Category: ENTERTAINMENT

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan on Saturday began filming for a multilingual sci-fi movie, headlined by actors Prabhas and Deepika Padukone, in Hyderabad. Filmmaker Nag Ashwin, known for helming the National Award winning 2018 biographical drama “Mahanati”, is directing the project, which has been tentatively titled “Project K”. According to the makers, Ashwin will be canning crucial sequences featuring the 78-year-old icon and other actors during the film’s first shooting schedule at Ramoji Film City (RFC). Prabhas took to Instagram and shared an image of the film’s clapperboad. “On this #GuruPurnima, it…

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 Rohit Saraf says he owes his new found fame to his fans but at the same time, the actor believes that he has a responsibility towards himself to be happy and enjoy the work he is doing. After featuring in films like Shah Rukh Khan and Alia Bhatt-starrer “Dear Zindagi” (2016) and the 2019 drama “The Sky is Pink”, Saraf became popular for his portrayal of a lovestruck guy in Anurag Basu’s crime-comedy “Ludo”. The 24-year-old actor followed the film with the Netflix series “Mismatched” the same year where his…

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With films taking a “more realistic turn”, director Priyadarshan believes the allure of superstars will slowly be replaced by the power of good storytelling. One of the most bankable filmmakers, Priyadarshan has worked with some of the biggest names in Bollywood — from Salman Khan in the 2005 drama “Kyon Ki…”, Shah Rukh Khan in “Billu” (2007), to Akshay Kumar, his long-time collaborator on hits like “Hera Pheri”, “Garam Masala” and “Bhool Bhulaiyaa”. While his films with the superstars ranged from dramas to comedies, the 64-year-old director, who has been…

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Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut has approached the Bombay High Court seeking the quashing of proceedings initiated by a city magistrate on a criminal defamation complaint filed against her by lyricist Javed Akhtar. In an appeal filed through advocate Rizwan Siddiquee, Ranaut claimed that the Andheri metropolitan magistrate’s court initiated proceedings against her by relying only on the police’s report and did not examine witnesses independently. Akhtar filed a criminal complaint against Ranaut in November 2020 before the magistrate for allegedly making defamatory and baseless comments against him in television interviews.…

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Actors Janhvi Kapoor and Ishaan Khatter along with director Shashank Khaitan on Tuesday clocked three years of the their romantic-drama “Dhadak”. The film was the remake of the 2016 Marathi blockbuster Sairat , a love story between an upper-caste girl, Archana (Rinku Rajguru) and a fisherman’s son, Prashant (Akash Thosar). The Hindi version marked Bollywood debut of Kapoor, daughter of late actor Sridevi and Boney Kapoor, while it was Khatter’s second film after Majid Majidi-directed drama “Beyond the Clouds”. Kapoor, 24, shared photographs from the sets and said the film…

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The case against Raj Kundra was registered in February this year, and he has been arrested as he appeared to be a “key conspirator”, a statement issued by the Mumbai Police Commissioner said. Raj Kundra, the husband of noted Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, was arrested late on July 19 in a case related to the production of pornographic films. A statement issued by the Mumbai Police noted that evidence was gathered against Kundra which suggested his involvement in production of porn films and publishing them on mobile applications. The case…

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Actor Ayushmann Khurrana says he is excited to start the filming for his upcoming movie “Doctor G” as the campus comedy-drama will make him relive memories of his hostel life. Directed by Anubhuti Kashyap, the film also stars Rakul Preet Singh and Shefali Shah, both playing doctors. Khurrana, who plays Dr Uday Gupta in the film, said the story of “Doctor G” is extremely close to his heart. He is currently in Bhopal to shoot for the Junglee Pictures-backed project. “The subject of ‘Doctor G’ is very close to me.…

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 Indian-American filmmaker M Night Shyamalan, famed for his twist endings in Hollywood, says the initial success he achieved after “The Sixth Sense” started to feel like a trap as it blinded him with a desire to get accepted. The filmmaker followed the 1999 movie’s success with blockbusters — “Unbreakable”, “Signs” and “The Village” but his career saw a dip in the mid-2000s with critically panned “Lady in the Water”, “The Last Airbender” and “After Earth”. Shyamalan, who is back with his latest thriller “Old” about a family’s beach vacation gone…

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Veteran filmmaker Shyam Benegal, Neena Gupta and Manoj Bajpayee among others on Friday paid tributes to three-time National Award-winning actor Surekha Sikri and remembered her as one of the greatest talent of the entertainment industry. Sikri, known for her nuanced performance in Tamas , Mammo , Badhaai Ho , died following a cardiac arrest at a hospital in suburban Mumbai this morning. She was 75. Benegal, who has worked with Sikri in Mammo , Sardari Begum and Zubeidaa , said it was a delight to see Sikri perform. For the…

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 During her 14 year-long sabbatical from Hindi films, actor Shilpa Shetty Kundra says she was approached to star in a major Hollywood project, which she turned down because she was unwilling to change gears “so drastically”. Shilpa’s last full-fledged Bollywood film was in 2007, with filmmaker Anurag Basu’s “Life in a Metro” and the Dharmendra-starrer “Apne”. The same year, she also emerged as the winner of the British reality TV series “Celebrity Big Brother” season five, which made her a global figure. Though her Hindi film appearances became few and…

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