Freida Pinto bored with Lovey-dovely roles

Freida Pinto is apparently bored of playing the lovey-dovey roles on screen and is keen to do some action. “I keep playing the damsel in distress. But I’d like something with a kick now,” she is quoted as saying by Daily Mail online. The 25-year-old Mumbaikar shot to fame as Latika in Slumdog Millionaire which went on to win eight Oscars and played a similar feminine character in Woody Allen’s

Freida Pinto is in question of Acting

Freida Pinto seems to have conquered the west as the starlet of Slumdog Millionaire but critics and cynics are quite disapproving of Freida Pinto’s Palestinian girl act in Julian Schnabel’s French-Italian film Miral, which is competing for the Golden Lion Trophy in the ongoing Venice Film festival. The film will also travel to Toronto Film Festival later. However, the fate of the film, which is a

BAFTA nominated Freida Pinto has finished the shooting of Miral

BAFTA nominated Freida Pinto, after spending four months in Israel, has finished the shooting of `Miral`, which will be released later this year, according to reports.

Pinto, 25, plays Miral, a girl raised in a Jerusalem orphanage in 1950s, with story spanning several decades. Shot in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in Israel, other cast of this poignant historical drama film includes Oscar nominated Willem Dafoe (Shadow of the Vampire), Alexander Siddig (The Boundary), and Hiam Abbass (The Syrian Bride).

Directed by Oscar nominated Julian Schnabel (Before Night Falls), written by Rula Jebreal, produced by Oscar nominated Jon Kilik (Babel), cinematography by BAFTA nominated Eric Gautier (Clean), music by Olivier Daviaud (L``homme de la lune), and edited by Oscar nominated Juliette Welfling (Le scaphandre et le papillon), it chronicles efforts to establish a Jerusalem orphanage after the creation of Israel in 1948.

Indo-American statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada today, said that it showed that India’s rich cinematic talent was in high demand not only in Hollywood but also in various other filmmaking centers of the world. Dance and drama tradition went back to ancient times in India and sage Bharata codified the rules in his treatise Natya-sastra, Zed, who is chairperson of Indo-American Leadership Confederation, added.

Freida Pinto is said to have also completed her shooting for romance film “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger” (Woody Allen), which was filmed in United Kingdom and is about a family, love lives of its members and how they try to solve their issues. She reportedly unsuccessfully auditioned for the role of Bond girl Camille in “Quantum of Solace” (Marc Forster).

Freida Pinto bonded superbly with Genelia and Lara Dutta

The ’Slumdog’ gal has hit the Big Time with Danny Boyle’s international winner. At a recent party, Freida Pinto bonded superbly … with two other fab gals : Genelia D’ Souza and Lara Dutta.

Genelia and Freida turned out to be one big mutual admiration society. Freida lavished Genelia with heavy praise for her portrayal of Aditi in ’Jaane Tu … Ya Jaane Na’, and Genelia didn’t stop gushing over Freida in ’Slumdog Millionaire.’

Lara and Freida had more serious matters to discuss... as Lara being a UN ambassador had plenty to say about how ’Slumdog … had impacted society, both positively and negatively. Guess, it’s just a trio of admirers ….

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