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CANNES: When actor Eliyas Qureshi swapped Bollywood for Hollywood 15 years ago, the only roles for Indian actors were "cab drivers, doctors and terrorists".Since then, the 42-year-old New York-based actor says he has played every south Asian stereotype in the book, from a would-be suicide attacker in Sacha Baron Cohen's "The Dictator" to Michael Douglas's taxi driver in "Wall Street".Although things have started to change "drastically for the better" in parts of the industry, many roles for south Asian actors remain just "caricatures", Qureshi told AFP this week at the Cannes Film Festival.Faced with permanent typecasting, Qureshi has taken matters in his own hands and joined a growing army of businessmen making money from selling Indian films to the rest of the world."The industry is a superficial industry and it becomes problematic when you end up doing the same roles time after time," he said. "Denzel Washington dealt with stereotyping ...
CANNES: Leonardo DiCaprio is going to get closer to stars of a different kind as he heads into space aboard the Virgin Galactic, and a well-heeled bidder at the Cannes Film Festival has paid 1.2 million euros (1.5 million) to be his travel buddy.The Holywood star's sub-orbital trip was among 20 goodies up for grabs at the 20th amfAR bash, a gala auction that is one of the glitziest festival events and that this year ...
KARACHI: Legend comedian actor Rangeela was remembered on his death anniversary on Friday.Rangeela originally named as Mohammad Saeed Khan was born in 1937, in Parachinar, Pakistan. Rangeela made his professional cinematic debut in a 1958 Punjabi film called 'Jatti‘.The super hit film 'Diya Aur Toofan', May 9, 1969, was Rangeela's directional debut. Additionally, he was also the producer- singer- writer- actor of the movie.He directed numerous movies under the banner of 'Rangeela productions'. Excellence of ...
BEIJING: With two cars, foreign holidays and a cook for their apartment, one Beijing family epitomises the new middle class created by China's decades of rapid economic growth -- and its resulting worries.Li Na, 42, a caterer at the capital's zoo, and her husband Chi Shubo, 48, who works for a state-owned investment company, have seen their fortunes transformed since she arrived in Beijing 20 years ago from Shandong, a coastal province.Then, she cycled for ...
ISLAMABAD: Parents whose children are struggling with math often view intense tutoring as the best way to help those master crucial skills, but a new study released on Monday suggests that for some kids even that is a lost cause.According to the research, the size of one key brain structure and the connections between it and other regions can help identify the 8- and 9-year olds who will hardly benefit from one-on-one math instruction, Fox ...More Articles...
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