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EDITORIAL<br />

DISCOVER WITH <strong>BNA</strong> <strong>INDIA</strong> THE UNIQUE<br />

COMBINATION OF CINEMA, ENTERTAINMENT<br />

AND CULTURE FROM <strong>INDIA</strong> & GERMANY!<br />

Dear Readers!<br />

It's a special honour for me to present you the first edition<br />

of '<strong>BNA</strong> <strong>INDIA</strong>', a sub-edition of the famous German<br />

language magazine '<strong>BNA</strong> GERMANY®'. With '<strong>BNA</strong> IN-<br />

DIA' we want to build a bridge between the Indian culture<br />

and the German culture in combination with the best of<br />

Indian cinema and entertainment.<br />

As a result you will find '<strong>BNA</strong> <strong>INDIA</strong>' the latest entertainment<br />

news, Hindi film previews, film reviews by the<br />

Indian film critic Bobby Sing, interviews with stars and filmmakers from the film<br />

industry and photo shootings by our chief photographer Shiraz Henry as well<br />

as articles about Germany, German cities, German cooking recipes and our<br />

German language course 'Learn German'. We will also introduce personalities<br />

who do a great job in order to strengthen the Indo-German connection in the<br />

field of cinema, entertainment and culture and will report about several projects<br />

and events in this field.<br />

In this edition we have an interview with Bollywood legend Prem Chopra and<br />

our cover story about Bollywood beauty Jacqueline Fernandez. The first German<br />

city which we want to introduce is the German capitol Berlin, as in<br />

<strong>February</strong> the famous International Film Festival Berlin (Berlinale) takes place.<br />

In our 1st lesson in German language, which we will teach you in English and<br />

Hindi, you will learn the German alphabet, the first German words and some<br />

basic grammar. Also we provide two famous German cooking recipes and hope<br />

you try it and find the recipes tasty.<br />

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Enjoy this edition!<br />

Warm regards from Munich.<br />

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INDEX<br />

JANUARY / FEBRUARY <strong>2015</strong><br />

NEWS<br />

6 Latest stories from the Film Industry<br />

PREVIEWS<br />

12 Tevar<br />

13 Alone<br />

14 Baby<br />

15 Shamitabh<br />

16 Roy<br />

17 Badlapur<br />

INTERVIEW:<br />

Prem Chopra<br />

Page 26<br />

REVIEWS<br />

20 Special: Bobby Sing<br />

22 Happy Ending<br />

24 Kill Dil<br />

30 Rang Rasiya<br />

32 Ungli<br />

34 PK<br />

INTERVIEW<br />

26 Prem Chopra<br />

COVER STORY<br />

36 Jacqueline Fernandez<br />

AIFA AWARDS<br />

42 All nominations for this year’s<br />

AIFA Awards<br />

COVER STORY:<br />

Jacqueline Fernandez<br />

Page 36<br />

PHOTOSHOOT BY SHIRAZ HENRY<br />

48 Tanvi Sinha<br />

LEARN GERMAN<br />

52 Lesson 1<br />

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SPECIAL FEATURE<br />

18 1Fan voices from Germany<br />

56 10 Years <strong>BNA</strong> GERMANY®<br />

GERMAN CITIES<br />

62 Berlin<br />

GERMAN COOKING<br />

66 Famous German Cooking Recipes<br />

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NEWS & GOSSIP<br />

„The Lunchbox“ nominated<br />

for BAFTA Awards<br />

“The Lunchbox” has been nominated<br />

for the BAFTA Awards in the Foreign<br />

Film Category. The Irrfan Khan-Nimrat<br />

Kaur starrer was released in India in<br />

2013, but was screened in Britain only<br />

in 2014. An elated Ritesh Batra says,<br />

“It's an honour to be nominated alongside<br />

the finest films of the year, much<br />

credit to my whole team and the work<br />

we did together. It's a good validation<br />

to tell Indian stories to the world. If we<br />

don't tell our stories, no one else will.”<br />

The director worked against all odds to<br />

make ‘The Lunchbox’ and added: “The<br />

film's budget was very small. And only<br />

50 percent of the money came from<br />

India. The rest we had to generate<br />

from outside India. There was also a<br />

German and a French producer. So<br />

that money which was raised from<br />

France and Germany had to be used<br />

in those countries. That is the rule.<br />

We did the sound in Germany. We<br />

also had a German music composer.<br />

And we did the colours in France. I'd<br />

still like to make my films around the<br />

world. Such collaboration brings a lot<br />

to the table. Every producer adopted<br />

the film. There was no creative confusion.”<br />

Irrfan Khan who not only played<br />

the widower-hero in “The<br />

Lunchbox” but also co-produced the<br />

film says: “The ongoing triumph of<br />

the film is a reminder that stories<br />

from India could engage and entertain<br />

a universal audience.” The BAFTA<br />

Awards ceremony will be held on 8th<br />

<strong>February</strong>, <strong>2015</strong>.<br />

Hrithik Roshan in<br />

„Mohenjo“<br />

Hrithik Roshan's upcoming film<br />

“Mohenjo Daro’s” release date has<br />

been announced. Disney & Ashutosh<br />

Gowariker Production Pvt. Ltd.<br />

(AGPPL) announced the release of<br />

“Mohenjo Daro” for 12th August 2016.<br />

Directed by Ashutosh Gowarikar,<br />

“Mohenjo Daro” is an epic love story,<br />

set during the Indus Valley Civilization.<br />

The film marks the debut of<br />

Pooja Hegde in Bollywood, who stars<br />

opposite Hrithik Roshan. The film will<br />

have high octane stunts and hence,<br />

Hrithik Roshan is undergoing fitness<br />

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training. Another name has been added<br />

