NEW DELHI — Vivek Agnihotri’s The Kashmir Files is “a propaganda, vulgar movie” and unworthy of being included in the International Film Festival of India’s International Competition section, jury president Nadav Lapid said at the event’s closing ceremony in Panaji on Monday. Addressing an audience that included Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting Anurag Singh […]
MUMBAI — Bollywood star Aamir Khan’s mother Zeenat Hussain has reportedly suffered a massive heart attack. Sources say that Aamir was with her during Diwali at their Panchagani residence, where his mother suffered a massive heart attack. The actor has flown his mother to Breach Candy hospital in Mumbai and has been by her side […]
NEW DELHI — Celebrated comedian-actor Raju Srivastava died on Wednesday after over 40 days of hospitalisation here, said his brother Dipoo Srivastava. He was 58. Raju Srivastava suffered a heart attack on August 10 while working out at a hotel here. He was rushed to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and underwent […]
SRINAGAR — Bollywood actor Emraan Hashmi, who is currently shooting for his upcoming flick in Kashmir, has refuted reports about being injured in stone pelting incident at tourist destination Pahalgam. In a Twitter post on Tuesday morning, Emraan said people of Kashmir have been “very warm and welcoming and it has been an absolute joy […]
KOLKATA — Well-known Bollywood singer Krishnakumar Kunnath, popularly known as KK, died in Kolkata on Tuesday night, officials said. He was 53, and survived by wife and two children. KK performed at a concert organised by Gurudas College at Nazrul Mancha in south Kolkata for almost an hour in the evening. He was “feeling heavy” […]
LOS ANGELES — Brooklyn-based Pakistani vocalist Arooj Aftab has won a Grammy Award for her song “Mohabbat” in the best global music performance category at Hollywood’s biggest music awards night. The 37-year-old singer-composer has become the “first ever female Pakistani GRAMMY winner”. “And the first ever female Pakistani GRAMMY winner is… Arooj Aftab Best Global […]
MUMBAI — Fans of Lata Mangeshkar are disappointed after the melody queen was not included in the ‘In Memoriam’ section of the 64th Annual Grammy Awards. The absence of the legendary Indian playback singer from the 2022 Grammys ceremony, held on early Monday morning in Las Vegas, comes a week after the Academy Awards left […]
BHOPAL (MP) — Two complaints were filed with two different police stations against film director Vivek Agnihotri for allegedly stating “Bhopalis are homosexuals,” said the police on Saturday. One of the complaints was filed with Arera police station, by one Anwar Pathan. The second complaint was filed by Social Democratic Party members with Shahjahanabad police […]
NEW DELHI — Film director Vivek Agnihotri has been given ‘Y’ category security with CRPF cover pan India, reported ANI quoting government sources. Agnihotri has been in the news after ‘The Kashmir Files’ hit the screens last week.
JAMMU — A Jammu district judge has restrained by way of temporary injunction from showing the scenes depicting the acts pertaining to martyr Squadron Leader Ravi Khanna in the movie ‘The Kashmir Files’ to be released on March 11. The plaintiff filed the suit for mandatory injunction wherein it is stated that the plaintiff herself […]