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Friday, 21 January 2011 15:00 |
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 Bollywood Media Buzz: According to Berlin film festival organizer, Bollywood Mr. Perfect Aamir Khan will bring some Indian spice to the jury at the 61st Berlin film festival next month.
The 61st Berlin film festival is scheduled to held from February 10 to 20 in the German capital Berlin and Amir Khan will be one of the seven-person jury, which will be headed by Italian-American actress Isabella Rossellini.
The jury board will pick the Golden and Silver Bear prizes in the festival.
Australian film producer Jan Chapman, German actress Nina Hoss, Canadian film-maker Guy Maddin, British costume designer Sandy Powell and Iranian director Jafar Panahi complete the line-up.
However, Panahi's place on the jury will be left symbolically empty, as he was handed six years in jail in December and banned from making films or leaving Iran for 20 years.
In all, it features 22 films in its main programme including 16 in the running for the festival's prizes.
Khan, 44, has made a name for himself as one of the most bankable Bollywood stars on and off screen, shunning the conveyor belt of song and dance-laden films for more contemporary themes and unconventional subject matter.
As a producer, he is hoping it will be third time lucky at this year's Oscars, after his latest movie was chosen as India's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category.
Two other films he produced have previously been selected as India's official Oscar entry.
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Last Updated on Friday, 21 January 2011 23:17 |