to the lead cast and it is none<br />

other than Kabir Bedi. The veteran<br />

actor will be seen in the role of a villain<br />

in the film.<br />

Riteish Deshmukh in<br />

„Masti 3“<br />

Riteish Deshmukh, who is enjoying<br />

his fatherhood after the birth of his son<br />

in December, suddenly seems to have<br />

had a change of mind. The actor had<br />

earlier claimed that he won't be doing<br />

any sex comedies but it’s in the news<br />

that he will be seen playing one of the<br />

leads in “Masti 3”. While the first installment<br />

of this series, “Masti” had been<br />

a sleeper hit, “Grand Masti “became<br />

the first sex comedy to enter the 100<br />

Riteish Deshkukh<br />

crore club in Bollywood. Since the<br />

record breaking success of the sequel,<br />

the makers have been toying with the<br />

idea of a third installment. However,<br />

then, Riteish Deshmukh had stated<br />

that he is done with sex comedies<br />

since there is nothing new that he can<br />

offer in this genre. But now, it seems<br />

that the script of “Masti 3” has left such<br />

an impact on his mind that the actor<br />

agreed to do the film. Excited about<br />

the latest turn of events, director Indra<br />

Kumar stated that Riteish Deshmukh<br />

was really convinced about the film<br />

when he heard the script and also<br />

expressed his happiness over collaborating<br />

with him once again.<br />

Ajay Devgn in Milan<br />

Luthria’s next film<br />

„Baadshaho“<br />

Milan Luthria and Bhushan Kumar decided<br />

on making their next film<br />

“Baadshaho” with Ajay Devgn. T-Series<br />

brings back the intense actor -<br />

director jodi of “Once Upon A Time in<br />

Mumbai” - Ajay Devgn and Milan Luthria<br />

in the emotional drama with action<br />

“Baadshaho”. Milan Luthria, who has<br />

done three films with Ajay earlier –<br />

“Kachche Dhaage”, “Chori Chori” and<br />

“Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai” says,<br />

“Ajay has always ended up deciding on<br />

doing all my earlier films within just<br />

half an hour. Ajay is a very impatient<br />

man. For ‘Baadshaho’ too, I called him<br />

and said how I was very excited about<br />

the film and wanted to come and narrate<br />

it to him. He was shooting and as<br />

soon as I entered his van, he said,<br />

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NEWS & GOSSIP<br />

Ajay Devgn<br />

`Bol, bol, bol kya hai' I told him the idea<br />

and he said done again within just half<br />

an hour. My big excitement is to have<br />

cast Ajay again.” Bhushan Kumar<br />

speaking on how he decided to produce<br />

the drama film: “During the success<br />

party of Milan's film ‘Once Upon a Time<br />

in Mumbaai’, I told Milan that I<br />

wanted to work with him. As soon as<br />

Ajay came on board, we all decided to<br />

join hands and make this film.” Bhushan<br />

Kumar, who is thrilled to start his<br />

project with Milan Luthria, adds: “I am<br />

excited to get Ajay Devgn and Milan<br />

Luthria combination back on silver<br />

screen. The duo has given hits and<br />

‘Baadshaho’ will be another addition to<br />

their kitty.” “Baadshaho”, based on the<br />

name of Ajay's character in the film,<br />

will start shooting second half of <strong>2015</strong><br />

and will release on the Independence<br />

weekend of 2016.<br />

Release of„Jagga<br />

Jasoos“ postponed<br />

While all eyes were set on the much<br />

awaited clash of two of Katrina Kaif's<br />

most awaited films this year, “Jagga<br />

Jasoos” and “Phantom” which were<br />

slated to release on the same day,<br />

August 28, <strong>2015</strong>, the makers have<br />

decided to avoid this clash. From what<br />

we hear, though “Phantom” gets to<br />

retain its release date, it is the Ranbir<br />

Kapoor starrer “Jagga Jasoos” that<br />

will be pushed further. It is being said<br />

that having two releases on the same<br />

day will prove hectic for Katrina Kaif<br />

who will have to juggle too much<br />

between the promotions. Filmmaker<br />

Anurag Basu too is in no hurry to release<br />

“Jagga Jasoos” since it seems<br />

that final shoot schedule of the film is<br />

still pending, after which the film will<br />

go into post production, hence the<br />

delay. While actress Katrina Kaif mentioned<br />

about the film being postponed,<br />

the spokesperson of the film maintained<br />

that they are yet to narrow<br />

down on a release date for the film.<br />

Produced by Anurag Basu and Ranbir<br />

Kapoor in association with UTV,<br />

“Jagga Jasoos” also stars Govinda in a<br />

prominent role.<br />

Diana Penty and Abhay<br />

Deol in „Happy Bhaag<br />

Jayegi“<br />

While Diana Penty debuted in Bollywood<br />

by playing the lead actress in<br />

“Cocktail”, it was Deepika Padukone,<br />

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NEWS & GOSSIP<br />

who got all the fame for the film. Now,<br />

after staying away from the silver<br />

screen for about two years, Diana Penty<br />

has finally decided to give her Bollywood<br />

career another trial and has<br />

been signed by filmmaker Anand L.<br />

Rai for his next production. Titled<br />

“Happy Bhaag Jayegi”, Diana will be<br />

sharing screen space with actor Abhay<br />

Deol. The film, which seems to be a<br />

comedy, will be directed by Mudassar<br />

Aziz. It took a while for Anand L. Rai<br />

Diana Penty<br />

and Mudassar Aziz to convince Diana<br />

Penty about doing the film. Though<br />

Diana has been active on the modeling<br />

and endorsement circuit, the actress<br />

completely stayed away from<br />

doing Bollywood films for over two<br />

years. The rest of the details of the film<br />

are still being kept under wraps, however<br />

“Happy Bhaag Jayegi” is slated to<br />

go on floor in mid <strong>2015</strong>.<br />

John Abraham injures<br />

his back while shooting<br />

„Welcome Back“<br />

John Abraham, who was shooting for<br />

the climax sequence of Anees<br />

Bazmee's “Welcome Back”, hurt his<br />

back while driving in a desert in Dubai.<br />

Apparently, John Abraham was supposed<br />

to drive an SUV in the desert for<br />

a car chase sequence with other vehicles<br />

coming towards him. Unfortunately<br />

at one point John Abraham broke<br />

his vehicle so hard that his back bore<br />

the brunt of an intense jerk spraining<br />

it. Due to this he was in excruciating<br />

pain, so much so that the actor could<br />

barely sit up. While a doctor was rushed<br />

to the spot, John Abraham had to<br />

undergo a couple of physiotherapy<br />

sessions combined with pain killers<br />

before completing the sequence.<br />

Though currently the actor is in much<br />

better shape, he has been advised to<br />

rest and to avoid picking up any heavy<br />

objects. “Welcome Back” also stars<br />

Shruti Haasan, Nana Patekar, Anil<br />

Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah and Dimple<br />

Kapadia in prominent roles and is<br />

produced by Firoz Nadiadwala. The<br />

film is slated to release on May 29,<br />

<strong>2015</strong>.<br />

Irrfan Khan underwent<br />

surgery, Jazbaa shoot<br />

postponed<br />

Sanjay Gupta's ambitious project<br />

“Jazbaa”, which is also the comeback<br />

of former beauty queen Aishwarya<br />

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NEWS & GOSSIP<br />

Irrfan Khan<br />

Rai Bachchan, has hit a roadblock.<br />

The reason is Irrfan Khan's ill health.<br />

The actor is on his way to recovery,<br />

owing to a minor surgery. Irrfan Khan<br />

has been complaining of chronic<br />

backache and had to undergo a minor<br />

surgery for the same. Moreover, along<br />

with the treatment, the doctor has<br />

even advised Irrfan Khan to take complete<br />

bed rest for a few days. Because<br />

of this, a script reading session of Jazbaa<br />

that was to be held on <strong>January</strong> 9<br />

was postponed to <strong>January</strong> 13, so that<br />

Irrfan could be a part of it. According to<br />

filmmaker Sanjay Gupta, as far as the<br />

shooting of the film is concerned, it will<br />

commence only once Irrfan Khan is<br />

back in action. Right now Irrfan's<br />

health is the top priority. The filmmaker<br />

is yet to decide a date to start the film.<br />

Along with Irrfan Khan, the lead cast of<br />

“Jazbaa” includes Aishwarya Rai Bachchan,<br />

Shabana Azmi, Anupam Kher,<br />

Siddhant Kapoor and Chandan Roy<br />

Sanyal.<br />

Prakash Jha to play the<br />

villain in “Gangaajal 2”<br />

The last time filmmaker Prakash Jha<br />

was seen on screen was in a cameo<br />

in “Raajneeti” with Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina<br />

Kaif, Arjun Rampal, Nana Patekar,<br />

Manoj Bajpayee, Naseeruddin Shah<br />

and Ajay Devgn in the leads, which he<br />

had also directed. The latest update<br />

on him is that he will now be seen in a<br />

full-fledged role in his next film<br />

“Gangaajal 2”, a sequel of “Gangaajal”<br />

from 2003. “Gangaajal2” is being presented<br />

by Ajay Devgn. Prakash Jha<br />

will be playing a manipulative cop in<br />

the film.<br />

Prakash Jha<br />

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FILM PREVIEW<br />

TEVAR<br />

„Tevar“ is a remake of<br />

director Gunasekhar's<br />

Telugu film hit „Okkadu“<br />

(2003), which had Mahesh<br />

Babu and Bhoomika<br />

Chawla in the leads.<br />

In the Hindi version Arjun<br />

Kapoor will play the<br />

role of a college guy<br />

from Agra, who is a<br />

Kabaddi champion.<br />

Manoj Bajpai will play<br />

the role of a villain and<br />

Kader Khan will be seen<br />

in the role of a police<br />

officer. The film shooting<br />

started in <strong>January</strong><br />

2013. Shooting locations<br />

were in Jaipur,<br />

Mumbai, Maheshwar,<br />

Agra, Mathura, Pandharpur<br />

and other places in<br />

India<br />

Cast: Arjun Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha, Manoj Bajpai<br />

Director: Amit Sharma<br />

Music: Sajid-Wajid<br />

Producers: Boney Kapoor, Sanjay Kapoor, Sunil Lulla<br />

Genre: Action-Comedy<br />

Release Date: 9th <strong>January</strong> <strong>2015</strong><br />

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FILM PREVIEW<br />

ALONE<br />

The conjoined twins<br />

Sanjana and Anjana<br />

(Bipasha Basu in a<br />

double role) both fall<br />

in love with Kabir<br />

(Karan Singh Grover).<br />

One of the twins<br />

dies in the operation<br />

attempting to separate<br />

them, and the<br />

other twin Sanjana<br />

marries Kabir. Anjana,<br />

the sister who<br />

died, becomes a<br />

ghost and haunts the<br />

couple out of jealousy.<br />

For Karan<br />

Singh Grover who is<br />

known as a model<br />

and TV star, „Alone“<br />

is his debut on the big<br />

Screen.<br />

Cast: Bipasha Basu, Karan Singh Grover, Zakir Hussain<br />

Director: Bhushan Patel<br />

Music: Ankit Tiwari, Mithoon<br />

Producers: Kumar Mangat Pathak, Abhishek Pathak,<br />

Prashant Sharma<br />

Genre: Horror<br />

Release Date: 16th <strong>January</strong> <strong>2015</strong><br />

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Ajay Singh Rajput<br />

(Akshay Kumar) is a<br />

safeguard who is part of<br />

an elite team chosen<br />

from amongst the best<br />

in the Forces to form a<br />

covert Counter Intelligence<br />

Unit. In the<br />

course of foiling one<br />

terrorist attack bid,<br />

Ajay discovers a major<br />

threat to the nation – a<br />

plan to cause damage<br />

and strike fear at the<br />

heart of very existence<br />

of the people. Covert<br />

and courageous operations<br />

are performed<br />

across Kathmandu, Istanbul,<br />

Abu Dhabi, Delhi<br />

and Mumbai as the<br />

protectors will not rest<br />

till evil is defeated.<br />

FILM PREVIEW<br />

BABY<br />

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Taapsee Pannu, Anupam Kher,<br />

Rana Daggubati<br />

Director: Neeraj Pandey<br />

Music: M. M. Kreem, Meet Bros Anjjan<br />

Producers: Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Shital<br />

Genre: Action-Thriller<br />

Release Date: 23rd <strong>January</strong> <strong>2015</strong><br />

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FILM PREVIEW<br />

SHAMITABH<br />

The 2-minute trailer does<br />

not offer enough hints into<br />

the film's story, but after<br />

watching the trailer, it's<br />

clear that the performances<br />

of Amitabh Bachchan and<br />

Dhanush are likely to be<br />

the highlights of the film.<br />

The film features Amitabh<br />

Bachchan, Dhanush and<br />

Akshara Haasan in lead<br />

roles. For Akshara Haasan,<br />

Kamal Haasan's daugther,<br />

it will be the film debut.<br />

Bollywood star Rekha will<br />

have a special appearance<br />

in the film while film directors<br />

like Rohit Shetty, Karan<br />

Johar, Mahesh Bhatt,<br />

Anurag Basu, Rakeysh Omprakash<br />

Mehra, Rajkumar<br />

Hirani and many others<br />

will be seen in a cameo<br />

appearance.<br />

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Dhanush, Akshara Haasan<br />

Director: R. Balki<br />

Music: Ilaiyaraaja<br />

Producers: R. Balki, Sunil Lulla, Amitabh Bachchan<br />

Genre: Drama<br />

Release Date: 6th <strong>February</strong> <strong>2015</strong><br />

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FILM PREVIEW<br />

ROY<br />

The Romantic-Thriller<br />

„Roy“ is directed by<br />

debutant Vikramjit<br />

Singh and has Ranbir<br />

Kapoor, Arjun Rampal<br />

and Jacqueline Fernandez<br />

in the lead roles.<br />

Ranbir Kapoor plays<br />

the role of a mysterious<br />

thief named Roy.<br />

The movie is a love<br />

triangle starring Arjun<br />

Rampal as Kabir Grewal,<br />

a film maker and<br />

Jacqueline Fernandez<br />

in a dual role - as Ayesha<br />

Aamir – a bohemian<br />

filmmaker and as<br />

Tia Desai – a glamorous<br />

globetrotter. Anupam<br />

Kher will be<br />

seen in the role of the<br />

father of Kabir Grewal.<br />

Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Jacqueline Fernandez,<br />

Arjun Rampal<br />

Director: Vikramjit Singh<br />

Music: Ankit Tiwari, Amaal Mallik, Meet Bros Anjjan<br />

Producers: Bhushan Kumar, Divya Khosla Kumar<br />

Genre: Romance -Thriller<br />

Release Date: 13th <strong>February</strong> <strong>2015</strong><br />

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FILM PREVIEW<br />

BADLAPUR<br />

Devastated by the loss of<br />

his wife and his son<br />

Raghu (Varun Dhawan)<br />

goes on a mission of revenge...<br />

This Action-<br />

Thriller is directed by<br />

Sriram Raghavan and<br />

produced by Dinesh Vijan<br />

and Sunil Lulla. The<br />

film stars Varun Dhawan<br />

and Nawazuddin<br />

Siddiqui in lead roles,<br />

with Huma Qureshi, Yami<br />

Gautam, Divya Dutta<br />

and Radhika Apte in supporting<br />

roles and it is<br />

said that there are kissing<br />

scenes of Varun<br />

Dhawan with Yami Gautam<br />

and Divya Dutta.<br />

The film shooting started<br />

in May 2014.<br />

Cast: Varun Dhawan, Huma Qureshi, Yami Gautam,<br />

Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vinay Pathak, Divya Dutta<br />

Director Sriram Raghavan<br />

Music: Sachin-Jigar<br />

Producers: Dinesh Vijan, Sunil Lulla<br />

Genre: Action-Thriller<br />

Release Date: 20th <strong>February</strong> <strong>2015</strong><br />

<strong>BNA</strong> <strong>INDIA</strong> <strong>January</strong> / <strong>February</strong> <strong>2015</strong><br />

17


FAN VOICES FR<br />

SPECIAL FEATURE<br />

WHY DO GERMANS L<br />

Learn what fascinates Germans so much about Boll<br />

* Hello, I watched my first Bollywood movie<br />

“Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham” in 2004. Right after<br />

that I started to learn Kathak. In <strong>2015</strong> I will travel<br />

to India for the first time - finally! My favourite<br />

Bollywood films are “Devdas”, “Umrao Jaan”,<br />

“Fanaa”, “Maqbool” and “Ram Leela”. I like<br />

Aamir Khan, Kajol, Deepika Padukone, Shahrukh<br />

Khan, Shahid Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai and especially<br />

Irrfan Khan.<br />

Julia S. (21) from Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt<br />

* I saw my first Bollywood film in 1964 or 1965<br />

in Macedonia, where I was born and grew up.<br />

Unfortunately I can't remember the name of the<br />

film or the actors, but I remember that I cried a lot<br />

while watching that film. It was a film for my<br />

heart and even today I still remember some of the<br />

scenes of that film. Later I moved to Germany<br />

and my first film here was “Kabhi Khushi Kabhie<br />

Gham”. After that film I watched many other<br />

Bollywood films. I like films, which tell a good<br />

story. I like Bollywood movies because of their<br />

colours, music, dances and the Indian culture. I<br />

like so many films like “My Name Is Khan”,<br />

“Happy New Year”,” Lagaan”, “KuchKuch Hota<br />

Hai”, “Black”, “Taare Zameen Par”, “Hum Dil<br />

De Chuke Sanam”, “Asoka”, ”Devdas”, “Dilwale<br />

Dulhania Le Jayenge”, “Laagan”, “Chunari Mein<br />

Daag”, “Kabhi Kabhie”, “Sholay”, “Baghban”,<br />

“Darr”, “Dil To Pagal Hai”, “Ra One”, “Yeh Jawaani<br />

Hai Deewani”, “Ram-Leela”,” Mardaani”,<br />

“Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi”, “Band Baaja Baaraat”,<br />

