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Mumbai, June 11 : Indian equities markets benchmark indices closed in the red this week on disappointing economic data, especially low industrial output coupled with stubbornly high inflation.

The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), lost 0.59 percent or 107.94 points in the largely low-volume trade this week.

The benchmark Sensex slumped 116.36 points or 0.63 percent to close at 18,268.54 points Friday.

Film: Badrinath; Cast: Allu Arjun, Tamanna, Prakash Raj, Kelly Dorjee, Ashwini Kalsekar, Brahmanandam, Krishna Bhagawan and others; Producer: Allu Arvind; Director: V. V. Vinayak; Story; Chinni Krishna; Camera: Ravi Verman; Music: Keervani; Art Director: Anand Sai; Rating: **

Allu Arjun is a really talented actor. But his home production "Badrinath" - made with a whopping Rs. 35 crore and with the best of the technicians in the Telugu film industry - is a dampener.

Film: "West Is West"; Cast: Om Puri, Aqib Khan, Linda Bassett, Ila Arun; Director: Andy DeEmmony; Rating: ***1/2

In 1999, a film set 28 years back in Britain, "East is East", stole the hearts of everyone globally who watched it -- what with its inherent family struggle and a patriarch trying to imbibe in his children the values he grew up with and the kids exerting the values of the country they were growing up in.

Film: "Aaranya Kaandam"; Cast: Jackie Shroff, Ravi Kri

Film: "Namitha I Love You"; Cast: Namitha, Prithviraj, Srikanth, Akshata Shetty, Shobana, Gollahalli Shivaprasad, Tennis Krishna, Bank Janardhan and Dingri Nagaraj; Producer: Ravi Teja Reddy; Director: Jayasiha Reddy; Camera: Diwakar; Rating: *

One warning. Even if you are a die-hard fan of Namitha, the diva from south, don't expect too much from this film. There is nothing titillating in this film except for a song or two that exhibits her dancing skills.

Washington, June 11 : The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has dismissed as "unprecedented and preposterous" Indian music composer Ismail Darbar's charge that A. R. Rahman "bought" his Oscars for "Slumdog Millionaire" in 2009.

"It is not unusual for an individual to express the view that Academy members selected the wrong recipient for a particular award, but to charge that a win was achieved by underhanded means is unprecedented and preposterous," the Oscar panel stated Friday.