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Monday, February 27, 2012

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy First Pakistani Oscar Winner Biography Career Life Story Detail.



Born in Karachi as Sharmeen Obaid, she attended the Karachi Grammar School. She was the first woman in her family to receive a Western education. Sharmeen graduated from Smith College with a bachelor of arts in economics and government and then went to complete two master's degrees from Stanford University in International Policy Studies and Communication.






 Obaid's career in documentary filmmaking began when she examined the plight of Afghani refugee children in Pakistan for one of her articles. Their situation was so dire, and their stories so compelling, that Sharmeen decided to return to Pakistan and create a film about them. She petitioned Smith College and New York Times Television production division for the grants that would allow her to accomplish her goals. Intrigued by her story, both organizations gave her the funds as well as production equipment and training.

 Obaid began her career with New York Times Television in 2002 where she produced Terror's Children, a film about Afghan refugee children, which won her the Overseas Press Club Award, the American Women and Radio and Television Award, and the South Asian Journalist Association Award. Since then, she has produced and reported on more than twelve films around the world.


  “The single act of throwing acid on a woman’s face completely ruins her life. It’s like the living dead, because if you throw acid on a woman’s face, she can seldom go home after that. To me, it’s the most heinous of all crimes against women.”


 And while none of the people in Abbottabad, where she filmed, knew what the Oscars were, they knew that this was something big and would give them a voice, “I’ve told women’s stories for a decade now. The film needed to show them to have dignity, of how they are resilient women. I don’t want anyone to watch the film and pity these women. I want them to look at this film and say wow, they give me hope!”


 Saving Face chooses not to discuss the topic of rampant acid attacks in Pakistan but how a doctor chooses to give back to his country by helping its people; how women politicians work together to get a bill passed in Parliament. Her stance is, “Should we not talk about these things just because they are negative? Because Pakistan can fix its problems if it so chooses.” The last statement is something we have all noticed time and again, from cricket matches to corruption and now to acid attacks.


 “It was difficult to accept that extreme cases of violence against women not only exist in Pakistan but are culturally validated and accepted,” Obaid-Chinoy told India-West in an e-mail last week.


 “Initially, I struggled with coming to terms with the reality on the ground, and to accept that I, as a Pakistani woman, had enjoyed liberties and freedoms that were entirely unavailable to survivors of acid violence.”




 As a filmmaker, the Academy Awards is not the first time Sharmeen has been nominated for an award while being the only Pakistani in the running. In 2003, she won the Livingston Award for Young Journalists, one of the most prestigious awards in Journalism which no non-American had ever won. When one of the members of the jury called her to talk about her entry, Reinventing the Taliban, she said, “I assume you’re calling because I’m not a US citizen.” But they had actually called to tell her she had won. “I was completely taken in over the phone… I shrieked a lot.”


 In 2010, she won an emmy award for her documentary, Pakistan: Children of the Taliban, which explores Taliban recruitment strategies, their effect on the youth and their methods to radicalize the country’s young and often dejected populace.Children of the Taliban premiered FiLums (2011) - the largest film festival in Pakistan held annually at the Lahore University of Management Sciences


 “During the course of shooting the film, I realized that the survivors were in fact some of the bravest and most courageous women I had ever met, and it was an honor to be able to spend time with them,” she told India-West.


 “Faced with unimaginable circumstances, ‘Saving Face’ documents their journeys as they seek treatment and fight for justice.”


Monday, February 20, 2012

Milla Jovovich - It's your Life



Milla was born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, former Soviet Union, the daughter of Bogdan Bogdanović Jovović , a Serbian pediatrician, and Halina Mikhaylovna Loginova  (also known as Galina Jovovich), a Russian stage actress. She was raised in the Russian Orthodox religion.









Milla Jovovich is the beautiful women very sexy and hot ... It is a model, actress, musician, fashion designer. During her career, has appeared in a number of science fiction movies and the theme of work, the music channel VH1 has referred to as the "Queen of the holder kick butt." In 2002, she starred in the video game Resident Evil adaptation, produced by the consequences of three: Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004), Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) and Resident Evil: Hereafter.




