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The much-anticipated Zero celebrates human imperfections as the heart-warming story captures the redemption of a dwarf named Baua Singh played by Shah Rukh Khan.

Baua’s inner-mental choreographies are brought alive in the Freudian dream sequence that depicts him posturing as a Hollywood-style hero rescuing a lone woman from the thuggery of his own father. In contrast to the vertically-challenged wayward dwarf that he is, his dream projects him as a French-speaking quintessential hero who is no stranger to fisty cuffs.

While he often gets whipped by his father for cocky shenanigans, he also gets bawled out as a side-performing runt by others, denying him the respect he fiercely seeks for himself.

Struggling through several humiliations, Baua endeavours to be vindicated in his many talents, most peculiar of which, is his ability to swipe off stars from the sky with his fingers.

With adorable dance performances, newly-bought suit and couplets, he successfully courts the wheelchair-bound space scientist named Aafia Yusufzai Bhinder played by Anushka Sharma. Above all, it’s the refreshing absence of formal politeness and pity for the space scientist who is otherwise used to deference, that wins her over despite the lampooning rejection of Baua’s initial wooing efforts. Anushka Sharma leaves no stones unturned in portraying the character through perfected speech-patterns and tremors that accurately characterise a cerebral palsy-stricken space scientist.

The second half of the movie drags at some places yet manages to maintain the spell with its stunning VFX-heavy spectacles. Shahrukh Khan, being the master of his craft, is absolutely convincing as a dwarf. While VFX gives glaring verisimilitude in making SRK look like an actual dwarf who could be playmates with Tyrion Lannister, both in spirit and looks, in most sequences, he looks more like a dapper shrunken-khan in some scenes. With the aid of forced perspective and CG tracking, the impressive VFX work has undoubtedly set a benchmark in the Indian film industry.

When it comes to the small-town milieu, Anand L Rai has no match. He deftly regales with clever metaphors and the overall heartwarming vibe whilst the dwarf’s one-liners elicit instant chuckles. My favourite pick- ab kya haldi laga laga ke ek aur inch chota kardoge.

Unable to countenance that he could ever be just reducible to a circus-performing dwarf, Bua sets out to impress the heart-throb Babita Kumari played by Katrina Kaif, with his dancing streak. He eventually manages to befriend her which is when he discovers the forlorn and scarred humanity that lay underneath the garb of the scintillating stardom.

To redeem himself and win back the first love that he initially deserted, Baua rigorously proves his mettle by qualifying for mankind’s unprecedented space mission to Mars.

VFX of the movie

The VFX of the movie depicts the spellbinding work of Shahrukh Khan’s own production house, redchillies.vfx where Shahrukh’s body muscles are shrunken into the size of a dwarf with the use of CG trackers pasted on the body of the actor while shooting the movie.  This must have taken a lot of effort as the CG team creates the transition from a matte image to a 3D image of the actor.

The complex CG design adds life to the story. If one gets deeper into the technicalities of it, one can notice that the wide blurred backdrops are used to match the shrunken body of the actor so that the sequence look well-blended. Therefore a lot of mid-shots and headshots seem to have been used to camouflage the wide blurred backdrop sequences.

“The team has put a lot of hard work; especially the VFX and CG team has put a lot of effort to create the character of Baua Singh, overall the movie has a lot of VFX shots estimated to be around 2000VFX shots,” said Anand L. Rai to AnimationXpress.

The movie has a lot of awe-inspiring VFX heavy sequences which will leave one spellbound for example the romantic song sequence of Mera Naam tu with the alluring splash of colours and rain that makes for a magnificent spectacle.  Apart from that, the free fly of Khan and Sharma in the zero gravity environments at NSAR is equally dazzling.

The movie adds a fresh touch on-screen with its superlative colour grading, high-end VFX, CG work, emotional touch and of course the happy ending. Overall, the movie makes for an alluring experience . And, SRK has all the heart for playing Baua!

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Netflix announced that School Nurse Ahn Eun Young (working title), the new Korean original series, will go into production from 2019. The series is based on the popular Korean novel with the same name by author Jung Se-rang who is known to bring out the vivid imagination in her stories.

School Nurse Ahn Eun Young tells the story of a newly appointed high school nurse who discovers secrets and mysteries with her supernatural abilities of chasing ghosts. Jung Yu-mi will play the role of Ahn Eun Young, who faces herself in various supernatural phenomenon and uses exorcism in a unique yet comic way. The series will be directed by Lee Kyoung-mi who is well known for her style of maximising the appeal of each character and bringing the most out of the story in her previous works.

