#MeToo flames now sweeping across social media have turned into a cleansing firestorm, burning holes in carefully honed public personas and turning the heat back on those whose job is to keep the social conscience and hold the powerful to account. Many women and men have come forward and the #Metoo[Read More…]
Mumbai: Writer-producer Vinta Nanda, who has made allegation of sexual assault against Alok Nath, on Tuesday said that for the first time after 20 years she is feeling fearless to talk about the incident. Vinta Nanda was interacting with the media here. With the #MeToo movement gaining momentum in India[Read More…]
Filmmaker Alankrita Shrivastava’s last film ‘Lipstick Under My Burkha’ had raised a lot of eyeballs and started a lot of conversations on female sexuality. This time she promises to wield the megaphone again with a dark comedy. Joining her will be actress Bhumi Pednekar who also gave a path-breaking performance[Read More…]
Veteran actress Padmini Kolhapure who has stayed out of the limelight for a while now will be seen facing the camera again with Ashutosh Gowariker’s Panipat. When the film was announced Arjun Kapoor, Kriti Sanon and Sanjay Dutt’s names were confirmed for Ashutosh Gowariker’s mega-budget war drama Panipat. Now, the[Read More…]
Singer Nitin Bali who shot to fame in the early 90s with his remix of ‘Neele Neele Ambar’ has passed away after succumbing to injuries in a road accident. His niece confirmed the same to Spotboye and other media outlets. Nitin, 47 was returning to Malad from Borivli when his[Read More…]
One after another, #MeToo movement is enveloping the names and faces we have admired and some we even considered ideal from the media and entertainment industry. Alas, today the uncovering movement has put us in a fix on whom to believe whom not. Here is another revelation, where someone alleges[Read More…]
Mumbai: The Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI) has dropped two films — AIB’s “Chintu Ka Birthday” and Rajat Kapoor’s “Kadakh” — from the line-up of the upcoming 20th edition of the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival in the wake of the #MeToo tide. “We as an Academy (MAMI) strongly[Read More…]
Mumbai: Actress Soha Ali Khan has come forward in support of Tanushree Dutta by saying it is very difficult to be a woman in a country like India. Soha said this on Monday while interacting with the media here at the press conference of Saavn’s ‘No Filter Neha Season 3’[Read More…]
Mumbai: Vinta Nanda, a veteran writer-producer of the avant-garde 1990s’ show “Tara” fame, has accused actor Alok Nath — known for his “sanskaari” on-screen image — of sexually violating her almost two decades ago. “I have waited for this moment to come for 19 years,” Nanda wrote in a long,[Read More…]
Indian digital and mobile entertainment platform Hotstar has cancelled “On Air with AIB Season 3” after reports emerged of All India Bakchod (AIB) comedy group members involved in a sexual harassment case in the ongoing #MeToo movement which is being called India’s MeToo movement. pic.twitter.com/NNVU3tLcz7 — Hotstar (@hotstartweets) October 8, 2018
Kajol and Karan Johar’s friendship has run through some troubled waters, but the filmmaker and the actress keep denying it. However, they have maintained good relations on the professional front giving friendship goals to one and many. However, going by recent reports, their friendship once again has been put through[Read More…]
While Tanushree Dutta-Nana Patekar controversy engulfed Bollywood, more women have gather courage to speak up of their #MeToo experiences across the media industry. In a yet another shocking development, Actor-Filmmaker Rajat Kapoor was accused of sexual harassment. A Twitter user shared a post recently where two women had accused the[Read More…]
#MeToo campaign has brought clouds of gloom in many well-known faces’ lives. The sexual harassment reports seem to have kicked hard in the teeth of producer and film director Vikas Bahl. Now Hrithik Roshan has broken his silence on the sexual harassment allegation against Bahl and said it is impossible[Read More…]
After since the Phantom boys – Vikas Bahl, Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane and Madhu Mantena – split and dissolved their production house Phantom Films, the fate of Netflix series, ‘Sacred Games 2’ seems to be caught up in fire. Phantom recently produced the series Sacred Games for Netflix, where Reliance[Read More…]
Mumbai: Singer-composer Kailash Kher says the news about a female journalist accusing him of harassment has left him extremely disappointed. While he says he is neither aware nor remembers the incident, he asserts that he respects humanity, especially women. Last month, actress Tanushree Dutta had revived her decade-old sexual harassment[Read More…]
Mumbai: In the midst of the #MeToo wave that has taken Bollywood by storm, actress Aditi Rao Hydari says she faced one “bad” experience initially in her career but she never settled for anything lesser than dignity and respect over opportunity and fame. Asked about the casting couch and if[Read More…]
Comedian Tanmay Bhat, co-founder, and CEO of All India Bakchod, a comedy group to step away from the association with AIB. Bhat was allegedly accused of harassment after his name became a part of the #MeToo campaign. Now Bhat will not participate in the functioning of AIB. “We have been[Read More…]
Mumbai: Actor Nana Patekar on Monday cancelled a press conference where he was due to address the sexual harassment allegations levelled against him by actress Tanushree Dutta. The media was informed about the cancellation by Nana’s son Malhar. The text message, sent out late on Sunday, read: “Just wanted to[Read More…]
Mumbai: Celebrity interior designer and producer Gauri Khan says she celebrated her 48th birthday with her “better halves” superstar husband Shah Rukh Khan and youngest son AbRam. Gauri shared a photograph of herself with the two on Twitter and mentioned that her other two children — Aryan and Suhana, whom[Read More…]
Mumbai: Superstar Shah Rukh Khan says he would love to speak to the students of Oxford University, adding that meeting Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, who has started her second academic year there, will be a privilege for him. Yousafzai on Sunday shared a tweet from the principal of Oxford University,[Read More…]
New Delhi: Actress-producer Priyanka Chopra’s “Pahuna – The Little Visitors” won two awards at the SCHLINGEL International Film Festival for Children and Young Audience in Germany. The film won European Children’s Film Award and got a special mention in the Awards of The Professional Jury Feature Film International category. The[Read More…]
He hosted Indian televisions first and most popular crime investigation show “Indias Most Wanted”. Suhaib Ilyasi had it all. Then one night he lost it all. His wife died of multiple stab wounds. Ilyasi was accused of murdering her and was sentenced to life imprisonment. In a startling turnaround, the[Read More…]
Mumbai, Oct 7 (IANS) Director Neeraj Ghaywan and writer Varun Grover are ashamed of their association with now-dissolved production banner Phantom Films, and have promised to work towards creating a safe working environment for women. The reaction came in the aftermath of allegations of sexual harassment against Phantom Films co-founder[Read More…]
Mumbai: Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap admitted that he knew about the sexual harassment allegations against director Vikas Bahl and feels sorry for not taking a right decision. Last year, a woman employee at Phantom Films, which had Bahl as one of the partners along side Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane and Madhu Mantena,[Read More…]
New Delhi: Call it a bonfire of the vanities or an all-consuming sacrificial havan. But the “MeToo” flames now sweeping across social media have turned into a cleansing firestorm, burning holes in carefully honed public personas and turning the heat back on those whose job is to keep the social[Read More…]