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Pranati Nayak wins vault bronze at FIG World Cup

Pranati Nayak wins vault bronze at FIG World Cup

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India’s Pranati Nayak bagged a bronze medal in the vault event at the 2025 FIG Artistic Gymnastics Apparatus World Cup in Antalya, Turkey on Saturday. Nayak, 29, scored a total of 13.417 points in the vault final to finish on the podium. America’s Jayla Hang (13.667) and Claire Pease (13.567) took the gold and silver medals respectively. 🚨 #News | Pranati Nayak bags bronze at the FIG Antalya World Cup 🚨 👉Pranati Nayak scores 13.417 in the Women’s Vault Final at the FIG Antalya World Cup, securing a bronze medal for India 💐 Final standings:🥇Jayla Hang 🇺🇸 13.667🥈Claire Pease 🇺🇸 13.567🥉Pranati Nayak 🇮🇳… pic.twitter.com/Q1mnHswJQl — The Bridge (@the_bridge_in) March 22, 2025 Earlier, Nayak had scored 13.317 to qualify for the vault final. Nayak, an Olympian from the 2020 Tokyo Games, had also clinched the vault bronze at the FIG World Cup in Cairo last year, becoming only the third Indian woman to achieve the feat. She had finished fourth in the same event back in 2022. Hailing from Jhargram in West Bengal, Nayak is also …

Mohammad Rasoulof Gets Emotional While Talking About ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’ Cannes Premiere

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Exiled Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, revealed that his Cannes Film Festival competition entry, ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’ portrays a court official’s family amidst Iran’s 2022 protests and reflects his personal experiences. Despite facing an eight-year jail sentence and flogging in Iran, Rasoulof premiered his film in Cannes after fleeing the country. Watch this video to know more. Source link

Cannes 2024: Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig gives The Sound of Music deja vu | Hollywood

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Iranian rebel director Mohammad Rasoulof made a great escape from his homeland days before his movie, The Seed of the Scared Fig, was to play at the prestigious competition slot in the ongoing Cannes Film Festival. The film could remind you of an ever-enduring classic, The Sound of Music with Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. (Also read: Cannes Film Festival 2024: Here’s what international reviews say about India’s All We Imagine As Light) Director Mohammad Rasoulof poses for a portrait photograph for the film The Seed of the Sacred Fig at the 77th international film festival, Cannes.(Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP) The Sound of Music deja vu Told to serve Hitler’s occupying forces in Austria during the end of the country’s golden days of music and melody, the Von Trapp family escapes a life of servitude. In a hauntingly memorable climax, we see them trek across the Alps. Unlock exclusive access to the latest news on India’s general elections, only on the HT App. Download Now! Download Now! The latest escape saga by Rasoulof had all the …

Mohammad Rasoulof flees Iran post eight-year prison sentence for his Cannes-bound film Seed of the Sacred Fig

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Mohammad Rasoulof was sentenced to eight years in prison after refusing to withdraw his new film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, from the 77th Cannes Film Festival in Iran. Previously, Tehran banned him from attending the Cannes Film Festival. In a statement quoted by Deadline, the filmmaker confirmed that he had fled from his home country. (Also read: Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof banned from attending Cannes Film Festival 2024; here’s everything you need to know) Mohammad Rasoulof has fled from Iran after he received an eight-year prison sentence. Iranian filmmaker reveals why he chose exile The Iranian filmmaker’s statement read, “I arrived in Europe a few days ago after a long and complicated journey. About a month ago, my lawyers informed me that my eight-year prison sentence was confirmed in the court of appeal and would be implemented on short notice. Knowing that the news of my new film would be revealed very soon, I knew that without a doubt, a new sentence would be added to these eight years. I didn’t have much …

Dipa Karmakar happy to ‘have secured’ 4th spot at FIG Apparatus World Cup in Baku

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India’s star gymnast Dipa Karmakar is happy to have made a fourth-place finish in the women’s vault event at the FIG Apparatus World Cup 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan on Monday. Dipa, who made a historic fourth-place finish in the vault event at the 2016 Rio Olympics, accumulated 13.716 points in the event which concluded on Sunday. “I am happy to have secured the 4th spot in Women’s Vault. A step closer to getting back,” Dipa wrote on X. “In 2019, my participation in the World Cup in Baku had led to a career-threatening injury. Post which, there were many battles fought and many hurdles crossed. However, the love for the sport never deterred me. In 2019, Dipa suffered an Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) tear at the Baku World Cup that required surgery. It was her second major physical blow. After undergoing knee surgery in 2017, Dipa had to undergo another surgery in 2019 due to ACL tears. Dipa had since been mostly out of action with the pandemic disrupting the international sports calendar. She then …