WINSLET’S ANNOYING GERMAN ACCENT

Kate Winslet annoyed her children by practicing her German accent at home.

The “The Reader” star – who plays a former Nazi guard in the film – was told to drop the fake voice when she was around her two kids and speak in her normal British accent.

Kate said: “They got mightily fed up with me reading bedtime stories with a German accent. They said, ‘Mom, just be plain. Don’t do any funny stuff like voices. Just be regular.’”

“Then I had to say, ‘But, I’m not regular and I’m never going to be regular. When you’re a teenager you’re going to know that it’s cool.’”

The 33-year-old actress – who has been nominated for an Oscar for her role in the Holocaust drama – has also revealed how her children mistook her for their grandmother when she was made up to look like an old lady in some scenes.

Kate – who an eight-year-old daughter, Mia, from a previous relationship, and a five-year-old son Joe with her husband Sam Mendes – added to Britain’s The Sun newspaper: “They saw the pictures and said, ‘Is that Nana?’ I said, ‘No, it’s me.’ ‘Oh, you look yucky.’”

“I took it as a compliment that they genuinely thought I looked old. Needless to say, I didn’t tell my mother.”

“A.R. Rahman knows nothing of ghazals”

Lashing out strongly on the present generation of music directors and filmmaker, ghazal singer Jagjit Singh asks, “What does AR Rahman know about ghazals? He will never use a ghazal in his films. All they do is pick up tunes from the West.” He rues that there is no poetry in the lyrics these days and language used is tapori, which is a mix of Hindi and English.

The singer says that the audience for the ghazal form of music has only increased over the last few years. He added that he tries to improvise on this ghazals and this brings a lot of audience to his concerts. Interestingly, the singer only performs for a cause nowadays.