Lal Chand, the dholak player who accompanied Amar Singh Chamkila on the day he died, has often spoken about the impression that he had of the slain folk singer. Lal Chand himself took a bullet when Chamkila and his wife, Amarjot, were shot dead in the village of Mehsampur in Punjab, in the year 1988. Chamkila's story was retold by director Imtiaz Ali in a new biopic, released on Netflix on Friday. As interest in the singer's life grows, here's looking back at Lal Chand's stories about him, and...
Bollywood couple Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan opted for a low-key and intimate Eid celebration with family at their residence in Mumbai. Saif's sister, Saba Pataudi, took to Instagram to share inside photos from their Eid festivities. While Taimur posed with the family, Kareena and Saif's younger son Jeh Ali Khan, as well as Saif's children - Sara Ali Khan and Ibrahim Ali Khan - from his first marriage, were absent from the celebration. In the snapshots from the Eid gathering, Saif and...
The court of Additional District Judge Shatin Goyal in Ludhiana, in an order pronounced late on Wednesday, refused to injunct the telecast of the film Amar Singh Chamkila, set for release on Netflix on Friday. Directed by Imtiaz Ali and starring Diljit Dosanjh and Parineeti Chopra in lead roles, the film is a biopic of slain Punjabi singer Amar Singh Chamkila and his second wife Amarjot Kaur. Patiala-based Ishdeep Singh Randhawa filed the petition on April 8 in the court demanding "perpetual...
Netflix recently unveiled the trailer for the upcoming series Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar, which explores the lives of courtesans against the backdrop of British-ruled India. The trailer for the series has received widespread praise everywhere. It features a star-studded cast including Manisha Koirala, Sonakshi Sinha, Aditi Rao Hydari, and Richa Chaddha among others. However, eagle-eyed fans have spotted certain mistakes in the trailer. A Reddit user noticed a microphone wire sticking out...
What is the real Kerala story? Perhaps it's a film which offers a slice of life from Malappuram, where a local Muslim family ends up nursing — and eventually caring for — a Nigerian football player with a broken leg who had been recruited for the wildly-popular sport of “sevens football”. Or maybe it’s the one about an impetuous young man and his “team” in a Christian community in Angamaly, which offers a glimpse into their life of petty crime and violence, with unforgettable depictions of the...
Differences within Kerala's churches over screening of The Kerala Story came to the fore on Wednesday after a parish under the Catholic diocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly screened a documentary on the Manipur violence, titled Cry of the Oppressed, for students during their catechism classes. The same day, the Church of South India opened its premises at Manjeri, in Muslim-dominated Malappuram, to the local Muslim community on the occasion of Eid-al-Fitr. The screening of The Kerala Story on April 4...
It required nearly 50 years, and the world’s biggest and most complex machine, to detect the Higgs boson in 2012. An elementary particle like electrons, quark, photons or neutrinos, the Higgs boson, is known to impart mass to every other particle. Its existence was predicted in the 1960s, but it was found only in 2012 through elaborate experiments carried out at the Large Hadron Collider, located on the border of France and Switzerland, the world’s biggest and most expensive machine till then....
"What's changed, Arthur?" asks a character, prompting Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) to respond, "I'm not alone anymore." The Joker: Folie à Deux trailer teases the union of not just Arthur and Harleen Quinzel (Lady Gaga), but also their alter egos, the notorious Joker and Harley Quinn. One of the most anticipated Hollywood films of the year, Joker: Folie à Deux, helmed by Todd Phillips, is a direct sequel to the 2019 psychological thriller Joker, and the new trailer reveals that music is just...
Slight but spirited, the new Netflix film Scoop excavates a recent historical event that even The Crown wouldn’t dare to touch despite its interest in both the British royal family and scandals. Framed from the perspective of a collective of BBC journalists, Scoop traces the events leading up to Prince Andrew’s jaw-dropping disintegration on national television, when he was caught like a deer in the headlights while being interviewed about his friendship with convicted sex pest Jeffrey Epstein....
FIDE Chess Candidates 2024 Round 5 Live Updates: In the Praggnanandhaa R vs Ian Nepomniachtchi game, the Indian teenager has forced the points table leader from Russia under massive time pressure with his excellent opening prep. Even though Nepo has an additional pawn and a knight on the board, he has almost an hour less on his clock as compared to Pragg as he contemplates his 22nd move. Elsewhere, Vidit Gujrathi finds himself in time trouble once again for the third game running. The...
The ETS TOEFL has collaborated with the National Indian Students and Alumni Union (NISAU) to launch the ‘UK-India TOEFL Scholarship’. The scholarship seeks to support 10 Indian students with a scholarship worth Rs 2.5 lakh. Students who wish to pursue higher education in the United Kingdom can apply for the scholarship at toefltest.in The last date for Indian students to apply for the scholarship is July 15. The scholarship aims to help the students willing to pursue full-time undergraduate or...
IPL 2024 Most Wickets, Purple Cap Holder: Chennai Super Kings bowler Mustafizur Rahman climbed atop the Purple Cap table with 9 wickets after Chennai Super Kings vs Kolkata Knight Riders match on Monday. Yuzvendra Chahal slipped to second with 8 wickets while Delhi's Khaleel Ahmed, Gujarat's Mohit Sharma and Mumbai's Gerald Coetzee make up the Top 5. Orange Cap list after MI vs DC LSG’s Mayank Yadav, just 21 years of age, who bowled the fastest delivery of IPL 2024: a scorching thunderbolt of...