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AR Rahman wins Golden Globe Award for Slumdog



Indian music maestro AR Rahman created history on Sunday night by winning the Golden Globe Award. At a glittering ceremony in Los Angeles, Rahman bagged the Golden Globe for Best Original music Score for ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. The film also won the Best Screenplay and Best Director, Best Motion Picture (Drama)s at the 66th Golden Globe ceremony.

At a glittering ceremony in Los Angeles, Rahman bagged the Golden Globe for his song ‘Jai Ho’, penned by lyricist Gulzar. After nearly decades of work in Bollywood, the award brings the much-deserved international recognition to the legendry music director from down south.

Accepting the honour, Rahman said, "Unbelievable..! I thought, I would not win, so anyways thanks to the almighty God for bringing me here... Danny Boyle, Fox pictures, all my musicians in Chennai, Mumbai, and the billion people from India."

Boyle's feel-good film depicts the moving story of a slumdweller Jamal, played by young debutant Dev Patel, who goes on to win USD 20 million on Indian reality show 'Who Wants to Be A Millionaire?' in a bid to win his love back.

The story about a Mumbai underdog's rags-to-riches run had got unprecedented critical acclaims and had earned four nominations, including for best picture-drama, best director, best screenplay and best original music score.

Loosely based on a novel by Indian diplomat Vikash Swarup the film also had Indian stars Anil Kapoor and Irrfan Khan in pivotal roles.

The film has been shot at various locations in Mumbai including Victoria Terminus railway station, which was targeted by terrorists on November 26, last year.

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Gajini - The First India’s 3D Game

From DEC 25th its kicks in to the market along with the Film from the Bollywood.The Game has been designed by the company from Hyderabad, named FxLabs. They have launched the promo for the game in their site http://ghajini.fxlabs.com/ . The Game has characters same as the Film starring “Aamirkhan” and others.

Let’s Hope we have the couple of entertainment from the team “Gajini” on this December.

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Girls smoking?

When Priyanka Chopra and Kangana Ranaut fancily dangled a cigarette between their manicured fingers, it was considered

A recent survey on smoking has set the alarm bells ringing in the city. Chennai Times investigates...

Fashion.

And this trend seems to have caught on amongst young girls who have been puffing away and lighting up by the minute. According to a recent survey conducted by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), almost 20 percent of school girls studying in Chennai and Delhi are hooked on to the cancer stick.

What drives these young girls to take to smoking? While some may argue that the primary reason is to assert equality between the sexes, others say that peer pressure could be the reason. Psychologist Nita Nair, who has counselled a number of teenage girls, says, “This dangerous trend has been on the rise since the 90s. I have had young girls come to me and tell me how they feel pressured to smoke because it is considered cool by their peers. Some of these kids have gone into depression because they feel that they are not able to match their classmates. Nothing seems to dissuade them and soon they fall prey to addiction.”

Despite the cigarette ban firmly in place அண்ட் Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss’s repeated appeals for total prohibition, the numbers of smokers have not dwindled. Smoking amongst girls has also found its way into schools and colleges of the city with most girls trying to take a puff in a desperate attempt to look mature and attract the attention of the boys.

Renuka, a class X student of a leading public school in the city, is one such victim. Says she, “I smoked for the first time with my boyfriend. He taught me how to smoke and whenever we went out he would tell all his friends how he had a cool girlfriend who could smoke as much as him. It was a matter of pride. But soon, I got a bad name amongst my own friends, because when they tried telling me it was not good for me, I refused to acknowledge them and continued to puff away. Now, I’m unable to rid myself of the habit and my boyfriend has left me for someone ‘cooler’.”

Another reason cited by young girls who smoke is weight loss. Often, youngsters are lured to the cigarette in an attempt to keep their weight down and nicotine is believed to suppress hunger pangs. Ritika Das, a nutrionist agrees and says, “Many young girls take to smoking in order to curb their hunger pangs. But trust me; this is the unhealthiest way to lose weight. The skin starts to look worn out and pale, and fingers and teeth get stained. Girls don’t realise that nicotine makes an individual age twice as fast and that cannot be attractive. The best way லாஸ் weight is through a healthy and fit lifestyle. Anxieties about body weight and shape regulation, the feeling of being too fat, and the fear of losing control of eating, may be important forces at work in sustaining cigarette smoking amongst teenage girls.”

Nandini, agrees with Ritika’s theory and says that while smoking did act as a hunger suppressant, she did manage to lose weight. It also resulted in mood swings, anxiety attacks and withdrawal symptoms if she didn’t have her regular number of sticks everyday. “I went from being cheerful and bubbly to moody and crabby and this was a change that didn’t sit well with me. I would get frequent bouts of depression too. I’m glad I kicked the habit, but it was an extremely tough process because it was an addiction, not a habit,” she says.

