A follow-up to Bandit Queen, the 1994 film Shekhar Kapur directed, is in the works 30 years on. Honey Trehan, who made Satluj, has signed on to helm it.
It will pick up Phoolan Devi's story from her 1983 surrender to police and run until her assassination in 2001. Producer Bobby Bedi says the focus is on her life after leaving jail, including her romance with Umed Singh, whom she later married, and her two terms as a Member of Parliament.
The cast will be finalised once Trehan completes the script.
Rajat Bedi has posted a birthday message for Aryan Khan, Shah Rukh Khan's son, who turned 29 on November 12.
Sharing a photo of the two on Instagram, Bedi wished him plenty of happiness and continued success. Bedi played Jaraj Saxena in Aryan's directorial debut, a Netflix series. He told SCREEN that Aryan's school friends finished next-day work overnight on iPhones, and that Jaraj is the director's favourite character.
Bedi's next release is Bandhu, a Marathi film with Upendra Limaye and Jitendra Joshi, due in cinemas on November 20.
Govinda and Komal Rani Swarnkar were photographed together while promoting Roopa, a Hindi film that marks Govinda's comeback to cinemas after seven years away.
Komal shared the photos on Instagram, and fans have been praising the duo's chemistry. Rumours about their relationship surfaced earlier this year, but both maintain that their bond is professional.
Govinda is also producing the film, which was announced in July and is expected to mix suspense, drama and comedy.
Anushka Sharma has recalled a family story from the period before her acting career took off, told in an older interview with Simi Garewal. Her mother had used a Feng Shui turtle to make a wish for her daughter.
Anushka was working as a model and hoping for films when she was chosen for Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi opposite Shah Rukh Khan. She cried so hard after hearing the news on her drive back from Yash Raj Studios that she could not keep driving. Calling her mother, she learned about the wish, a note hoping her daughter would star in a Yash Raj film, which had been placed inside the turtle.
Upcoming Hindi films are lining up some fresh star pairings. Salman Khan and Nayanthara are teaming up for the action drama Monster, which has the working title SVC63.
Allu Arjun and Deepika Padukone are teaming up for Atlee's sci-fi action film Raaka, while Kartik Aaryan and Sreeleela star together in the romantic musical Tu Meri Zindagi Hai.
Prabhas and Triptii Dimri are also pairing up in Sandeep Reddy Vanga's Spirit, and Ranveer Singh is working with Kalyani Priyadarshan on the survival thriller Pralay.
Lara Dutta has answered criticism of her Kaikeyi look in Nitesh Tiwari's Ramayana, saying people are fixating on small points.
She recalled asking Tiwari whether Kaikeyi, from Kekaya, should wear jewellery distinct from the other queens. She said going that deep would invite historians' views, so one common style was used across Mithila, Ayodhya and Lanka to tell those cultures apart.
Costume designers Rimple and Harpreet Narula said their choices reflected creative intent rather than strict historical accuracy, after viewers questioned the costumes in the trailer.
Actress Tanishaa Mukerji has shown off her Mumbai home, which mixes old Bengali and Turkish design, during a tour she gave filmmaker Farah Khan earlier this year.
Highlights include a round staircase, antique decor, wooden furniture, two red sofas set against earthy brown and beige tones, and a green terrace full of plants. Tanishaa said the furniture came from the home where she lived with her mother, actress Tanuja.
When Farah asked what her sister Kajol had contributed, Tanishaa said Kajol paid for the house, then joked that Kajol had also covered the cheque books.
Hrithik Roshan has posted a birthday message on Instagram for his cousin Pashmina Roshan. He called her the heart of the family and praised her warmth, her free-spirited side and the cheer she adds to family get-togethers.
He also urged her to hold on to her individuality and keep chasing her goals. Pashmina is the daughter of composer Rajesh Roshan and made her Bollywood debut in the romantic comedy Ishq Vishk Rebound, which hit cinemas in June 2024.
Kiara Advani has jokingly suggested she is done having children.
Appearing with husband Sidharth Malhotra on Koffee With Karan, the actress, expecting her second child, showed her bump. Asked how they keep date nights from running late, Kiara replied in Hindi that it was enough now, and both men burst out laughing. Sidharth added that work never makes its way into their bedroom.
