QuickE: Kangana Injured Again; Padmavati Release Banned in Gujarat
Dileep named as accused in actor abduction case, and more stories.
1. Kangana Ranaut Injured Again on the Sets of ‘Manikarnika’
Kangana Ranaut had a ligament tear while shooting an action sequence for her film Manikarnika in Jodhpur. The accident took place when Kangana was performing a shot in Fort Mehrangarh, Jodhpur, where Rani Laxmi Bai is shown to jump off a 40 feet wall with Damodar her child tied to her back on to a horse back. It’s said that, Kangana didn't land properly and in an attempt to save the child from any injury ended up hurting her ankle.
2. Poll-Bound Gujarat Bans the Release of ‘Padmavati’
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Wednesday declared that the his government would not allow release of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Padmavati in the poll-bound state.
3. Dileep Named Accused; Former Wife Key Witness in Chargesheet
The Kerala Police team, probing the actress abduction case, on Wednesday submitted the chargesheet which has named Malayalam superstar Dileep as eighth among the 12 accused and his former wife, actress Manju Warrier, as a key witness.
Pulsar Suni, who master-minded the kidnap in February this year, is the first accused and the charges slapped include rape and conspiracy.
4. Simi Garewal to Mediate With Maharani Padmini Devi for ‘Padmavati’
In a surprising and delightfully hope-giving move, the very elegant Simi Garewal, a self-proclaimed diehard fan of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s cinema, has stepped forward to mediate peace with the highly influential Maharani Padmini of Jaipur on behalf of the beleaguered Padmavati team.
Informed sources tell us that Simi, a long-standing friend of the Maharani took it on herself to broker peace for Bhansali.
5. Winter Comes Calling for Iranian ‘Game of Thrones’ Hacker
Remember those nail-biting days when hackers threatened HBO to pay up or risk the leak of crucial plot points of Game of Thrones Season 7? Well, justice has caught up with them at last. A 29-year-old Iran-based hacker, Behzad Mesri, also known as Skote Vahshat, has been charged by US prosecutors with hacking into cable TV network HBO and stealing episodes and plot summaries of popular unaired programmes, including Game of Thrones.
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