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Of all the tropes that Hindi cinema has applied with stunning regularly, perhaps the idea of childhood sweethearts has proved to be as counterproductive as it also feels ridiculous. In a scene from Raj Kapoor’s Awara (1951), a young Raj, played by a young Shashi Kapoor, […]
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Ranbir Kapoor-starrer Shamshera is the latest entrant in a long list of recent Hindi films — including Samrat Prithviraj, Bachchhan Pandey, Dhaakad and Jayeshbhai Jordaar — that have fared poorly at the box office. This trend has led to several questions, and quite rightly so, […]
Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb penned an op-ed in the New York Times published on Saturday arguing that the United States lacks a federal infrastructure capable of dealing with public health emergencies like monkeypox and COVID-19. “Our country’s response to monkeypox […]
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World Breaking NewsOf all the tropes that Hindi cinema has applied with stunning regularly, perhaps the idea of childhood sweethearts has proved to be as counterproductive as it also feels ridiculous. In a scene from Raj Kapoor’s Awara (1951), a young Raj, played by a young Shashi Kapoor, […]
Entertainment NewsOf all the tropes that Hindi cinema has applied with stunning regularly, perhaps the idea of childhood sweethearts has proved to be as counterproductive as it also feels ridiculous. In a scene from Raj Kapoor’s Awara (1951), a young Raj, played by a young Shashi Kapoor, […]
Entertainment NewsFormer Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb penned an op-ed in the New York Times published on Saturday arguing that the United States lacks a federal infrastructure capable of dealing with public health emergencies like monkeypox and COVID-19. “Our country’s response to monkeypox […]
HealthRanbir Kapoor-starrer Shamshera is the latest entrant in a long list of recent Hindi films — including Samrat Prithviraj, Bachchhan Pandey, Dhaakad and Jayeshbhai Jordaar — that have fared poorly at the box office. This trend has led to several questions, and quite rightly so, […]
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World Breaking NewsOf all the tropes that Hindi cinema has applied with stunning regularly, perhaps the idea of childhood sweethearts has proved to be as counterproductive as it also feels ridiculous. In a scene from Raj Kapoor’s Awara (1951), a young Raj, played by a young Shashi Kapoor, […]
Entertainment NewsOf all the tropes that Hindi cinema has applied with stunning regularly, perhaps the idea of childhood sweethearts has proved to be as counterproductive as it also feels ridiculous.
In a scene from Raj Kapoor’s Awara (1951), a young Raj, played by a young Shashi Kapoor, visits his friend Rita’s house on her birthday party. “Ek din main bahut saare rupaye kamaa ke tumhe bhent laake dunga”, Raj says as he ties a flower to a lock of her hair. “Laa dena, magar iss phool se badhiya thori ho sakti hai”, the girl says, smiling with a hint of adolescent embarrassment. It’s a scene that though innocently performed is loaded with disconcerting subtext. Do children that age really understand love or its language? Hindi cinema’s obsession with childhood love stories has been a worrisome trope that has refused to age. And it probably says much about relationships in post-partition India that marriage became a train that one could afford to not miss, rather than the platform you stopped at if you wished to.
Awara is a landmark film in some ways because it yearns for legitimacy for the depraved and the criminal. But besides the progressive outlook on morality it does have a rather skewed view of love. For one thing, Raj, who separates from Rita after childhood, continues to hang a picture of her – her picture as a child mind you – in his house. It’s painted as romantic devotion for the past, but it seeds this uncomfortable image of a boy hanging onto a girl’s photograph through his years of growing. Maybe the tangibility of the printed photo demands that kind of commitment, but it is baffling in retrospect to buy into a young boy’s tale of treachery via love. In Dharmendra’s Shola aur Shabnam, Ravi played by Dharmendra is offered employment by a friend who turns out to be the husband of a long lost childhood love. It’s a discovery that twists Ravi in knots and tests his ability to comply with destiny.
In 1949, two years before Awara was released, the Indian government revised the minimum marriageable age for women to 15. In a country rife with sociological problems like female infanticide and child marriage, Bollywood’s tendency to tie to little children the burden of superficially hosting stories about love, happily-ever-afters and more, feels damaging and regressive. Things haven’t exactly evolved in modern takes on the same trope. In fact, in cases like Raanjhanaa, they only became problematic. Films like Karan Johar’s Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham have found innovative ways to legitimise the childhood link but it cannot be forgiven for the convenient bias at the heart of a family-first ladder.
