Re: [AI] Mohammad Naseer Articles
Hi I do recall, this was shared on AccessIndia a couple of years back.Ok on the latest update. Waiting for it to come to logical closure. Harish On 26/07/2022 16:02, Kanchan Pamnani wrote: This may interest some of you. Please read to the end. There are 2 articles. Does anyone have any further information? Kanchan 1. (TIMES OF INDIA ARTICLE - NOTHING CAN STOP NASSER KHAN, MAY 20, 2009) Mohammed Nasser Khan may not be able to see, but he is more of a visionary than people who’ve got 20/20 vision. When you don’t have any other option, you’ve got to find some way to survive, says this 35-year-old originally from Kanpur, who refuses to romanticise his life story. Apart from working in his family’s tanning business, he is also an electronics whiz and is now venturing into the glam arena. Nasser’s banner, Great Entertainments with his partner Shamsad Alam, is producing a film titled Shadow: The Dark Side of the Truth, in which Nasser plays the main lead. It's the first time in the Indian film industry that a real blind person will act in a film as its protagonist. Directed by Rohit Nayar, it's an action thriller whose fight direction team is from Thailand. The film is slated for release around June and apart from me, it stars Milind Soman, Sonali Kulkarni, Hrishitaa Bhatt, Sonia Mehra and Sachin Khedekar. “With a Rs 15 crore budget, we hope to prove that we are here to make great movies,” he says. Nasser has other ambitions as well. “Next, I’d like to start an exclusive post-production commercial studio on a scale that we lack currently to make good cinema. Although this would need an investment of Rs 25 crore, it will set a new benchmark in production. We are finalising the details for our own music label. Like the movies, our music will have no boundaries. We will also soon be in the TV space with two channels —music and films. My single objective is to take creativity to a new level. Once you tell me that something is not possible for me, I start to think, “Is that really so?”he says. But from where does he get his motivation for these ambitions? “When I lost my vision early in life, I was told, “Why don’t you take admission in a blind school and learn braille?” I opposed that. I didn’t want to do anything that blind people did. I wanted to try and live as normally as possible,” he says. Nasser also shuns any notions of pity. He is a very driven person. Some people would call it “fire in the belly”. “I am blind but I have a vision beyond what normal people can see. Swimming against the current is what gives me pleasure,” he signs off. _ 2. LAW BEAT ARTICLE - SUPREME COURT ISSUES NOTICE IN BOLLYWOOD ACTOR MOHAMMAD NASEER’S BAIL PLEA, JUNE 13, 2022) A Supreme Court bench of Justices Bopanna and Vikram Nath today issued notice in a plea filed by disabled Bollywood actor Mohammad Naseer seeking bail in a case registered against him by CBI under provisions of Prize Chits Money Circulation Schemes (Banning) Act, 1978. Naseer who acted in a 2009 film called “Shadow” is blind by birth and has stated in the plea that it is difficult for him to move on his own frequently. When the plea was called for hearing, Sidharth Bhatnagar, Sr.Adv, appeared for Naseer and submitted that the order in his bail reserved two years ago by the Orissa High Court and the judgment is yet to be pronounced since then. The court on hearing his submissions, issued notice in the plea and ordered it be returnable in three weeks. The plea, filed through Advocate on Record Swarnendu Chatterjee claims that Naseer was one of the Directors of a company called M/s Fine Indi Sales Pvt. Ltd. It is Naseer’s submission in the plea that in July 2009, one Niranjan Sahu lodged a complaint with in Sahadevkhunmta Police Station, Odisha alleging cheating and siphoning of funds in the name of chit fund schemes. It is claimed that on July 18, 2009 the complaint was transferred to Crime Branch and got registered. According to the plea, the Orissa High Court transferred the complaint to CBI. Though the CBI filed chargesheet in 2016 it stated in 2019 on affidavit that "considering the intricacies and magnitude of money laundering in this case at least another one year would be required to complete the Investigation.” It is claimed that CBI has failed to complete investigation till date. The plea states that Naseer’s name was mentioned in the charge-sheet of CBI from 2016. Though was arrested on July 20, 2009, he was enlarged on bail on the same day. Naseer, throughout the period of investigation, was not arrested. Thereafter, the CBI took him into custody in February 2019 and Naseer’s status remains the same to date. It is Naseer’s contention that he was taken into custody after more than 2 years of filing the chargesheet for no apparent reason. With regard to the trial, it is contended that the prosecution has cited 229
