ممبئ: بالی ووڈ اداکارہ کرینہ کپور نے کہا ہے کہ سلمان خان کے ساتھ کام کرنا ہمیشہ فن رہا ہے ۔

آنیوالی فلم بجرنگی بھائی جان میں سلمان خان کے ساتھ کام کرنیوالی اداکارہ کا کہنا ہے کہ سلمان کے ساتھ کام کرتے ہوئے ہمیشہ بہت مزہ آیا ہے اور اس فلم میں بھی ان کے ساتھ کام کرکے اپنا ہی لطف اٹھایا ہے انھوں نے کہا کہ اس فلم کا مجھے اسکرپٹ بہت پسند آیا تھا اور جب میں نے یہ فلم کی تو اپنا کردار مجھے حقیقت میں بہت ہی اچھا لگا انھوں نے کہا کہ فلم میں میرا کردار ایک برہمن لڑکی کا ہے انھوں نے کہا کہ میرے لیے اس فلم کے ڈائریکٹر کبیر بھی بالکل نئے ہیں اور ان کے ساتھ کام کرنا بھی میرے لیے ایک منفرد اور خوشگوار تجربہ تھا۔

ممبئی: بھارتی ریاست مدھیہ پردیش کے شہر بھوپال میں علما نے عیدالفطر کے خطبات کے دوران مسلمانوں کو سلمان خان کی نئی فلم نہ دیکھنے کی اپیل کردی۔ 

بھارتی میڈیا کے مطابق بھوپال کی تاریخی عید گاہ میں لاکھوں افراد نماز عید کی ادائیگی کے لئے موجود تھے اس دوران قاضی شہر سید مشتاق ندوی نے اپنے خطبے کے دوران کہا کہ عید الفطر رمضان المبارک میں کی گئی عبادات کا صلہ ہے اسے منانے کے کئی طریقے ہیں، اس بابرکت دن کو سینما گھروں میں جاکر برباد نہ کیا جائے بلکہ اپنے گھروں میں رہ کر مہمانوں کا خیر مقدم کریں اور اللہ کی رحمتیں حاصل کریں۔

مشتاق ندوی کا کہنا تھا کہ سلمان خان کا نام نہ لیتے ہوئے کہا کہ ہر سال عید الفطر پر ایک اداکار کی فلم ریلیز ہوتی ہے اور مسلمانوں کی بڑی تعداد اسے دیکھنے جاتی ہے لیکن وہ اب گزارش کرتے ہیں کہ آج وہ کوئی بھی فلم دیکھنے نہ جائیں۔ اگر مسلمان آج کے دن اس کی فلم نہیں دیکھیں گے تو وہ بھی عید کے موقع پر اپنی فلموں کی ریلیز نہیں کرے گا۔

Director Luc Besson s sci-fi thriller "Lucy," about a woman turned superhuman by using 100 percent of her brain, debuted at the top of the North American box office, industry figures showed Monday.

The film -- starring Scarlett Johansson in the title role -- raked in $43.9 million, box office tracker Exhibitor Relations said.

It beat out another newcomer, big budget action flick "Hercules" starring Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson, which muscled its way to second place with $29.8 million.

"Dawn of the Planet of the Apes," the latest installment in the sci-fi series about humans and chimps clashing to survive, brought in $16.8 million, dropping to third place in its third week out.

Horror-thriller sequel "The Purge: Anarchy" scared up $10.5 million, landing in the fourth spot.

Meanwhile "Planes: Fire & Rescue," the Disney computer-animated tale of talking aircraft working to fight blazes and help save a national park, raked in $9.5 million for fifth place.

In sixth position with just over $6 million was comedy "Sex Tape," starring Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel as two parents trying to keep their homemade sex tape off the Internet.

Blockbuster sequel "Transformers: Age of Extinction" followed with $4.7 million in ticket sales. It has earned $236.4 million during its five-week run in theaters.

Romantic comedy "And So it Goes," starring Michael Douglas as a self-centered realtor whose life is interrupted by a granddaughter he never knew he had, and Diane Keaton as his neighbor, landed in eighth with $4.6 million.

Sliding into ninth was comic road trip romp "Tammy," starring Melissa McCarthy, which brought in over $3.4 million.

And rounding out the box office top 10 with $2.6 million was spy thriller "A Most Wanted Man," starring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman in one of his last performances.

When film director Steve Faigenbaum grew up in Detroit, the city pulsated to the sound of Motown and car manufacturing.

Today, the once mighty city, which declared bankruptcy in 2013, is a nightmarish vision of urban decay that draws young people from all over the world to buy a house for $1,000.

With the highest violent crime rate of any large US city, Detroit has lost 63 percent of its population since 1950.