At the age of nine, she began going to modeling auditions. Jovovich was discovered by Gene Lemuel when he shot test photos of her and later showed them to Herb Ritts in LA.. The next day Ritts booked her for the cover of Lei, an Italian magazine. After Jovovich booked Lei she was signed by Prima Modeling Agency then Richard Avedon hired her for Mademoiselle. Avedon was head of marketing at Revlon at the time, and chose Jovovich to appear with models Alexa Singer and Sandra Zatezalo in Revlon's "Most Unforgettable Women in the World" advertisements. In 1988, she made her first professional model contract. Jovovich was among other models who gained controversy for becoming involved in the industry at a young age.






In 2002, Jovovich starred in the horror/action film Resident Evil, released in the United States on March 15, 2002. Based on the CAPCOM video game series of the same name, she portrayed Alice, the film's heroine who fights a legion of zombies created by the evil Umbrella Corporation. Jovovich had accepted the role of Alice because she and her brother had been fans of the video game franchise.



In 2009, Jovovich starred in David Twohy's A Perfect Getaway with Kiele Sanchez, Timothy Olyphant, and Steve Zahn. The film is a thriller about a newlywed couple (Milla and Zahn) on their honeymoon in Hawaii. Filming began Spring 2008.









Jovovich played the part of Dr. Abigail Tyler in the science-fiction thriller The Fourth Kind and will star in the psychological thriller Faces in the Crowd, which is written and directed by Julien Magnat; in the latter film, she plays the survivor of a serial killer’s attack that leaves her suffering from a condition called prosopagnosia, which renders her unable to recognize faces.





Jovovich returned as Alice in the fourth movie of the Resident Evil series, Afterlife, which was directed by her husband, Paul W. S. Anderson. She had a role in Dirty Girl, which premiered on September 12, 2010 at the Toronto Film Festival, opposite Juno Temple, William H. Macy, Mary Steenburgen, and Tim McGraw. Jovovich starred in Paul W. S. Anderson's The Three Musketeers, as Milady de Winter, in 2011.




Jovovich is set to star in David R. Ellis' horror film Bad Luck, based on a screenplay by David Schouw. She will appear in Famke Janssen's debut directional film Bringing Up Bobby, which also stars Marcia Cross. Vikrutasi, a Russian film which translates into Tricksters, also stars Jovovich.




Jovovich was set to portray Amalia Bezhetskaya in The Winter Queen in 2007; however, with the announcement of her pregnancy early that year, the film was postponed. In the spring of 2011, Seven Arts and GFM Films announced they would be merging their distribution operations. The joint venture is expected to release The Winter Queen under the direction of Fyodor Bondarchuk.




Jovovich played Lucetta, the wife of a jailed arsonist (played by Edward Norton) in Stone, a psychological thriller starring Robert De Niro. Filming began in May 2009 at the recently closed Southern Michigan Correctional Facility in Jackson, Michigan.




















Friday, February 17, 2012

Veena Malik New item Song Channo | Gali Gali Chor Hai [Full Song]

Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) T20 2012 Schedule & Fixtures


