Bollywood Film Spotlights Youngest Girl to Conquer Everest
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Lifestyle FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2017 Bollywood film spotlights youngest girl to conquer Everest In this file photo, Disney Frozen Feature Fashion Dolls are displayed at the Mattel booth at the American International Toy Fair in New York. —AP Indian mountaineer Poorna Malavath attends the screening of upcoming Hindi film ‘Poorna’ in Mumbai on March 27, 2017. — AFP Bollywood film hitting Indian cinemas today tells the inspirational story of a tribal girl from rural AIndia who became the youngest woman to sum- mit Mount Everest. Poorna Malavath was 13 years and 11 months old when she planted India’s tricolour flag on the top of the world’s highest mountain on May 25, 2014. isney’s animated phenomenon, was more in line with the Hans Christian with Elsa using her powers to save the Malavath’s remarkable journey from a remote, backward “Frozen,” may not have been a Andersen tale on which it’s based. kingdom, but Del Vecho says the charac- Adivasi tribal village to the record books inspired film- Dheartwarming tale of sisterly love Del Vecho says princess sisters Anna ter’s evilness gave them “no emotional maker Rahul Bose to produce, direct and act in the if its creators stuck to the film’s original and Elsa weren’t related in early scripts. connection” to her. biopic, which is simply titled “Poorna”. “A 13-year-old girl planned ending. “Frozen” producer He says “Elsa was a self-proclaimed The filmmakers finally got things scaling Mount Everest was improbable in itself because Peter Del Vecho tells Entertainment Snow Queen, but she was a villain and right after reworking the script. A sequel here was a poor, uneducated girl from Telangana (state), Weekly the original version of the film pure evil.”The drafts included a finale to the film is in production. — AP which does not even have a mound, forget a mountain,” Bose told AFP. The director said he wanted to show the “sheer physi- cal danger” that Malavath put herself through reaching Tom Cruise cajoled ‘The Mummy’ cast to do own stunts the 8,848-metre summit in Nepal. “But I also wanted to make the film which spotlights what it’s like to be a girl, om Cruise is known for performing the star was a lot of fun, but a “terrifying” uneducated, Adivasi, and poor. These are four big strikes his own death-defying stunts in his experience. “We jump off buildings and against a person and to cross these are big hurdles,” he Taction movies-but the cast of hor- towns explode, and Tom really does it all, added. Malavath is the daughter of agricultural labourers. ror blockbuster “The Mummy” revealed and he insists his cast do it too, and I say Her journey started when she was selected to be part of Wednesday he’s started roping in his co- the word ‘makes,’” said Johnson, 38, at an extra-curricular rock climbing initiative for tribal stars. Annabelle Wallis told the the start Universal’s presentation of its schools, run by the state government, which was then CinemaCon convention Cruise convinced upcoming slate of movies. “Yes, I got hurt. part of Andhra Pradesh. her to join him in a terrifying zero gravity My character dies, I almost died. We’d do Bose plays R. S Praveen, who started the initiative, and plane crash stunt, when the scene could a stunt and it would hurt, and I’m like, ‘I became Malavath’s mentor. Praveen and the climbing easily have been filmed in front of a think something went wrong because it instructor, who himself had summited Everest, arranged green screen. hurt’ and he’d go ‘Well yeah-we jumped for Malavath and some other children to go to India’s “Tom is renowned for making sure off a building, dummy.’” mountainous north-eastern state of Darjeeling to that the audience gets the most out of “The Mummy,” which opens on June 9, improve their skills. Praveen then decided he wanted to their cinematic experience,” Wallis, 32, Tom Cruise tells the story of an ancient princess who arrange for an Adivasi girl to attempt Everest to inspire told an audience at the annual Las Vegas tude flights over two days, leading to “a is awakened from her crypt beneath the tribal families about the potential of their children. gathering for movie theater operators. lot of barfing,” according to writer and desert and unleashes a malevolence that Malavath was chosen and summited along with a “So when it came to doing this sequence director Alex Kurtzman. has grown over millennia. Sofia Boutella, teenage Dalit boy called Sadhanapally Anand Kumar. we had options to do it on a stage. Tom, Wallis (“X-Men: First Class”) revealed 34, (“Kingsmen,” “Star Trek Beyond”) takes Both were feted by the Indian media on their return. in his glory and slight madness, was that Cruise, in true action hero style, had on the role of the titular monster-a female “There is a line when Poorna says ‘girls can do anything’. I adamant that he wanted it to be done on no problems keeping down his lunch. for the first time in cinematic history. She would say the message is never give up and that every- a plane in zero gravity.” The scene Jake Johnson (“Jurassic World”), who revealed that she turned down one can overcome their own Everest,” said Bose. — AFP involved 64 takes during four high alti- plays Cruise’s sidekick, said working with Kurtzman’s job offer at first. — AFP Diesel fights back tears for friend Paul Walker in Diesel choked back tears on emotions. “There’s something beautiful hotel. In “The Fate of the Furious,” due to Wednesday as he paid an emotional about that. There’s something celebratory hit theaters on April 14, a mysterious Vtribute to his dead “The Fast and about that... I always feel like he’s looking woman seduces Diesel’s Dominic Toretto the Furious” co-star Paul Walker at the down on us, so we didn’t want to let him into the criminal underworld. Diesel, now CinemaCon convention. The 49-year-old down.” Walker was 40 when he died in a a producer as well as star, confirmed a pre- Actor Vin Diesel revealed it was Walker who insisted there fiery single-vehicle crash in California in vious announcement that the series would speaks onstage at should be an eighth installment in the 2013, before the seventh film was extend to at least a tenth movie. “As the Universal Pictures’ $3.9 billion franchise, as he introduced released. Tyrese Gibson, who has been in world sees this movie, they’ll see how it’s presentation “The Fate of the Furious” at the gathering the high-octane franchise since “2 Fast, 2 the beginning of a new trilogy,” he said. featuring footage in Las Vegas. “Part of Paul’s legacy lives Furious” (2003), echoed Diesel’s tribute. Diesel and Gibson were joined onstage by from its upcoming through every frame that we shoot... You “The last time I was on this stage we Ludacris and newcomers Kurt Russell and slate at The are reminded of this angel that was so were here with Paul Walker. We move and Charlize Theron, before Universal delight- Colosseum at Caesars integral to this concept of brotherhood for operate in the memory of Paul Walker,” he ed the CinemaCon audience by premier- Palace during our millennium,” Diesel said, fighting his told the crowd at the Caesar’s Palace ing the movie. — AFP CinemaCon. —AFP.