Pradeep Sarkar\'s Noti Bindoni starring Aishwarya Rai Bachchan delayed due to pandemic

Pradeep Sarkar's Noti Bindoni starring Aishwarya Rai Bachchan delayed due to pandemic

Updated: 16 September, 2020 08:11 IST | Uma Ramasubramanian | Mumbai

Pradeep Sarkar pushes Noti Binodini to 2021 due to pandemic, may kick off another film before Aishwarya Rai Bachchan-starrer.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

A biopic on courtesan-turned-theatre actor Binodini Dasi has captured filmmaker Pradeep Sarkar's imagination for long. The director made progress on the project earlier this year when he found his Noti Binodini — as she was famously known — in Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. However, with the pandemic having thwarted his plans, Sarkar says the film is likely to go on floors only after March 2021.

"The writing is in progress. While Aishwarya has given her nod, I have not approached other actors because I am waiting for the crisis to [abate]. I hope the vaccine is developed by March so that we can start shooting," says the director. The offering, seen from the lens of the protagonist who had ruled the Kolkata stage for over a decade, will trace her successful career and the men in her life.

Pradeep
Pradeep Sarkar

Sarkar has simultaneously developed a psychological thriller and a dark comedy. "These two scripts are ready and bound, but I am unable to give proper narrations to actors over Zoom calls. So, we are waiting for things to open up. Before Binodini, we may [focus] on one of them," he says.

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Pradeep Sarkar\'s Noti Bindoni starring Aishwarya Rai Bachchan delayed due to pandemic

U.S. Dollar Softness To Continue; Euro, Yen Best Placed - PIMCO

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U.S. Dollar Softness To Continue; Euro, Yen Best Placed - PIMCO

U.S. Dollar Softness To Continue; Euro, Yen Best Placed - PIMCO

The U.S. dollar is likely to continue weakening against developed market currencies after the U.S. Federal Reserve's shift to a new monetary policy strategy, a portfolio manager at bond giant PIMCO said on Tuesday. Erin Browne, managing director and portfolio manager at PIMCO, told the Reuters Global Markets Forum she had become more bearish on the U.S. dollar over the last three months.

  • Last Updated: September 16, 2020, 8:24 AM IST

The U.S. dollar is likely to continue weakening against developed market currencies after the U.S. Federal Reserve’s shift to a new monetary policy strategy, a portfolio manager at bond giant PIMCO said on Tuesday. Erin Browne, managing director and portfolio manager at PIMCO, told the Reuters Global Markets Forum she had become more bearish on the U.S. dollar over the last three months.

Within developed markets, the euro and Japanese yen were the “best structural longs,” said Browne, who co-manages the PIMCO Dynamic Multi-Asset Fund.

Graphic: Spain and Italy yield spread over Germany – https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/mkt/rlgvdjmrevo/Spain%20and%20Italy%20yield%20spread%20over%20Germany.png “Tactically, I also think Norway’s krone, sterling and Australian dollar offer value,” Browne said.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday could signal a switch in the Fed’s Treasury purchases toward longer-dated debt to keep long-term yields low, some strategists anticipate.

Browne said she did not expect the Fed to begin a yield curve control program at this time, nor another edition of “Operation Twist,” referring to the 1960s U.S. monetary policy aimed at influencing the yield curve.

The Fed recently rolled out a sweeping rewrite of its approach to its dual role of achieving maximum employment and stable prices, putting less weight on worries about too-high inflation.

On equities, Browne said U.S., European and select emerging market stocks are more attractive than their Japanese peers.

However, with global growth expected to rebound, Japan is set to benefit given its sensitivity to export growth, the co-manager of the PIMCO Global Core Asset Allocation Fund added.

“The policies of (Yoshihide) Suga will be very much in line with a continuation of Abenomics. This (leadership transition) should not be seen as a move away from the policy directives over the past decade.”

Suga is on track to become Japan’s new prime minister, succeeding Shinzo Abe, who resigned due to ill health.

(This interview was conducted in the Reuters Global Markets Forum, a chat room hosted on the Refinitiv Messenger platform. Sign up here to join GMF: https://refini.tv/33uoFoQ )

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