Pratibha Ranta not a part of Kartik Aaryan’s Naagzilla; confirms source

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Rumours suggested that Pratibha Ranta might be the “frontrunner” for Kartik Aaryan’s Naagzilla. However, a source close to the film has clarified that the Laapataa Ladies actress has not been approached for the project. As per the source, “There’s no truth to the speculation. Pratibha Ranta has not been approached for Naagzilla. Currently, she's reading a lot of scripts and is busy working on her next big project.” Pratibha Ranta may be reading plenty of scripts, but sources confirm that Naagzilla isn’t one of them. Instead, she’s eagerly awaiting The Revolutionaries, her most ambitious upcoming project. The recently unveiled first look highlights turbulent moments of the Indian freedom struggle while shedding light on lesser-known stories. Pratibha will star alongside Rohit Saraf, Bhuvan Bam, Gurfateh Pirzada, and Jason Shah. Directed by Nikkhil Advani, The Revolutionaries is slated for release on Amazon Prime Video in 2026. She also has another exciting project lined up with K...
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Don’t look down: 100 years of Harold Lloyd’s Safety Last!

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Harold Lloyd’s stunts in Safety Last! make it one of the most heart-in-mouth films of all time. On its 100th birthday, his granddaughter remembers his mastery, inspiration – and the real-life love at the film’s heart

It is one of the most famous images in film history: a bespectacled man dangles from the hands of a broken clock, 12 storeys above the Los Angeles traffic. The climax of Harold Lloyd’s slapstick suspense masterpiece Safety Last!, which is about to celebrate its centenary, is also a defining image of the city, much like the construction workers perched on a steel beam in the 1932 news photograph Lunch Atop a Skyscraper is for New York. They share a sense of the giddy dangers of 20th-century urbanism, and the precarity of the working man.

Harold, the hero of Safety Last!, is just such an ordinary joe: a department store sales clerk struggling to keep his job, while boasting of a big promotion in letters home to his sweetheart, Mildred. When he spends his entire pay cheque on a gift for Mildred, Harold forlornly imagines his lunch disappearing dish by dish. Mildred surprises him by coming to visit, which is when he has the brainwave of “climbing” to the very top of the building as a romantic stunt – emphasis on the stunt as he plans to use his agile friend “Limpy Bill” as a double. In the film’s perfect final 20 minutes, Harold makes the ascent alone, beset by perils including a flock of birds, a barking dog, a broken flagpole and even a gunshot. It amounts to some of the most nerve-racking funny business ever put on screen. Variety announced: “It will make all of the nation laugh.”

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