Senior actor Firdous Jamal recently appeared on Ahmad Ali Butt’s chat show, Super Over. On the show, the veteran performer slammed superstars Humayun Saeed and Faysal Qureshi’s acting skills.
While he scored Faysal’s acting as 4/10, he had much more to say about Humayun’s acting chops. Jamal said, “Humayun Saeed has no voice, no character, and nothing like that.” He also said that there are still fools who think he’s a talented actor. “
Amidst the ongoing interview, Zarnish Khan condemned his statements and shared her own experience with the actor. “He cracks me up with his weird issues with things and people, (No offense intended). So long time ago, we were doing a project together and out of respect I said “AOA Firdous uncle, how are you?” and he got pissed ke BB Mainy showbiz industry is lye join nahi ki thi ke log mujhai kabhi uncle bolain. I was like ummmm! Okay then, AOA FIRDOUS SAHAB, “if that works for you.” Uncle or no uncle, he could have been polite. Never mind!”
Khaby Lame, the creator with the most followers on TikTok, has disclosed the astounding amount of money he can earn from advertisers with just one post on the platform.
Khaby Lame became TikTok’s most popular creator in June with 142.8 million followers to his name – a number that has now increased to a whopping 149.5 million.
In an exclusive with Fortune, Lame’s manager, Alessandro Riggio, has now revealed that the 22-year-old is on his way to earning $10 million this year, thanks to his TikTok fame and subsequent endorsement deals.
Documents reviewed by Fortune also revealed that he earned $750,000 from a major Hollywood studio for one TikTok video.
Most of Lame’s income comes from brand deals in the form of online content. On average, it’s estimated he makes around $400,000 per TikTok clip he creates for any given
The TikToker’s fame has landed him among the stars — literally — meeting the likes of rapper Snoop Dogg, actor Idris Elba, and singer Jason Derulo. In fact, he’s even scored him a collection with Hugo Boss, and the company also paid him a mint — to the tune of $450,000 — to walk in their Milan fashion week show and post online. Additionally, according to a contract reviewed by Fortune, he was also paid $750,000 by a major Hollywood studio for a single TikTok.
After the success of Brahmastra, starring Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor in lead roles, fans are eagerly awaiting to know who will star in the next edition of this mega-blockbuster. Director Ayan Mukherji has started prepping for its part two with Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh as Jalastra and Dev.
For the unversed, the first film of the planned fantasy trilogy, Brahmastra – Part One: Shiva, was released on September 9.
Breaking the silence over the much-speculated star cast of the second film of the planned trilogy, journalist Anupama Chopra, on Film Companion, said “I hope that the learnings of this film (Brahmastra Part One) enable them (the makers) to make a kickass part two with of course Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone.”
Recently, after the release of the film Brahmastra, the director of the film, Ayan Mukerji told The Times of India that they will “plan the shooting of the second and third parts”. He added by saying that “the trilogy will tell the same story, but that each film would introduce new characters and add various perspectives to the overall narrative.”
Senior actor Firdous Jamal recently appeared on Ahmad Ali Butt’s chat show, Super Over. Firdous was asked to mark the acting skills of present-day superstars such as Humayun Saeed, Faysal Qureshi, Nauman Ijaaz, and Aijaz Aslam.
The Pyaray Afzal star marked Faysal Qureshi’s acting skills as four out of ten.
Jamal gave the same score to Aijaz Aslam.
He also mentioned that Naumaan is a five or six on ten.
As for the Mere Paas Tum Ho star, “Humayun Saeed has no acting skills, no voice, no character, no body language,” he said. “There are still people being fooled by the idea that he is doing good acting.”
The veteran actor added, “I don’t say anything to anybody on the basis of personal grudges, I talk on the technical grounds, I don’t watch their work as a normal viewer because I am an artist.”
Last year, Jamal slammed Imran Ashraf performance as Bhola from Ranjha Ranjha Kardi, Firdous Jamal responded, “Imran’s performance wasn’t a spontaneous one. In fact, it was pretension. He was acting and not behaving. Such roles have been performed in the past as well but unfortunately, you haven’t seen those precious acts. I don’t want to criticize any individual here, but sadly, acting is becoming a fashion these days.”
A video of senior actor Resham surfaced online that saw her throwing meat and bread from the top of a bridge overlooking a large water body to feed the marine life.
