01-15 March 2020 The Asian Independent

18 01-03-2020 to 15-03-2020 ENTERTAINMENT
www.theasianindependent.co.uk
When Shraddha Kapoor
fussed over cuss words!
Mumbai, Director Ahmed Khan has spilled the
beans on the time when Shraddha Kapoor struggled to
get her dialogues right. This happened during the
shoot of the upcoming film, “Baaghi 3”.
“On the first day of shoot, Shraddha was practicing
how to deliver cuss words, as her character demands
the same. My wife had come on set and she couldn’t
figure what Shraddha was trying to do, as it looked
weird. After rehearsing for quite some time, Shraddha
came to me saying, ‘sir, I am not able to deliver cuss
words the way they are supposed to be said’. The
film’s writer Farhad Samji came to her rescue. He
trained Shraddha to perfect her dialogue delivery of
cuss words by training her on the rhythm as well,”
revealed the director, on “The Kapil Sharma Show”,
aired on Sony TV.
The third instalment of “Baaghi” brings back Tiger
Shroff in the starring role. The film is scheduled to
release on March 6.
Shruti Haasan admits to
getting plastic surgery
Chennai, Actress Shruti Haasan recently
took to her Instagram page to slam
bodyshaming while admitting that she had
gone under the knife. Having undergone
plastic surgery, she says she neither advocates
it nor is against it, adding that she
chooses to live that way. In a long yet brave
post, Kamal Haasan’s daughter said: “I’m
not one driven by other people’s opinions
of me but the constant commenting and
she’s too fat now she’s too thin is so
avoidable. These two pictures have been
taken three days apart.
I’m sure there are women out there who
relate to what I’m going to say. Most often
I’m at the mercy of my hormones mentally
and physically and over the years I
work hard to try and have a healthy relationship
with it. It isn’t easy. The pain isn’t
easy the physical changes aren’t easy but
what’s become easier to me is to share my
journey. No one famous or not is in a position
to judge another person. Ever. That’s
just not cool. I’m happy to say this is my
life my face and yes I’ve had plastic surgery
which I’m not ashamed to admit. Do
I promote it ? No am I against it ? No —
it’s just how I choose to live. The biggest
favour we can do for ourselves and others
is just be and learn to accept the changes
and the movement of our bodies and
minds.” She ended the note saying she is
learning to love herself a little more
everyday “because the greatest love
story of my life is with myself and I
hope yours is too”.
A few weeks ago in an interview
with actress Lakshmi Manchu,
Shruti Haasan opened up on her
battle with depression, and overcoming
alcoholism. “I was trying
to heal myself. I stopped caring
about what people were saying. I
had to figure it all out. I took a
one year break,” Shruti said.
Shruti Haasan will soon be seen
in the Telugu film “Krack”
opposite Ravi Teja, and the
Tamil film “Laabam” opposite
Vijay Sethupathi.
Raveena Tandon takes an auto
to niece's mehendi ceremony
Mumbai : Ditching the luxury of
swanky cars, Bollywood actress Raveena
Tandon jumped into an auto to attend her
niece's mehendi ceremony.
Raveena took an auto ride with her
daughter Rasha. The actress, who is all set
to make her comeback into in films with
"KGF: Chapter 2", took to Instagram to
share a video of her journey.
"Jumped into an auto , as was getting
late waiting for the car to go for my niece's
mehndi ceremony . All decked up, Rasha
and me , and a lovely auto ride ! ???? viva
la mumbai Autowallahs! Total saviours!"
she captioned the video.
She shared another clip, where the auto
driver told was seen telling the actress
about all the films he has seen starring
her.
"To all those who asked if he
recognised! Yes he did, Arshad chicha
turned out to be a fan and well wisher!
Chatted with him a bit before
leaving," she captioned the second
video. "KGF: Chapter 2" will release
worldwide in Kannada, Tamil,
Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi.
The film is a follow-up of the
2018 Kannada blockbuster "KGF:
Chapter 1", which starred Kannada
star Yash with Tamannaah Bhatia and
Ananth Nag.
Bhagyashree: Recall
of separation from
hubby still scares me
Mumbai : Actress Bhagyashree shot to fame with her 1989
debut film “Maine
Pyar Kiya” opposite
Salman Khan. Then,
even as she was being
touted as Bollywood’s
next big thing, she
announced her marriage
to Himalaya,
who was an aspiring
actor then, and subsequently
became a
businessman. The
early marriage took a
toll on her fledgling
career and she never
quite managed to
make a comeback.
While Bhagyashree
and hubby Himalaya
have always known to
be deeply in love, she
has now revealed that
there was a one-and-a-half year phase when she had to stay
away from him.
In a video posted by celebrity lensperson Viral Bhayani on
Instagram, the 51-year-old actress is seen interacting at an event.
In the video, she says: “Himalaya ji was my first love and, yes,
I got married to him. Lekin ek arsa tha beech mein jab hum juda
ho gaye the (However, there was a period of time in between
when we were separated).”
Bhagyashree continued to say that the period of separation
made her mull over the question of what would happen if she
had not married Himalaya. “I had that feeling that ‘what if I hadn’t
got him in my life and I had married someone else?’ It got me
to that stage because there was a period of a year and a half that
we weren’t together. Woh ehsaas abhi bhi yaad aata hai toh darr
lagta hai (recalling that feeling still scares me).”
Back in the day it had been reported how Bhagyashree and
Himalaya got married in a hush-hush temple ceremony against
the wishes of their parents, in the presence of Salman and
“Maine Pyar Kiya” director Sooraj Barjatya among a handful of
close friends and colleagues.
Bhagyashree’s son Abhimanyu Dassani is now an aspiring
actor. He has a couple of projects lined up this year. In
“Nikamma”, he will be seen opposite debutante actress Shirley
Setia, while Shilpa Shetty makes a comeback in the film. That
apart, Abhimanyu has also signed “Aankh Micholi” opposite
“Super 30a actress Mrunal Thakur. The film directed by “OMG:
Oh My God” maker Umesh Shukla also stars Sharman Jshi,
Divya Dutta, Paresh Rawal, Grusha Kapoor, Abhishek Banerjee,
Darshan Jariwala and Vijay Raaz.
Chitrangda Singh : I love
handloom craft of Bengal
Kolkata : Actress Chitrangda Singh was in town to shoot for
her upcoming film “Bob
Biswas”, and she made
most of her stay by going
on a sari shopping spree.
The “Hazaaron
Khwaishein Aisi” actress
traversed the length and
breadth of Gariahat and
Hatibagan, areas that are
considered to be street
shoppers’ paradise.
“I absolutely love the
handloom craft of
Bengal. It was one of the
main reasons why I was excited about being stationed in
Kolkata. I bought saris fashioned from Murshidabadi silk, tussar
silk and the famous Baluchari sari,” said Chitrangda. The spinoff
movie that the actress is shooting for tells the backstory of
the assassin Bob Biswas in Sujoy Ghosh’s 2012 Vidya Balanstarrer,
“Kahaani”. Although Bob Biswas was brilliantly performed
by Bengali actor Saswata Chatterjee in that film,
Abhishek Bachchan will star in the title role of the spin-off flick.
Ghosh co-produces the film with Shah Rukh Khan, while Diya
Annapurna Ghosh directs.
Apart from “Bob Biswas”, Chitrangda’s other upcoming production
right now is “Soorma 2”.