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  • Indian director Anurag Kashyap will charge money for meeting people

    Indian director Anurag Kashyap will charge money for meeting people

    Indian filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has criticized those in showbiz who waste his time.

    Taking to Instagram, he wrote: “Don’t waste my time.”

    The filmmaker expressed frustration in a lengthy statement. “I wasted a lot of time trying to help newcomers and mostly ended up with mediocre s*. So, now onwards, I don’t want to waste my time meeting random people who think they are creative geniuses.”
    To everyone’s shock, Anurag went on to state his rates for newbies in the field interested in meeting with him. He said, “So I will now have rates. If someone wants to meet me for 10-15 minutes, I will charge 1 lac, for half an hour, 2 lacs, and for 1 hour, 5 lacs. That’s the rate.”

    He also said, “I am tired of wasting time meeting people. If you really think you can afford it, call me or stay the f*** away. And all paid in advance,” he capped the note. In the post’s caption, the Bombay Talkies director wrote, “And I mean it: Don’t text or DM or call me. Pay and you will get time. I am not a charity, and I am tired of people looking for shortcuts.”

  • Four Pashto films to dazzle cinemas on Eid-ul-Fitr, revive regional film industry

    Four Pashto films to dazzle cinemas on Eid-ul-Fitr, revive regional film industry

    The screening of four Pashto films on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr is all set to dazzle the cinemas with hopes to revive the ailing regional film industry through providing a spice of entertainment and a blend of emotions to the cinegoers.

    “The much anticipated movies with quality production, dialogues, casts, locations and soulful music will mesmerise the audience, multiplying their joy of the festive occasion”, renowned film director and film star Arbaaz Khan said. The film directors and producers have pinned hopes on the production quality, dialogues delivery, casts, locations and strength of music of the films.

    The movies to be screened included Yaar Dushman, which is directed by Arbaaz while the film cast comprises of the actor himself, Ajab Gull, Jahangir Jaani, Asif Khan and Jameel Babar. Talking to APP, Arbaaz said that Pashto films had high-profit potential. He hoped that the release of new movies will help revive the film industry on this Eid-ul-Fitr.

    He further said that Pashto film producers and artists remained resilient and kept cinema houses functional even in the most difficult times to provide entertainment to people.

    Another movie which was ready for release on Eid-ul-Fitr was Bandiwan, directed by Shahid Usman, for which the cast includes Arbaaz, Shahid Khan and Jahangir Jani. Pekhawar Zama De is another Pashto offering whose release coincides with Eid-ul-Fitr, directed by Shanzeb Khan and starring Arbaaz, Asghar Cheema and Mehek Noor. Charta Khaney Charta Faqeeray, helmed by Arshad Khan, is the fourth Pashto film that is slated for an Eid release, sporting Shahid Khan and Jahangir Jaani among its cast.

  • Pakistan to review trade ties with India, says FM Dar

    Pakistan to review trade ties with India, says FM Dar

    Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar has stated that Pakistan will think about re-establishing trade relations with India, suspended since August 2019, when the Narendra Modi-led government ended the special status of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).

    “Pakistani businessmen want trade with India to resume,” the foreign minister said while addressing the media at the Pakistan High Commission in London at the end of his visit to the UK and Europe on Saturday.

    In August 2019, the Modi-led government unilaterally changed the special status of the occupied valley, causing Pakistan to downgrade its ties with India.

    In February 2021, despite the strained relationship between the two neighbours, Pakistan and India both agreed to renew the 2003 ceasefire agreement along the Line of Control (LoC). Pakistan has connected its choice to improve relations with India to the reinstatement of the special status of the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).

    Recently, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Shehbaz Sharif on becoming of prime minister of Pakistan.

    “Congratulations to [Shehbaz Sharif] on being sworn in as the prime minister of Pakistan,” Modi wrote in a brief message on X, formerly Twitter.

  • Haroon Shahid reveals Mahira’s role in ‘Verna’ was first offered to this Bollywood actress

    Haroon Shahid reveals Mahira’s role in ‘Verna’ was first offered to this Bollywood actress

    Haroon Shahid was on the show ‘Life Green Hai’ where he surprised everyone by saying that a well-known Bollywood actress was first chosen to play Sara in the movie ‘Verna’, which is about women’s rights.

    During the show, the musician and actor revealed that Bollywood sensation Kareena Kapoor was initially cast to portray the female protagonist. However, she withdrew from the project due to her marriage to Saif Ali Khan and impending motherhood. Consequently, Mahira Khan assumed the role of the leading lady.


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  • Javed Sheikh reveals biggest guilt about married life

    Javed Sheikh reveals biggest guilt about married life

    Veteran film star Javed Sheikh has talked about his past marriage with singer Salma Agha and called it the ‘bad period’ of his life. The two were married in the 90s, becoming one of the most glamorous couples of the time. The marriage ended on a sour note.

