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Raghunath Manet
Raghunath Manet is a French classical musician/music composer and dancer/choreographer, writer, film maker and actor, born in the States and territories of India, Union Territory of Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry. He is trained in Bharathanatyam and plays the Veena, a Carnatic music, Carnatic instrument. He has collaborated with Gilberto Gil, Aldo Brizzi, American Jazz musician Archie Shepp, American dancer Carolyn Carlson (artist), Carolyn Carlson, French performers such as Richard Galliano, Didier Lockwood and Michel Portal and Indian musician M. Balamuralikrishna, Dr Balamurali Krishna and Sivamani (percussionist), Drums Sivamani. Raghunath Manet has performed all over the world. He has appeared at special events for Cartier (jeweler), Cartier, Louis Vuitton, Hermès, Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld, Lagerfeld and other iconic brands. In 2017 Dr. Manet received the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award (PBSA) 2017 presented by the President of India durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermès
Hermès International S.A. ( , ) is a French Luxury goods, luxury fashion house established in 1837. It specializes in leather goods, silk goods, lifestyle accessories, home furnishings, perfumery, jewelry, watches and ready-to-wear. Since the 1950s, its logo has been a depiction of a Duke, ducal horse-drawn carriage. History Beginnings in the 19th century Thierry Hermès was born in Krefeld, Germany, to a French father and a German mother. The family moved to France in 1828. In 1837, Hermès first established a Harness saddle, harness workshop in the Boulevards of Paris, Grands Boulevards Quarters of Paris, quarter of Paris, dedicated to serving European noblemen. He created high-quality wrought harnesses and bridles for the carriage trade, winning several awards including the first prize in its class in Exposition Universelle (1855), 1855, and again in Exposition Universelle (1867), 1867, at the World's fair, Expositions Universelles in Paris. Hermès's son, Charles-Émi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lost Love
''Lost Love'' (, also spelled ''Perduto amor'') is a 2003 Italian autobiographical drama film. It marked the directorial debut of singer-songwriter Franco Battiato. For this film Battiato won the Nastro d'Argento for best new director. Cast *Corrado Fortuna as Ettore *Donatella Finocchiaro as Mary *Anna Maria Gherardi as Augusta *Lucia Sardo as Nerina *Ninni Bruschetta as Luigi *Tiziana Lodato as "La Vivace" *Gabriele Ferzetti as Tommaso Pasini *Nicole Grimaudo as Raffaella * Rada Rassimov as Clara Pasini * Luca Vitrano as Ettore as a child *Manlio Sgalambro as Martino Alliata * Elisabetta Sgarbi as Elisabetta Gaia *Francesco De Gregori Francesco De Gregori Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, OMRI (born 4 April 1951) is an Italian singer-songwriter. In Italy, he is popularly known as "Il Principe dei cantautori" ("The Prince of the singer-songwriters"), a nickname referrin ... as Francesco D See also List of Italian films of 2003 References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiara Mastroianni
Chiara Charlotte Mastroianni (born 28 May 1972) is a French actress and singer. She is the daughter of actors Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve. Early life Mastroianni was born to French actress Catherine Deneuve and Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni. Her parents were both married to other people at the time of their affair and stayed together for four years, separating in 1974, when Chiara was two years old. She later revealed that she could not recall them being together: "I've never seen my parents together, never in my whole life. They split when I was two, so I've no recollection of them as a couple. I've never even seen them kiss except in the movies." Mastroianni has two half-siblings, a brother, Christian Vadim, from her mother's relationship with director Roger Vadim, and a sister, Barbara Mastroianni, from her father's marriage to actress Flora Carabella. Carabella is rumoured to have offered to adopt Mastroianni and raise her with her older sister as b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Pierre Léaud
Jean-Pierre Léaud, ComM (; born 28 May 1944) is a French actor best known for being an important figure of the French New Wave and his portrayal of Antoine Doinel in a series of films by François Truffaut, beginning with '' The 400 Blows'' (1959). He has worked with Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, and Jacques Rivette, as well as other notable directors such as Jean Cocteau, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Aki Kaurismäki. Early life Born in Paris, Léaud made his major debut as an actor at the age of 14 as Antoine Doinel, a semi-autobiographical character based on the life events of French film director François Truffaut, in '' The 400 Blows''. To cast the two central characters, Antoine Doinel and his partner-in-crime René Bigey, Truffaut published an announcement in '' France-Soir'' and auditioned several hundred children in September and October 1958. Jean Domarchi, a critic at '' Cahiers du cinéma'', had earlier r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Harari
Arthur Harari (born 1981 in Paris) is a French film director, screenwriter and actor. He is most known for co-writing ''Anatomy of a Fall'' (2023) with Justine Triet, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay, BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, César Award for Best Original Screenplay and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He made his directorial debut in 2016 with the crime drama '' Dark Inclusion''. In 2021 he co-wrote and directed the war drama '' Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle'', for which he won the César Award for Best Original Screenplay. Career After three shorts and a medium-length film, Harari directed his debut feature '' Dark Inclusion'' (2016), a heist film and family revenge drama about diamond dealers in Antwerp. His second feature film, '' Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle'', was selected to be screened as the opening film in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. With his co-writer Vincent Poymir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Inclusion
