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Succession and White Lotus took home two of the early trophies at the Emmy Awards Monday, setting HBO up to dominate TV’s biggest night for the sixth time in eight years. Succession, the series about a family that owns a media empire and bears some resemblance to the Murdochs and the Redstones, is expected to be the biggest winner at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles Monday night.

Oftentimes, it happens that we like a movie for its story, songs and direction but can barely stand a character in it. It might be because it’s poorly written or the actor goes overboard in bringing the character alive onscreen.

Be it the cringeworthy accent or being overly loud or girly, some of the female main leads managed to get on the nerves of the fans who couldn’t stand watching them for three hours.

Someone on Reddit recently asked on a thread about the most irritating Bollywood character they have come across in films and people gave the most honest and real answers. These are some really annoying female leads to ever exist according to the movie buffs.

Actor Kangana Ranaut took a dig at Brahmastra director Ayan Mukerji on Friday after the film released. The actor also criticised the film's producer Karan Johar as well as the lead stars Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor. As Brahmastra opened to mixed reviews from fans and critics, Kangana accused the filmmaker of selling a ‘lie.’ She also said that a group of Bollywood can go to any extent to promote their film and even accused them of causing Kamaal R Khan’s recent arrest. 

Brahmastra stars Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor alongside Mouni Roy, Amitabh Bachchan and Nagarjuna. Kangana shared a screenshot of a negative review of the film and wrote, “This is what happens when you try to sell a lie, @karanjohar in every show forces people to call @aliabhatt and Ranbir best actors and @ayan_mukerji a genius…slowly he started to believe this lie…what else explains the 600 crore budget of this film to a director who never made a good enough film in his life…Fox studio in India had to sell itself to fund this film…How many more studios will be closed because of this clowns?”

The outsider vs insiders debate is getting more intense by each passing day.

While the star kids (or the 'nepo kids', as trolls call them) are getting boycotted just for being born to celebrity parents, actors who belong to non-film backgrounds seem to be on the safer side. However, there are some who don’t belong to either, or should we say, belong to both?

Some actors who we’ve believed to be industry outsiders aren’t exactly outsiders. They may have non-famous parents and might have auditioned for roles and struggled to get the big banner films, but they are far from being complete outsiders. They do have celebrities in their families and film connections, which we didn’t realise or knew earlier.

Here are five such actors who had some background or connections to showbiz , despite being known as 'outsiders' in the industry:

A day after the grand launch of Mani Ratnam's Ponniyin Selvan in Chennai, Trisha, who plays the role of Chola princess Kundavai, shared a video from last night. She curated some of her favourite moments from the trailer launch in the video. One moment, in particular, that won the Internet's heart is the one in which her Ponniyin Selvan co-star Aishwarya Rai Bachchan can be seen hugging Trisha. Another moment that eclipsed everything else at the trailer launch is the one in which Trisha and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan can be seen sharing the stage. In no time, the pictures of Trisha and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan went viral on social media.

Earlier, sharing her look from the film, Trisha wrote: "In a world of men, a woman of courage. Presenting Princess Kundavai."