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World famous fashion designer Manish Malhotra has designed Kiara Advani’s lehenga and Siddharth Malhotra’s sherwani for their wedding. Manish Malhotra is a well-known name in Bollywood who has designed dresses of many actors and actresses including Kajol, Kareena Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Salman Khan, Shahrukh Khan etc.

Sources said that Manish has designed Siddharth Malhotra’s sherwani to match Kiara’s bridal lehenga.

His team is also working for Mehendi, Haldi and other pre-wedding functions. The clothes of both the family members have also been designed by their team. Manish reached Jaisalmer on Saturday afternoon along with Kiara by Ambani’s charter plane, while his team members arrived in the evening.

Rizwan Shaikh, Ali Rizvi, jewellry maker Kamlesh Gupta, Raj Rankawat, Manish Malhotra’s assistant Jason D’Souza, among others came to Jaisalmer for the photo shoot of the designer dress made by their team.

How do you keep your family going in Kabul when the only male provider has been imprisoned? Parvana steps up in this delightful film

There’s a calmness and clarity to this engaging animation, exec-produced by Angelina Jolie, and directed by the Irish film-maker Nora Twomey, co-director of The Secret of Kells, which – like this – earned her an Oscar nomination for best animated picture. It is based on the Ya novel by Deborah Ellis. Saara Chaudry voices Parvana, a young girl in Kabul, Afghanistan, which after the Soviet war is under the brutal and woman-hating control of the Taliban. When Parvana’s free-thinking schoolteacher dad Nurullah (Ali Badshah) is imprisoned for the equivalent of thought crime, there are no working-age men left in Parvana’s family: just a mum, an older sister and a baby brother. So Parvana cuts her hair, pretends to be a boy and earns money by...

"When I was young, Parvana, I knew what peace felt like..." GKids has debuted the full-length theatrical trailer for an animated film titled The Breadwinner, set in the heart of Afghanistan telling the story of a girl who dresses as a boy in order to work and provide for her family. This is directed by Nora Twomey, one of the co-directors of the lovely Oscar-nominated animated film The Secret of Kells, and it feature some stunning animation. It's also executive produced by Angelina Jolie. Featuring the voice of Saara Chaudry as the lead girl Parvana, as well as Laara Sadiq, Shaista Latif, Ali Badshah, Noorin Gulamgaus, and Kawa Ada. I recently saw this at the London Film Festival and it's a fantastic, heartbreaking film that is important for all to see because it can help us understand different cultures. I recommend it. Worth a watch. Here's the full theatrical trailer...

In the Taliban-controlled Afghan city of Kabul, Nora Twomey’s debut film as sole director (she co-helmed Oscar nominee The Secret of Kells) depicts an eleven-year old girl facing the futility her future inevitably holds. Adapted by Anita Doron from the award-winning novel by Deborah Ellis, The Breadwinner delivers a heart-wrenching coming-of-age tale within a nation that’s lost its way. The shift was virtually overnight once the Taliban took over: women forced under hoods and trapped in houses, photographs and books outlawed, and men turned cruel as “protectors” of an extremist interpretation of a peaceful religion. The city’s former glory is immortalized only through stories of those who still remember. And as they perish to be replaced with new generations raised in hate, the past risks being forgotten forever.

Parvana (Saara Chaudry) is one of the lucky few that knows this former life thanks to her ex- schoolteacher...

"Is it a happy story, or a sad story?" "Just wait and see..." GKids has recently released a teaser trailer for an animated film titled The Breadwinner, set in Afghanistan telling the story of a girl who dresses as a boy in order to work and provide for her family. This is directed by Nora Twomey, one of the co-directors of the lovely Oscar-nominated animated film The Secret of Kells. It's also executive produced by Angelina Jolie. Featuring the voice of Saara Chaudry as the lead girl Parvana, as well as Laara Sadiq, Shaista Latif, Ali Badshah, Noorin Gulamgaus, and Kawa Ada. This is the first time we've heard about this, and it hasn't premiered anywhere yet, so we expect to hear more later in the year. Until then, check this out. Here's the first teaser trailer (+ poster) for Nora Twomey's The Breadwinner, from YouTube (via Wah): Parvana...