Category: ENTERTAINMENT

Mexican star Diego Luna believes the cross-border politics between his country and the US is mostly about the ‘you against me’ rhetoric, which he believes only polarises people.Luna, who was in India to promote the latest season of Netflix drama “Narcos”, said it would be wrong to see Mexico’s drug menace from a “black-and-white” lens. He stars as notorious drug lord Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo opposite Michael Pena’s DEA agent Kiki Camarena.”We have to stop talking about it as a black-and-white, good-and-bad kind of rhetoric because that polarises things. It…

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Actor and director Nandita Das on Sunday said that the beauty about art is that pain gives rise to something stronger and deeper.Das, whose 2018 film ‘Manto’ on famous Urdu author Saadat Hasan Manto would be screened at the 24th Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF), said the writer had produced his best stories in his worst times.”It is true artistes, writers, filmmakers flourish most when they go through really bad times,” the actor said.At the same time, she came up with the reference of Ritwik Ghatak and Satyajit Ray as…

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Naseeruddin Shah has no qualms in accepting that he has worked for money in some films but says the more tempting way for an actor to get corrupted is by becoming a star.”The easiest way for an actor to get corrupted is by becoming a star. Then you start believing your own myth. You start believing what the press writes about you. That’s very dangerous,” Naseeruddin told PTI.The actor says, no matter what position one holds in the industry, it is impossible to foresee the heights one can reach before…

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” A senior BJP leader Saturday demanded a ban on “Kedarnath”, an upcoming film set against the backdrop of a catastrophic deluge that hit the Himalayan shrine in 2013, alleging that it hurts the sentiments of Hindus and promotes love jihad.Ajendra Ajay, who is part of the state BJP’s media relations team, wrote to Central Board of Film Certification Chairman Prasoon Joshi that despite being set against the backdrop of one of the worst human tragedies, the film directed by Abhishek Kapoor makes fun of Hindu sentiments.Taking exception to a…

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Rani Mukerji says she knew that Indian films were popular in China but it was still a surprise to witness the love and respect the audiences have for Bollywood stars when she visited the country to promote “Hichki”.In “Hichki”, Rani played the role of a teacher who suffers from Tourette syndrome, a neurological disorder that causes involuntary vocalisations.The film, which released in India in March this year, is currently doing well in theatres in China and the actor was on a multi-city tour to promote the movie there. The film…

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Aamir Khan said Sunday that he suggested Shah Rukh Khan’s name for the biopic on astronaut Rakesh Sharma as he thought his contemporary would be an apt choice for the project.Reportedly titled “Saare Jahaan Se Achcha”, the film was first offered to Aamir and Priyanka Chopra. It was Priyanka who had confirmed Aamir’s name for the biopic earlier. When asked the reason of giving up the project, Aamir said he had his reasons.”It is a great script. I loved the script and the story of Mr Sharma is fascinating. It is…

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Richa Chadda despises the term “female-oriented” films but the actor says the phrase will continue to be relatively novel till such movies become a norm.The 31-year-old actor says she started hearing the term when Sridevi’s “English Vinglish” released in 2012 but adds actors like Nutan to Rani Mukerji have been the face of their films from a long time. “I never buy this ‘women-oriented’ term. I don’t like it. I have been hearing this term since 2012 that ‘English Vinglish’ is coming. I always turn around and say ‘You never…

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Child actor Sunny Pawar gained international fame with Australian film “Lion” but says he does not like when people refer to him as a star or a hero. Sunny is best known for his role as a younger Saroo Brierley in Garth Davis’s 2016 biographical drama “Lion” which also featured Dev Patel as the older Saroo. “My life hasn’t changed much after the film. It’s still the same as it was before the release. People around me call me star and a hero. But I don’t like it. I don’t want to…

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Months after BJP president Amit Shah’s visit to the Mahakaleshwar temple in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi will Monday perform a ‘puja’ at the famous ‘jyotirlinga’ in Ujjain before embarking on a two-day tour of the BJP-dominated Malwa-Nimar region. Shah had visited the abode of Lord Shiva on July 14 this year before flagging off the “Jan Ashirwad Yatra” of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.The BJP has been accusing Gandhi of playing the “soft Hindutva card” to attract the voters in poll-bound states.During his two-day tour beginning Monday,…

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Rohan Mehra stayed away from Bollywood for most part of his life and the debutante says it is one of the reasons he discovered his father, actor Vinod Mehra quite late.Rohan, who makes his Hindi film debut with “Baazaar”, says he does not feel pressured by the comparisons drawn between him and his father, who passed away before his birth in 1990.”Comparisons will be made. I don’t feel the pressure. It doesn’t annoy me. All the more, I’m flattered. This is all very surreal to me. I’m discovering this man…

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