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Anupamaa recap: Pakhi humiliates Anupamaa in front of everyone

Anupamaa written update July 28: Pakhi will ask Anupamaa to leave the house after humiliating her in front of everyone.

A still from the July 28 episode of Anupamaa.

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Published on Jul 28, 2022 09:18 PM IST

ByHT Entertainment Desk

Anupamaa recap: Anupamaa loses her patience with Leela and Rakhi

Anupamaa written update July 1: Anupamaa will be seen losing her calm after Rakhi and Leela start misbehaving during the baby shower ceremony.

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Published on Jul 01, 2022 10:49 PM IST

ByHT Entertainment Desk

Vidhu Vinod Chopra's brother dies, Anupama Chopra remembers him with a note

Film reviewer Anupama Chopra has shared a note at the death of her brother-in-law Vir Chopra. He was the brother of filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra.

Vir Chopra and Vidhu Vinod Chopra at the premiere of 3 Idiots.

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Published on Jul 08, 2021 11:43 PM IST

ByHT Entertainment Desk

Anupama Chopra muses on the wins and losses as the Toronto film festival goes virtual

Even with its digital screenings and shrunken line-up, TIFF felt like a minor miracle; a reminder that storytelling never stops.

With borders still closed, only local cinephiles could attend events such as the drive-in screenings held during the pandemic edition of the Toronto film festival.(tiff_NET/instagram)

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Updated on Sep 20, 2020 10:49 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAnupama Chopra

Will post-pandemic Bollywood put more women in the cockpit, asks Anupama Chopra

As films go direct to streaming platforms, female-led movies could finally get a fair shot at finding their audience. Reduced post-Covid budgets could help.

Janhvi Kapoor and Pankaj Tripathi in a still from Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl.

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Updated on Aug 23, 2020 11:24 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAnupama Chopra

Covid-19 can end the circus of celebrity, open doors for new talent, writes Anupama Chopra

The Covid-19 pandemic has sent Bollywood A-listers into hibernation, but perhaps it can open doors for new talent once things resume, writes Anupama Chopra.

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Updated on Jun 05, 2020 08:06 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAnupama Chopra

SS Rajamouli accepts Kabir Singh director’s challenge, his next production will have him doing housework

SS Rajamouli will post a video while doing household work amid coronavirus lockdown, says it is important to share household chores.

SS Rajamouli is currently busy with RRR.

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Updated on Apr 19, 2020 03:07 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Deepika Padukone rocks the ‘katori cut’ in major throwback pic. See here

Deepika Padukone has shared a major throwback picture of herself, eating paranthas with a couple of friends. See it here.

Deepika Padukone with her squad, as a child.

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Updated on Apr 06, 2020 09:49 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent

Is modesty the secret to Telugu cinema’s bountiful success?: Anupama Chopra

Politeness, modesty, humility and reticence are recurring qualities among the this film fraternity from the south

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Updated on Feb 23, 2020 07:57 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAnupama Chopra

And then there were more

In Bollywood today, every hit is the beginning of a new franchise. And 2020 is the year when the trend seems set to peak

The present trend of film series in Bollywood is inspired mainly by the success of Hollywood film sequels, feel industry experts.(HT Imaging)

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Updated on Feb 21, 2020 07:17 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByPoulomi Banerjee

Shah Rukh Khan once received a script so outrageous that fans want their ears cleaned with bleach after hearing it

Shah Rukh Khan must have got his fair share of bad scripts but surely nothing will ever come close to this one.

Shah Rukh Khan’s crazy episode with a director and his script is making Twitter LOL.

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Updated on Feb 05, 2020 11:06 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

I wish more people would let go creatively, as Saif is doing: Anupama Chopra

‘Amitabh Bachchan experienced a similar creative spring in the early years of the new millennium. But the women, even those not in the leading-lady rat race, aren’t cutting loose quite as much.’

A still from Kaalakaandi (2017). Like his character in the film, Saif Ali Khan is doing what he wants, regardless of the rules.

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Published on Jan 24, 2020 05:19 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAnupama Chopra

Kangana Ranaut on Saif Ali Khan’s ‘no concept of India before British’ comment: ‘If there was no Bharat, what was Mahabharat?’

Kangana Ranaut, who has worked with Saif Ali Khan in Rangoon, talked about what she thought of his recent comment about the identity of India.

Kangana Ranaut has said that what Saif Ali Khan said about India’s history and collective identity isn’t true.

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Updated on Aug 29, 2020 06:45 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

A star is born: Anupama Chopra looks back at how Hrithik Roshan’s debut set the bar high for future newcomers

20 years ago, Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai wasn’t just a blockbuster. It generated a hysteria comparable to Beatlemania

With Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai, director Rakesh Roshan got the perfect material to showcase his talented son, Hrithik

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Published on Jan 10, 2020 04:39 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAnupama Chopra

Anupama Chopra’s Bollywood dreams for 2020

Empowered writers, original music, an exchange of ideas across languages... a wishlist for the year ahead.

