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The Mumbai filmmaker raised roughly seven lakh rupees of her ten lakh budget through crowdfunding, with contributions ranging from fifty-one rupees to one and a half lakh.
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The Mumbai filmmaker raised roughly seven lakh rupees of her ten lakh budget through crowdfunding, with contributions ranging from fifty-one rupees to one and a half lakh.

Netflix has confirmed Lust Stories 3 will stream from September 18, with Vikramaditya Motwane, Kiran Rao, Shakun Batra and Vishal Bhardwaj each helming a segment featuring Radhika Apte, Vijay Varma and Ali Fazal.

Sanjay Gupta says Shah Rukh Khan told underworld figures to shoot him rather than take orders, a claim that lines up with older, well-documented accounts of threats the actor faced in the late 1990s.

Johnny Flynn and Aimee Lou Wood premiered their unhinged Dostoevsky biopic The Idiot(s) at Telluride, telling The Hollywood Reporter about a scrapped Russian accent, a midnight Welsh idea and a tarot card that set the tone for the whole shoot.

Hanuman Ansh has logged the biggest fifth Friday collection by an Indian film, per DNA India, beating Dhurandhar's Rs 8.50 crore with Rs 10 crore. The Rs 2 crore film's net now stands at Rs 82.88 crore.

Jeff Zucker, who once ran CNN Worldwide and NBCUniversal, makes his screen debut playing himself in A24's Primetime, opposite Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen, at its Venice premiere.

As Dil Chahta Hai turns 25, its hairstylist and production designer reveal how small, considered choices, from Aamir Khan's goatee to Siddharth's bohemian room, shaped a film still studied by working technicians today.

Liam and Noel Gallagher premiered their Oasis documentary Don't Look Back in Anger at Venice on Saturday, drawing an eight-minute ovation after skipping the earlier press conference entirely.

Mirzapur: The Movie collected Rs 28.11 crore net on its opening day, becoming Excel Entertainment's biggest-ever opener and the third-highest Hindi debut of 2026, per Koimoi's tally of box office records.

Alexandra Artrip, who played young Antonia in 1998's Practical Magic, has responded to fan anger over the sequel recasting her and Evan Rachel Wood with Maisie Williams and Joey King, urging supporters to give the new film a chance.

Mirzapur: The Movie opened to Rs 28.11 crore, and trade data compiled by Koimoi shows Excel Entertainment needs Rs 228.27 crore more from it to cross Rs 1,500 crore in lifetime net collections as a producer.

Mohanlal and director Vishnu Mohan have unveiled the title of their upcoming film, Operation Ganga, named after India's real evacuation mission from war-torn Ukraine, with Arjun Rampal and Adil Hussain also on board.

Khushi Kapoor has bought a 180 sq ft apartment in Mumbai's Bandra West for Rs 63 lakh, registration documents show, in a neighbourhood long favoured by Bollywood's biggest names.

Karishma Tanna revealed her newborn son's name, Ved Tanna Bangera, on Janmashtami with a heartfelt Instagram post. The baby, born July 29, is her first child with husband Varun Bangera.

A fresh report claims Salman Khan has set aside two weeks to appear in Arhaan Khan's Bollywood debut, an action film directed by Anirudh Iyer. No official word yet.

Bethlehem Kudumba Unit crossed Rs 100 crore in Kerala in just 15 days, tying Vaazha 2's record, per Pinkvilla trade estimates, and is holding firm despite I Am Game's release.

Koimoi's 2026 box office trackers for Bollywood, Sandalwood and Punjabi films use a common Hit-to-Flop grading system, though the site itself flags the underlying numbers as unverified estimates.

Vishal Chaturvedi's devotional drama Hanuman Ansh has crossed Rs 50 crore at the domestic box office four weeks after release, with collections climbing even as its screen count fell sharply.

Arshad Warsi plays double duty in Jeevan Ya Bheema Con?, a whodunnit comedy built around a missing man, a supposed Rs 20 crore diamond stash, and a widow who refuses to believe any of it.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Love & War, starring Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt and Vicky Kaushal, has completed its shoot and is targeting a January 21, 2027 release, per Pinkvilla, with post-production now underway.

Shiv Thakare, known for Bigg Boss Marathi 2 and Bigg Boss 16, will make his film debut in Raktneeti, a Marathi crime drama from Prradip Khairwar, per Bollywood Hungama.

Vishesh Sharma closed with a 69 to win the Telangana Golconda Masters at 21-under, his maiden DP World PGTI title, edging Amardeep Malik by one shot at his home course in Hyderabad.

Abhishek Pathak and Sandeep Francis's short thriller Switch Off, set on the streets of Kochi, has been picked for the 32nd L'Étrange Festival in Paris after a run at BIFAN in South Korea.

Cédric Kahn's Venice competition entry A Place To Heal dramatises life inside an adolescent psychiatric ward, drawing on real case histories gathered by co-writer Kahina Le Querrec over six months of research.