Friday News - Desimartini

Is Farhan Akhtar Dating Shibani Dandekar After Calling Quits With Shraddha Kapoor?

According to the rumours, it's all over between Farhan Akhtar and Shraddha Kapoor so now after divorcing with hairstylist Adhuna Bhabani. Farhan Akhtar is seeking for a new relationship. As the Rock On star is believed to have moved on to get up close and personal with Shibani Dandekar. Yes, you heard it right, Farhan and Shraddha are not together anymore. If we go by the reports, Farhan and the 37-year old Shibani are now a couple. The new B-Town couple was spotted in London looking extremel...

August 10, 2018 18:24:31 PM

Karan Johar Announces His Next 'Takht' Will Star Ranveer Singh, Kareena Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Anil Kapoor, And Janhvi Kapoor

Trust Karan Johar to cast some of the biggest stars from Bollywood to tell a compelling tale. After days of speculation, the cat’s finally out. Karan has announced his next directorial, Takht, and it boasts of the biggest casting coup of modern times. Making the announcement, he also shared a poster of the film. Takht (meaning the throne and implies a seat of power), is a drama set in the Mughal times and will star Ranveer Singh, Kareena Kapoor Khan and Alia Bhatt in the lead. They will...

August 10, 2018 18:24:12 PM

Abhishek Bachchan Reviews Wife Aishwarya Rai’s Fanney Khan, Here Is What He Says

Abhishek Bachchan is a huge fan of wife, actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. If we have heard Abhishek’s rather witty comments on Aishwarya’s fabulous Cannes appearances in the past, this time the actor has spoken about ‘the Mrs’ performance. With Fanney Khan releasing this week, Abhishek has given his review of the film. While he is effusive in his praise for Anil Kapoor, Divya Dutta, Rajkummar Rao and Pihu Sand, he also reserves a special ‘wow’ for Aishwarya. W...

August 03, 2018 18:53:09 PM

Dhadak Box Office Day 5 Collection: Janhvi Kapoor & Ishaan Khatter’s Film Is Doing Steady Business

Bollywood’s maverick producer Karan Johar has done it again. His latest film, Dhadak, has earned the love of the audience despite mixed reviews. Directed by Shashank Khaitan, Dhadak is the debut of Sridevi’s daughter Janhvi Kapoor and Shahid Kapoor’s half brother Ishaan Khatter. Film trade analyst Taran Adarsh has tweeted the film’s business figures and it’s definitely better than the expectations. As per Adarsh, the film starring Ishaan Khatter and Janhvi Kapoor...

July 27, 2018 17:05:58 PM

Irrfan Khan Watched His Film Karwaan In London & This Is His Reaction

A special screening for the film Karwaan was organised for star Irrfan Khan at London, where he is battling a rare cancer. The actor watched the film and even offered some feedback, a new report says. According to Mumbai Mirror, Irrfan, who has been diagnosed with neuroendocrine tumour and is undergoing treatment in the British capital, was shown the film at Henry Wood House, a business centre in London. Dialogue writer Hussain Dalal told Mirror, “He seemed happy to see me. His wife (Su...

August 03, 2018 18:54:26 PM

Sanju Box Office: The Ranbir Kapoor Film Misses The 300 Crore Mark By An Inch At the End Of Week 2

It has been two weeks since Ranbir Kapoor-starrer Sanju released and the film has been a superhit. The film has fallen short of Rs 300-crore mark by Rs 10 crore and is now facing fresh competition at the ticket windows in the form of Diljit Dosanjh, Taapsee Pannu’s Soorma. At present, the Sanjay Dutt biopic has earned a phenomenal Rs 290 crore within a span of two weeks, according to a BoxOfficeIndia report. After smashing records for highest opener, weekend opener, single day earnings ...

