Archive for August, 2005
Malam Puisi Utusan Ke-11 - Gabungkan Penyair Dan Artis
Oleh ANI AWANG
MALAM Puisi Utusan (MPU) ke-11 yang akan diadakan hari ini dan esok di Panggung Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur, Jalan Raja bakal menemukan para sasterawan, penyair, artis dan tokoh korporat untuk menyemarakkan kesenian negara.
Ia bertemakan Malam Puisi Merdeka sebagai satu usaha Kumpulan Utusan ke arah memartabatkan puisi kepada khalayak.
Antara penyair terkenal yang akan mengambil bahagian ialah Sasterawan Negara (SN) Datuk A. Samad Said, Shukri Abdullah, Khalid Salleh dan Siti Zaleha Hashim.
Datuk Johan Jaafar, Prof. Rahman Shaari, Datuk Dr. Firdaus Abdullah, Ku Amirul Faiz dengan Yang Tumpah Mengalir (Dharmawijaya) dan Lt. Kol. Mohd Radzi Abdul Hamid turut menjayakan malam puisi ini.
Ia dianjurkan bersama Kumpulan Utusan, ExxonMobil dan Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL).
Pengerusi Eksekutif Kumpulan Utusan, Tan Sri Hashim Ahmad Makaruddin akan mendeklamasikan puisi Pamplet Anak Merdeka karya Zainal Rashid Ahmad.
Dua tokoh korporat dari ExxonMobil pula akan tampil dengan puisi patriotik iaitu Ini Tugas Baru Wang Dunia karya A. Rahim Abdullah dan Kita Telah Tinggalkan Jauh Di Dalam Sejarah karya Abdul Aziz HM.
Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) tidak ketinggalan untuk merealisasikan puisi apabila Datuk Bandar Kuala Lumpur Datuk Ruslin Hassan dan Ketua Pengarah DBKL, Salleh Yusuf dijangka membaca puisi seperti Kuala Lumpur Sebuah Citra karya Lim Swee Tin, Sajak Ayah Kepada Anak karya Alipah Jambuan dan Segalanya Menuntut Keringatmu karya Gunawan Mahmood.
Datuk Johan Jaafar dengan Gurindam Merdeka dan Prof. Rahman Saari dengan Bakti.
Selain itu, barisan artis yang mengambil bahagian ialah Fauziah Latiff dengan puisi Di Wajahmu Bonda karya Hasidah Disan.
Artis lain ialah Ras Adiba Radzi dengan Perjuangan Belum Selesai, Kopratasa, Dang Suria dengan puisi Sajak Teja Kepada Tuah karya Zurinah Hassan dan Baby Erin (Res’2) dengan Merdeka Seorang Aku karya Tengku Khalidah Tengku Bidin.
Empat penyanyi bintang Akademi Fantasia musim kedua dan ketiga iaitu, Mawi dengan puisi Tok Janggut (Rahimidin Zahari), Farah dengan Sajak Anak Kepada Ayah (Alipah Jambuan), Kaer dengan Istana Kemerdekaan (Raihani Mohd Said) dan Bob dengan Suara Anak Merdeka (Zaidin Abadi) turut mengambil bahagian.
Majlis itu akan dikendalikan oleh pelawak serba boleh Sabri Yunus.
Majlis diadakan secara percuma. Maklumat lanjut boleh menghubungi 03-92217055.
Utusan Malaysia
Bollywood Hero’s Date With TAG Heuer In City
Bollywood hero’s date with TAG Heuer in city
Susan Muthalaly
Punctuality does not go with stars. But I am quite punctual: Shah Rukh
SHAH OF SHOWBIZ: Actor Shah Rukh Khan greets his fans during his visit to Chennai on Sunday. — Photo: S. R. Raghunathan
CHENNAI:
Considering it was all about a time-keeping product, the launch of TAG Heuer’s Professional Golf Watch started pretty late. An irony that was not missed by Chennai’s ever watchful mediapersons.
Brand ambassador Shah Rukh Khan was asked if he had become more punctual considering he endorsed a watch. Never one to be at a loss for words, the Shah of Blah said, ” I was here at 6.30 a.m.” An uncertain silence followed, as people wondered whether he was offended. “I set up chairs for all of you,” he continued as everyone broke into chuckles. “I’m a movie star,” he explained. “Punctuality does not go with movie stars. But I am quite punctual,” he said.
Shah Rukh hasn’t been to Chennai in a long while. He was here to shoot for Mani Ratnam’s “Dil Se” and the Kamal Haasan’s “Hey Ram.” “The level of education and respect that the people give to artistes here is absolutely amazing,” he said about working in the south.
Unlike most stars who stick to talking about the product they are endorsing for such events, Shah Rukh said people could ask him about anything. So they did.
His next film: “Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna,” “or KANK”, he said with a grin.
Whether he would enter politics: “I’m not that good an actor!” And besides, the campaign posters were decidedly uncool.
His recent clean Mumbai campaign where he took to the streets with a broom - why didn’t he do it in Delhi, his hometown?: “I started from the middle of the country. Then I thought I would cover the north and south. And when I move across from east to west, I will call you,” he said smiling sweetly at the journalists.
But he did devote some time to admiring the Rs. 55,000 watch that Tiger Woods designed, and to TAG in general. He said as a child, he always wanted to own a TAG. Tongue firmly in cheek, he said, ” Everyone knows I endorse a lot of products but to me TAG is very special.” He even went so far as to describe his deal with TAG Heuer as one of his greatest achievements, noting that it associated him with other brand ambassadors including, “our very own Brad Pitt”.
As he was in town to launch the new golf watch, someone wanted to know if he played golf. “Kapil Dev trained me a bit… But I nearly killed two photographers on my first try. But when I play golf on my Playstation 2, I can beat Tiger Woods.”
In the afternoon, the new TAG Heuer showroom was inaugurated at the Park Sheraton. Sharma, a Chennai industrialist, bought the first watch, a TAG from the Monza Classic series for Rs. 4 lakhs.
The lobby was crammed with screaming, sighing fans right through the evening as they waited for a glimpse of their hero.
Hindu On Net
Health Ambassador Juhi
Health Ambassador Juhi
PHOTO: The HINDU PHOTO LIBRARY
SOME actors make the transition from films to politics. Others take to directing films and some just retire. But JUHI CHAWLA has gone one step ahead and signed up as an ambassador for a rather unusual product. Chawla, who is actively campaigning for children who require cochlear implant surgery — an operation that cures deafness, said that it was high time people lent a helping hand to such causes. So Chawla and her tiny band of foot soldiers — all hearing impaired — are busy getting together a play titled “The silence to sound” in an effort to raise money for the transplants that will help these children hear. With Rael Padamsee as director, Chawla is sure to strike the right chord. Said a determined Chawla, “What can be a better platform than a play by the victims themselves? We are going to make every effort to change the awareness level about deafness,” she added, while the youngsters, smitten as much by her and the popular dance numbers, swayed in happy unison.
SUCHITRA BEHAL
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