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Rajniesh Duggal To Play Physics Wallah's Pankaj Sijairya Onscreen
The film's writer-director, James A., studied under Sijairya himself, and Duggal says he finished reading the script the same day he agreed to sign on.
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Danny Boyle Says AI Runs 30 Seconds Of His New Film INK
Danny Boyle has confirmed AI appears in his upcoming Netflix film INK for about 30 seconds, used to animate archival photographs and CGI mice, while insisting the technology only works if actors get paid.
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Rakul Preet Singh Cycles Through Seven Looks, Zero Repeats
Rakul Preet Singh's latest run of public appearances reads like a mood board gone rogue, an ivory saree one week, an all-black sequined co-ord the next, and a corset-and-lehenga combo somewhere in between.
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Karan Johar's Birthday Note For Yash Johar Gets Deeply Personal
Karan Johar marked what would have been Yash Johar's birthday with an Instagram post mixing old jokes and a final ventilator-side promise, twenty-two years after his father's death.
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Mirzapur Movie's Overseas Gross Crosses Rs 10 Crore On Day Two
Mirzapur: The Movie added Rs 6 crore overseas on Saturday, taking its worldwide gross past Rs 79 crore in two days, a run led entirely by character actors rather than marquee names.
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Govinda Breaks His Silence On Sunita Ahuja's Affair Claims
Govinda addressed swirling rumours about his marriage to Sunita Ahuja at a Mumbai Dahi Handi event, making a cryptic reference to setting the record straight without directly naming her or her cheating allegations.
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Rapperiya Baalam Says Mirzapur Used His Maharana Pratap Song Without Asking
Rapperiya Baalam has accused the makers of Mirzapur: The Movie of using his song Shoorveer, written for Maharana Pratap, in a gangster scene without permission or credit, and says he'll pursue action.
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Mirzapur Movie Weekend Total Hits Rs 93 Crore On Single Screens
Mirzapur: The Movie's opening weekend closed near Rs 93 crore, per Bollywood Hungama estimates, with Sunday collections jumping to around Rs 37-38 crore and single screens running packed houses across the country.
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Bigg Boss 20 Streams On JioHotstar Before Colors TV Tonight
Bigg Boss 20 premieres on JioHotstar at 9 PM before its Colors TV telecast at 10.30, with Salman Khan teasing a new twist, a hidden room and a contestant list still thick with rumours.
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Masaba Gupta Calls Bipasha Basu's Build Feminine In Pointed Post
Masaba Gupta praised Bipasha Basu's physique as feminine in an Instagram post widely read as a response to Mrunal Thakur's resurfaced 2025 comments calling Bipasha's build 'manly.' Neither actress has directly addressed the exchange.
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Yash's Toxic Faces Rs 300 Crore Loss, Streaming Rights Still Unsold
Toxic's digital rights remain unsold nearly two weeks after release, with offers reportedly down to Rs 30 crore from an earlier Rs 200 crore ask, as industry estimates put the film's total loss at Rs 300 crore.
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B Praak To Sing Daayra's Only Track, Gulzar Writes Lyrics
B Praak has recorded the sole song in Meghna Gulzar's Daayra, penned by Gulzar and composed by Amit Trivedi, according to Pinkvilla, ahead of the film's September 18 release starring Kareena Kapoor Khan and Prithviraj Sukumaran.
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Saif Ali Khan And Kareena Kapoor Twin In White For PUMA
Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan posed solo and together at a PUMA x Jaipur Rugs date night, both in white, ahead of their respective September releases Haiwaan and Daayra.
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Kartik Aaryan's Captain India Starts Shooting In London At Last
Kartik Aaryan's long-delayed Captain India has finally begun shooting in London, with Shimit Amin directing his first feature since Chak De! India. Kartik unveiled his first look as an IAF pilot.
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Karan Johar Recalls Father's Burberry Pun On His Birth Anniversary
Karan Johar honoured his late father Yash Johar's birth anniversary with a post recalling a Burberry jacket joke, his dad's push for him to become a hero, and Yash Johar's final words about kindness before he died in 2004.
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Adnan Sami Says A Film Can Be Called A Hit With Empty Theatres
Adnan Sami tells Komal Nahta that social media manipulation can turn an empty-theatre release into a declared hit, part of a wider riff on how digital platforms have changed music and film criticism.
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Manoj Bajpayee Unveils Gandhi Look For Sudhir Mishra's Next
Manoj Bajpayee's first look as Mahatma Gandhi dropped Sunday for Sudhir Mishra's untitled drama, produced by Anubhav Sinha, focusing on a lesser-known 21-day chapter of India's independence story.
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Oni Sen Steps Away From Asur As Season 3 Begins Shooting
Oni Sen, who directed the first two seasons of Asur, will not return for Season 3. He tells Bollywood Hungama he had nothing fresh left to bring, as showrunner Gaurav Shukla takes over direction.
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Adnan Sami Says Label Fought Him For Six Months Over Lift Karadey
Adnan Sami tells Komal Nahta that his label resisted releasing Lift Karadey for six months, calling it downmarket, before the song broke him into the mainstream and the label asked for a big-budget remix.
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Chandni Bar Turns 25 And The Wound Still Hasn't Closed
Chandni Bar, Madhur Bhandarkar's 2001 film starring Tabu as a bar dancer trapped by caste and circumstance, nears its 25th anniversary on September 28 as sequel speculation involving Katrina Kaif surfaces.
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Bigg Boss Turns 20 With A Same-Night Launch In Six Languages
Bigg Boss Season 20 launches simultaneously across six languages on September 6, with Salman Khan, Sourav Ganguly, Kichcha Sudeep, Nagarjuna, Vijay Sethupathi and Mohanlal each hosting their own edition the same night.
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Mammootty's OM First Look Lands On His Birthday, September 7
Mammootty's first look from Dhanush-starrer 'OM' drops on September 7, his birthday, with a poster teasing 'Big M arrives' and a mysterious 'Siya Entry' line still unexplained.
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Mirzapur Movie Jumps 28% On Saturday, Nears ₹56 Crore In Two Days
Mirzapur: The Movie added Rs 31.3 crore on Saturday after a Rs 24.47 crore opening, taking its two-day total past Rs 55 crore, with trade projecting a Rs 90 crore-plus weekend.
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Meet Tepr, The French Producer Who Just Became A Father With Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman's partner Tanguy Destable, an electronic musician who performs as Tepr, welcomed their first child together in Paris last month, per a source cited by People.
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Karan Johar's Mirzapur Verdict Lands As Ticket Sales Nearly Double
Karan Johar praised Mirzapur: The Movie on Instagram as its box office momentum builds, with BookMyShow ticket sales rising 59.95 percent on Saturday as the streaming franchise proves it travels to cinemas.
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Netflix Sets September 18 As Lust Stories 3 Release Date
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.
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Sanjay Gupta Recalls Shah Rukh Khan's Defiant Line To The Underworld
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.
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Hanuman Ansh Posts India's Biggest Fifth Friday Ever, Tops Dhurandhar
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.
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Twenty-Five Years On, Dil Chahta Hai's Design Still Holds Up
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.
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Mohanlal's Next Film With Vishnu Mohan Titled Operation Ganga
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.
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