“Koi Mil Gaya”, “Kaho Naa … Pyaar Hai” and<br />

“Jodhaa Akbar”. My favourite actors are Shah<br />

Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Kajol, Boman Irani,<br />

Anushka Sharma, Preity Zinta, Amitabh Bachchan,<br />

Abhishek Bachchan, Hritik Roshan, Rani<br />

Mukerji, Deepika Padukone, Aditya Roy Kapur,<br />

Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan. It's my<br />

dream to be once in Mumbai in a film studio to<br />

attend a Bollywood film shooting.<br />

Irina P. (64), North Rhine-Westphalia<br />

* I'm a Bollywood fan since the 18th March 2005.<br />

I knew about Bollywood movies, but “Kal Ho<br />

Naa Ho” was the first film I have watched, when<br />

the TV channel RTL2 screened it on 18th March<br />

2005. I liked right from the first moment the<br />

colourful scenes and all the emotions in the film;<br />

it was like a roller coaster drive of emotions. Also<br />

I was fascinated by the Indian culture. I like the<br />

music and also of course the dances. Maybe in my<br />

childhood I watched too many Musical films and<br />

Heimat films and too often Kabir Bedi ;-) I like<br />

Shah Rukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Boman Irani,<br />

Aamir Khan, Anupam Kher, Atul Kulkarni and<br />

Kamal Haasan. My favourite movies are “Kal Ho<br />

Naa Ho”, “Rang De Basanti”, “Asoka”, “Don”,<br />

“Main Hoon Na”, “Lagaan”, “Swades”, “Munna<br />

Bhai”, “Omkara”, “Om Shanti Om”, “Paheli” and<br />

“Veer Zaara”.<br />

Elke B. (51), Bremen<br />

* I'm a Bollywood fan since 2006. I love Bollywood<br />

because I'm fascinated by the songs, the<br />

costumes and dresses in the movies and also by<br />

the Hindi language. My all time favourite Bollywood<br />

films are “Veer Zaara” and “Om Shanti<br />

Om”. I'm not a fan of any special actor but I guess<br />

Deepika, Kareena, SRK and Saif Ali Khan are the<br />

best actors.<br />

Esra T. (17), Bavaria<br />

18 <strong>BNA</strong> <strong>INDIA</strong> <strong>January</strong> / <strong>February</strong> <strong>2015</strong>


SPECIAL FEATURE<br />

OM GERMANY<br />

OVE BOLLYWOOD<br />

ywood - We did ask them and here are their answers<br />

* I'm a Bollywood fan since I was 4 years old and<br />

I remember that even my mother already liked<br />

Bollywood in those days. We had only one Bollywood<br />

film on DVD - it was “Kal Ho Naa Ho” and<br />

I always liked the trio Preity Zinta, Saif Ali Khan<br />

and Shah Rukh Khan, especially in the song “It's<br />

The Time To Disco”. I love Bollywood. My<br />

favourite films are “Om Shanti Om” and” Veer<br />

Zaara”.<br />

Vanessa H. (13), North Rhine-Westphalia<br />

* I watched my first Bollywood movie four years<br />

ago. It was “Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham”, which<br />

is repeatedly screened on TV. Normally I always<br />

zapped away from this film, because I don't like<br />

Shah Rukh Khan that much, but this time for<br />

some reasons I stayed and watched it. The reason<br />

was Hrithik Roshan. Since then I'm a huge<br />

Hrithik fan and I guess he's a world class actor<br />

and could easily beat any Hollywood star. My<br />

favourite film is “Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara”.<br />

All actors of this film are great. I also love “Kabhi<br />

Khushi Kabhie Gham”, “Guzaarish” and “Om<br />

Shanti Om”. There are so many great Bollywood<br />

films and I can't decide. I'm fascinated by the<br />

romance, drama, comedy, action, music and nice<br />

dances in the films. But I wished that the filmmakers<br />

would think about new own stories instead<br />

of making remakes of Hollywood movies.<br />

Marina O. (45), Schleswig-Holstein<br />

* Since I was 3 years old I'm a Bollywood fan.<br />

I'm from Romania and I remember that there<br />

were always Bollywood films on TV, always<br />

with Romanian subtitles. And since my parents<br />

loved to watch Bollywood films, I obviously also<br />

watched them. In those days there was no colour<br />

TV, so I can't say that I was fascinated by the<br />

colours but by the songs and dances. I started to<br />

imitate the typically Indian mimic and gesture.<br />

When I was 11 years old my family moved to<br />

Germany. We couldn't watch Indian movies anymore<br />

but only Hollywood movies. But then, 10<br />

years ago, my parents made holidays in Dubai<br />

and brought a Bollywood film song DVD for me.<br />

Also films songs with Shah Rukh Khan. A little<br />

bit later I could watch for the first time a Bollywood<br />

film on German TV. It was “Kabhi Khushi<br />

Kabhie Gham”. And in one advertisement in the<br />

commercial break they announced the Temptation<br />

Tour in Dortmund. I knew I need a ticket for<br />

this show, just to see once SRK live on stage<br />

dancing. I loved the show and was overwhelmed.<br />

I started to search on the internet for more info<br />

about that guy whos name I could not speak:<br />

Shah Rukh Khan. I became member of different<br />

Bollywood fan forums and got to know many<br />

other new fans and friends. I attended the film<br />

shooting of Himesh Reshammiya in Cologne,<br />

went to many Bollywood dance parties and even<br />

travelled to London to get Saris and Salwar<br />

Kameezes in South Hall. You see, I'm really a<br />

huge Bollywood fan and live it. Even the ringtone<br />

on my mobile is a Bollywood song. One of<br />

my favourite movies is “Devdas”. But my biggest<br />

dream is to meet Shah Rukh Khan personally<br />

and to dance with him together on stage. Only<br />

once...that would be great.<br />

Karla S. (47), North Rhine-Westphalia<br />

<strong>BNA</strong> <strong>INDIA</strong> <strong>January</strong> / <strong>February</strong> <strong>2015</strong><br />

19


FILM REVIEW - SPECIAL<br />

FILM CRITIC<br />

BOBBY SING<br />

“Being in the profession<br />

of music and media<br />

from almost two decades,<br />

I feel thankful to<br />

be associated with this<br />

tough but ecstatic world<br />

of creative expressions<br />

with HIS BLESSINGS.<br />

Movies remained the<br />

first love always since<br />

childhood and the passion<br />

for writing got over<br />

me since the early nineties<br />

beginning with poetry<br />

and songs which later helped me a lot<br />

in my musical associations.”<br />

With the real name of Harpreet Singh, his<br />

everlasting relationship with cinema began<br />

from the moment he was given the<br />

nickname Bobby, inspired from Raj<br />

Kapoor's cult film with the same title<br />

released in the early 70s. Writing about<br />

movies began post 2000 through the medium<br />

of DVD and World Wide Web. The<br />

exposure to the works of masters all over<br />

the globe opened new creative doors for<br />

him when he got to see many gems which<br />

were actually the original films from<br />

where many Indian masterpieces were<br />

inspired or even copied.<br />

And that’s when he started writing about<br />

all those “Inspired films” and “Must<br />

Watch Movies” in the year 2006. The<br />

favourable responses to those short early<br />

write-ups made way for<br />

his own personal website<br />

http://www.bobbytalksci<br />

nema.com which further<br />

resulted in writing reviews<br />

of all new Bollywood<br />

films as a critic at<br />

few movies sites and for<br />

some selected publications.<br />

Also Bobby recently published<br />

his first book on<br />

Indian Cinema with the<br />

title “Did You Know: For All Bollywood<br />

Obsessed Movie Buffs”, in which he discovers<br />

many hidden and interesting facts<br />

about Hindi Cinema. Facts that are not<br />

just two-line trivia but studied in depth<br />

along with a few other finer details about<br />

the subject. The book is for all those readers<br />

who eat, drink, sleep, think Hindi Cinema<br />

all the time like an obsession.<br />

Title: Did You Know: For All Bollywood<br />

Obsessed Movie Buffs<br />

Author: Bobby Sing<br />

ISBN-109384391077<br />

ISBN-139789384391072<br />

Language: English<br />

No. Of Pages: 192<br />

Publication Year: 2014<br />

Price: 195 Rupees<br />

Publisher Name: Notion Press<br />

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Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Govinda, Ileana D'Cruz<br />

Directors: Raj & D.K.<br />

Genre: Comedy<br />

Running Time: 136 Minutes<br />

Release: 21st November 2014<br />

Rating:<br />

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FILM REVIEW<br />

HAPPY ENDING<br />

Disappointing and a waste of Govinda<br />

Friends who have seen Raj Nidimoru and Krishna<br />

D.K.’s (aka Raj & D.K.) earlier ventures<br />

such as “99”, “Shor In The City” or the recent<br />

“Go Goa Gone”, would readily agree that the<br />

director duo really showcased some exceptional<br />

talent in these three films, moving ahead than<br />

a routine Bollywood project made on the same<br />

old set routine patterns. Hence, watching the<br />

witty promos of<br />

“Happy Ending”, well<br />

supported by a few peppy<br />

dance numbers and<br />

an interesting cast really<br />

made everyone expect<br />

a fairly enjoyable<br />

rom-com from the<br />

team once again.<br />

But perhaps crime<br />

thrillers remain their<br />

proved forte and a romantic<br />

comedy is not<br />

exactly the genre Raj &<br />

D.K. are comfortable<br />

with. Because what<br />

they present in “Happy<br />

Ending” is full of all<br />

been there-seen before sequences with nothing<br />

fresh except few occasional good dialogues or<br />

only four entertaining scenes of Govinda.<br />

Taking its clear references for certain insertions<br />

(like the book reading one) from “Before Sunset”<br />

(2004) and more, “Happy Ending” begins<br />

on a fairly interesting note and then goes on to<br />

become a boringly long ride with everything<br />

predictable till the end. The romance loses all<br />

its charm as it progresses and the writers remain<br />

confused between their target audience<br />

making a vain attempt to cater the viewers<br />

within the country as well as abroad. In fact this<br />

has been the dilemma or conflict seen in most<br />

of the projects today when they try to incorporate<br />

plots for both the diverse territories and in<br />

the effort make a complete mess out of the film<br />

deliberately. With no impressive performances<br />

delivered by the lead pair, “Happy Ending”<br />

once again wastes the gifted Govinda just like<br />

“Kill Dil”. The veteran has only four to five<br />

scenes in the entire film, but still manages to<br />

give you at least something to cheer in those<br />

few minutes, especially in the song “Nacho<br />

Saare G Phaadke” offering his famous and<br />

immensely enjoyable<br />

dance moves. Saif Ali<br />

Khan continues his ‘noshow’<br />

post “Bullet Raja”<br />

& “Humshakals”, plus<br />

Ileana D'Cruz gives another<br />

similar yet sweet<br />

kind of appearance as<br />

the fellow writer. Ranveer<br />

Shorey tries hard to<br />

contribute his bit &<br />

does bring some rare<br />

smiles with his witty dialogues<br />

but Kalki<br />

Koechlin, Preity Zinta<br />

and Kareena Kapoor<br />

fail to add anything significant<br />

to this long,<br />

painful watch in their small cameos.<br />

Music remains the only saving grace in the film<br />

(with few catchy dance tracks), which unfortunately<br />

doesn’t get the support it deserved from<br />

the script. On the other hand Cinematography<br />

as well as Background score do not come up<br />

with any extra ordinary feature to mention here.<br />

In short, it’s really strange why the director duo<br />

chose this kind of stale and overdone subject<br />

for their next venture - or was this another case<br />

of the producer interfering into the script as per<br />

his own vision as always. In any case, “Happy<br />

Ending” is not at all a “happy” watch to recommend<br />

with nothing else to offer except Govinda.<br />

So you can easily give it a skip to be later<br />

watched at any Cable Channel or on Home<br />

Video when its official DVD got released.<br />

<strong>BNA</strong> <strong>INDIA</strong> <strong>January</strong> / <strong>February</strong> <strong>2015</strong><br />

