Mumbai: Actor Deepika Padukone, who plays a freedom fighter in Ashutosh Gowariker’s ‘Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey’, says playing the spirited character of ‘Kalpana’ was a dream come true.
Deepika stars alongside Abhishek Bachchan in Gowariker’s period thriller based on the Chittagong uprising during the freedom struggle.
The actress, who started her Bollywood journey with Shah Rukh Khan starrer ‘Om Shanti Om’, will be seen in a new look in the film.
“It is something so new and unique for me. I am very grateful to Ashutosh who thought I was capable to carry off such a powerful role. It is a dream come true and a very important film of my career,” Deepika, who was in the city to launch a designer footwear store, said.
The 24-year-old star seems to be keen on shedding her glamourous image with two back to back
Deepika Padukone’s dream came true
Stepmoms not always wicked witch: Arjun Rampal
Mumbai: Arjun Rampal, who plays a divorcee with three kids in his upcoming movie “We Are Family”, claims the film will break the image of the stepmom who is more often than not portrayed in a negative light in Hindi movies.“It’s the children who suffer. You will see what happens to children and that’s the message we are going to give through the film. The film is about the whole dynamics of everything,” Arjun, 37, who himself comes from a broken family said.
“The film breaks the mould of a stereotype that stepmoms are like wicked witch, the way it has been portrayed on the silver screen so far. The film is not about that; it’s about the crisis and how love prevails over everything and finally new relationships could also be made
Hip-hop dancer without legs shoots to fame
Mumbai: A hip-hop dancer, who was born without legs, appearing on an Indian television reality show - India's Got Talent- has become a rage with his swift dance moves and acrobatic skills.
21-year-old Vinod Thakur shot to fame after performing on the television show India's Got Talent.
After qualifying in the first round, Thakur has been rehearsing and training for the subsequent rounds of the talent show to be recorded in Mumbai.
Hailing from a poor neighbourhood in East Delhi, Thakur was born without legs due to a
Away from tyranny, Afghan women dream of freedom
New Delhi: The small classroom is abuzz with conversations in Persian. But it ends as soon as a young woman in salwar-kameez enters and starts teaching English. Meet Aarzoo Hussain, an Afghan national, who is fiercely independent and wants womenfolk from her country to lead a free life too. Hussain is happy that her family chose to come to India and she is away from the land of “tyranny and subjugation”.Living in a middle-class neighbourhood in Bhogal in south Delhi, Hussain runs a tuition centre for Afghan nationals who like her have made the national capital their home away from home.
“Life was difficult there. Restrictions brought immense fear. The conflict made things worse,”
Youth want sex, violence
New Delhi: Show them a boy-meets-girl story and chances are today's Indian youth will switch off their TV sets. What they are looking for is some serious 'love, sex aur dhokha' on the small screen that is closer to the reality of their own lives.
Shows like "Emotional Atyachaar", "Dadagiri", "Axe Ur Ex", "Splitsvilla", "Dare 2 Date", "Love Net" - about double timing your partner, backbiting and making a mockery of relationships - have become a craze among college-going students
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