With Kangana Ranaut at the helm, it is natural for the actress to get all the limelight, but Manikarnika: The Queen Of Jhansi will also have other pivotal characters. One of them is Maharaja Gangadhar Rao, the husband of Manikarnika. Bengali actor Jisshu Sengupta plays Gangadhar Rao. Neetu Lulla, who has designed the actor’s costumes, … Read more
After a successful first season, the second edition of the Cinestaan India’s Storytellers Contest has begun. The contest is judged by a jury of eminent persons from the Hindi film industry. Chaired by well-known screenwriter and sometime actor Anjum Rajabali, the jury includes filmmaker Rajkumar Hirani, actor-producer Aamir Khan and screenwriter Juhi Chaturvedi. At the … Read more
The makers of the NTR biopic yesterday teased fans with the look of Rana Daggubati as Nara Chandrababu Naidu, son-in-law of the legendary actor and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao (NTR), on the eve of the actor’s 34th birthday today. In the poster, Baahubali star Rana Daggubati is seen waving to the … Read more
Actress Richa Chadha, who has been training in kabaddi for Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari’s Panga (2019), says she used to play the sport in her school days and that is coming in handy now. “It has been amazing to work with professional players,” Chadha said in a statement. “We are working with a senior player and a … Read more
Nandita Das’s Manto released in India on 21 September. Even though it didn’t do very well at the box office, the film was critical appreciated. Starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Manto is based on the life of noted Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto, who migrated to Pakistan from India during Partition. Das and her team were hoping for … Read more
Veteran actor Alok Nath, who has been accused of rape by writer-director Vinta Nanda, filed for an anticipatory bail at the civil and sessions court in Dindoshi on Thursday (14 December). The plea was filed before additional sessions judge SS Oza. The matter has been adjourned till 20 December after Faranaaz Karbhari, Nanda’s lawyer, sought time … Read more
Popular singers Shaan and Arijit Singh were on Friday (14 December) handed over the Sangeet Mahasamman award constituted by the West Bengal government at the inaugural session of the Bengal music and folk culture festival in Kolkata. Besides the duo, leading Bengali singers like Rupankar Bagchi, Raghab Chattopadhyay, Manomoy Bhattacharya, Saikat Mitra, Pratik Chowdhury and … Read more
Director Abhishek Kapoor’s Kedarnath, that released on 7 December, had to face competition from the holdover release, 2.0, starring Rajinikanth and Akshay Kumar. Surprisingly, the fervour around 2.0 soon faded out. However, Kedarnath, starring Sushant Singh Rajput and Sara Ali Khan, finds itself competing with the Hollywood superhero film Aquaman in its second week. As reported by Boxofficindia.com, … Read more
The Fakir Of Venice, starring Farhan Akhtar and Annu Kapoor, will finally see the light of day. It will hit the screens on 18 January 2019 – a decade after it was made. Asked about the delay, the film’s director Anand Surapur told IANS, a news agency: “It was purely attributed to production issues. Last … Read more
Laxmi of Angry Indian Goddesses, Durga of S Durga, Subhadra of Sacred Games and Ismat of Manto. Actress Rajshri Deshpande is glad people know her on-screen characters more than they know her. Walking into a room with an audience and hearing murmurs of “Who is she? Oh, she was in Sacred Games” didn’t come as … Read more