    Javed Sheikh finally opened up about the marriage, stating feeling guilty and regretful about it, during a recent appearance on ‘Subh Ka Samaa’ Madeha Kay Sath.

    The A-lister discussed his first marriage to Zeenat Mangi and how his children, actors Momal and Shehzad Sheikh, were affected by the separation until he got remarried to Salma Agha.
    “I didn’t want to separate from my first wife, but it happened. My children, Shehzad and Momal, went through a lot because of it. They were away from me for three years while I was married to Salma Agha,” Sheikh explained sadly.

    Calling his divorce his biggest regret, Sheikh said, “It shouldn’t have happened, and I wish it didn’t. Even though our family was broken, my kids stayed strong, thanks to their mom. She deserves credit for keeping our family close, despite the separation. She made sure the kids spent time with me on family days.”

    “My kids, Saleem’s kids, Behroz, and my other siblings’ kids would gather at my house in Lahore,” the veteran remembered fondly.

  • Modi opponent challenges arrest ahead of India election

    Modi opponent challenges arrest ahead of India election

    New Delhi, India – A top Indian opposition politician appeared in court Friday to fight his arrest in a case supporters say is aimed at sidelining challengers to Prime Minister Narendra Modi before next month’s election.

    Arvind Kejriwal, chief minister of the capital Delhi and a key leader in an opposition alliance formed to compete against Modi in the polls, was detained on Thursday in connection with a long-running corruption probe.

    He is among several leaders of the bloc under criminal investigation and one of his colleagues described his arrest as a “political conspiracy” orchestrated by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

    Kejriwal was escorted into a courtroom in the capital by officers from the Enforcement Directorate, India’s main financial crimes agency, to petition for bail while the case proceeds.

    His legal team had originally sought to challenge the legality of his detention in the Supreme Court but Shadan Farasat, a lawyer for Kejriwal, told AFP they would instead contest his remand in a lower court.

    Hundreds of supporters from Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) took to the streets on Friday to condemn the leader’s arrest, with police breaking up one crowd of protesters who attempted to block a busy traffic intersection.

    Several demonstrators were detained including Delhi education minister Atishi Marlena Singh and health minister Saurabh Bhardwaj, according to an AFP journalist at the scene.

    Small rallies in support of Kejriwal were held in several other cities around India.

    Kejriwal’s government was accused of corruption when it implemented a policy to liberalise the sale of liquor in 2021 and give up a lucrative government stake in the sector.

    The policy was withdrawn the following year, but the resulting probe into the alleged corrupt allocation of licences has since seen the jailing of two top Kejriwal allies.

    Kejriwal, 55, has been chief minister for nearly a decade and first came to office as a staunch anti-corruption crusader. He had resisted multiple summons from the Enforcement Directorate to be interrogated as part of the probe.

    Singh, the education minister, said Thursday that Kejriwal had not resigned from his office.

    “We made it clear from the beginning that if needed, Arvind Kejriwal will run the government from jail,” she told reporters.

    ‘Decay of democracy’

    Tamil Nadu chief minister M.K. Stalin, a fellow member of the opposition bloc, said Kejriwal’s arrest “smacks of a desperate witch-hunt”.

    “Not a single BJP leader faces scrutiny or arrest, laying bare their abuse of power and the decay of democracy,” he said.

    Modi’s political opponents and international rights groups have long sounded the alarm on India’s shrinking democratic space.

    US democracy think-tank Freedom House said this year that the BJP had “increasingly used government institutions to target political opponents”.

    Rahul Gandhi, the most prominent member of the opposition Congress party and scion of a dynasty that dominated Indian politics for decades, was convicted of criminal libel last year after a complaint by a member of Modi’s party.

    His two-year prison sentence saw him disqualified from parliament for a time until the verdict was suspended by a higher court, but raised further concerns over democratic norms in the world’s most populous country.

    Kejriwal and Gandhi are both members of an opposition alliance composed of more than two dozen parties that is jointly contesting India’s national election running from April to June.

    But even without the criminal investigations targeting its most prominent leaders, few expect the bloc to make inroads against Modi, who remains popular a decade after first taking office.

    Many analysts see Modi’s reelection as a foregone conclusion, partly due to the resonance of his assertive Hindu-nationalist politics with the members of the country’s majority faith.

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  • Shahrukh Khan would help us learn lines, supported us in learning: Vidya Malvade

    Shahrukh Khan would help us learn lines, supported us in learning: Vidya Malvade

    We all know Shah Rukh Khan loves playing the lovable rascal in his films but do you know, the superstar is a true gentleman in real life? During the filming of ‘Chak De! India’ the star helped all the girls who were acting in the film. Vidya Malvade, who was part of the movie, said that there were 16 girls working together on the film, unsure about how much time they would get on screen.


