WB & Jo sues Kolkata's community

Well, this is a proof of WB and Jo being very protective over Harry. Yesterday, Warner Bros. sued a community based in Kolkata for creating Hogwarts 'look-alike' castle pandal for the upcoming Durga Puja.

For those who don't know, Durga Puja is a festival, celebrated all over India, especially in Bengal.
In this long-running festival, people workship goddess Durga in very attractive temple-like 'pandals'. The community which has summoned at Delhi High Court may have wanted to do something 'different' but, unfortunately- Its all about Loving Harry!

WB wants two million (crore) rupees for permission to present this castle like pandal. This much cost for a pandal is pretty high, anyway.

"We had no clue that we had to seek permission from the author,"

said Santanu Biswas, the head of the community. Best of luck, Mr. Santanu!

The community, obviously don't have enough money to pay fine. The case will start in Delhi High Court on Friday.

UPDATE- The Delhi High Court on Friday refused to restrain a Kolkata-based Durga puja committee from using the statues and images of Harry Potter characters during the nine-day festival. Wow, great news.

DVD trailer and National Awards

The DVD Trailer for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has just arrived. Although it contains nothing very special, but it can be seen here--

And a very very cool news. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has won 3 out of 6 awards at ITV's National Awards. OOTP has won best family film award, Dan won the Best Male Actor award and Emma won best female actor award. Isn't its great!

And here's the video:-



The whole even will air ITV1 UK (unfortunately not in India) tommorrow.

Half-Blood Prince Hindi translation released

Half-Blood Prince Hindi translation released

Wait is over and within 2 months of 'Maya Panchchi Ka Samuh', Harry Potter's 6th Book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince's Hindi translation 'हैरी पॉटर और हाफ - ब्लड प्रिन्स' (i.e. Harry Potter aur Half-Blood Prince) has been released. It is available in your nearest book store for just INR 275. Book is of 570 pages and it is translated by Sudhir Dixit.

One thing to be noted is that the title of 'Half-Blood Prince' hasn't been translated. The word Half-Blood has been same in hindi translations, but Pure-Blood and Mud-Blood are known as 'शुद्ध खून' and 'बदजात' , respectively. Although in movies, term Half-Blood is called 'Milla Jula / मिल जुला ' and words same like 'Half-Blood'. Well I must say people who translated this book are not into innovation.

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OOTP DVD to be released on December 11th

OOTP DVD to be released on December 11th

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix's different DVD versions and HD-DVD/Bluray versions will be going to released on December 11th (long way) in US. It is unclear when these home videos will be going to released in India or even HDDVD/Bluray will be going to released in India or not.

Prices for HDDVD and Bluray are pretty high though, reaching $34 to $40 (INR Rs. 1380 to Rs. 1630, if they release in India).

Price for Two Disc Special Edition (pretty sure) will be around Rs. 699

There will be special features in Two Disc Editon as well as Bluray and HDDVD. Two Disc Editon features are:

10 minutes of never before seen footage."Trailing Tonks" featurette - Spend a day with Actress Nat Tena and receive a very personal and often wacky tour of the Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix stages.

"Harry Potter: The Magic of Editing" featurette - Director David Yates and Editor Mark Day show us what a difference a good edit makes and then allow you to edit a scene.

"The Hidden Secrets of Harry Potter" featurette - We look for clues in the past Harry Potter films for what the future films may hold.

Plus 10 minutes of addition footage and making clips.

हैरी पॉटर और मयापंछी का समूह

हैरी पॉटर की पांचवीं पुस्तक , हैरी पॉटर और मयापंछी का समूह आज भोपाल में रीलीज़ की गई । यह अब आपके नज़दीकी बुक स्टोर में उपलब्ध है । इसकी कीमत ३५० रू है और यह पुस्तक अपने अंग्रेजी संस्करण से बड़ी है, ८६२ पेजों की । यह पुस्तक आसान हिंदी में लिखी हुई है और इसकी कीमत भारतीय बच्चों को ध्यान में रखते हुए अपने अंग्रेजी संस्करण से काफी कम है । अगली पुस्तक हैरी पॉटर एंड दी हाफ-ब्लड प्रिन्स आगामी अगस्त माह में उपलब्ध हो जाएगी तो कीिजए ऎन्जॉय !

The above text was written in Hindi , translation is below:

Harry Potter aur Mayapanchhi ka Samooh (Samuh) is the next Harry Potter hindi translation book, available now at your nearest bookstore. It is 862 pages long and its cost is Rs.350 (INR).
It is written in simple Hindi, very relavent to the English version. Translation of the sixth book will be released around the month of August. So, enjoy!