Padmini Kolhapure’s son Priyaank to make Hindi film debut 

Yesteryear actress Padmini Kolhapure’s son Priyaank Sharma is all set to emulate his mother. Priyaank will be making debut with Sab Kushal Mangal. Writer and director Karan Kashyap will be helming the film. Producer Nitin Manmohan’s daughter Prachi will be producing the film that will have Akshaye Khanna in a pivotal role. Sharma is also … Read more

Delhi HC dismisses PIL challenging release of The Accidental Prime Minister

The Delhi High court division bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and V Kameswar Rao dismissed the PIL filed by designer Pooja Mahajan challenging the certificate granted by the Central Board Of Film Certification (CBFC) to The Accidental Prime Minister. The bench refused to entertain the PIL on the grounds that the petitioner had no … Read more

I still regret not taking up Sanju, shares Akshaye Khanna

Much before The Accidental Prime Minister (2019), actor Akshaye Khanna was offered another real-life character which he couldn’t do. He was offered the important role of late actor Sunil Dutt in Rajkumar Hirani’s Sanju (2018), the biopic on Sanjay Dutt in which Ranbir Kapoor played the titular role. Khanna will be playing the real-life character … Read more

Delhi HC dismisses petition seeking stay on The Accidental Prime Minister release

Justice Vibhu Bakhru of the Delhi high court has dismissed a petition seeking a stay on the release of the film The Accidental Prime Minister. The film, directed by Vijay Gutte, stars Anupam Kher as former Indian prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh. “Single bench of the Delhi High Court refuses to entertain the plea seeking a … Read more

Akshaye Khanna not worried by defamation case, welcomes ‘debate’

A lawyer from Muzaffarpur in Bihar registered a case on Wednesday, 2 January, against actors Anupam Kher and Akshaye Khanna for allegedly defaming the image of some top politicians of the country in their forthcoming film The Accidental Prime Minister. Akshaye Khanna has now reacted to the case. “Let the court decide if this is true,” said … Read more

After initial veto demand, Congress party decides to ignore The Accidental Prime Minister as ‘BJP propaganda film’

The demand from the Maharashtra Youth Congress to prevent screenings of Vijay Gutte’s The Accidental Prime Minister was met with some consternation. However, the party itself has now chosen to back down from its initial demand. After the opposition to the film, state Youth Congress chief Satyajeet Tambe Patil tweeted that the party has decided to … Read more

Anupam Kher as Manmohan Singh is a studied act

After the trailer of Thackeray, on the life of the late Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray, came out yesterday, we now get a glimpse of another political film, The Accidental Prime Minister, on Manmohan Singh’s stint as India’s prime minister. The film is based on the 2014 book, The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and Unmaking … Read more

Geetanjali Khanna, first wife of Vinod Khanna, dies at 70

Geetanjali Khanna, first wife of late actor Vinod Khanna, passed away on Saturday [15 December] at the family’s farmhouse in Mandva. She was 70. Geetanjali and her son, actor Akshaye Khanna, were visiting the farmhouse for the weekend. She complained of uneasiness and was taken to a hospital in Chondi village. After being treated there, she … Read more