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BRIC SUMMIT 2009

The term BRIC is used to represent a group of nations including Brazil, Russia, India and China, which are world’s largest emerging market powers. This term is coined by Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill in 2001 to describe the growing power of emerging market economies. The first BRIC Summit is held on 16th June 2009 in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Hope is that this summit will focus on ways to reshape the financial system after the economic crisis. In addition, it will discuss on global financial crisis and its implication on the world, progress on the G-20 summit and climate change. An expectation is that these countries also discuss ways to reduce their dependence on the US dollar. In this summit, if these nations reach any agreement regarding the US dollar’s role in their foreign exchange reserves and cross-border trade, that could lead to an eventual reshuffle of the international financial order. Before the summit, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev proposed that countries use a mix of regional reserve currencies to reduce dependence on the dollar. This subject may be on the agenda of this summit. The BRIC leaders may discuss how to reduce dollar assets in their existing reserves, they may also seek to limit the use of the greenback in their bilateral trades and also reach the agreements that would encourage the use of their local currency in trade. These countries should work together to enlarge their consensus, exchange views on major international and regional issues of common concern, strengthen coordination and cooperation, and facilitate the settlement of problems. Though these discussions are not turning into reality, but it sends an alarm of distrust to the US government with regard to their monetary policy and this summit should lay the groundwork for a new level of cooperation between the countries. In addition, it opens a new stage in political dialogue and diplomatic interaction between four countries.

ASHUTOSH GOWARIKER

Famous Bollywwod director Ashutosh Gowariker was added another title in his own, because his historic love film ‘Jodhaa Akbar’ gained 10 awards including best film, best director, best actor in the 10th edition of IIFA awards. Famous Bollywood actor Hrithik Roshan gained  the best actor award for his performance as Akbar and Ashutosh Gowariker won best director awards for his historic epic. Oscar-winning musician A R Rahman won the best music director award for the same film and Javed Ali gained the best male playback singer award for his voice in the song ‘Jashn-e-bahaara’ in ‘Johdaa Akbar’. Furthermore, the famous Bollywood writer Javed Akhtar won the best lyricist award for the song ‘Jashn-e-bahaara’ for this film. This film also bagged awards in best editing, best makeup, best art direction, best costume in the edition of IIFA. Ashutosh Gowariker is a famous director, actor, writer and producer of India and his other notable films are “Lagaan” and “Swades”.He is the winner of the many awards including “National Film Award”, five “Filmfare Awards”, and seven “International film festival awards”.

BIOGRAPHY

Famous director cum actor Ashutosh Gowariker was born on 15th February, 1964 in Mumbai. He was started his career as a model in Govind Nihalani and Jenny Pinto’s commercials. In 1984, he entered in the Indian cinema through the film “Holi” directed by Ketan Mehta. After that, he appeared in many Hindi films including “Naam”, “Chamatkar”, “Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa”, “Goonj”, “Gawaahi”, “West is West”, “Saleem Langde Pe Mat Ro” and many televiosn serials including “Kachchi Dhoop”, “Saeed Mirza-Aziz” “Circus” and also in award-winning Marathi films like “Ujwal Thengde”, “Vazir”, “Sarkarnama”. In the notable television serials like “Discovery of India”, “Kisse Miya Biwi Ke”, “Hum Panchchi Ek Daal Ke”, “Indradhanush” “Jantar Mantar”, “WOH”and “CID”, we can also see wonderful performance of Ashutosh. In 1993, he made his directorial debut with the film “Pehla Nasha”. Though this film, didn’t do well at the box office, but it helped Ashutosh to grow as a director in the film industry. His second movie “Bazzi” was in 1995, and it gained average success in the box office. His next period epic movie “Lagaan” in 2001starring Amir Khan was gained huge success in the box office, and it gained critical praises at home and abroad. This film was nominated for an “Oscar” for Best Foreign-language Film and earned worldwide reviews for its direction. It also won the “National Film Award” for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment. He also directed another film titled “Swades”, starring Shahrukh Khan was popular in abroad, but it did not do well at the box office in India. His latest directorial work “Jodhaa Akbar” which was released on 15th February, 2008 was super hit in world wide and it won a lot of awards including the recent IIFA awards. Now he is working on his new film titled “What’s Your Raashee?”, a romantic comedy film starring Priyanka Chopra and Harman Baweja and he is also planning to direct an English language film titled “Buddha”. As a director, he also directed a series of five commercials for Coca-Cola, and it became hits and won honors at every advertising function in India. Ashutosh is also known as an “actor’s director”, because all of his male stars have won either the “Filmfare Best Actor Award” or the “Critics’ Best Actor Award”.

AWARDS

Ashutosh Gowariker gained many awards and honors in his film career. The superhit film “Lagaan” directed by him won many awards including “National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment”, “Filmfare Awards” for best director, best film and best story, “IIFA Awards” for best director and best movie, “Star Screen Awards” for best director, best film and best screenplay, “Zee Cine Awards” for best director, best film and best story, ” etc and it also nominated for “Academy Award” for best foreign language film. His another film “Swades”, won “Star Screen Award Special Jury Award”, ” Zee Cine Awards” for best director and best story and also nominated for “Filmfare Best Director Award”, “Star Screen Awards” for best director and best story and “Zee Cine Awards” for best director and best screenplay. Moreover, his latest film “Jodhaa Akbar” gained 10 awards including best film, best director, best actor etc in the 10th edition of IIFA awards.