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Tigers (2014 Film)
''Tigers'' (initially titled ''White Lies'') is a 2014 Indian drama film directed by Danis Tanović, and produced as a joint production between Cinema Time, French production company ASAP Films and Sikhya Entertainment. The film is inspired by an episode in Pakistan during the 1990s, a repetition of the Nestlé baby milk scandal in 1970s that occurred in developing countries. A Pakistani salesman named Syed Aamir Raza Hussain became a whistle-blower against his former employer Nestlé; in 1999, two years after he left Nestlé, Hussain released a report in association with the non-profit organisation International Baby Food Action Network, in which he alleged that Nestlé was encouraging doctors to push its infant formula products over breastfeeding. The film features Emraan Hashmi in the leading role as Ayan, based on Hussain, a pharmaceutical representative in Pakistan who discovers his new company's baby formula has killed hundreds of children, after which he begins a lone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danis Tanović
Danis Tanović (born 20 February 1969) is a Bosnian film director and screenwriter. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for the Golden Bear and the Palme d'Or. Tanović is known for having directed and written the script for the film '' No Man's Land'' (2001), which won him many awards, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He has also written and directed the award-winning films '' An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker'' (2013) and '' Death in Sarajevo'' (2016). Tanović is the only person born in the territory of present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina to have won an Academy Award. Early life Tanović was born in Zenica, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia on 20 February 1969. He was raised in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, where he also received his primary and secondary education. Tanović attended the University of Sarajevo Music Conservato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Baby Food Action Network
The International Baby Food Action Network, IBFAN, consists of public interest groups working around the world to reduce infant and young child morbidity and mortality. IBFAN aims to improve the health and well-being of babies and young children, their mothers and their families through the protection, promotion and support of breastfeeding and optimal infant feeding practices. IBFAN works for universal and full implementation of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes and Resolutions. IBFAN was set up in 1979 due to the efforts of various individuals including Gabrielle Palmer through UNICEF and the WHO. The first analysis of Nestlé's marketing strategy was published in the magazine New Internationalist in 1973 and in the book The Baby Killer, published by the English non-governmental organisation War On Want in 1974. Nestlé sued the publisher of the German translation (Third World Action Group) for libel. After a two-year trial, the publisher was convicte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nestlé Pakistan
Nestlé Pakistan Limited ( ), a subsidiary of the Swiss multinational Nestlé, is a leading food and beverage company based in Lahore, Pakistan. It produces and markets a diverse range of products, including dairy, confectionery, coffee, beverages, infant nutrition, and bottled drinking water.Only six milk brands fit for consumption in Pakistan Dawn, Published 31 January 2017, Retrieved 21 December 2020 The company is publicly traded on the . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Gilani
Benjamin Gilani is an Indian film, television and stage actor who works in Hindi cinema. Early life and career Gilani was schooled at Bishop Cotton School, Shimla. He is a postgraduate from Delhi University having studied and taught English literature at St. Stephen's College, Delhi and studied at Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) Pune class of 1972, where Naseeruddin Shah and Tom Alter were his classmates. He founded 'Motleys Productions', a Mumbai-based theatre company in 1977, along with Tom Alter and Naseeruddin Shah, and ''Waiting For Godot ''Waiting for Godot'' ( or ) is a 1953 play by Irish writer and playwright Samuel Beckett, in which the two main characters, Vladimir (Waiting for Godot), Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), engage in a variety of discussions and encounters w ...'' was their first play on 29 July 1979 at Prithvi Theatre. The play was revived in 2009 for the group's 30th anniversary celebrations. Partial filmography Films TV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rubina (actor)
Rubina is an Indian actress, known for her comic roles. Biography Born on 22 March 1984 in Chandigarh, India, Rubina started her acting career on TV in 2001. She made mark through her stage performances in theater, including performances in Prajit Nayak, Study through Theatre Project Gaz Foot Inch, Guffaien, Urubhangam, Nagmandal. She debuted in Bollywood Industry with'' Namastey London'' in 2007 She is also a voiceover and dubbing artist. She wrote the screenplay for Punjabi film ''Yaaran Da Katchup'' in 2014. Filmography Actor References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rubina Living people 1984 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vinod Nagpal
Vinod Nagpal is an Indian film, stage and television actor and a trained classical singer, who mainly works in Hindi cinema. He has appeared in movies, mostly as a character actor. Career He made his screen debut with '' Chashme Buddoor'' (1981). He is best known for his portrayal of Basesar Ram in the first Indian television serial '' Hum Log'' (1984). After his big breakthrough with '' Hum Log'', he appeared in many commercially and critically acclaimed films like ''Naache Mayuri'' (1986), ''Bhrashtachar'' (1989), '' Paappi Devataa'' (1995), ''Dance of the Wind'' (1997), '' Tarkieb'' (2000), '' Khosla Ka Ghosla'' (2006), ''Aaja Nachle'' (2007), '' Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana'' (2012), ''Pink'' (2016), '' Blue Mountains'' (2017), '' Jolly LLB 2'' (2017) and ''Manto'' (2018). Despite Hindi films, Nagpal has appeared in five English language films and in an English television show like ''The Perfect Murder'' (1988), ''The Curse of King Tut's Tomb'' (2006), ''The Last Days ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Reid (actor)
