Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly

November 28, 2015
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Atif Aslam’s track Dilkare from the upcoming Pakistani movie Ho Mann Jahaan was premiered on ARY last week. His latest release earned the expected great reviews from local publications and his fans around the world. Aslam romanticizes nature, particularly in Chitral in the endearing music video.  Ho Mann Jahaan, which is Asim Raza’s film debut, releases on January 1, 2016.

Game of Thrones season 6 release date: HBO confirms Jon Snow is alive and returning next April.

Adele revealed that she’d love to work with the rapper on a remix of his hit Hotline Bling. “I really want us to do an official remix,” Adele said. “I love Drake. I love Drake so much. I even got the coat that’s in the video -- I got it delivered the other day, I ordered it. The red one.”  The good news: Drake seems to be a fan of Adele, too. On Saturday night (Nov. 21), he posted an illustration of himself with the “Hello” singer on Instagram, along with the caption “Me and my main ting just coolin.”

Top Bollywood actor Aamir Khan said he understands why his wife wants to leave India. He said he shares her unease at the country’s growing climate of intolerance. “She fears for her child. She fears about what the atmosphere around us will be. She feels scared to open the newspapers every day,” Khan said in remarks at the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards in New Delhi. “You feel why this is happening, you feel low. That sense does exist in me.” The actor referred to the lynching in late September of a 50-year-old Muslim man in a village near New Delhi, carried out by a mob enraged by rumors that the man had butchered a cow and stored beef at his home. (Cows are considered sacred animals by Hindus.)

Actress-filmmaker Nandita Das is returning to direction after a gap of almost six years with the life-story of Pakistani writer Saadat Hasan Manto and she says internationally acclaimed actor Irrfan Khan has expressed his desire to play the lead in the film. Nandita says Irrfan, who himself is a Manto fan and has read a lot of the his work, is a sensitive actor and will be able to pull off the role very effortlessly.

Eros International and Sanjay Leela Bhansali today launched the trailer of the magnum opus, at a popular suburban multiplex. The trailer was received with an overwhelming response, as the audience and fans were completely arrested and spellbound by it. On the occasion said Sanjay Leela Bhansali, “Bajirao Mastani has been a story I have been yearning to tell. I have lived with it for several years and finally after a decade I this dream is being realized. Bajirao Mastani is a very intense love story...the dilemma of a man in love. Making this film has given me immense joy.” Ranveer Singh said: “Bajirao Mastani is a once-in-a-lifetime film. Mr. Bhansali has taken me through layers of emotions, that I did not even know existed in me as an actor.” Deepika Padukone added: “This film is definitely the toughest of my career. To play the legendary Mastani was such a dream and Sanjay sir knew exactly how he wanted me to play it. He is a director who pushes you and helps you discover something within yourself that you didn’t know existed,” she said.

Fashion lovers are invited to make their next stylish purchase while experiencing cutting-edge technology at The Galleria on Al Maryah Island, Abu Dhabi, the capital’s premier shopping and dining destination, as it brings back the unique and interactive Virtual Style Pod between November 19th, 2015 and January 2016 after a successful inaugural run. An activation exclusive to the Middle East, the Virtual Style Pod is an augmented reality “dressing room” through which guests will experience a new and futuristic approach to shopping: viewing themselves in an array of stylish outfits without the need to actually try them on. Shoppers can navigate through the wide selection of fashion items while standing in the pod to create an ensemble suited to their own personal style. The latest in 3D body-mapping technology meets cutting-edge fabric simulation, creating a realistic 360° view for shoppers to then see themselves in the selected outfits.

An absent Taylor Swift dominated the American Music Awards, winning three prizes, including album of the year and song of the year. One Direction also fared well, being named favourite group and artist of the year, for the second year in a row.

Indian people do not approve of extremism: Indian filmmaker Muzaffar Ali said. About his latest release Jaanisaar, that did not do great at the box office, he said it was released earlier than it should have been, and pushed in between other releases. “It doesn’t matter to me whether a project fares well at the box office. What matters is that a film has to somehow reach people. These days it has become very easy to do that. There are avenues like the internet. The idea is to enable as many people to see the movie as possible.”


November 28, 2015
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