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నాటు పడవలో పుట్టిన అసోం కృష్ణుడు
అసోంలోని గోలాఘాట్ జిల్లా బోకాఖాట్ సబ్ డివిజన్లో వరదల మూలంగా ఓ గర్భిణి నాటు పడవలోనే ప్రసవించింది. స్థానిక వైద్య సిబ్బంది సహకారం అందించారు. తల్లీబిడ్డలు ఇద్దరూ క్షేమంగా ఉన్నారు.
నాటు పడవలో పుట్టిన అసోం కృష్ణుడు
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Published : Jul 16, 2019, 8:06 PM IST
అసోంలో కొన్ని రోజులుగా వరదలు బీభత్సం సృష్టిస్తున్నాయి. చిన్న అవసరాలకు బయటికి రాలేని పరిస్థితి నెలకొంది. ఈ దుర్భర పరిస్థితుల మధ్య ఓ గర్భిణి ప్రసవానికి వైద్య సిబ్బంది సాయమందించారు. ఆసుపత్రికి నాటు పడవలో తీసుకెళుతుండగా మధ్యలోనే మగ శిశువును ప్రసవించింది.
నాటు పడవలో పుట్టిన అసోం కృష్ణుడు గోలాఘాట్ జిల్లా బోకాఖాట్లో ఈ ఘటన జరిగింది. ఆశా కార్యకర్త మంజు ఛెత్రి అక్కడే ఉండటం వల్ల ఎలాంటి ప్రమాదం జరగలేదు. ప్రసవం తర్వాత అదే పడవలో బోకాఖాట్ తాలూకా ఆసుపత్రికి తరలించారు. తల్లీబిడ్డలు క్షేమంగా ఉన్నట్లు వైద్యులు ప్రకటించారు.
నీటి మధ్యలో పుట్టిన కారణంగా శిశువుకు కృష్ణ అని పేరు పెట్టారు.
ఇదీ చూడండి: అమ్మ నేర్పిన మొక్కజొన్న బొమ్మే ఆదాయ వనరు
అసోంలో కొన్ని రోజులుగా వరదలు బీభత్సం సృష్టిస్తున్నాయి. చిన్న అవసరాలకు బయటికి రాలేని పరిస్థితి నెలకొంది. ఈ దుర్భర పరిస్థితుల మధ్య ఓ గర్భిణి ప్రసవానికి వైద్య సిబ్బంది సాయమందించారు. ఆసుపత్రికి నాటు పడవలో తీసుకెళుతుండగా మధ్యలోనే మగ శిశువును ప్రసవించింది.
నాటు పడవలో పుట్టిన అసోం కృష్ణుడు గోలాఘాట్ జిల్లా బోకాఖాట్లో ఈ ఘటన జరిగింది. ఆశా కార్యకర్త మంజు ఛెత్రి అక్కడే ఉండటం వల్ల ఎలాంటి ప్రమాదం జరగలేదు. ప్రసవం తర్వాత అదే పడవలో బోకాఖాట్ తాలూకా ఆసుపత్రికి తరలించారు. తల్లీబిడ్డలు క్షేమంగా ఉన్నట్లు వైద్యులు ప్రకటించారు.
నీటి మధ్యలో పుట్టిన కారణంగా శిశువుకు కృష్ణ అని పేరు పెట్టారు.
ఇదీ చూడండి: అమ్మ నేర్పిన మొక్కజొన్న బొమ్మే ఆదాయ వనరు
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WALT DISNEY STUDIOS MOTION PICTURES
1. Trailer clip - "The Lion King"
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, 15 July 2019
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jon Favreau, director - on checking with Chance the Rapper on the balance of new vs original elements:
"It depends what generation you're from. It's 25 years ago. But, you know, there's a lot of people who are millennials now who grew up on this. I think (this) was one of the first generations that watched movies over and over again on video, where they know everything about it. When I saw a movie, I'd see it a handful of times if it came back to the theaters, when I was younger, but the generation - I learned through there's a - Chance the Rapper, was friends with Donald Glover, came by and he knows everything. He's like the expert on 'Lion King.' And so I would turn to people like that and show them footage and say, 'Hey, how you feeling about this.?' They'd say, 'Oh that's different, but that's cool,' or 'That's the same,' or 'I like that'. So, you always have to check in with different audiences. But you also have to make it for a new generation that doesn't know the old one."
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Florence Kasumba, actress
"Well I think people have high expectations when you say that you are doing 'The Lion King' again. It was already very successful in '94, you know, and there's a whole generation, I mean, I watched it, and my kids watch it, everybody knows it. So, we all knew it's going to be amazing, the technical equipment, everything that has been used for it, everything is fresh. We, I think, also learned - like, I think years ago I would have played it differently than now and I think that the story is timeless."
