Category: ENTERTAINMENT

Veteran actors Shabana Azmi, Hema Malini and Rishi Kapoor have condemned the attack on medical professionals in Indore. A five-member team from the health department had gone to Taatpatti Bakhal on Wednesday to quarantine relatives and acquaintances of a COVID-19 patient, when an unruly mob attacked them with stones, injuring two women doctors. The video of the attack went viral on social media. “Respect. Dr Trupti and Dr Raziya are true role models. And the behaviour of those who pelted them with stones is shameful and condemnable,” Azmi said on…

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Actor Vincent Marzello, best known for playing the father of the young protagonist in the 1990 adaptation of Roald Dahl’s book “The Witches” has died, his wife, actor Lorelei King, announced. He was 68. King shared the news on her Twitter account on Tuesday. “The love of my life, my darling husband Vincent Marzello, died this morning. “To those who knew him, I am sorry to post the news rather than contact you personally, but I am overwhelmed. My heart is broken,” the “Notting Hill” actor wrote alongside a picture…

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Iranian actor Sajjad Delafrooz says his love for Bollywood precedes his love for acting, which is why he is not bothered about being stereotyped as long as he gets good work. Sajjad was first noticed in Akshay Kumar starrer “Baby” with his role of a doctor. His next two outings featured him as a baddie — a terrorist in “Tiger Zinda Hai” and a criminal mastermind for Neeraj Pandey’s latest webseries “Special Ops”. Co-directed by Shivam Nair, the series revolves around a manhunt for a fictitious terrorist mastermind responsible for…

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Joining the list of reruns on Doordarshan is another cult classic from the golden era of Indian television, superhero show “Shaktimaan”, veteran actor Mukesh Khanna, who featured in the titled role, has revealed. Earlier, it was announced the cult hit mythological series “Ramayana”, “Mahabharat”, Shah Rukh Khan-starrer “Circus” and “Byomkesh Bakshi”, featuring Rajit Kapur, will be re-telecast on the national broadcaster and its sister channels during the 21-day lockdown to combat the spread of coronavirus. Khanna took to Twitter on Sunday to share the news. “Getting to watch two epics…

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With time and the kind of roles that she is being offered now, actor Manisha Koirala believes she has changed from being spontaneous to methodical in her approach towards acting. The actor, one of the most popular faces in the 1990s and 2000s films such as “Bombay”, “Khamoshi”, “Dil Se”, says she is enjoying doing something new with the characters is playing today. “The roles that I used to do earlier didn’t require me to have specific skills or way of doing the role. Today, the roles that I am…

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Prominent Bollywood actors and filmmakers have reacted angrily to reports of alleged police excesses in various parts of country amid the lockdown due to coronavirus pandemic. The country is witnessing a 21-day lockdown, as announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to contain the spread of the virus, which has claimed the lives of over 20,000 people globally. Several disturbing videos have appeared on social media showing cops allegedly thrashing people with sticks at several places, over-churning vegetable carts and making migrant workers, who are travelling to their home from cities…

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Nimmi, the doe-eyed star of 1950s and ’60s Hindi movies such as “Aan”, “Barsaat” and “Deedar”, has died after prolonged illness. She was 88. The actor was brought to a suburban Juhu hospital on Wednesday after she complained of breathlessness. She died in the evening, family sources told PTI. “She was admitted to the hospital on Wednesday afternoon after she complained of breathlessness. She passed away this evening. She had been unwell for quite sometime. She had been in and out of hospital this year,” the source added. Nimmi will…

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Actor Manisha Koirala says her slice-of-life film Maska is about staying true to one’s roots. The movie marks Manisha’s second project with Netflix. She will also be seen in another film from the streamer Freedom , which will reunite her with Dibakar Banerjee who directed her in Netflix anthology series Lust Stories . Maska traces the journey of a confused, young millennial, Rumi (Prit Kamani) who sets out to fulfil his dream of becoming a movie star until a summer romance with a clear-headed girl helps him discover the fine…

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In his new memoir, director Woody Allen has accused former partner Mia Farrow of fabricating the story that he sexually abused their adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow. In his memoir “Apropos of Nothing”, which was released by Arcade Publishing two weeks after Hachette dropped the book following protests. “I never laid a finger on Dylan, never did anything to her that could be even misconstrued as abusing her; it was a total fabrication from start to finish,” he wrote in the book. The accusations were a “Ahab-like quest” for revenge from…

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Megastar Amitabh Bachchan on Monday was heavily criticised for one of his tweets, which claimed vibrations from clapping, blowing conch shells as part of Sunday’s Janata Curfew would have reduced or destroyed coronavirus potency as it was ‘amavasya’, the darkest day of the month. Bachchan’s tweet comes in the wake of several similar fake news stories misinterpreting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal of clapping and clanging plates to express gratitude to those providing essential services during this global health crisis. The 77-year-old actor took to Twitter and, in a tweet…

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