July 13, 2018 17:12:07 PM

Big B Is Amazed At Upcoming Mulk’s Taapsee Pannu’s Voracious Energy For Films

At his prime, Amitabh Bachchan would do two to three shifts in a day, working in multiple films at the same time, putting a huge strain on his health. Advancing age has meant that he does far few films but is still spoken about his energy. However, he has the enthusiasm of a child in him and never tires of complimenting his younger co-stars for their dedication to their craft, their discipline and focus. No wonder, he thinks rather highly of his Pink and Badla co-star Taapsee Pannu. Sharing t...

August 03, 2018 18:53:51 PM

Dr Haathi Of Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashma AKA Kavi Kumar Azad Passed Away!

TV actor Kavi Kumar Azad, who was best known for his role of Dr. Hansraj Haathi in the popular sitcom Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashma, died on Monday afternoon after he slipped into a coma last night, reports claimed. A Spotboye report said Azad was unwell and was admitted to Wockhardt Hospital at Mira Road. He suffered a heart attack. Apart from working on the small screen, Azad had also featured in a few films including Aamir Khan’s Mela and Funtoosh. He was an integral part of Taara...

July 13, 2018 17:01:56 PM

Rajkumar Hirani On Sanju: I Have Not Given Sanjay Dutt A Clean Chit

Rajkumar Hirani is the Bollywood film-maker with the Midas touch. Each of the four films he directed over the past decade and a half broke box-office records and won critical acclaim. Hirani’s new film Sanju, which opens in cinemas on Friday, is expected to get the widest release for a Bollywood movie this year. The biopic on the troubled life of Sanjay Dutt, the leading man in Hirani’s first two films, is a departure from the director’s track record of comedies with a socia...

June 29, 2018 17:26:43 PM

Sushant Singh Rajput Now Owns Land On The Moon Which Means Chanda Mama Is Not So far Anymore

Sushant Singh Rajput is reaching for the Moon, literally. It could be a unique way to promote his film “Chanda Mama Door Ke” or simply a dream come true for his inner nerd, Sushant has bought what he claims to be a piece of lunar land on the far side of the Moon, in a region called the Mare Muscoviense, or the “Sea of Muscovy”. The actor is already an owner of an advance telescope called the Meade 14” LX600, which can help him keep an eye on this prime piece of...

June 29, 2018 17:22:54 PM

Ranbir Kapoor Brings Back Munna Bhai MBBS Nostalgia In This New Promo Of Sanju!

Rajkumar Hirani has a perfect little something to kick off your weekend on a sweet note. The Bollywood director shared a clip from his upcoming film, Sanju, in which lead actor Ranbir Kapoor has recreated Sanjay Dutt’s famous classroom scene from Munnabhai MBBS. “Hope you have as much fun watching this scene from Munna Bhai M.B.B.S as I had in recreating it after 15 years,” Hirani wrote in a tweet. In the clip, Ranbir looks like a complete carbon copy of Sanjay, from the hi...

June 22, 2018 17:43:13 PM

Ranveer And Deepika Are Definitely Getting Married And Here's The Date !

If Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh’s increasing social media PDA is any clue, then something wonderful is afoot for the Bollywood couple. A new report suggests that Deepika and Ranveer, who have been together since 2013, will tie the knot later this year, in either Italy or Bengaluru, or both. Preparations for the Deepika, Ranveer wedding are fully on, a source told Filmfare. “The maximum time was taken to decide the date. Both Ranveer and Deepika want everything about their ma...

June 22, 2018 17:48:02 PM

Salman Khan Has This To Say On How Ranbir Kapoor's Sanju Can Be Improved

Bollywood star Salman Khan has seen the trailer of Sanju, a biopic on friend Sanjay Dutt’s life, and believes the actor should have been a part of his story, particulary in the last portions. Ranbir Kapoor plays Sanjay Dutt in the film directed by Rajkumar Hirani. Ranbir Kapoor has played Dutt’s role in the film, that chronicles his life from his young years to his life after jail. “For Sanju, I was thinking why is somebody else playing this bit? The last 8-10 years. You can...

