Andaz Apna Apna Was Made Without A Script. What Happened Next Is Bollywood History

Aaya hun, kuch toh leke jaunga… Mai toh kehta hu aap purush hi nahi hai… maha purush hain maha purush… Aaila! Ooi Ma! If you know, you know. And if you don’t, well, your pop culture education is incomplete and frankly, your friends have been too kind. It’s a rare alchemy when a film ceases […]

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Trump and Zelenskyy among dignitaries converging on Rome for funeral of Pope Francis

Nuns wait before a rosary prayer outside the Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica, where the late Pope Francis will be buried in Rome (Image: AP) VATICAN CITY: Heads of state and royalty will start converging on Rome on Friday for the funeral of Pope Francis in the Vatican’s St Peter’s Square, but the group of poor […]

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Flow of Sudan civil war refugees puts Chad camp under strain

Famine and atrocities mount as Sudan’s civil war enters its third year (Image: AP) IRIBA: Nadjala Mourraou held her haggard two-year-old son in her henna-tattooed hands for the medics to examine. Then came the painful diagnosis: little Ahma, like many of his fellow Sudanese refugees, was severely malnourished.The pair were towards the front of a […]

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Watch: Thai police plane crashes into sea killing five on board

A small police aircraft crashed into the sea near a popular beach town in Thailand, killing at least 5 people on board, according to officials, reported Associated Press.The plane was on a test flight for parachute training preparations in Hua Hin district when it crashed around 8 am, according to Royal Thai Police spokesperson Archayon […]

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New Mexico judge Joel Cano arrested for hiding Tren de Aragua gang member inside home

Picture courtesy: US District Court for the District of New Mexico Former Dona Ana County magistrate Judge Joel Cano and his wife, Nancy, were arrested on Thursday following a raid by federal agents at their Las Cruces home after it was discovered that they had allegedly harboured Cristhian Ortega-Lopez, a suspected member of the Venezuelan […]

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Matthew Spangler talks about his most celebrated adaptation, The Kite Runner

Matthew Spangler. Shot on OnePlus #FramesofIndia. | Photo Credit: SUDHAKARA JAIN ‘For you, a thousand times over.’ These words from Khaled Hosseini’s acclaimed novel The Kite Runner became symbolic of the friendship between Amir, a privileged Pashtun, and his servant Hassan, a Hazara boy. Set against the backdrop when the rise of the Taliban regime […]

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San Francisco Moves Toward Recovery First Drug Policy Amid Heated Debate | World News

FILE – Supervisor Matt Dorsey is shown during a San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting in San Francisco, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. (Credits: AP) SAN FRANCISCO: Reeling from drug overdose deaths and scenes of people smoking fentanyl on sidewalks, San Francisco moved closer Thursday to adopting a “recovery first” drug policy that sets abstinence from […]

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All bark no bite: The toothless critiques of Hollywood’s anti-capitalist media

Overcoming the one-inch tall barrier that most vernacular language films get buried under, Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite took home four Oscars at the 92nd Academy Awards in 2020, including Best Picture, becoming the first non-English film to do so. The lockdowns that followed soon after restricted the masses to the four walls of their houses as they […]

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