Actress Mallika Sherawat, while speaking about casting couch, said, “I haven’t faced it directly…But…a lot of male actors started taking a lot of liberties with me.” “They said if you can be so bold onscreen, you can be bold with us in person also. They did not differentiate between the onscreen and offscreen personas,” she added.

Actor Ram Charan on Thursday celebrated 43 years of acting career of his father Chiranjeevi with a post on social media. Sharing a photo collage of Chiranjeevi from his films ‘Pranam Khareedu’ and ‘Acharya’, he wrote, “43 years and still counting!” Chiranjeevi commenced his acting career with ‘Punadhirallu’ in 1978 and has starred in more than 150 films.

Actress Taapsee Pannu spoke about her film ‘Blurr’, which will be her first project as a producer. Taapsee said that it was slightly different from all other shooting experiences and her patience and tolerance levels shot up incredibly. “I’ve…lot more perspective on how certain things work beyond what an actor has to do in front of the camera,” she added.

India head coach Ravi Shastri advised Virat Kohli to quit both ODI and T20I captaincy six months ago, reports said. “Kohli didn’t listen to Shastri. He’s still keen to lead India in ODIs and that’s why he only decided to quit…T20I captaincy,” a BCCI official told India Ahead. “Even BCCI was discussing…how Kohli could be utilised more as…batsman,” he added.

Sonu Sood has said that his vision is to build a hospital, adding that regardless of whether he is around or not, the work should keep going. The actor’s premises were surveyed by the Income Tax department on accusations of evading tax of over ₹20 crore. “The idea is to make [philanthropic work] bigger and reach maximum people,” Sonu added.

Businessman Raj Kundra was seen in tears as media photographed him and asked him questions upon his release from jail on Tuesday. Kundra was granted bail on Monday in a pornography case on a surety of ₹50,000. Following his release from jail after two months, his wife Shilpa Shetty shared a post on “rising back up after falling”.

Automobili Lamborghini has announced achieving a new milestone of delivering 300 Lamborghini cars in the Indian market. This milestone announcement comes as the brand concluded its second edition of Lamborghini Day, which was celebrated over three weekends and across three locations – Mumbai-Pune, Bangalore-Hampi and New Delhi-Jewar. The Lamborghini Urus has been a big contributor to the brand’s sales in India. In 2019, the company sold a total of 65 units in the country and posted a growth of 30 per cent compared to 2018.

During the investigation in the pornography case, police found 119 porn videos from businessman and actress Shilpa Shetty’s husband Raj Kundra’s mobile, laptop and hard disk drive, Mumbai Police Crime Branch said. He was planning to sell these videos for ₹9 crore, police added. Police issued Look Out Circular against Yash Thakur alias Arvind Srivastava and Kundra’s aide Pradeep Bakshi.

Actor Salman Khan will be paid ₹350 crore for hosting the television reality show ‘Bigg Boss 15’ for 14 weeks, LetsOTT and others reported. The actor has hosted 11 of the 14 seasons of Colors TV’s reality show. Salman Khan reportedly charged ₹20 crore per episode for ‘Bigg Boss 14’ and his team had closed the deal at ₹450 crore.

The world’s 25 richest families added $312 billion to their collective wealth and are now worth $1.7 trillion, Bloomberg reported. It’s a 22% gain since last August, Bloomberg added. The Waltons of Walmart emerged as the world’s richest family collectively worth $238.2 billion, richer than the individual wealths of Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, the world’s two richest people.

Virat Kohli will be stepping down as RCB captain after IPL 2021. “I’ll continue to be an RCB player till I play my last IPL game. I thank all the RCB fans for believing in me,” Kohli said. The 32-year-old was made RCB captain in 2013. Kohli will also step down as India T20I captain after T20 World Cup 2021.

Talking about Team India head coach job, Ravi Shastri said, “It’s like being football coach of Brazil or England. There’s always this gun pointing at you. Always.” He added, “You might have six great months and then you get out for 36 and [critics] will shoot you. Then you’ve to win immediately. Otherwise they will eat into you, right through.”

As India set a record by administering 2.5 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccines in a day on PM Narendra Modi’s birthday on September 17, he said, “I always stayed away from birthdays, but it was an emotional day yesterday.” “With the efforts of all of you (healthcare workers), it became a very special day for me,” he further said.

Income Tax Department on Wednesday surveyed six premises in Mumbai and Lucknow connected to actor Sonu Sood, according to reports. The survey was reportedly carried out for 20 hours and Sood’s family members and staff were also present in the premises when the survey was conducted. The department is reportedly investigating his property deal with a Lucknow-based real estate company.

Actor Manoj Bajpayee in an interview has said that OTT content has been the only saviour of the entertainment industry amid the COVID-19 pandemic. He added that it is the only medium that kept people entertained. “In our country, we often see that talented people were getting almost no due. The OTT has become a miracle for many,” Bajpayee said.