Category: ENTERTAINMENT

From never being able to find one’s true potential to putting loved ones at risk by speaking out are some of the fears that “Ghost Stories” directors Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee and Zoya Akhtar battle in their lives.Kashyap, who has supported the nationwide protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), says speaking out against the establishment means putting people close to him and his work at risk.”I don’t want anyone else to be at risk because of what I do, especially the people I love. When I go on Twitter…

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Vice President Venkaiah Naidu on Monday presented the National Film Awards to this year’s winners with actors Vicky Kaushal, Ayushmann Khurrana and Keerthy Suresh receiving top honours.Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who was supposed to receive the Dadasaheb Phalke Award at the ceremony, skipped the event citing ill health. The 77-year-old actor will now be honoured by President Ram Nath Kovind on December 29 at a high-tea, to be hosted at Rashtrapati Bhavan for all the winners.Naidu said he was happy that films which were recognised at the 66th edition of National…

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Vice President Venkaiah Naidu will present the National Film Awards to the winners on Monday.The annual National Film Awards ceremony will be held at Vigyan Bhawan where megastar Amitabh Bachchan will also receive the Dadasaheb Phalke award.Union Minister for Information & Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar will be attending the ceremony, a press release said.Traditionally, the National Awards are handed out to the winners by the President of India. According to sources, President Ram Nath Kovind will host high tea for the winners later.In 2018, President Kovind had presented only a handful…

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Deepika Padukone, Siddhant Chaturvedi and Ananya Panday have been roped in as the leads in director Shakun Batra’s next directorial. The yet-to-be-titled project will mark next step in Batra’s collaboration with producer-director Karan Johar after “Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu” (2012) and “Kapoor & Sons” (2016). Described as a relationship drama, Shakun said the film will see its character finding themselves “stuck in a morally ambiguous zone”. “I have had a wonderful journey with Karan and his production house for almost a decade now, and I can’t wait to get…

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Deepika Padukone, Siddhant Chaturvedi and Ananya Panday have been roped in as the leads in director Shakun Batra’s next directorial. The yet-to-be-titled project will mark next step in Batra’s collaboration with producer-director Karan Johar after “Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu” (2012) and “Kapoor & Sons” (2016). Described as a relationship drama, Shakun said the film will see its character finding themselves “stuck in a morally ambiguous zone”. “I have had a wonderful journey with Karan and his production house for almost a decade now, and I can’t wait to get…

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Will Ferrell is taking his partnership with Netflix a step further as the actor is set to star in the screen adaptation of documentary “The Legend Of Cocaine Island”. The Twitter handle of Netflix’s See What’s Next shared the news, saying the 52-year-old actor will also produce the film. The story is about a family man who hears a rumour that there is a buried stash of cocaine worth USD 2 million hidden in the Caribbean and decides to assemble a band of colourful misfits to retrieve it. Peter Steinfeld…

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Zoya Akhtar’s “Gully Boy”, starring Ranveer Singh in the role of a budding street rapper, has crashed out of the Best International Feature Film race at the Oscars after the Academy unveiled shortlists for nine categories. The movie failed to make the cut in the top-10 movies that will advance to the next round of voting at the 92nd Academy Awards. With “Gully Boy” out of the race, India’s dry run at the Academy Awards continues as the country has never made it to the top five, except three occasions.…

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Priyanka Chopra has wrapped shooting for her latest, “The White Tiger” opposite Rajkummar Rao. The Netflix film, being directed by Ramin Bahrani of “Fahrenheit 451” and “99 Homes” fame, is an adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s novel of the same name. Priyanka took to Instagram to share the news, saying it was a real pleasure to work on the project. “Happy tired.. but so excited to have wrapped #thewhitetiger. It was such a pleasure to work with the best in the business in every department. The most hard working crew.. and…

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Superstar Salman Khan has revealed that “Dabangg” was originally a dark film with its lead character Chulbul Pandey being “out and out negative.”Directed by Abhinav Kashyap, the 2010 film featured Salman as Pandey, a fearless yet corrupt police officer with unorthodox working methods. It received critical acclaim and was a blockbuster upon its release.In a group interview, Salman revealed that before him, actor Randeep Hooda and his brother Arbaaz Khan were approached for the project.”It was a very dark film, small film to be made under Rs 2 crore. At…

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The CBI has booked ace Bharatnatyam dancer and former Chairperson of Sangeet Natak Akademi Leela Samson for alleged “unfruitful expenditure” in Rs 7.02-crore renovation project of Koothambalam auditorium of Kalakshetra Foundation, Chennai, officials said Saturday. Ms Samson, a Padma Shree awardee and also a former chairperson of Central Board of Film Certification, has been booked along with the then officers of the Foundation: Chief Accounts Officer TS Murthi, Accounts Officer S Ramachandran, Engineering officer V Srinivasan and proprietor of CARD and Chennai Engineers, they said.  In a complaint to the…

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