Shah Rukh Khan at the World Economic Forum in Davos, in 2018. ‘I hope Shah Rukh finds a script and a storyteller who can both reinvent the Shah Rukh Khan myth and honour it.’

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Updated on Dec 28, 2019 07:26 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAnupama Chopra

Parvathy wins the internet with her apology for using ‘bipolar disorder’ casually

Malayalam actor Parvathy Thiruvothu’s firm stand against Arjun Reddy and Kabir Singh on a recent show won her applause but the actor was also called out for a casual reference to ‘bipolar disorder’.

Parvathy Thiruvothu criticised the misogyny of films such as Arjun Reddy and Kabir Singh on a chat show.

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Updated on Nov 27, 2019 02:59 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent

Film festivals open your head and ways of seeing the world, says Anupama Chopra

A festival insists that you watch films you would never have encountered otherwise.

General view of the red carpet opening ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival 2003.(Getty Images)

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Updated on Nov 15, 2019 04:35 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAnupama Chopra

‘This is Amitabh...’ he said, Anupama Chopra shares her many memories of Big B

The megastar completes 50 years in Hindi cinema this month

For those who came of age in the 1980s and 1990s, Amitabh Bachchan cut a colossus-like figure, towering over the movies.(HT PHOTO)

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Updated on Nov 02, 2019 07:51 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAnupama Chopra

Playing against type

It’s a treat when actors let go of on-screen vanity for a film, says Anupama Chopra

Hrithik Roshan shed his macho image when he played a maths teacher in

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Published on Oct 18, 2019 05:25 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAnupama Chopra

Saif Ali Khan says son Taimur Ali Khan has learned to tell paparazzi ‘No pictures please’

Saif Ali Khan has said that the paparazzi have stopped hanging out outside his house after neighbours complained and the police was called. He said that Taimur is very pleased.

Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan with wife Kareena Kapoor and son Taimur Ali Khan spotted at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai.

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Updated on Oct 06, 2019 01:54 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent

Blurring the lines: Anupama Chopra on movie scenes that move us

Cinema can sometimes echo your soul, be a friend and a guide

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Published on Oct 05, 2019 05:37 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAnupama Chopra

What can stars do, beyond shine? Actually, quite a lot, says Anupama Chopra

Some have begun to use their massive clout, online and off, for greater good.

Actor Hrithik Roshan’s feed has photographs of bonding vacations with his sons. Stars have become ‘intimate strangers’, more visible than ever before.

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Published on Sep 21, 2019 10:11 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAnupama Chopra

A step out of line: Anupama Chopra on what’s wrong with ‘item songs’ today

Done right, these numbers are joyous. It’s time to rename them

‘Item songs’ work, when like Chaiyya chaiyya (Dil Se) they celebrate sensuality.

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Published on Sep 07, 2019 07:51 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAnupama Chopra

Language no bar: Anupama Chopra on non-Hindi blockbusters

Surprise! The truly innovative cinema like Virus or Village Rockstars, Super Deluxe, Sairat, Kumbalangi Nights or the Baahubali franchise, is emerging from outside Mumbai.

The Malayalam film Virus is a superbly crafted medical thriller, one of several films shaking Bollywood’s hold over Indian audiences.

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Published on Aug 24, 2019 06:17 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAnupama Chopra

My review, my choice:Anupama Chopra calls out Twitter trolls

Twitter trolls, on both sides of the political axis, need to stop looking for a conspiracy in every movie review, says Anupama Chopra.

Over the years, the trolling got so vicious that I trained myself not to look at mentions when big-budget, big star films hit the screens.

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Published on Aug 10, 2019 06:10 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAnupama Chopra

Vijay Deverakonda defends Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Kabir Singh comments: ‘Maybe he was in a relationship where they abused each other’

Vijay Deverakonda has defended his Arjun Reddy director Sandeep Reddy Vanga over his recent, controversial comments regarding Kabir Singh’s depiction of toxic masculinity.

Vijay Deverakonda as Arjun Reddy and Shahid Kapoor as Kabir Singh.

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Updated on Jun 04, 2020 06:03 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent

Opinion | No, physical violence is not a sign of love

In a country where 52% of women believe it is okay to be beaten by their husbands, the views of Sandeep Reddy Vanga, director Kabir Singh, apparently endorsing physical violence as a sign of love, are deeply disturbing.

In the first 10 years since the Domestic Violence Act came into force in 2006, over 10 lakh cases of domestic violence have been registered. And, yet, domestic violence remains vastly underreported primarily because of the victim’s relationship with a husband or a partner.(SHUTTERSTOCK)

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Updated on Jul 12, 2019 06:15 PM IST

ByNamita Bhandare

Let’s not play any more of these games, says Anupama Chopra

Stars are being asked to play charades or quiz each other, during interviews. But if standard Q&As are one rut, this is turning out to be just another. It’s time to rethink Bollywood promotions.

