1. Shah Rukh Khan Visits Ram Charan’s ‘Bruce Lee: The Fighter’ Set
Shah Rukh Khan visited the sets of Bruce Lee: The Fighter in Hyderabad, which is an upcoming Telugu action film being directed by Srinu Vaitla, starring Ram Charan and Rakul Preet Singh. According to reports all hell broke lose when King Khan dropped by during the shoot. The girls on the set couldn’t get enough of the superstar and took countless selfies with him. Ram Charan showed Shah Rukh some parts of the film’s title song and shared pictures of SRK’s visit via Facebook.
2. Amitabh Bachchan Was Chased By a Tiger For 4 Kms in Mumbai
Superstar Amitabh Bachchan is Maharashtra’s ambassador for Tiger conservation. Interestingly, while he was attending the ongoing wildlife week, Big B vehicle was chased by a tiger for 4 kms, which is quite unusual given how reclusive the big cats really are.
A tiger chased me for 4 kms in the heart of Mumbai. What an incredible experience !! Will give more details later. Ek tiger ne humein 4 km tak khadera. Mumbai ke beecho beech.
–Amitabh Bachchan
3. Sridevi’s Daughter Khushi’s Pics Go Viral
Sridevi and Boney Kapoor’s daughter Khushi’s picture of kissing American pop artist Jack Gilinsky has gone viral. She obviously had a crazy fan-girl moment when she met him. Khushi shared the pic via Instagram and called it ‘one of the best moments of her life’. Even though the photograph was taken a few months back, for some reason not many had spotted it then.
4. Danny Boyle’s Warning Against the ‘Terrifying Power’ of Tech Giants
Director of the Steve Jobs biopic Danny Boyle, had just finished reading the Dave Eggers novel titled The Circle, set in the near-future in which one vast Twitter-Facebook-Apple encompassing Internet company controls almost all perceivable platforms of digital communication. That’s when Scott Rudin handed him the script for Steve Jobs. According to Hollywood Reporter the filmmaker spoke about this at a promotional event for the film in London-
[The Circle] was terrifying. It was one of the factors I had in doing this. I thought, this is so fucking incredible, because it’s so benign. What are the drawbacks? But if you understand history, you know there will be drawbacks.
– Danny Boyle, Filmmaker
Referring to three of the world’s biggest tech giants, Boyle also said-
These companies are so powerful now that governments are running scared. They have such influence around the world, they’ve replaced petrochemical companies, pharmaceutical companies, they’re bigger than all of them put together and they have tremendous, terrifying power and it’s important that artists and writers are not cowed by them and if that means they’re accused of being opportunistic then so be it.
– Danny Boyle, Filmmaker
Read the full report here - HollywoodReporter.com
5. Ashley Judd Reveals Her Experience of Being Sexually Harassed by a Studio Mogul
InVariety’s latest Power of Women issue, Hollywood actor Ashley Judd has shared a story about being sexually harassed by a studio mogul. Apparently he tried to get Judd to watch him while taking a shower. This is the first time that she has shared this story in public. According to Variety she said-
I was sexually harassed by one of our industry’s most famous, admired-slash-reviled bosses. I was making Kiss the Girls at the time, and here I was, a declared feminist. I had completed a minor in what was then called women’s studies, which we now call gender studies. And yet I did not recognize at the time what was happening to me. It took years before I could evaluate that incident and realise that there was something incredibly wrong and illegal about it. And I think that’s what’s happening in Hollywood with regard to female crew members, above-the-line and below-the-line talent, and pay disparity. We’re individually and collectively coming to a realisation and acceptance that this is an entrenched part of reality, and I think that talking about it is essential to the process of becoming aware, accepting that this is reality and then ultimately taking action.
Read the full story here - variety.com
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