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63RD CANNES FILM FESTIVAL

Cannes film festival is one of the famous, recognized and respected international film festivals of the world. The ‘63rd Cannes film festival’ was started on 12th May, 2010 with the Hollywood film “Robin Hood” directed by Ridley Scott. In this year, 19 films are competing for  “Palme d’Or” prize. In these films, six are from French productions, five are Asian films and other films come from Britain, Mexico, Hungary, Ukraine and Russia. The films such as “Outrage”, “Another Year”,  “Biutiful”, “On Tour”, “Outside the Law” etc are some of the films competing for highest price “Palme d’Or”. Another 19 films have been selected for “Un Certain Regard” category and 9 films to be shown ‘Out of competition’ category. Famous American film director Tim Burton is presiding the jury with the support of other eight jury members including Italian cinematographer Alberto Barbera, English actress Kate Beckinsale, French screenwriter and director Emmanuel Carrere, Italian actress Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro, French composer Alexandre Desplat, Spanish director Victor Erice and Indian director Shekhar Kapur. Many celebrities were attended opening ceremony of the 63rd Cannes Film Festival. They included Indian actress and former Miss world Aishwarya Rai, who has been a permanent Cannes attendee for many years, actors Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchet and Salma Hayek. British actress Kristin Scott Thomas presided the opening ceremony and this 12 day film festival will be ended on 23rd May with an Australian film “The Tree” directed by French female director Julie Bertuccelli. So get ready for watching this amazing film festival.

CANNES FILM FESTIVAL

A Cannes film festival is one of the famous, recognized and respected international film festivals of the world. This festival was founded in 1939 as a suggestion of the French minister Jean Zay. It is considered as one of the world’s most prestigious and oldest film festivals along with the Venice Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, and Toronto Film Festival. The first Cannes festival was held from September 20 to October 5, 1946 in the resort town of Cannes, in the south of France. Since then, it has been held annually in the May at the ‘Palais des Festivals et des Congrès’, in the resort town of Cannes, in the south of France. In this festival, many films are viewed and judged by the internationally selected film committee which usually includes film experts from around the world. This festival not only brings world recognition to little-known directors, actors and writers, but also honors the film industry players who either have been forgotten or were not recognized in their lifetime. In addition, this festival attracts many celebrities such as Pamela Anderson, Aiswarya Rai etc from around the world. The’Palme d’Or ‘(Golden Palm)award is the most prestigious Award in Cannes Film Festival. It is given for the ‘Best Film’. The award is sometimes shared by multiple films in one year. ‘The Grand Prix’ is second the most prestigious prize of this festival. ‘The Jury Prize’ is considered as the third most prestigious prize at the Cannes film festival, after the Palme d’Or and the Grand Prix. A total of 57 full-length films from across countries is showcased in the festival. This global audience festival is attended by many movie stars and is a popular venue for movie producers to launch their new films and attempt to sell their works to the distributors who come from all over the globe.

SAROSH HOMI KAPADIA

Now Indians will get innovative judgments and verdicts from new Chief Justice. The senior most judge of the Supreme Court, justice Sarosh Homi Kapadia is appointed as the new Chief Justice of India by Indian President Pratibha Patil on today. Sarosh Homi Kapadia is the  thirty eighth Chief Justice of India and he will take charge on today from the Present Chief justice KG Balakrishnan. His tenure as Chief Justice will end on 29th September, 2012.

BIOGRAPHY

Justice Sarosh Homi Kapadia was born on born 29th September, 1947 in Maharastra. He is the first Chief Justice of India born after Independence. He started his professional career as an advocate in Mumbai High Court in September 1974. After that, he was appointed as an additional judge of the Bombay High Court in 1991 and he became permanent judge on that court in 1993. On August 2003, he was appointed as the Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court and on December of that year, he was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court. In his tenure, he announced several landmark judgments under the constitutional law and the taxation, regulatory and commercial laws. Justice Kapadia is known for maintaining strict judicial discipline and he has deep knowledge in tax laws which earned him accolades from the Bench and the Bar. Now, he is appointed as the new Chief Justice of India by Indian President Pratibha Patil. In India, justice delayed is justice denied. So Indians are wishing that the justice to be delivered fast because many files are on pending mode and it takes long periods to get justice. Thus it would be the main challenge of the new Chief Justice to reduce the mounting pendency of the cases not only in the top court , but in High Courts and trial courts. In addition, people hopes that the new Chief Justice will help restores their dying confidence in the country’s judicial system.