కాంగ్రెస్ సారథిగా ముకుల్ వాస్నిక్? నేడు సీడబ్ల్యూసీ భేటీ - vadra

కాంగ్రెస్ నూతన అధ్యక్షుడు ఎవరన్న అంశంపై సందిగ్ధం నెలకొన్న తరుణంలో.. నేడు కాంగ్రెస్ వర్కింగ్ కమిటీ భేటీ కానుంది. ఈ సమావేశంలోనే పార్టీ తదుపరి సారథి ఎవరనే అంశంపై స్పష్టత వచ్చే అవకాశముంది. అయితే.. సీనియర్ నేత ముకుల్ వాస్నిక్ అధ్యక్షుడు అయ్యే అవకాశాలు మెండుగా ఉన్నట్లు తెలుస్తోంది. మల్లికార్జున్ ఖర్గే సహా మరికొందరు యువనేతలూ పోటీలో ఉన్నట్లు సమాచారం.

కాంగ్రెస్ సారథిగా ముకుల్ వాస్నిక్? నేడు సీడబ్ల్యూసీ భేటీ

Published : Aug 10, 2019, 5:43 AM IST

Updated : Aug 10, 2019, 8:06 AM IST

కాంగ్రెస్ సారథిగా ముకుల్ వాస్నిక్? నేడు సీడబ్ల్యూసీ భేటీ

కాంగ్రెస్ అధ్యక్ష పదవికి రాహుల్ గాంధీ రాజీనామా చేసిన అనంతరం.. పార్టీలో నాయకత్వ సంక్షోభం నెలకొంది. తదుపరి సారథి ఎంపికపై అనేక ఊహాగానాల నేపథ్యంలో నేడు కాంగ్రెస్ వర్కింగ్ కమిటీ(సీడబ్ల్యూసీ) సమావేశమవనుంది. ఈ భేటీలోనే నూతన అధ్యక్షుడిపై ఒక నిర్ణయానికి వచ్చే అవకాశముంది.

ముకుల్ వాస్నిక్కే అవకాశం..!

నేడు సీడబ్ల్యూసీ సమావేశం నేపథ్యంలో.. పార్టీ సీనియర్ నేతలు యూపీఏ ఛైర్పర్సన్ సోనియాగాంధీతో శుక్రవారం భేటీ అయ్యారు. అహ్మద్ పటేల్, ఏకే ఆంటోనీ, కేసీ వేణుగోపాల్.. పార్టీ అధ్యక్ష పదవి కోసం కొందరి పేర్లు సోనియాకు ప్రతిపాదించినట్లు తెలుస్తోంది. ముకుల్ వాస్నిక్, మల్లికార్జున్ ఖర్గే సహా కొందరు యువనేతలు పోటీలో ఉన్నారు. అయితే.. అధ్యక్ష పదవి వాస్నిక్కు దక్కే అవకాశాలు మెండుగా ఉన్నట్లు తెలుస్తోంది. 134 ఏళ్ల కాంగ్రెస్ చరిత్రలో.. 2 దశాబ్దాల తర్వాత గాంధీయేతర వ్యక్తి పార్టీ సారథి అయ్యే అవకాశాలున్నాయి.

పీవీ నరసింహారావు, మన్మోహన్ సింగ్ ప్రభుత్వ హయాంలో పనిచేసిన వాస్నిక్.. సోనియాకు కార్యదర్శిగానూ వ్యవహరించారు. కేంద్ర మంత్రిగానూ బాధ్యతలు నిర్వర్తించారు.

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మే 25న కాంగ్రెస్ అధ్యక్ష పదవికి రాహుల్ గాంధీ రాజీనామా చేశారు. ఆ తర్వాత నాయకత్వలేమితో పార్టీపై తీవ్ర ప్రభావం పడింది. కర్ణాటక, మహారాష్ట్ర నుంచి పలువురు నాయకులు కాంగ్రెస్ను వీడారు. రాజ్యసభ ఎంపీ సంజయ్ సింగ్ ఇటీవలే పార్టీకి రాజీనామా చేశారు. నూతన అధ్యక్షుడి ఎంపిక ఆలస్యమైతే.. హస్తం పార్టీకి మరిన్ని ఇబ్బందులు తప్పకపోవచ్చని ఇటీవల కొందరు సీనియర్లు తమ అభిప్రాయాలను వ్యక్తం చేశారు. ఈ తరుణంలో.. నూతన సారథి ఎన్నిక వీలైనంత త్వరగా చేపట్టాలని నిర్ణయించింది పార్టీ.