Sam Reid (born 19 February 1987) is an Australian actor. He is best known for playing Lestat de Lioncourt in the AMC (TV channel), AMC drama series ''Interview with the Vampire (TV series), Interview with the Vampire'' (2022–present), for which he received a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, Critics' Choice Television Award nomination. He received three AACTA Award for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama, AACTA Award nominations for his leading roles in ''The Newsreader'' (2021–2025) and ''Lambs of God'' (2019). Reid also played John Davinier in ''Belle (2013 film), Belle'' (2013) and Hugo Fraser-Tyrwhitt in ''The Riot Club'' (2014). Early life and education Sam Reid was born on 19 February 1987, in New South Wales, Australia. He was raised on a cattle property in the Monaro (New South Wales), Monaro region. Reid is of Irish people, Irish descent from his mother's side. He has an older brother, Rupert Reid, who is also an actor, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heino Ferch
Heino Ferch (born 18 August 1963) is a German film, theatre and television actor. His notable film roles include Albert Speer in '' Downfall'' (2004) and Harry Melchior in ''The Tunnel'' (2001). Biography The son of a merchant sea captain, Heino Ferch was on stage at the age of 15, while still attending grammar school. As a member of the stage ballet company in the musical Can-Can, he performed the tumbling acrobatics at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven in his home town. During this time, he also traveled through Europe as a federal member of the National League of Gymnastics. Ferch studied acting at the University of Music and Performing Arts "Mozarteum" in Salzburg, Austria. He graduated in 1987. In addition to his main subject, drama, he also took courses in tap dancing, ballet, and singing. Between 1987 and 2006, Ferch lived in Berlin, a city whose division after World War II and reunification in 1989 is repeatedly reflected in his work as a movie actor (''The Tunnel'', ''Mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satyadeep Mishra
Satyadeep Misra (born 27 November 1972) is an Indian actor who works in Hindi cinema, television and web series. He made his Bollywood debut with the 2011 film ''No One Killed Jessica''. He is known for P.O.W. Bandi Yuddh Ke (2016), Tandav (2022) and Mukhbir: The Story of a Spy (2022). Education Satyadeep did his primary schooling from Hillgrange Preparatory School in Dehradun. He is an alumnus of The Doon School, Dehradun. He received a BA in history from St. Stephens College, Delhi, followed by a degree in law from the Faculty of law, University of Delhi. Career Mishra worked as a Corporate Lawyer in New Delhi and also had a brief stint with the Indian Government before he moved to Mumbai in 2010 to become an actor.He has also done UPSC Personal life Mishra was married to Aditi Rao Hydari in 2007 but the couple divorced in 2013. He married Masaba Gupta Masaba Gupta (born 2 November 1989) is an Indian fashion designer and actress with her own label called House of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryam D'Abo
Maryam d'Abo (born 27 December 1960) is a British actress, best known as Bond girl Kara Milovy in the 1987 James Bond film '' The Living Daylights''. Early life Born in London to Georgian mother Nino Kvinitadze, daughter of General Giorgi Kvinitadze, and Anglo-Dutch father Peter Claude Holland d'Abo, of a landed gentry family of West Wratting, Cambridgeshire. Maryam d'Abo was raised in Paris and Geneva. D’Abo was drawing from the age of eight, but by 13 she wanted to become an actress; she joined an amateur theatre company while at school in Geneva. She decided to do a foundation course at the London College of Printing at 18, but she abandoned those studies in order to go to drama school at Drama Centre London. She left after one term in order to make her film debut. Career D'Abo made her screen debut in the low-budget science fiction horror film '' Xtro'' (1982), playing Analise Mercier, a French au pair, who becomes a human incubator for an alien. She appeared in the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adil Hussain
Khandkar Mohammad Adil Hussain (; born 5 October 1963) is an Indian actor who is known for his work in several Indian independent and mainstream film productions, as well as international cinema, in films such as '' The Reluctant Fundamentalist'' and '' Life of Pi'' (both 2012). He received National Film Awards (Special Jury) at the 64th National Film Awards for '' Hotel Salvation'' and '' Maj Rati Keteki''. He has starred in English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Norwegian and French films. Early life and education Born in an Assamese Muslim family in Goalpara, Assam on 5 October 1963, where his father was the headmaster of a high secondary school, Hussain was the youngest of seven children. His ancestors had traditionally been appointed as private tutors, known as ''Khandkar'', to the Mughal Emperors. In an interview he described his multiethnic background, as his maternal grandfather was Iraqi while his maternal grandmother had Assamese, Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Huston
Daniel Sallis Huston (born May 14, 1962) is an American-British actor, director and screenwriter. A member of the Huston family of filmmakers, he is the son of director John Huston and half-brother of actress Anjelica Huston. He is known for his roles in films such as ''Ivans Xtc'' (2000), for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead, '' 21 Grams'' (2003), ''Birth'' (2004), '' The Aviator'' (also 2004), '' The Constant Gardener'' (2005), ''Marie Antoinette'' (2006), '' Children of Men'' (also 2006), '' The Kingdom'' (2007), '' 30 Days of Night'' (also 2007), ''Robin Hood'' (2010), '' Hitchcock'' (2012), '' The Congress'' (2013), '' Big Eyes'' (2014), ''Wonder Woman'' (2017), '' Game Night'' (2018), '' Stan & Ollie'' (also 2018), and '' Angel Has Fallen'' (2019). Huston portrayed The Axeman on the FX series '' American Horror Story: Coven'' and Massimo Dolcefino on '' American Horror Story: Freak Show''. He played Ben "The Butcher" Diamond on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
