Aamir Looks Out For A Haryanvi Tutor
- Dangal: Aamir Looks Out For A Haryanvi Tutor
Aamir Khan, who plays a wrestler in his next, Dangal, will now be learning Haryanvi for the film.
The actor wants to get into character by learning the dialect of the Bhiwani district and has told his team to arrange for a tutor who can train him to speak the local dialect of the people of Haryana’s Bhiwani district.
He needs to learn conversational Haryanvi for the film.
Aamir Khan, who has always been a perfectionist, has willingly undergone physical transformations and learnt new languages or dialects for some of his roles.
Last year, he learnt Bhojpuri for his role in Rajkumar Hirani’s PK.
While he was shooting for PK, his Bhojpuri tutor would even accompany him to the sets regularly.
In 2012, Aamir also learnt Marathi.
Khan enjoys learning new languages, so he doesn’t find it troublesome to do so for his films. He is quite excited about picking up Haryanvi for this film.
The team has found seven-eight tutors, but no one has been finalized yet. Aamir will begin training in the language soon.
It is a very different role he will be seen playing and the casting team needs to ensure they get the casting right.
“Aamir has four different looks throughout the film and one of them will be of a 55-year-old father. Aamir’s salt-and-pepper look, which he sported some time ago, has not been finalised. We are still trying different looks on him,” a source confirmed the same.
Aamir Khan’s Dangal is based on the life of former wrestler and coach Mahavir Singh Phogat who trained his three daughters and one niece for the Commonwealth Games. His daughters Geeta, Babita, Kumari and niece Vinesh have been successful gold medalists. To portray the replica of this family the casting of Dangal is still in process.
A source close to the film revealed, “Aamir Khan is not involved in the casting process. Casting director Mukesh Chabbra will soon hold auditions in small towns to cast the girls. We are not looking for actors, but performers who can pull off a rustic look.”
The shoot of Aamir Khan starrer Dangal will go on rolls later this year and the film is scheduled to come out only in next year. The hit PK maker will yet again charm the audience with his versatile performance in his upcoming movie.
Prince William And Kate Show Off Newborn Princess
Britain's Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and his wife Catherine, Duchess of
Cambridge show their newly-born daught er to the media
LONDON: Prince William and his wife Kate emerged from a London hospital
with their newborn daughter on Saturday to screams from hundreds of
well-wishers.The beaming couple waved to the crowd, with Kate wearing
a yellow patterned dress and cradling the princess wrapped in a white blanket.
William and Kate eschew crowns for life with
nappies
- An easel is placed in the forecourt of Buckingham Palace announcing the birth of …
LONDON (Reuters) - They are one of the most famous couples
on the planet, one day destined to be Britain's king and queen.
But royal experts say what Prince William and wife Kate really
want is as much normality as possible within the confines of
being in the spotlight. The eyes of the world have again
turnedon Queen Elizabeth's grandson and his wife, officially
known as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, with the
birth of theirsecond child, a girl.Millions of people across
the world tuned in to watch their sumptuous wedding in 2011 while the birth of Prince
George two years later provoked an international media frenzy outside a hospital in west
London.But while they regularly grace the front pages of newspapers and magazines,
and Kate is considered a fashion icon, commentators say what they really enjoy is having
a normal family life away from the cameras. Rather than crowns and tiaras, William and
Kate will be eagerly looking forward to bath time and changing nappies.
"They've always tried to have the minimum amount of staff, they like to look after
themselves as much as they can," royal historian Hugo Vickers told Reuters.
"I'm sure that they'll be again very hands on and very much wanting to be as normal
a family as possible."
Britain's royal family has enjoyed a surge in popularity in the last decade, mainly
fuelled by its young members, Kate, William and his younger brother Harry, restoring
its reputation after the divorce of their parents Prince Charles and Princess Diana, and her
subsequent death in a Paris car crash in 1997.
Supporters say they connect with people in a way Charles does not, and their easy-going
nature and Kate's background as the first "commoner" to marry a prince in close
proximity to the throne in more than 350 years reflected a new version of royalty.
A poll last month found eight out of 10 Britons liked William and Kate, including
three-quarters of those aged 18 to 24.
Author Claudia Joseph said while Prince Charles enjoyed a gilded lifestyle but was
kept at arms length by his parents, William and Kate were modern parents, following
the model of Diana who would queue with other visitors when she took her sons to
an amusement park.
BATH TIME
"I'm sure William does bath time, reads stories to Prince George, and Kate obviously
emulates her mother," said Joseph, author of "William And Kate's Britain".
