Entertainment

Entertainment Desk Bollywood megastar Ranveer Singh was grilled by police on Monday on charges of “obscenity” after posting naked photos of himself, in a case highlighting India’s complex relationship with nudity. Singh, 37, posted in July on social media the racy images shot for New York-based Paper magazine, sparking a media frenzy in India and resulting in multiple complaints. Mumbai ...

Entertainment Desk Kim Kardashian and celebrity neighbors including Sylvester Stallone have been handed warnings for repeatedly flouting water restrictions at their homes in drought-hit California, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday. Strict water limits — imposed as the western United States endures its 23rd successive year of drought, worsened by human-caused climate change — are in place across swathes of ...

Entertainment Desk Long before Denzel Washington, Spike Lee or even Sidney Poitier, generations of pioneering and revolutionary Black US filmmakers played a key role in shaping early American cinema and dispelling pejorative stereotypes, a major new Hollywood exhibition argues. “Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971,” opening at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles on Sunday, charts key moments in ...

Entertainment Desk The 98th birth anniversary of world renowned artist SM Sultan will be observed in the district tomorrow (Wednesday) in a befitting manner. In observance of the anniversary, SM Sultan Foundation and Narail district administration have chalked out a daylong programme at Sultan Smriti Sangrahasala. The programme includes Qurankhwani at Sultan’s graveyard at 6am, art competition and essay writing ...

Entertainment Desk US actor Ezra Miller has been charged with burglary for allegedly breaking into a home in the state of Vermont and stealing bottles of alcohol. According to a police report, officials were alerted to a break-in on 1 May in the town of Stamford. Surveillance video led them to suspect the actor, who stars in films including the ...

Entertainment Desk Mumbai Police on Monday in a statement said that Bollywood actor Actor Salman Khan has been issued an Arms license after he applied for a weapon license for self-protection in the backdrop of threat letters that he received recently. In June, Salman Khan and his father, screenplay writer Salim Khan received a letter threatening that the father-son duo ...

Entertainment Desk The Hero Alam episode has been a bad advertisement for the state as a culture controller. Not that they are feeling embarrassed about it. As the police told the media, they have received many complaints against Hero Alam’s singing. So they brought him in. And the police told him not to do the singing which irritates many, at ...

Entertainment Desk Popular Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty is coming to Dhaka tonight (Saturday) to join Bio-Xin Cosmeceuticals Business Leadership Award-2022. She will hand over awards to 25-30 best leaders as chief guest. She will perform on stage at Sheraton Hotel at 8pm. Confirming again her arrival in Dhaka in a video message, the actress said “ I am very excited ...

Entertainment Desk A woman who sued Bob Dylan for allegedly sexually abusing her when she was 12 has dropped her case, just after the folk-rock artist’s legal team accused her of destroying evidence. In August of last year the plaintiff, who remains unnamed and was identified only as J.C., had filed a suit alleging that Dylan abused her over a ...

Entertainment Desk Universal’s new horror flick “Nope” opened atop the North American box office, hammering the latest edition of Marvel’s “Thor” franchise to earn an estimated $44 million, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported Sunday. The alien-invasion sci-fi mystery, which features a Black family struggling to make ends meet on their bleached California horse ranch, is the highly-anticipated latest effort by ...