Just when you thought the hotly-anticipated clash between India and Pakistan in the ICC World Twenty20 clash on March 19 couldn’t get any more exciting comes news that actor Amitabh Bachchan will open the match with his rendition of the National Anthem. The Pakistani anthem will be sung by Shafaqat Amanat Ali.
It was a bad weekend for Donald Trump in celebrity punditry. Rapper T.I., aka Clifford Joseph Harris, late Sunday became the latest entertainer to unload some VIP venom on Mr Trump.
The Grammy winner posted a video Sunday night on Twitter with a profanity-laced message for the GOP front-runner. “(Expletive) you and (expletive) what you stand for,” he said. “Nobody who supports me will support you.” Actor Johnny Depp - who played the mogul in an hour-long mockumentary - called Mr Trump a “brat” during a talk at Arizona State University. And R&B singer John Legend got into a Twitter fight with Donald Trump, Jr., calling the GOP candidate a “racist.” Even one of Mr Trump’s bigger celebrity endorsers this weekend waffled a bit on his support for the GOP candidate. Former boy bander Aaron Carter, who previously tweeted his membership on Team Trump, gave a more nuanced view in an interview with GQ magazine. Like, he’s not OK with Mr Trump’s stance against gay marriage, he said, or his plan to build a wall on the Mexican border.
Filmmaker Karan Johar, known for delivering family blockbusters like Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham..., said that his forthcoming production Kapoor And Sons is the most identifiable film of his banner Dharma Productions. Karan, who was present at an event in Mumbai to unveil his limited edition jewellery line with Mumbai-based jewellery label Gehna, said: “Kapoor And Sonsis a very beautiful film. I have specified it to everybody that this film is the most identifiable film of Dharma Productions. It is special to all of us. “I think it has a different perspective on family. Whoever you are, you will identify and see yourself in the film,” he added.
Kapoor And Sons sees the return of director Shakun Batra, who had previously directed the Imran Khan-Kareena Kapoor’s Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu which fared average at the box office. The movie catches the on-and-off bond between characters played by Sidharth Malhotra and Fawad Khan, who are on screen siblings. Rajat Kapoor and Ratna Pathak Shah play their parents, while Alia Bhatt’s character gets involved with the family and the brothers at different points of the story. Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor plays old Mr Kapoor in the movie, which releases on Friday.
Hrithik Roshan, in his legal suit claims that Kangana Ranaut has sent him a record of 1,439 emails, most of which are unopened.
Huawei Pakistan has now appointed musical Icon of Pakistan - Atif Aslam as Huawei’s new brand ambassador. The first Huawei device being endorsed by Atif Aslam is the Huawei Honor 5X, that features a full metal body and completely secured fingerprint scanning technology. The new Television Commercial for Honor 5X featuring Atif was shot in Dubai recently. Clips of this new TVC have already gone viral on social media, to create the excitement and hype about Atif Aslam coming up in a really big way, promising something totally new to the fans.
A group of 25 Academy members of Asian descent, including Oscar-winning film director Ang Lee and Star Trek actor George Takei, have complained about racist jokes at this year’s awards. The 88th Academy Awards on February 28 featured a section in which host Chris Rock introduced children of Asian descent as Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ‘accountants’ and an ad-libbed insinuation by actor Sacha Baron Cohen that Asian men were not ‘well-endowed.’ “We’d like to know how such tasteless and offensive skits could have happened and what process you have in place to preclude such unconscious or outright bias and racism toward any group in future Oscars telecasts,” the group said in a letter to the Academy.
Harrison Ford will reprise his iconic role as the adventurous archaeologist in a fifth installment of the Indiana Jones series, the Walt Disney Company announced on Tuesday. It said Steven Spielberg, who directed all four previous films, will make the as-yet-untitled project that will hit the big screen in 2019.
Compiled by Mariam Nihal
