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Years ago, I had asked Dilip Kumar if he was looking forward to his birthday, to celebrations and receiving gifts. With a smile, the actor had admitted that it was his wife who liked to surprise him with gifts. Saira Banu was the one who ticked off the days to December 11. She was the […]
Vicky Kaushal proposed to Katrina Kaif, publicly, two years ago in 2019. “Shaadi ka mausam chal raha tha, mujhe laga aapka bhi mann kar raha hoga, to maine kaha pooch leta hoon,” the new star in the galaxy rattled off while on stage with the actress he confessed to being a huge fan of. In […]
Gujaratis are all for Dhoklas, Fafdas and Jalebis. Not only people from Gujarat, but people all across have grown up to these delicacies including Bollywood celebs. Reportedly, the guests attending the celebrity wedding of Vicky Kaushal and Katrina Kaif at the Six Senses Fort Barwara hotel in Sawai Madhopur district are savouring Gujarati and Rajasthani […]
Not everyone can claim to have spent his birthday in the company of wild cats. But then, not everyone is Dharmendra, the He-man of the Hindi screen. In the late seventies, it was a working salgirah for Dharamji who at 40-plus was one of the busiest actors in Bollywood. That day, he was shooting for Mohan Segal’s 1979 action-adventure Kartavya. A […]
His father, producer-director Shakti Samanta, was looking for a new girl to cast opposite Shammi Kapoor in Kashmir Ki Kali and chanced upon Sharmila Tagore’s picture in a Bengali magazine. “She thought she looked like a kali. Enquiries revealed that she had already worked with Satyajit Ray (in Apur Sansar and Devi) and was doing a few other Bangla films,” reminisces Samanta’s filmmaker-son […]
It must be such a relief to be able to bring Tadap featuring debutant Ahan Shetty opposite Tara Sutaria to the theatres at a time when many new films are still releasing on OTT platform? Well, it’s been an anxious time and I’m blessed my producers, Sajid Nadiadwala and Fox Star Studios, decided to wait for the […]
Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas – the couple who got married on December 1 and 2, are known to melt millions of hearts around the world with their admirable pictures on social media. While Piggy chops (Priyanka) is also known to slay the internet, her sudden move of dropping Jonas from her social media name […]
Actor Ajay Devgan, who has appeared in over 100 Hindi movies says he has skilled quite a bit and is all warmed up for the next 30, in an interview. He entered people’s hearts with his debut film Phool Aur Kaante. When asked about his journey in showbiz for these many years, he said the […]
At home with the Maans After Train To Pakistan released, I got a call from Manjeet Maan who had seen the film. She told me she was looking for a child woman to cast in the Punjabi film she was producing, Shaheed-e-Mohabbat Boota Singh, a true-life historical drama. I told her frankly that I did not know much […]
PATRELEKHAA PAUL & RAJKUMMAR RAO: For Raj, the minute he saw the lovely Patra, he knew this was the girl he wanted to marry. And he did marry her, after 11 years of friendship, on November 15, at the Oberoi Sukhvilas resort in Chandigarh. Only family and a few close friends like Farah Khan, Aditi Rao […]
The Dimple queen who once ruled Bollywood – Preity Zinta might be away from the cinema but keeps engaging with her fans through social media. After five years of marriage, Preity Zinta and husband Jane Goodenough become parents to twins. She shared the good news with her fans on instagram, Twitter and expressed gratitude. She […]
Twenty-five years ago, on this day, Dharmesh Darshan unveiled Raja Hindustani during the Diwali week. And made the lights shine brighter. “Those days we had staggered releases and the film opened first on Monday, November 10, in Indore where my father Darshan Sabarwal had his super successful distribution and exhibition offices. And over the next five days, […]
There is considerable chatter in the B Town that Vicky Kaushal and Katrina might get married. The two are scheduled to make seven round trips to Six Sense Fort Barwada Fort in Sawai Madhopur, Rajasthan between December 7 and 9. According to reports, both of them have seen the arrangements themselves. Until now, only close […]
His name has become synonymous with Duryodhan since he played him in BR Chopra’s epic television series Mahabharat. Interestingly, impressed by his physique, the filmmaker had initially wanted to cast him as Bheem, but it was Puneet Issar himself who pitched for the role of Duryodhan and bagged it on the strength of his fiery […]
Had it not been for the on-going coronavirus-triggered pandemic, Rinzing would have made his debut by now. His first film, the action-thriller Squad, opened on Zee5 only on Friday, November 12, with Danny Denzongpa’s six feet three inches son playing Bhim, a broken Special Forces agent, who has absolutely no resemblance to the actor playing him. […]
After five long years, my schedule allowed me to watch this intriguing movie, ‘Jay Bhim’, on Amazon Prime Video, which released on November 2, 2021. I thought it would be based on the life of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar, but it is not. It is based on the fight against injustice that happened in 1995-96. “Only […]
With the theatres beginning to operate, producers seem to have become vigilant of the number of admits in the halls. Reliance entertainment went out of their way to ensure that the cinemas are admitting the same number of people as the tickets being sold. This comes after many reports suggested lesser numbers of tickets being […]
Kangana Ranaut, finding herself in never-ending controversies, is now a Padma Shri award winner. Recently, Kangana made a statement that India got its independence not in 1947 but in 2014 claiming the independence in 1947 as a ‘Bheek”(beggary). Kangana is known as a staunch supporter of the BJP, however BJP MP Varun Gandhi who is […]
On November 2, the Delhi Commission for Women issued a notice to Delhi Police asking for a responseregarding the rape threats received by the nine-month old daughter of Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma following the team’s loss to Pakistan in T20 World Cup. A man identified as Ramnagesh Srinivas Akubathini, 23, from Hyderabad has been […]
Akshay Kumar is a well-known Modi appeaser. Is filmmaker (sic) Rohit Shetty a Bhakt-in-disguise, as well? With all its tumbling cars and ultra-HD action glitz, Sooryavanshi cannot really camouflage its constant preaching to (a majoritarian Hindu and thus aadarsh nagarik) choir, building its premise on a puerile black-and-white philosophy that is so last decade that […]