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FILM REVIEW<br />

KILL DIL<br />

It's like to fool the audience yet again<br />

Disappointed hugely with this latest offering<br />

from director Shaad Ali (of “Saathiya” &<br />

“Bunty Aur Babli” fame), made with such a<br />

lame attitude and casual writing, it gives me<br />

no energy to review it in details. So here is a<br />

brief account of what they showed us in their<br />

promos and what the film<br />

had in its two hours of<br />

duration offering simply<br />

nothing of that sort, ridiculing<br />

the audience yet<br />

again.<br />

Keeping a title inspired<br />

from Quentin Tarantino’s<br />

cult classic “Kill Bill”, if<br />

you think they tried to follow<br />

anything related to<br />

that film in execution, storytelling<br />

or else, then forget<br />

about it completely<br />

since the film is not even<br />

interested in that.<br />

Looking at the exciting promos, if you are<br />

expecting a great time with the trio and a<br />

lovely lady enacting on a fresh script from the<br />

team, then you are gravely mistaken as YRF<br />

Studios have just rehashed their mediocre<br />

“Gunday”, converting it into a lousy love story<br />

presenting it as a new release, considering the<br />

audience as a bunch of dumb minds sitting in<br />

the theaters once again.<br />

Considering its unusual cast ensemble if one<br />

thinks Govinda is there to make a strong<br />

comeback then he or she is going to be hugely<br />

disheartened as despite making an honest effort,<br />

the veteran remains wasted due to the<br />

film’s inane writing giving him a confused<br />

character, who enters the screen without any<br />

great build up and then suddenly starts singing<br />

& dancing like a professional performer ruining<br />

his own persona of a Don. Moreover, after<br />

a fine initial 30 minutes with Ranveer, he<br />

becomes stereotyped and takes away the major<br />

portion of the film ignoring the others. Ali Zafar<br />

tries hard but seems to be misfit in the venture<br />

right from the word go. And Parineeti has nothing<br />

new to do in the film, so fails to impress<br />

with a completely seen before portrayal on the<br />

screen making no impact<br />

whatsoever.<br />

The film begins with a flashback<br />

exactly like “Gunday”,<br />

makes some impression in its<br />

first few sequences and then<br />

becomes so tedious to watch<br />

that I would like to rate it as<br />

one of those poor films that<br />

make your two hours in theater<br />

like a whole day spent<br />

there in the dark taking several<br />

small naps. Delhi is taken<br />

as the backdrop just blindly<br />

following the current trend<br />

and the dialogues even tend<br />

to become vulgar as the film progresses. The<br />

likable music loses all its charm due to its bad<br />

timings and average compositions. Plus the<br />

technical department fails to rise above the<br />

routine despite the background score drawing<br />

your attention in its opening.<br />

In short, I found only two things worth mentioning<br />

in “Kill Dil”:<br />

One the lyrics by maestro Gulzar and his mesmerizing<br />

voice-over used in few timely sequences.<br />

Second thing is the innovative way of<br />

beginning the song ‘Sweeta’, with a radio commentary<br />

by Ranveer giving all the credits.<br />

But apart from these two insertions, “Kill Dil”<br />

simply deserves to be ignored and Shaad Ali<br />

really misses the train making such a terrible<br />

film, wasting a huge opportunity in hands. How<br />

could you do it Shaad, especially with Govinda<br />

And…what are you doing Aditya with the<br />

Yash Raj Banner churning out such trashes<br />

24 <strong>BNA</strong> <strong>INDIA</strong> <strong>January</strong> / <strong>February</strong> <strong>2015</strong>


Cast: Govinda, Ranveer Singh, Ali Zafar, Parineeti Chopra<br />

Director: Shaad Ali<br />

Genre: Crime/Thriller<br />

Running Time: 122 Minutes<br />

Release: 14th November 2014<br />

Rating:<br />

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25


INTERVIEW<br />

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INTERVIEW<br />

PREM<br />

CHOPRA<br />

THE LIVING LEGEND<br />

For more than 50 years he works in the<br />

film industry and made more than 350 films. He won<br />

all important, relevant and famous awards. Recently<br />

he even published his own biography. He is a living<br />

legend of the Indian cinema and became<br />

successful and famous as the villain of Bollywood.<br />

His sentence “Prem naam hai mera, Prem Chopra”<br />

in the film “Bobby” with Raj Kapoor in the lead,<br />

made him a household name.<br />

He started his career as a circulator of<br />

Times Of India. While doing that job he<br />

started filmmaking and had his first role in<br />

the Punjabi movie “Chaudhary Karnail<br />

Singh”in 1961 which was released in<br />

1964 and became a huge success. Prem<br />

Chopra won his first National Award for<br />

this film and went on with filmmaking, but<br />

the huge success came only some years<br />

later. Only after the successful release of<br />

“Upkaar” in 1967 which became a box<br />

office hit, he left his job at Times Of India<br />

and concentrated fully on filmmaking. And<br />

that's how his unique career in Bollywood<br />

started... In our Interview with Prem Chopra<br />

we look back to these early years and<br />

his achievements and spoke with him<br />

about his plans for the future and his<br />

dreams.<br />

<strong>BNA</strong> <strong>INDIA</strong> <strong>January</strong> / <strong>February</strong> <strong>2015</strong><br />

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INTERVIEW<br />

You never minded to play the villain and this<br />

turned out to be the kick of success in your<br />

career. But what might be the reason for so<br />

many actors to avoid to play the bad, the<br />

villain<br />

Prem Chopra: I did not mind playing villain I<br />

wanted to be an actor irrespective of the role. I<br />

can speak only for myself and not for other<br />

actors.<br />

When you entered the film industry you<br />

were a young and very good looking guy.<br />

You had all a film hero needed. Did you ever<br />

regret that you decided against the fame<br />

and (female) fan following of such a hero<br />

over the fame as the evil man<br />

Prem Chopra: No, I did not.<br />

For nearly 30 years you have been seen<br />

only in negative roles. Only from 1995 onwards<br />

you started to play also positive characters<br />

or character roles. What made you<br />

make this change - any special reasons<br />

Prem Chopra: I had passed the age for negative<br />

young roles and in the meantime I was<br />

offered positive character roles. They went<br />

very well with movie goers. That’s why I didn’t<br />

mind doing it.<br />

One could think, that you achieved everything<br />

you ever dreamt of. But still: are there<br />

some roles and characters which you<br />

would like to perform or some unfulfilled<br />

dreams<br />

Prem Chopra: A creative person is never satisfied.<br />

I would like to do more challenging roles if<br />

they come my way.<br />

You became very choosy these days regarding<br />

film offers. What makes you deciding<br />

for or against a film offer now<br />

Prem Chopra: The roles that were offered to<br />

me were not substantial so I did not accept<br />

those offers but those that were good I accepted.<br />

Which of your films come close to the real<br />

Prem Chopra and the roles in which films<br />

make you even today very proud<br />

Prem Chopra: This is a question that cannot<br />

be answered by the actor himself but the audience.<br />

They can only list it for you.<br />

You saw many big stars come and go, you<br />

worked with legends and became by yourself<br />

a living legend. Whom did you admire<br />

the most - with whom you shared special<br />

memories (and which memories)<br />

Prem Chopra: With Dilip Kumar, but there<br />

are too many memories which are impossible<br />

to share with you right now.<br />

Lately we could see you in the drama<br />

“Honour Killing” which was screened and<br />

awarded at various big international film<br />

festivals. Now we can see you finally in<br />

new films. What can you tell us about<br />

those upcoming films and your roles<br />

there<br />

Prem Chopra: I have 3-4 films where I have<br />

played different characters. These films have<br />

shades of comedy, emotional and positive in<br />

them. One film is “Jai Jawaan Jai Kisaan”, a<br />

drama with Om Puri, Rati Agnihotri and me in<br />

the lead roles which will be released in <strong>February</strong><br />

<strong>2015</strong>.<br />

Which are you next projects<br />

Prem Chopra: Negotiations are on for the<br />

next projects but I can't talk about them yet.<br />

You are a witness of the change of Indian<br />

Cinema during the past five decades.<br />

Which are the main changes in your opinion<br />

and in which direction you see the<br />

development of the Indian Cinema, how<br />

would it be in 10 years<br />

Prem Chopra: Everything changes with time.<br />

Now vast amount of improvement with respect<br />

to technique, visual and special effects<br />

have been done. This enhances the narration<br />

of the story to a great extent. There will be<br />

more changes in ten years and am sure it will<br />

for the betterment of cinema.<br />

What would you suggest to a total newcomer<br />

on how he would be able to enter<br />

the industry and on how to survive there<br />

successfully as long as possible<br />

Prem Chopra: Determination to be there and<br />

attribute it for honest and hard work if he or<br />

she gets the opportunity to do it.<br />

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INTERVIEW<br />

Prem Chopra in „Kaala Patthar“ (1979)<br />

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Cast: Randeep Hooda, Nandana Sen, Vipin Sharma, Paresh Rawal<br />

Director: Ketan Mehta<br />

Genre: Drama<br />

Running Time: 132 Minutes<br />

Release: 7th November 2014<br />

Rating:<br />

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FILM REVIEW<br />

RANG RASIYA<br />

A Film you have to watch<br />

before you die<br />

Hindi Cinema has never been keen on making<br />

enlightening biographies, especially of any talented<br />

creative artists born in our part of the<br />

world in the last century. Thankfully, “Rang<br />

Rasiya” is one of those rare and important<br />

biographical dramas based on the life of 19th<br />

century painter Raja Ravi<br />

Varma, who was the pioneer<br />

artist, painting the divine<br />

Indian Gods and<br />

Godnesses on his canvas<br />

with an exceptional grace<br />

and beauty. Directed by<br />

Ketan Mehta the period drama<br />

stars Randeep Hooda<br />

and Nandana Sen in the<br />

lead but unfortunately remained<br />

in the cans for six<br />

long years since its completion<br />

in 2008.<br />

Now where a few blame the<br />

internal disputes of the makers<br />

as the cause of this long delay in its release,<br />

others mention its extremely bold scenes as the<br />

key reason for getting stuck in the censors, in<br />

order to avoid any communal unrest among the<br />

people. Anyway, whatever the reason might be,<br />

the sad irony remains that despite being a rare,<br />

courageous film made on one of the most famous<br />

Indian painters (who earned a world acclaim<br />

too), the project could found no takers till<br />

recently, when Randeep Hooda became a part<br />

of some highly successful films at the box<br />

office making a name of his own.<br />

Based on the biographical novel by Ranjit Desai<br />

the film passionately talks about Varma’s<br />

obsessive art and the struggle to practice his<br />

free artistic expressions depicting the mythological<br />

characters creatively. And many would be<br />

stunned to know that though his exquisite<br />

paintings were getting famous all over the<br />

world in that particular era, the artist was<br />

arrested in his own country on the charge of<br />

obscenity and offending religious & cultural<br />

sentiments of the public by painting in an<br />

indecent manner.<br />

Frankly, “Rang Rasiya”<br />

was an eye opener for me<br />

too as I was also not<br />

aware of such astonishing<br />

facts about one of the<br />

greatest Indian painters of<br />

my own country. And that<br />

is exactly why bio-pics<br />

need to be made like an<br />

effective means of spreading<br />

awareness in the<br />

present generation to be<br />

precise.<br />

Yes, technically it can easily<br />

be called an artistically<br />

inclined film made with a sincere motive accompanied<br />

by a decent cinematography, average<br />

soundtrack (which could be much better)<br />

and impressive performances by the entire cast<br />

led by Randeep Hooda and the gorgeous Nandana<br />

Sen.<br />

However it’s not the technical qualities for<br />

which the film is being included here in the list<br />

of must watch movies, but it’s the informative<br />

value of its shocking as well as educative<br />

content which essentially needs to be told to<br />

our younger generation and not to be slipped<br />

under the carpet as some forgettable part of<br />

our history. So ignoring all the controversies<br />

and unnecessary delay over its release, I would<br />

like to recommend watching “Rang Rasiya”as<br />

a must.<br />

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FILM REVIEW<br />

UNGLI<br />

A socially relevant subject<br />

uninterestingly executed<br />

The first reaction one has in mind after watching<br />

“Ungli” is that the film must have been in<br />

the making for a long time with certain production<br />

issues, as it talks about an already overused<br />

theme quite shabbily and has a very<br />

uninterestingly executed progression without<br />

any great involvement of its writer and director.<br />

Moreover it has<br />

all cameo kind of appearances<br />

of many<br />

known names who<br />

have nothing great to<br />

do in their limited<br />

scenes and thus make<br />

no impact whatsoever<br />

on the viewers in less<br />

than two hours of duration<br />

including few mediocre<br />

songs.<br />

Stating its only merits,<br />

“Ungli” begins well<br />

with a hard hitting realistic<br />

scene and then<br />

has an innovative animated<br />

title sequence<br />

featuring a song calling<br />

for social awakening through 'A Respected<br />

Aadarniye Ungli'. It comes to the point in<br />

the first 10 minutes only and therefore raises<br />

your expectations with such quick developments<br />

on the screen wasting no time on introductions.<br />

However a poor item song with a<br />

guest appearance of Shraddha Kapoor pulls<br />

the film down and then it fails to pick up any<br />

further in the subsequent reels offering a pretty<br />

stale, outdated and illogical project taking a<br />

lot for granted. A love angle (with Neha Dhupia)<br />

is inserted in its storyline just for the sake<br />

of it as usual and nothing works in the favour of<br />

this weak attempt made despite all the good<br />

intentions of its socially relevant subject suggesting<br />

a revolutionary solution taking the law<br />

in hands to fight with corruption.<br />

With an interval at just 55 minutes and a laughable<br />

sequence in its climax along with few unwanted<br />

songs, “Ungli”<br />

gives you nothing as<br />

compared to the expectations<br />

raised in the beginning<br />

and one keeps<br />

wondering why actors<br />

such as Emraan Hashmi,<br />

Randeep Hooda,<br />

Kangna Ranaut, Mahesh<br />

Manjrekar and<br />

Sanjay Dutt said yes to<br />

the film to play all under-developed<br />

characters<br />

in only few scenes<br />

appearances full of<br />

many clichéd moments.<br />

The background score<br />

& editing tries its best<br />

to give the movie some<br />

pace. But nothing is successful in hiding the<br />

truth that the film had been in the making for<br />

the last two years and most probably had gone<br />

through many changes and re-touchings too,<br />

resulting in a complete ‘no-show’ in the end to<br />

say it all.<br />

So try to avoid “Ungli” this week since its<br />

nothing but another of those mistakes of a big<br />

production house made out of their sheer overconfidence<br />

using an in-house team/director trying<br />

to take advantage of the present questionable<br />

social conditions prevalent in the country.<br />

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Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Kangana Ranaut, Randeep Hooda, Sanjay Dutt<br />

