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లండన్లో ధనుష్తో ఐశ్వర్య...!
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Published : Jul 19, 2019, 9:31 PM IST
'పేట' సినిమాతో మంచి పేరుతెచ్చుకున్న దర్శకుడు కార్తీక్ సుబ్బరాజ్తో ఓ సినిమా చేయనున్నాడు తమిళ నటుడు ధనుష్. మలయాళీ నటి ఐశ్వర్య లక్ష్మి కథానాయిక. గ్యాంగ్స్టర్ థ్రిల్లర్గా రానున్న ఈ చిత్రం ఆగస్టులో పట్టాలెక్కనుంది.
లండన్లో ధనుష్తో ఐశ్వర్య...!
తమిళంలో జిగర్తాండా, పేట వంటి సూపర్హిట్ చిత్రాలు తెరకెక్కించిన దర్శకుడు కార్తీక్ సుబ్బరాజ్. ఈ డైరెక్టర్తో కలిసి ఓ సినిమా చేయనున్నాడు కోలీవుడ్ స్టార్ హీరో ధనుష్. మలయాళీ భామ ఐశ్వర్య లక్ష్మి హీరోయిన్.
ధనుష్, కార్తిక్ సుబ్బరాజ్, ఐశ్వర్య లక్ష్మి వై నాట్‌ స్టూడియోస్‌ పతాకంపై సినిమా నిర్మించనున్నారు. గ్యాంగ్స్టర్ థ్రిల్లర్గా రానున్న ఈ చిత్రం ఆగస్టులో ప్రారంభంకానుంది. షూటింగ్ మొత్తం లండన్లో జరగనుంది. ఈ చిత్రానికి సంతోష్ నారాయణన్ సంగీత దర్శకుడు. ఎస్.శశికాంత్, రామచంద్ర చక్రవర్తి నిర్మాతలు. నటీనటులు సహా మరిన్ని వివరాల్ని త్వరలో వెల్లడించనుంది చిత్రబృందం.
సినిమా విశేషాలతో ధనుష్ ట్వీట్ ఆల్పాసినో వల్లే ఆలస్యం...
2017లోనే సినిమా చేస్తున్నట్లు అప్డేట్ ఇచ్చాడు ధనుష్. హాలీవుడ్‌ నటుడు ఆల్ పాసినో కూడా ఇందులో ఓ కీలక పాత్ర పోషించనున్నాడు. ఈ ఇంగ్లీష్ నటుడి డేట్స్‌ సర్దుబాటు కాకపోవడం వల్ల సినిమా పనులు ప్రారంభం కాలేదు.
ప్రస్తుతం ధనుష్ వెట్రిమాన్‌ దర్శకత్వంలో 'అసురన్‌' చిత్రం చేస్తున్నాడు. ఐశ్వర్య మలయాళంలో పృథ్వీరాజ్‌తో కలిసి 'బ్రదర్స్‌ డే' సినిమాలో నటిస్తోంది. తమిళంలో సుందర్‌.సి దర్శకత్వంలో విశాల్‌తో కలిసి మరో సినిమాలో కనువిందు చేయనుందీ అమ్మడు. ఇందులో తమన్నా ఒక కథానాయికగా నటిస్తోంది.
ఇవీ చూడండి...ఒక్క పాట కోసం ముగ్గురు కామ్రేడ్స్
తమిళంలో జిగర్తాండా, పేట వంటి సూపర్హిట్ చిత్రాలు తెరకెక్కించిన దర్శకుడు కార్తీక్ సుబ్బరాజ్. ఈ డైరెక్టర్తో కలిసి ఓ సినిమా చేయనున్నాడు కోలీవుడ్ స్టార్ హీరో ధనుష్. మలయాళీ భామ ఐశ్వర్య లక్ష్మి హీరోయిన్.
ధనుష్, కార్తిక్ సుబ్బరాజ్, ఐశ్వర్య లక్ష్మి వై నాట్‌ స్టూడియోస్‌ పతాకంపై సినిమా నిర్మించనున్నారు. గ్యాంగ్స్టర్ థ్రిల్లర్గా రానున్న ఈ చిత్రం ఆగస్టులో ప్రారంభంకానుంది. షూటింగ్ మొత్తం లండన్లో జరగనుంది. ఈ చిత్రానికి సంతోష్ నారాయణన్ సంగీత దర్శకుడు. ఎస్.శశికాంత్, రామచంద్ర చక్రవర్తి నిర్మాతలు. నటీనటులు సహా మరిన్ని వివరాల్ని త్వరలో వెల్లడించనుంది చిత్రబృందం.
