Silver Linings Playbook

Life doesn't always go according to plan

Silver Linings Playbook is a family drama, comedy and a love story presented by the Weinstein Company, based on the bestselling novel by Matthew Quick, written and directed by David O. Russel.

It stars Bradley Cooper (Hangover, Limitless), Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games, X-Men: First Class, the master actor Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom), and the famed Bollywood actor Anupam Kher. Chris Tucker (of Rush Hour fame) is in the film for a short yet impressionable role.

Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) has lost everything – his house, his job and his wife. He has the only place to go back is with his parents. Pat suffers from a bipolar disorder, and after spending eight months in a state institution, on a plea bargain, he stays with his father (Robert DeNiro) and mother (Jacki Weaver).

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Agro wins the best film award at the Oscars

Argo was judged as the Best picture at the glittering Oscar Awards Ceremony.

Here is the list of all other Oscar Awards for 2012

 

Best Picture
Argo

Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis for ‘Lincoln’

Best Actress
Jennifer Lawrence for ‘Silver Linings Playbook’

Best Direction
Ang Lee for ‘Life of Pi’

Best Actress in a Supporting Role -
Anne Hathaway for ‘Les Miserables’

Best Supporting Actor
Christoph for Best Supporting Actor for his role as bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz in writer/director Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’

Best Writing – Original Screenplay
Quentin Tarantino for ‘Django Unchained’

Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay
Chris Terrio for ‘Argo’

Best Cinematography
Claudio Miranda for ‘Life of Pi’

Best Film Editing
William Goldenberg for ‘Argo’

Best Visual Effects
‘Life of Pi’ – Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott

Best Production Design
‘Lincoln’ – Rick Carter (Production Design), Jim Erickson (Set Decoration)

Best Animated Feature
Pixar’s adventure “Brave” for Best Animated Feature

Best Sound Editing (Tie)
Paul N.J. Ottosson for ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ and
Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers for ‘Skyfall

Best Make-Up and Hair Styling
Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell for ‘Les Misérables’

Best Sound Mixing
‘Les Miserables’ – Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes

Best Costume Design
Jacqueline Durran for ‘Anna Karenina’

Best Foreign Language Film
Amour

Best Original Score
Mychael Danna for ‘Life of Pi’

Best Original Song
Adele for ‘Skyfall’

Best Live Action Short Film
‘Curfew’

Best Documentary
‘Inocente’

Best Animated Short Film
‘Paperman’

I went shopping for Robert De Niro -Anupam Kher’s maiden directorial venture

Anupam Kher announces his next directorial venture; I Went Shopping For Robert De Niro, a 29 minute short film, in honour of his Oscar Nominated Silver Linings Playbook co star. He has also produced the film under his banner Actor Prepares Mumbai, named after his acting school.

“I have been wanting to direct a film for the past one year. When I came back from the USA after completing Silver Lining’s Playbook, Yamini, the writer of the short film, narrated the concept to me and I thought it is a wonderful story and I wanted to tell it. I decided to direct and produce it.” says Kher who is currently riding high on the success of Special 26.

Everyone from the cast and crew is a huge fan of Robert De Niro and has worked with gritty passion to pay their respects to the star. I went Shopping for Robert De Niro is a story of two girls at the crossroads of their lives and what happens to them on that particular day when they go shopping for Robert De Niro. Yamini Kshirsagar and Rimal Arora play the lead roles in the film.

They are also the girls who actually went shopping for the gift for De Niro before Kher travelled to Philadelphia for the shooting of Silver Linings Playbook, making the film part autobiography and part fiction.

Anupam Kher says, “With this film we tell the story of millions of people who come to the city of Mumbai to fulfil their dreams. It reminded me of the days of my life when I shifted to Mumbai to pursue my career as an actor. Similarly Silver Linings Playbook reminded me of the excitement I experienced when I signed my first film ever and I went shopping for Robert De Niro reminded me of my first days in Mumbai.

Nostalgia drove me to be a part of both these stories. In one sense going to celebrate Silver Linings Playbook at the Oscars brings this entire journey as full circle for me as being a part of the project gave birth to the short film”

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