Priyanka Chopra simply knows how to get it right. Every time. The Baywatch star is currently in Paris, soaking up the sun and chilling with the likes of iconic fashion designer Giorgio Armani, Hollywood stars Kate Winslet, and Sophia Loren among others.
The actor front-lined the Paris Fashion Week and left no doubt that no matter what her film’s box office results are, she has made it big in the east as well as the west.
Check out her Paris diary.
Quite oddly, in the revenge flick Mom, Ma’am Sridevi, portraying a biology schoolteacher, attempts to define six-pack abs to her students. Points she – and the camera zooms in dutifully – to a poster of a shirtless Salman Khan. Ouch. Would Ma’am have still waxed eloquent on the Khan’s body Gibraltar, in the wake of the no-show at the cash counters of Tubelight? Doubtful.
The image has always been the thing for the Bollywood mainstream mughals. Tinker with yesteryear’s ‘angry young man’ syndrome of Amitabh Bachchan or the arms-akimbo romantic balladeering of Shah Rukh Khan, and there’s a hair-pin bend ahead. Drive with caution.
For sure, conceded that entrenched images do become a drag. As it happens, though, a redesigned superstar requires expert gear shifts – or genius scripting – which Kabir Khan did carry off with elan, thank you very much to Bajrangi Bhaijaan. The backdrop of the ongoing Indo-Pak conflict served as a topical backdrop. And the innocent, buttoned-up 50-year-old virgin romancing a Kareena Kapoor did emit the sparks of an experiment conducted in a school chemistry lab.
And in Tubelight, the father drinks himself to death and drives off a cliff, a tragedy dispensed within a split-second shot. As for the mother figure – the traditional source of the emotional tear-ducts– tchah, who needs to see born-again Nirupa Roys? Salman Khan doesn’t need his elders and betters, to unlock your tear-ducts.
Ranveer Singh turned 32 on 6 July and the actor gifted himself a brand new set of wheels. We spotted a very delighted Ranveer rolling out his new matte white Aston Martin (is that a Rapide S?) which comes with a price tag of about Rs 3.30 crore.
He later took his co-star, Deepika Padukone out for a spin in his new car.
Check out pictures of Ranveer and his hot new acquisition.
Tiger Shroff and Nawazuddin Siddiqui arrived on the sets of Lil Champs to promote their upcoming film, Munna Michael.
While Tiger is an accomplished dancer, it was fun to watch the non-dancer, Nawaz take centre stage. Take a look:
As the “lady-oriented” film of the year, Lipstick Under My Burkha has been creating a huge storm (in the minds of CBFC personnel chiefly). The film is set to release at last on 21 July. So we caught up with director Alankrita Shrivastava to talk about everything from her view on representing diversity in our movies to being a woman artist in India to the film’s international release.
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