'The King's Speech' bagged the best film title at Oscar

'The King's Speech' bagged the best film title at Oscar: Tom Hooper’s “The King’s Speech” bagged the title for best film at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards here Sunday.

The award was presented by Steven Spielberg.”The King’s Speech” was competing with Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan”, David O. Russell’s “The Fighter”, Christopher Nolan’s “Inception”, Lisa Cholodenko “The Kids Are All Right”, Danny Boyle’s “127 Hours”, David Fincher’s “The Social Network”, Lee Unkrich.’s “Toy Story 3″, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen’s “True Grit” and Debra Granik’s “Winter’s Bone”.

The film had 12 Oscar nominations this year.

Katrina Kaif becomes a singer

Katrina Kaif becomes a singer: Katrina Kaif’s accented Hindi may be questionable but her sweet voice is sure suited for a crooner.

Taking the cue, Katrina has consented to sing a song in the upcoming Yashraj film Mere Brother Ki Dulhan, we hear. Kat was not initially gung-ho about singing for the film, but it was her co-star Ali Zafar, the Pakistani singer, who convinced her to try out singing.

Ali himself has sung three songs in the film, and Kat, reports say, has sung one. The music of the film is composed by Suhail Sen.

Mere Brother Ki Dulhan has Katrina paired with Imran Khan. The film is slated to release later this year.

A R Rahman loses Oscar Award

A R Rahman loses Oscar Award: Two-time Oscar winning Indian composer A R Rahman failed to bag the coveted Golden Man at the 83rd Academy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night.

The composer was nominated in two categories: Best Original Score and Best Song (If I Rise) for his work in Danny Boyle’s film 127 Hours. But Rahman missed out on winning in both the categories.

He lost in the Best Original Score category to Trent Rezner and Atticus Ross for their compositions in The Social Network. Rahman lost in the Best Song category to Randy Newman for his song ‘We Belong Together’ in Toy Story 3.

Rahman, however, gave a moving performance on stage along with Dido. The two sang a teaser of their song ‘If I Rise’.

All in all, the Oscars this year did not rock, partly because of strictly average hosting by a shockingly stilted James Franco and somewhat amusing Anne Hathaway. The evening also had its Oops moment when actress Melissa Leo uttered the ‘F’ word in her acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actress for ‘The Fighter’.