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In this file photograph taken on February 11, 2013 Indian Bollywood actor Uday Chopra poses dur- In this file photograph Indian producer Uday Chopra, (right), Spanish actress Paz Vega, (second right), ing the unveiling of a UTV STARS walk of the stars brass statue of his father, the late Bollywood leg- Australian actress (second left) and French Director Olivier Dahan pose during a photocall endary filmmaker, script writer, and film producer in . — AP photos for the film ‘Grace of Monaco’ at the 67th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. he scion of a Bollywood filmmaking dynasty would be lucky to get the success they enjoy, and means big budgets and big stars.” Chopra then Ambani’s Reliance Entertainment are the best- “Grace of Monaco”, the opening film at Cannes, is forging a career in Hollywood in a bid to I will always be looked upon as the third Chopra in opened up to new possibilities, and one of his known production companies. The latter has have been far from complimentary, describing it Temerge from the shadows of his legendary a way,” the 41-year-old told AFP in Mumbai, ’s upcoming projects is “a female-centric thriller invested in Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks as “airless”, “fantastically silly” and even a “fire risk”. father-and challenge common stereotypes of entertainment capital where he was born. “I want- based in India”. “It’s a completely American movie Studios to produce films such as “Lincoln”, “The Chopra admits that the criticism hit him hard and India. Uday Chopra, younger son of the late Hindi ed to do something challenging and be a part of but with India as a backdrop. I can leverage my Help” and “War Horse”. Chopra said Hollywood has affected the movie’s success. film director Yash Chopra, set up a subsidiary of filmmaking because that is all I know.” strength in India as a line producer,” he said. He players often assumed he was as rich as Reliance “Maybe Cannes was the wrong platform for a his father’s production house in Los Angeles and His father, who died in 2012, was best known wants the film to portray India “in a dark and gritty and would therefore “throw money at them and fairytale film with a happy ending,” he said. “We this year appeared on the Cannes Film Festival red for his romantic and emotional films in a stellar way” and challenge typical perceptions of the they can go ahead and make their movie. are independent producers, but the content we carpet alongside Nicole Kidman. His three-year- Bollywood career that spanned decades. Uday has country. “People in the West think ‘Slumdog “Or they think you are this Indian guy coming are creating is more mainstream and commercial old company (YRF) Entertainment also acted in Bollywood and is best known for his Millionaire’ is a Bollywood film and they have that to Hollywood to throw big parties, make some in nature, to make money to engage a larger audi- co-produced the recent “Grace of Monaco” star- role as police sidekick Ali in the hit Indian fran- one image of India-dirty and crazy,” he added, statements and then never return. I don’t fit into ence.” For now, Chopra wants to keep investing in ring Kidman, upcoming Jason Bateman comedy chise “”-and he wants to invest in commer- referring to the Oscar-winner directed by Britain’s either one of those categories,” he said. Chopra, international films, but the long-term plan is to “The Longest Week” and is finalizing the script of cial hits in Hollywood rather than festival features. Danny Boyle. who divides his time between America, India and wholly produce and generate his own Hollywood “Seducing Ingrid Bergman”. “When I first went to LA, the idea was to do elsewhere, says he nevertheless enjoys the stories under the YRF Entertainment banner. He The job has made Chopra one of only a hand- romantic comedies because that’s a genre we From Bollywood to Hollywood anonymity he gets in Los Angeles. “One day I says if his budget runs out he will head back to ful of Indians in Hollywood, where he hopes to have done successfully in India,” he said. While Bollywood has often been accused of should shave my head bald, wear all white and go India-but he is hopeful that America’s Tinseltown match the success of his father and award-win- “I thought I would convert some of my Hindi ripping off plotlines from Hollywood, India has a to a meeting and say this is how we are in India. will be the place he makes his mark. “Hopefully by ning filmmaker brother, , back material to English but I soon realized that come- limited presence in the US industry, where Ashok They would probably think I am so exotic and next year things will turn around, and if that hap- home. “I know that even in my greatest success I dies are in the space of the big studios, which Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment and Anil would want to work with me.” The reviews of pens I will be there forever.” — AFP

James Hetfield, left and Kirk Hammett, right from US band Metallica perform at Glastonbury music festival, England, Saturday. — AP Fans enjoy the music Britain’s Glastonbury as US singer Dolly Parton performs on the Pyramid Stage, on embraces Metallica’s the final day of the Glastonbury Festival of Music and ‘heavier side’ Performing Arts on Worthy Farm in etallica rocked Glastonbury on Saturday night, confound- Somerset, southwest ing critics who said heavy metal had no place at Britain’s England, on June 29, Mbiggest music festival. After opening with “Creeping Death” 2014. — AFP photos and “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” front man James Hetfield said they were representing “the heavier side of music” at the festival held on a farm in rural southwest England. Both fans and newcomers to metal enthusiastically welcomed Dolly Parton draws biggest songs like “One” and “Enter Sandman” in the Pyramid Stage per- formance. The choice of the