The clip immediately went viral because along with food for the fishes, the Jeeva star threw in polythene bags, wrappers and plastic utensils as well.
Netizens trolled Resham for her act. While the clip was temporarily removed from various platforms, Resham offered a justification for her actions.
In response to the flak that she’s garnered on Twitter, among other social media apps, Resham, on Tuesday, contested that there were more alarming issues to worry about. “I admit to having made a mistake by dumping plastic into the flood water but women are gang raped everyday,” The Friday Times quoted her as saying.
“Violence against women is commonplace, yet, everyone’s blinded by a piece of plastic. They are dwelling in a fool’s paradise. I was merely offering sadqah (charity),” she went on. While presenting her “unconditional apology,” she also blamed Covid-19 for having clouded her judgement. “I tested positive for Corona twice and I happen to be absent-minded because of that.”
The Naagin diva revealed that she lost her only brother some time ago too, and so, she’s been struggling with mental health issues. The celebrity, however, asked why her lapse in judgement was causing such a ruckus when clearly, untreated waste is dumped into the sea on a daily basis and industrialists are not held accountable for it. “Why am I getting this special treatment for something I did out of absent-mindedness?” she probed.
“I am in Charsadda as we speak. I have been quietly helping thousands affected in the calamity-hit district. But of course, people are only interested in trolling me. I do a lot of good too,” she pointed out. “I have an enviable, 600,000 people following me just on Facebook. That’s more than enough publicity for me. I feed hundreds. A great deal of what I make is spent on this but people will only comment on that video,” Resham noted.
The Naagin star has been trending on Twitter with numerous users sharing her clip and calling her out for dumping plastic into flood water, that too, on camera, despite being a public figure, and an educated one at that. From asking officials to charge her for this “criminal offence” to schooling her about the irreparable consequences of her “kindness,” people have been flooding to the micro-blogging site to bring attention to her “good deed.”
Several celebrities condemned throwing groceries and plastic shoppers, trays into a river, irrespective of the “pure” the intentions.
Meesha tweeted, “Distributing aid on camera to victims of horrific floods caused by giant climate change calamity right after throwing groceries and plastic shoppers, trays into a river (also on camera).” Armeen wrote, “Don’t throw plastic into rivers and oceans folks. For the record, the road to hell is also paved with good intentions.”
Activist Shaniera Akram shared the viral clip on her Instagram stories and asked, “And who throws meat and plastic containers into the flood affected river, [that too], on camera?” Users said the video “boiled their blood” and that they expect better from “educated” and “influential” members of society.
Actor Zara Noor Abbas opened up about her traumatic experience with her miscarriage and her subsequent state of mental health in a recent interview. She also shared valuable advice for expecting mothers so they are better prepared.
On Sunday, she shared a clip from a podcast with Frieha Altaf and wrote, “It’s always a task to talk about what you have lost forever. But after so much discussion and a few months later, I could finally talk my heart out with my beautiful and compassionate friend, Frieha Altaf, and share my experience of the healthcare system, the negligence, the aftermath of trauma, and how women clap so little for themselves and don’t know how brave and strong they are when it comes to resilience.”
“I hope I can gain some hope from women who have been through the same or maybe worse and together we can create awareness and have support groups for everyone to share their story,” she added.
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Frieha addressed the matter by saying there of every 1,000 births, at least 53 stillborn. She encouraged the Badhshah Begum actor to talk about her experience.
“Looking at it now, it is a lot of support from the family, very less [from] friends, I think one or two, maybe four. It has to do a lot with my family. Asad, of course, because he was his child also,” she started, discussing her support system during the time. “When you have a child together, it makes your bond extremely beautiful but when you lose a child together, it makes your bond extremely beautiful also. I think me and Asad have seen the worst now, we ask, ‘What else will we see? Okay, it’s God’s will.’ Everything for me and Asad ends at whatever God wills because whatever is His will is His will. Yes, there’s an extreme sense of loss and I think I’m still grieving.”
Altaf directed the conversation towards guilt that mothers sometimes have in the aftermath of such a loss. Abbas admitted that she did suffer those feelings too. “I did at a point. I thought maybe I didn’t eat right, maybe I didn’t make myself strong enough, maybe I should have lost more weight before conceiving, become thinner, maybe I should have had an intake of vitamins, maybe I should’ve taken folic acid. But all of that is a ‘maybe’. God gives a child to even those who aren’t physically stable. He gives to those He wants to give to and takes from those He wants to take from.”
