Category: ENTERTAINMENT

Los Angeles, Jul 5 (DIN NEWS) Daniel Craig, who plays the famed fictional British spy James Bond, had a face-to-face meeting with real life spymasters during his visit to the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) headquarters in Langley, Virginia. The visit was part of CIA’s ‘Reel vs. Real’ event, which was recently launched by the agency to “demystify the CIA’s mission by comparing what’s seen on TV to what happens in reality”. According to CIA’s official blog, the 50-year-old actor met with their leadership and workforce and was apprised that “real…

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Chennai, Jul 5 (DIN NEWS) Kalyani Priyadarshan was initially reluctant about becoming an actor as she thought she was better suited for a life behind the camera. The 25-year-old actor, daughter of filmmaker Priyadarshan and actor Lissy, recently won the Filmfare award for Best Female debut for her role in Telugu film “Hello”. “I thought behind the camera roles would suit me better because I’m sensitive. Also, my dad and Sabu Cyril (production designer) are very close and so are our families. “I grew up watching him and interned with…

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Mumbai, Jul 4 (DIN NEWS) Actor Kriti Sanon believes there is more insecurity in the acting profession but the only way to survive in the industry is to go with the flow and understand that nothing lasts forever. An engineering graduate, Kriti became a model before debuting as an actor with “Heropanti” in 2014. She has since featured in films such as “Dilwale”, “Raabta” and “Bareilly Ki Barfi”. “There is insecurity and competitiveness here, but that is in every field. Maybe it’s a little bit more here, but that’s the…

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Mumbai, Jul 4 (DIN NEWS) Sonali Bendre Behl, who today revealed that she is fighting cancer, has found support and encouragement from her peers and friends in Bollywood. Celebrities such as Karan Johar, Sonam Kapoor and Reteish Deshmukh took to social media to wish the actor a “speedy recovery”. “Godspeed, love and strength to a true fighter and a solid soul!” Johar, who worked with the actor in “Kal Ho Na Ho”, wrote. Deshmukh said he was “deeply saddened and shaken” by the news, and was praying for her speedy…

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New Delhi, Jul 3 (DIN NEWS) Vineet Kumar Singh got his moment in the sun with “Mukkabaaz”, which he co-wrote with his sister, and the actor says his partner-in-crime is currently penning a script for him. The 38-year-old actor, who starred as the lead in the Anurag Kashyap-directed film, says the success of the movie brought along a string of offers and writing has somewhat taken a back-seat. Vineet says, his sibling, Mukti Singh Srinet, has taken over writing and is currently working on a project with him in mind.…

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Mumbai, Jul 3 (DIN NEWS) Actor Ranbir Kapoor says he views competition as a healthy and beneficial exercise, amid the buzz that the upcoming award season will be a face-off between his and Ranveer Singh’s performances. The year began with Ranveer garnering critical acclaim for his portrayal of Sultan Alauddin Khilji in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s “Padmaavat”, that released on January 25. Ranbir, who has been through a dull box office phase in the last couple of years, bounced back last Friday as his latest “Sanju”, a biopic on actor Sanjay…

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Mumbai, Jul 2 (DIN NEWS) “Satya” is considered a milestone in contemporary Indian cinema and two decades after delivering the acclaimed film, director Ram Gopal Varma credits the success of the project to chance. The process started with an aim to make an action film — Varma had already made ‘Shiva’ — but not a movie on the underworld. “Everything in ‘Satya’ was by chance. It was a film which just started evolving by itself. I just went mostly by instinct and kept on improvising on location and the film…

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Mumbai, Jul 2 (DIN NEWS) Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui says the reason for him being convincing in gangster roles is that he looks at the characters through a human lens. Siddiqui shot to fame with his portrayal of local goon Faizal Khan in Anurag Kashyap’s “Gangs of Wasseypur”. The actor says he has played a gangster four times in his career — in “Munna Michael”, “Babumoshai Bandookbaaz”, among others — and has never treated the roles similarly. “I have never done a gangster role thinking of it as one. I think…

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Priyanka Chopra says women have “always been treated as second-class citizens” and unlike men, they are forced to adhere to certain standards of beauty. The 35-year-old star believes rather than submitting to the societal norms, women should focus on loving themselves and being confident in their own skin. “We’ve always been told that only one of us can win and only the best one will get the cutest boy and only the best one will get the job, that we spent so much time elbowing each other out of the…

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”  Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan believes sticking to one’s comfort zone could be tempting, but it is important for an actor to experiment to have a longer and respectable career. Saif found his groove with 2001’s “Dil Chahta Hai”, a decade after being in the industry, and reinvented himself with “Omkara”.He has now become one of India’s first mainstream stars to venture into the digital space, with Netflix Original series “Sacred Games”.In an interview with DIN, Saif says, “If you’ve been successful at one type of thing, it could be…

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