Rashami Desai: I have changed as a person after ‘Bigg Boss’

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Rashami Desai: I have changed as a person after ‘Bigg Boss’

Television actress Rashami Desai, who gained immense popularity after participating in the reality show “Bigg Boss 13” in 2019, says she has changed as a person after the show.

“Life has not changed after ‘Bigg Boss’. I have changed as a person, but for good. I’m more content and happier with myself. I’ve understood about self love. I’ve realised that I’m a person who loves people around her. I enjoyed a lot being on the show,” Rashami told IANS.

The actress made her digital debut with the latest web series “Tandoor”.

Revealing details of her character in the series, Rashami said: “The name of my character is Palak who is an independent, fearless and strong minded woman. Since college only they knew each other and apparently the guy was in love with her and then she fell in love with him.”

“There are situations in the story and it is difficult to decide who is right and who is wrong. At the end some will feel it’s the wife, some will feel it is the husband, while some will feel the main culprit is somebody else!” the actress informed, leaving viewers in suspense.

Opening up on what inspired the series, the actress shared: “The story is of the time when I was a child. At that time I didn’t even know what is tandoor. It is about the Tandoor kaand but there have been changes in the story. It’s very beautifully directed by Nivedita (Basu) and the co-actors were really good.”

How was the experience of working with her co-star Tanuj Virwani?

“He is amazing! More than the acting, his detailing work is so good. Every character that he is doing, he works in details for them. Every scene has come out beautifully, when there is love, that is hate, there is anger, everything is looking very real. He has learnt a little bit of direction also, so his point of view is always interesting! I have learnt a lot of things from him technically also,” replied the actress.

Taking part in a dark and intense story like “Tandoor”, did leave an impact on her mentally, admits Rashami.

“When we were shooting the gunshot scene, I didn’t speak to anybody after that for two days because I kept thinking about her. The mentality becomes very different when you are playing somebody else and you are not like that. It was very disturbing that you love somebody so much and then that someone will shoot you!” she said.

With Rashami venturing into the digital space after gaining popularity on television, any plans of trying luck in Bollywood?

“I will. I had an opportunity before also but I had my commitments. When I am committed to something, I am very much dedicated. I’m not saying no to it, nobody will say no. It depends on the subject and the director,” she said.

Helmed by Nivedita Basu, “Tandoor” streams on Ullu App.

Pawan Kalyan, Rana’s film to release on Sankranthi

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Pawan Kalyan, Rana’s film to release on Sankranthi

Actor Pawan Kalyan and Rana Daggubati’s upcoming untitled venture has been locked for a Makar Sankranthi release in 2022. The film is tentatively titled as “PSPK Rana Movie”.

In the film, Pawan will be seen playing the role of a cop named Bheemla Nayak. The makers had revealed the first look of his character on Monday.

The announcement was made through the film’s official PR Twitter handle. The caption read: “Bheemla Nayak Reporting This Sankranthi”.

They also revealed a fun making video of the film.

The film’s team resumed the shoot in a police station set in an aluminium factory here on Monday.

The film is being directed by Saagar K. Chandra and produced by Naga Vamsi under Sithara Entertainments. Billed as an action thriller, Trivikram Srinivas has worked on the dialogues for the film that will have music by Thaman.

Pawan Kalyan, Rana's film to release on Sankranthi

Kunal Jaisingh: Important to look good, stay fit for an actor

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Kunal Jaisingh: Important to look good, stay fit for an actor

Kunal Jaisingh, who was last seen playing a negative character on the show ‘Kyun Utthe Dil Chhod Aaye’, says it is important for actors to look good and stay fit.

He says: “It is important to look good and stay fit for an actor to have ample work in their kitty. Acting brings in such responsibility, apart from your skills you need to win hearts and impress the audience with your looks too.”

Kunal says experimenting with looks helps in not getting boxed and this is the reason why he keeps exploring new looks with different hairstyles and beard.

The actor adds: “It is fun for me to experiment with my looks by changing hairstyles to flaunting beards in different styles. I always enjoy it.”