Director: Rensil D'Silva<br />

Genre: Drama<br />

Running Time: 114 Minutes<br />

Release: 28th November 2014<br />

Rating:<br />

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FILM REVIEW<br />

PK<br />

Sensitive topic in an entertaining format<br />

Revealing the gist in the first line itself (with<br />

a purpose), yes “PK” is a slickly written,<br />

engaging film once again talking about that<br />

Supreme Power post “Oh My God” (2012),<br />

focusing more on providing entertainment<br />

and less on the emotional depth required by<br />

the important subject honestly. No, the film is<br />

not in the same league of Rajkumar Hirani’s<br />

earlier three brilliant films to be straight. But<br />

it talks about the right things at<br />

the right time in a rare comical<br />

tone making the much needed<br />

impression.<br />

Coming to its basic plot in the<br />

first scene itself, as speculated<br />

rightly, “PK” is about an alien<br />

visiting the planet earth with a<br />

purpose of knowing more<br />

about the people living here<br />

having similar bodies as their<br />

own. Aamir Khan plays the<br />

alien here to perfection having all human-like<br />

features and Anushka plays the girl working<br />

for a news channel, helping Aamir in the city<br />

of Delhi and using him too for her own hidden<br />

purpose of making a hit story. The entertainment<br />

actually begins when they both meet at<br />

a metro station and then later brings in many<br />

other interesting characters like a disappointed<br />

father, a misunderstood lover boy, a fraud<br />

God-man, an annoyed channel owner and<br />

many more to give you an engaging 150 minutes<br />

talking about something important.<br />

The first half of the film is full of many enjoyable<br />

sequences. However the same cannot be<br />

said about its second half as here we go the<br />

same clichéd way with nothing novel as per<br />

the concept is concerned, having a completely<br />

predictable love angle thrown in (with the<br />

alien) thankfully not given too much footage<br />

in the narration. The last hour keeps reminding<br />

you of “Oh My God” with many similar<br />

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settings and then the end offering few wellwritten<br />

twists and turns (involving the letter)<br />

brings smiles on your faces and tears in the eyes<br />

too as always expected from a Rajkumar Hirani<br />

climax unconditionally.<br />

In the performances section, no doubt, Aamir<br />

plays his part extremely well making the best<br />

use of his odd ears. He simply excels as the<br />

alien and doesn’t let you think about the flaws<br />

throughout the film leading<br />

from the front. Carrying the<br />

film all alone Aamir gets some<br />

fine support from Anushka<br />

Sharma, who once again proves<br />

her effortless mastery in playing<br />

such lively characters. Sushant<br />

Singh Rajput impresses in<br />

his few scenes, whereas Saurabh<br />

Shukla, Sanjay Dutt and<br />

Boman Irani are not given any<br />

great roles to play quite surprisingly.<br />

Particularly it was really disappointing to<br />

see Boman Irani doing such an unimportant role<br />

after playing the lifeline of all three Hirani films<br />

till date, enacting three unique characters considered<br />

as benchmarks in the field of acting.<br />

Music remains another weaker section of “PK”<br />

as I couldn’t remember even one song while<br />

walking out of the theater. And that certainly<br />

wasn’t the case in any of Hirani’s earlier films.<br />

Yes both the lyricists and the singers have done<br />

their job very well but it was the melody I<br />

couldn’t find in most of the songs in the soundtrack.<br />

Overall, despite having that emotional end with<br />

another surprising cameo of a big star and all<br />

fixed ingredients of a Hirani film, “PK” is not<br />

able to give you that huge creative satisfaction,<br />

experienced in Hirani’s earlier three films creating<br />

a big chemical locha in your hearts while<br />

walking out of the theatres.


Cast: Aamir Khan, Anushka Sharma, Sushant Singh Rajput, Boman Irani<br />

Director: Rajkumar Hirani<br />

Genre: Satire<br />

Running Time: 153 Minutes<br />

Release: 19th December 2014<br />

Rating:<br />

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THE EXOTIC BEAUTY<br />

She is 29 years old and reached the peak of her<br />

career. Jacqueline Fernandez is in great demand<br />

like never before. The beauty comes from Sri Lanka,<br />

studied mass communications and worked as a<br />

journalist before she entered the model and film<br />

business. In 2006 she won the Miss Universe<br />

pageants for her country Sri Lanka as 'Miss Sri<br />

Lanka’ and got a lot of model jobs. One of her jobs<br />

brought her to India, where director Sujoy Ghosh<br />

got aware of her and signed her for his film<br />

“Aladin”. This film was the debut for Jacqueline<br />

Fernandez as an actress. Since then she has been<br />

climbing one step after the other on the ladder of<br />

her career. Some month back we could see her side<br />

by side with Salman Khan in “Kick”. Next month<br />

her new film “Roy” with Arjun Rampal and Ranbir<br />

Kapoor will be released.<br />

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Jacqueline Fernandez was born on 11<br />

August 1985 in Sri Lanka as the youngest<br />

of four children. Very soon her<br />

family moved to Bahrain, where she<br />

finished her high school education.<br />

After that she went to Australia to<br />

study there in a University and graduated<br />

in Mass Communication. She<br />

worked as a journalist before she<br />

moved back to Sri Lanka,<br />

where she joined a<br />

TV station. In 2006 she<br />

was crowned as ‘Miss<br />

Sri Lanka Universe<br />

2006’ and represented<br />

her state at Miss Universe<br />

2006 pageant.<br />

Many model jobs had<br />

been offered to her, so<br />

that in 2007 one could<br />

see her in her first TV advertisement.<br />

One of her jobs brought her to India,<br />

where director Sujoy Ghosh got aware<br />

of her. He was fascinated by her and<br />

wanted her as a lead actress for his<br />

film “Aladin”.<br />

Jacqueline Fernandez signed for<br />

“Aladin” and gave her debut as an actress<br />

with her character as Jasmine<br />

alongside Riteish Deshmukh in 2009.<br />

Her performance received mixed reviews.<br />

Film critics doubted her acting<br />

talent, but complimented her on her<br />

look and praised her beauty. Surely<br />

that were not the dream debut and the<br />

wished critics for Jacqueline Fernandez,<br />

but still she was nominated as the<br />

Critics had<br />

doubts about her<br />

acting skills<br />

while praising<br />

her beauty the<br />

same time.<br />

best newcomer of the year and won the<br />

IIFA Award and Stardust Award. In<br />

2010, she was seen once again appearing<br />

alongside Riteish Deshmukh in the<br />

romantic comedy “Jaane Kahan Se<br />

Aayi Hai”. Once again she received<br />

mainly negative reviews for her performance.<br />

It seemed to be a tough task<br />

for her to conquer Bollywood and not<br />

to end as a flop. It was<br />

Mahesh Bhatt who has<br />

seen the talent in her and<br />

offered her in 2010 the<br />

female lead in “Murder<br />

2”, which was released<br />

in 2011. In this thriller<br />

she was seen alongside<br />

Emraan Hashmi and got<br />

a lot of attention for the<br />

boldness and sex appeal<br />

she displayed as the character Priya in<br />

the movie, while her performance<br />

again received only decent reviews.<br />

“Murder 2” emerged as a major economic<br />

success and Jacqueline Fernandez<br />

she started getting offers from big<br />

production houses. But she turned<br />

down many roles to avoid being type<br />

cast as a sex symbol.<br />

In 2012 she appeared in “Housefull 2”<br />

as one of the leads alongside Akshay<br />

Kumar, Asin and Rishi Kapoor. For<br />

Jacqueline Fernandez it was important<br />

to be part of big films and a great cast.<br />

The film became one of the top grossing<br />

productions of India that year and<br />

Jacqueline Fernandez finally received<br />

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COVER STORY<br />

some positive reviews for her performance<br />

even though mainly her look was<br />

praised again. Her first release of 2013<br />

was “Race 2”. Her performance in the<br />

film got generally positive reviews<br />

and the critics and audience got aware<br />

of her talent for action. Despite such a<br />

great cast with Anil Kapoor, Saif Ali<br />

Khan, John Abraham,<br />

Deepika Padukone<br />

and Ameesha Patel,<br />

Jacqueline Fernandez<br />

was able to convince<br />

with her role as Omisha<br />

and to catch attention.<br />

“Race 2” marks<br />

the positive turn in her<br />

career.<br />

No wonder that her<br />

next film was an action<br />

thriller too: In<br />

2014 she was seen as the female lead<br />

alongside Salman Khan, Randeep<br />

Hooda and Nawazuddin Siddiqui in<br />

“Kick”. Even though the film got only<br />

mixed reviews and critics, it was a<br />

blockbuster at the box office. Jacqueline<br />

Fernandez could convince with<br />

her role - she played the Polish psychiatric<br />

doctor Shaina Mehra. She became<br />

attention as a serious actress. In<br />

2013, in an interview with an Indian<br />

newspaper, she stated that it was her<br />

biggest dream to play once alongside<br />

Salman Khan. Now, with “Kick”, her<br />

dream came true and kicked her to the<br />

top of Bollywood. Today Jacqueline<br />

Fernandez is a demanded actress. We<br />

are excited about her next film “Roy”,<br />

which will be released next month in<br />

India. In this comedy thriller we will<br />

see her in a double role, as she plays<br />

two totally different characters<br />

(please read our film preview for<br />

“Roy”). Arjun Rampal and Ranbir Kapoor<br />

will play the<br />

In 2014 her<br />

dream, to play<br />

once alongside<br />

Salman Khan,<br />

came true<br />

with the<br />

box office hit<br />

„Kick“<br />

male leads in “Roy”.<br />

We are very sure that<br />

Jacqueline Fernandez<br />

will find her place in<br />

Bollywood and can<br />

reach the top easily.<br />

Her career shows that<br />

she became better<br />

from film to film, became<br />

more and more<br />

serious and could<br />

avoid the label as a<br />

‘sex bomb’. She is not<br />

only well-educated and looks gorgeous<br />

but she is also a very talented<br />

and versatile actress. She is currently<br />

filming for Karan Malhotra's<br />

“Brothers”, a remake of the 2011<br />

sports drama “Warrior” with Akshay<br />

Kumar and Sidharth Malhotra.<br />

In addition to her acting and modelling,<br />

Jacqueline Fernandez also joined<br />

hands with PETA and supports a lot<br />

of charitable organizations. In 2014<br />

she was even named as “The Woman<br />

of The Year” by PETA India. We<br />

wish Jacqueline Fernandez further on<br />

lots of success and many more good<br />

films!<br />

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Click here to vote for your favourites<br />

