Category: ENTERTAINMENT

Legendary Indian thespian Dilip Kumar was not just an actor but an institution and people like him are born once in a century, Pakistan’s Senator and the 98-year-old Bollywood icon’s nephew Mohsin Aziz said on Monday. At a condolence meet in the memory of Kumar, the Pakistani lawmaker threw light on his life, career, character and his attachment with Peshawar where he was born. Kumar, who was born on December 11, 1922 at his ancestral home in Qissa Khawani Bazaar area of Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, died at a…

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Actor Samara Weaving will co-star with Kelvin Harrison Jr in Searchlight Picture’s movie “Chevalier de Saint-Georges”. To be directed by Stephen Williams from an original script by Stefani Robinson, the true-life period drama centers on Joseph Bologne, or the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, who is known as the Black Mozart. Born in the Caribbean, Bologne was the illegitimate son of a plantation owner and a slave who was then educated in France and became a fencing master, which served as an entree into French high society. With his music and operas,…

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Kareena Kapoor recently introduced her new book Kareena Kapoor Khan’s Pregnancy Bible, which is yet to be released Kareena Kapoor just made her debut as an author and guess who is leading her cheer-squad on Instagram? It’s none other than her bestie Malaika Arora. Giving a massive shout-out to Kareena Kapoor’s new venture in an Instagram story, Malaika asked for a signed copy of the book: “Where is my signed copy, Kareena Kapoor?” Malaika also added the “OMG I can’t wait” sticker to her story. Responding to Malaika’s request, Kareena wrote:…

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 Dilip Kumar was a great mimic and used to imitate the dance moves of Helen with effortless ease, according to his wife Saira Banu. She recalled this trait of her husband in his autobiography “The Substance And The Shadow”. Banu, who wrote the foreword to the book published in 2014, wanted his admirers to be acquainted, through incidents and episodes, with Dilip Kumar’s “innate simplicity, straightforwardness and immeasurable goodness of heart”. She considered her husband, who passed away Wednesday at the age of 98, a man full of joie de…

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Remembering the impact Dilip Kumar had on his generation of cine-goers, veteran actor Manoj Kumar on Wednesday said the screen icon inspired him to become an actor. Manoj Kumar’s love affair with cinema started when he watched Dilip Kumar’s “Shabnam” as an 11 year old. Such was the magic of the screen icon’s performance on the young Harikishan Giri Goswami that he decided to adopt the name of Dilip Kumar’s character from the 1949 film as his screen name. That’s how Harikishan Giri Goswami became Manoj Kumar when he joined…

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The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to pass any direction to restrain further circulation of film ‘Nyay: The Justice’ which is purportedly based on the life of late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput and has been released on a website. We will have it on 14th (July). I am not inclined at this stage, said a bench of Justices Rajiv Shakdher and Talwant Singh while hearing the application of Rajput’s father Krishna Kishore Singh, in the appeal against single judge order refusing to stay the release of the film.…

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Pakistan on Wednesday showed its adulation for legendary Indian actor Dilip Kumar as tributes poured in from across the country for the 98-year-old cinema icon who was born here. Kumar was born on December 11, 1922 at his ancestral home in Qissa Khawani Bazaar area of Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. His original name was Yousuf Khan. In a tweet, Pakistan President Arif Alvi said Kumar was “an outstanding actor, a humble man, and a dignified personality”. “Sorry to see Dilip Kumar (Yusuf Khan) depart from his worldly abode. An…

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Actor Taapsee Pannu is set to make her comeback in the Telugu industry with her latest “Mishan Impossible”, to be directed by Swaroop RSJ. Pannu, who started her acting career in 2010 with the Telugu film “Jhummandi Naadam”, returns to the industry two years after her bilingual thriller “Game Over”. The film will be produced by Niranjan Reddy and Anvesh Reddy. The 33-year-old actor joined the film’s team in Hyderabad on Tuesday with the makers releasing a working still from the project, featuring Pannu in a hand cast and looking…

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 Actor Mrunal Thakur says she entered the Hindi film industry with a dream to work with filmmaker Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra but never imagined the opportunity would come so early on in her career with “Toofaan”. In the upcoming sports drama headlined by actor Farhan Akhtar, Thakur plays Ananya, a doctor who is instrumental in transforming its protagonist Aziz Ali from a henchman to a professional boxer. Even before Thakur officially met the director of acclaimed films like “Rang De Basanti” and “Bhaag Milkha Bhaag”, the actor recalled how she was…

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“Toofaan” promises a cinematic storm with its high on adrenaline boxing sequences, but actor Farhan Akhtar says the personal relationships of the characters is the core of the sports drama. Akhtar underwent intense training to prep for the role of Aziz Ali aka Ajju Bhai, a goon who goes on to become a national level boxer, for his second film with director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, following another sports-based movie, “Bhaag Milkha Bhaag” in 2013. The physical aspect of learning a new discipline like boxing was “very challenging”, the preparation for…

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