“With a new look an actor gets assured that he will not be offered similar kinds of roles. Every time with the new look you can step in auditioning for a new character.”

For Kunal, fitness is of utmost importance.

The 31-year-old actor shared: “I didn’t spend long hours in the gym. I workout for a limited time so that I can stay in good shape. Apart from that I enjoy going for a walk and practicing yoga.”

Kunal, who started his career with ‘Mann Kee Awaaz Pratigya’, says it is important to remain fit as certain times there are long working hours and you have to be active all the time.

He said: “An actor needs to stay fit because you never know how long you need to shoot or what the track demands, fight or dance. A fit actor can be active and perform anytime.”

Sonu Sood: Small businesses are the basic backbone of our country

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Sonu Sood: Small businesses are the basic backbone of our country

For the past few weeks, actor and social worker Sonu Sood has been actively campaigning on social media with the hashtag #supportsmallbusiness.

Sharing videos where he can be seen playing a bread and eggs seller on bicycle, a milkman or a ‘dhaba’ owner making ‘rotis’, the actor has been urging people to support local businesses as he feels they are the basic backbone of our country.

Talking about the same, Sonu told in an interview: “Small businesses are the basic backbone of our country. I have always tried to promote small businesses as they need support. Many small businesses are unable to sustain their daily livelihood. I try and help them out whenever I get to see someone put in their hard work and trying to make an honest day’s living out of it.”

“I come from a very small town and I know how hard these people work in order to make their small businesses successful. By pushing them forward, we can help the nation’s economy, as these small businesses are grassroot-level companies and work out of the rural heartlands of the country. So it always feels good to help them out,” he added.

On the work front, the actor will feature in upcoming projects like the Hindi historical drama film “Prithviraj” and the Telugu action drama “Acharya”.

Urvashi Rautela: I have learned Tamil fluently

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Urvashi Rautela: I have learned Tamil fluently

Actress Urvashi Rautela is leaving no stones unturned for her Tamil debut film. She says she has even learned the language and shared that the yet-untitled movie will always hold a special place in her heart.

Urvashi on Monday had shared a glimpse from the shoot of her upcoming film on Instagram, where she could be seen coming out of a luxury yellow coloured sports car.

Urvashi told IANS: “This film is very special to me as it’s my Tamil debut film which is also multilingual and it’s going to be releasing in all the major languages like Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Hindi and Kannada.”

Talking about her character, Urvashi said that she will be seen essaying the role of a microbiologist.

“Additionally, I also appear in the film as an IITIAN and Microbiologist conducting a study. I am totally excited about this second schedule because this is the first time I have properly shot it in Chennai after the first schedule occurred in Himachal Pradesh,” the 27-year-old actress said.

She added: “The directors Jerald Arockiam and Joseph D sami with whom I am currently working with are truly special to me as they have supported me throughout. They have also worked with Amitabh Bachchan and Ajit Kumar.”

She calls the yet-untitled film as a “perfect launchpad” for her in Tamil Cinema.

“Furthermore, I have learned Tamil fluently and continue to practice it. Throughout my life, this film will always hold a special place in my heart,” she concluded.

Pooja Hegde: With every industry, reason of nervousness changes

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Pooja Hegde: With every industry, reason of nervousness changes

Actress Pooja Hegde currently has projects announced and rolling in the Tamil, Telugu and Hindi film industries. The actress says that being part of big budget films and high expectations from fans make her nervous. However, her reasons to feel jittery change with every industry.

In Bollywood, Pooja will be seen alongside superstar Salman Khan in “Kabhi Eid Kabhi Diwali” and with Ranveer Singh in “Cirkus”. In Tollywood, she has “Radhe Shyam” alongside Prabhas and in Tamil, the actress will be seen with Vijay in “Beast”.

Talking to IANS about how she deals with these expectations which come with taking big leaps with her choice of films, the actress says: “Does it make me nervous? Yes. I think with every industry my reason of nervousness changes. With Telugu now, with ‘Radhe Shyam’, my role is fantastic. There is a lot of scope for me. So, with Telugu I want to know how the audience thinks I perform. So, my nervousness is that I give my heart and soul into my performance for this film.”