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Since years we have been supporting<br />

the ACEBA Awards (Annual<br />

Central European Bollywood<br />

Awards), which are initiated and<br />

organized by Marco Spiess, the<br />

owner of Europa's biggest German<br />

speaking Bollywood forum<br />

'Molodezhnaja' and we have been<br />

helping him to catch international<br />

attention due to our PR, promotion<br />

and media work. We have organized<br />

huge award shows in 2011 in<br />

Switzerland and 2012 at our Indian<br />

Film Festival in Berlin.<br />

Now we took a step forward by<br />

initiating the AIFA Awards<br />

(Annual Indian Film Awards)<br />

which do not only nominate mainstream<br />

Bollywood movies but also<br />

Hindi films beyond this mainstream.<br />

A film critic jury decides<br />

about the nominations in 16 categories.<br />

Bollywood fans and Indian<br />

film lovers from Europe vote for<br />

their favourites. They can vote for<br />

the best film, the best director, the<br />

best actors and actresses, the best<br />

costumes, the best cinematography,<br />

the best music, the best singers<br />

and the best choreography.<br />

Additionally they can also vote for<br />

their all-time favourite actors. As<br />

a special award we have the lifetime<br />

achievement award.<br />

We are looking forward to a large<br />

attendance for the voting and are<br />

excited about the results which we<br />

will publish 1st of March <strong>2015</strong>.<br />

Like we did in the past with the<br />

ACEBA Awards, also this year we<br />

will hand the AIFA awards to the<br />

winners personally.<br />

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1. BEST ACTOR IN A LEAD<br />

Arjun Kapoor - 2 States<br />

Aamir Khan - PK<br />

Emraan Hashmi - Ungli<br />

Randeep Hooda - Highway<br />

Shahid Kapoor - Haider<br />

Ranveer Singh - Gunday<br />

2. BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR<br />

Vipin Sharma - Kick<br />

Sanjay Dutt - Ungli<br />

Irrfan Khan - Gunday<br />

Arjan Bajwa - Bobby Jasoos<br />

Ritesh Deshmukh - Ek Villian<br />

Govinda - Holiday<br />

3. BEST ACTRESS IN A LEAD<br />

Priyanka Chopra - Mary Kom<br />

Rani Mukerji - Mardaani<br />

Deepika Padukone - Finding Funny<br />

Alia Bhatt - Highway<br />

Madhuri Dixit - Gulaab Gang<br />

Parineeti Chopra - Daawat-e-Ishq<br />

4. BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS<br />

Huma Qureshi - Dedh Ishqiya<br />

Dimple Kapadia - Finding Funny<br />

Kangna Ranaut - Ungli<br />

Tabu - Jai Ho<br />

Anushka Sharma - PK<br />

Jacqueline Fernandez - Kick<br />

5. MOST PROMISING NEWCOMER - MALE<br />

Vivaan Shah - Happy New Year<br />

Sushant Singh Rajput - PK<br />

Tiger Shroff - Heropanti<br />

Ram Kapoor - Shaadi Ke Side Effects<br />

Karan Wahi - Daawat-e-Ishq<br />

Siddharth Shukla - Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania<br />

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6. MOST PROMISING NEWCOMER - FEMALE<br />

Tamannaah Bhatia - Entertainment<br />

Esha Gupta - Humshakals<br />

Shraddha Kapoor - Ek Villian<br />

Ayesha Khanna - Dishkiyaoon<br />

Kriti Sanon - Heropanti<br />

Ileana D’Cruz - Happy Ending<br />

7. BEST FILM<br />

Dedh Ishqiya<br />

PK<br />

Mardaani<br />

2 States<br />

Finding Funny<br />

Ungli<br />

Mary Kom Rang Rasiya<br />

Highway<br />

Gulab Gang<br />

8. BEST DIRECTOR<br />

Imtiaz Ali - Highway<br />

Rohit Shetty - Singham Returns<br />

Vikram Bhatt - Creature 3D<br />

Vishal Bhardwaj - Haider<br />

Ketan Mehta - Rang Rasiya<br />

Rajkumar Hirani - PK<br />

9. BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY<br />

Finding Funny<br />

Bang Bang<br />

Kick<br />

Highway<br />

2 States<br />

Singham Returns<br />

10. BEST PLAYBACK SINGER - MALE<br />

Himesh Reshammiya - Jai Ho - Photocopy<br />

Sukhwinder Singh - Happy New Year - Satakli<br />

Yo Yo Honey singh - Kick - Yaar Naa Miley<br />

Mohit Chauhan - Mary Kom - Teri Baari<br />

Mika Singh - Kick - Jumme Ki Raat<br />

Sonu Nigam - Daawat-e-Ishq - Mannat<br />

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11. BEST PLAYBACK SINGER - FEMALE<br />

Shreya Ghoshal - Kick - Hangover<br />

Sunidhi Chauhan - Happy New Year - Dance Like a Chammiya<br />

Harshdeep Kaur - Bang Bang - Uff<br />

Tulsi Kumar - Singham Returns - Kuch To Hua Hai<br />

Shweta Pandit - Highway - Heera<br />

Anushka Manchanda - Dedh Ishqiya - Horn OK Please<br />

12. BEST SOUNDTRACK<br />

Highway - A.R. Rahman<br />

Happy New Year - Vishal–Shekhar<br />

Mardaani - Salim-Sulaiman<br />

Daawat-e-Ishq - Sajid-Wajid<br />

Mary Kom - Shashi Suman<br />

Kick - Meet Bros Anjjan<br />

13. BEST COSTUMES & DESIGN<br />

Creature 3D<br />

Happy New Year<br />

PK<br />

Mary Kom<br />

Gulaab Gang<br />

Rang Rasiya<br />

14. BEST CHOREOGRAPHY<br />

Farah Khan - Happy New Year<br />

Saroj Khan - Gulaab Gang<br />

Ahmed Khan - Kick<br />

Remo D'Souza - Dedh Ishqiya<br />

Ganesh Acharya - Humshakals<br />

Bosco-Caesar - Bang Bang<br />

Till 28th <strong>February</strong> <strong>2015</strong> you can vote for your favourites of the Indian cinema.<br />

The complete analysis of the results will be published on 1st of March<br />

<strong>2015</strong> on our websites, on Facebook and in the next edition of <strong>BNA</strong> <strong>INDIA</strong>.<br />

VOTE NOW:<br />

http://kwiksurveys.com/s.aspsid=gyl7wryzd4phvxq475595<br />

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15. ALL TIME FAVOURITE - MALE<br />

Saif Ali Khan<br />

Akshay Kumar<br />

Abhishek Bachchan<br />

Shah Rukh Khan<br />

Salman Khan<br />

Aamir Khan<br />

Amitabh Bachchan<br />

Hrithik Roshan<br />

Arjun Rampal<br />

Ranbir Kapoor<br />

John Abraham<br />

Ajay Devgn<br />

Irrfan Khan<br />

Nawassuddin Siddiqi<br />

Naseeruddin Shah<br />

Ranveer Singh<br />

Boman Irani<br />

Govinda<br />

Farhan Akhtar<br />

Riteish Deshmukh<br />

16. ALL TIME FAVOURITE - FEMALE<br />

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan<br />

Kajol<br />

Rani Mukerji<br />

Kareena Kapoor<br />

Vidya Balan<br />

Madhuri Dixit<br />

Juhi Chawla<br />

Priyanka Chopra<br />

Katrina Kaif<br />

Anushka Sharma<br />

Preity Zinta<br />

Deepika Padukone<br />

Bipasha Basu<br />

Kalki Koechlin<br />

Parineeti Chopra<br />

Alia Bhatt<br />

Sonakshi Sinha<br />

Jacqueline Fernandez<br />

Dimple Kapadia<br />

Jaya Bachchan<br />

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PHOTOSHOOT BY SHIRAZ HENRY<br />

TANVI SINHA<br />

Tanvi Sinha was born on 13th <strong>January</strong> 1992 in Mumbai. After completing<br />

her Highschool education she decided to enter the model business and<br />

started working for advertising campaigns Tanvi Sinha is also an actress<br />

and anchor. She speaks fluently English, Hindi, Gujarati and Punjabi. Like<br />

many other girls of her age she dreams of becoming a known and famous<br />

actress in the Indian film industry.<br />

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PHOTOSHOOT BY SHIRAZ HENRY<br />

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PHOTOSHOOT BY SHIRAZ HENRY<br />

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PHOTOSHOOT BY SHIRAZ HENRY<br />

TANVI SINHA<br />

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LEARN GERMAN - LESSON 1<br />

In order to make our Indo-German intercultural connection stronger,<br />

we will give you a new lesson in German language and grammar<br />

in every Edition. As the only ones we offer you the German lessons<br />

in English and Hindi. Today we start with lesson 1 and you will learn<br />

how to greet people in German and how to use articles and personal<br />

pronouns.<br />

But at first you will learn the German alphabet and some basic rules of<br />

pronunciation:There are 26 Latin characters in German alphabet plus 4 special letters.<br />

These special letters are ä, ö, ü and ß (these dots are called Umlaute).<br />

The alphabet:<br />

Aa - ah - as in “kal”<br />

Bb - beh - as in “bet”<br />

Cc - Tseh - as in “Cesar”<br />

Dd - deh - as in “din”<br />

Ee - eh - as in “mera”<br />

Ff - eff - as in “fantasy”<br />

Gg - geh - as in “guru”<br />

Hh - ha - as in “halka”<br />

Ii - ih - as in “pani”<br />

Jj - yot - as in “yahan”<br />

Kk - kah - as in “kaun”<br />

Ll - ell - as in “lekin”<br />

Mm - emm - as in “mein”<br />

Nn - enn - as in “nahin”<br />

Oo - oh - as in “cchota”<br />

Pp - peh - as in “pagal”<br />

Qq - kuh - as in “cool”<br />

Rr - err - as in “roshni”<br />

Ss - ess - as in “suraj”<br />

Tt - teh - as in “tamil”<br />

Uu - uh - as in “aloo”<br />

Vv - fao - as in “fantasy”<br />

Ww - weh - as in “wahan”<br />

Xx - iks - as in “next”<br />

Yy - oep-tzi-lon - as in “lyrics”<br />

Zz - tsett - as in “sabzi”<br />

Special letters:<br />

Ää - as in “hai”<br />

Öö - as in the Englisch word “turn”<br />

Üü - as in “lyrics”<br />

ß - as in “sabzi”<br />

Also you will find a lot of diphthongs and digraphs<br />

in German language, which are read and pronounced<br />

as one sound:<br />

ei - as in the English word “I”<br />

au - as in the English word “cow”<br />

eu - as in the English word “boy”<br />

äu - as in the English word “boy”<br />

aa - as in “kal”<br />

ah - as in “kal”<br />

äh - as in “hai” (long sound)<br />

ch - followed by “a”, “o” or “u” a hard sound as in<br />

“Khan”, followed by “e” or “I” a soft sound<br />

sch - as in “chaar”<br />

ph - as in the English word “fantasy”<br />

ie - as in “bhi”<br />

ee - as in “mera”<br />

eh - as in “mera”<br />

th - as in “theek”<br />

ck - as in “kal”<br />

sp - pronounced as “schp”<br />

st - pronounced as “scht”<br />

tsch - as in “shukriya”<br />

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LEARN GERMAN - LESSON 1<br />

German vowels can be pronounced as long or as short<br />

ones. Often, it changes the meaning of the word entirely.<br />

Long vowels are often in combination with a “h”,<br />

short ons are often followed by double characters:<br />

gehen (chalna), fahren (chalana), sehen (dekhna)<br />

rennen (daurna), kommen (aana)<br />

GRAMMAR<br />

Articles:<br />

In German there are three different articles which<br />

mark the genus (masculine, feminine, neutral) of the<br />

noun:<br />

der Bruder (m) - the brother - bhai<br />

die Tochter (f) - the daughter - beti<br />

das Kind (n) - the child - baccha<br />

die Leute (plural) - the people - log<br />

There is no special marker like a special ending for the<br />

correct article of the noun in singular. Therefore in<br />

German you have to learn the correct article directly<br />

in combination with the noun. The article for plural<br />

forms is always “die”.<br />

In many cases you can form the female form of a noun<br />

by adding a -in at the end:<br />

der Student (m) - the student - chatre<br />

die Studentin (f) - the student - chatra<br />

Notice: In German every noun is written with an<br />

upper-case character in the beginning.<br />

Personal pronouns:<br />

ich bin - I am - main hoon<br />

du bist - you are - tum ho / tu hai (familiar)<br />

er ist - he is - yah hai<br />

sie ist - she is - yah hai<br />

es ist - it is - yah/vah hai<br />

wir sind - we are - hum hain<br />

ihr seid - you are - aap hain<br />

sie sind - they are - yeh/veh hain<br />

Sie sind - you are - aap hain (formal)<br />

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LEARN GERMAN - LESSON 1<br />