సినిమా విశేషాలతో ధనుష్ ట్వీట్ ఆల్పాసినో వల్లే ఆలస్యం...
2017లోనే సినిమా చేస్తున్నట్లు అప్డేట్ ఇచ్చాడు ధనుష్. హాలీవుడ్‌ నటుడు ఆల్ పాసినో కూడా ఇందులో ఓ కీలక పాత్ర పోషించనున్నాడు. ఈ ఇంగ్లీష్ నటుడి డేట్స్‌ సర్దుబాటు కాకపోవడం వల్ల సినిమా పనులు ప్రారంభం కాలేదు.
ప్రస్తుతం ధనుష్ వెట్రిమాన్‌ దర్శకత్వంలో 'అసురన్‌' చిత్రం చేస్తున్నాడు. ఐశ్వర్య మలయాళంలో పృథ్వీరాజ్‌తో కలిసి 'బ్రదర్స్‌ డే' సినిమాలో నటిస్తోంది. తమిళంలో సుందర్‌.సి దర్శకత్వంలో విశాల్‌తో కలిసి మరో సినిమాలో కనువిందు చేయనుందీ అమ్మడు. ఇందులో తమన్నా ఒక కథానాయికగా నటిస్తోంది.
ఇవీ చూడండి...ఒక్క పాట కోసం ముగ్గురు కామ్రేడ్స్
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1. Trailer clip - "The Great Hack"
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, 17 July 2019
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim, filmmakers:
Amer: "This film is not about Cambridge Analytica only. We use Cambridge Analytica to tell a much bigger story about technology and Facebook and the superstates, the super tech states that we're interacting with, and I think that we should be very alarmed at the way in which there has been no regulation. There has been no guardrails to help to help us be able to discern more clearly what is real and what is fake and to help us be able to know how our data can be used against us. You know, this notion that Cambridge had 5,000 data points on each voter - you know, can you name five thousand things about yourself?"
Noujaim: "So now you have an algorithm that knows you better than you know yourself and that is influencing your decisions. And we are moral creatures and this is an amoral algorithm whose purpose it is to get you to buy more things and to keep you online. So if a force like that is shaping our decisions, we need to start understanding how that's all working because if we're not understanding it and thinking for ourselves about it, somebody else is going to be thinking for you."
Amer: "The Cambridge Analytica Facebook scandal should be seen as one of the largest corporate negligence cases in modern history, and it's on Facebook, it's not on just Cambridge. There is no Cambridge Analytica without Facebook. Facebook is the weapon, and Facebook has become a crime scene and we have no answers to how our democracies have been compromised using Facebook as well as to promote weaponized information. These are questions that have to be answered."
Noujaim: "I don't think that there is an awareness of exactly how much is being collected on you. And I think that as David Carroll says in the film, if people understood the level of surveillance, people would be shocked."
NETFLIX
3. Trailer clip - "The Great Hack"
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, 17 July 2019
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer, filmmakers:
Noujaim: "We tried to find characters that would take us through this complicated world and humanize it for us because unless you see the human face of this, and unless you really understand what this means, you really, it is, as Karim said, an invisible world. How do you make the invisible visible? The crime scene is happening inside our computers and on Twitter and Facebook and these social media platforms."
Amer: "People like Carroll, David Carroll, one of our protagonists, and Carole Cadwalladr, who kind of become these you know almost amateur sleuths working with each other and finding other people on Twitter and around the world who are all kind of not waiting for the British government to investigate what happened with Brexit, not waiting for the American government to investigate what happened with the Trump election, and taking that investigation into their own hands and shining light on how technology has disrupted our democratic process."
NETFLIX
5. Trailer clip - "The Great Hack"
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, 17 July 2019
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim, filmmakers:
Amer: "People feel like it's almost like a Bond film, you know, with this kind of bizarre locations. We met Brittany (Kaiser) in James Bond Island in Thailand. There's you know, it's also kind of quite comedic at times because of the absurdity of it all. So I think we've tried to make this, you know, a film at the end of the day and not feel like it's, you know..."
Noujaim: "Homework."
Amer: "Like it's homework or medecine."
Noujaim: "It shouldn't be homework. It's still a film, it should be entertaining."
(Reporter: "It plays like a thriller.")
Noujaim: "It plays like a thriller - that's a great compliment, thank you."