The Korean original series will be produced by Oh! Boy Project, the production led by Park Sung-hye, known for their success in Flower Boy Ramen Shop and Hwarang. Park and Shin Yeon-ju will be the executive producers of the series. Jung Se-rang, the author of the original novel, will join as the writer of the series. Kim Hyun-jeong is also attached as Executive Producer.

The new 6-part Netflix original series will go into production and be available exclusively on Netflix.

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Before Christmas, everyone’s nightmare is what if things don’t go alright on Christmas day? Christmas is that day of the year where everyone wants to feel amazing- Santa’s surprises, home decoration, Christmas lights, carols, parties for friends and family there’s no shortage of ways to celebrate it.

The most stressful part about Christmas is to make everything perfect. The word ‘perfect Christmas’ has a different meaning for all. Some might say perfect Christmas is when they are with their family and friends and having dinner, some might say Netflix and popcorn will make their Christmas perfect and some might say to soak in the festivity they want to twiddle their fingers on the mobile screen to play some Christmas themed mobile games.

We have congregated few Christmas themed mobile games supported to iOS and Android devices to satisfy your yearning for Christmas themed mobile games.

Christmas Cookies

What’s the biggest way to satisfy Santa’s sweet tooth this holiday season? Grab a handful of cookies and swap until Christmas day arrives! Christmas Cookie is an amazing match-three game that’s all about tapping, swiping, and combining cookie flavours to earn power-ups and clear the screen as fast as you can. It’s delicious, partially nutritious, and crazy Christmas fun, too! If you’ve already mastered Candy Crush Saga, you should know what to expect here and it has more than 700 levels and special events and challenges along the way.

Christmas Solitaire

The game of Solitaire has always been special for everyone but this Christmas themed Solitaire is a great game of which will get one into Christmas mood. Christmas Solitaire is a holiday-themed version of classical Klondike Solitaire we all know and love.
Christmas Solitaire is free and simple. No complex options and configuration. If you’re interested in something more powerful then please check out our other Solitaire Champion games where you can play against other players, use powers of reshuffle and many other options.

Farm snow

The New Year has arrived! Visit Santa Claus on his farm at the North Pole. Bake Candy and Cookie! Evolve snow farm to X-mas city and magic township. Evolve Santa workshop from a farm to the magic village. Build snow town and help Santa with gifts for children. Be prepared to the Santa Claus snow country: grow hay every day, receive letters from all the children of the world and send sleighs laden with gifts. As a reward, pick up candies and cookies. Expand your production: build Christmas buildings, harvest hay and magic trees, manufacture all kinds of toys. Take the help of naughty Christmas fairies and become friends with the funny snowman. Decorate the Christmas tree and listen to the Christmas carols. You have to be prepared before the bell rings on New Year’s Eve.

Christmas Stories: The Gift of the Magi

Everyone on Santa’s good list gets gifts, but what about those that end up on the naughty list? When your sister does something bad, she’s visited by the evil spirit Berta and her mean little elves, who promptly spirit her away to some unknown and unfriendly place. It’s up to you to track her down and bring her home safely in time for the holiday! This game will let you delve into a mysterious winter tale with this adventurous hidden object game from Big Fish.

Christmas Dollhouse Games

Are you not the one who decorates the house for Christmas but still want to do? Then festive doll house decorating games are the one for you? These creative Christmas games free to let you decorate your own house with cute dollhouse miniatures, doll house decoration items and other Christmas decorations, such as a magnificent Christmas tree! If house design games are your thing, our ‘dollhouse designer’ Christmas games will leave you in awe!

These are some of the Christmas themed games which will help you to get in the vibe of Christmas . Wish you all a Merry Christmas!

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With the growing demand for technology that can catch up with the quantum of work across the AVGC industry, studios are aiming to rapidly evolve and incorporate advanced mechanisms that can facilitate the ease of workflow of the industry processes.

India has witnessed a tremendous growth of content over the past decade which has naturally led to an increase in the demand for advanced computing devices that can accommodate the burgeoning breadth of projects across the industry.

Having made its mark globally, AMD has successfully emerged as a formidable name and a go-to brand for solving the complex issues that are faced by the industry professionals during their production workflows regularly.

Media Entertainment I.T Summit at Hyderabad is poised to give a glimpse of a whole range of services and hardware technologies that AMD provides to ease the workflow of the production studios which can help Indian professionals to enhance their projects and produce quality content at a faster rate. AMD aims to address the challenges faced by animation and VFX professionals in relation to the expectations of meeting the tough deadlines and maintaining the quality of content at the same time.

For more comprehensive and interesting case studies on media, entertainment and technology sectors, please visit AMD’s channel : https://www.youtube.com/user/amd/featured

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