Category: Entertainment

Mumbai: Sony Entertainment Television’s India’s Best Dancer Season 5 is set to celebrate the golden era of Hindi cinema as veteran actresses Meenakshi Seshadri and Jaya Prada appear as special guests on the upcoming episode. The episode will feature contestants Vaidehi and Prateek delivering a performance on “Asli India Wala” from the blockbuster Hero. Their presentation impressed the veteran actresses and brought back nostalgic memories for Seshadri.Recalling the success of Hero, Seshadri revealed that the film ran for an entire year at a theatre in Chennai, which she described as…

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Mumbai: Lock Upp may have officially wrapped, but if there’s one thing from this season that isn’t going away anytime soon, it’s Riteish Deshmukh’s wardrobe. Week after week, the host turned hosting duties into something of a style masterclass, mixing sharp, old-school tailoring with just enough contemporary edge to keep every appearance feeling fresh. As fans say their goodbyes to the season, it felt only right to take one last walk through the looks that made sure Riteish left as much of a mark off screen as he did on…

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Long before Dil Chahta Hai became the film that redefined coming-of-age cinema in India, Farhan Akhtar had a formidable screenwriter he could turn to right at home. His mother, Honey Irani, had already spent decades writing for Hindi films by the time Farhan finished the early draft of his directorial debut — and when it came time to find readers he actually trusted, she was one of the first people he handed the script to. Twenty-five years on, Akhtar has opened up about just how much her instincts shaped the…

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Mumbai: Abhay Verma has his eyes on the sky and his feet firmly on the ground. His latest release, Operation Safed Sagar, began streaming on Netflix this week, telling the high-altitude, largely untold story of the India-Pakistan Kargil War. And in a series built to honour the Indian Air Force, it’s Verma’s performance that critics and audiences alike keep circling back to. Playing Flying Officer RS Dhaliwal, Verma delivers what many are calling one of the most riveting and mature turns of his career so far — a performance that…

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Mumbai: There’s an unwritten rule that Bollywood has lived by for decades, one that nobody says out loud but everybody seems to follow anyway. Chase creative fulfilment, and you risk losing the mass audience that fills theatres on a Friday. Chase the box office, and you’re expected to quietly set aside any ambition of experimentation. Pick a lane. Stay in it. That’s how the industry has traditionally sorted its stars into neat, marketable boxes. Riteish Deshmukh doesn’t seem to have gotten the memo — or more accurately, he seems to…

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Mumbai: For thirteen years, Ricky Kej made music that was designed to be forgotten the moment it did its job. A jingle for a soap brand, a hook for a soft drink, a melodic sting for a car commercial — write it, sell it, move on to the next one. By his own count, he composed somewhere around 3,500 of these pieces across his career, working with nearly every major brand an Indian household would recognise. It was steady work, and by most measures, a successful career. And yet, somewhere…

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Lucknow: Bollywood stars Sunny Deol and Preity Zinta touched down in Lucknow this week as part of the promotional run for their much-anticipated film “Batwara 1947.” The star cast spent the visit taking part in various promotional events across the city. During their time there, the duo paid a courtesy visit to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath at his official residence. Sunny Deol’s son and actor Karan Deol was also present at the meeting. Following the visit, both the Chief Minister and Sunny Deol took to social media to…

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Mumbai: Anmol Cinema premiered Ajay Devgn, Riteish Deshmukh and Vaani Kapoor starrer Raid 2 on Friday, July 31 at 7:30 pm, taking viewers into a world of power, corruption, deception and high-stakes drama. Directed by Raj Kumar Gupta, the film brought back Ajay Devgn as IRS officer Amay Patnaik, an honest and fearless officer who refuses to surrender before powerful and corrupt individuals. The film follows his latest confrontation with a formidable adversary, Dada Bhai, played by Riteish Deshmukh. The clash between Amay Patnaik’s quiet determination and Dada Bhai’s calculated…

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