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Zohra Sehgal, doyen of Indian cinema, dies IANS, NEW DELHI
gets jazzy for Honey Singh’s video
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geless and timeless in her over seven-decade-long theatre and film career, Zohra Sehgal’s zest for life, wit and charm will continued to inspire generations to come. If Zohra, who died on July 10 at the age of 102, was named the ‘Laadli of the Century’ by the United Nations Population Fund (UNPF)-Laadli Media Awards, she was also labelled a “tireless performer” by her fans and well-wishers. Sehgal was one of seven children of Mumtazullah Khan and Natiqua Begum. After graduating from Lahore's Queen Mary College, she chose career over marriage. Her tryst with showbiz began with dance when she joined
Sonakshi will be seen in a neverseen-before stylish avatar inspired by JLo, wearing biker jackets, crop tops and denim shorts IANS, NEW DELHI
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ctor Sonakshi Sinha will be seen in a new stylish look like Jennifer Lopez for a video titled Superstar, which she has shot for star rapper Yo Yo Honey Singh’s upcoming album. If a source is to be believed, it is not just a video. “It is an eight to 10 minute short film which Yo Yo Honey Singh will be coming out with incorporating his latest songs from his next album. And his “The music first short film is called ‘Superstar’ video is said to which will feature Sonakshi,” said have been shot the source. on a huge scale The Dabangg actor, who has often sported a traditional and in the deserts desi avatar on the big screen, will and on the be seen sporting an extremely stylbeaches of ish look — on the lines of internaCalifornia.” tional singer-actor JLo’s styling. “She will be seen wearing biker jackets, crop tops and denim shorts which is also very similar to Sonakshi’s personal style in real life,” said the source. The music video is said to have been shot on a huge scale in the deserts and on the beaches of California. It also involves a high intensity car chase sequence.
‘Singham Returns’ is tribute to nation
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The bruised soul in ‘Haider’: Shahid NEW DELHI: The much-awaited trailer of Vishal Bardwaj’s latest rendition of Shakespeare (Hamlet), Haider is out. This is Bhardwaj’s third Bollywood version of a Shakespeare play after Omkara and Maqbool had screenplays adapted from Othello and Macbeth. Haider features veteran actors Tabu, Irrfan Khan, Kay Kay Menon, along with the lead pair Shahid Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor. Shahid Kapoor, who plays the lead role, is intense, evil and passionate — everything you need for a Shakespearean tragedy. While there’s little
about Shraddha in the trailer, Tabu marks her presence even in the few small appearances she makes. Kay Kay Menon is impressive as the evil uncle. Two scenes in the trailer especially stand out: first a face-off between Shahid and Tabu, and the other a scene between Shahid and Shraddha. In the face-off scene, Shahid tells Tabu “Maa jab jhooth bole naa, nahi acchi lagti”. The pain and angst in Shahid’s expression are heartwrenching and Tabu too has pulled off the expression of loss very dramatically.
‘Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania’: Bland avatar of ‘DDLJ’ Film: “Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania”; Cast: Varun Dhawan and Alia; Director: Shashank Shekhar; Rating: ***
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MUMBAI: Ajay Devgn, whose new film Singham Returns is releasing this Independence Day Aug 15. Directed by Rohit Shetty, the film is the sequel to the 2011 release Singham. Ajay reprises his role of Bajirao Singham. ”Every year we celebrate Independence Day for the nation and Singham Returns is our tribute to the country,” said the actor. ”If both common man and men in uniform would be like Singham, then the Independence Day celebrations will become more meaningful,” he added.
Uday Shankar in 1935. Zohra appeared in over 20 films. Apart from others, she worked with four generations of Bollywood's famous Kapoor family — from Prithviraj Kapoor to Raj Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor to Ranbir Kapoor, she worked with them all.
hank god for Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt. The soul shivers in fear wondering which disaster zone this bland avatar of Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge would have headed to if these two actors hadn’t steered the rudderless revisionist saga to semblance of sensitivity. Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania takes the Raj and Simran characters, shakes and stirs them and turns them on their head. Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt, two of Bollywood’s most talented contemporary actors, don’t really try to fill
Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol’s shoes. They have better things to do. He, Humpty (yes, that’s what our hero is called) can’t keep it in his pants...his money, that is! He spends it buying a lehenga for the wedding of the girl of his dreams. And the girl Kavya uses the money
to buy him a car of his dreams. When we first meet Humpty, he emerges from a loo behind a sheepish-looking girl. In her introduction scene, Kavya (Alia) is shown trying to bully her father into buying her a Manish Malhotra lehenga for her wedding to the ‘perfect’
NRI. The ‘perfect’ NRI is played by television actor Siddharth Shukla, so exceptionally wooden, that he seems to be carved out of a tree. No one in HSKD seems to feel any real emotions. Clearly, the debutant director is here doing a revisionist version of DDLJ, much in the same way that Sanjay Leela Bhansali did with Romeo and Juliet in Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela.. The creator of the revisionist version of the ‘classic’ lacks the vision to take the original characters to another level from where they originally stood. At mid-point when the girl jumps in bed with the stranger who buys her the lehenga from her dreams, you know once and for all that this pair is beyond repair. Simran would have never done that.