The actress, who made her film debut with Tamil film “Mugamoodi” (2012), eventually went on to give many blockbusters in Telugu films too. She made her Hindi debut with director Ashutosh Gowariker’s “Mohenjo Daro”.

Further elaborating on what kind of nervousness she feels with Hindi and Tamil industry, Pooja says: “With ‘Cirkus’ and ‘Kabhie Eid Kabhi Diwali’, I feel that I have so much to show to the Hindi audience of who I am and that is something, which is making me nervous. With Tamil, the nervousness if very different because it’s a new market for me and now I am going back after many years. So, the nervousness is different.”

She also feels that coming from a non-filmy background affects how she looks at every film.

“When you come from a non-filmy background, the whole thing is whatever film you have, becomes like a golden treasure. It’s like you have found treasure and you need to make the most of the role you have been given in the film and hope that it helps you in capturing people’s attention. Unfortunately, I am a classic example of an over thinker but I think nervous energy is good,” shares the actress.

From Allu Arjun, Mahesh Babu, Akshay Kumar to now Salman Khan and Vijay, Pooja has worked with the most bankable actor in the film industries across India.

Does having popular co-stars affect her craft?

“I think it would affect my craft because a lot of acting is reacting. So, when they bring in their years of experience, it kind of helps me understand my craft more, it helps me may be perform better,” she says.

“It’s also about learning other things, which are not directly related to acting like tips about the way they lead their lives. For me, it’s always about learning something new, besides acting also. So, it’s always been a mix of everything and it has made me a better actor for sure.”

Mena Suvari on ‘miraculous’ experience of becoming mother

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Mena Suvari on ‘miraculous’ experience of becoming mother

Actress Mena Suvari, who is known for portraying the character of Heather in the “American Pie” franchise, welcomed her first born, a son named Christopher Alexander with husband Michael Hope in April. She says that becoming a mother was “wonderful and it’s everything miraculous you can think of.”

“But it’s been challenging for me too because I personally never felt like I had that type of mother figure. So I don’t know how to be that one, and I worry over it a lot. Also this is a big process for me in accepting that something so beautiful had happened for me,” Suvari said, reports people.com.

The 42-year-old actress added: “It’s like the universe’s next challenge for me. It’s now my biggest lesson because it’s interesting when you experience a lot of trauma you can become very controlling because you can establish that behaviour to feel safe. Well, having a baby, all that control just goes right out the window.”

Suvari says she is trying to connect with her newborn baby “each and every moment.”

She said: “It’s sort of like the way that my life had been going with lessons sprinkled. Now, it’s just like 24/7 lessons! Like, ‘Okay, I’m learning. I can do this. I’m good enough.’ It’s literally triggering all my stuff, but I try to use it, and I know it can make me better. I try to in each and every moment just connect with him.”

In her new book titled, “The Great Peace: A Memoir, Suvari talks about past trauma, revealing that between the ages of 12 and 20 she was the victim of repeated sexual abuse. Suvari escaped into the rave scene, clubbing and eventually hard drugs to numb the pain she shares in the memoir.

Now, Suvari said that her focus is solely on raising him.

“I look for myself in him and I just want to do him justice. Another thing that’s happened too is that I don’t have time anymore to feel bad for myself. It’s a beautiful gift, having my son, because I don’t have the time to do that anymore,” she said.

The actress said that it is not about her anymore.

She added: “I’m always looking for the ways I can grow and learn. I’m looking for the ways that I can learn through him.”

Suvari also shared that it’s not lost on her that she once thought motherhood wasn’t going to be in her future.

Shakira wants her children to have normal childhood

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Shakira wants her children to have normal childhood

Singer Shakira says she is trying to give her children a normal childhood and that she avoids playing her own music.

The “Waka waka” singer has two sons, Milan, eight, and Sasha, six, with her partner and football star Gerard Pique.