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jon Favreau, director - on why a retelling is justified:
"It's about right. I think each generation, you know, tells stories over and over again. I know I wouldn't have known about the original silent version of 'Ten Commandments' had I not seen the one from the '50s and that was Cecil B DeMille, I think 30 years after the original redoing sequences. So, it's an interesting existential question just about cinema in general, but in this case I felt that with the cast and what I learned from 'Jungle Book' that there was an opportunity to do something special and different here."
WALT DISNEY STUDIOS MOTION PICTURES
5. Film clip - "The Lion King"
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, 15 July 2019
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen, actors - on not doing "cover jokes"
Eichner: "You can't just do the same jokes. You know, you can cover songs and that's kind of a thing people do, is cover songs, so we're used to that. But, you know there are a handful of jokes from the original..."
Rogen: "You can't cover jokes."
Eichner: "You can't cover jokes, right."
Rogen: "It's hard to cover jokes."
Eichner: "Exactly. You can't re-record someone else's comedy album."
Rogen: "Oh yeah, that would be amazing."
Eichner: "You know, with like, new timing!"
Rogen: "We should try that. We should try to do that."
Eichner: "I wouldn't do 'Eddie Murphy: Raw.'"
Rogen: "Yeah, exactly. Not that one."
Eichner: "Yeah, exactly. So, we had the opportunity to like add new jokes and I, we really cherish that and really leaned into that and had great fun between improvising and writing new jokes. That was our job and we were lucky that we got to do that."
WALT DISNEY STUDIOS MOTION PICTURES
8. Film clip - "The Lion King"
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, 15 July 2019
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Chiwetel Ejiofor, actor - on playing Scar differently to Jeremy Irons' 1994 version:
"I don't know. I think that, you know, I approached it the way I sort of approach any part really, you know, just just looking at the psychology of Scar and trying to sort of get underneath it and just sort of trying to figure him out and trying to work out where I empathized, actually and, you know, just sort of understanding a character, like anyone, you know, like any character that you play. And so then that came out of that, you know, just came out of the process. And obviously I was a huge fan of the original and Jeremy Irons and everything and and so thrilled to sort of step into those shoes."
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Seth Rogen and Billy Eichner, actors - on Rogen being able to relate to his outcast character Pumbaa
"I think I think everyone associates of being an outcast in a lot of ways, I think, it's yeah. I think comedians especially are probably not generally the cool kids in class."
Eichner: "You're right"
Rogen: "So yeah, it's something I heavily related to."
WALT DISNEY STUDIOS MOTION PICTURES
11. Film clip - "The Lion King"
12. Trailer clip - "The Lion King"
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, 15 July 2019
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Hans Zimmer, composer - on being asked to join the remake and the score feeling more improvisational
"This one, there wasn't much of a conversation. I mean Jon phoned me up and he said, 'Come down, I want to show you something,' that's I think what he said. And he showed me the opening which I, like everybody else, looked at it with some suspicion. You know, computer animation, what's that going to be like? And it completely blew me away in how playful it was then at the same time, you know, you had these extraordinary computers at work and it felt - the whole movie by the end of it felt like our most improvisational work. And it allowed us to do things that we never did before."
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Billy Eichner and Seth Rogen - on ruining jokes by laughing:
(Reporter: "Did anything end up on the cutting room floor?")
Rogen: "Tons."
Eichner: "Yeah."
Rogen: "Hours and hours and hours of material."
Eichner: "So much."
Rogen: "And what's nice about voice work especially is you can kind of seamlessly go in and out of it, like you would laugh and then you would just start again and do it like... it's not like when you're making a movie and there's like, you know, a big reset has to occur when you restart. You can just pick it up instantly. So I think that's also one of the things that's so nice about, you know, voice work is that it's like 100 percent performance oriented, there's nothing technical about it."
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Jon Favreau, director - on not taking a voice role for himself this time:
(Reporter: "No voice role from you?")
"No, no voice role for me in this one. I had too many good people in this one here and there's so many people wanted to be involved that any small part, I was sure that I gave to somebody else. But it's it's a great cast and that's part of what made this so exciting."
WALT DISNEY STUDIOS MOTION PICTURES
16. Trailer clip - "The Lion King"
STORYLINE:
'LION KING' CAST ROAR ABOUT THEIR MOVIE EXPERIENCE
As "The Lion King" pads back onto screens with a new roar, debate around the reimagined tale continues. Should director Jon Favreau have left the much loved 1994 animation alone? Or pounced on the opportunity to shake up the story further?
During production, the filmmaker asked for feedback from some who loved the classic cartoon best, including Chance the Rapper.
