QuickE: B-Town Bids Adieu to Shashi Kapoor; Abhishek Slams Troll
‘Monsoon Shootout’ comes out with an interactive trailer, and other stories.
1. SRK, Ranbir, Saif, Bachchan at Shashi Kapoor’s Cremation
Actor Shashi Kapoor’s body was moved from his residence in Juhu to the Santa Cruz crematorium on Tuesday afternoon for cremation. According to reports Shashi Kapoor’s body was wrapped in a tricolour inside the crematorium. The late legendary actor’s friends from the film industry and family members were seen coming in to pay their last respects.
2. Trolling Aaradhya? You Have Abhishek Bachchan to Reckon With First
Abhishek Bachchan is known for his no-nonsense approach when it comes to dealing with trolls. He can be scathing and witty at the same time as a woman, who tried to pick on his daughter Aaradhya, found out.
3. Monsoon Shootout: Wanna Choose How This Cop-Killer Thriller Ends?
Priyanka Chopra took to Twitter to launch the trailer of Monsoon Shootout. Starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vijay Verma and Neeraj Kabi, it traces a cop-and-killer-game revolving around the moment when a cop has a split second to decide whether he wants to shoot the man in front or not. However, this is not the USP of the Amit Kumar directorial.
The Monsoon Shootout trailer is being pegged as India’s first interactive trailer, where you - the audience - decide whether the cop should shoot or not. And as expected, the decision would lead to different chain of events.
4. Protestors Vandalise the House of ‘Game of Ayodhya’ Director
In another case of ‘distorted facts’ and ‘bounties’, a group of protestors from the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and the RSS backed Hindu Jagran Manch (HJM) allegedly blackened the walls of Sunil Singh’s residence, director of the controversial film Game of Ayodhya in Aligarh on Sunday. As a sign of protest, the Hindutva activists also put a lock on the filmmaker’s house. The film, essentially a docu-drama, Game of Ayodhya, tells an interfaith love story between a Hindu man and a Muslim woman in 1992 in Ayodhya against the backdrop of the Babri Masjid demolition. According to the protestors, the film depicts the Lord Ram statue being installed in a ‘deceitful’ manner in Ayodhya.
5. Work as FTII Chairman My Biggest Contribution: Gajendra Chauhan
Actor Gajendra Chauhan on Tuesday termed his controversy-filled stint as the chairman of Film & Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune as his "biggest contribution to the film industry".
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