The first time I spoke to Sonakshi Sinha was in the autumn of 2010, two weeks before her big-ticket debut Dabangg, co-starring Salman Khan, no less, hit theatres. Being the daughter of actor Shatrugha...

A German state finance minister killed himself over coronavirus worries. He was anxious about “the population’s huge expectations, particularly of financial help”. Germany has earmarked a war ch...

Sonakshi Sinha will be making her small-screen debut very soon.The actress, who hasn’t really had a good run at the box office of late, has an offer to play a key role in a cop drama that is being d...

In the written word and in the cinematic medium, women make for far more compelling subjects than men. This may seem like a sweeping generalisation, but not if you have just walked out after watching ...

Vidya Balan leads the female brigade — comprising Sonakshi Sinha, Taapsee Pannu, Kirti Kulhari and Nithya Menen — of scientists in Mission Mangal, the dramatised version of Mangalyaan or India’s...

What’s common to Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Charlie Chaplin, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Sir Garfield Sobers, Brad Pitt, Prince William and Jimi Hendrix? They are all left-handed.Even Mahatma Gandhi...

Fed up with timber mafia hacking trees in her forested idyll, an 18-year-old girl decides to fight back. She forms an outfit of likeminded women who vow to protect the green cover. They not only tie r...

She has a busy couple of months coming up, but for now, all of Sonakshi Sinha’s attention is focused on Khandaani Shafakhana, a comedy that has her playing a character who inherits a sex clinic. Th...

After composing songs like DJ Wale Babu, rapper and singer Aditya Pratik Singh, better known as Badshah, will debut as an actor with Shilpi Dasgupta’s directorial unveiling Khandaani Shafakhana. “...

Actor-filmmaker Arbaaz Khan says his next production Dabangg 3 is shaping up well and shooting will be complete by September end. Arbaaz had turned producer with 2010’s Dabangg, featuring his supers...