Bollywood’s use of this nefarious little trope can be seen as implying the first-mover advantage. Skewed gender ratios, casteism and selective fraternisation have ensured that India still envisions marriage as a function of borders rather than landscapes. It’s more about the things you can’t do, which means parents puppeteer children into marrying their own ilk, one way or the other. Rebellion can be leverage for a while, but as much as Bollywood has sold the love-against-all-odds narrative, it has also casually slipped in the manipulative symmetry of love at birth (or the early years) itself. Sometimes it’s for survival (Roop ki Rani Choron ka Raja), sometimes it’s just meant to be creative interlocking (Deewangee); the idea that we are all already destiny to be with someone and that someone might just be Rinky or Pinky two doors down from ours. This is not just colonisation of the mind, but quite literally of shared spaces.
Bollywood films have for long argued, by not arguing at all, that a man and a woman cannot be friends. By perpetuating the myth that nearly all friendships must once be experimented upon with the scalpels of Cupid, the Hindi film industry has suggested that no relationship can or has existed without sexual undertones. We have probably been convinced that it is so and have then frivolously chased love and lust in corners that weren’t even meant to be approached in that manner. Of course, childhood sweethearts exist amidst us, though probably not as many as cinema pretends they do or should.
Fast forward to today and Hindi cinema finally seems intent on letting go of the childhood sweetheart. In Ayushmann Khuranna’s Bala, for example, a brown-faced Bhumi Pednekar ditches the conventional storyline of the childhood back-up coming around to accepting the protagonist. But this little example is an anomaly in a glossary full of so many references it is odd that we never quite examined it with the lens of practicality. In 1978, a rough three decades after independence, India raised the legal age for women’s marriage to 18. There is probably an argument here for love blooming out of whatever soil it finds, but really, we can do without our children having to figure a sentiment, we as adults can’t make sense of more the most part. Hindi cinema doesn’t often score well on sociological goals, but of all its regressive tropes the idea that children can and perhaps even ought to be assigned partners at childhood has done more harm than good. In fact, it has probably only done harm.
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Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb penned an op-ed in the New York Times published on Saturday arguing that the United States lacks a federal infrastructure capable of dealing with public health emergencies like monkeypox and COVID-19. “Our country’s response to monkeypox […]
HealthFormer Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb penned an op-ed in the New York Times published on Saturday arguing that the United States lacks a federal infrastructure capable of dealing with public health emergencies like monkeypox and COVID-19.
“Our country’s response to monkeypox has been plagued by the same shortcomings we had with Covid-19,” Gottlieb wrote in the op-ed.
“Now if monkeypox gains a permanent foothold in the United States and becomes an endemic virus that joins our circulating repertoire of pathogens, it will be one of the worst public health failures in modern times not only because of the pain and peril of the disease but also because it was so avoidable,” he said. “Our lapses extend beyond political decision making to the agencies tasked with protecting us from these threats.”
Gottlieb said the country did not test enough people for monkeypox in the early days of the outbreak, noting that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) did not expand testing to large commercial labs until late June.
“Its cultural instinct is to take a deliberative approach, debating each decision,” he said of CDC. “With Covid, the virus gained ground quickly. With monkeypox, which spreads more slowly, typically through very close contact, the shortcomings of CDC’s cultural approach haven’t been as acute yet. But the shortfalls are the same.”
CDC has reported nearly 5,200 cases as of Sunday, and the outbreak has reached all but three states: Montana, Vermont and Wyoming.
Monkeypox spreads through close contact with an infected animal or person, generally through lesions, body fluids, contaminated materials and respiratory droplets. Those droplets can only travel up to a few feet and usually require prolonged contact for transmission.
The virus has largely been detected in men who have sex with men, leading some jurisdictions to prioritize those groups to receive the currently limited number of available monkeypox vaccine doses.
Gottlieb called for CDC to continue leading the nation’s pandemic response, but he argued that it should transfer some of its disease prevention work to other agencies.
He called for the FDA to manage smoking and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to handle cancer and heart disease.
“Focus the CDC more on its core mission of outbreak response,” Gottlieb wrote. “And imbue the agency with the national security mind-set that it had at its origins. If the CDC mission were more tightly focused on the elements required for handling contagion, Congress might be more willing to invest it with the robust authority to do that targeted mission well.”
But Gottlieb cast doubt on the feasibility of reform to equip CDC and other public health agencies with new tools and authority, citing his conversations with lawmakers and their staffs that showed what he called a “scant appetite” for such a move.
“After Covid, there’s a view among some that public health agencies used flawed analysis and miscalculated their advice,” Gottlieb wrote. “Securing a political consensus that the CDC needs to be further empowered to complete its mission — for example, invested with the authority to compel reporting from states — is politically unobtainable.”
