The tournament has a Rs 50 lakh prize pool.

The feature been under testing for some time.

With the Mi Box 4K, Xiaomi is venturing into a segment dominated by Amazon with its Fire TV Stick.

"From a very early age, I imagined myself playing powerful characters," she says, and she proves it with her filmography.

'I can do slice-of-life kind of films anytime; But playing a cop is different. It's difficult to maintain that intensity on screen. That's where the real acting comes in place.'

'I have a goal that one day, before audiences walk into a theatre, they will think that it's a Taapsee Pannu film and so, it will be worth their time and money.'

'People may frown upon things like role play or the fact that the father is talking to his daughter about sex. But slowly, shows like this will shift the conversation to our homes.'

'Itna passionately issine mujhse pyaar nahi kiya.'

'Comedy comes naturally to me.'

'For the past year, people have been asking me about my wife, Sonali, who suffered from cancer. It was a tough year but I have seen worse in my life.'

'In our textbooks, we never had chapters where a woman does something. We had one Rani Laxmibai chapter, the rest only the men did. We have been trained like that but, now, things have to change.'

'It got boring after a point.'

'But it's not something I am interested in.'

'Sometimes, I wish someone would tell me that this will happen at this point in time, so I know how my life will be. I don't know what my evening is like. I don't know what my tomorrow will be like. The uncertainty sometimes takes a toll on me.'

Amazing stories about some of our best loved movies from Bhavani Iyer who wrote them.

'I have been dropped from films, I have been replaced after workshops. I did not play cricket for India. If I have to sit and think who Angad Bedi is, the end of that thought is that I am human. Life has taught me a lot.'

'There was no time to do all the normal things that children do as they grow up.''One day, I was playing with dolls.''The next day, I was on a train looking for opportunities to sing at various recording studios.'

'I had the luxury of focusing on doing quality cinema. If that did not work out, I will still have other work. I can take that risk.'

'We got to know about Bard of Blood coming up on Netflix, just a week after The Family Man's release. So suddenly there are comparisons between the two.'

'I am learning good things and trying to avoid the bad. I am moving ahead with a positive attitude. That is my biggest achievement.'

'Salman Khan should be booked under the National Security Act as he is destroying Indian culture.'

'Fox makes films worth millions and millions of dollars. Fudging a few crores doesn't make much difference.'

'I believe there is room for everybody, and we have already shown what space we are fitting in. For instance, I can't do what Ananya (Panday) and Sara (Ali Khan) can do and vice versa.'

'I am making movies in a jiffy because I want to work with everyone.'

'I do drama with the same intensity as any comedy.'

'Relationships have changed so dynamically that the 'woh' doesn't have to be a person.'

'I truly believe that Durga resides in us, women,' says Rani Mukerji. 'If a woman believes that and she chanalises that energy, she will be able to ward off a lot of things.'

'Time is throwing something at you, one should grab such opportunities right away.'

'Kabir Singh will be very special for me, but my goal is to make each character as memorable as Preeti.'

'People have already given a verdict against Himesh Reshammiya.''If people watch my performance with an open mind, then there is a chance that they will accept me.'

'A lot of people struggle to become a part of this industry, but I was lucky that I did not have to really struggle.''My struggle started after becoming a part of this industry, and, Oh my God, the struggle!'

'This is the first time when you see the story of the Azad Hind Fauj through the eyes of the soldiers.'

'I don't want to develop a bag of tricks that I keep reaching into and repeating myself.''When you act every day, you start repeating yourself and that's a trap.'

'I don't like watching myself. I find my voice very irritating,' Disha Patani tells us.

'I have to pinch myself to believe that 10 years have just gone by.'

'I think Baaghi 3 is the biggest action film that we have witnessed in recent times.'

'He's got such incredible resilience, such an incredible spirit that we were feeding off his strength rather than him feeding off ours.''Sometimes I look back and cannot figure out how the f*** we made this movie.'

'Listen to my songs if they make you happy at home.'

'That's how you keep yourself alive and young.'

'What I'm really worried about is that the day this lockdown ends, we will all rush to work and we'll kill the lovely environment we are seeing now.'

'The timing of the lockdown was such that Kriti was at home after more than a month of shooting.''So we are getting good family time.'

'Count your blessings, feel gratitude for the medical and essential services providers and police forces who are staking their lives to fight this invisible enemy.'

