Latest Bollywood News Today Transcript at 11:30 AM on 25 May 2023
In our top story. Shahid Kapoor’s latest film Bloody Daddy, the trailer of which was released on Wednesday, 24th May, sees him play another angry man who is involved in some kind of drug trade and occasionally gets to shoot a flamethrower. Directed by Ali Abbas Zafar, the film also stars Ronit Roy, Sanjay Kapoor, Rajeev Khandelwal and Diana Penty in pivotal roles. Earlier, Shahid spoke about the film’s big scale and said in a statement, “I had a great time doing an action film. I enjoyed working with Ali. He understands the genre very well.” Bloody Daddy is set to release on June 9 on Jio Cinema.
At the trailer launch of the film Bloody Daddy, director Ali Abbas Zafar spoke about the film. Ali shared – “Content is evolving and in the past three years, we have all seen how audiences’ preferences have changed. Also, when you make content for OTT, it’s a bigger responsibility to mount it at a larger scale and international level. As for Bloody Daddy, we didn’t want to tamper it to suit it for theatres, and thus decided to have a direct-to-digital release.”
Anurag Kashyap‘s Kennedy, which was selected as a part of the Midnight Screenings section at the ongoing Cannes Film Festival 2023, had its premiere on 24th May. The first photos from Cannes have made their way to social media. The film stars Sunny Leone and Rahul Bhat in the lead roles. Sunny Leone made her debut at the Cannes red carpet in a glam maroon gown. The actor was all smiles at the gala night as she posed with actor Rahul Bhat, who was dressed in a black suit. Earlier, Sunny shared on Instagram that the tickets for Kashyap’s film were “sold out in minutes” ahead of its big premiere.
Actor Urvashi Rautela, who has been sharing photos from the Cannes Film Festival, recently was trolled for wearing a ‘fake’ crocodile-shaped necklace on the red carpet. While the actor earlier got back at trolls, now her team has claimed that the price of her neckpiece has gone up from Rs 200 crore to Rs 276 crore. The necklace’s shape is that of two intertwined crocodiles and Urvashi had earlier shared that it is an iconic piece by Cartier. However, a jewellery expert named Arundhati De-Sheth alleged that the actor didn’t sport the original piece. She shared on Instagram – “Representing our nation and pretending to be wearing the real thing. When it’s been hastily crafted in the back of beyond.”
Moving on. Karan Johar, as he completes 25 years as a filmmaker, took to social media platforms on Wednesday, 24th May, to announce that his next directorial, the Alia Bhatt-Ranveer Singh starrer — Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani‘s first look will be out today, on the occasion of his birthday. Taking to Instagram, Karan wrote, “Nothing but gratitude for the magical 25 years I have spent in the director’s chair. I learnt I grew, I wept, I laughed – I lived. And, another piece of my heart will be yours to see and I could not be more ecstatic as I celebrate my birthday with you all. With a kahaani that has prem written all over it.”
Recently, singer Arijit Singh schooled a fan for trying to push their baby towards the stage during his concert. A video of the incident doing the rounds online shows the singer pausing the performance and explaining to the fan why this could be dangerous. The video shows Arijit addressing the fan, who remains off-screen. He had his stage microphone switched on, which meant that the entire arena could hear what he said. Arijit said – “Why are you risking her life? She’s a kid. She was very happy, but she doesn’t want to do this, you want to do this. Why are you doing this to her?” The crowd cheered on the singer and he resumed the concert.
Meanwhile, Filmmaker Vikram Bhatt has filed a lawsuit against K Sera Sera Production Chairman Satish Panchariya and former employee Amar Thakkar for alleged defrauding, forgery, and slander. The complaint, filed by him through his legal counsel, Advocate Rizwan Siddiquee, emphasises the “serious nature” of the accused’s offence. Siddiquee stated, “It is true that my client has filed a criminal complaint before the Amboli Police station against them for plotting and conspiring and for committing serious cognizable and non-bailable offences of cheating, criminal misappropriation of funds, criminal breach of trust, forgery, and defamation. The accused persons used a forged and fabricated document to mislead the Learned Magistrate at Andheri Court and obtain a favourable Order under Section 156(3) CrPC. ”
Lastly, Manoj Bajpayee’s latest release Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai is inspired by real-life events, where he plays a lawyer PC Solanki who takes on a godman in a rape case. The actor recently spoke about his journey from playing ‘characters’ to now being the ‘hero’ of his films. Manoj told indianexpress.com, “I am still playing the characters, they, in turn, have become heroes. Nothing drastic has changed, except, earlier I would be one of the three characters, now I am leading the story. And it’s such a great thing to happen. And if it’s because of me, I am glad because somewhere people are now writing heroes as characters.”
Click to listen to yesterday’s bulletin