Ankita Lokhande appeals for help as house help’s daughter goes missing; seeks Mumbai Police’s urgent intervention

In a heartfelt and urgent plea, popular television and film actress Ankita Lokhande has taken to social media to raise alarm over the sudden disappearance of two young girls closely connected to her household. The actress revealed that Saloni, the daughter of her house help Kanta, and her friend Neha have been missing since 10 am on July 31, last seen in the Vakola area of Mumbai. The emotional post, shared via Ankita's official Instagram handle, quickly gathered traction as concerned fans and fellow citizens began amplifying the message across platforms. Expressing the gravity of the situation, Ankita wrote, “Our house help Kanta's daughter and her daughter's friend, Saloni and Neha, have been missing since July 31, 10 am. They were last seen near the Vakola area. An FIR has already been filed at Malvani Police Station, but their whereabouts are still unknown. They are not just part of our home - they're family.” The actress went on to tag Mumbai Police and include t...

‘It made him an A-lister’: John Ford’s breakthrough film The Iron Horse at 100

Filmed in the freezing Nevada desert under studio pressure, Ford’s 1924 epic was a huge hit. It was the springboard for the director’s astounding career of westerns, idealism and high drama

Had the Oscars been around in 1924, when director John Ford’s epic western The Iron Horse was released, the critically lauded film would have swept up the lot. Though it might be largely forgotten now, this black and white silent movie, which turns 100 on 28 August, marked the point where Jack Ford – a former fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants props guy who also acted a bit, and was first hired as a director by virtue of being available – became master film-maker John Ford, the director many still herald as the greatest of all time. When The Iron Horse was inducted into the Library of Congress film archive in 2011, the official registry citation stated that it “established Ford’s reputation as one of Hollywood’s most accomplished directors”.

Ford remains the most Oscar-decorated director ever, notching up four awards for feature films – The Informer (1935), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), and The Quiet Man (1952) – and two for second world war documentaries The Battle of Midway (1942) and December 7th (1943). None of which were westerns, a genre Ford adored, shaped, and left his mark all over. Incongruous perhaps, given his coastal Maine upbringing by Irish immigrant parents. As a teenager, Jack Feeney followed his elder brother – star actor and director Francis Ford – to Hollywood, taking his surname and learning on the trailblazer’s sets at Universal Pictures. Short on directors, Universal head Carl Laemmle hired him to direct cowboy star Harry Carey in Straight Shooting in 1917, simply because “Jack Ford yells good”.

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