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Topic: Deepika Padukone

‘Faltu aggression’—Fighter trailer has Pakistanis questioning Bollywood’s ‘obsession’ with them

Even before Fighter, film critics, authors, and commentators were questioning why Pakistan was featuring so prominently in Bollywood films.

Deepika Padukone to Vijay Sethupathi — 5 actors who’re ready to make a big splash in 2024

Deepika Padukone is set to play an Air Force squadron leader in Fighter, while Manoj Bajpayee and Vijay Sethupathi will reprise their roles in The Family Man and Farzi 2.

Besharam Rang bikini to Elvish Yadav’s Noida rave—8 big controversies of 2023

Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh revealed too much for their own good about their relationship on Koffee with Karan. It resulted in big outrage on social media.

Deepika Padukone’s bikini is angering Indian men. This time she’s ‘degrading’ women pilots

Indians are asking how Bollywood dares to depict a fighter pilot in a bikini. The real question is why respect for a woman in a ‘serious’ profession diminishes the instant she wears a swimsuit.

Ranveer Singh went from ‘wife guy’ to red flag overnight. He only has himself to blame

The first episode of the new season of Koffee With Karan was meant to celebrate Bollywood's golden couple—Deepika Padukone & Ranveer Singh. It quickly turned into a PR nightmare.

Pregnancy doesn’t always save women from death row, like in Jawan. It’s a double-edged sword

Deepika Padukone’s pregnant character in Jawan gets five-year relief from hanging. In real life, a judge told Shabnam Ali: 'You are also a mother. But you didn't show any mercy.’

Alia Bhatt in Raazi to Deepika Padukone in Pathaan — female spies not just about oomph

From Mala Sinha in Ankhen to Deepika playing a cosmopolitan spy in Pathaan, Bollywood has come a long way. There's more to the 'guns, gadgets, women' formula.

Watch Pathaan for Shah Rukh Khan. Everything else does him a disservice

YRF is facing the same problem as Dharma Productions. Both Brahmastra and Pathaan want to rely on the spectacular but weak dialogues ruin most of the impact.

Jhoome Jo Pathaan with an Indonesian twist. YouTuber Vina Fan now has SRK in her DM

Shah Rukh Khan is Vina Fan's favourite. She has also recreated songs featuring Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Varun Dhawan and Shahid Kapoor.

OneLove armband vs OneHate bikini & Nehru’s ghost wants a vacation beyond borders

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.