Category: ENTERTAINMENT

“Brahmastra Part One: Shiva” has raised Rs 75 crore in gross box office collection worldwide on its opening day, the makers said on Saturday. Billed as a trilogy, the first installment of the big-budget fantasy adventure epic starring Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, and Amitabh Bachchan was released on Friday. “‘Brahmastra Part One: Shiva’ has delivered a massive opening day of Rs. 75 crore (GBOC), igniting celebrations across the country, the film industry, theatre owners and audiences, with the weekend total expected to be huge!” according to a note shared by…

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Miguel Sapochnik is leaving “House of the Dragon” ahead of the second season of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” spin-off series. Sapochnik served as the showrunner on the season one, which premiered last month on Disney + Hotstar, along with co-creator Ryan Condal. According to entertainment website Deadline, Condal will now serve as solo showrunner on the next installment. Sapochnik, who helmed Game of Thrones episodes such as The Battle of Bastards’ and The Winds of Winter’, will continue to serve as the executive producer on “House of the Dragons”. “Working…

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Bollywood actor Suraj Pancholi used to subject actress Jiah Khan, who allegedly committed suicide here in 2013, to physical and verbal abuse, her mother told a special court here on Wednesday. Pancholi, who was in a relationship with the 25-year-old actress, has been booked for abetment of suicide in the case probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). He is currently out on bail. On Wednesday, Jiah Khan’s mother Rabia Khan began recording her testimony in the case before special judge A S Sayyad. Rabia Khan told the court…

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 Actor couple Bipasha Basu and Karan Singh Grover on Tuesday said they are soon set to welcome their first child. Basu, 43, and Grover, 40, made the announcement on their official social media pages amid reports of pregnancy. “A new time, a new phase, a new light adds another unique shade to our prism of life. Making us a little more whole than we used to be. “We began this life individually and then we met each other and from then we were two. Too much love for only two,…

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Arjun Kapoor says he is elated that filmmakers are finally noticing the actor in him and finding him suitable for playing complex characters. The 37-year-old actor has been receiving positive reviews for his latest release Ek Villian Returns and prior to that Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar emerged as a game changer for him. Arjun, who also has films such as Ishaqzaade “2 States”, “Gunday” and “Ki & Ka” to his credit, said he hopes to have a rising career graph with his upcoming slate which includes Vishal Bhardwaj-produced “Kuttey” and…

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South superstar Vikram says he is doing well and was in hospital following “mild chest discomfort” and not a cardiac arrest as blown up by sections of the media and some “creative” minds on social media platforms. The 56-year-old actor, who was admitted to a Chennai hospital last week, assured his fans he was well and thanked them for their wishes. “There was a mild chest discomfort. I went to the hospital only for that. But it was blown out of proportion. I am doing well… When all of you…

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Jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s father on Monday moved the Supreme Court challenging various orders, including the transit remand order of a Delhi court, in the murder case of singer Sidhu Moosewala and also complained that lawyers in Punjab have boycotted his son and are not willing to represent him. A vacation bench of Justices Surya Kant and JB Pardiwala was told by advocate Sangram Singh Saron that they have challenged the orders of the Punjab and Haryana High Court and of a Delhi court granting transit remand but since no…

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Veteran actor Saira Banu says her late husband actor Dilip Kumar should be honoured with the Bharat Ratna as he is the “kohinoor” of the country. Saira attended the Bharat Ratna Dr Ambedkar Award on late Tuesday evening, where union minister Ramdas Athawale presented the honour to Dilip Kumar, who passed away last year aged 98. At the event, Athawale said he would request Prime Minister Narendra Modi to consider awarding Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian honour of the country, to the Hindi cinema legend. When asked about the same,…

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Following the screening of her short film “All Too Well” at the 2022 Tribeca Festival, pop star Taylor Swift said she “would love” to direct a full-fledged feature film. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the multiple Grammy winner attended the film gala on Saturday to promote the 10-minute short she directed based on her song of the same name which was released as part of her 2012 album ‘Red’. “It would be so fantastic to write and direct a feature. I don’t see it being bigger in terms of scale.…

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The mobile phone that doubles as his landline kept ringing in novelist Mani Sankar Mukherjee aka Sankar’s first floor flat overlooking the busy Bondel Road, once an industrial suburb of the megacity and now a tony neighbourhood. It’s just three days to go for the 60th-anniversary celebrations of his popular novel ‘Chowringhee’ and fans, fellow novelists and publishing executives have been calling up to ask about the iconic best-seller’s 122nd edition on the workings and intimate life behind the neon lights of a big city hotel in Kolkata, the quintessential…

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