"Chance the Rapper was friends with Donald Glover (who voices Simba), came by and he knows everything. He's like the expert on 'Lion King'. And so I would turn to people like that and show them footage and say, 'Hey, how you feeling about this.?'" Favreau recalls.
"They'd say, 'Oh that's different, but that's cool,' or 'That's the same,' or 'I like that.' So you always have to check in with different audiences. But you also have to make it for a new generation that doesn't know the old one."
The filmmaker thinks die-hard fans of the classic cartoon are a sign of evolving cinematic times.
"A lot of people who are millennials now who grew up on this, I think, was one of the first generations that watched movies over and over again on video where they know everything about it. When I saw a movie, I'd see it a handful of times if it came back to the theaters, when I was younger," he notes.
"I think each generation, you know, tells stories over and over again. I know I wouldn't have known about the original silent version of 'Ten Commandments' had I not seen the one from the '50s and that was Cecil B DeMille, I think 30 years after the original redoing sequences. So it's an interesting existential question just about cinema in general, but in this case I felt that with the cast and what I learned from 'Jungle Book' that there was an opportunity to do something special and different here."
The new film makes a leap in visual effects, with Favreau, cinematographer Caleb Descehanel and VFX chief Rob Legato making use of virtual-reality environments.
Donald Glover plays the adult Simba, in a cast that includes Beyonce as Nala, James Earl Jones reprising his role of Mufasa, and Chiwetel Ejiofor as Scar.
Oscar nominee Ejiofor says his menacing take on the villainous lion was less a deliberate attempt to do something different to Jeremy Irons' theatrical 1994 performance, than the organic result of shaping a performance from scratch.
"I approached it the way I sort of approach any part really, you know, just just looking at the psychology of Scar and trying to sort of get underneath it and just sort of trying to figure him out and trying to work out where I empathized, actually and you know just sort of understanding a character, like anyone, you know, like any character that you play," he explains. " And so then that came out of that, you know, just came out of the process. And obviously I was a huge fan of the original and Jeremy Irons and everything and and so thrilled to sort of step into those shoes."
Seth Rogen admits he can also relate to his character, outcast warthog Pumbaa.
"I think I think everyone associates of being an outcast in a lot of ways, I think, it's yeah. I think comedians especially are probably not generally the cool kids in class," he laughs. "So yeah, it's something I heavily related to."
He is joined by Billy Eichner as meerkat Timon, riffing off one another in Favreau's black box theater - where actors could move around and engage with one another, instead of standing at a traditional voiceover podium alone.
As the comic relief, they needed to find brand new laughs, says Eichner.
"You can't just do the same jokes. You know you can cover songs and that's kind of a thing people do, is cover songs, so we're used to that," he explains, making Rogen chuckle.
"It's hard to cover jokes," Rogen agrees.
"Exactly. You can't rerecord someone else's comedy album, you know, with like, new timing!" continues Eichner. "So we had the opportunity to add new jokes and I we really cherish that and really leaned into that and had great fun between improvising and writing new jokes. That was our job and we were lucky that we got to do that."
The pair made each other giggle during recording too - Rogen admits plenty of takes ended up on the cutting room floor.
"Hours and hours and hours of material. What's nice about voice work especially is you can kind of seamlessly go in and out of it, like you would laugh and then you would just start again and do it like... it's not like when you're making a movie and there's like, you know, a big reset has to occur when you restart. You can just pick it up instantly. So I think that's also one of the things that's so nice about, you know, voice work is that it's like 100 percent performance oriented, there's nothing technical about it."
They weren't the only people who felt free to experiement.
Hans Zimmer, who returns to rework his Oscar winning "Lion King" score, calls the result "our most improvisational work"
"Jon phoned me up and he said, 'Come down, I want to show you something,' that's I think what he said. And he showed me the opening which I, like everybody else, looked at it with some suspicion. You know, computer animation, what's that going to be like? And it completely blew me away with how playful it was then at the same time, you know, that you had you had these extraordinary computers at work," he recalls, "and it felt - the whole movie by the end of it felt like our most improvisational work. And it allowed us to do things that we never did before."
The cast also includes JD McCrary as young Simba, Shahadi Wright Joseph as young Nala, Alfre Woodard as Sarabi and John Oliver as Zazu.
Florence Kasumba ("Black Panther") takes on the expanded role of Shenzi, having already played the hyena in the German musical production of "The Lion King."
"I think years ago I would have played it differently then now," she admits, "and I think that the story is timeless."
But while Favreau himself often pops up in the movies he directs, he does not join the cast of "The Lion King."
"No voice role for me in this one. I had too many good people in this one here and there's so many people want to be involved that any small part, I was sure that I gave to somebody else," he smiles. "But it's it's a great cast and that's part of what made this so exciting."
"The Lion King" is released in the U.K. Friday 19 July.
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