For someone who has given notable hits with songs like ‘Kabira’ (‘Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani’), ‘Iktara’ (‘Wake Up Sid’), ‘Aali Re’ (‘No one killed Jessica’), ‘Pardesi’ (‘Dev D’) and ‘Madari Ka Bandar’ (‘Gulabo Sitabo’), and shies away from media attention, playback singer and composer Tochi Raina feels that one does not really have to go […]
Comedian Kapil Sharma is no stranger to online hate, but he says he does not pay much attention to trolls because he believes in making the world a better place with his jokes. Recently, #BoycottKapilSharmaShow trended on Twitter as netizens were not too thrilled about one of the show’s segments featuring Kiku Sharda and Krushna […]
Pop star Ananya Birla has alleged that a celebrity chef’s restaurant in California “threw” her and her family out. “This restaurant @ScopaRestaurant literally threw my family and I, out of their premises. So racist. So sad. You really need to treat your customers right. Very racist. This is not okay,” she said in a tweet […]
While reading ‘Chuti Nakoch’, a story by writer Ashapurna Devi, he suddenly felt grabbed by the jugular. It was tough to ignore the visual architecture within the tale and two very interesting characters that occupied it. Immediately, National award winning filmmaker Suman Mukhopadhyay procured the rights and started developing a screenplay — ‘Nazarband’ (‘Captive’), which […]
Suraj Pe Mangal Bhari trailer is a laugh riot that pays homage to family entertainers of the 90s The world needs a little bit of humor and some bone tickling comedies to survive the grimness of 2020. Keeping that in mind, Zee Studios is all set to release the trailer of their new film Suraj […]
Director Peter Segal claims wrestler-turned-actor Dave Bautista surprised him with his acting depth while working on the upcoming action-comedy, “My Spy”. “I am thrilled that we made the right choice in casting Chloe Coleman with Dave. I really wanted an opportunity to work with Dave Bautista. He has so much to his acting and I […]
Tamil star Vijay Sethupati is facing wrath on social media ever since the motion poster of his upcoming movie ‘800’ was launched. The film is a biopic of Muttiah Muralitharan and Sethupati essays the central role of the legendary Sri Lanka spinner. Fans are upset that the actor took up the role of the Tamil-origin […]
A trained engineer who went to IIM Calcutta, and after a decade long corporate career decided to pause and gift herself some “me time”, not to mention a Creative Writing course in the US later — author Manreet Sodhi Someshwar, whose latest “Girls and the City”, published by HarperCollins India recently hit the stands, has […]
Festival dates: October 23 – 30 Indian Film Festival of Melbourne announces online program HABADDI and Vidya Balan’s NATKHAT to open festival Festival dates: October 23 – 30 The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) today announced it will host its 2020 event online, in line with coronavirus gathering restrictions, screening over 60 films in 17 […]
Superstar Amitabh Bachchan will now provide a voice-over for a light-and-sound show to be held in Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh, highlighting the life and ideology of Lord Buddha. According to divisional commissioner Deepak Agrawal, the company that is producing the show has started preparations for the recording. The show had to be ready for screening by […]