June 15, 2018 16:28:42 PM

Twitter Is Not Taking Very Kindly Priyanka Chopra’s Quantico Portraying Indians As Terrorists

A recent episode of Priyanka Chopra’s television show, Quantico, in which ‘Indian nationalists’ plot a terrorist attack in Manhattan with the intention of blaming it on Pakistan, has angered several people online. Fans of the actor and the show posted comments on Twitter slamming their decision to include such a plot. In the episode, which aired on June 1, an MIT professor acquires uranium with which he plans to make a nuclear bomb. An India-Pakistan summit to be held in New...

June 08, 2018 18:34:21 PM

Could Raazi's Sehmat Khan Prove To Be Alia Bhatt's Toughest Challenge So Far?

It would not be an understatement to say that Alia Bhatt is one of the most interesting actors in Bollywood today. In the last six years since she made her debut, she has proven that when thrown a challenge, she has always come back a notch higher. In Meghna Gulzar’s Raazi, she will be seen playing one of the most complex characters in her short career. Let’s try and decipher who Sehmat Khan of Raazi could have been - a young Kashmiri Muslim girl, daughter of a businessman, who ag...

May 11, 2018 16:28:07 PM

After Sanju, Ranbir and Sanjay Dutt Unite Again For Shamshera But There's A Twist

Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt has been roped in to play the role of a “roaring villain” against Ranbir Kapoor in Shamshera. Yash Raj Films took to Twitter to make the revelation, writing, “We’ve got an ultimate casting coup! Our upcoming action adventure #Shamshera has a roaring villain against #RanbirKapoor. It’s the one & only #SanjayDutt | @duttsanjay | @karanmalhotra21 | @ShamsheraMovie” We've got an ultimate casting coup! Our upcoming action adve...

May 11, 2018 16:27:42 PM

Ali Zafar threatens to file defamation suit against Meesha Shafi, jam session video leaks

Pakistani actor-singer Ali Zafar has demanded that Meesha Shafi should apologise for accusing him of sexual misconduct, failing which he will file a defamation suit amounting to Rs 100 crore against her, Pakistani news channel Geo TV reported . On April 19, Shafi had accused Zafar of sexual harassment in a Twitter post. A few hours later, Zafar had posted his denial of all claims made by the 36-year-old singer. According to a report in Geo News, Ali has sought an apology from Meesha, failing ...

April 27, 2018 18:57:43 PM

Avengers Infinity War Has Already Broken A Record In India Before It's Release

Just a few hours after tickets for the highly anticipated Marvel Studios’ film Avengers: Infinity War went live on April 22, thousands of tickets were sold out. Not just this, the overall response to ticket bookings for the star-studded film has been “extremely encouraging” across formats. Not since the release of Baahubali: The Conclusion have pre-release sales been this high. Twenty two superheroes, including Robert Downey Jr’s Iron Man, Mark Ruffalo’s The Hulk...

April 27, 2018 18:58:00 PM

Saroj Khan Responds To The Uproar Around Her Casting Couch Comments

Veteran choreographer Saroj Khan has apologised for defending the casting couch culture. Addressing the media, Saroj had said the Indian film industry “at least” provided jobs and did not abandon women after raping them. “I have already said I am sorry. But you don’t know the question that was asked... And now there’s so much ruckus,” Khan told PTI as a video of her interaction with the media did the rounds of television networks and social media. In commen...

April 27, 2018 18:59:43 PM

Pakistani artiste Ali Zafar accused of sexually harassing singer Meesha Shafi

Pakistani singer-actor Meesh Shafi, who made her film debut with Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, has alleged actor-singer Ali Zafar of sexually harassing her during their projects together. She wrote a long note on Twitter where she claimed that the harassment did not take place when she was young or a newcomer in the industry. She tweeted, “Sharing this because I believe that by speaking out about my own experience of sexual harassment, I will break the culture of silen...

