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Saturday, May 4, 2024
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Topic: Bollywood

Sonali Bendre’s cancer confession is latest in celeb bids to stop dirty rumour factory

Bendre's tweet about her illness is yet another example of an honest revelation by a celebrity before unending media speculation.

When Sanjay Dutt popped LSD and tried to ‘arrange’ his father’s face

This excerpt from 'Sanjay Dutt: The crazy untold story of Bollywood's bad boy' speaks about what happened after the actor popped a pill of LSD. 

Do biopics like Sanju end up resurrecting fallen heroes?

Experts weigh in Rajkumar Hirani's recent biopic on Sanjay Dutt's life and how it was influenced by the 1993 Mumbai blasts.

I don’t interfere in my girlfriend’s life, except for her clothes: Sanjay Dutt had said

Sanjay Dutt's life was a mix of LSD and an affair with Tina during the shoot of his first movie Rocky. Read this excerpt from Yaseer Usman's book Sanjay Dutt: The Crazy Untold Story of Bollywood’s Bad Boy.

Bollywood will take a few years to name sexual harassers: Divya Dutta

Speaking at Democracy Wall, Dutta says naming and shaming sexual harassers doesn't help in Bollywood.

Nick Jonas lucked out with Priyanka Chopra — not the other way around

Priyanka Chopra has done what no other Indian star has been able to do — cross over without sacrificing her stardom in either Bollywood or Hollywood.

Mumbai’s not Hollywood, which is why we barely have films on the Emergency 

The way the ‘dark era’ of the Emergency hit the common man, it provided ample material for thought-provoking political subjects, but they were few takers.

Salman Khan: ‘Main Google search mein aata hoon, samajh mein nahi’

Salman Khan is not an actor. Salman Khan is a star. Salman Khan is a commodity. Salman Khan is being human.

Netflix’s ‘Lust Stories’ shatter the Indian silence on sex

Stories by Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee & Karan Johar break the silences and awkward articulation of talking sex.

Pakeezah to Race 3: Tracing the journey of Muslim social this Eid

The wane of the ‘Muslim social’ genre coincided with the loss of prominence that Urdu suffered in northern India.

On Camera

Prajwal Revanna case shows why and how sexual crimes by men in politics can go unchecked for years

It would be a disservice to the women of Hassan to look at Prajwal Revanna’s alleged abuse of power as a ‘sex scandal’. Allegations against him show what ‘absolute power corrupts absolutely’ actually means.

High capacity usage, fresh borrowings & new orders — why FY25 could be a big year for pvt investment

Companies are borrowing more from banks and public. Economists say high capacity utilisation & growing new orders could set stage for renewed investment push by India Inc.

China builds road through Shaksgam Valley, India registers protest

New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.