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What’s happening in Bollywood this week? From gossip to scandal, our Chief Entertainment reporter Manjusha Radhakrishnan dishes on all that’s been happening in the world of Bollywood in this week’s episode. for more. #Bollywood #Entertainment #Movies
What’s happening in Bollywood this week? From gossip to scandal, our Chief Entertainment reporter Manjusha Radhakrishnan dishes on all that’s been happening in the world of Bollywood in this week’s episode. for more. #Bollywood #Entertainment #Movies
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00:00Good evening and welcome back to the next edition of Bollywood Gossip and Movies with
00:05our chief entertainment reporter Manjusha.
00:08Hello.
00:09Today, she's going to give us the lowdown on Karan Johar.
00:15That's right.
00:16Let's start off with Karan Johar.
00:17In fact, last week or a few weeks ago, there was this whole conjecture, his favorite word,
00:22by the way, about his party, his party at home being drug fueled.
00:27And he's hit back in a TV show and said that there were no drugs in his party and that
00:33everybody was very sober.
00:34They were just having fun.
00:35They were just a bunch of celebrities, big stars who came together just to have some
00:40fun.
00:41And he feels really bad that people are even insinuating that they would indulge in, you
00:46know, in a drug fuel party.
00:48So what we have, according to him, at least his version, is that these are people who
00:54work very hard.
00:55Perhaps they did drink a bit, but there were no drugs in the house.
00:58And the best part is he even said that his mom was there a few minutes before, before
01:03he taped it.
01:04Funnily enough, it was Karan Johar who taped the whole incident and put it on.
01:08It's almost like he shot himself in the foot.
01:10And now he's scared.
01:11I think that backfired a bit.
01:13That is true.
01:14We've also done this story.
01:15You can actually see the original story on gulfnews.com and then the follow up.
01:20That's right.
01:21But isn't there something interesting that this whole rumor has also come about because
01:26there is an assumption that Bollywood does have this rather drug fueled kind of lifestyle?
01:32Just think about it.
01:33I've spoken to many people.
01:34We can't name them, of course, for obvious reasons, but they say the demand of the profession
01:39is so much.
01:40I mean, you are looking at people globetrotting, working like 19 hours shift.
01:45So in order to keep up, there are many stars who often, you know, take the support of,
01:49like say drugs or even something as harsh as cocaine, for instance, just to keep going.
01:55Does it show on their faces?
01:56Perhaps not.
01:57But it's all very well.
01:58It's one of Bollywood's worst kept secrets where, you know, people, you know, indulge
02:04in drugs, but they don't talk about it openly.
02:06And it's something that they're very clannish about and they're very not open about talking
02:11about it.
02:12But think about it.
02:13How do they keep up with like, say, like going around continents, promoting films, then working
02:18in another film?
02:20It's not humanly possible.
02:21And many stars go without sleep.
02:23So you wonder, where do they get all the energy from?
02:25Do they take some external support?
02:27But we'll never know.
02:28Like you said, unless we have a star who will come out and openly talk about the dark side
02:33of fame, we'll never know.
02:35Yes.
02:36And I think it would be good, actually, if they did that and they cleaned up their act.
02:40Ideally, yes.
02:41I mean, you know, it's like in Hollywood, we have celebrities who talk openly about
02:46their addictions.
02:47But in Bollywood, we're yet to see that kind of open conversation.
02:55Moving on to the next one, speaking about stars with clay feet and being targeted for
03:00that, you had two people specifically Sonam Kapoor and Kangana Ranaut for two different
03:05cases.
03:06Very two.
03:07Yeah.
03:08Yeah.
03:09It's like diametrically different cases.
03:10Of course, one was for a fashion crime.
03:11The other is one for speaking too much about Pakistan and India issue.
03:17So we had Sonam Kapoor, who was blasted for her comments saying that she's half Sindhi
03:21and half Pakistani in an interview with BBC, where she was asked about her take on the
03:26Kashmir issue.
03:28And what we had is people trolling her for saying, how dare she even take a stand?
03:33Is she out?
03:34You know, is she jobless?
03:36And the best part is Sonam Kapoor is always outspoken on Twitter.
03:40She asked those people to get a job and to calm down and to have a life.
03:44And I'm with her.
03:45I'm like, she just spoke about what she had in her mind.
03:48And the thing is, you can take it with a pinch of salt, but then attacking her and calling
03:52her a jobless actress and comparing her to Rakhi Sawant, which some trolls did, saying
03:57that don't you have a brain, etc., is just getting personal.
04:01And she hit back at them.
04:02So it was very interesting to see the entire fight being chronicled.
04:06We of course have, we have it on Gulfnews.com, where we have given you a lowdown on what
04:11went down.
04:12But Sonam Kapoor is not going to take it lying down.
04:15And Kangana Ranaut, today's story actually.
04:19That's right.
04:20In fact, Anupa just pointed out that story to me.
