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| Bollywood star Salman Khan faces homicide trial Posted: 01 Feb 2013 05:01 AM PST MUMBAI: A court in Mumbai has ruled that Bollywood star Salman Khan will be tried for culpable homicide over a 2002 hit-and-run case which could land him behind bars for 10 years, his lawyer said Friday. Khan is alleged to have rammed his Toyota Land Cruiser vehicle onto a pavement and over five sleeping homeless people in suburban Mumbai, killing one and injuring four others. Dipesh Mehta, who represents Khan, said a sessions court had on Thursday "directed the police to book him for culpable homicide not amounting to murder". "We will however challenge this decision in the High Court," Mehta told AFP. Khan was being tried under a lesser charge of rash and negligent driving but prosecutors had filed an application for the charges to be upgraded, which the court upheld. The new offences carry sentences of up to 10 years in prison. "The court said there was enough evidence to show the act was not incidental and hence the case should be tried under a more serious section," the Times of India reported on Friday, quoting another of Khan's lawyers Kaushal Thakkar. The star has been asked to be present in court on March 11. Khan - known for his muscular physique and off-camera fits of temper - has been a controversial figure since he first broke into Bollywood in the late 1980s in the romance film Maine Pyar Kiya (I'm In Love). In 1998, he spent more than a week in prison for killing endangered Indian gazelles in the northern state of Rajasthan. - AFP |
| Posted: 01 Feb 2013 12:39 AM PST A Good Day To Die Hard — It's hard to keep a good character down, and since this is John McClane (Bruce Willis), it's darn near impossible. It has been six years since we saw Die Hard 4.0, and a quarter-century since Die Hard. McClane's two children are grown up (they're played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Jai Courtney here) and he travels to Russia to help his son only to, once again, save the day from very bad guys. The teaser poster says it all: Yippee ki-yay, Mother Russia. The Wedding Diary 2 — Young couple Wei Jie and Zhixin welcome a new family member, baby Heng, while coping with the stroke suffered by Zhixin's father and her mother's deteriorating mental health. Starring Ah Niu, Elanne Kwong, Kara Hui, Jack Choo and Marcus Chin. Hantu Kak Limah 2: Husin, Mon & Jin Pakai Toncit — After the events of Hantu Kak Limah Balik Rumah, Husin returns to his village to deal with his money problems. Upon his arrival, he has to deal with a new kind of evil and it wants a debt settled. Directed by Mamat Khalid, the horror-comedy stars Awie, Shy8, Delimawati, Avaa Vanja, Zami Ismail and Man Kadir. |
| Posted: 01 Feb 2013 12:36 AM PST 2 Guns DIRECTOR David O. Russell is currently enjoying a high profile with his film Silver Linings Playbook. Next, he is on joint writing duties for 2 Guns, based on the Boom! graphic novels by Steven Grant. Directed by Baltasar Kormákur (Contraband), the movie stars Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Paula Patton and Bill Paxton. The action flick is about two operatives from competing bureaus forced to go on the run together. There is also another problem with their alliance: neither knows that the other is an undercover federal agent. For the past 12 months, DEA agent Bobby Trench (Washington) and US naval intelligence officer Marcus Stigman (Wahlberg) have been reluctantly attached at the hip. Working undercover as members of a narcotics syndicate, each man distrusts his partner as much as the criminals they have both been tasked to take down. When their attempt to infiltrate a Mexican drug cartel and recover millions goes haywire, Trench and Stigman are suddenly disavowed by their superiors. Now that everyone wants them in jail or in the ground, they can only count on one another. Unfortunately for their pursuers, when good guys spend years pretending to be bad guys, they pick up a few tricks along the way. The film is set to open in Malaysia on Aug 16. |
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