Jackky Bhagnani has returned to acting after a six-year gap with the Independence Day anthem 'Tere Rang Mein,' released under his music label Jjust Music. The actor-producer said the song offered him an opportunity to return to the screen with a project that was personally meaningful to him. Bhagnani described himself as a patriot and said the nature of the song played an important role in his decision to face the camera again. “I am a patriot by heart. It’s been quite some time since I faced the camera. So, I thought the best way to come back is with the right cause,” Bhagnani said. The actor's return comes after several years of focusing primarily on film production. According to Bhagnani, stepping away from acting was a conscious decision as he worked behind the scenes and became more involved in producing films. Jackky Bhagnani on focusing on film production Bhagnani said his experience as a producer made him rethink the way he wanted to approach his acting career. He ...
Daniels’s film starts well as it points up the social pressures that informed the Latoya Ammons case, but succumbs to tired horror tropes
Ten years ago, Lee Daniels announced he was taking on a movie project based on the real-life case of Latoya Ammons, a single mother who claimed that her house was haunted, that her children were being possessed by evil spirits and that she needed a “deliverance” – in other words, an exorcism. Well, the resulting very silly and mediocre movie has now finally arrived, with Ammons in real life having long since moved out of the house in question; it has itself been bulldozed, and some of the more excitable and credulous media coverage which helped clinch the film deal has cooled in retrospect, leaving behind, perhaps, a greater emphasis on those heartless observers who were callous enough to wonder if Ammons’ paranormal claims were a drama-queen ruse for avoiding the rent and bamboozling social services.
Daniels could have made a brilliant, heartfelt film about the Ammons case, which absorbed precisely that possibility; the possibility that it wasn’t real, but real in another sense, a film that proposed “possession” as a metaphor for the racism, sexism, poverty and class prejudice that creates dysfunction and delusion in a family in this situation. And for a while, it looks as if Daniels is doing that, with robust and potent performances from Andra Day as the mother, Mo’Nique (so powerful in Daniels’s film Precious) as her social worker, and Glenn Close as Alberta, the cranky born-again Christian grandma, with Close giving this black-comic role both barrels, just as she did playing JD Vance’s crotchety Mamaw in Hillbilly Elegy.
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