ENTERTAINMENT

The coronavirus pandemic didn’t just delay the work on “Sherni”, a satirical thriller on conservation, but also helped the team realise that they wanted to go for a different ending, one that would act as a wake-up call to the audiences, says director Amit Masurkar.

Lauded for its nuanced exploration of man-animal conflict and patriarchy in society, “Sherni” follows Vidya Vincent (Vidya Balan), a forest officer who is tasked with capturing a man-eating tigress alive and relocating her.

Masurkar, known for the National Award-winning “Newton” and “Sulemani Keeda”, said it was writer Aastha Tiku’s idea to end the film with a haunting picture of a potential future if humans don’t mend their ways.

Bollywood actor Ali Fazal, who played the role of the student that committed suicide in '3 Idiots' opened up on the mental stress he faced while shooting for the film as he felt deeply connected to the role. In addition, after he played the role, news channels started interviewing him about real-life incidents of student suicides and asked him about his feelings and thoughts on it. This 'crushed' him, he said in an interview with an entertainment portal.

He told a section of media, "I slipped into depression when I started with '3 Idiots'. I played a small role in it. Do you know what happened? Suddenly they were doing some news pieces, not to sound morbid or anything but at that time, some college students had harmed themselves, and then I got a call from some news channel saying, 'Sir, you've played this role and this is exactly what has happened. How do you feel about it?' and I was crushed at that point. I was naive, I was in my second year of college. I went into depression and I told Raju sir (Rajkumar Hirani) and all these people and they said, 'please don't do this. Tell them to talk to the producer and don't feel like this'."

Actor Kabir Bedi is known for his Bollywood films in India but across the world, Bedi has many different sets of fans. In Europe, he is adored for his roles in Italian films, TV shows and in other parts of the world, he is remembered fondly for his role in the James Bond film Octopussy and other Hollywood films.

In a recent interview with Brut India, Kabir recollected the days when breaking into Hollywood was not an easy challenge. While the obstacles are endless in this day and age as well, Bedi recollected that during those times, Hollywood "had no qualms about taking a white actor, painting him brown and giving him the role that you were best for."

Thalapathy Vijay is celebrating his 47th birthday today (June 22). The superstar’s fans couldn’t be more ecstatic about his upcoming film, Beast. In fact, his Twitter Space session on Monday, June 21, set a new record by becoming the most attended session. In the world, it stands at number two.

The Master actor’s team organised a Twitter session which was attended by more than 27,500 people. Dhivyadharshini hosted the space which was joined by several celebrities besides Vijay. The star-studded session included Keerthy Suresh, Malavika Mohanan, Anirudh Ravichander, Lokesh Kanagaraj and Thalapathy 65 director Nelson Dhilipkumar. They all shared their stories and memories with the Beast actor.

This Twitter Space is number one in India and stands second to world’s most attended one which was conducted by Thai rapper Bam Bam and had more than 44,000 fans joining in.

According to a latest report, Bollywood actor Ajay Devgn, who recently bought a bungalow in Juhu for Rs 47.5 crore, has taken a loan of Rs 18.75 crore for the purchase.

As per official documents available on Zapkey.com and a Money Control report, plot belongs to the Kapole Cooperative Housing Society. This housing organization transferred the bungalow in the names of Veena Virendra Devgn, Vishal Virendra Devgn and Ajay Devgn on May 7.

Currently, the actor lives in Shiv Shakti Bungalow located close to his new property.