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Big decision in RSS: Arun Kumar to be pointman for BJP

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Posted By: Gopi
July 11, 2021

Big decision in RSS: Arun Kumar to be pointman for BJP

By Navneet Mishra

New Delhi, July 11 (SocialNews.XYZ) The liaison and coordination between the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the BJP will now be headed by Sah Sarkaryavah (Joint General Secretary) Arun Kumar. Till now this responsibility was being looked after by Sah Sarkaryavah Krishna Gopal.


 

Another important change has taken place in the RSS as Pradeep Joshi, the regional pracharak of Odisha and Bengal, has been given the responsibility of All India Co-Sampark Pramukh. This decision was taken in the ongoing All India Pracharak meeting of RSS in Chitrakoot. A senior RSS functionary gave information about these appointments in a conversation with IANS.

Actually, there has been a change of leadership in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak last March. In the meeting of All India Pratinidhi Sabha held in March, Dattatreya Hosabale was elected as the new Assistant Secretary General after Suresh Bhaiyyaji Joshi was relieved. At that time Hosabale also announced his new team. Since then it was believed that the new face might get a chance in place of Sah Sarkaryavah (Joint General Secretary) Krishna Gopal, who is looking after the responsibility of coordination between the Sangh and the BJP.

There was speculation that Hosabale would hand over this responsibility to a co-sarkaryavah in the new team. Meanwhile, in the ongoing Chitrakoot meeting in the presence of Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat, Arun Kumar was elected on Sunday for the responsibility of liaisoning with the BJP from the Sangh. Significantly, Arun Kumar was elected as Sah Sarkaryavah in March itself. Now he will also have the responsibility of coordination between the Sangh and the BJP.

The responsibility of coordination between the BJP and the Sangh is considered very crucial. The opinion of the liaison officer of the Sangh gets a lot of importance on every issue related to the BJP. This was the reason that many decisions of Krishna Gopal were also important in the BJP’s politics. Sources say that the Sangh communicates its intention to the BJP leadership only through the liaison officer.

Source: IANS


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Jordan Peele’s Next Movie Has a Perfect Horror Title

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Though Jordan Peele’s upcoming project with Universal’s been shrouded in mystery, the director’s track record of making imaginative, ambitious horror movies has given many people more than enough reason to get excited. From the looks of the movie’s new poster and the subtext of its title, that excitement might end up being justified.

Apropos of it being Thursday, Peele took to his Twitter account to share the first poster for Nope, a new film set to star Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out, Black Panther), Keke Palmer (Scream Queens, Scream), and Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead, Invincible). While the poster is simple and its visuals clearly don’t tell Nope’s whole story, an ominous storm cloud (perhaps from space, given the starry night sky) terrorizing a city of people seems very much like the strange sort of premise Peele could build a story around—and manage to scare the crap out of people with.

Ominous as Nope’s poster is, the movie’s title similarly sets a foreboding tone, both because of its simplicity, and its implication that “nope” is a word that may come to mind for some of its characters as they encounter a weird-looking cloud that seems to have taken hold of a flag garland. In both of Peele’s previous films, when people have been confronted with strange, dangerous, and seemingly supernatural things, there’s always been someone around to express the anxieties the audience feels as they watch it all play out. “Nope” can mean a lot of things, but given the way the movie’s being framed, it’s almost certainly going to be an idea on its characters’ minds when the movie hits theaters July 22, 2022. (Horror fans, however, just might find themselves saying “Hell yeah!”)

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With two new movies, Ted Bundy is the ‘Boogeyman’ who won’t go away

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‘Malik’ movie review: Fahadh Faasil drama stops just short of soaring high

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When the end credits of some films roll up, we wonder how little we know about the protagonist, other than probably the person’s external appearance. Malik’s opening sequence, stretched over an uninterrupted ten minutes, exists in a diametrically opposite world, where establishing the character and painting his various hues before the narrative takes off, is paramount.

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In those frenetic opening minutes, when Ahammadali Sulaiman (Fahadh Faasil) is preparing to leave for his Hajj pilgrimage, we get hints of his chequered past, the tone of his relationships with his family as well as some powerful people, his stature as a revered and feared leader of the local Muslim population, and finally, his uncertain future. That character sketch is so arresting that we almost don’t pay attention to the fact that the shot was uninterrupted — which is how good cinematography should be — unobtrusive and non-gimmicky.

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After the immensely successful Take Off and C U Soon, writer and director Mahesh Narayanan ups the game in his third outing Malik, with a multi-layered narrative weaved around a manufactured conflict between two communities, which leads to much bloodshed. The central conflict here hinges around Sulaiman aka Ali Ikka, who is arrested from the airport for an old terrorism-related charge. The police wants him eliminated, for there is much bad blood between him and the force, but it is easier said that done.

The writer certainly has drawn elements from a riot and police shootings, which happened on the Kerala coast some years back, although the film does not claim to be a real-life narrative. Rather, the film has more similarities to traditional gangster narratives, and recent films like Vetrimaaran’s Vada Chennai, with its portrayal of the relatively innocent days of the protagonists, the slow shift into the sale of smuggled goods, the natural animosities that are created in this line of business, and the betrayals that follow. The resultant predictability coming from this familiar structure though, does not mar the experience much.

