French actress Nathalie Baye as jury for Mumbai Film Fest

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JURY OF 15TH MUMBAI FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCED

BRUCE BERESFORD, ASGHAR FARHADI, SIDDIQ BARMAK AND
KONKONA SEN SHARMA TOP HEADLINERS


Bruce Beresford to head international Competition Jury
Asghar Farhadi to head India Gold 2013 competition jury

International competition jury members include Nathalie Baye Masato Harada, Konkana Sen Sharma
India Gold competition jury include Jill Bilcock, Waris Hussein, Siddiq Barmak, Roger Garcia
As the buzz builds up to the 15th edition of the Mumbai Film Festival, the just-announced list of jury members has raised expectations even further. Featuring a heady mix of some of the finest film makers, actors and connoisseurs, the fest is set to be bigger come October.
Heading the International Competition jury as the president will be director Bruce Beresford, whose 1989 film Driving Miss Daisy won the Academy Award for the Best Film.  He was also nominated for Best Director in 1984 for Tender Mercies. This jury also boasts of more world class talents in the French actress Nathalie Baye, multi-faceted artist who has worked with the likes of Godard and Truffaut. There is Masato Harada too, renowned Japanese actor -  director of The Last Samurai fame and our own Konkana Sen Sharma, who’s given us memorable films such as Mr and Mrs Iyer and Omkara.

The India Gold 2013 Competition section jury is equally eminent, with the Academy Award winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi heading the Jury panel as President. By his side will be the man behind the acclaimed film Osama (2004) which won him an Academy award nomination, Siddiq Barmark. More names on this list include acclaimed British actor/director Waris Hussein of Doctor Who and Passage to India fame, Jill Bilcock

(Australian Film Editor and Academy Award nominee for Moulin Rouge) and Roger Garcia, the executive director of the prestigious Hong Kong International Film Festival, film critic and an authority on Asian Cinema.

The 15th Mumbai Film Festival will take place from the 17th – 24, October 2013.

The 15th edition of the Mumbai Film Festival will be held at Metro Cinema and Liberty Cinemas as the main festival venues and Cinemax, Andheri (West) as the satellite venue.  
- See more at: http://www.filmytown.com/french-actress-nathalie-baye-mumbai-fest/

Vacation’s over for Deepika Padukone

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The actress flies straight to Dubai from her Europe holiday to report to work on her next film

Over the last few days, Deepika Padukone had been spending some blissful moments under the Ibiza sun.

But with work beckoning her, we heard that instead of returning home to India, Dippy flew straight to Dubai.

The actress is part of Farah Khan’s Happy New Year and the rest of the crew had already reached the desert emirate.

Sources from Dubai say that the actress has also been spotted having animated conversations with her co- star Shah Rukh Khan as she apparently caught up with the latest Bollywood gossip from him.

An insider says, “ She’s had a long holiday and Deepika wanted to get back to work soon. Before going for her vacation, she completed some dress rehearsals. For 20 days, she was entirely cut off from all news from the industry.

She had switched off her phone. But now she is raring to go at work and will also fly down to Goa straight from Dubai for her next project with Homi Adajania.” A unit hand says Dippy’s first shot in Dubai will be filmed today and she is spending her spare time catching up with SRK.

“ Dippy sat SRK down and threw a volley of enquiries at him about the fate of their last film together and buzz from the filmi parties.” The actress’ spokesperson confirmed our story.

- See more at: http://www.filmytown.com/vacations-deepika-padukone/

Ranbir Kapoor to dedicate entire month to promote Besharam

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The actor is dedicating the entire month to promote his upcoming film - Besharam.

Looks like Ranbir Kapoor is pulling out all stops to create a buzz around his upcoming film, Besharam. Buzz is that RK is taking a month off to promote the film helmed by Abhinav Singh Kashyap.

Ranbir recently flew back to the country after completing Bombay Velvet’s first schedule on time. Currently, he is shooting for the promotional video for the film with his parents, Neetu and Rishi Kapoor.

- See more at: http://www.filmytown.com/ranbir-kapoor-dedicating-entire-month-promote-besharam