She said William enjoyed being with Kate's parents, away from the usual formality and
paraphernalia surrounding the royals.
"He spends a lot of time with them and wants his son to enjoy that side of royal life,
" she said.Royal aides also say the couple are much more media-savvy than their
forebears and are acutely aware of the difficulties faced by many Britons coping with
financial hardship as austerity measures bite.Kate regularly recycles her favourite outfits,
is seen shopping at supermarkets and according to newspaper reports takes
Prince George to farm parks with other mothers and the couple enjoy meals out in
local pubs.For his part, William has so far eschewed a life solely dedicated to
official duties and is currently an air ambulance helicopter pilot.
"It's going to be normal family. Dad goes off to work, comes home and they all have
dinner together," veteran royal photographer Arthur Edwards told Reuters.
"He's taken this time out to do a real job. It's as near normal as you can get when you
are second-in-line to the throne and to achieve that is something very special and
I think he's fought hard to get that."But critics question how ordinary can a couple
really be when they live in gilded palaces and stately homes, renovated at the cost to
the taxpayer millions of pounds, and travel the world in luxury.
Kate might not be an aristocrat, but comes from a wealthy middle-class family and
enjoyed a privileged upbringing.Maternity rooms at the private St Mary's Hospital,
where the new baby was born, cost well over 5,000 pounds ($7,500), and afterwards
the couple were expected to initially return to their London residence, Kensington
Palace.Then they will head to Anmer Hall, their country mansion on the queen's
Sandringham estate in Norfolk, to the northeast of London.
Many Britons are worried by soaring property prices, cuts to the national health service,
and other economic austerity measures - issues which have figured in campaigning
for next Thursday's parliamentary election.
"Should the country be called on to celebrate a royal birth when 3.5 million children
are growing up in poverty?" said Graham Smith, the chief executive of anti-monarchist
campaign group Republic."To single out this birth because they are 'royal' is simply wrong."
head monk of Ramkrishna Mission
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to take time off from his busy schedule to
visit an ailing, 95 year-old Swami Atmasthnanda, president or head monk of the
Ramkrishna Mission (RKM) at the Belur Math near Kolkata, as soon as he touches
down in Kolkata for a two-day visit to the city on May 9. It is a promise that Modi has
to keep with himself. The last time Modi was in Belur to meet the Swami was just
before he became Prime Minister. He had promised to return.
Not many know about the "prasadi" flower that Modi had in a pocket of his jacket
when he took at the Rashtrapati Bhawan as Prime Minister on May 26, 2014.
It had arrived along with a letter, all the way from Belur, from Swami Atmasthnanda
with his blessings. Modi may not have been where he is today if at a young age
he was not discouraged to take 'sanyas' by a man, who has remained one of his
guiding stars in life. Swami Atmasthananda headed the RKM ashram in Rajkot
those days, when a young Narendra, inspired by the life of Swami Vivekananda,
had reached his doorstep to take refuge at the ashram, after he returned from
some years of wandering in the wilderness and wanted to train himself for a
spiritual life. After spending some time at the ashram under the tutelage of Swami Atmasthananda, Modi told him that he wanted to become a monk. But the head
monk at the Rajkot ashram told him that sanyas was not meant for him and also
that the Rajkot ashram could not confer monkship and Modi would have to go to
the RKM headquarters in Belur to pursue his wish.
Atmasthnanda wrote a letter to the then president of the RKM Swami Madhavananda
and sent Modi with the letter to him in Belur. Madhavananda spoke also turned
down Modi's appeal and told him monkship was not meant for him, rather his
area of work was meant to be among the people and not in seclusion.
Modi returned to Gujarat and was back with his guru Swami Atmasthnanda
at Rajkot for a while. Soon after this stint, he joined the Rashtraiya Swayamsevak
Sangh (RSS) and rest of his life in politics followed.
The last time when Modi visited Swami Atmasthananda, he was still keeping
well and the two had had a long conversation and the old monk had blessed
Modi, who sat by his feet. When Modi returns to see the Swami, he may have to
visit him in hospital as the head monk has been ailing for a while. But meanwhile,
Modi has promised RKM a proper investigation into the theft of relics of Ramkrishna Paramhansa's wife Ma Sarada, stolen from the museum in Belur Math and also to
help RKM get a house where Swami Vivekananada had lived for some days in Aligarh,
restored as an ashram. The PM will be going to Belur with all the updates on these two
issues.
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