You can start and try to read out loudly the following small dialog in German:<br />

Sanjay, Karin and Karin's daugher Beate meet the first time in Berlin<br />

Deutsch:<br />

Sanjay: Hallo, ich bin Sanjay. Sind Sie Karin<br />

Karin: Ja, ich bin Karin. Dieses Mädchen ist Beate.<br />

Sanjay: Hallo Beate. Wie geht es dir<br />

Beate: Ja, danke, mir geht es gut. Sind Sie Engländer<br />

Sanjay: Nein, ich bin kein Engländer, ich bin Inder.<br />

Beate: ok, Sie sind Inder. Ich bin Deutsche.<br />

Sanjay: Diese Stadt Berlin ist sehr groß.<br />

Karin: Ja, Berlin ist auch eine sehr schöne Stadt. Wo lebst du<br />

Sanjay: Ich komme aus Mumbai.<br />

Karin: Toll.<br />

English:<br />

Sanjay: Hello, I'm Sanjay. Are you Karin<br />

Karin: Yes, I'm Karin. Hello. This girl is Beate.<br />

Sanjay: Hello Beate. How are you<br />

Beate: Yes, thank you, I'm fine. Are you English<br />

Sanjay: No, I'm not English, I'm Indian.<br />

Beate: Ok, you are Indian. I'm German.<br />

Sanjay: This city Berlin is very big.<br />

Karin: Yes, also Berlin is a beautiful city. Where do you live<br />

Sanjay: I'm from Mumbai.<br />

Karin: Great.<br />

Hindi:<br />

Sanjay: Namaste, mein Sanjay hoon. Kya aap Karin ji hain<br />

Karin: Ji haan, mein Karin hoon. Namaste. Yah larki Beate hai.<br />

Sanjay: Namaste Beate. Tum theek ho<br />

Beate: Ji haan, shukriya, mein theek hoon. Kya aap angrez hain<br />

Sanjay: Ji nahin, mein angrez nahin hoon, hindustani hoon.<br />

Beate: Accha, aap hindustani hain. Mein jarman hoon.<br />

Sanjay: Yah shahar Berlin bahut bara hai.<br />

Karin: Ji haan, Berlin bhi bahut sundar hai. Tumhara pata kya hai<br />

Sanjay: Mein Mumbai se hoon.<br />

Karin: Kya bhaat hai.<br />

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LEARN GERMAN - LESSON 1<br />

Vokabulary:<br />

hallo / guten Tag - hello - namaste<br />

ich bin - I am - mein hoon<br />

du bist - you are - tum ho (familiar)<br />

Sie sind - you are - aap hain (formal)<br />

er/sie/es ist - he/she/it is - yah hai<br />

danke - thank you - shukriya<br />

gut/ok - fine/ok - theek<br />

ja - yes - haan<br />

nein - no – nahin<br />

das Mädchen (n) - girl - larki<br />

der Engländer (m) - English - angrez<br />

der Inder (m) - Indian - hindustani<br />

der Deutsche (m) - German - jarman<br />

sehr - very - bahut<br />

groß - big - bara<br />

schön - beautiful - sundar<br />

auch - also - bhi<br />

wo - where - kahan<br />

toll - great - bhaat<br />

Numbers:<br />

eins - one - ek<br />

zwei - two - do<br />

drei - three - tin<br />

vier - four - chaar<br />

fünf - five - panch<br />

sechs - six - cheh<br />

sieben - seven - saath<br />

acht - eight - aath<br />

neun - nine - nao<br />

zehn - ten - das<br />

Weekdays:<br />

Weekdays in German always are masculine:<br />

(der) Montag - Monday - somwaar<br />

(der) Dienstag - Tuesday - mangalwaar<br />

(der) Mittwoch - Wednesday - budhwaar<br />

(der) Donnerstag - Thursday - guruwaar<br />

(der) Freitag - Friday - shukrawaar<br />

(der) Samstag - Saturday - shaniwaar<br />

(der) Sonntag - Sunay - raviwaar<br />

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10 YEARS <strong>BNA</strong><br />

SPECIAL FEATURE<br />

Even though <strong>BNA</strong> GERMANY® by now is<br />

well known, still some people ask me from<br />

time to time, for what <strong>BNA</strong> stands for. For<br />

all those who might have the same question<br />

here is the answer: <strong>BNA</strong> stand for<br />

Bollywood News Agency, as that is how we<br />

started in 2005, when the idea was born to<br />

offer a full service agency for News and<br />

Promotion in the domain of Indian Cinema<br />

& Culture Entertainment in German language<br />

as nothing like that existed in Europe<br />

and we became the first ones.<br />

In those days the German TV channels “arte”<br />

and later also “RTL2” started to screen the first<br />

Bollywood movies, which were watched by<br />

many people in Germany and got immediately<br />

a huge fan following. Between 2004 and 2005<br />

a real Bollywood boom started in Germany and<br />

the Bollywood fan community grew and grew<br />

every day. But there was a lack of available<br />

news and information about Hindi films, their<br />

filmmakers and their actors and actresses. Not<br />

all people in Germany speak and understand<br />

English and could get their information through<br />

the internet.<br />

That's why my idea was born to offer them all<br />

those news by making my researches on the<br />

internet and by writing articles about Indian<br />

Cinema and Culture in German<br />

language, which I published on<br />

my own website called<br />

http://www.bna-germany.com.<br />

And that was the beginning of a<br />

wonderful journey:<br />

Initially I worked alone, but very<br />

soon people came to me, offered<br />

me their help and also wanted to<br />

write articles about India, Bollywood,<br />

the Bollywood stars and<br />

about Bollywood events which<br />

happened all over Europe. Very<br />

soon I got a staff of fixed freelance<br />

editors and photographers.<br />

I myself also went to all major<br />

events around Europe to get contacts<br />

and to meet singers, directors,<br />

promoters, actors, film<br />

distributors etc. and my business<br />

network grew fast. Very soon I<br />

was also connected with all important<br />

Indian film producers and filmmakers,<br />

media, publishers, PR<br />

agencies and artist managers.<br />

Through this huge business network<br />

<strong>BNA</strong> GERMANY was in the<br />

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SPECIAL FEATURE<br />

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position to get first-hand information,<br />

exclusive interviews and upto-date<br />

news directly from the film<br />

industry in India, which helped us<br />

a lot to get the needed awareness<br />

in Germany. People realized our<br />

good work and started talking<br />

about us so that soon many people<br />

got aware of <strong>BNA</strong> GERMANY,<br />

the website and our work. Our<br />

exclusive reports about events in<br />

Europe even got published in Indian<br />

media like IANS, Bollywood<br />

Hungama, Hindustan Times or<br />

Mumbai Mirror.<br />

After one year <strong>BNA</strong> GERMANY<br />

offered a wider spectrum of services<br />

- not only restricted to news<br />

and promotion but we also offered<br />

our services in PR & Marketing<br />

of Films, Event Marketing, Film<br />

and TV Production Consulting<br />

& Distribution, Consulting for<br />

Concerts & Shows and Artist<br />

Management & Promotion as<br />

that was what our clients asked<br />

for. This way <strong>BNA</strong> GERMANY<br />

became an exclusive full service<br />

agency in the field of Indian Cinema & Culture.<br />

We became Film Production Consultant for<br />

films like “Humraah - The Traitor” (2006),<br />

“Aap Kaa Surroor” (2007), “Karma - Crime<br />

Passion Reincartation” (2008), for the German<br />

documentary ”Kumbh Mela” (2010) and<br />

the German TV Show “Lebe Deinen Traum”<br />

(2009) as well as for the live broadcast of the<br />

Sonu Nigam Concert in Offenbach (2008).<br />

<strong>BNA</strong> GERMANY also did the exclusive German<br />

media coverage and promotion of Film<br />

Festivals like the London Indian Film Festival,<br />

the Berlinale Film Festival, the Cannes Film<br />

Festival, the Indian Film Festival Stuttgart, the<br />

IFFI Goa International Indian Film Festival and<br />

the Munich Film Festival and did the exclusive<br />

media coverage of such events like IIFA<br />

Awards 2007 in Yorkshire, film premieres like<br />

“Veer Zaara” (2006, Paris), “Khabhi Alvida<br />

Naa Kehna” (2007, Hamburg), “Om Shanti<br />

Om” (2008, Berlin) and “My Name Is Khan”<br />

(2010, Berlin), concerts of Sonu Nigam in<br />

Germany, London, Den Haag and Paris, concerts<br />

of Himesh Reshammiya and Gurdas<br />

Maan in Mumbai and London, concerts of<br />

Sukhwinder Singh in Goa and of Udit Narayan<br />

in Den Haag.<br />

We were also allowed to attend and report<br />

exclusively about several Film Shootings like<br />

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10 YEARS <strong>BNA</strong><br />

SPECIAL FEATURE<br />

“Aap Kaa Surroor” (2007),”Mujjahir” (2010),<br />

“Don 2” (2010) and “Chennai Express”<br />

(2012).<br />

Within the next few years some more websites<br />

all over Germany and Europe developed,<br />

which also offered news and information about<br />

Bollywood. Some of them even copied our<br />

articles and pictures as for them we have been<br />

the only reliable source, because we got firsthand<br />

news from India and also reported exclusively<br />

and directly from all major events in<br />

Europe and India. For me it was good to know<br />

that people trusted us and followed us, as it<br />

showed me to be on the right track. The Bollywood<br />

boom in Europe was between 2004 and<br />

2010. In those years many Bollywood films<br />

were screened on TV, many of the latest Bollywood<br />

films were even released in our cinemas,<br />

very rarely dubbed but mainly with English<br />

subtitles, many concerts of Bollywood playback<br />

singers took place in Europe, many films<br />

were shot in Europe and many shows happened.<br />

For every Bollywood fan those years<br />

were amazing.<br />

But slowly it did happen that big Bollywood<br />

shows were announced but did not take place.<br />

People lost their ticket money and with that<br />

their trust. The TV channels<br />

stopped screening new Bollywood<br />

films but only repeated films like<br />

“KKKG” or “Kal Ho Naa Hoo” many<br />

times. The only steady institution<br />

have been the Berlinale (Berlin<br />

Film Festival), which had every<br />

year Indian Films and even film<br />

premieres with Red Carped and<br />

with the stars. We felt that something<br />

has to happen to push the<br />

Indian Cinema again in Europe.<br />

<strong>BNA</strong> GERMANY was still successful<br />

and people asked us to publish<br />

a printed media. That's why we<br />

started publishing the monthly<br />

print magazine “<strong>BNA</strong> GERMANY”<br />

in 2010 in cooperation with Gurdas<br />

Maan's MGM Sai Production.<br />

Within one year we became the<br />

biggest magazine on Indian Cinema<br />

& Culture in Europe even<br />

though there have been also<br />

some other Bollywood magazines.<br />

Since no bigger shows or events<br />

happened any longer in Germany,<br />

the idea was born to organize<br />

such a big Event by ourselves - an<br />

Indian festival with films, stage<br />

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SPECIAL FEATURE<br />

GERMANY®<br />

performances and stars. Since<br />

2008 <strong>BNA</strong> GERMANY was the<br />

partner of the ACEBAs (Annual<br />

Central European Bollywood<br />

Awards), initiated by the Swiss Bollywood<br />

Forum Molodezhnaja. As<br />

the PR and media partner of those<br />

Bollywood Fan Awards we promoted<br />

it internationally and started<br />

with the first ACEBA Award Show<br />

in 2011 in Switzerland. In 2012 we<br />

organized in Berlin our first Indian<br />

Film Festival in which the ACEBA<br />

Award Show became an integral<br />

part of the festival. Due to our<br />

good connection with the Indian<br />

film industry we were able to invite<br />

prominent filmmakers and stars<br />

like Prem Chopra, Madhur<br />

Bhandarkar, Vipin Sharma, Abhishek<br />

Pathak, Omi Vaidya and<br />

many more. Film producers and<br />

distributors helped us by offering<br />

their latest and best films which we<br />

could screen at the festival.<br />

In 2014 <strong>BNA</strong> GERMANY launched<br />

its own Film Awards, the AIFAs<br />

(Annual Indian Film Awards) as<br />

a further development of the ACEBAs and now<br />

with this edition we are releasing our first edition<br />

of “<strong>BNA</strong> <strong>INDIA</strong>”. Our journey, which started<br />

