SRK’s production ‘Darlings’, starring Alia Bhatt, to go on floors

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SRK’s production ‘Darlings’, starring Alia Bhatt, to go on floors

The Shah Rukh Khan production Darlings, starring Alia Bhatt, is set to go on floors soon. The makers plan to release the film later this year, it was revealed on Monday. An official announcement on the project will be made soon.

Darlings is pitched as a quirky story about a mother-daughter duo. While Alia plays the daughter, actress Shefali Shah is cast as the mother. Other actors on board are Vijay Varma and Roshan Mathew.

“The film is set in Mumbai against the backdrop of a middle-class family and traces the lives of two women, as they find courage and love in exceptional circumstances. In fact, the movie is gearing up for a release this year itself. The pre-production work is going on full swing, and the team is all ready to take it on floors very soon in Mumbai,” a source reveals.

The film, directed by Jasmeet K. Reen, will be officially announced soon.

“An official announcement is expected this week and, according to the source, Darlings will go on the floors as early as the first quarter of 2021,” says the source.

This is the second time Alia and Shah Rukh have collaborated. They worked together in Gauri Shinde’s 2016 film Dear Zindagi, though as co-stars.

Besides Darlings, Shah Rukh is also backing Love Hostel featuring Bobby Deol, Vikrant Massey, and Sanya Malhotra. The film is all set to go on floors. He also produces Bob Biswas starring Abhishek Bachchan. The project is in the post-production stage and gearing up for a Summer 2021 opening.

SRK is also currently busy shooting for his next starrer, Pathan. The film will mark his return to screen for the first time since his 2018 release Zero.

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Abhishek Banerjee on why it took so long to get noticed

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Abhishek Banerjee on why it took so long to get noticed

Abhishek Banerjee has been in the Hindi film industry for over a decade. He was impressive in films such as No One Killed Jessica, Phillauri, and Ajji among others, but it has only been in the past few years that he started getting noticed in mainstream Bollywood, with roles in films like Stree, Dream Girl, and Bala, and his act as Hathoda Tyagi in the web series Palatal Lok.

Talking about why it took him so long to get noticed, Abhishek told IANS: “I think there can be many factors, but it is all assumptions because I don’t have a clear answer to that. If you ask me it has been five years since I have felt like a camera actor. I actually rather looked at the outside of the industry, I looked inside.”

The actor, who has worked with several big directors as a casting director in the past, said that he looked at what was not working for him as a performer.

“I looked at what was not working for me as an actor because of course, I was close to the directors I was working with. I knew a lot of people and if still, I was not getting cast in a good role that meant that people lacked trust in me as an actor and performer. So, first I had to work towards that and then there were few people like Devashish Makhija, Amar Kaushik, and Karnesh Sharma (who cast me),” he said.

“These guys showed a lot of faith. Why am I taking their name is not because of Pataal Lok or Stree. (Bala and Stree director) Amar Kaushik has seen me since No One Killed Jessica and he had cast me in Go Goa Gone. When no one was casting me these guys were already casting me. Karnesh Sharma cast me in Phillauri. Those guys showed trust. So, chances were given and in those changes, you had to work hard, and then it happened,” said Abhishek.

“Also, I am talking like a casting director because this goes for all the actors. Even (Scam 1992 lead actor) Pratik Gandhi and Jaideep Ahlawat, it is not that they have started working today. I took Jaideep’s audition 11 or 12 years ago when we had just passed out from the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII),” he recalled.

“There are a lot of actors who are already in Bombay, are good but gaining that trust of directors takes time and they also slowly have to prove themselves with every role,” Abhishek summed up.

Shilpa Shetty gets greatest gift from daughter

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Shilpa Shetty gets greatest gift from daughter

Shilpa Shetty Kundra’s daughter Samiksha turned one on Monday. The actress said hearing the word Mumma from the childs mouth was the greatest gift she could have imagined.

Shilpa posted a video collage on Instagram on Monday morning. The clip features Samisha crawling, playing around, and posing for the camera alongside her parents and brother Viaan.

Alongside the video, Shilpa wrote: “Mumma’ — hearing you say this, as you turn one today is the greatest gift I could ever get. From dolling you up in your umpteen bows to your first tooth, your first words, your first smile to your first crawl… every milestone is special & reason to celebrate you every day…

“Happy first birthday to you our Angel, every day in this past year has brought tons of love, happiness, and light into our lives. We all love and adore you so much. I pray that you are blessed with abundance always @rajkundra9.”

Shilpa and her businessman husband Raj Kundra had announced the arrival of her second child, a daughter, born via surrogacy, last February.

The actress had then said that Samisha was born on February 15. Shilpa and Raj also have a son, Viaan, who was born in May 2012.

The Second Shooting Schedule Of Mahesh Babu’s Sarkaru Vaari Paata with Keerthy Suresh.

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The Second Shooting Schedule Of Mahesh Babu’s Sarkaru Vaari Paata with Keerthy Suresh.