Malik is also a story of the evolving relationships between the local communities in the adjacent coastal villages of Ramadapally and Edavathura, and the colourful characters who populate these shores. Almost all of them get interesting character arcs, be it Ali’s wife Roseline (Nimisha Sajayan), her brother and Ali’s friend-turned-foe David (Vinay Forrt) or Abu (Dileesh Pothan), who transforms from an affable local smuggler to a scheming politician. Though Ali towers over the local population, he is hardly ever larger-than-life; we are aware of his frailties and get a feeling that he could fall.

The script subtly looks at how extremists as well as power-hungry elements in every religion try to create and widen fissures with other communities and pour oil into simmering tensions, all for their own narrow benefits. At the same time, the script takes special care in separating Ali from these elements, despite his violent past. It seems to create a thin veneer of justification for his acts being in the larger interests of the people, rather than for his own purpose. Some other convenient takes, like blaming the police for almost the entire bloodshed, stops the film just short of soaring high.

Malik is envisioned and executed as a mass entertainer on a larger scale (and for a larger screen), with Sanu Varghese’s camera and Sushin Shyam’s background score taking it up a few notches. Ultimately, Mahesh Narayanan is here stay, irrespective of whether the scale or screen is large or small.

Malik is currently streaming on Amazon Prime


 

Where to watch outdoor movies in the D.C. area

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Details: The soccer field at Marie Reed Elementary School provides Adams Morgan with one of the most comfortable outdoor movie experiences in the area. Viewers are free to lay out blankets on the turf in front of the big screen, but if you don’t want to roll the dice on a late arrival’s head blocking your view, you can choose to relax on the terraced, bleacher-style seating overlooking the field. This year’s five-week series has a “Made in D.C.” theme. It kicks off with the punk documentary “Punk the Capitol” — including a pre-show discussion with the filmmakers — and includes films shot in Washington, such as “In The Line of Fire,” and concludes with “All the President’s Men,” which will be shown on the 45th anniversary of President Richard M. Nixon’s resignation. The field opens at 7 p.m., and films begin around a half-hour after sundown. Picnics are welcome, and some nearby restaurants, including Tryst and Spacycloud, are offering “Brown Bag Movie Meals” to go.

The New Horror Film From the Team Behind Sinister Looks Terrifying

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When you direct a Marvel movie that makes almost $700 million, that tends to be what most people know you for. And such is the case with director Scott Derrickson whose 2016 film, Doctor Strange, is still as pertinent a part of the MCU today as it was then. Before Strange, though, Derrickson was known for horror movies: The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Deliver Us From Evil and, most famously, Sinister.

Well, though he was poised to direct Doctor Strange 2, Derrickson famously stepped away from that project and went back to his roots. His new film is called The Black Phone and, up until now, no one had seen anything from it. But Universal Pictures and Blumhouse debuted a trailer at CinemaCon 2021 and the film looks like it’s going to be absolutely terrifying.

The Black Phone is based on a 2004 short story by Joe Hill, a.k.a. Stephen King’s son, so there’s a chance some of you know the story,and what to expect. I did not know either though so, as the footage unfurled, I was entranced.  The Black Phone is about a young boy who lives in a town where lots of kids have been kidnapped. And so the trailer begins with the boy and a young girl looking at all the sad “Missing” posters around town. They then run into a man who drives a van that says “Abracadabra” on it. This man is played by Ethan Hawke, who worked with Derrickson on Sinister and told audiences at Cinemacon before the trailer ran that, though he has a rule to never play villains, he made an exception for this movie.

As the trailer continues, Hawke’s character gets out of his truck (appearing to have some kind of white makeup on), and drops his groceries. The young boy attempts to help him as the man explains he’s a part time magician. A few of his black balloons fly to the sky. The man then says to the boy “Do you want to see a magic trick?” It’s all very Joker. And welp, wouldn’t you know it, that part time magician is the person who has been kidnapping all those kids! We see the boy wake up in some desolate room, with nothing but a bed and a black phone. The magician is standing in the door in a creepy kabuki mask. “The phone doesn’t work,” he tells the boy. Next we see the girl from the beginning explaining that she had a dream about this magician. She mentions the black balloons, which the police admit is not a detail she could have known, suggesting that there’s something more mythical going on here.

Back back in captivity, the phone in the boy’s room rings—despite the fact that it’s disconnected, and that the magician said it wouldn’t work. The boy picks up. It’s one of the magician’s victims, calling from beyond the grave, with a clue to how to escape. The boy keeps getting calls from other dead victims, each providing him clues as to how to escape. As this is happening, his young friend is still having dreams about the magician, and the ghosts of the dead kids start showing up there too. All of which leads to the trailer culminating in an escape attempt gone wrong—with lots of screaming, and even more questions.

It’s a fascinating, terrifying premise for a film. One that, from Derrickson and writing partner Robert Cargill, based on Hill’s work, could be something special. We’ll find out more when The Black Phone opens in theaters January 28, 2022.

