Film: No Problem; Cast: Anil Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, Akshaye Khanna, Suneil Shetty, Paresh Rawal, Sushmita Sen, Kangana Ranaut; Director: Anees Bazmee.

Director Anees Bazmee promises to take you through yet another joy ride after the super successful No Entry. And this time too we hope that he will present before us another ‘laughathon’. Though the cast has undergone a change and we will see the ever eccentric Kangana Ranaut putting on her comic shoes for the first time, the Sanjay Dutt and Paresh Rawal comic timing will be the chief crowd puller from Friday.

No Problem tells the story of two thieves Yash and Raj enacted by Sanjay Dutt and Akshaye Khanna respectively and a police officer Arjun, played by Anil Kapoor, trying his best to get hold of a man called Zandulal, played by Paresh Rawal, who turns prime suspect in a case of bank robbery. However, it is actually Yash and Raj, the thieves who have committed the crime of robbing a bank. Therefore, Zandulal is constantly in search of the petty thieves.

Sushmita Sen on the other hand plays Kajal, inspector Arjun’s wife. She hates her husband for his incompetency at work and wishes to kill him each time he comes in front of her. Kangana Ranaut is Sanjana, Kajal’s sister who falls in love with the thief raj little knowing his occupation. Suneil Shetty plays the role of Marcus, a goon who is also on the lookout of Yash and Raj because he has been blamed for killing a politician who was actually killed by the thieves duo.

Larger the number of characters, larger the amount of confusion. And this is exactly what happens in Anees Bazmee’s No Problem. The irony in the name is that each character in the film has his/her own set of problems! But the audience is sure to forget all their problems when they sit down to watch No Problem.

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This album has song Sung by Anoop Sankar(Asianet Plus fame) and composed by Hariprasad, the peppy number has a tongue-in-cheek video featuring Ranjini and Suraj.

The song is about the travails of a random guy, played by Suraj Venjarammoodu, who is a Kurutham Kettavan (one who’s upto no good) from childhood. Ranjini Haridas is Rosykutty, his love interest. Pepped with 3D animation, the video has a cartoonish-feel to it, making it quite endearing. The song’s also pretty-good, and matches upto the ‘Palavattam’ quality.

Kurutham Kettavan is a product of Vishraam Creations. Favour Francis is the video-director. Prakash Velayudan has handled the camera while Sushil has crafted the 3D visuals of the video. The video is edited by Dheeraj Warrier.

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British Indian director Sangeeta Dutta's new film Life Goes On exploring the relations between a grief stricken father and his three daughters is being released in North America Friday, even before its release in India.

Set in London, the film about an Indian-origin family features veteran Indian actor Sharmila Tagore and her daughter Soha Ali Khan together for the first time. It's being released by Databazaar Media Ventures, an exclusive gateway for Bengali films to North America.

The movie won the Best Feature Film award at the Pravasi International Festival, Delhi and the Best Feature Film, Audience Appreciation Award at the London Asian Film Festival.

"I had been wanting to share filmography with my mother and there had been several offers but none convinced us. Sangeeta's script was very convincing and it seemed almost organic for me to play daughter to my mother in the film," Soha said.

"'Life Goes On' is an original film, it is non-formulaic, and I am so happy that it is getting released now and Databazaar Media Ventures is taking it to the large market in North America even before its release in India.

"It was my first British film and in many ways I am the British-Asian girl Dia. I have been educated in Oxford and the LSE (London School of Economics) and I have also worked in London," said Soha.

"Working with my mother, who is a living legend, was daunting to say the least! For many reasons the film is very personal to me and the work I will always want to own and view whenever I want to," Soha, 32, said.

The cast of the film also includes Girish Karnad and Om Puri.

"This is my first British film and I very much liked the process of working with a British crew, with Om Puri and my daughter Soha for the first time," Sharmila Tagore said.

Oney Seal, chairman of the Databazaar group of companies, said: "'Life Goes On' is our first English language film which is slated for mainstream release all over North America. The Indian diaspora living here will be able to immediately identify with this film."
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Rakesh K Singh | New Delhi

CBI registers case against unknown persons for defacing its portal

A day after the CBI’s official website was hacked by ‘Pakistani Cyber Army’ (PCA), the Indian Cyber Army (ICA) on Saturday retaliated by hacking the official website of Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (OGRA).

The full-scale cyber war between hackers owing allegiance to the two countries has triggered even as the CBI registered a case against unknown persons for hacking and defacement of its portal.

The screenshot of the hacked OGRA website read: “You Have Been Hacked By The “INDIAN CYBER ARMY”. This Is a Retaliation of Hacking “CBI”. You were Very Proud That Your OGRA has Not Been Hacked? Huh!? we can do anything for INDIA.”

The OGRA website was initially restored by the authorities there but the account got completely suspended thereafter. The CBI too struggled to rectify the defacement. Both the PCA and ICA exploited “software vulnerability” for hacking.

One of the hackers of ICA team, Disfigure, notified the Hacker Regiment (a cyber security awareness portal) that they have been able to compromise OGRA of Pakistan available at http://ogra.org.pk as retaliation to PCA’s attack on Indian websites, including CBI’s official website.

A Pakistani media report said besides the CBI website, portals of colleges, NGOs and Indian companies have also been hacked.

Disfigure said, “PCA has not done a great job. They targeted very soft targets and such vulnerable websites are floating all over the web. If we start targeting such Pakistani websites, list would be beyond anyone’s imagination.”

“CBI website was vulnerable with SQL injection which is a software vulnerability that happens due to insecure communication of website visible to the end user and the backend database. So actually, they (PCA) were not able to compromise the underlying servers…If you analyse the screenshot of compromised CBI website, it retained the top header and side bars,” Disfigure added.

Cyber security expert and director of Torrid Networks, a cyber security firm, Dhruv Soi told The Pioneer, “Cyber attacks between two countries are a matter of concern as it threatens to disturb Government and corporate businesses on both sides.”

The cyber attack on the CBI’s website comes days after the agency signed an MoU with Nasscom to contain the menace of cyber terrorism.

The CBI registered the case under Sections 43 and 66 of the Information Technology Act. As per Section 43 of the Act, a person charged for tampering with or manipulating any computer, computer system or compute network shall be liable to pay damages by way of compensation not exceeding one crore rupees to the person (or firm) so affected.

Section 66 says, “Whoever commits hacking shall be punished with imprisonment up to three years, or with fine which may extend up to two lakh rupees, or with both.”

A CBI spokesperson said efforts were underway to restore the website for public interface at the earliest. “It has come to the notice of the CBI that its official website was unauthorisedly accessed and defaced in the intervening night of December 3 and 4. A case has been registered in this connection in the cyber crime cell of the CBI and efforts are underway to restore the website with the help of National Informatics Centre and the CBI cyber security experts.”

The home page of the CBI website was hacked and it had a message from the PCA warning the ICA that their websites should not be attacked. The PCA also threatened to carry out “mass defacement” of other websites.

Intelligence agencies have been often warning the Government that proper cyber security measures were not being ensured in offices and that no security audit was being carried out.

The ICA, meanwhile, released a list of 800 Pakistani websites defaced by it on November 26 this year as a revenge of the Mumbai terror attacks that started on the day two years ago, including some Pakistan Government sites and that of terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen.
http://www.dailypioneer.com/301439/Indian-Pakistani-hackers-set-off-full-scale-cyber-war.html

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