[AI] Mohammad Naseer Articles
This may interest some of you. Please read to the end. There are 2 articles. Does anyone have any further information? Kanchan 1. (TIMES OF INDIA ARTICLE - NOTHING CAN STOP NASSER KHAN, MAY 20, 2009) Mohammed Nasser Khan may not be able to see, but he is more of a visionary than people who’ve got 20/20 vision. When you don’t have any other option, you’ve got to find some way to survive, says this 35-year-old originally from Kanpur, who refuses to romanticise his life story. Apart from working in his family’s tanning business, he is also an electronics whiz and is now venturing into the glam arena. Nasser’s banner, Great Entertainments with his partner Shamsad Alam, is producing a film titled Shadow: The Dark Side of the Truth, in which Nasser plays the main lead. It's the first time in the Indian film industry that a real blind person will act in a film as its protagonist. Directed by Rohit Nayar, it's an action thriller whose fight direction team is from Thailand. The film is slated for release around June and apart from me, it stars Milind Soman, Sonali Kulkarni, Hrishitaa Bhatt, Sonia Mehra and Sachin Khedekar. “With a Rs 15 crore budget, we hope to prove that we are here to make great movies,” he says. Nasser has other ambitions as well. “Next, I’d like to start an exclusive post-production commercial studio on a scale that we lack currently to make good cinema. Although this would need an investment of Rs 25 crore, it will set a new benchmark in production. We are finalising the details for our own music label. Like the movies, our music will have no boundaries. We will also soon be in the TV space with two channels —music and films. My single objective is to take creativity to a new level. Once you tell me that something is not possible for me, I start to think, “Is that really so?”he says. But from where does he get his motivation for these ambitions? “When I lost my vision early in life, I was told, “Why don’t you take admission in a blind school and learn braille?” I opposed that. I didn’t want to do anything that blind people did. I wanted to try and live as normally as possible,” he says. Nasser also shuns any notions of pity. He is a very driven person. Some people would call it “fire in the belly”. “I am blind but I have a vision beyond what normal people can see. Swimming against the current is what gives me pleasure,” he signs off. _ 2. LAW BEAT ARTICLE - SUPREME COURT ISSUES NOTICE IN BOLLYWOOD ACTOR MOHAMMAD NASEER’S BAIL PLEA, JUNE 13, 2022) A Supreme Court bench of Justices Bopanna and Vikram Nath today issued notice in a plea filed by disabled Bollywood actor Mohammad Naseer seeking bail in a case registered against him by CBI under provisions of Prize Chits Money Circulation Schemes (Banning) Act, 1978. Naseer who acted in a 2009 film called “Shadow” is blind by birth and has stated in the plea that it is difficult for him to move on his own frequently. When the plea was called for hearing, Sidharth Bhatnagar, Sr.Adv, appeared for Naseer and submitted that the order in his bail reserved two years ago by the Orissa High Court and the judgment is yet to be pronounced since then. The court on hearing his submissions, issued notice in the plea and ordered it be returnable in three weeks. The plea, filed through Advocate on Record Swarnendu Chatterjee claims that Naseer was one of the Directors of a company called M/s Fine Indi Sales Pvt. Ltd. It is Naseer’s submission in the plea that in July 2009, one Niranjan Sahu lodged a complaint with in Sahadevkhunmta Police Station, Odisha alleging cheating and siphoning of funds in the name of chit fund schemes. It is claimed that on July 18, 2009 the complaint was transferred to Crime Branch and got registered. According to the plea, the Orissa High Court transferred the complaint to CBI. Though the CBI filed chargesheet in 2016 it stated in 2019 on affidavit that "considering the intricacies and magnitude of money laundering in this case at least another one year would be required to complete the Investigation.” It is claimed that CBI has failed to complete investigation till date. The plea states that Naseer’s name was mentioned in the charge-sheet of CBI from 2016. Though was arrested on July 20, 2009, he was enlarged on bail on the same day. Naseer, throughout the period of investigation, was not arrested. Thereafter, the CBI took him into custody in February 2019 and Naseer’s status remains the same to date. It is Naseer’s contention that he was taken into custody after more than 2 years of filing the chargesheet for no apparent reason. With regard to the trial, it is contended that the prosecution has cited 229 witnesses out of which 64 witnesses are from Uttar Pradesh and 18 witnesses belong to Orissa. It's been also alleged that the trial has not progressed substantially and few witnesses have been examined. According
