elling'' (2001), ''Kon-Tiki'' (2012) and '' The Worst Person ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Submissions To The 91st Academy Awards For Best Foreign Language Film
This is a list of submissions to the 91st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film every year since the award was created in 1956. The award is presented annually by the Academy to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films. The submitted motion pictures must be first released theatrically in their respective countries between 1 October 2017 and 30 September 2018. The deadline for submissions was 1 October 2018, with the Academy announcing a list of eligible films on 8 October. A total of 89 countries submitted a film, with 87 of those being accepted. Two countries submitted a film for the first time. Malawi sent '' The Road ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBS Interactive
Paramount Streaming (formerly CBS Digital Media Group, CBS Interactive, ViacomCBS Streaming), a division of Paramount Global, oversees the company’s streaming technology and offers direct-to-consumer services, free, premium and pay. These include Pluto TV, which has more than 250 live and original channels, and Paramount+, a subscription service that combines breaking news, live sports, and premium entertainment. History As CBS Interactive On May 30, 2007, CBS Interactive acquired Last.fm for £140 million (US$280 million). On June 30, 2008, CNET, CNET Networks was acquired by CBS and the assets were merged into CBS Interactive, including Metacritic, GameSpot, TV.com, and Movietome. On March 15, 2012, it was announced that CBS Interactive acquired video game-based website Giant Bomb and comic book-based website Comic Vine from Whiskey Media, who sold off their other remaining websites to BermanBraun. This occasion marked the return of video game journalism, video game jou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metacritic
Metacritic is a website that review aggregator, aggregates reviews of films, TV shows, music albums, video games and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted arithmetic mean, weighted average). Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999. The site provides an excerpt from each review and hyperlinks to its source. A color of green, yellow or red summarizes the critics' recommendations. It is regarded as the foremost online review aggregation site for the video game industry. Metacritic's scoring converts each review into a percentage, either mathematically from the mark given, or what the site decides subjectively from a qualitative review. Before being averaged, the scores are weighted according to a critic's popularity, stature, and volume of reviews. The website won two Webby Awards for excellence as an aggregation website. Criticism of the site has focused on the assessment system, the ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fandango (company)
Fandango Media, LLC is an American ticketing company that sells movie tickets via their website as well as through their mobile app, as well as a provider of television and streaming media information through its subsidiary Rotten Tomatoes. History On April 11, 2007, Comcast acquired Fandango, with plans to integrate it into a new entertainment website called "Fancast.com," set to launch the summer of 2007. In June 2008, the domain Movies.com was acquired from Disney. In March 2012, Fandango announced a partnership with Yahoo! Movies, making Fandango the official online and mobile ticketer for registered users of the Yahoo! service. That October, Paul Yanover was named President of Fandango. Fandango made its first international acquisition in September 2015 when it bought the Brazilian ticketing company Ingresso, which provides ticketing to a variety of Brazilian entertainment events, including the biannual Rock in Rio festival. On January 29, 2016, Fandango announced it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang. Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes in disapproval of a poor stage performance, the original inspiration comes from a scene featuring tomatoes in the Canadian film ''Léolo'' (1992). Since January 2010, Rotten Tomatoes has been owned by Flixster, which was in turn acquired by Warner Bros in 2011. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango. History Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12, 1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His objective in creating Rotten Tomatoes was "to create a site where people can get access to reviews from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Review Aggregator
A review aggregator is a system that collects reviews of products and services (such as films, books, video games, software, hardware, and cars). This system stores the reviews and uses them for purposes such as supporting a website where users can view the reviews, selling information to third parties about consumer tendencies, and creating databases for companies to learn about their actual and potential customers. The system enables users to easily compare many different reviews of the same work. Many of these systems calculate an approximate average assessment, usually based on assigning a numeric value to each review related to its degree of positive rating of the work. Review aggregation sites have begun to have economic effects on the companies that create or manufacture items under review, especially in certain categories such as electronic games, which are expensive to purchase. Some companies have tied royalty payment rates and employee bonuses to aggregate scores, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farukh Jaffer
Parukh ( hy, Փառուխ) or Farukh ( az, Farux, also , ; russian: Фарух), is an Armenian-populated village in the Askeran Province of the Republic of Artsakh, ''de jure'' part of the Khojaly District of Azerbaijan, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. History During the Soviet period, the village was part of the Askeran District of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast. On 24 March 2022, Azerbaijani forces crossed the line of contact established after the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement, advancing towards the village, with initial reports stating that the forces had entered the village and surrounding areas. On 27 March 2022, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that Azerbaijani forces had withdrawn from the village. According to the Ministry of Defence of Azerbaijan, withdrawal of units and change in the positions didn't happen. According to Artsakh authorities, despite Azerbaijani forces having left the settlement, they continue to occupy a pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lalit Parimoo
Lalit Parimoo is an Indian film and television actor. He is best known for playing the scientist "Dr. Jaikaal" in the superhero series ''Shaktimaan'' (1997). Besides Parimoo has acted in a number of Bollywood films, including ''Haider'' (2014), where his role was praised critically and as a professor in '' Agent Vinod'' (2012). Parimoo has also written a book titled ''Main Manushya Hoon'' (I Am a Human). Filmography Films * Kaanchli (2020), as Thakur, Director- ''Dedipya Joshii'' *''Sita'' (2019), as Lawyer, Director- ''Teja'' *''Kathor (Movie)'' (2018), as Neelkanth Chaturvedi, Director- ''Karan Kashyap'' * '' What Will People Say'' (2017), as Uncle, Director- ''Iram Haq'' * '' Panchlait'' (2017), Director- ''Prem Prakash Modi'' * ''Mubarakan'' (2017), as Paramjeet Jijaji, Director- ''Anees Bazmee'' * ''Haider'' (2014) as Pervez Lone (Polonius), Director- ''Vishal Bharadwaj'' * '' Agent Vinod'' (2012) as Professor, Director- ''Sriram Raghavan'' * ''Hum Tum Pe Marte Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jannat Zubair Rahmani
Jannat Zubair Rahmani (born 29 August 2001) is an Indian actress who predominantly acts in Hindi-language television shows and films. She is best known for portraying Kashi in ''Kashi – Ab Na Rahe Tera Kagaz Kora'', Phulwa in ''Phulwa'' and Pankti in ''Tu Aashiqui''. In 2022, Rahmani participated on Colors TV's stunt-based show '' Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 12,'' where she finished at 4th place. Early life and education Rahmani was born to Zubair Ahmad Rahmani and Nazneen Rahmani on 29 August 2001 in Mumbai. In 2019, Zubair scored 81% in her class XII HSC boards. She is currently pursuing graduation from a private college in Kandivali, Mumbai. Career She started her acting career in 2010 with Star One's medical, romance ''Dill Mill Gayye'' where she played the cameo role of a young patient Tamanna, but gained recognition as child artist through Imagine TV's ''Kashi – Ab Na Rahe Tera Kagaz Kora'' and Colors TV's ''Phulwa'' in 2010 and 2011 respectively. She then pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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