Category: ENTERTAINMENT

At a time when the older brigade of Bollywood superstars has failed to entertain the audience, Ajay Devgn believes come what may the star system will never fade away. In the era of content driven cinema, Ajay says today audiences taste has evolved and they have become choosy about the kind of films they want to watch in a theatre. “I don’t think the star system will fade away. The audience has become choosy and they will go for the product only if it is a good thing. And that…

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Kartik Aaryan is the latest Bollywood actor to maintain a ‘no comment’ stance on the sexual harassment allegation against filmmaker Rajkumar Hirani.Kartik said due course of law should be followed in such cases. “We all have been his fans. The situation is such that one has to follow the legal route and till the time it is not proven legally we can’t talk about it. We don’t know what exactly has happened, there has to be a way, we have legal option and that should be followed and then you can…

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Farhan Akhtar on Wednesday announced that he is set to reteam with his “Bhaag Milkha Bhaag” director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra in another sports drama “Toofan”, in which he will play a boxer.The actor shared the news on Twitter.”Thrilled to share that 6 years after Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, @RakeyshOmMehra and I are reuniting to create #Toofan… A heartfelt story of a boxer.”Hope for your best wishes as we embark on this new journey. Love,” Akhtar wrote.Mehra also took to the microblogging site share the news and described the film as “a…

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Singer Rihanna is suing her father for trying to exploit her name to further his entertainment business.In a federal lawsuit, the pop star alleges that her father, Ronald Fenty, is trading on their surname, Fenty, which she made famous, for financial gain, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The famous singer was born Robyn Rihanna Fenty. In the lawsuit, the 30-year-old singer says that her father and his partner have violated her trademark and falsely suggested that their business, Fenty Entertainment, is affiliated with her.She has used the name for her…

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As the father of a young daughter, actor Arshad Warsi said on Tuesday he lauded the #MeToo movement but also believed that it would be wrong to condemn long-time collaborator and director Rajkumar Hirani without any proof.Hirani is the latest name to be called out for sexual harassment with a woman “assistant” alleging in an article in HuffPost India that he sexually abused her more than once between March and September 2018 while working on “Sanju”.Describing him as a “polite, nice and correct” person, Warsi, who worked with Hirani in…

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Hrithik Roshan-starrer “Super 30″ will now hit the theatres on July 26.The actor made the announcement on Twitter Saturday.”Happy to announce that #Super30 is headed for release on July 26, 2019. Bahut jald samay badalne wala hai (The times are going to change soon),” Roshan wrote. “Super 30” is based on the life of the Patna-based scholar Anand Kumar, who trains 30 deserving, economically-backward students for IIT-JEE entrance exams every year with commendable success rate.Produced by Reliance Entertainment and Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment, the film also stars Mrunal Thakur, Amit Sadh…

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The timing of The Accidental Prime Minister is no accident. But everything else about the film is. It seeks to capture an important juncture of Indian political history. But devoid of cinematic finesse and totally clueless about how to go about the onerous job, it hits the skids at the very outset and never recovers.  Co-written and directed by first-timer Vijay Ratnakar Gutte, the film has an unequivocal agenda and spares no effort to make its point in bold relief. If there is anything at all going for it, it…

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Veteran sound mixer Gregg Rudloff, who bagged Oscars for his work on “Mad Max: Fury Road”, “The Matrix” and “Glory”, has died at the age of 63.The Los Angeles County Coroner’s office is treating his death as a possible suicide. “It was reported to us possibly as a suicide,” a spokeswoman for the coroner’s office told Deadline. “His body was found at his residence in Sherman Oaks on January 6. A call was made, and during the call it was reported as a possible suicide. We won’t know for sure until…

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The rape case against Alok Nath was lodged on the basis of a “defamatory” and “false” report of complainant Vinta Nanda, the sessions court observed while granting a pre-arrest bail to the Bollywood actor last week.Granting the relief to Nath on a surety bond of Rs 5 lakh, Additional Sessions Court Judge S S Oza said the rape complaint filed by the screenwriter is a “personal vendetta”.In its order, which was uploaded Tuesday evening, the judge noted that the allegation raised by the complainant might have been inspired by her…

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Kevin Hart has once again issued an apology to the LGBTQ community for his old homophobic tweets, while his contemporary Chris Rock has said his name can be crossed off this year’s potential Oscars hosts list. The controversy over using gay slurs in his past Twitter posts led Hart to step down as the emcee of Academy Awards 2019, after apologising for his comments.On his SiriusXM radio show, “Straight From the Hart”, the comic on Monday said that his words have been “chopped up” following previous apologies. “Once again, Kevin Hart…

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