Superstar Mahesh Babu is coming with the new movie titled Sarkaru Vaari Paata in Tollywood.

In the Sarkaru Vaari Paata movie, Keerthy Suresh as the leading lady, and the film is directed by Parasuram.

The audience is much waited to see the first-time collaboration between Superstar Mahesh Babu and National Award-winning actress Keerthy Suresh.

Sarkaru Vaari Paata movie team is set to begin the second schedule. The second shooting schedule will do place in Goa.

As she headed to the second schedule of Sarkaru Vaari Paata, Keerthy Suresh Shared a picture on Instagram.

Josephine Jobert wants to be a Bond girl

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Josephine Jobert wants to be a Bond girl

French actress Josephine Jobert, cousin of Hollywood star Eva Green, says she wants to play a Bond girl. Green had notably appeared as James Bonds’s love interest Vesper Lynd in the 2006 global hit Casino Royale.

“I’d love it. It’s so funny, and I’m not making this up, I receive so many messages from people and fans who say to me, ‘you should be the next Bond girl’,” Jobert said.

“It’s something that happens pretty often and I screenshot every single message. I have to keep them in case I meet the casting director and I can say, ‘look at this!'” she said.

Jobert is currently penning a film she hopes will take Hollywood by storm.

“I’m writing something with my mother, a movie blockbuster. We’re dreaming big. We’re going to keep writing together and we’ll see,” she said.

Jobert said she almost gave up on her dreams when she was younger after negative comments from a modeling agent, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

“I actually wanted to be a model when I was younger. My mum took me to a modeling agency and the woman there was a bit rude. She said I wasn’t photogenic and I’d never been able to be on stage,” she told HELLO! Magazine.

Matthew Lewis can fall into extreme bouts of laziness

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Matthew Lewis can fall into extreme bouts of laziness

Actor Matthew Lewis, who gained popularity playing Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter franchise says he struggles to find his on the switch at times.

Asked if he has an off switch, he replied: “Yeah, I think I struggle to find mine on the switch! I can fall into extreme bouts of laziness, which can be very difficult to get out of! Everyone starts a new year with resolutions … I’m the opposite. I start really sluggishly,” reports femalefirst.co.uk.

The actor currently stays in the US, but he went back home to the UK over the Christmas period to surprise his parents. He wanted to spend time with them, despite the pandemic.

He told Total Film magazine: “If I say I’m going to do something, I will follow through and do it. I made a choice to surprise my parents for Christmas. They’ve been shielding the whole year since all this started, and they’re in their old age. They’ve barely even left the house. And we formulated this plan back in the summer that we’d try and pop over (from the US) and see them.

Lewis added: “We managed to make it work. We followed through. We made their Christmas and New Year. My mum screamed so loud, I thought she was gonna bring the house down.”

The actor had earlier shared that he finds it “painful” re-watching the ‘Harry Potter’ movies.

“I find it quite difficult when too much of me starts to come through in a character. It’s easier when I can play someone completely different. Like a police officer in London or someone who’s wealthy. At times it’s painful how much of me there is in Neville. When I’m watching, I’m like, aThata¿s not Neville; that’s you.'”

Sonam shares loved-up post for ‘amazing husband’ Anand

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Sonam shares loved-up post for ‘amazing husband’ Anand

Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor Ahuja, who has wrapped up shooting for “Blind”, has shared a romance filled post for her husband Anand Ahuja and thanked him for spending several weeks in Glasgow while she was shooting for her upcoming film.

Sonam shared a motley of pictures and clips on Instagram on Sunday. In one video, Sonam is seen stealing a kiss from Anand while they were on a train.

She wrote alongside the image: “Thanks to my amazing husband who spent 5 out of the 6 weeks with me in Glasgow… It was amazing coming back to him after shoot every day… It would have been so much easier for him to work from home in London, but he was here with me as the most supportive encouraging, and generous partner…

“Thank you @anandahuja. I appreciate you and I’ll never take you for granted.. love you… #blind #gia,” Sonam added.

Anand took to the comment section and wrote: “What are these photos and videos you crazoooooo. Congratulations! Happy to be here with you and see you in some SERIOUS action!”

Sonam will be seen in the role of a visually-handicapped person in the upcoming thriller, produced by Sujoy Ghosh.

The action-thriller revolves around a blind police officer who is in search of a serial killer. The cast also features Vinay Pathak, Purab Kohli, and Lilette Dubey.

The film is based on a South-Korean film of the same name that was released in 2011.

Arjun Kapoor decodes bromance with Ranveer Singh in ‘Gunday’

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Arjun Kapoor decodes bromance with Ranveer Singh in ‘Gunday’

Arjun Kapoor says bonding with Ranveer Singh was very simple and credits their film Gunday for their friendship. Sunday, also featuring Irrfan Khan and Priyanka Chopra, released on February 14 in 2014.

“I think it was the off-camera love and respect we had for each other because we realized how much we have in common. In fact we are born just 10 days apart from each other! It was much simpler for us to bond than we realized and you let go of being actors when you are starting out,” said Arjun.