04:22It's a very bizarre story.
04:23She's wearing a cotton saree.
04:25Now, wearing a saree is usually lauded since we are preserving Indian culture.
04:29And of course, it's a very comfortable piece of garment.
04:32But Kangana Ranaut was under fire for wearing a 600 rupee saree, which her sister, Rangoli,
04:39she's often very outspoken on Twitter.
04:41She came out and said, my sister is promoting and, you know, the artisans, the local artisans
04:47of Calcutta.
04:48And here is a look at the saree she's wearing.
04:50Unfortunately, Kangana on her part, apart from a rupee 600 saree, she was carrying a
04:55very expensive designer bag that runs into more than 15,000 dirhams.
05:01So what you have is like a case of like, is that hypocrisy?
05:05Why is she wearing a 600 rupee saree, which is like 30 dirhams perhaps, and carrying such
05:10an expensive bag?
05:11But I think people seem to have lost the point.
05:14The whole conversation is about promoting sarees and local artisans.
05:20It's not about her not, it's not about the price tag of what she's wearing.
05:24I think the cause was somewhere lost.
05:26Yes.
05:27And I think it's actually a good thing if our celebrities that people actually follow,
05:34promote local art and especially the artisans of our country and keeping in mind that India
05:39gave the world textile tradition to a great extent.
05:43So I think we should be respecting that.
05:45So for once, I think Rangoli was on track.
05:52Yeah.
05:53Yeah.
05:54Which brings us to the next big story that Manju and Mazhar did.
05:57That's right.
05:58Which was Sacred Games.
06:00That's right.
06:01Sacred Games did a massive blunder last week when it published a local number, a UAE based
06:08number.
06:10Mazhar and I went around sniffing around a bit and we cracked the mystery of who did
06:14the number belong to?
06:15And we found out that it belonged to a Sharjah resident.
06:19And poor man had never heard about what Sacred Games is.
06:23In fact, he asked me, is it a video game in Malayalam?
06:26Bless his soul.
06:27I mean, you know, it is so sad.
06:28He was inundated with calls.
06:29More than 50 calls came to his number.
06:32And he was wondering whether he would be arrested and people were asking him to do some very
06:36unsavory things.
06:38And he's like, who is Isa?
06:39And we had to explain to him that Isa is the gangster, fictional gangster in Sacred Games.
06:44And Netflix, after we pointed that error out to them, they have apologized and removed
06:50that number from the subtitling.
06:51It was a subtitling error.
06:54And Nawazuddin Siddiqui, you know, who was given a sheet of paper, he realized that,
07:00you know, it is not a Sharjah based residence number and they've corrected the issue.
07:04But it's funny how these things snowball into big events.
07:08Least expected.
07:09That's right.
07:10But I have to say this man has become, you know, a household celebrity of late.
07:17He's been called by all the radio stations.
07:19The story has been picked up by the Indian newspaper.
07:22So it's quite interesting.
07:23He's become an overnight celebrity.
07:25So you can definitely read that story again on gulfnews.com.
07:29It's there.
07:30It's in detail and it's very well done and a must read, especially if you're a Sacred
07:34Games fan.
07:35That's true.
07:36Which brings us to the movie release of the week.
07:40Right.
07:41This time, there's no Bollywood release.
07:42I know it's sad, but next week we have a big release called Saaho.
07:46So I guess it's just giving us some breathing space.
07:49But for the fans of South Indian cinema, especially Malayalam, there's a movie called Puranju
07:53Mariam Jos and it stars our Malayalam, Dubai based Malayalam RJ Naila Usha.
08:00And it's also a director Joshi's movie.
08:03So he's he had a self-imposed four year sabbatical.
08:06He's back with this 1960s drama and it has Naila Usha playing a Christian woman in Chattemundu,
08:13which is like a traditional attire.
08:15And we have them.
08:16It's a tale of revenge, love between three friends who grew up together in Thrissur in
08:20Kerala.
08:21So it's going to be very interesting to see what the Dubai based girl has in store for
08:25us.
08:26I'll be reviewing it.
08:32And we have a guest.
08:33That's right.
08:34That's right.
08:35You know, Dubai is going to be a lot more sunnier with Sunny Leone.
08:40Sorry, I couldn't just help it.
08:42But a little birdie tells us she might pay us a visit as well.
08:46It's not confirmed.
08:47You can't hold us to it.
08:48But we are trying to get her as close to you all as we can.
08:52And so do watch this space tomorrow.
08:55And she's in the city.
08:56She's already in Dubai.
08:57She's having fun at a hotel.
08:59Go to her Instagram account.
09:00She's already posted some pictures of her having fun in Dubai.
09:04A vacation, she calls it, a working vacation.
09:07So we will keep you posted.
09:09So continue watching our social media channels and definitely log on to gulfnews.com to get
09:14more information and read more stories by Manju.
09:18So until the next edition, goodbye, goodbye, take care.