Shah Rukh Khan’s tryst with cigarettes is no secret. The actor made headlines a few months ago for his statement on attempting to quit smoking, which he eventually retracted from.
Now, SRK is caught up in another bout of controversy or rather a court case. Sources have it that SRK was in
Punjab for a film shooting when he was found smoking in a public place (Khalsa College, run by the Sikh community). This has irked the Punjab government and it has been decided to file a case against the actor for smoking in a public place. Will SRK give up smoking to get out of these unwanted predicaments?

The '09 version will mark the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China with a rare retrospective of films made between 1949 and the start of the Cultural Revolution in 1966. Richard Pena, director of the NYFF and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, went to Beijing for a week in July to work with the China Film Archive to organize the first major U.S. screening for a collection of about 20 films made in the early years of China's state-run studio system. In an interview, Pena said that there is a lot of scholarship on Chinese films from the so-called Golden Era of the 1930s, a little less from the 1940s, and a lot, again, on films made after the Cultural Revolution ended in 1976. "But that period from '49 to '66 is like a black hole," Pena said. "Almost no one has written about it. Nobody's not interested in the period, but it's just not an easy era to tap into." The retrospective will revisit the best-known films from the period, including works by director Xie Jin ("Two Stage Sisters," "Red Detachment of Women"), but also will bring to light some gems unknown outside China. "It's a project I've been wanting to do for a long, long time," said Pena, whose classes at Columbia University include one on Chinese cinema. A Chinese scholar Pena met with in Beijing was at once complimentary and critical of his proposed list of films and ultimately introduced him to a "whole genre" of detective films from the period, "some of which are very good," Pena said. Pena said that his contacts at the CFA, which reopened in a new state-of-the-art building in 2005 for the centenary of Chinese cinema, "couldn't have been nicer and more hospitable." "I said, 'We can't do this unless you agree to make good quality, English-subtitled prints. The ball's in your court,"' Pena explained. "And they said, 'Yes, we think it's a wonderful idea, come up with a list and we'll do the show."' While still fond of the old CFA, Pena has high marks for the new staff. "Whereas previously you had a well-trained generation of film archivists who did a great job of preserving Chinese cinema but who were less interested in the diffusion of it," he said. "This new group is . . . already suggesting projects they'd like to see us do." Pena added that the CFA has agreed to make the prints and do the English subtitling, which he and colleagues hope they'll get a chance to check before they're finished. He also hopes to get director Xie to come over from Shanghai to participate in a conference planned around retrospective. Meanwhile, the 2008 festival kicks off on September 26 with the French film "The Class," which won the coveted Palme d'Or at Cannes in May. The event runs through October 12. Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

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