US group, which has sold more than 120 million records, for the prestigious Saturday headline slot had been controversial. Some of the 135,000 festival goers complained that their music did not fit into Glastonbury’s hippy ethos. Others crowd at UK’s Glastonbury said Hetfield’s narration of a TV show about bear hunting did not fit the event’s environmental culture. ountry music star Dolly Parton drew the Backstage, Parton was given an award to recognize Hetfield answered both counts in the one hour 40 minutes per- biggest crowd of Britain’s Glastonbury music her selling 100 million albums over a career that has formance. He said all types of music were represented at Cfestival on Sunday, regaling the dusty crowd spanned five decades. Glastonbury, “so why not heavy rock.” And a film at the start of the with hits while dressed in a white diamante suit. Parton’s much-anticipated performance marked performance took a humorous swipe at the hunting controversy. It Over 100,000 people are believed to have seen the final day of the festival, where heavy metal band showed a traditional English fox hunt ending with the red-jacketed Parton perform hit songs such as 9 to 5, Jolene and Metallica played on Saturday. The 68-year old star huntsmen being shot by bears, revealed to be the members of Coat of Many Colors, her publicists said in a state- performed a song about mud that she wrote for the Metallica in costume. ment after the show. Parton told the crowd it was an five-day festival, which is notorious for its ground Both the criticism and response echoed 2008 when rapper Jay-Z “honor and a thrill” to perform at the festival. “I’ve turning to deep sludge when it rains. headlined Glastonbury. The hip-hop superstar won over the crowd been waiting a lifetime for this and of course we “I thought I had to write a song about the with a blistering performance that was not without humorous want all of you to have the best time,” she said. Glastonbury mud, even though the sun’s shining touches: he opened by singing Oasis song “Wonderwall,” a tongue- The crowds chanted Parton’s name and clapped today,” Parton told a press conference before her in-cheek rebuke to the band’s Noel Gallagher who had said rap and danced as she performed, with some fans performance. The star said she felt at home at the should not top the bill. Metallica’s performance also impressed dressed up as the glamorous musician in tribute. All festival-which is held on Worthy Farm in the Richie Sambora of US rock group Bon Jovi joins US singer many of the merely curious in the crowd. walkways leading to the Pyramid Stage where Somerset countryside-because of her upbringing in Dolly Parton on the Pyramid Stage, on the final day of the “I was not a fan, but I might be now,” said Helen Langton from Parton performed were full, and some festival-goers rural Tennessee. “I’m just a country girl and now I feel Glastonbury Festival of Music and Performing Arts on Stratford-upon-Avon in the Midlands, adding that they were “bril- complained they could not see the diminutive star. like a rock star,” she said. — AFP Worthy Farm in Somerset, southwest England. — AFP liant, amazing.” Ian Bates, from Chesterfield, North England, said they cracked it, despite half of the audience not knowing their songs. “If you are going to have a heavy rock band, they are the ones,” he said. Ending with “Seek and Destroy”, Hetfield shouted: Wonder pays tribute to “Metallica and Glastonbury, together at last.” He thanked Michael Eavis, the 78-year old founder of the event that started in 1970. Eavis had defended the bill toppers, telling the Womack at London Calling BBC earlier this month: “There’s no other band in the whole history of the festival that has been so keen to play. They will do the best tevie Wonder paid tribute to the late Bobby love” according to the musician. set of their lives here.” — Reuters Womack as he closed the Calling Festival in The 64-year-old star performed a hit-filled set SLondon on Sunday night. The soul legend with highlights including ‘Signed, Sealed, sent his “condolences” to Bobby’s grieving family Delivered I’m Yours’, ‘Sir Duke’, ‘Master Blaster’ and following his passing last Friday at the age of 70 ‘Sunshine of My Life’. At one stage Stevie led the and then covered his track ‘If You Think You’re crowd in an A cappella version of ‘Ebony and Lonely Now’ at the music event held on Clapham Ivory’ - the track about racial harmony he record- Common. Speaking to the crowd, Stevie said: “It’s ed with Sir Paul McCartney in 1982 - and a sing- always a painful thing when we lose someone in along to ‘My Cherie Amour’. this industry, but each time we lose someone, we He later joked with the crowd by claiming he can say we are left with their musical history ... I was actually British and just looked like Stevie want to give my condolences to his family and Wonder. Speaking in an English accent, he said: A Metallica hope that he is in the best place spiritually. Please “I’m English actually, I’m from Brixton ... Most peo- band give a hand to Bobby Womack. “We picked out a ple think I’m Stevie Wonder ... People say, ‘Why member song we thought was appropriate.” At the begin- don’t you sing like Stevie Wonder? So I learnt his performs at ning of his set, Stevie came on stage playing his accent.” Stevie closed his set with fan favorite Glastonbury signature keytar and as he stepped out the dark ‘Superstition’ and before he exited the stage he music Steven Tyler of US band Aerosmith performs at the Calling festival in clouds and showers which had been threatening told the cheering crowd “remember I love you, festival. — AP London, Saturday. Thousands of music fans are expected at the week- to dampen spirits cleared and the sun shone on thank you” and then took a bow with his band end’s festival to see acts such as Aerosmith and Stevie Wonder. — AP him and his thousands of fans, a sign of “God’s and backing singers. —AP