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1. Film trailer clip: "Superstar"
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, 8 August 2019
2. Medium of Bilal Sharaf and Mahira Khan posing
3. Wide of Bilal Ashraf, Mahira Khan and Azaan Sami Khan posing
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Mahira Khan, actress - on agreeing to join the project when writer/composer Azaan Sami Khan was 20:
"Most people who knew that I was doing this would always say that, 'Are you really going to trust a child? Like, are you just gonna go with this? Like you have... there are so many other things that you can be doing' and 'Someone like you should be doing this or should be doing that.' And I always say this that you know. I don't know. For me it's. Maybe I shouldn't. Sorry. Maybe I shouldn't think like this, but just as an artist or as someone who, as an actor I want to do what I want to do. It doesn't matter if it's a 20-year-old or a 50-year-old or you know. Age doesn't define what a person can do, at least in my eyes. Also obviously in fact when I when I said yes to the film he was directing it. So I was actually ready to be directed by him. I was like 'Yeah, go ahead.' With time obviously we you know as producers came on board, we said 'Okay let's see this story, let's have someone else direct it.' All of that. But yeah I did. I don't know why I was not fearful of putting my trust or putting my all my eggs in one basket of a very young boy."
HUM FILMS
5. Film clip: "Superstar"
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, 8 August 2019
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Bilal Ashraf, actor - on rehearsals for dancing and singing numbers
"It is the case. I think for most of the songs we rehearsed only for a day day and a half. For the theater part of the film, for that part, I think both of us me and Mahira we were in theatrical training with with quite a few students and graduates of theater for about twenty five days and then just on set. But it was very high pressure, very quick. Everyone one thing after the other. I think December 5th I remember is when I got on board and I started officially and here we are. The film's releasing. So it's been one thing after the other."
HUM FILMS
7. Film trailer clip: "Superstar"
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, 8 August 2019
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Bilal Ashraf, actor - on having to get fit to show off his six pack in the film
"Well the thing is I was already I was training for another film. And when this film came down, we had to change the routine and become leaner and of course change the diet. And so it was a decision on the producer, director and I mean me. We all sat down we decided 'OK I know there's a time crunch because a physique's natural transformation you know without any injections and steroids takes six takes its own natural course of time.' So time of course I wish I had more time. We all do but it's still I feel we were able to pull it off."
HUM FILMS
9. Film trailer clip: "Superstar"
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, 8 August 2019
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Mahira Khan, actress - on screen chemistry with Ashraf
"No, we did not. We did not have any sort of 'Let's see how they look together in a frame,' which is so important you know. But Momina has this eye. She like 'OK I know who you can look good with.' And he is you know. She feels that I look better with men who are taller and bigger and. So she was like, 'I'm telling you guys look.' I said 'We haven't even worked together, we've not been in a picture together.' I didn't know him at all. But the minute we got into frame we stood in a frame together, I remember everybody on set it was like 'This looks nice, this looks good.' So that was..."
HUM FILMS
11. Film trailer clip: "Superstar"
STORYLINE:
MAHIRA KHAN'S TRUST BRINGS 'SUPERSTAR' PROJECT TO LIFE
Some in the Pakistan film industry were aghast when Mahira Khan committed to Azeen Sami Khan's project "Superstar" four years ago.
A star in her own country, the actress trusted the composer and screenwriter's vision when he was in his early twenties, after he pitched her the story by playing her each song in the film.
"Maybe I shouldn't think like this, but just as an artist or as someone who, as an actor I want to do what I want to do. It doesn't matter if it's a 20-year-old or a 50-year-old or you know. Age doesn't define what a person can do, at least in my eyes. Also obviously in fact when I when I said yes to the film he was directing it. So I was actually ready to be directed by him," she said.
"I don't know why I was not fearful of putting my trust or putting my all my eggs in one basket of a very young boy."
The film ended up being directed by veteran filmmaker Mohammed Ehteshamuddin and co-starring an unknown actor, Bilal Ashraf, who had been working as a hedge fund manager in New York.
This time, Khan had to put her trust in her producer Momina Duraid that she had found the right guy.
"She was like, 'I'm telling you guys look.' I said 'We haven't even worked together, we've not been in a picture together.' I didn't know him at all. But the minute we got into frame we stood in a frame together, I remember everybody on set it was like 'This looks nice, this looks good,'" she said.
Khan plays theater actress Noor who has dreams of stardom. When fate puts her in the path of Sameer (Ashraf) sparks fly.
The two leads had to undergo some theater training but they didn't have the luxury of rehearsing the multiple song and dance numbers very much.
"I think for most of the songs we rehearsed only for a day day and a half," said Ashraf. "For the theater part of the film, for that part, I think both of us me and Mahira we were in theatrical training with with quite a few students and graduates of theater for about twenty five days and then just on set. But it was very high pressure, very quick."
"Superstar" is out in U.K. and U.S. cinemas.
Other release dates:
Pakistan - 12 August
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