The consensus seems that the puff is not a symbol of chic independence as advocated by Edward Bernays’s notorious ‘torches of freedom’ concept, where he persuaded women to believe that smoking was a symbol of their freedom. This also acts as an indicator for skinny minnies such as Kate Moss and Sex and the City’s Sarah Jessica Parker who are often seen chuffing on a fag. Clean up your act girls, because Mr Big sure ain’t going kiss a foul-mouthed Carrie Bradshaw!

India caught in catastrophic smoking epidemic

"A cigarette is a pipe with a fire at one end and a fool at the other"
Please don't be the fool...

India is in the midst of a catastrophic epidemic of smoking deaths, which is expected to cause about one million (10 lakh) deaths a year during the 2010s – including one in five of all male deaths and one in 20 of all female deaths at ages 30-69. On average, male bidi smokers lose about six years of life, female bidi smokers lose about eight years and male cigarette smokers lose about ten years.

The findings are from the first nationally representative study of smoking in India as a whole. The research, led by a team from India, Canada and the UK, is published online today (February 13, 2008)[1] in the New England Journal of Medicine.

About 900 field workers surveyed all adult deaths during 2001-2003 in a nationally representative sample of 1.1 million (11 lakh) homes in all parts of India. Researchers compared smoking histories of 74,000 adults who had died with 78,000 living controls.

Among men in the study who died at ages 30-69, smoking caused about:

• 38% of all deaths from tuberculosis (1,174 out of 3,119 deaths)

• 31% of all deaths from respiratory disease (1,078 out of 3,487)

• 20% of all deaths from vascular disease (1,102 out of 5,409)

• 32% of all deaths from cancer (709 out of 2,248)

• 23% of all deaths from disease (5,651 out of 25,290)

Lead author Professor Prabhat Jha of the Centre for Global Health Research (CGHR), St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada, said: “The extreme risks from smoking that we found surprised us, as smokers in India start at a later age than those in Europe or America and smoke less. And, smoking kills not only from diseases like cancer and lung diseases but also from tuberculosis and heart attacks.

In India, there are about 120 million (12 crore) smokers. More than one-third of men and about five per cent of women aged 30-69 smoke either cigarettes or bidis (which contain only about a quarter as much tobacco as a cigarette, wrapped in the leaf of another plant – temburni).

The study found that, among men, about 61% of those who smoke can expect to die at ages 30-69 compared with only 41% of otherwise similar non-smokers. Among women, 62% of those who smoke can expect to die at ages 30-69 compared with only 38% of non-smokers.

I am alarmed by the results of this study,” said India’s Health Minister Dr Abumani Ramadoss. “The government of India is trying to take all steps to control tobacco use - in particular by informing the many poor and illiterate of smoke risks”.

“It is truly remarkable that one single factor, namely smoking, which is entirely preventable, accounts for nearly one in ten of all deaths in India. The study brings out forcefully the need for immediate public action in this much neglected field”, states Professor Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate in Economics, 2001.

The study found there were no safe levels of smoking, but while the hazards of smoking even a few bidis a day were substantial, the dangers of cigarette smoking were even greater, corresponding to more than a doubling of the risk of death in middle age. This suggests that cigarette smokers lose about 10 years of life compared to non-smokers – risks similar to those seen in the West.

“Smoking kills, but stopping works – about a quarter of all smokers will be killed by tobacco in middle age, unless they stop,” said co-author Professor Sir Richard Peto of Oxford University. “British studies show that stopping smoking is remarkably effective.”

Summary of key findings:

• This is the first nationally representative study of smoking in India as a whole;

• During the 2010s there will be about one million (10 lakh) tobacco deaths a year in India;

• About 70% of these one million deaths will be before old age; meaning 700,000 (7 lakh) per year killed at ages 30-69 (600,000 men and 100,000 women);

• Tobacco is responsible for 1 in 5 of all male deaths and 1 in 20 of all female deaths in middle age (i.e., at ages 30-69);

• Men who smoke bidis lose on average six years of expected life, women who smoke bidis lose about eight years and men who smoke cigarette smokers lose ten years;

• Smoking kills mainly by tuberculosis, respiratory and heart disease, but also by cancer;

• Even smoking only a few (1-7) bidis a day raised mortality risks by one-third, and smoking only a few (1-7) cigarettes a day nearly doubled the risk;

• Most of the gap between male and female mortality rates in middle age is due to smoking;

• Substantial hazards were found both among educated and among illiterate adults and were found both in urban and in rural areas;

• Stopping smoking works – but, only 2% of adults have quit in India, and often only after falling ill.