Ranveer Singh or Allu Arjun: Who will be the new Shaktimaan? Here’s what we know!

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Ever since the Shaktimaan film adaptation was announced, fans of the popular TV show have been eagerly awaiting fresh updates related to its casting. Early reports suggested that Ranveer Singh would be playing the lead. However, the latest buzz suggests that it’s not Ranveer Singh, but Allu Arjun who may be seen playing the iconic character. A report by Bollywood Bubble quoted a source saying, “The highly ambitious Shaktimaan project is now set to be revived with Allu Arjun. Adding to the excitement, Basil Joseph, who impressed audiences and critics alike with the Malayalam superhero film Minnal Murali, has been roped in to direct the mega venture. He is currently in talks with Allu Arjun to play Shaktimaan. The much-talked-about project is backed by Sony Pictures. The team aims to honour the nostalgic essence of the original TV series while reimagining it with cutting-edge technology and a gripping narrative.” The source further added, “Two major international studios are set to col...
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Roman Holiday at 70: Audrey Hepburn’s star-making role remains luminous

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The 1953 romantic comedy may lack heft but the Oscar-winner’s charming lead turn makes it an escape worth taking again

When Roman Holiday was released, 70 summers ago, the monarchy was having a fashionable moment. Two months before, the world had watched the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, a relatively young, glamorous face for a fusty institution: the first such event to be globally televised, it made the very principle of royalty seem less like the realm of ancient history. I say “relatively”: the frilly pomp and ceremony of English royalty can’t have been much sexier in 1953 than it was in 2023, though at least they didn’t have official broad-bean quiche to contend with.

There was certainly ample scope for Hollywood to prettify the notion a bit, which is where Roman Holiday proved most fortuitously timed. A romantic comedy that set a quasi-fantasy template for the genre that has endured to the modern era – take Notting Hill, a veritable homage – it played on a mid-century fascination with real-world princesses, with all the duller formalities taken out. Its protagonist, crown princess Ann, is a blank slate on to which any number of princessy ideals could be projected: she’s beautiful, gracious and charismatic, with an all-purpose Euro glamour that can’t be tied to any specific identity, since the screenwriter Dalton Trumbo had elected to make her from a vague imaginary nation. Beside her, England’s young new queen looked positively, rain-soddenly drab.

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