Amer: "I think that's really what it should feel like. And I think the message is, you know, we're trying to galvanize people to just start to become aware of how we're being shaped and how our free will is being compromised because I think the way forward is by, you know, calling for a new social contract. But instead of calling it between governments and citizens, it perhaps should be between citizens, governments and tech platforms and perhaps a new social contract is our User Agreement, in which case we should be asking who will be the authors of that user agreement and how will it be more consensual. Data has surpassed oil; data is the new commodity. So, we should be looking at these leaks as a much bigger deal than than we are, but because we haven't been able to see it, we don't see the data spilling, we don't see the signs of vulnerability, I think that's why we don't see people in the world being as galvanized to do something about it. And so part of our job as filmmakers is to bring that world to life."
NETFLIX
7. Film clip - "The Great Hack"
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, 17 July 2019
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim, filmmakers:
Amer: "Democracy is not a God-given right. We come from Egypt where we've seen the fragility of society, and fascism is at the gates. And we need to really be aware that how can we maintain a society based on common values when everyone's living in their own reality, which is what we have now. And how can we call ourselves democratic countries that stand for these values when we have tech platforms that are essentially, you know, profiting off of the polarization of people in, you know, in mass quantity and allowing for, you know, psychological experiments to be conducted on people without their consent."
Noujaim: "These tech platforms which were made to connect us are now dividing us. And so looking at this world, how do we make sense of it and understand it so that we're able to sort of redirect and rewrite the terms and conditions so that we have a new social contract?"
Amer: "We can sit here in and while we're sitting here arguing amongst ourselves as mere humans, algorithms are actually taking control of our lives. And I think we have much more in common with each other - even our most bitter human enemy - than we do with amoral algorithms that we really have no ability to control."
Noujaim: "We're in 'The Matrix' and we've had people see the film who have said, 'Well, I thought that I was in an episode of 'Black Mirror.' Turns out that it's true.' So I mean, I think we've walked out of making of this film with a lot more questions than we do answers."
Amer: "Have we consented to this relationship with technology? Nobody's calling for a Luddite revolution but I think what we're saying is we need technology to expand our capacity as we always have historically, but we've also needed ethics to preserve our humanity."
NETFLIX
9. Trailer clip - "The Great Hack"
STORYLINE:
'OUR DEMOCRACIES HAVE BEEN COMPROMISED; FASCISM IS AT THE GATES': FILMMAKERS BEHIND DATA SCANDAL DOC ON WEAPONIZED TECHNOLOGY
The filmmakers behind a new documentary about the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data scandal, "The Great Hack," say social networks have compromised democratic systems.
"Democracy is not a God-given right. We come from Egypt where we've seen the fragility of society, and fascism is at the gates," Karim Amer told The Associated Press Wednesday (17 JULY 2019).
"The Great Hack" uncovers the dark world of data exploitation via the personal journeys of key players on different sides of the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data scandal. It lifts the lid on Cambridge Analytica and their methods, used in other parts of the world long before they became involved in U.S. and U.K. politics.
Amer, alongside fellow filmmaker Jehane Noujaim, looked into the ramifications of the scandal and the resulting erosion of the democratic system at a time when data has surpassed oil as the world's most valuable asset, and is being weaponized to wage cultural and political warfare.
"The Cambridge Analytica Facebook scandal should be seen as one of the largest corporate negligence cases in modern history," says Amer. "Facebook is the weapon, and Facebook has become a crime scene and we have no answers to how our democracies have been compromised using Facebook as well as to promote weaponized information."
People are in a battle for control of their most intimate personal details, says Noujaim, and many would be shocked at the amount of surveillance to which they are subjected.
"Now you have an algorithm that knows you better than you know yourself and that is influencing your decisions. And we are moral creatures and this is an amoral algorithm whose purpose it is to get you to buy more things and to keep you online."
Oscar-nominated filmmakers Amer and Noujaim worked on "The Great Hack" for more than four years. It premiered at 2019 Sundance Film Festival to positive reviews.
The story is told from three main perspectives: David Carroll, a New York professor who, while investigating the Trump 2016 campaign, stumbled across an unknown British company called Cambridge Analytica who claimed to have 5,000 data points on every American voter; Brittany Kaiser, who was Director of Business Development at Cambridge Analytica; and Carole Cadwalladr, an English journalist for The Observer who helped to break the story.
Amer and Noujaim's last film, multi-award winning and Oscar-nominated documentary "The Square," about the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, illustrated how social media, especially Facebook, could drive political and social change.
"The Great Hack" is released on Netflix and in select cinemas on July 24.
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