Ranveer Singh and Sara Ali Khan, amid numerous other stars, are playing games like What If and Never Have I Ever, during film promotion interviews.(HT File Photo)

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Updated on Jul 12, 2019 05:50 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByAnupama Chopra

Sandeep Reddy Vanga says controversial interview edited: ‘Violence may be Kabir Singh’s way of expressing love, it’s not mine’

Sandeep Reddy Vanga of Kabir Singh has claimed that his interview with Anupama Chopra was edited. He added that the content was ‘edited in a very wrong way’ which earned him a lot of flak from women.

Kabir Singh director Sandeep Reddy Vanga had said that a relationship should give liberty to the couple to ‘slap each other’.

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Updated on Jul 09, 2019 03:48 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Kabir Singh director Sandeep Reddy Vanga says he was misquoted in controversial interview: ‘It’s not assault, it’s liberty of expression’

After defending his film, Kabir Singh, director Sandeep Reddy Vanga must now defend his equally controversial statements, made in a recent interview. That’s exactly what he has done.

Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s interview is generating just as much controversy as his film, Kabir Singh.

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Updated on Jul 07, 2019 07:54 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent

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Anupamaa written update July 28: Pakhi will ask Anupamaa to leave the house after humiliating her in front of everyone.

Anupamaa written update July 1: Anupamaa will be seen losing her calm after Rakhi and Leela start misbehaving during the baby shower ceremony.

Film reviewer Anupama Chopra has shared a note at the death of her brother-in-law Vir Chopra. He was the brother of filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra.

Even with its digital screenings and shrunken line-up, TIFF felt like a minor miracle; a reminder that storytelling never stops.

As films go direct to streaming platforms, female-led movies could finally get a fair shot at finding their audience. Reduced post-Covid budgets could help.

The Covid-19 pandemic has sent Bollywood A-listers into hibernation, but perhaps it can open doors for new talent once things resume, writes Anupama Chopra.

SS Rajamouli will post a video while doing household work amid coronavirus lockdown, says it is important to share household chores.

Deepika Padukone has shared a major throwback picture of herself, eating paranthas with a couple of friends. See it here.

Politeness, modesty, humility and reticence are recurring qualities among the this film fraternity from the south

In Bollywood today, every hit is the beginning of a new franchise. And 2020 is the year when the trend seems set to peak

Shah Rukh Khan must have got his fair share of bad scripts but surely nothing will ever come close to this one.

‘Amitabh Bachchan experienced a similar creative spring in the early years of the new millennium. But the women, even those not in the leading-lady rat race, aren’t cutting loose quite as much.’

Kangana Ranaut, who has worked with Saif Ali Khan in Rangoon, talked about what she thought of his recent comment about the identity of India.

20 years ago, Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai wasn’t just a blockbuster. It generated a hysteria comparable to Beatlemania

Empowered writers, original music, an exchange of ideas across languages... a wishlist for the year ahead.

Malayalam actor Parvathy Thiruvothu’s firm stand against Arjun Reddy and Kabir Singh on a recent show won her applause but the actor was also called out for a casual reference to ‘bipolar disorder’.

A festival insists that you watch films you would never have encountered otherwise.

The megastar completes 50 years in Hindi cinema this month

It’s a treat when actors let go of on-screen vanity for a film, says Anupama Chopra

Saif Ali Khan has said that the paparazzi have stopped hanging out outside his house after neighbours complained and the police was called. He said that Taimur is very pleased.

Cinema can sometimes echo your soul, be a friend and a guide

Some have begun to use their massive clout, online and off, for greater good.

Done right, these numbers are joyous. It’s time to rename them

Surprise! The truly innovative cinema like Virus or Village Rockstars, Super Deluxe, Sairat, Kumbalangi Nights or the Baahubali franchise, is emerging from outside Mumbai.

Twitter trolls, on both sides of the political axis, need to stop looking for a conspiracy in every movie review, says Anupama Chopra.

Vijay Deverakonda has defended his Arjun Reddy director Sandeep Reddy Vanga over his recent, controversial comments regarding Kabir Singh’s depiction of toxic masculinity.

In a country where 52% of women believe it is okay to be beaten by their husbands, the views of Sandeep Reddy Vanga, director Kabir Singh, apparently endorsing physical violence as a sign of love, are deeply disturbing.

Stars are being asked to play charades or quiz each other, during interviews. But if standard Q&As are one rut, this is turning out to be just another. It’s time to rethink Bollywood promotions.

Sandeep Reddy Vanga of Kabir Singh has claimed that his interview with Anupama Chopra was edited. He added that the content was ‘edited in a very wrong way’ which earned him a lot of flak from women.

After defending his film, Kabir Singh, director Sandeep Reddy Vanga must now defend his equally controversial statements, made in a recent interview. That’s exactly what he has done.

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