ten years back in 2005, still goes on and we<br />

enjoy the trip. The most important value in our<br />

work is trust. People - be it our readers or be it<br />

our business partners - trust us. And that is our<br />

biggest achievement in our work, because<br />

without that trust over all those years we would<br />

not have such a good relationship with our<br />

partners and could not do such a great job<br />

which makes us to Europe's No. 1 for Entertainment,<br />

as Indian Cinema & Culture are our<br />

passion.<br />

Our supporters throughout the past years have<br />

been Tania Vom Lehn, Diana Weidner, Sylvia<br />

Cholschreiber and Sven Schlegelmilch. For<br />

the magazines we had also a lot of contributors<br />

like Jyothi Venkatesh (editor), Saibal Chatterjee<br />

(editor), Anupama Kathyayni (fashion<br />

designer), Jattinn Kochhar (fashion designer),<br />

Ajay Bhambi (astrologer), Shiraz Henry<br />

(photographer), Uptal Borpujari (editor), Arnab<br />

Banerjee (editor), Gaurav Gupta (editor),<br />

Rupa Batra (astrologer), Nandita Dutta<br />

(editor), Shoma A Chatterji (editor), Sreya<br />

Basu (editor) and many more. I want to thank<br />

all of you.<br />

Alexandra Ccahuana Tito<br />

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GERMAN CITIES<br />

Berlin, located in northeastern Germany,<br />

is the capital of Germany and one of the<br />

16 states of Germany. With a population<br />

of 3.5 million people, Berlin is Germany's<br />

largest city. In 1949, the Federal Republic<br />

of Germany was founded in West Germany,<br />

while the German Democratic Republic<br />

was proclaimed in East Germany.<br />

West Berlin was surrounded by East German<br />

territory, and East Germany proclaimed<br />

the Eastern part of Berlin as its<br />

capital. In 1961, East Germany began the<br />

building of the Berlin Wall between East<br />

and West Berlin. In 1989, with the end of<br />

the Cold War and pressure from the East<br />

German population, the Berlin Wall fell<br />

on 9 November and was subsequently<br />

mostly demolished. Today, the "East<br />

Side Gallery" preserves a large portion of<br />

the Wall which can be visited. On 3 October<br />

1990, the two parts of Germany were<br />

reunified as the Federal Republic of Ger-<br />

Still you can see parts of the Berlin Wall in the city.<br />

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many, and Berlin again became the official<br />

German capital with the Reichstag<br />

building as its traditional seat of the German<br />

Parliament.<br />

The city has a highly eclectic array of<br />

architecture and buildings due to its history<br />

as Kingdom of Prussia, the 1871 German<br />

Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi<br />

Germany, East Germany, and now the<br />

reunified Germany. Buildings and structurs<br />

like the TV Tower (Fernsehturm) at<br />

Alexanderplatz, the Brandenburg Gate,<br />

the Gendarmenmarkt, the Deutscher<br />

Dom and also the Museum Island as well<br />

as the Potsdamer Platz, the Berlin Philharmonie<br />

and the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial<br />

Church are proofs of the architectual variety<br />

of the city. But also outside the city<br />

one can find many historical places like<br />

the Sanssouci in Potsdam, the former<br />

summer palace of Frederick the Great,<br />

King of Prussia, or the concentration<br />

Home of the German government: the Reichstag building.<br />

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camp in Oranienburg. Both places can be<br />

reach by the public transportation.<br />

Berlin's transport infrastructure is highly<br />

complex, providing a diverse range of<br />

urban mobility like S-Bahn, U-Bahn,<br />

Tram, Bus, Ferry and is<br />

well connected due to<br />

its long-distance rail<br />

lines with all of the major<br />

cities of Germany<br />

and with many cities in<br />

neighboring European<br />

countries. Berlin has<br />

two commercial airports:<br />

Berlin Tegel Airport<br />

and Schönefeld<br />

Airport.<br />

The Berlin-Brandenburg<br />

capital region is<br />

one of the most prolific<br />

centers of higher education<br />

and research in<br />

Germany and Europe.<br />

The city has four public<br />

research universities Alexanderplatz with the TV Tower<br />

(Humboldt University, Free University<br />

of Berlin, Technical University and University<br />

of Arts) and 27 private, professional<br />

and technical colleges which offer a<br />

wide range of disciplines. Research and<br />

development have an economic significance<br />

for Berlin. The metropolitan region<br />

ranks among the Top 3 innovative locations<br />

in the EU. Other important economic<br />

sectors in Berlin include life sciences,<br />

transportation, information and communication<br />

technologies, media<br />

and music,<br />

advertising and design,<br />

biotechnology, environmental<br />

services, construction,<br />

e-commerce,<br />

retail, hotel business<br />

and medical engineering<br />

- many national<br />

and international companies<br />

have business or<br />

service centers in Berlin.<br />

The creative arts sector<br />

comprises music, film,<br />

advertising, architecture,<br />

art, design, fashion,<br />

performing arts and<br />

publishing. Berlin is<br />

home to many international<br />

and regional television<br />

and radio stations and has Germany's<br />

largest number of daily newspapers. Also<br />

Berlin is an important location for the<br />

European and German film industry: in<br />

the city are based more than 1000 film<br />

and television production companies and<br />

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270 movie theaters. The famous Babelsberg<br />

Studios and the production company<br />

UFA are located in Potsdam (30 kilometers<br />

from Berlin). The city also hosts the<br />

annual Berlin Film Festival 'Berlinale',<br />

which is the largest publicly attended<br />

film festival in the world.<br />

As a multicultural city - more than<br />

500,000 people of the 3.5 millions who<br />

live in Berlin are<br />

foreigners from all<br />

over the world like<br />

from Turkey, Italy,<br />

Serbia, Poland,<br />

Vietnam, China,<br />

the USA, Iran, Lebanon<br />

or Russia;<br />

another 500,000<br />

people are descendants<br />

of international<br />

migrants and<br />

have either become<br />

naturalized<br />

German citizens or obtained citizenship<br />

by virtue of birth in Germany - a lot of<br />

intercultural events take place in Berlin.<br />

The most famous festival is the annual<br />

'Karneval der Kulturen' in May, a huge<br />

street festival which resembles the Carnival<br />

in Rio. If you come to Berlin you also<br />

have to visit some of the 138 museums<br />

and 400 art galleries. A must-visit is the<br />

Pergamon Museum, the Naturkunde Museum<br />

and the art gallery at Hamburger<br />

Bahnhof. The best places for shopping<br />

are Alexanderplatz, Wilmersdorfer Street<br />

and of course Kurfuerstendamm and Tauentzien<br />

Street. The Kurfuerstendamm is<br />

home to some of Berlin's luxurious stores<br />

with the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial<br />

Church at its eastern<br />

end. Nearby<br />

on Tauentzienstraße<br />

is the shopping<br />

mall KaDeWe,<br />

claimed to be continental<br />

Europe's<br />

largest department<br />

store. Another great<br />

place to visit is<br />

Potsdamer Platz<br />

Tauentzien Street close to Ku-Damm with view to the with its Sony Center,<br />

the Berlinale<br />

Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church<br />

office, a casino, a<br />

Cinemaxx, an IMAX 3D Cinema and the<br />

shopping mall 'Potsdamer Platz Arkaden'.<br />

You need at least one week to discover<br />

Berlin at least a little bit and to get aware<br />

of the unique spirit of the city and its<br />

people. But actually, even if you live in<br />

Berlin since years, you will never explore<br />

every single part of Berlin.<br />

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CHICKEN FRIKASSEE<br />

Ingredients:<br />

(for 4 persons)<br />

1 chicken, boneless<br />

1 chicken bouillon cube<br />

water<br />

1 small onion<br />

4 tbs. margarine or butter (unsalted)<br />

1 large can button mushrooms<br />

1 jar white asparagus<br />

4 tbs. flour<br />

1/4 tsp. paprika<br />

1/2 tsp. salt<br />

1/4 tsp. black pepper<br />

1 tsp. Spanish capers<br />

Directions:<br />

Boil the chicken in a pot with just enough water to<br />

cover. Add the bouillon cube. Be sure to cover with<br />

a tight fitting lid. Once the chicken is cooked<br />

through, remove it to a plate or bowl and allow to<br />

cool. When cool, chop the chicken meat into bite<br />

size chunks. Pour about 2 cups of the broth in a bowl<br />

or other container (remember, it’s hot!) and set aside.<br />

Dispose of the rest. Now add margarine or butter to<br />

same pot and melt. Chop onions and place in the pot,<br />

sauteing until golden. Add flour to the pot and stir<br />

quickly. Allow to cook a bit to golden color, just<br />

about 2 minutes. Pour in the broth. Stir and allow to<br />

boil everything, stirring regularly as sauce thickens.<br />

Add seasonings (including capers) and stir. When<br />

the sauce thickened, add the chopped chicken and<br />

stir again. Cut the asparagus stalks in half. Add<br />

some of the packing water into your sauce for extra<br />

flavor. Place the asparagus into pot. Then drain and<br />

add in mushrooms as well. Mix everything and turn<br />

the heat down to low. Place a lid on the pot and<br />

simmer for 20 minutes. If the sauce seems too thick,<br />

add some broth.<br />

This dish will be served with rice.<br />

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APPLE STRUDEL<br />

Ingredients:<br />

(for 4 persons)<br />

1 1/4 cups apple juice<br />

2 tablespoons cornstarch<br />

1 1/2 pound apples, peeled,<br />

cored and sliced 1/4-inch thick<br />

1/2 cup dark seedless raisins<br />

3 tablespoons granulated sugar<br />

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon<br />

1/3 cup chopped pecans<br />

4 sheets phyllo dough<br />

1/3 cup melted butter<br />

3 tablespoons fine dried<br />

breadcrumbs<br />

Confectioners' sugar,<br />

for garnish<br />

Vanilla ice cream, for serving<br />

Directions:<br />

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C. Line a baking sheet with<br />

parchment paper.<br />

In a small bowl, create a slurry by combining 1/4 cup of the<br />

apple juice with the cornstarch. Mix until smooth and set<br />

aside. In a large saucepan over medium heat, cook the apples<br />

with the remaining 1 cup apple juice, raisins, sugar and<br />

cinnamon until the apples are tender, 8 to 10 minutes. Stir the<br />

cornstarch slurry (it may have settled) and add it to the apple<br />

mixture, stirring constantly until smooth and lump free.<br />

Simmer for 1 minute more, stirring constantly. Remove from<br />

the heat and cool. Stir in the pecans, cover and chill. Lay out<br />

1 phyllo sheet on a clean, flat, lightly floured surface. Brush<br />

with some melted butter and sprinkle with 1 tablespoon<br />

breadcrumbs. Repeat this procedure with two more layers of<br />

phyllo, butter and breadcrumbs. Top with the fourth sheet of<br />

phyllo. Spread the apple filling evenly onto the phyllo surface,<br />

leaving a 1/2-inch clean edge on all sides. Roll into a<br />

log, folding the edges at each end beneath the log and brush<br />

with some melted butter. Carefully place the strudel on the<br />

prepared baking sheet, seam-side down. Bake the strudel<br />

until golden brown, 15 to 18 minutes. Remove from the oven<br />

and cool for 15 minutes before cutting into 2-inch slices.<br />

Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar just before serving. Serve<br />

plain or with ice cream.<br />

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