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Hugh Grant says fourth Bridget Jones film will be ‘funny but very sad’

Actor reprises character of Daniel Cleaver but says he won’t play role of ‘60-year-old wandering around looking at young girls’ It is a universally acknowledged truth that Bridget Jones films are packed with humour and comedic scenes that attract viewers in their droves. However, in a slight departure, Hugh Grant has revealed that the fourth film in the series will also be “very sad”. Continue reading... from Film | The Guardian https://ift.tt/ZJoB2VO via IFTTT

Sunidhi Chauhan to perform LIVE at a charity fundraiser for World No Tobacco Day

Cancer Patients Aid Association has decided to organize a special concert on World No Tobacco Day, which falls on May 31. As per recent update, the association is planning a charity fundraising event with popular singer and musician Sunidhi Chauhan and a press conference has been held to announce the upcoming Sunidhi LIVE. The press conference will be attended by the popular Singer Sunidhi Chauhan herself along with the key members of the association. Ms Anita Peter, Executive Director, Cancer patients aid association, who will be present at the event, will be making the announcement of Sunidhi Live, amidst the presence of dignitary members as well as a few cancer patients. The fundraising concert aims at raising funds to support cancer patients on the occasion of World No Tobacco Day. Talking about Sunidhi Chauhan, the singer has performed at some of the most prestigious venues across the world. Sunidhi started her career in the 90s and has sung for the biggest Bollywood blockbuster

PVR-INOX faces a whopping Rs. 333.37 crore loss due to underperformance of films

PVR INOX Limited announced its audited consolidated financial results for the quarter and the 12-month period ended March 31, 2023. The quarter ending March 2023 saw the consummation of the PVR INOX merger. The Hon’ble National Company Law Tribunal (‘NCLT’), Mumbai Bench approved the 'Scheme of Amalgamation' between INOX Leisure Limited and PVR Limited on January 12, 2023, and the merger officially became effective on February 6, 2023. The merged entity was renamed 'PVR INOX Limited,' effective from April 20, 2023. As the appointed date for the PVR INOX merger was January 1st, 23; Q4 FY’23 results for the company are reported on a merged basis for PVR and INOX and are not comparable with Q4 FY’22 reported results. Similarly, FY’23 full year results are based on 9 month numbers for PVR and 4th quarter numbers for PVR & INOX combined making them not comparable with FY’22 reported results. For the quarter ended March 31, 2023, Consolidated Revenue, EBITDA and PAT was

Mumbai Police reacts as Amitabh Bachchan and Anushka Sharma ride motorbikes without helmets

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan and Anushka Sharma recently opted for motorcycles as an option to reach their shoot locations amid Mumbai traffic. Hours after Big B shared pictures of himself riding a bike with a stranger, Anushka Sharma was also seen sitting on the pillion seat. Following the photos of the two stars went viral on social media, netizens pointed out that the two of them weren’t wearing helmets and reached out to Mumbai Police. Replying to a few users on Twitter, the official account wrote, “We have shared this with traffic branch.” As per the Motor Vehicle Act, pillon riders are also expected to wear helmets and are fined for flouting the rules. We have shared this with traffic branch. @MTPHereToHelp — मुंबई पोलीस - Mumbai Police (@MumbaiPolice) May 15, 2023   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Manav Manglani (@manav.manglani) Taking to Instagram on Sunday, Amitabh posted photos in which he was sitting on the bike. He was wearing a black T-shirt, blue trouse

SCOOP: The Kerala Story director Sudipto Sen offered a film on radicalization of boys

Sudipto Sen’s The Kerala Story has earned Rs 100 crores in the first week of its release. When this writer reached out for his reaction, Sen said, “I feel very happy, but I’ve definitely not gone overboard with pride and confidence. I have many more stories to tell, and I don’t want to rest on my laurels. I knew this film would be a success. I worked for seven years on the project. I knew its potential.” A lot of the cynics are asking why The Kerala Story is only about the radicalization of women and why not men? Sudipto said, “It was always meant to be a story of three friends, who happen to be women. It was not a planned strategy. Now, some producer has offered me a project as a sequel to The Kerala Story about the radicalization of boys.” Sudipto also shed light on why his producer Vipul Shah is credited as “creative director” in The Kerala Story. “He served as co-ordinating force among several teams of creative people, who worked on the project. The team was diverse and there wer

Aashka Goradia to welcome her first ‘beach baby’ with husband Brent Goble in November 2023

Aashka Goradia, who tied the knot with American businessman Brent Goble in December 2017, is all set to welcome her first baby with him. On May 14, Sunday as well as on the occasion of Mother’s Day, Aashka took the opportunity to share this good news to her fans by posting an adorable video on social media, stating that the baby will arrive in November 2023. Her joint post with her husband Brent received much love from fans as well as industry insiders as their comments section was filled with congratulatory messages. Aashka Goradia took to Instagram to post a video wherein they revealed their excitement of having a beach baby. The video read, “Beach Baby is on the way. We are waiting for the greatest gift to arrive in November 2023. Send us your love and blessings Aashka and Brent.” She also captioned the post adding, “On this Mother’s Day - this becomes even more special! ‘Our family and our practice grows by 1 this November! Send us a loving thought as we embark on our greatest jou