'A very big film director had said yes to me for two-three films.''When daddy got to know I am going to be opposite the main guy, he got cold feet.''They don't want their investments to get sabotaged by somebody like me who can overshine their son.'

'We don't know when things will get back to normal, even if the lockdown gets over.'

'The entertainment industry is on the verge of a big, big, change over the next few months and years.'

'Hard work and talent finds its way even through the darkest tunnel.'

Please us for our next Homegrown Concert:

Jones Benally Family Dancers
Navajo (Diné) traditional dance from Arizona
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2019, 12:00 PM
Coolidge Auditorium, Ground Floor
Thomas Jefferson Building
The Library of Congress

World Champion hoop dancer and traditional healer Jones Benally, his daughter Jeneda, his son Clayson, and his three young grandchildren form the Jones Benally Family Dancers. Navajo dance is a sacred tradition encompassing a wide variety of forms, all of which aim to heal the body, mind, or spirit. When presented outside the Navajo community, these dances are modified for public viewing, but they retain their deep capacity to move hearts and minds. The family sings, chants, plays traditional rhythm instruments, and performs a repertoire of over 20 dances, including traditional forms such as basket dance, eagle dance, feather dance, and corn grinding. They are particularly well known for the hoop dance, in which they evoke traditional figures and shapes using five, nine, a dozen, or many more hoops.

Jones Benally is a respected elder of the Navajo Nation in northeastern Arizona. His skill as a hoop dancer has won him worldwide acclaim and multiple world champion titles as well as the first Heard Museum Hoop Dance Legacy Award. Jones was featured as a singer in the 1993 film Geronimo. He works as a traditional healer, and was among the first traditional medical practitioners to be employed by a "Western" medical facility, where he worked for nearly 20 years. Jones Benally is also recognized by the state of Arizona as an Arizona Indian Living Treasure. Jeneda and Clayson Benally have performed with their father for over three decades, and have also made their mark (along with brother Klee) as the Native American Music Award-winning "alter-Native" punk band Blackfire. The siblings' newest project is the duo Sihasin ("hope"). Jones Benally's grandchildren are the next generation to take up the family legacy of Navajo music and dance.

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2019 NEA National Heritage Fellows: Las Tesoros de San Antonio: Tejano Singers from San Antonio, TX

Beatriz "La Paloma del Norte" Llamas
Blanquita "Blanca Rosa" Rodríguez

Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Coolidge Auditorium, Ground Floor
Thomas Jefferson Building
The Library of Congress

A conversation with two NEA fellows, accompanied by music from Mariachi Esperanza: Henry Gomez (Director), virhuela, Moises Perez, trumpet, Jose Luis Vaca, violin, and Rafael Aguirre, guitarron

Las Tesoros de San Antonio are a group of elder women performers who teamed up to preserve Mexican and bicultural musical expressions through their singing and storytelling. Janet “Perla Tapatia” Cortez, Beatriz “La Paloma del Norte” Llamas, Blanquita “Blanca Rosa” Rodríguez, and Rita “La Calandria” Vidaurri each had impressive singing careers that soared both locally and internationally from the 1940s to the1960s before tapering off in later years. Through the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center in San Antonio, these women reemerged and teamed up as the group Las Tesoros in the 2000s. Although Janet “Perla Tapatia” Cortez and Rita “La Calandria” Vidaurri passed away in recent years, Llamas and Rodríguez continue to perform and maintain the legacy of the group.

All four women grew up in the West Side of San Antonio, Texas. Each singer, with her personal style and grace, forms part of this unique ensemble that represents the important sound of the Mexico/Texas border. They were all inspired by and connected to many other important Tejana singers, including the great Lydia Mendoza (1982 NEA National Heritage Fellow) and the internationally renowned Eva Garza.

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James Hogg: Scotland's Shepherd Poet
February 21, 2020 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress

This symposium will explore the work of James Hogg, “The Ettrick Shepherd” (1770-1835), an influential Scottish song-maker, folklore collector, novelist, and poet. Inspired by Robert Burns, colleague of Walter Scott, and friend of Lord Byron, Hogg played a major role in creating and promoting Scottish culture, within Scotland and internationally.

This free event, which is open to the public, will compare his work with that of more recent American performers and collectors, who also served as intermediaries between the worlds of folk, popular, and literary culture for the first time. Speakers will explore issues around field collecting, song transmission and creation over the past three centuries. An afternoon of presentations and discussions will be capped by a performance featuring renowned singer Sheena Wellington, who has recorded and performed some of Hogg’s best known songs.

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