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TELEVISION
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is great news for BAG Films. Its courtroom drama Siddhanth on
Star One has entered the finals of the 34th Emmy Awards in the drama
category. This is the first time that any Indian serial has made it to
the finals of the Emmy’s. Siddhanth, the weekly one-hour show,
is the story of an advocate whose world revolves around a web of lies,
deceit, deaths and downfall, some of which is a result of his own doings
of the past. Yet case after case he moves ahead because he has just one
motto — to succeed at any cost because for him winning is everything.
Besides hit shows like Haqeeqat, Rihhaee, Aaj Ki Baat, Poll Khol,
Sansani and Red Alert, the production house has gone into
film-making and its first full length feature film Zindagi Rocks
starring Sushmita Sen and Shiney Ahuja is releasing in August. Kingsley’s tale
Oscar
winning actor Sir Ben Kingsley is to entertain the Sunday teatime
viewers of BBC1 and CBBC by telling them the first story on Jackanory
when the series plays its second innings on TV. In a 45-minute special
show, where a celebrity reads a story, enhancing it in ways that will
entice the most restless of children, the Gandhi star will
narrate the tale of The Magician of Samarkand, a girl’s battle
with an evil wizard. "I am happy to be part of Jackanory. I
hope millions of viewers will enjoy this tale," The Mirror
quoted Sir Ben, as saying. Funnyman John Sessions will read Muddle
Earth, a tongue-in-cheek homage to Lord of the Rings. The
original series began in 1965 and ended 10 years ago, and its past
readers were Judi Dench, Tom Baker and Prince Charles. The new series,
scheduled to start in November, will have animation and live action. —
ANI Maaninee’s name game Since her role as Pari in Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin, there’s been no looking back for Manini Mishra nee De. She’s been among the happening couples, along with husband Mihir Mishra, in Nach Baliye, hosts the popular Not Just Cricket and is playing the lead role of a lawyer and single mother in Sab TV’s Twinkle Beauty Parlour. But the biggest break came with her cameo in Krrish where she plays Priyanka Chopra’s best friend. She has signed Anant Mahadevan’s Aankh Micholi in which she plays a textile engineer in the film. And guess what she has done after her brush with success — gone ahead and changed the spellings of her name to Maaninee Misshra.
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