A quick look at news in the world of cinema today.
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Priya Mani and Aari join a web-series called G-Spot. The show has Aishwarya Rajesh playing the lead, and it will be directed by Vijay Ramesh.
Karthi and Nagarjuna Akkineni’s Thozhan (a remake of the French film The Intouchables) will be remade in Hollywood with Bryan Cranston and Nicole Kidman in the lead.
Shoojit Sircar’s October, starring Varun Dhawan, will release in June 2018.
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Kamal Haasan, host of reality show Bigg Boss Tamil, apologised on Saturday’s show for the irresponsible portrayal of mental illness in a task the contestants were asked to do. “If this happens again… this show isn’t so important to me,” he said.
Last week’s challenge had the contestants dress up and act like people in a ‘mental hospital’. They played doctors, a ward boy, nurse, attenders and those with mind-related issues.
This task received a lot of flak from the public. Kamal Haasan said that just because he is the host of the show, it doesn’t mean that he gets to decide the tasks.
Veteran Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar is recuperating at the Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai and will be kept under observation in the intensive care unit (ICU) for the next two-three days. Reports say that he is conscious right now.
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CBFC chief Pahlaj Nihalani has filed a police complaint against a television journalist in Mumbai, alleging harassment, intimidation and breach of privacy.
“She has been continuously harassing me in my office building premises, exceeding all levels of courteous behaviour, and bullying the security guards and office staff into letting her enter my office. She is intruding into my privacy by showing my footage,” Nihalani wrote in his complaint.
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Director M Night Shyamalan, actress Vera Farmiga, and singer Geri Halliwell will all turn a year older today!