Date and TimeMatch
Fri Feb 101st Match – Barisal Burners v Sylhet Royals
08:00 GMT | 14:00 localShere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
13:30 IST
Fri Feb 102nd Match – Chittagong Kings v Duronto Rajshahi
12:30 GMT | 18:30 localShere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
18:00 IST
Sat Feb 113rd Match – Dhaka Gladiators v Khulna Royal Bengals
08:00 GMT | 14:00 localShere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
13:30 IST
Sat Feb 114th Match – Barisal Burners v Duronto Rajshahi
12:30 GMT | 18:30 localShere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
18:00 IST
Sun Feb 125th Match – Chittagong Kings v Khulna Royal Bengals
08:00 GMT | 14:00 localShere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
13:30 IST
Sun Feb 126th Match – Dhaka Gladiators v Sylhet Royals
12:30 GMT | 18:30 localShere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
18:00 IST
Mon Feb 137th Match – Barisal Burners v Khulna Royal Bengals
08:00 GMT | 14:00 localShere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
13:30 IST
Mon Feb 138th Match – Chittagong Kings v Dhaka Gladiators
12:30 GMT | 18:30 localShere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
18:00 IST
Tue Feb 149th Match – Duronto Rajshahi v Sylhet Royals
08:00 GMT | 14:00 localShere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
13:30 IST
Tue Feb 1410th Match – Barisal Burners v Dhaka Gladiators
12:30 GMT | 18:30 localShere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
18:00 IST
Wed Feb 1511th Match – Chittagong Kings v Sylhet Royals
08:00 GMT | 14:00 localShere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
13:30 IST
Wed Feb 1512th Match – Duronto Rajshahi v Khulna Royal Bengals
12:30 GMT | 18:30 localShere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
18:00 IST
Thu Feb 1613th Match – Barisal Burners v Chittagong Kings
08:00 GMT | 14:00 localShere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
13:30 IST
Thu Feb 1614th Match – Dhaka Gladiators v Duronto Rajshahi
12:30 GMT | 18:30 localShere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
18:00 IST
Sat Feb 1815th Match – Chittagong Kings v Khulna Royal Bengals
08:00 GMT | 14:00 localZahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong
13:30 IST
Sat Feb 1816th Match – Barisal Burners v Sylhet Royals
12:30 GMT | 18:30 localZahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong
18:00 IST
Sun Feb 1917th Match – Chittagong Kings v Duronto Rajshahi
08:00 GMT | 14:00 localZahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong
13:30 IST
Sun Feb 1918th Match – Dhaka Gladiators v Khulna Royal Bengals
12:30 GMT | 18:30 localZahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong
18:00 IST
Mon Feb 2019th Match – Barisal Burners v Duronto Rajshahi
08:00 GMT | 14:00 localZahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong
13:30 IST
Mon Feb 2020th Match – Khulna Royal Bengals v Sylhet Royals
12:30 GMT | 18:30 localZahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong
18:00 IST
Wed Feb 2221st Match – Dhaka Gladiators v Sylhet Royals
08:00 GMT | 14:00 localZahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong
13:30 IST
Wed Feb 2222nd Match – Barisal Burners v Khulna Royal Bengals
12:30 GMT | 18:30 localZahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong
18:00 IST
Fri Feb 2423rd Match – Chittagong Kings v Dhaka Gladiators
08:00 GMT | 14:00 localShere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
13:30 IST
Fri Feb 2424th Match – Duronto Rajshahi v Sylhet Royals
12:30 GMT | 18:30 localShere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
18:00 IST
Sat Feb 2525th Match – Barisal Burners v Dhaka Gladiators
08:00 GMT | 14:00 localShere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
13:30 IST
Sat Feb 2526th Match – Chittagong Kings v Sylhet Royals
12:30 GMT | 18:30 localShere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
18:00 IST
Sun Feb 2627th Match – Duronto Rajshahi v Khulna Royal Bengals
08:00 GMT | 14:00 localShere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
13:30 IST
Sun Feb 2628th Match – Barisal Burners v Chittagong Kings
12:30 GMT | 18:30 localShere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
18:00 IST
Mon Feb 2729th Match – Dhaka Gladiators v Duronto Rajshahi
08:00 GMT | 14:00 localShere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
13:30 IST
Mon Feb 2730th Match – Khulna Royal Bengals v Sylhet Royals
12:30 GMT | 18:30 localShere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
18:00 IST
Tue Feb 281st semi-final – TBC v TBC
08:00 GMT | 14:00 localShere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
13:30 IST
Tue Feb 282nd semi-final – TBC v TBC
12:30 GMT | 18:30 localShere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
18:00 IST
Wed Feb 29Final – TBC v TBC
12:00 GMT | 18:00 localShere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur
17:30 IST