The bump is the first public confirmation of this pregnancy, and the couple already have a daughter, Siara, born in 2025.
Ranbir Kapoor and Yash's Ramayana has crossed ₹800 crore worldwide after six days in cinemas. It grossed over ₹160 crore globally on Tuesday, its second straight day at that level.
The ₹507 crore worldwide opening weekend came in below expectations, but the post-Diwali holidays turned things around. In India it earned ₹94 crore net on Tuesday, taking its domestic total to ₹440 crore net.
It has now overtaken the lifetime collections of PK and Chhaava. It is the first part of a two-part film, with the second due for Diwali 2028.
Actress Sonia Balani is playing Urmila, the wife of Lakshmana, in Ramayana. She landed the role through an audition with Mukesh Chhabra and was locked in within a day.
She says the sets were among the grandest she has worked on, almost like stepping back into Ramji's era. She also recalled Ranbir Kapoor rehearsing his dialogues so intensely that she thought he was chanting, and Ravi telling her that roles choose the actor, not the other way around.
Costume designer Saniya Sardhariya has revealed that Yash's Ravana outfits in Ramayana were very heavy. Most weighed 16 to 20 kg with jewellery, while a few heavy pieces reached 30 to 33 kg.
The crown was the toughest part to design. Even after many mock 3D versions and attempts to lighten it, it still weighed 1.8 kg.
Yash took the long shoot days in stride and amused the crew by turning the sharp parts of his costume into a playful headache for them. Ranbir Kapoor and Sai Pallavi star in the film, whose first part is scheduled for Diwali 2026.
Ramayana: Part 1, starring Ranbir Kapoor and Yash, has earned Rs 346.35 crore net in India so far. It is now being measured against Dhurandhar: The Revenge, which took Rs 674.17 crore in its first week.
It opened at Rs 67.85 crore, slipped on its second day, then climbed to Rs 107.50 crore on day five. Analyst Komal Nahta says it could challenge that first-week figure depending on how it holds up, while exhibitor Akshaye Rathi sees real potential for it to top Dhurandhar: The Revenge's lifetime earnings over time.
Actress Neetu Singh has looked back on her career. She began as a child performer at eight, and by 15 she was among the best-paid actresses of the 1970s, with a Mercedes-Benz and about five properties bought from her own earnings.
She quit films at 21, at the height of her fame, to marry Rishi Kapoor, saying she was exhausted from working since childhood. She returned to acting full-time after her husband's death, because she felt lonely.
Her son Ranbir Kapoor is now in cinemas with Ramayana: Part 1, a film made for Rs 2,000 crore that is the costliest Indian film yet.
Neetu Kapoor has spoken in a recent interview about her early climb to fame in Hindi cinema. She said that by 15 she had acquired four or five properties and a Mercedes of her own, all while still in eighth standard.
Film offers began arriving when she was in Class 8, and by 21 she had worked in roughly 100 movies. She left the screen after her wedding to Rishi Kapoor in 1980, pointing to a schedule that sometimes meant three shifts in one day.
She returned after a break of about 25 years with a cameo in Love Aaj Kal in 2009.
Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt has been warmly praising his son-in-law Ranbir Kapoor after seeing Ramayana Part 1, in which Ranbir plays Rama. His wife Soni Razdan shared his reaction on Instagram with a photo of the two at a Diwali party.
Bhatt has said the film moved him to tears on the big screen. The Nitesh Tiwari-directed epic, which also stars Yash and Sai Pallavi, earned Rs 107 crore on the Monday after Diwali and has passed Rs 500 crore worldwide.
Actor Pankaj Tripathi has revealed on The Great Indian Kapil Show that he spent two years working in a hotel, peeling vegetables, before he turned to acting.
He said he had once wanted to be a student leader, but a severe beating from the police changed his mind that same day. Sensing that his future was headed in another direction, he went on to the National School of Drama, graduating in 2004.
His breakthrough came with Gangs of Wasseypur in 2012, and he later earned a National Film Award Special Mention for Newton.
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