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Prabhas’ Saaho to be released on 15 August, to clash with Mission Mangal and Batla House

Superstar Prabhas’ keenly anticipated Saaho has finally secured a release date. The film will see the light of day on India’s Independence Day, 15 August 2019. Directed by Sujeeth, the film is a trilingual, which has been shot in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. Saaho is said to be a slick spy thriller. It also stars […]

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Sambhavtaha and Tungrus win big at Critics Choice Short Film Awards

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Two short films Sambhavtaha and Tungrus won big at the Critics Choice Short Film Awards. The ceremony, held on Saturday (15 December), was organised by The Film Critics Guild and Motion Content Group with the intention to recognise and appreciate the inventiveness and creativity of short storytellers across the country. The short (fiction) film Sambhavtaha

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

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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

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Pakistani activists, writers, artists urge PM to lift ban on Nandita Das’s Manto

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After Indian actress-filmmaker Nandita Das expressed her disappointment on her film Manto (2018) not getting clearance to be released in Pakistan, the country’s information and broadcasting minister Fawad Chaudhry has extended help with an online petition urging prime minister Imran Khan to lift the ban on its screening. “Disappointed that Manto will not be seen

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Rajkummar Rao teams up with Dinesh Vijan for yet another horror-comedy after Stree

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It looks like Dinesh Vijan’s wedding will not keep the producer away from launching new projects. Reports suggest that Vijan’s Maddock Films is teaming up with Rajkummar Rao for yet another horror-comedy after their last runaway success, Stree (2018). The new film will be directed by Mrigdeep Singh Lamba, who helmed the Fukrey franchise. Mumbai Mirror,

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Vikas Khanna’s The Last Color to premiere at Palm Springs International Film Festival

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The Palm Springs International Film Festival will have special ‘Focus on India’ in its 30th edition next year. Six films will be screened under the prominent section. These include the Hindi films Manmarziyaan (2018), Namdev Bhau In Search of Silence and Mard Ko Dard Nahin Hota. The Bengali film Ek Je Chhilo Raja (2018) and

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Nobody recognises me and that’s the success of my characters: Rajshri Deshpande

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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

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Farhan Akhtar’s The Fakir Of Venice to be released on 18 January 2019

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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

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Kedarnath makes Rs2.50 crore nett on second Friday

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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,

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Arijit Singh, Shaan honoured with Sangeet Mahasamman award by West Bengal government

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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

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