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05 Dec

Actor Dia Mirza on participating in Miss India 20 years ago: ‘We all knew that Lara Dutta would win, she was everyone’s favourite’

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Dia spoke about being discovered as a 16-year-old, and winning the pageant just two years later. Dia Mirza has reflected on winning the Miss Asia Pacific title as a teenager, on the 20-year anniversary of the occasion. Dia also posted a short video, in which she shared that her father had written Robert Frost’s Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening for her on a card during the Miss Asia Pacific pageant. “I would read these words every night before i slept. These words have continued to motivate me till this day,” she wrote in her message. In an interview…

04 Dec

‘Bollywood stayed mum, a Punjabi star had to deal with Kangana Ranaut’: Taapsee, Swara react to Twitter sentiment

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Even as Diljit Dosanjh took on Kangana Ranaut after she misidentified an elderly woman protester as ‘Shaheen Bagh dadi’ Bilkis Bano and claimed that she can be hired for ‘100 rupees’, Twitter claimed that it took a Punjabi star to take a stand while Bollywood preferred to stay mum during these past tumultuous months. Actors like Taapsee Pannu and Swara Bhaskar have reacted to the charge. “Tragic state of Bollywood - even after so much abuse & slander they kept mum on Kangana. Finally a Punjabi Singer / Actor had to deal with the guttermouth; reveals just how hollow, impotent…

03 Dec

Christopher Nolan says Tenet has ‘some of the first-ever aerial shots of Mumbai in a film’, gushes about India

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Ahead of Tenet's much-delayed release in India, director Christopher Nolan has spoken about his experience filming the sci-fi spectacle in Mumbai. Tenet arrives in theatres on Friday, mere days ahead of its home video release. Nolan previously filmed a small sequence in Jodhpur for The Dark Knight Rises and vowed to shoot a more significant portion in the future. “Every time I go to India, I’m struck by how unbelievably visual the place is. I had shot a couple of days in Jodhpur on The Dark Knight Rises and always wanted to go back and shoot a more substantial sequence,…

03 Dec

Actor Amitabh Bachchan channels ‘Yeti, the abominable snowman’, shares how he spends time after a day’s work

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Amitabh Bachchan has been busy with his professional commitments, with Kaun Banega Crorepati’s season 12 bringing him to our screens night after night. However, the veteran actor has found a ‘true essence of life and living’ as he spends time in a music studio. Sharing the peace and tranquillity that it brings him, he wrote on his blog, “But the time spent after the days’ work at the Saptaswar, is the true essence of life and living. The tranquility and peace of the mind and soul, the shared music experiences, those early recordings and the need to spend much much…

01 Dec

Actor Sayani Gupta elated with her short film Shameless going as entry for Oscars: Not many people take short films seriously in our country itself

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Sayani Gupta- starrer short film Shameless is on it’s way to enter the Oscars race in the Live Action short film category, and of course she is ecstatic at this development. “Honestly, we got the news a while back. Because of the pandemic, it’s been very different, and we didn’t know what’s the right way to go about it. We were going up in the list of the top five films that could qualify, and praying it would make it. Finally it did, and we thought ‘should we share it, I don’t want to jinx it!’ But it’s out, and…

01 Dec

Actor Emraan Hashmi says that in this industry you generally get labelled, seen in sync with certain kind of films

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Taking the example of his character of a 50-year-old professor in Harami, who trains a gang of poor young kids to pick pocket in trains and train stations in Mumbai, Hashmi says, “I don’t think I would’ve been given a role of such an aged guy sporting salt and pepper hair, glasses etc in a regular commercial film. That’s not how those scripts are penned. So along with enjoying my mainstream journey, l love dabbling in other kind of cinema… And that’s when I do a Tigers, or a Harami and step out of the regular trappings of Bollywood.”Hashmi continues…

30 Nov

Actor Sara Ali Khan says David Dhawan was angry at Varun Dhawan but ‘vented’ at her on Coolie No 1 set: ‘That was a bit of an issue, but it’s all good’

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Sara Ali Khan, who will next be seen opposite Varun Dhawan in the Coolie No 1 remake, has said that Varun is to blame for an incident on the film’s set, which saw director David Dhawan lose his cool at her. David also directed the original Coolie No 1, which starred Govinda in the lead role, opposite Karisma Kapoor. At the recent virtual trailer launch event of the film, Sara said, “We were filming Main Toh Raste Se when David sir got upset with me and shouted at me because, although I was ready for my shot, I was supposed…

30 Nov

Dalljiet Kaur says that Gurpurab is her second Diwali

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Known for her power packed performances in TV serials, Dalljiet Kaur recalls that she fondly celebrated the festival of Gurpurab with her family. “Since Gurpurab takes place a few days after Diwali, as kids, we used to save more than half of our firecrackers for Gurpurab. Like Diwali, we used to dress up in new clothes and then visit the Gurdwara to offer prayers. I have numerous beautiful memories of the day. I look back and cherish how I spent that day with my parents,” says the actor. “Gurpurab was actually like the second Diwali for us. We used to…

29 Nov

Singer Neha Kakkar gifts Rs 1 lakh to Indian Idol 12 contestant whose grandmother had to take a loan to send him to Mumbai

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The reality show Indian Idol is back with a list of talented contestants. In a new promo shared by the channel, the life story of contestant Shahzad Ali, who hails from Jaipur, was teased. The aspiring singer’s hard luck story moved judge Neha Kakkar so much that she came forward to help him out. Sharing a short clip from the episode which had Neha and fellow judge Vishal Dadlani offering to help Shahzad, the channel’s official Twitter handle said, “Shahzad Ali from Jaipur touched the judge’s hearts so much that Neha Kakkar couldn’t help herself but gift him something amazing!…

28 Nov

Actor Anushka Sharma on resuming work after baby: ‘Will establish a system at home so I can balance time between my child, home and work.’

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Anushka Sharma has been working hard since coming from Dubai after IPL 2020. Anushka is seven months pregnant and expecting her first baby in January. The actor has been shooting for commercials back-to-back, all week. She has been spotted by the paparazzi, looking beautiful in lovely and colourful dresses, at the shoot sets. Now, in an interview with The Times of India, Anushka has talked about her decision to come back to work amid the coronavirus pandemic. “I had to be sure that the sets are going to be a safe place to shoot because I would be shooting during…