Mumbai: Actress Paridhi Sharma, who is returning to television post-pregnancy, will be seen playing the mother of a teenage daughter in the show “Patiala Babes”. The show will present the bond between a mother and daughter in today’s time. Her character Babita is an under-confident and self-conscious woman who loves[Read More…]
The ball for India’s #MeToo movement could have started rolling a decade ago, had the industry not remained silent when she had first levelled harassment accusations against veteran actor Nana Patekar, says actress and former beauty queen Tanushree Dutta. Model and Actress Tanushree Dutta opens up about her decade-old controversy[Read More…]
New Delhi: Indo-Canadian actress Lisa Ray says penning her life story for a memoir, which will be out in the summer of 2019, has transported her to myriad experiences and the emotions of a life lived “close to the bone”. Lisa, who recently surprised everyone with the news of becoming[Read More…]
Mumbai: Anupam Kher has urged Manmohan Singh to watch “The Accidental Prime Minister”, in which the actor essays the former Prime Minister. Anupam, who has wished Singh on his 86th birthday on Wednesday, tweeted: “Respected Dr Manmohan Singh! Here is wishing you a very happy and healthy birthday. Maybe I[Read More…]
New York, Sep 26 (IANS) US television host Padma Lakshmi has said she was raped at the age of 16, but kept silent as she feared fingers would point at her for bringing it upon herself. The 48-year-old Top Chef host, wrote a piece for the New York Times published[Read More…]
Actor Sunil Grover, who will be seen next in the Vishal Bhardwaj directorial “Pataakha” feels the script and dialogues resembles a poem. Sunil, along with co-actors Sanya Malhotra and debutant Radhika Madan, was interacting with the media during the promotion of the film on Monday here. The actor-comedian is collaborating[Read More…]
“Greys Anatomy” star Jesse Williams will make his directorial debut with “Till”, a film about Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till, an African American teenager who was lynched in 1955 after being accused of flirting with a white woman. The movie will focus on Till-Mobley’s search for justice[Read More…]
“Star Wars” producer Gary Kurtz is dead. He was 78. Kurtz died of cancer on Sunday, his family said in a statement, reports variety.com. Kurtz had also produced “American Graffiti” and “The Dark Crystal”. His career was closely aligned with that of filmmaker George Lucas, but the two parted ways[Read More…]
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan says sports is the identity of a nation and sportsmen are the brand ambassadors. Amitabh on Monday night shared a photograph of himself along with the players of the Indian hockey team from the sets of “Kaun Banega Crorepati”. He captioned the image: “Honouring the Indian hockey[Read More…]
Actor Neil Nitin Mukesh will be seen playing a revengeful encounter specialist in the upcoming film “Dassehra” The makers released the first look of the film on their social networking portal on Tuesday. Neil is sporting a brawny and rugged look in the poster, which also has “Unrighteous destructive sins[Read More…]
After “Newton”, National Award-winning actress Anjali Patil has explored the territory of bad marriages with disturbing outcomes in forthcoming film “My Client’s Wife”. She says it’s a mean suspense thriller. On her role and the film, Anjali said here: “This has been the most challenging role for me emotionally, mentally[Read More…]
Whether it was essaying a wrestler in “Dangal” or playing a feisty sister in the upcoming “Pataakha” — Bollywood actress Sanya Malhotra is carving out a niche for herself as a performer who celebrates the idea of gender equality and feminism. She says it’s a concept quite misunderstood by many.[Read More…]
He rides a donkey, sports curly brown hair and wears a hat. Aamir Khan, who unveiled his look from “Thugs of Hindostan” on Monday, sports an intriguing avatar for his role as the wily Firangi in the Yash Raj Films project. Aamir shared his look via a motion poster on[Read More…]
India’s most controversial show Bigg Boss has arrived with its season 12 and has been making news for some or the other controversies inside the house. This season Bigg Boss house has a 65-year-old singer and musician inmate, Anup Jalota from Bhopal. This contestant of Bigg Boss 12 has caught[Read More…]
Dhaka, Sep 23 (IANS) Indian actor Irrfan Khan-starrer “Doob – No Bed of Roses”, which was once banned in Bangladesh, has been chosen as the country’s official entry for the Academy Awards 2019. The Bangladesh Oscar Committee chose the movie as the entry for the best foreign language film category, reports[Read More…]
Filmmaker and screenwriter Kalpana Lajmi, noted for films like “Rudaali”, “Darmiyaan” and “Daman”, died here on Sunday following a multiple organ failure, said her spokesperson. She was 64. “Extremely sorry to inform you that Kalpana Lajmi passed away this morning at 4.30 a.m.,” the filmmaker’s spokesperson Parul Chawla told IANS.[Read More…]
Just yesterday reports of Bollywood films like ‘Padmavaat’, ‘Manto’, ‘Raazi’ among other films being in the contenders’ list for India’s official selection for Oscars 2019, were doing the rounds and today it’s confirmed that Assamese film ‘Village Rockstars’ written and directed by Rima Das,is India’s official entry for the Oscars this year.[Read More…]
Shah Rukh Khan’s rumored director Atlee is one of Tamil film industry’s most famous scriptwriter and director, whose debut film ‘Raja Rani. He is now planning to work with Bollywood super star SRK.
Salman Khan’s Bigg Boss 12 brings more drama on day 5 with the house getting divided due to the captaincy task. Dipika Kakar, Roshmi Banik, and Kriti Verma became the contenders for the task. Here they were supposed to please the ‘Rangeela Rajkumar’ played by Anup Jalota to earn maximum[Read More…]
Director-choreographer Remo D’Souza has reportedly been fired from the directorship of the upcoming Bollywood film Race 4. If reports are to be believed, this shocking development emerged after Remo’s disparaging comments against Race 3 rubbed star Salman Khan the wrong way. According to a new report, Remo, who was in[Read More…]
Actor Saif Ali Khan will be back as police officer Sartaj Singh in the second season of crime drama series “Sacred Games”, streaming platform Netflix announced on Friday. The announcement that “Sacred Games 2” is in the pipeline was made with a teaser video, read a statement. “The worst is[Read More…]
Sunny Deol and Sakshi Tanwar-starrer “Mohalla Assi”, which received a censor certificate after a battle that lasted almost two years, will finally hit the screens on November 16. The announcement was made with a motion poster released on social media on Friday. The Chandraprakash Dwivedi directorial, based on Kashi Nath[Read More…]
Film: “Manto”; Starring: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Rasika Duggal, Tahir Raj Bhasin; Director: Nandita Das; Rating: 4.5/5 stars “Jaane woh kaise log the jinke pyar ko pyar mila…” Echoing the disenchantment of a post-Nehruvian generation trapped between Partition and modernisation, Guru Dutt in “Pyaasa” epitomised the poet’s disenchanment with a world he[Read More…]
Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap’s latest film ‘Manmarziyaan’ is enjoying appreciations but some members of Sikh community has taken offence of few scenes in the movie. The film is facing controversy over some smoking sequences that have displeased the community members. The Supreme Sikh organisation has filed a petition against the film[Read More…]
Filmmaker-choreographer Remo D’Souza, who is gearing up for his forthcoming reality show ‘Dance Plus’ season 4 has said that he felt bad as his last directorial ‘Race 3’ was not able to do desired business at the box-office. Remo was interacting with media here at the press conference of ‘Dance[Read More…]