April 20, 2018 11:08:23 AM

Salman Khan And Priyanka Chopra Share The Screen Again As Bharat Shooting Begins

Bollywood star Salman Khan began shooting of his next Bharat on Monday in Mumbai. Directed by Ali Abbas Zafar, Bharat is an official adaptation of 2014 South Korean film Ode to My Father. Salman has been paired opposite Priyanka Chopra in the film. On joining the Bharat family, Priyanka said in a press statement, “Bharat it is! I’m looking forward to begin shooting this film and working with Salman and Ali again after a considerable time. I’ve learnt a lot from them in our p...

April 20, 2018 11:10:50 AM

Baaghi 2 Box Office: Tiger Shroff's Film Becomes Second Highest Grosser Of The Year So Far

Bollywood actors Tiger Shroff and rumoured girlfriend Disha Patani must be on a roll: Their latest film Baaghi 2 has become the second highest grosser of the year, surpassing Kartik Aaryan’s surprise hit Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety. Directed by Ahmed Khan, the film is already the highest opener and second highest weekend opener of 2018 and highest earner for the actor as well Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Padmaavat remains the top grosser and top weekend opener of the year with Rs 286.24 cr...

April 06, 2018 16:17:50 PM

As Salman Khan Spends His First Night In Jail, Here's What Went On At His House In Mumbai

Even as Salman Khan spent the night in Jodhpur Central Jail after being convicted in the 20-year-old blackbuck poaching case and sentenced to five years of jail term, close friends visited his residence at Galaxy Apartment, Mumbai, to meet his family. Filmmaker Sajid Nadiadwala even cancelled the success party of his latest, Baaghi 2 , and left for Jodhpur late Thursday. Salman’s bail hearing is expected to come up for hearing on Friday and he will also be allowed to meet his family. Hi...

April 06, 2018 17:37:13 PM

Padmaavat Sets A New Record For IMAX In India

Bollywood film Padmaavat, the first Indian movie to release in IMAX 3D, has garnered a record $461,000 (over Rs 29 crore) opening weekend box office from 12 IMAX theatres in India. The Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s film has earned Td 110 crore in domestic market over the extended weekend. The figures were announced by IMAX Corporation and Viacom18 Motion Pictures on Tuesday via a statement. Directed by filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Padmaavat is the first Indian local-language title release...

January 30, 2018 13:39:53 PM

Box Office Report: Protests Do Little To Dampen Padmaavat's Decent Start!

Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s controversial film, Padmaavat, has received a decent start, reports say. As per film trade analyst Taran Adarsh, the film has collected Rs 24 crore, including the paid previews, on day one. Despite non-screening in few states and protests/disturbances, #Padmaavat fares VERY WELL on Day 1... Had it been a peaceful/smooth all-India release, the biz would’ve touched ₹ 28 / ₹ 30 cr... Wed [limited preview screenings] 5 cr, Thu 19 cr. Total: ₹ 24 cr. I...

January 30, 2018 13:46:26 PM

Here's How Much Padmaavat Earned From Paid Previews And How Many People Have Seen The Film Till Now!

Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s controversial film has garnered Rs 5 crore on Wednesday through paid previews. Film trade analyst Taran Adarsh shared the business figures of the film on Twitter. Despite challenges and extremely limited preview shows [which commenced in evening], #Padmaavat collects ₹ 5 cr in previews screenings on Wed. — taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) January 25, 2018 Padmaavat maker Viacom 18 Motion Pictures today said one million people had watched the film ...

January 30, 2018 13:41:04 PM

Was Deepika Padukone Paid More Than Ranveer Singh And Shahid Kapoor For Padmaavat? She Answers!

Deepika Padukone said “yes” when asked if she was paid more than co-stars Ranveer Singh and Shahid Kapoor for the controversial film Padmaavat. She spoke about it when she became part of TV show BFFs with Vogue, read a statement from channel Colors Infinity. She became a part of the show with her sister Anisha. On the show’s Say It or Strip It segment, host and actor Neha Dhupia asked, “How much were you paid for Padmaavat?” Deepika diplomatically avoided answeri...

January 30, 2018 13:42:20 PM