'Humshakals' Leads Golden Kela Awards With 5 Nominations

Multi-starrer 'Humshakals', which was critically-panned, is leading at the 7th Annual Golden Kela Awards nominations, with five nods including worst film, worst actor for Saif Ali Khan and worst director for Sajid Khan.

Golden Kela Awards is an Indian version of Golden Raspberry Awards and honours the worst in Bollywood.

'Humshakals' is also nominated in the category of 'most atrocious lyrics' and for 'Baawra Ho Gaya Hai Ke' award.

Action masala film 'Action Jackson' is not far behind with four nominations, including worst film, worst actor for Ajay Devgn, worst actress for Sonakshi Sinha and worst director for Prabhu Deva.

Other movies in the worst film category are Salman Khan-starrer 'Kick', 'Bang Hrithik Roshan-starrer Bang!' and Shah Rukh Khan-fronted 'Happy New Year', all three being hits at the box-office.

For his triple role in 'Humsahakals', Saif is competing for the worst actor title against Devgn for 'Action Jackson', Arjun Kapoor for 'Gunday' and everything else, Salman for 'Kick' and Rani Mukerji for her tough cop act in 'Mardaani'.

'Humshakals' helmer Sajid is vying for the worst director spot with Prabhu Deva for 'Singham Returns', Rohit Shetty 'Singham Returns', Sajid Nadiadwala 'Kick' and Siddharth Anand 'Bang Bang!'.

Sonakshi is the front-runner in the worst actress category as she has been nominated not only for 'Action Jackson' but also for her work in Tamil superstar Rajinikanth-starrer 'Lingaa' and 'Holiday'.

She is competing against Katrina Kaif ('Bang Bang!'), Sonam Kapoor for Everything She Did, Tamannah Bhatia for 'Entertainment' and Jacqueline Fernandes for 'Kick'.

Hit numbers of 2014 like 'Blue Hai Paani Paani' ('Yaariyan'), 'Yaar na Miley' ('Kick'), 'Baby Doll' ('Ragini MMS 2'), 'Galliyan' ('Ek Villain') and 'Tu Mera' ('Bang Bang!') have been nominated for the most irritating song of the year.

Nominees for most atrocious lyrics are — Sameer for 'Caller Tune' ('Humshakals'), Shabbir Ahmed for 'Ice Cream' from 'The Xpose', Yo Yo Honey Singh for 'Blue hai Paani Paani' ('Yaariyan'), Vishal Dadlani for 'Tu Meri' ('Bang Bang!') and Mayur Puri for 'Johnny Johnny' ('Entertainment').

IPCC Chairman RK Pachauri Under Police Investigation For Alleged Sexual Harassment Of Subordinate

NEW DELHI: Police in Delhi have commenced investigation in a sexual harassment case under criminal and non-bailable charges against Rajendra Pachauri, the 75-year-old chairman of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The complainant is a 29-year old woman who works in his office at The Energy and Resources Institute, the research thinktank he heads as director general.

Pachauri is a globally influential voice on climate change and received the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of IPCC in 2007.

The complainant has worked in Pachauri's office for the past year and a half, and registered a complaint against him last week, alleging that he had sexually harassed her since September 2013. A first information report (FIR) was registered in the Lodhi Colony police station in Delhi on Wednesday.

The FIR, which has named Dr. Pachauri, has been filed under sections 354, 354A, 354D, and 506 of the Indian Penal Code which pertain to outraging the modesty of a woman, assault and criminal force on her, unwelcome physical contact or advances, and making sexually-coloured remarks. All of them are non-bailable offences and based on the evidence thrown up by the investigation, police can move to arrest an accused.

Police sources told HuffPost India that they were in the preliminary stages of investigation and were as yet recording statements. An arrest at this stage would be unlikely, they said. Forensic evidence is also being gathered in the case. The SHO of Lodhi Colony police station, Virender Singh Dalal, declined comment.

Pachauri has alleged that his computer and phone was hacked, in a response to The Economic Times, which first reported the story. Pachauri subsequently obtained an injunction from the Delhi high court, which has restrained the media from reporting on or discussing the details of the complaint.

Man Punches Self In Face, Claims Police Brutality

A California man has been found guilty of attempted coercion after falsely claiming police attacked him.

Lucerne resident Aleksander Robin Tomas­zewski, 33, was arrested Jan. 9 on charges of stalking and first-degree sexual abuse, the Register Guard reported.

During an interview that day, Tomaszewski said detectives assaulted him and said he wanted to press charges. His face was covered in bruises.

The suspect didn't count on surveillance video in his jail cell, however, which shows him pounding his own face more than 40 times. When confronted with the video that authorities released to the public Tuesday, Tomas­zewski told police he thought the complaint might get him an earlier release, Oregon Live reported.

Instead, Tomas­zewski will have to settle for both a bruised face and ego. He was found guilty of initiating a false police report last week and was sentenced to 20 days in jail and a $500 fine, the Associated Press reports.

Movie Mogul D Rama Naidu Passes Away

Telugu producer Daggubati Ramanaidu passed away this Wednesday afternoon in Hyderabad losing battle to cancer. Reports surfaced in January 2014 that the multilingual film producer was sick with prostrate cancer and was being treated at a Hyderabad’s private hospital. D Rama Naidu was 78 and is survived by his sons – Venkatesh, Suresh Babu and his grandchild Rana. The sudden demise has left the whole tollywood celebs and fans in shock. Born on 6th June 1936 in Andhra Pradesh in the district of Karamchedu, Rama Naidu did many odd jobs for living such as bus transport business and rice mill business before he finally got in to the movie industry. The launch of a production agency called Shambu Films in his area was what that attracted him towards films.

He became friends with late actor Akkineni Nageshwara Rao when he was taking care of the shoot arrangements. After being acquainted with some other actors, he launched his own productions agency by the name of Suresh Productions in collaboration with his old friends Subba Rao and G Rajendra Prasad. The first movie that came out was in 1964 – “Raamudu Bheemudu”. The movie was a great hit then. Since then, Rama Naidu never looked back. Later on he directed and produced a number of movies in Telugu most of which were blockbuster hits. Other languages in which he produced movies are Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Punjabi, English, Oriya and Malyalam. Probably, there is only one film producer who has worked in multiple languages. D Rama Naidu got his name in the Guinness Book of World records for most number of movies produced by an individual. He produced a total of 150 movies in 13 different languages.

His outstanding work won him the Dada Saheb Phalke Award for lifetime achievement. For his enormous contribution to the Telugu industry he received Padma Bhushan in 2012. Rama Naidu also got to serve as Member of Parliament at Guntur district for the Bapatala constituency during 13th lok sabha elections in 1994. He served till 2004. He devoted a great part of his earnings to generous purposes including the trust he founded in 1991 – “Ramanaidu Charitable Trust”. His death came as a shock to his fans across the globe and a number of fans took to social media to express their condolences to his family and offer prayers. 

His death has shocked many across the globe. Soon after the news of his sudden demise broke out, many of his fans took to their Twitter pages and offered prayers to his departed soul and expressed condolences to his family.

Will India beat South Africa this time?

In Cricket world cup history, India has faced South africa three times and never did win a game. So, this world cup, we have to wait and see who will triumph. India will face south africa in Melbourne, on sun 22nd Feb.