1. Shah Rukh Khan-Mahira’s Love Ballad, ‘Zaalima’ Is Out!
With Raees releasing on the 25 January, the music of the film has already started to trend on social media. Shah Rukh Khan just tweeted a new song from the film, Zaalima, and it seems it’s already a hit with 75+ thousand views!
The song starts off with a few EDM elements and then transitions into the perfect Bollywood romance ballad with its soulful lyrics, set in an exotic locale - Dubai, we presume.
Raees is an action crime thriller, starring Shah Rukh Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, and Mahira Khan, directed by Rahul Dhloakia. The film is set to release on 25 January, along with Hrithik Roshan’s Kaabil.
2. Aamir Khan’s ‘Dangal’ Enters the 300 Cr Club In Record Time
Aamir Khan-starrer Dangal has entered Bollywood’s select Rs 300 crore club in just 13 days. The film, which has been having a solo run at the box-office since its release on 23 December, collected Rs 9.23 crore on Wednesday and brought it’s total domestic collections to Rs 304 crore.
Dangal has become the 4th film to enter the Rs 300 crore club, which till now continues to be an exclusive reserve for Aamir and Salman Khan films. Both the stars dominate the 300 crore club with their films - Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Sultan, PK and now Dangal.
Aamir’s latest film is now in a race to beat the star’s own film PK to become the biggest money spinner ever in Indian cinema. According to film trade analyst Taran Adarsh, PK’s lifetime collection (India) stands at Rs 340.8 crore and Dangal now needs to another Rs 36.42 crore to equal it.
3. I’m Ashamed, How Can Society Justify Molestation? : Akshay Kumar
Akshay Kumar shared his anger about the Bangalore molestation case on social media with a strong, straight-from-the heart message. In his ‘direct’ video he says that his blood boiled to see women being molested on the street in the presence of police personnel, for no fault of theirs.
Akshay’s message to all the girls out there is that they should not take any advice or gyan from others about how they should dress or at what time they should leave or return home. In fact he advises them to learn martial arts and teach men and society a lesson, one they’ll remember.
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4. Underworld Threats Force ‘Coffee With D’ Release To Be Postponed?
The Sunil Grover starrer Coffee With D, which was scheduled to be the first release of 2017, has been postponed. Ever since the release of its first trailer, the film has apparently been on the underworld’s radar. The makers probably didn’t imagine that a comedy referring to the infamous gangster Dawood Ibrahim, would be far from a laughing matter for them.
Producer Vinod Ramani, Director Vishal Mishra and Sunil Grover have been receiving anonymous calls, threatening them with dire consequences, if references to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim are not removed from the film. The filmmakers have approached the Delhi Police seeking action against the callers.
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5. Sex Talk Is Not OK for the CBFC as ‘OK Jaanu’ Gets Chopped
So okay, the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has grown up, or so we thought. Well, they’ve at least stopped frowning at live-in relationships as depicted in Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, Befikre and now OK Jaanu.
But, when it comes to the sex act the CBFC still has its own peculiar dos and don’ts. Meaning, you can…. ummm… do it but don’t talk about it.
This is what Shradha Kapoor and Aditya Roy Kapoor discovered when their love-making scenes in OK Jaanu were tampered with by the board.
For starters, some of the pushing, shoving, heavy breathing in bed during the Humma Humma song and elsewhere has been censored.
Never mind if the couple is living in sin, but they are not to say , “Yeh (sex)bahut bada paap hai aur baar-baar karne se dhul jaata hai”. This dialogue which appears in the trailer has been reportedly censored from the film.
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