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Padmavati: Jai Rajputana Sangh threatens to burn cinema halls #WTFnews

Jai Rajputana Sangh wants to watch the film before it releases across the country to check whether or not history has been distorted.     Mumbai: Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Padmavati has been in news since its inception. The sets of the film were… Continue Reading →

Veteran filmmaker and actor Lekh Tandon passes away at the age of 88 #RIP

Filmmaker and actor Lekh Tandon passed away on Sunday evening at his house in Powai, Mumbai. The funeral will be held on October 16.   Veteran filmmaker and actor famous for films like Dulhan Wahi Jo Piya Man Bhaye, Amrapali, Professor, Jhuk Gaya Aasman, Agar Tum… Continue Reading →

Hollywood – Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie and Others Say Weinstein Sexually Harassed Them #Vaw

  “This way of treating women ends now,” Ms.Paltrow said as she and other actresses accused the producer of casting-couch abuses. By JODI KANTOR and RACHEL ABRAMS When Gwyneth Paltrow was 22 years old, she got a role that would take her from… Continue Reading →

When Newton’s Adivasis went to the movies

Suvojit Bagchi After-shoot revelry: Tribal actors singing and dancing after the completion of the shoot.   | Photo Credit: Pranhita Sen For most of the film’s Adivasi actors, it was their first time in a cinema hall Israr Ahmed, a TV… Continue Reading →

#SundayReading -Kundan Shah- The Making of a Classic- Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro

Mumbai Mirror | Kundan Shah, who died of a heart attack in Mumbai yesterday morning at the age of 70, made 10 films in a career spanning three decades. But his life and work was almost entirely defined by one film,… Continue Reading →

Remembering Begum Akhtar Mallika-e-Ghazal (Queen of Ghazal) on her 103rd Birthday

Begum Akhtar was influenced by the music of Chandra Bai, a theatre artist, at a very young age. She then went on to train under Sarangi exponent Ustad Imdad Khan. It is Begum Akhtar’s 103rd birthday today and Google has… Continue Reading →

Award-winning film director Kundan Shah passes away #RIP

Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro director Kundan Shah passes away HIGHLIGHTS Famed Hindi film director Kundan Shah passed away at his Mumbai residence on Friday night, after suffering a heart attack Shah was best known for directing the 1983 satirical film, ‘Jaane… Continue Reading →

Australian Journalists Questioned by Gujarat Cops, Film “Digging Into Adani” Creates Waves

NEW DELHI: Four Corners, Australia’s leading investigative journalism program has been exposing “scandals, triggering inquiries, firing debate and confronting taboos” since 1961. This time around it chose to investigate Indian industrialist Gautam Adani as he has been in Australian news… Continue Reading →

Actor Prakash Raj takes dig at PM Modi, Yogi Adityanath; says he wants to give all his National Awards to them

Actor Prakash Raj questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s silence over the murder of Gauri Lankesh. Award-winning actor Prakash Raj on Sunday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his silence on the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh in Bengaluru. Saying he could tell… Continue Reading →

India – “There Are a Lot of Newtons Among Election Officials”

  Perceptive and mordant, Newton is one of the most thought-provoking Hindi films in recent times. It chronicles the efforts of a resolutely sincere election official (played by Rajkummar Rao) to oversee polling in a Maoist-affected constituency in Chhattisgarh, as… Continue Reading →

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