Ranbir Kapoor-starrer Shamshera is the latest entrant in a long list of recent Hindi films — including Samrat Prithviraj, Bachchhan Pandey, Dhaakad and Jayeshbhai Jordaar — that have fared poorly at the box office. This trend has led to several questions, and quite rightly so, […]
BollywoodRanbir Kapoor-starrer Shamshera is the latest entrant in a long list of recent Hindi films — including Samrat Prithviraj, Bachchhan Pandey, Dhaakad and Jayeshbhai Jordaar — that have fared poorly at the box office. This trend has led to several questions, and quite rightly so, in the mind of film viewers as well as makers. What is going wrong? The increasing audience disenchantment with mainstream, commercial Hindi cinema is a phenomenon that needs some probing.
While Hindi films aren’t doing too well, their counterparts from the South have managed to successfully capture popular imagination. This is a big moment in contemporary Indian film history and never have we witnessed this kind of success for Southern films that cross linguistic borders. Rajinikanth was perhaps the only exception, though his films too released only in certain pockets in non-Southern Indian states.
The box office collections of films such as Pushpa: The Rise, KGF: Chapter 2, and RRR in the Hindi cinema heartland are noteworthy. Recently, while travelling through rural West Bengal, I noticed Pushpa merchandise in village shops – shirts and T-shirts featuring actor Allu Arjun’s face. A little later, I came across a group of youngsters proudly displaying their Baahubali fare at the village junction. That too at a place where the only language spoken and heard is a dialect of Bangla. This was unimaginable even a decade ago and points to the significant penetration these films have been able to achieve. Digital technology and its spread have undeniably contributed to this reach. But this also brings into question our pre-conceived notions about Hindi cinema superstardom and fanbase.
Have those fans now moved to newer pastures? Are they tired of their favourite stars dishing out the same films repeatedly? Is this a warning of sorts that there are other avenues for wholesome entertainment beyond Hindi cinema which are now easily accessible and available?
These South Indian films are big-screen extravaganzas. The audience goes to watch these films expecting a spectacle. When Baahubali: The Beginning was released, some even compared it to James Cameron’s Avatar. The content of these films merits a separate discussion and a lot has been written and said about how regressive it can be. There is even talk about Ayan Mukherji’s upcoming Brahmastra, which will release this year after being delayed several times, mimicking the look and feel of these big Southern films. Will it fetch similar dividends? We must wait and watch but a template has certainly been created.
This indicates a bigger problem, however: The lack of originality or creative thinking. Is the Hindi mainstream industry so hard-pressed for content that they must rely upon a formula from the South? Some of the other big box office successes of Hindi cinema like the highly problematic Kabir Singh are also remakes of Southern films. Telugu superstar Vijay Deverakonda, the lead in Arjun Reddy on which Kabir Singh was based, is now being launched by Karan Johar in the upcoming Hindi film Liger, perhaps also to encash on the star’s huge fan base in the South.
On another note, during the pandemic, viewers discovered contemporary Malayalam cinema through OTT platforms. These films are now the cornerstone of several film discourses. They have been able to create a wonderful balance between commerce and content, something in which mainstream Hindi cinema has largely failed. Films like Malik, Bheeshma Parvam, Dear Friend, Kurup, Salute, Minnal Murali are not non-mainstream. Successful Malayalam stars like Tovino Thomas and Fahadh Faasil not only have interesting filmographies to showcase but have also backed similarly exciting film projects as producers. Instead of following trends, they are creating trends themselves. The freshness of these films in terms of the stories they choose to tell and the characters they showcase make them distinct. Access to such cinema through OTT platforms has also revealed to viewers that good cinema doesn’t necessarily require massive budgets and could be made with limited means. Why should they settle for any less when there are better films available in the comfort of their home? After all, watching good cinema is the best exposure for a film viewer.
The Kerala film industry is minuscule in comparison to Hindi, Tamil or Telugu film ecosystems. Contemporary Hindi cinema has no similar trajectory to show. Even its actors-turned-producers back conventional subjects, thereby regurgitating time-tested formulae.
South Indian cinema is not a homogenous category. The combination of big spectacular films alongside content-driven cinema is, however, a model that many would aspire to but few manage to achieve. Does the spate of recent rejections in Hindi filmdom indicate that audiences need better content? It’s still too premature to make that claim but will films mimicking those from the South offer a respite? Anurag Kashyap recently said that Hindi films are performing poorly because they are being made by people who don’t speak Hindi themselves and are, therefore, not rooted in their culture. But that’s just a part of the problem. Hindi cinema needs better vision, ideas, scripts and a will to reform by looking beyond pyaar, ishq, mohabbat and nafrat.