    Shah Rukh Khan extended support to all the actresses, boosting their confidence. Vidya Malvade, one of the actresses in the film, disclosed, “During filming, there were 16 girls working together. At that moment, all these girls felt uncertain about their screen time. It happens; perhaps it was meant to be. The girls used to say, ‘I am in the middle, I need to stay ahead,’ and it happened.”
    Vidya revealed that Shah Rukh Khan helped all the girls to maximize their roles in the film. She stated, “Shah Rukh proved himself to be a great superstar on the set. He is the owner of a very kind personality and treats the cast like his own team.”


    Vidya disclosed that Shah Rukh played a significant role during the shooting of the film. “Some of us girls were completely new and had difficulty with lights and angles. These girls used to deliver their lines while standing in their place, but Shah Rukh Khan helped them and said, ‘If you stand at this place and in this manner, your face will shine brighter, and your shot will also be better.’”

  • Who is AR Rahman’s favourite director to work with?

    Who is AR Rahman’s favourite director to work with?

    Bollywood maestro AR Rahman has composed music for nearly all of the major league directors in Bollywood. But which director is the composer’s favourite?

    Rahman recently talked about director Imtiaz Ali and his new movie, Amar Singh Chamkila. He told News18 that Amar Singh Chamkila is “a very naughty” film.

    “I love working with Imtiaz. He is very friendly. You know, with certain people, work is easy and there’s no pressure.
    With him, there’s never been pressure at all. I always wanted to do Punjabi music. I love the power in the language in music. So this was a great chance.”


    Speaking about the film, he said, “It is a very naughty picture, we had to find the place for music. If you look at it, Chamika is a composer, lyricist and singer.


    The question I asked was, ‘Why am I needed?’ [Then] I said, oh! We can do this part, we can make it like a musical where everybody sings about Chamkila blaming him for the good or the bad. That’s the director’s point of view and that was exciting.”

    The movie tells the real story of Amar Singh Chamkila, a famous singer in Punjab. He came from a poor background but became very popular in the ’80s, making a lot of people angry along the way. He was killed when he was only 27-years-old.

    ‘Amar Singh Chamkila’ will be available for streaming on Netflix India starting April 12. The movie features Diljit Dosanjh and Parineeti Chopra.
    “Chamkila was the biggest star in the 1980s, which was a really tough time for Punjab.
    Punjab has faced many difficult times, and this was one of the toughest.


    We’re talking about one artist who was killed… I’ve only shown his life, but it represents the lives of many other artists in Punjab and around the world, who face the challenge of being famous and targeted at the same time,” Imtiaz Ali told PTI.

  • Indian actor fasts for sixth straight Ramzan

    Indian actor fasts for sixth straight Ramzan

    Indian TV actor Vivian Dsena, who announced his conversion to Islam in 2019, has explained why Ramazan is important to him, narrating that he’s been fasting for the entire month for six years now.

    The actor said, “Ramadan is very special to me because I embraced Islam during this month. This year is my sixth Ramadan, and by God’s grace, I’ve been fasting every year. Fasting for the whole month is important in Islam, it’s one of the five main things we do. I fast for 30 days unless I have a reason like being sick, then I can skip a day.” he explained.

    Dsena added, “At first, I was really worried about fasting, especially since water and coffee are important for me. Even my family and friends wondered how I could go without water or caffeine for 13 or 14 hours. But God has been kind to me, and fasting has been going quite smoothly.”
    The actor spends Ramazan with his family in Bahrain where he enjoys Iftar meals, especially the ones his wife cooks at home. His favorite Middle Eastern desserts are Basbousa and Kunafa.
    Vivian Dsena had confirmed his marriage to Nouran Aly when he announced he accepted Islam. They have a daughter who is one year old.

  • Indian actress celebrates birthday with respect to Ramazan

    Indian actress celebrates birthday with respect to Ramazan

    Indian Actress Zareen Khan had a special birthday celebration with orphaned Muslim girls at an orphanage. She shared videos of the celebration, expressing how happy she was to include these girls in her special day.

    Zareen is receiving praise for her kind act, with fans calling her incredibly humble and expressing the need for more people like her. In the video, Zareen shared heartbreaking details about the girls, including their ages, which deeply touched viewers. She wrote, “I had the most fulfilling experience spending the evening with the girls of ‘Anjuman – I – Islam Orphange’. These girls are aged from 6 to 18 years old. We had iftar together, chatted a little, and they prayed beautifully. They showed me so much love that my heart felt incredibly full and overwhelmed.”


    The actress added, “Sometimes we forget to appreciate all the blessings we have from God. I was feeling down lately, feeling upset and unloved. But when I met these girls, I realized that love comes in many forms. It washed away all my negative feelings.”

    She continued, “These girls don’t have parents or a home. Some of them are very young and small. The orphanage is their home, and the people who take care of them there are like their parents. The girls have each other as friends or siblings. Still, they had big smiles on their faces. Their warmth made my sad day bright.”