The Ehd-e-Wafa actor said her parents consoled her with the thought that it is probably what was best for the future of the child and the parents. “When it happened, my father and everybody kept saying, ‘Who knows? Maybe he wouldn’t have been able to do things that normal children can do. Then what would we do? It’s our kid, we can’t do anything, we have to keep him.’ This is for a better future, for us, for him. I am 120 per cent sure about it.”
She stressed on the importance of timing and taking care of your mental health as much as your physical health. “What I think women should know more about is that you can have a short cervix, you can have missing amniotic fluid in your system, you can have a weak uterus but all of these things you’ll never know before time. That is the beauty and payback of it. Until and unless a woman is pregnant, you cannot figure out these things. And when you’re pregnant, this is a huge miracle so try and take care of yourself mentally and physically as much as you can. Because as important as your physical being is, your mental being is much more important than that. And loss, I think, is a lifelong thing. I am a mother and he was my firstborn.”
Abbas shed light on the hopelessness that may follow such a loss. “One more thing I’d like to add is that loss brings you to a point where you don’t want to do anything again or try anything again or you’re scared of getting attached to people again because you think that this might repeat like before,” she said. “But I think that is the breakeven point where you have to step up and be like no, even if I’m going to fall again, I will not stop trying and I will not give up on what I think will happen. I have to keep on going. This difficult work is what I think life is about because if there’s no movement there’s no constant, hustle — and there’s no life.”
The Zebaish star recounted the process and advised expecting mothers to have their gynecologist’s personal number on hand, to book an appointment beforehand in order to avoid waiting in that fragile state, and have a plan B in case something goes wrong. She explained that she had gone for a regular check-up only for it to transition into the nightmare that premature birthing can become. She said she was in such as traumatic state, she needed someone to make decisions for her because she was unable to process her surroundings. The doctors made her sign papers that shifted the responsibility in case of her death on the table off their shoulders. She wasn’t even aware what she had signed until later.
Earlier this year, her actor-husband Asad Siddiqui talked about losing his child on Gup Shup with FUCHSIA.
“We lost a baby a while ago. It wasn’t a miscarriage; Zara actually delivered a 5-6 months baby, which I buried myself, revealed Asad. We named him Aurangzeb. It was a good time when we got to know that we are going to have a baby but unfortunately, some complications occurred due to which we lost our baby.”
He continued by adding that it was a very difficult time for the family, especially for Zara.
He also told about Zara’s condition saying, she went through many breakdowns, hormonal changes and many more.
He further said that he believes that everything happens with Allah’s will. “Whatever he has written in our fate, we’ll surely get it. You never know, maybe Allah has written something better for us.”
On the work front Asad can recently be seen currently in successful dramas, Sinf e Aahan and Aye Musht-e-Khaak.
TikToker-couple Kanwal Aftab and Zulqarnain Sikandar are grabbing headlines for multiple reasons, be it their very recent baby shower or an unfortunate robbery at their house earlier this month.
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The duo went out to do flood relief work for two days in Sindh and came back home to find their house broken into, and everything from cash to jewelry stolen. Revealing the news through their YouTube channel, they said that everything got stolen, primarily jewelry and cash from their house. Even watchmen were unaware of the theft, they added.
In the vlog, they shared that the police investigation was underway.
Earlier, the couple collected money, made packages and dispatched them to flood-affected areas, not only this, the couple also visited the flood-stricken areas to meet and help the victims there.
Post the robbery tragedy, the couple had their stellar baby shower ceremony in Lahore.
On this auspicious occasion, the couple held a baby shower ceremony (godh bharai) and shared the event’s photos and videos on social media. The clip and photos went viral soon after they uploaded it.
Actor Zhalay Sarhadi has expressed her dismay on a netizen’s crass comment under her latest picture on Instagram. The social media user commented, “Height me lambi ho ap or andar se nangi be ho (you are tall in height and internally nude)”.
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The Carma star was quick to clap back at the netizen’s vulgar comment. Zhalay gave him a shut up call and even schooled him on his mentality.
Recently the Uraan star responded to a fan’s comparison of her with Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra. The Digest Writer diva indulged in a ‘Question and Answer’ session on her official Instagram handle.