‘I’m fine,” says The Kerala Story star Adah Sharma; assures fans of her well-being after accident

Adah Sharma, the Bollywood actress known for her role in the recently released film The Kerala Story, reportedly met with an accident. This incident occurred amid reports of death threats that the actress had received. Adah took to social media to share an update on her health and assured her fans that she was doing fine. On Sunday night, Adah tweeted, “I’m fine guys. Getting a lot of messages because of the news circulating about our accident. The whole team, all of us are fine, nothing serious, nothing major but thank you for the concern.” I'm fine guys . Getting a lot of messages because of the news circulating about our accident. The whole team ,all of us are fine, nothing serious , nothing major but thank you for the concern — Adah Sharma (@adah_sharma) May 14, 2023 After this, The Kerala Story director Sudipto Sen also shared an update on his verified Twitter handle, which read, “Thank u so much for ur concerns about our health. We are overwhelmed with ur calls & warm

De Humani Corporis Fabrica review – gruesome surgery film gets under the skin

The latest film by the directors of Leviathan combines disorientating, brutal surgery closeups with doctors’ candid chats to powerful effect Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel are the French documentary film-makers who in 2012 gave us Leviathan , an experimental and immersively strange account of life on a fishing trawler in the north Atlantic. In 2017 their Somniloquies was a hallucinatory, image-driven film about sleep-talking, while Caniba was about the notorious Japanese murderer and cannibal Issei Sagawa and the strange half-life of his later years, when he was immobilised by a cerebral infarction. Their new film does for the human body what Leviathan did for the alien world of the sea: an account of surgical and clinical procedures in a number of Paris hospitals, with extreme, disorientating closeups and some deeply disturbing images, including one mortuary scene of a dead body being dressed in the “civilian” clothes of the living. It gives us brutally candid images of

BREAKING: ’83’s special screening to be held at Lord’s on July 15-16; Ranveer Singh-starrer to be the FIRST ever film to be screened at the ICONIC ground

’83 (2021) did not set the box office on fire as intended but it amassed a lot of love from critics and a section of audiences. And now the film has achieved an incredible feat. The Ranveer Singh-starrer will be shown at the Lord’s Cricket Ground in London, United Kingdom. This is the first time that a film screening will be held in the iconic cricket ground, which is also called the Mecca of Cricket. The screenings will be held on July 15 as well as on July 16. Two shows of ’83 will be held both these days, at 11:00 am and 4:00 pm. The prices of the tickets are £30 for adults, £5 for children between the ages of 5 and 15 and £20 for senior citizens and students. A family pass is also available for £60. Those who are handicapped will be allowed free of cost. Bollywood Hungama exclusively spoke to director Kabir Khan and asked if it was the idea of the makers of ’83 to have the screening at Lord’s. Kabir Khan replied, “No. Surprisingly, the Lord’s management reached out to us. They pro

Saif Ali Khan 2012 assault trial case to likely begin on June 15; Shakeel Ladak also amongst the accused

Eleven years after the alleged incident, the trial in Saif Ali Khan's 2012 assault case will likely begin on June 15. Along with the Adipurush actor, the additional chief metropolitan magistrate, Esplanade court also read charges against Amrita Arora's husband Shakeel Ladak and Saif's friend Bilal Amrohi who are also among the accused. The three accused were arrested and released on bail after they were allegedly involved in a fight with businessman Iqbal Mir Sharma at the Wasabi restaurant inside the Taj Hotel on February 22, 2012. The court in April 2023 issued summons against the witnesses who had recorded the incident. At the time of the incident, Saif Ali Khan was accompanied by Kareena Kapoor Khan, Karisma Kapoor, Malaika Arora Khan, Amrita Arora and a few male friends. As per a report in PTI, the police said that "when Sharma protested the raucous chatter of the actor and his friends, Saif Ali Khan allegedly threatened them and subsequently punched him in the

‘My short term memory is fading and my eyesight is not what it was’: Ken Loach takes his last film to Cannes

The Old Oak is about the rehousing of a group of Syrian refugees in a run-down former mining town It’s June 2022, a week of rail workers’ strikes are under way and refugees are in the news whether arriving from Ukraine or via boats across the channel despite the threat of transportation to Rwanda. Ken Loach and his old compadres, writer Paul Laverty and producer Rebecca O’Brien, could not have chosen a more pertinent time for shooting their latest film, The Old Oak , which premieres at the Cannes film festival this month. The story is set in an anonymous former mining town decades after the pit closures. Shops are boarded up, money is scarce, divisions over the 1984 miners’ strike linger. There is still a pub, the eponymous Old Oak, run by a former miner, TJ Ballantyne, played by Dave Turner, but it is on its last legs, kept afloat by a ragbag of disgruntled and opinionated regulars. Into town comes a group of Syrian refugees to be rehoused, including a self-confident young woman, Ya