www.Asia Times.US Chicago Edition Email: [email protected] January 2016 Vol 7, Issue 1 HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016 January 2016 www.Asia Times . US PAGE 2 Hyderabadi Film Stars in Chicago “Hyderabad is Known Globally for Its Hilarious Comedy Films, Not Merely for Biryani”-Mast Ali, Aziz Naser, and Other Hyderabad Film Stars of Hyderabad Film Industry in a Industry is cur- Press Conference in Chicago rently undergoing a metamorphosis; it is no longer con- Asian Media USA © fining itself to mak- Chicago IL: “The Hyderabad Film In- ing small budget dustry, even though only about 10 years films for its niche old, has churned out a series of comedy market. Instead, blockbusters and gained popularity not it is focusing on only in Andhra Pradesh and different producing typical parts of India but also among the large Bollywood films, Diaspora in the Middle-East and the US, which are rich in thanks to the Internet and DVDs”, said terms of exquisite Mast Ali, a. k. a. Saleem Pheku, the king quality, pan-India of comedy, who acted in over 20 high appeal, and high- impact making films in different lan- end technology”, guages and brought laurels to Hyderabad, said Aziz Naser, at a Press Conference held on December a. k. a. Jahangeer, 23, 2015,: 5.30 PM at Mysore Woodlands, another equally Devon Ave, Chicago. The Press Confer- popular and pow- ence was attended by a huge number of erful star. representatives from the Print, Electronic, culture of Hyderabad, focus mainly on trailer of the upcoming Hyderabadi and Internet Media. “It is a moment of pride that Dawat- delivering authentic entertainment for the film, ‘Dawat-e-Ishque’, produced by an e-Ishque’, a landmark Bollywood-type entire family”, he added. Australian-based duo, Samiullah Fayyaz “Our films entertained their audiences movie of the Hyderabad Film Industry, is and Syed Waseem Yaba, which features thoroughly, irrespective of their linguistic being released by Rajshree Productions The Ensuing Hilarious Comedy Show Mast Ali, Aziz Naser, and Adanan Sajid backgrounds, as the Hyderabadi Urdu, under its banner, with a big bang”, said “The stars of Hyderabad Film Industry Khan a. k. a. Gullu Dada, and three the lingua franca of the streets of Hy- Syed Hussain, Director of the film. will present a 90-minute Comedy Show, beautiful leading ladies, Kavya, Madhavi, derabad, which is a unique mix of Urdu, a charity-oriented event, on December and Manisha, will be released”, said Syed Hindi, Telugu, and some Marathi, is “The release of our film by Rajshree Pro- 29th, 2015, 8:00 PM onwards at North- Hussain, Director of the film. widely understood across the Indian Sub- ductions, which has produced a number shore Banquet Hall, Devon, Chicago. The continent, including in Pakistan”, added of blockbusters in India, will take the Show, comprising a unique combination Mast Ali, Aziz Naser, Syed Hussain, Mast Ali. Hyderabadi cinema up a notch like never of funny gags, mimicry, stand-ups, etc. Farhan Khan, and their team, including before and catapult it into the higher ech- will be laced with typical Hyderabadi- Layeeque Ahmed, Shoukat, and Keerthi Mast Ali said that the Hyderabad Film elons of film appreciation, added Hussain, style comedy”, said Mast Ali and Aziz thanked Iftekhar Shareef, a prominent Industry is currently in the growth mode with a sense of accomplishment. Naser. Businessman and Community leader, and, hence, there is a great demand for for sponsoring the Comedy Show and story writers, lyricists, singers, etc. “Cur- Feroz Khan, who has essayed a nega- “The Show will be our tribute to the helping them out in a variety of ways in rently, we are caught up in all the depart- tive role in “Dawat-e-Ishque” said that worth-emulating success of people of Hy- Chicago as well as in Hyderabad. ments of film making. Once the demand Hyderabadi cinema has come to attain derabad in the US. Hyderabad has been for different professionals is met, we can the status of a genre unto itself, not just the capital of comedy for decades and we Iftekhar Shareef requested all the Indian focus on our core job of acting and on considering the typical lingo of the City hope that the Show will be instrumental Americans belonging to the Indian Sub- producing high-quality films according to of Pearls, but even given the culture and in further improving the relations among continent in general and Telengana State the felt needs of our audience, across the traditions of the Deccan. the people of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, in particular to attend the Comedy Show, globe”, he added. and Sri Lanka”, they added. in large numbers. “Our films, which deliberately shun “It is a matter of gratification that the vulgarity and item songs, considering the “On the occasion of the Show, the January 2016 www.Asia Times . US PAGE 3 Asia Times US Congress could have averted ISSN 2159-9645 Publisher/ 2014 debacle if Pranab