Preity Zinta approaches Bombay High Court to take down AI deepfake content; next hearing scheduled on July 6

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Actor Preity Zinta has approached the Bombay High Court seeking the removal of AI-generated deepfake videos, morphed images and other unauthorised content featuring her from social media and online platforms. The actress has also sought an injunction to prevent the publication and circulation of such content in the future. The matter came up for hearing before a single bench of Justice Madhav Jamdar on Friday. After hearing preliminary submissions, the court directed the parties, including the online platforms concerned, to work out a mechanism for taking down the allegedly offending material. The matter has now been listed for further hearing on July 6. Preity Zinta seeks removal of AI-generated content In her civil suit, Preity Zinta has referred to multiple instances of AI-generated deepfakes, morphed visuals and chatbot-style interactions that allegedly use her likeness without authorisation. According to the plea, the actress has sought urgent directions from the Bombay High Cour...
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The Severed Sun review – folk-horror nightmare that harks back to The Crucible

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A widow with an ungodly secret challenges the patriarchal abuse of an oppressive religious community in Dean Puckett’s English chiller

Here is an atmospherically shot English folk horror from first-time director Dean Puckett set in some eerie time of the medieval past or post-apocalyptic future. It’s possibly a bit derivative: there’s a touch of silliness in the Donnie Darko-ish pagan beast-god rustling around in the foliage, and no prizes for guessing who its final victim is going to be. But there are some chills and bad-dream unease as well, effectively delivered by a good cast, well directed.

Among an oppressive religious community in the remote countryside, Magpie (Emma Appleton) is a young widow who is concealing the truth about her husband’s death from the congregation led by her stern father, the Pastor (a potent performance from Toby Stephens). She is increasingly resented as a disruptive influence when she challenges the patriarchy’s abuse, in the form of what she suffered at the hands of her late husband and the violence that she can sense is being perpetrated on a young neighbouring girl by her father, a violence ignored by the girl’s pious mother (Jodhi May). Concealment and hypocrisy are all about: she herself is having an affair with her stepson David (Lewis Gribben), and the Pastor has an unusually close relationship with zealot parishioner John (Barney Harris).

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