''Dark Inclusion'' (; also known as ''Dark Diamond'') is a 2016 French drama film directed and co-written by Arthur Harari, and starring Niels Schneider and August Diehl. It tells the story of an aimless young man who decides he must avenge the wrong done to his father by his wealthy uncle, a diamond dealer in Antwerp. His plan is not as clever as he thinks and, after three of his helpers are killed, he ends up even more alienated. Plot Pier Ullman works at odd jobs and also does some break-ins with his friend Kevin for Rachid. One day he is informed of the death of his father, about whom he had no news for several years. He decides to avenge his father, who had been mistreated by Pier's grandfather and uncle. He makes contact with his father's family and works his way into their diamond Diamond is a Allotropes of carbon, solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Diamond is tasteless, odourless, strong, brittle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hossein
Robert Hossein (30 December 1927 – 31 December 2020) was a French film actor, director, and writer. He directed Les Misérables (1982 film), the 1982 adaptation of ''Les Misérables'' and appeared in ''Vice and Virtue'', ''Le Casse'', ''Les Uns et les Autres'' and ''Venus Beauty Institute''. His other roles include Michèle Mercier's husband in the ''Angélique, Marquise des Anges, Angélique'' series, a gunfighter in the Spaghetti Western ''Cemetery Without Crosses'' (which he also directed and co-wrote), and a Roman Catholicism, Catholic priest who falls in love with Claude Jade and becomes a communist in ''Forbidden Priests''. Cinematic career Hossein started directing films in 1955 with ''Les Salauds vont en enfer'', from a story by Frédéric Dard whose novels and plays went on to furnish Hossein with much of his later film material. Right from the start Hossein established his characteristic trademarks: using a seemingly straightforward suspense plot and subverting its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalaimamani Award
The Kalaimamani is the highest civilian award in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. These awards are given by the ''Tamil Nadu Iyal Isai Nataka Mandram'' (literature, music and theatre), a unit of the Directorate of Art and Culture, Government of Tamil Nadu, to recognise artists in the state for their achievements. The Tamil Nadu government has appointed dancer Chitra Visweswaran as the secretary of Tamil Nadu Iyal Isai Nataka Manram. Film music director Deva is its chairman. Awardees by year 1958–59 ;Actor * Padmini 1962–63 ;Actor *Sivaji Ganesan 1968–69 The individuals listed below were recipients of the Kalaimamani for the year 1968–69. ;Actor * K. A. Thangavelu ;Music *K. S. Narayanaswamy (vainika) 1969–1970 ;Actor *Sowcar Janaki 1970–71 ;Music * M. S. Viswanathan (composer) 1971–72 The individuals listed below were recipients of the Kalaimamani for the year 1971–72. ;Music * Madras A. Kannan (mridangam) *G. N. Dhandapani Iyer (veena) 1972–73 ;Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global Organization For People Of Indian Origin
Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO) is an international network of Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin, people of Indian origin (PIO). History GOPIO was founded at the First Global Convention of People of Indian Origin in New York City in 1989. The name GOPIO was adopted by the Steering Committee formed after the First Global Convention. The initial thrust of GOPIO was fighting human rights violation against people of Indian origin. Although this has been improved in the last decade, human rights violations continue to be a major issue for PIOs living outside India. GOPIO has now set its priorities in pooling its resources, both financial and professional, for the benefit of PIOs, the countries they come from and India. GOPIO's Founder President is Dr. Thomas Abraham who served since inception till 2004. Inder Singh took over as president in 2004 and served till 2009 when Diljit Rana, Baron Rana, Lord Diljit Rana, a member of the House of Lords in Lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres
The Order of Arts and Letters () is an order of France established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture. Its supplementary status to the was confirmed by President Charles de Gaulle in 1963. Its purpose is the recognition of significant contributions to the arts, literature, or the propagation of these fields. Its origin is attributed to the Order of Saint Michael (established 1 August 1469), as acknowledged by French government sources. Background To be considered for the award, French government guidelines stipulate that citizens of France must be at least thirty years old, respect French civil law, and must have "significantly contributed to the enrichment of the French cultural inheritance". Membership is not, however, limited to French nationals; recipients include numerous foreign luminaries. Foreign recipients are admitted into the Order "without condition of age". The Order has three grades: * (Commander) — medallion worn on a necklet; up to 20 recipients ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pravāsī Bhāratīya
Overseas Indians (ISO: ), officially Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) and People of Indian Origin (PIOs) are people of Indian descent who reside or originate outside of India (Including those that were directly under the British Raj). According to the Government of India, ''Non-Resident Indians'' are citizens of India who currently are not living in India, while the term ''People of Indian Origin'' refers to people of Indian birth or ancestry who are citizens of countries other than India (with some exceptions). Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) is given to ''People of Indian Origin'' and to persons who are not ''People of Indian Origin'' but married to an ''Indian citizen'' or ''Person of Indian Origin''. Persons with OCI status are known as Overseas Citizens of India (OCIs). The OCI status is a permanent visa for visiting India with a foreign passport. According to the Ministry of External Affairs report updated on 26 November 2024, there are 35.4 million non-resident Indians (N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
