Category: ENTERTAINMENT

Mumbai, Jul 24 (DIN NEWS) In an industry where a male actor is called a hero, Taapsee Pannu says her aim is to break this gender-based stereotype and she plans to do so slowly and steadily. The 31-year-old actor believes the acceptance for female-centric films from both the industry and audience can help bridge the gap between male and female actors being successful at the box office. “I feel hero has no gender and I am trying to prove that. We have for so many years fed our audience that…

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Vidya Balan is all set to turn producer with a socially relevant short film titled “Natkhat”, in which she will also act.The actor has collaborated with producer Ronnie Screwvala to back this film, a statement issued on behalf of the actor read. As per the press release issued by the makers, “Natkhat” addresses several issues such as patriarchy, gender inequality, rape, domestic abuse, compartmentalisation by men in different relationships with women; and in doing so surpasses all possible barriers, be it age, gender, urban-rural divide and nationality. “It’s a beautiful and…

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Taapsee Pannu on Sunday said she wants to play an Indian superhero in the pantheon of Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Avengers films.The actor said she is “personally attached” to these films from Marvel Studio and hopes she gets an opportunity to play a superhero in her career.”I hope I get a chance in my life to be a superhero in Avengers. That’s the only role that I think I’ve not done. I don’t want to replace any character, I want to be an Indian superhero in the Avengers. “I remember ‘Captain…

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Touted as one of the biggest action entertainers of the year, “War”, featuring Hrithik Roshan and Tiger Shroff, has three Hollywood action-choreographers working on the sequences of the film.Paul Jennings, Franz Spilhaus, SeaYoung Oh and famous Bollywood action-director Parvez Shaikh have choreographed the action sequences of the Yash Raj Films project.”When we have Hrithik taking on Tiger, the promise of the film to audiences become huge and we wanted to deliver the action experience for people to feel the adrenaline rush. “We have four of the top action directors from different…

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“Gossip Girl” is getting a reboot on HBO Max.According to Entertainment Weekly, the iconic teen series, with 10-episode initial order, will stream on the network’s digital arm. Original creative team of Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage are returning as executive producers.Josh Safran, who penned and produced on the original series, will showrun the latest take.Also attached to executive produce are Alloy’s Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo.”Gossip Girl”, which aired on The CW from 2007-2012, was based on the book series by Cecily von Ziegesar. The show went to become a…

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Taapsee Pannu, who will next be seen in “Mission Mangal”, being touted as India’s first space film, believes more films with a backdrop of space should be explored. The movie is said to be loosely based on the story of scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), who contributed to the Mars Orbiter Mission, India’s first interplanetary expedition.”It is a backdrop that should be explored not just by making a film on Rakesh Sharma or Kalpana Chawla but more exciting stories should be made. It feels good that Bollywood is…

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Scarlett Johansson has clarified her recent comments about politically correctness and casting in Hollywood as controversy threatened to brew, claiming her remarks were “edited for click bait” and “widely taken out of context”.”An interview that was recently published has been edited for click bait and is widely taken out of context,” the actor said in a statement to Entertainment Weekly, referring to a recent article from the arts and culture publication As If.In the said interview, she seemed to have reflected upon her casting as a transgender man in “Rub…

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For over a decade, Robert Downey Jr has been Tony Stark aka Iron-Man for Marvel fanatics around the world but the actor is clear, in real life, he is not the beloved superhero. The actor, whose career stemmed from theatre, said his off-Broadway training taught him to maintain “aesthetic distance” from the characters he plays in order to remain in touch with his identity.”I am not my work. I am not what I did with that studio. I am not that period of time that I spent playing this character…

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Filmmaker John Carpenter is penning a DC comic book about iconic villain The Joker.Titled “The Joker: Year of the Villian”, the book will feature artwork by Philip Tan and Marc Deering. Anthony Burch, writer of the video games “League of Legends” and “Borderlands 2”, will co-write the 40-page issue with Carpenter, a statement by DC Comics said.The two have previously collaborated on six-issue miniseries “Big Trouble in Little China Old Man Jack”.The official plotline of the book read, “Now a human-alien hybrid, Lex Luthor has made his appeal to the world,…

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Taapsee Pannu says she would very much like to portray former skipper of Indian women’s cricket team, Mithali Raj, on the big screen but till now there has been no offer from the makers.There were speculations that the “Game Over” star has agreed to play the part in a film but at an event on Friday, she shot the down all the rumours.However, she appealed to the media to endorse her for the role.”If I get it then it will be amazing to play cricket. You all please recommend my…

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