- Tuesday, March 04, 2025
WHAT AILING BOLLYWOOD INDUSTRY CAN LEARN FROM LATE MUGHAL-E-AZAM DIRECTOR THIS week marks the 100th birth anniversary of late great filmmaker K Asif. The legendary director, born June 14 1922, impacted Hindi cinema forever with Bollywood’s greatest movie Mughal-e-Azam. His magnificent historical epic smashed records when it released in 1960 and…
VERSATILE ARTIST DISCUSSES HIS FORTHCOMING ROMANCE-FILLED UK TOUR A MARVELLOUS music career has seen Shaan mix up magnificent movie songs with melodious pop hits that have delighted multi-cultural audiences across different generations and languages. Although he is superb in the studio, the versatile singing sensation is at his best performing…
WRITER REVEALS HOW WORKING IN CONFLICT ZONES GLOBALLY INSPIRED HER DEBUT NOVEL IT WAS perhaps always going to be inevitable that Nandita Dinesh would write her newly published debut novel This Place/That Place. Hailing from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu and now living in San Francisco, she spent years working on community…
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who is set to return to the big screen after a hiatus of more than three years, never misses an opportunity to delight his fans. This year, King Khan has announced three big releases and while his fans are waiting with bated breaths for the films…
Pakistani star Mahira Khan on Wednesday said she is thrilled to connect with the Indian audience through her show Sadqay Tumhare. The 1980’s-set drama series, which originally premiered in 2014, will air on Zindagi on Thursday. Mahira said she is happy about the show’s return to TV. “Sadqay Tumhare is a heartfelt, simple love…
The second season of the Imtiaz Ali-created crime drama She will start streaming from June 17, Netflix announced Wednesday. The series follows Bhumika, played by Aaditi Pohankar, a timid Mumbai constable who realises the potential of her dormant sexuality when she goes undercover to expose a drug ring. Netflix India shared the…
Describing her co-actor Farhan Akhtar as someone who has a lot of “stories to share”, Ms Marvel star Iman Vellani says working with the Indian actor on the Disney+ series was an amazing experience. Debutante Vellani headlines Ms Marvel, Marvel Studios’ series on the titular Pakistani-American teen superhero, which started streaming on Disney+ Hotstar on Wednesday. Akhtar,…
A court has heard that a white supremacist described Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s son Archie as an ‘abomination that should be put down’ in his online podcast, media reports said. Christopher Gibbons, 38, also called for the duke to be ‘prosecuted’ and ‘judicially killed for treason’ in the ‘Black Wolf…
International medical graduates (IMG) hired by the NHS outnumbered the doctors recruited from within the UK last year, calling into question the ethics of “poaching” medical professionals from developing countries. Many recruits were from countries like India and Pakistan which have been facing a severe shortage of doctors. According to…
Boris Johnson’s former girlfriend has predicted that the “people-pleaser” prime minister cannot win the next election. Petronella Wyatt told the Good Morning Britain programme on ITV that Johnson was not tough enough unlike his predecessors Margaret Thatcher and John Major. The journalist, who was in a relationship with Johnson when…