Last year also, a netizen quipped her about the similarity with the Baywatch actor.
Pyar Ke Sadqay fame actor Omair Rana intervened to make a correctionon fan’s question.
Bollywood star couple, Richa Chadha and Ali Fazal recently shared updates regarding their wedding preparations. While reporting this news, an Indian journalist Prashant Jain of Navbharat Times tagged singer Ali Zafar instead of the Mirzapur star, Ali Fazal.
Responding to him, Chadha tweeted, “Ali Zafar is a Pakistani singer/actor, who is already married,” along with a thinking face emoji.
Ali Fazal and Richa Chadha are dating since 2015, but made it official in 2017, when the 3 Idiots actor Instagrammed a selfie with Richa Chadha, saying: “Hai toh hai.” Richa Chadha and Ali Fazal, co-stars of Fukrey, also shared screen space in Fukrey Returns. They also had extended cameos in Netflix’s Call My Agent: Bollywood.
During an interview last month with News18, Richa Chadha on being asked about her wedding plans: “We will get married this year. We’re very excited to get married but just worried about Covid and want to be responsible. Don’t want to be in the news for the wrong reasons. Plus, we’ve both gotten really, really busy when stuff opened up, and work resumed at full pace. So I’m saying we have to like do a live production job of taking combination dates and making this happen this year.”
2022’s Emmy Awards, held in Los Angeles, California celebrated the year’s best television shows and performances. Hollywood’s A-listers in slayed in the most stylish formalwear. Sticking to tradition, many stars in attendance adhered to the event’s signature glamorous feel. The designer dresses were heavy on the sequins.
Given the night’s best gowns went all in on sequins and beads, many of the silhouettes were simple and streamlined as a result. Squid Game star Hoyeon Jung’s sequin patchwork, for instance, was done on a no-fuss slip dress; Amanda Seyfried’s lilac sequins came via Armani Privé’s strapless column dress, with a sheer (and barely-there) accent of tulle at the bust. Both allowed for the frocks’ delicious texture to shine. Equally, Lily James’s slinky Versace chainmail dress, and Christina Ricci’s bedazzled Fendi Couture slip dress, were formfitting—and all about accentuating the shape.
It wasn’t all razzle-dazzle, though. A few celebrities opted for more of a pared-back elegance. Zendaya, in custom Valentino, embraced old Hollywood with her strapless, full-skirted gowns. It’s a nod to an archival Valentino design from its fall-winter 1987 collection. The White Lotus’s Alexandra Daddario also stood out in a sheer, one-shoulder tulle gown from Dior Haute Couture, finished with sublime beadwork.
Zendaya
The perennial Best Dressed list resident takes top honors yet again in her elegant strapless black ballgown with bow detail and sparkling Bulgari jewels.
Elle Fanning
Looking like she walked right out of a 1950s issue of Vogue, the star served major pose in a gown created for her by the costume designer Sharon Long.
Jung Ho-yeon
The Squid Game star dons a delicate custom multicolor beaded gown with matching headband, which, like her jewels and accessories, are all Louis Vuitton.
Andrew Garfield
The star (nominated for Under the Banner of Heaven) makes wearing an all-white Zegna ensemble look surprisingly effortless. (He accessories with Zayn x Arnette shades, David Yurman jewels and Christian Louboutin shoes.)
Lizzo
The star ensures you can’t miss her from any angle in her voluminous crimson tulle gown with a long train, plus 40 carats of Lorraine Schwartz diamond earrings.
Christina Ricci
The Yellow Jackets diva impressed in her slinky custom Fendi Couture gown with matching bag.
Mindy Kaling
The presenter looks award-worth in her yellow chiffon gown with plunging neckline, high slit and delicate beadwork.
Amanda Seyfried
The actress (and winner, for The Dropout) raved about her lilac “mermaid” gown by Armani Privé, which was topped by the palest pink tulle ruffle and delicate Cartier gems.
Quinta Brunson
The multi-nominated Abbott Elementary star and creator glows in a caramel-colored gown with fully beaded bodice, high slit and sheer sleeves that she said had “teeny, tiny Jessica Rabbit vibes.”
Lily James
Lily won us in a custom Atelier Versace gown she called “just heaven” on the PEOPLE pre-show, plus De Beers diamonds.