At least 78,000 buildings stand abandoned and there is enough once-inhabited empty land to fit a city the size of Paris.

"It s just hard to imagine the scale of destruction," said Faigenbaum, whose film "City of Dreams" about what he calls Detroit s "slow motion catastrophe" has just been released in France.

"Almost anywhere you go there are these houses that are just falling apart. Big houses, just totally left, just abandoned," he said.

The grandson of Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe, Faigenbaum, 64, who now lives in Paris, moved away from the city in the late 1960s.

Years later, however, following his father s death he found himself back in Detroit.

Stunned by the apocalyptic landscape, he set out to try and make sense of it all.

"Growing up there, there was always this enormous sense of possibility, that whoever or whatever you were you could make something of yourself and do something," he told AFP in an interview in Paris.

- Nightmarish vision -

"Even as a student you could get a summer job and make a lot of money. There were jobs. You didn t need much of an education, you just needed to have the will to work," he said.

The music -- blues and Motown -- for which Detroit is now famous was also a constant presence.

"There was all this amazing music. On every street corner... and it kind of expressed everything that needed to be expressed.

"Now it seems quite remarkable, but it was just what was happening."

Mixing his own family history with up-to-date reportage and archive footage, Faigenbaum s film aims to show "how the choices people make play out over 100 years".

In particular, he highlights the "Wild West capitalism" of Ford Motor Company owner Henry Ford, whose Model T -- the first affordable car for the masses -- revolutionised the automobile industry.

In 1914, Henry Ford announced he would pay workers $5 per day, double the going rate, and people flooded into the city in search of work.

By 1950 the population stood at two million and the city was the centre of the US automotive industry.

But just as the automobile helped make Detroit, it also helped to destroy it.

"At the same time as the car comes along, they re building more roads," Faigenbaum said.

"The reality of the way it played out was that it was the escape route for all the white folks who could get out."

-  Amazing spirit  -

Land was cheap and tension between whites and blacks accelerated the exodus of whites towards newly built suburbs.

Meanwhile, the introduction of automated production in car factories sowed the seeds of future unemployment.

Faigenbaum notes that Detroit s urban decay was already well advanced in the 1980s when "devil s night" -- the night before Halloween -- would regularly see up to 800 empty properties burned down.

While making the film, Faigenbaum found himself back at his grandparents  house, now derelict and daubed with the letters R.I.P., indicating that someone had been murdered there.

In the basement, he found his long-dead grandfather s old work bench.

Later he watched as the bulldozers moved in and reduced the house to rubble.

Faigenbaum warns that Detroit s demise is a reminder that even apparently thriving cities are not "immortal".

Today, despite all its woes, young people still come to the city in search of a cheap property.

"It s hard to rain on anyone s sense of optimism but there s still such violence. All these kids come here with the dream... until their friends get carjacked or someone is held up at gunpoint," Faigenbaum said.

Nonetheless, he said he was struck by the "amazing spirit" the place still had.

"One guy said to me  OK, it s the murder capital of the world, but it s a really friendly place!  and it s true, it s really true," he said.

"People will talk to you and they look you right in the eye, but they probably have a gun in their pocket too," he added.

MUMBAI (Web Desk) Sonam Kapoor, who has stepped into the shoes of Rekha for the remake version of  Khoobsurat , says she cannot do justice to what the veteran actress did in the original film.

 Khoobsurat  is the remake of Hrishikesh Mukherjee s cult comedy which featured Rekha in the lead role and Sonam is aware that her version will draw comparisons with the old classic.

"I don t think I can do justice to what Rekha has done. This film is an ode to Hrishikesh Mukherjee s filmmaking," Sonam, 29, told reporter here at the trailer launch of the film.

"There are very few films that have been wholesome entertainers and have great value. Hrishikesh Mukherjee s films appealed to all as they were fun films with a message. Today such films are made by Raju Hirani," Sonam said.

She thinks the 1980 release will be relevant even now as things like love, happiness and family values remain the same. In the film, Sonam plays Mili, a spirited young girl, who creates ripples in an order-crazy royal family.

"I am more like this character in real life. This is my personality. Rhea (her sister who has produced the film) and Shashanka (director) have taken a lot of me in this film. They have exposed my life completely," Sonam said.

The film is set to release on September 19 and Sonam is nervous as well as excited about it.

"It is a huge responsibility but it was exciting to work on this film," Sonam said. The movie marks the Bollywood debut of popular Pakistani actor-singer Fawad Khan. The original film had Rakesh Roshan as the male lead.

The film also stars Kirron Kher, Ratna Pathak and others. It is produced by Disney, Sonam s sister Rhea Kapoor and her father Anil Kapoor and is directed by Shashanka Ghosh.