had Editor-in-Chief Azeem A. Quadeer, P.E. 219-588-1538 become PM: Salman Khurshid EditorAsiaTimes @gmail.com Midwest Bureau Engr. Mujeeb A. Osman mamujeebbs@yahoo. com New York Bureau Hk. Mohammad Hussain [email protected] Indianapolis Bureau Syed Firasath Ali [email protected] Contributing writers Dr Azher Quader Chicago M. A. Waheed New York Engr. Faiz-Al-Najdi, Riyadh Advertisements EditorAsiaTimes@gmail. New Delhi: Manmohan Singh’s selection over vanquished and repudiated warriors. com Pranab Mukherjee in 2004 to head the UPA “As external affairs minister, I had a pretty free government came as a surprise not only to run on most matters, with the prime minister “We were the past and it only remained to Asia Times US is the Congress but also to outsiders and many taking special interest in the neighbourhood, become ‘shadows of the past’. Such was the published monthly argue the party might have averted the 2014 our rediscovery of America, the millennium sombre mood in the Congress then,” he says. Copyright 2016 Lok Sabha drubbing if the choice had been conversation with China and the excitement All rights reserved as to otherwise, says former Union minister Salman of keeping pace with Japan. He also feels Congress is in the midst of a very the entire content Khurshid. serious existential crisis. “I recall just once when Dr Singh gently Asia Times US does not “It’s always easy to be wise after the worst chastised me for a press comment indicat- “Some people label it as ‘leadership in crisis’; necessarily has happened. We must not forget the whole ing we could not provide lethal weapons to others believe it is about political content that endorse views nation had applauded Dr Manmohan Singh Afghanistan. It came in the wake of repeated the country has outgrown; and yet others have expressed by the authors as the game-changer finance minister during prodding by (Afghan) President Hamid Kar- the stock explanation of being out of touch in the their articles the Narasimha Rao regime (June 1991 to May zai, although he never did make an issue of it,” with the grassroots.” 1996). Khurshid says. According to Khurshid, both Sonia and Rahul “But when Dr Singh contested the 1999 Lok Khurshid felt there was “no harm in being Gandhi are, however, popularly endorsed and Sabha polls from what was thought to be the candid about our principled position from elected leaders of the Congress and there is safest seat in the country for him, South Delhi, which there was no likelihood of departure. no one even remotely equipped to provide he was defeated by a candidate whose name This was despite the fact that military person- alternative leadership. He says through his many would scarce recall (It was Professor nel had told me we had innumerable tanks in book, he would like to set the record straight Vijay Kumar Malhotra of the BJP),” writes reserve that were unlikely to be used by the because the truth must prevail over the Khurshid in his new book “The Other Side of army again, which could be refurbished with- widespread falsehood spread over the past few the Mountain” and describes it as a concise out great expense”. years. US biography not of one person but of the many who were part of the UPA. “The soft-spoken prime minister advised me: Allegations of scams like the 2G spectrum, the ‘President Karzai is a suspicious man. You 2010 Commonwealth Games and Coalgate However, the former External Affairs Minister have to be careful as the foreign minister’. considerably tainted the UPA’s image. says that after some initial reluctance, not only I mumbled and left the matter there, quite was Sonia Gandhi’s decision to choose him to certain some busybody had carried the tale to “But in all the charges that were made and lead the UPA-I widely welcomed but was “also the prime minister and he felt obliged to flag investigated by various law-enforcement proved correct by the electoral verdict five it,” writes Khurshid. agencies, there was not a whisper of money years later, when we were returned to power exchanging hands or any disproportionate with a greater majority”. The book began to take shape soon after the assets found in the possession of the accused results of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections were politician or the civil servant accused of mis- Asia Times Asia Khurshid, who had served as external affairs announced on 16 May and “we - the ministers demeanour or a similar offence. minister in UPA-II, says he was lucky to have in the UPA - returned to New Delhi from the the confidence of the incumbent prime minis- electoral battlefields spread across the coun- “Simply because a decision was wrong or [email protected] ter though Singh once “gently chastised” him try as though we were phantoms in a twilight would have been taken differently by another for FREE Subscription Email to: Email to: FREE Subscription for for a comment made before the media indicat- z o n e”.