- Saturday, March 01, 2025
Veteran Hollywood actor Bruce Willis is retiring from acting. His family took to social media to announce that the 67-year-old actor will be stepping away from his acting career after a medical diagnosis. The Die Hard franchise star, who shot to fame with the 1980s comedy-drama TV series Moonlighting before playing several memorable characters…
HOW AGAM DARSHI DID IT ALL WITH HER FILM DONKEYHEAD ONE of the best reviewed and most unique film releases of 2022 featuring south Asian protagonists has been Donkeyhead. The Canadian comedy-drama on Netflix has surprised audiences globally with unapologetic storytelling that mixes up humour and deep emotions. The heartbeat of…
SINGER DISCUSSES HER SONG-FILLED JOURNEY AND SHOW ACCLAIMED singer Kiran Sachdev was first connected to music as an infant sitting in her grandmother’s lap while she recited Gurbani and then as a four-year-old attempting to sing while her father played the harmonium. Not long after she was playing complete compositions…
RISING music star Kunwarr is making a big impact with commercial songs that are showing off his range and making a strong connection with a fast-growing fan base. The Canadian singer, songwriter, and composer’s most recent track Befikra, along with its eye-catching music video, added to the growing momentum behind him.…
THE DEBUT novel of Asian author Aamina Ahmad combines crime fiction and 1960s Pakistan to tell a story of murder, corruption and finding long-lost family. The Return of Faraz Ali is available on Amazon from Tuesday (5). Set in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1968, it tells the story of inspector Faraz Ali, who…
HOW SELF-INDULGENT FILMS, NEPOTISM, AND BAD WRITING ARE KILLING AN INDUSTRY LONG-TERM readers of Eastern Eye will know that the newspaper publishes a big Bollywood-led film preview at the beginning of each year, but in 2022 it didn’t happen because the overall quality of forthcoming Hindi cinema releases is just so terrible.…
THE Netflix series Bridgerton with two British Asian actresses in lead roles – Simone Ashley and Charithra Chandran play sisters Kate and Edwina Sharma, newly arrived from India – have upended the claims that English period dramas such as Downton Abbey cannot have multicultural casting because this would not be authentic. Ashley (who Anglicised…
BIRTHDAY SPECIAL TO CELEBRATE THE VERSATILE STAR’S ENTERTAINING PERFORMANCES POPULAR Bollywood star Ajay Devgn has had a glittering 31-year Bollywood career loaded with memorable performances and a wide array of films in diverse genres. He will receive good wishes from around the world this week as he celebrates his 53rd…
Comedian Chris Rock, in his first public comments since he was slapped in the face by actor Will Smith at the Oscars on Sunday, said he is “still processing” the incident that made headlines around the world. “How was YOUR weekend?” Rock asked on Wednesday night of a sold-out crowd at Boston’s Wilbur…
THE US has asserted that it did not send any letter to Pakistan on the current political situation in the south Asian country, a media report said on Thursday (31). Pakistan’s embattled prime minister Imran Khan has recently claimed the opposition’s no-confidence motion against his government is the result of a “foreign…
