Shakti Kapoor reacts to death hoax, says “My death news is all fake”; actor to file cyber complaint

Veteran actor Shakti Kapoor has strongly reacted to fake reports of his demise that recently surfaced online. The actor took to social media to personally dismiss the rumours and reassure fans and loved ones that he is safe, healthy, and doing absolutely fine. In a short video message shared online, the actor addressed the misleading reports directly and urged everyone not to believe them. “Hello everyone. My death news is all fake. I am healthy and happy. Please ignore it”, he said. Expressing disappointment over the circulation of such rumours, Shakti Kapoor also revealed that he intends to take legal action against those responsible for spreading the false information. “I am going to file a cyber complaint about it because this is not good,” he added in the video.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Shakti Kapoor (@shaktikapoor) Soon after the actor posted the clarification, several fans flooded the comments section with messages of relief and support. Many ...

La Syndicaliste review Isabelle Huppert is fascinating in blood-boiling injustice drama

French film about real-life trade union whistleblower and rape survivor Maureen Kearney, accused of inventing her assault

‘My name is Maureen Kearney. I didn’t lie. I didn’t make anything up.” This French drama about a blood-boiling real-life case of injustice is the story of whistleblower and rape survivor Maureen Kearney, who for four years lived with a criminal record: falsely convicted of wasting police time, accused of inventing her rape. It’s a political thriller that tells the story matter-of-factly, and is perhaps a little lacking in the pace department. But Isabelle Huppert carries it along with a performance every bit as gripping as you’d expect. (Kearney is actually Irish, but has lived and worked in France since the mid 1980s; Huppert plays her as French).

Adapted from a book by investigative journalist Caroline Michel-Aguirre, this is a film of two halves, beginning with the whistleblowing. It’s 2011, and Kearney is a powerful trade union official, going into battle for the 50,000 staff at French nuclear engineering giant Areva in her armour of full makeup and blond hair so immaculately blow-dried it could deflect arrows. Kearney has the trade minister’s number in her phone and can summon President Sarkozy to a meeting. (Rumour has it he called her “a hysteric in a skirt”.) She turns whistleblower after being handed documents revealing secret plans to sell off France’s nuclear technology to China.

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