“At that stage in your life, you are not thinking about your career and rivalry. You are just trying to make the best film possible and have the most fun. Ranveer and I also knew each other before the film so it made it a little simpler to break the ice onset,” he added.

“Credit to (director) Ali (Abbas Zafar) for writing a film that allowed us to be best friends. He was a big factor for me and Ranveer to come so close. It just happened, it was just the flow. It’s like chalk and cheese even though we are poles apart we still manage to fit together. It’s like sugar and spice, they are opposites but they both sound good together,” said Arjun.

“We were two people who were completely different but we just ended up getting along and working well together. People sort of realized it when they saw the trailer, where both of us looked good together as a unit but I think we realized it while filming itself that this relationship is something special,” he said.

Looking back at the film’s release, Arjun said: “At the time I was starting my career, I was hardly six months old in the business and Adi sir offered me a film that was a two-hero ensemble, a big commercial set-up. When I met Ali, I loved his energy and his excitement towards treating it as a larger than life adventure.”

About the film, he added: “It was like a throwback and a tribute to the 1970s and 1980s cinema that even I grew up watching. The Mukul Anand, Subhash Ghai space of cinema, and at the same time a film about brotherhood and gangsters. When you are a young actor starting out, these are all trappings that you love exploring and doing in mainstream cinema. You want to establish yourself at the beginning. You want to do mainstream stuff with a sense of heightened reality and that’s what Gunday was actually. I got really excited about doing something so front-footed and mainstream,” he said.

Big screen vs OTT: Is shortening the release window key to coexistence?

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Big screen vs OTT: Is shortening the release window key to coexistence?

The idea of simultaneously releasing films in theatres and on OTT platforms caught the world by surprise, but there seems to be an alternative to the model that is brewing in India, which is shortening the gap between theatrical release and OTT release.

The trend came to notice first when the Tamil film “Master”, starring Vijay and Vijay Sethupathy, dropped digitally within days of release in January.

“Can foresee the fight of windowing b/w cinemas & OTT by reducing the gap time period. Like #WarnerBros releases in the US simultaneous with @hbomax many #Hindi films too may try the same, South has already reduced the time gap unknowingly. Time to retrospect, Pan India Industry norm is need of the hour,” trade expert Girish Johar tweeted at that time.

In fact, the Tamil film “Aelay”, featuring Samuthirakani, Manikandan, and Mathumathi, found itself in trouble when theatre owners got to know of the producer’s plan to release the film on OTT within a short time from release. Now, the film will have a direct television premiere.

Rajender Singh Jayla, Chief Programming Officer, INOX Leisure Ltd said: “These are extremely unusual times for the industry, as few stakeholders have deviated from the age-old and globally prevalent theatrical windowing system due to the prolonged closure of cinemas.”

“Any movie, which skips a theatrical release, impacts the commercial value chain in a substantial manner, from its overall collections perspective. We are confident that once we return to normalcy with all states allowing cinema operations and full capacity seating, producers will continue to follow the usual windowing pattern,” he added.

Asked how theatres and streaming platforms can coexist, Siddharth Anand Kumar, Vice President, Films and Events at Saregama India Ltd, told IANS: “OTT platforms have definitely created a healthy disruption in the content creation space. Now we can see strong, edgy, gritty narratives aimed at engaging specific target groups. The overdependence on star-driven vehicles is also waning.”

“Thematically, too, there is a lot more diversity in the content ecosystem. OTT budgets are getting bigger, the canvas is expanding and even the so-called ‘smaller’ films have something that sets them apart. OTT platforms, frankly, have negligible space for mediocrity,” Kumar shared.

“The audience is growing increasingly discerning and can opt-out of a weak narrative with the click of the remote, so to offer them anything below par is self-defeating. Today, quality matters, be it in a series, a film, or a stage play. Big budget films lend themselves naturally to the big screen and yes, there will always be an audience for lavish blockbusters. Eventually though, good content will have the last word on the big and small screen,” he concluded.

Amitabh Bachchan relishes nimbu paani on MayDay set

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Amitabh Bachchan relishes nimbu paani on MayDay set

Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan on Saturday shared a photo of himself enjoying a glass of nimbu paani on the sets of his forthcoming film MayDay. The veteran actor looks dapper in leather jacket and a pair of shades.

“Neebu paani dhoop mein, Chashma jacket shoot mein; Kahan hai ye aur kaun si hai pata chale kuch der mein!” tweeted Big B.

MayDay, co-starring and directed by Ajay Devgn, is currently being shot outdoors, although Big B did not reveal the location of the shoot.

Fans of the actor flooded the comments section of his tweet with adjectives like gorgeous, amazing, dashing, super cool, and killer looks.

MayDay is pitched as an edge-of-the-seat drama that reunites Big B and Ajay Devgn, who have worked together in Major Sahab, Khakee, Satyagraha, and Hindustan Ki Kasam. The film also has Rakul Preet Singh in the cast.

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