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How Jennifer Hudson Prepared to Play Aretha Franklin

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Jennifer Hudson had plenty of time to think about how to portray Aretha Franklin onscreen. In 2007, soon after Hudson won the Academy Award for best supporting actress — for playing a girl-group singer in “Dreamgirls” — Franklin told Hudson she should play her in a biopic, starting a decade-long friendship filled with weekly conversations.

Like Franklin, Hudson grew up singing in church, and she has poured gospel virtuosity into pop songs. And like Franklin, whose mother died at 34 of a heart attack, Hudson experienced sudden, devastating loss: her mother, brother and nephew were murdered in Chicago in 2008. In her career, Hudson has repeatedly paid tribute to Franklin, from using a Franklin song for her “American Idol” audition in 2004 to singing “Amazing Grace” at Franklin’s funeral in 2018. Now, Hudson is playing Franklin in the biopic “Respect” that comes to theaters this week.

“Every artist, every musician, you’ve got to cross paths with Aretha, especially if you want to be great,” Hudson said in a video interview from Chicago, where she lives; her gray cat, Macavity, prowled in the background. “She’s always been present in my life in some form, even when I didn’t know it.”

As Hudson explained the choices that went into her performance, she said that through the movie, she came to understand just how much of a “blueprint” Franklin was. “Our church music was based solely on her. The ‘Amazing Grace’ that I grew up singing in church came from her ‘Amazing Grace’ album. I didn’t realize that until we were doing research on the film.”

Spider-Man: No Way Home’s First Trailer Spins a Whole New Adventure

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His mentor is dead, his second mentor betrayed him, his identity was exposed, and the shock-jock to end all shock-jocks is on his back. Peter Parker has a tough time ahead of him in that tangled web his life has weaved. Well, turns out it’s about to get a whole lot messier. Sony and Marvel have just dropped the first trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home, the third entry in the two studios’ co-stewardship of the latest cinematic Spider-Man.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is very busy right now. We’ve ventured into the lives of Wanda Maximoff and Loki, we’ve found ourselves a brand new Captain America. What If is exploring the multiverse, and, and Shang-Chi is about to usher in the next age of Marvel movie heroes. But today Tom Holland’s latest solo outing as Spider-Man has given us a glimpse of what to expect, and it seems like Peter Parker’s not quite so happy to be a very public face of that new age.

In the wake of Mysterio’s exposure of his true identity, Peter and his friends and family find themselves in a new nightmare, but Peter’s got friends in high places these days—say, Sorcerers supreme. So when he pays a visit to Bleeker Street to see if there’s a way he can magic himself back to anonymity (but not entirely so, much to Doctor Strange’s chagrin), Peter finds himself getting so much more than he bargained for…

…An entire multiverse’s worth more, it would seem!

Spider-Man: No Way Home directed by Jon Watts, stars Tom Holland as Peter Parker, Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Stephen Strange, Zendaya as Mary Jane Watson, Jacob Batalon as Ned Leeds, and Marisa Tomei as Peter’s Aunt May. The cast also includes, as seen at the end of the trailer, Alfred Molina as Doctor Otto Octavius, as well as Jamie Foxx as Electro, and (purportedly) a whole host of returning faces from the Sam Raimi and Marc Webb Spider-Man films. The film is currently set to release in theaters December 17.

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife Early Reactions Call It ‘Nostalgia Done Right’

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Now that Ghostbusters: Afterlife has finally had its first screening, its viewers have gone to heaven. Or so it seems, according to the various critics who got an early look at director Jason Reitman’s follow-up to his father’s beloved 1984 classic movie, and who have practically nothing but nice things to say about the film. In fact, some of them seem to be outright swooning after watching Afterlife; it’s almost as if… busting makes them feel good.

Whether you’re excitedly looking forward to the movie or are still on the fence (and wondering what life the franchise still has left in it), these early reactions are nothing but good news. First, here’s our own Germain Lussier, who noted the film’s flaws didn’t affect his overall enjoyment of it:

Entertainment Weekly’s reporter Lauren Huff said that the film was an excellent mix of nostalgia and a new, stand-alone story, something echoed by a lot of the critics in their reactions:

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Scott Menzel, founder of the Hollywood Critics Association and clearly a fan of the original Ghostbusters, was even more effusive in his praise:

Full Circle film critic and filmmaker James P. Poole called Afterlife the best movie in the entire Ghostbusters franchise.

Eclipse Magazine’s Michelle Alexandria wants people to get hyped.

The Wrap’s Beatrice Verhoeven found much to enjoy.

…and other critics, both large and small, couldn’t say enough nice things about it (because of the character limit on Twitter, if nothing else). So all-in-all, things are looking very good for old Ghostbusters fans and young Ghostbusters fans-to-be.

Ghostbusters: Afterlife is about a family who moves to a small rural town and discovers they have a link to the original Ghostbusters. It stars Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, and Paul Rudd, as well as original movie cast members Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Ernie Hudson, and Annie Potts. After myriad delays, the movie will finally premiere in theaters on November 11.

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Mystery ‘Spider-Man’ trailer has fans in a frenzy

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By Frank Pallotta, CNN Business

Updated 11:21 PM ET, Mon August 23, 2021

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