Category: ENTERTAINMENT

Los Angeles, May 6 (DIN NEWS) Uma Thurman has said she always shared a “good relationship” with filmmaker Quentin Tarantino and is open to working with him once again if he wrote “a good part” for her. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the 48-year-old actor was asked whether she is open to working with the director despite the recent revelation about the car crash that happened on the sets of “Kill Bill”. “If he wrote a great part! I understand him and if he wrote a great part and…

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Mumbai, May 6 (DIN NEWS) After featuring in multiple language films from Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and to projects in South India, Radhika Apte is all set to make her foray in Hollywood and the actor says she always had the desire to do international cinema. Apte will be seen in Michael Winterbottom’s “The Wedding Guest”, alongside Dev Patel and will also feature in producer-turned-director Lydia Dean’s untitled World War II spy drama, with Stana Katic and Sarah Megan Thomas. “My desire was not just to do a Hollywood film but…

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Filmmaker Karan Johar is in mood to take up full-fledged acting jobs. The director-producer, who made his acting debut in Hindi films with Anurag Kashyap’s box office debacle, “Bombay Velvet”, believes he is a “big flop actor”. Karan was recently seen in “Welcome to New York” and the film, featuring Sonakshi Sinha and Diljit Dosanjh, also bombed. When asked if he would like to take up acting offers in Marathi cinema, Karan said, “I am a big flop actor. None of my films run. I did ‘Bombay Velvet’ and ‘Welcome…

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A dramedy that delivers a worn-out social message as it trundles along on the back of the antics of an odd father-son pair with divergent approaches to life, Umesh Shukla’s 102 Not Out has moments that strike a chord. But these are too few and far between to make this Amitabh Bachchan-Rishi Kapoor starrer an unforgettable cinematic outing. This is patchy fare that is only mildly diverting despite the best efforts of two veteran actors at the top of their game. Based on a Gujarati play of the same name by Saumya…

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If you’ve seen the trailer of Sanju then you’ll agree that Ranbir Kapoor greatly resembles the film’s subject – Sanjay Dutt. Prosthetic artist Dr Suresh Murkey told mid-day how he altered Ranbir’s appearance to match the different stages of Sanjay Dutt’s life. Dr Murkey also revealed that he altered Ranbir’s appearance without meeting Sanjay Dutt and mostly by looking at the pictures given to him for reference by director Rajkumar Hirani. “It was based on the pictures that I designed Ranbir’s prosthetics. I took four sets of measurements of Ranbir’s face in order to minimise any…

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Cousins… they’ll tease you before your wedding and the Kapoor cousins aren’t different at all. Rhea Kapoor shared a video of Arjun Kapoor teasing bride-to-be Sonam on her Instagram story, which was in turn shared by fan clubs. The video shows “chaach” (Arjun’s cousins and uncle Anil Kapoor sometimes call him ‘chaachu’) entering a room where Sonam is sitting with Rhea, Anshula and Maheep Kapoor and teasing her by saying, “It’s like I’m watching Dheere Dheere live. Aur kitni Tareefa chaiye hai.” Arjun was first alluding to the remake of Dheere Dheere, in which she co-starred…

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Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli returned to Mumbai on Wednesday from Bengaluru, where they celebrated Anushka’s 30th birthday (on May 1) and Virat played an Indian Premier League match against Mumbai Indians. The couple was spotted at the arrivals section of the airport – Anushka looked chic in black trousers paired with a sleeveless mustard top while Virat opted for track pants and basic brown tee. Anushka also attended Virat’s last match (he’s the captain of Royal Challengers Bangalore) against Mumbai Indian, which RCB won. Anushka and Virat had also shared snippets…

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Justin Langer vowed to fix the scandal-hit Australian cricket team’s behaviour and win back respect after being named head coach in all three formats of the game Thursday. The former Test opener, 47, starts his new role on May 22 for a four-year term which takes in two Ashes series, a World Cup and a World Twenty20 tournament. He takes the reins at a time of crisis following the 12-month suspensions of ex-captain Steve Smith and his deputy David Warner over a ball-tampering scandal which also saw previous coach Darren…

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Jake Gyllenhaal has been signed on to play legendary conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein in “The American”. The movie will be directed by Cary Fukunaga, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The project will be based on Humphrey Burton’s biography on Bernstein and has been adapted for screenplay by Michael Mitnick. The film will follow the exponential rise of the composer after conducting the New York Philharmonic when he was 25, all the while struggling with fame. His career boasts of penning the score for “On the Waterfront” and the avant…

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Actor Akshay Kumar says he and wife Twinkle Khanna are unfazed by the backlash they are receiving over the auction of the costume he wore as an Indian naval officer in “Rustom”. Akshay last week announced that the costume of his 2016 film would be auctioned for charity and the proceeds would fund animal rescue and welfare. Taking offence to his description of the costume as the “original naval uniform”, Twitteratti pointed out to that his outfit was just a film costume and not the real naval uniform, that the…

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