“I don’t make (my kids) listen to my music. I try to avoid playing my own music in my house. I try to give them as much normalcy as I can,” Shakira told ET Canada, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

The 44-year-old singer says she cannot deny the fact that she is a “public person”.

She added: “I can’t deny they can’t escape the reality that I’m a public person, as well as their dad. But we try to provide as much normalcy as we can, and live really as very simple people.”

Shakira had recently written a powerful essay about child separation to shine a light on the children who have been separated from their parents and detained at the US border.

She wrote: “I am the daughter of a New Yorker who was born to Lebanese immigrants amidst the great economic depression of the 1930s, immigrants who, thanks to their entry into the US, were able to build a solid foundation for themselves and their family before they finally settled in Colombia, where I was born and grew up.

“Colombia is one of the most beautiful and diverse countries in the world but rife with inequality and lack of social mobility. America, in contrast, seemed to me a place that was always held up as a paragon of equal opportunity and limitless aspirations, where anyone could succeed.

“How, then, could a nation built on the shoulders of immigrants, one that purports to hold family values in such high regard, have such unimaginably cruel immigration policies?

“What rationale could justify separating children from their families, with no intention of ever reuniting them, when the US has prided itself on being a beacon of hope for those who come from places where not even basic needs or safety are a guarantee?”

Pawan Kalyan, Rana resume shooting for their next film

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Pawan Kalyan, Rana resume shooting for their next film

Telugu stars Pawan Kalyan and Rana Daggubati again started the shooting of their film, tentatively titled “PSPK Rana”, here on Monday.

The shooting of the multi-starrer film, which is being directed by Saagar K. Chandra, had stopped due to the lockdown in Telangana.

According to the production team, the shoot of the film resumed in the Aluminium Factory here in Hyderabad. Both the actors will be part of this shoot’s schedule.

In the film, Pawan will be seen playing a police officer called Bheemla Nayak. His first look was shared by the production house on Monday through their official Twitter handle.

Produced by Naga Vamsi, the film is the official remake of Malayalam blockbuster film “Ayyapanum Koshiyum” and will be an action thriller. The film’s dialogues are done by Trivikram Srinivas and music is given by S.S. Thaman.

Besides this, Rana is also waiting for the release of his film, “Virata Parvam”, which also stars Sai Pallavi in the lead role. The film is directed by Venu Udugula. Rana had recently hinted at his next project by putting a picture of his bulging biceps on social media. While an official announcement is awaited, it is known to be a pan-Indian action entertainer.

Aastha Gill opens up on her fear of insects

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Aastha Gill opens up on her fear of insects

Singer Aastha Gill, who has taken part in the latest season of the reality show “Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi”, says she is scared of insects in real life!

Opening up on her fear, Aastha shared: “I’m really scared of insects. That’s my biggest fear to face!”

Quizzed what is the most daring stunt she has ever performed in real life, the singer replied: “Not really performed any stunt before but I have done adventure sports like Bunjee Jumping, Skiing and it was fun!”

Sharing her experience of being a part of season 11 of the stunts-based reality show, the singer added: “It is my television debut and Khatron Ke Khiladi has been one of my favourite shows when I was young. When I got this opportunity in the beginning, I was wondering if I would be able to do it but I also felt that I need some adventure in life. I think it is one of the best decisions of my life.”

On the work front, Aastha is currently high on the success of her latest single “Paani paani”, for which she has collaborated with rapper Badshah.

Talking about the same, she said: “It feels on top of the world and it’s lovely to see so many reels and dance covers on the song. I’m so excited and overwhelmed with all the love. Honestly, I had anticipated it to be a grand song right from the beginning. It can fall nothing short of when there is Jacqueline (Fernandez) and Badshah Bhai. We had thoroughly enjoyed ourselves while working on this project and we were confident that the audience would enjoy it.”

Opening up on her experience of working with Badshah once again, the singer said: “My experience with Badshah bhai has always been incredible. He is like family to me and when we work on a project, it is more like a family working together. Badshah bhai has always been very kind and guides me. It is such a chill vibe working with him. I would like to do more million songs with him!”

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