The writer teaches literary & cultural studies at FLAME University, Pune
Comment on this story Comment China said its most powerful rocket fell back to Earth, as NASA criticized Beijing for failing to share crucial data about its trajectory. The Long March 5B rocket, which weighs more than 1.8 million pounds, blasted off from the Wenchang […]
World Breaking NewsThe “vast majority” of the rocket’s debris burned up during reentry into the atmosphere at about 12:55 a.m., the China Manned Space Agency said Sunday in a statement on its official Weibo social media account.
The rest “landed in the sea” at 119.0 degrees East and 9.1 degrees North, it said. These coordinates are in the waters off the Philippine island of Palawan, southeast of the city of Puerto Princesa. China’s statement did not say whether any debris fell on land.
Experts were concerned that the huge size of the 176-foot rocket and the risky design of its launch process would mean its debris might not burn up as it reentered the Earth’s atmosphere. The rocket shed its empty 23-ton first stage in orbit, looping the planet over several days as it approached landing in a difficult-to-predict flight path.
Debris from China rocket launch to crash-land — and no one knows where
The United States said China was taking on a significant risk by allowing the rocket to fall uncontrolled to Earth without advising on its potential path.
“The People’s Republic of China did not share specific trajectory information as their Long March 5B rocket fell back to Earth,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson tweeted Saturday.
“All spacefaring nations should follow established best practices, and do their part to share this type of information in advance to allow reliable predictions of potential debris impact risk, especially for heavy-lift vehicles, like the Long March 5B, which carry a significant risk of loss of life and property,” he continued. “Doing so is critical to the responsible use of space and to ensure the safety of people here on Earth.”
Ahead of the rocket’s reentry, China sought to quash fears that debris posed a risk to the public, predicting that pieces from the core stage would probably end up in the sea.
U.S. criticism of China when it comes to space debris has been long-running. “It is clear that China is failing to meet responsible standards regarding their space debris,” read a statement released by NASA last year.
Last week, China’s state-run newspaper the Global Times accused the West of showing “sour grapes” and trying to discredit its efforts in space. The article accused the United States of leading a “smear campaign” against the “robust development of China’s aerospace sector.”
Telling it like it is. Rachel Hargrove‘s time on Below Deck left a lasting impression — but it was her offscreen behavior that has kept viewers talking. The chef was a scene-stealing addition to the cast when she joined the hit Bravo series in 2020. […]
Entertainment NewsTelling it like it is. Rachel Hargrove‘s time on Below Deck left a lasting impression — but it was her offscreen behavior that has kept viewers talking.
The chef was a scene-stealing addition to the cast when she joined the hit Bravo series in 2020. At the time, Rachel’s cooking and witty comebacks made her a topic of discussion amongst the crew and the fans. During season 8, Rachel shocked everyone when her concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic inspired her to walk off the boat ahead of a charter.
After returning shortly after her dramatic departure, the Bravo personality explained her state of mind. “I didn’t really want to leave Captain Lee hanging,” she told Entertainment Tonight in January 2021. “I just needed a breather and needed to walk off and take a second. Especially for everything that was happening to process it. That was one of the craziest [preference] sheets I’ve seen in my life. And then, I’m running as a sole chef? But it really was, I didn’t want to disappoint him.”
Rachel, who made headlines for saying “eat my cooter” on her way out, noted that she was struggling with personal issues as well. “It’s a lot of stress when you got all those cameras in your face constantly,” she added.
Former chief stew Kate Chastain weighed in on the situation after working with Rachel in the past. “I wasn’t surprised,” she said on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen at the time. “When we worked together, years and years ago, I think she quit at least three times — but came back the next day.”
Rachel’s coworker Eddie Lucas, however, was less pleased by her antics while on the boat. “The crew nights out are supposed to be about the crew. Have some fun, have drinks, and come together as a crew,” the first offer detailed during a December 2020 episode of the show. “It went fine at first but then once enough of the sauce got into Rachel, she becomes a different person. It’s rude and classless.”
The Below Deck alum said he didn’t tell Rachel his issues because he wasn’t sure what her reaction would be. “If I did that, I was afraid she would just pack up and leave. I don’t want to lose our chef that we desperately need because of me,” he added.
Meanwhile, Captain Lee revealed that he only learned about the situation after the episodes started to air. “Well, I was surprised, to say the least, and I thought it could have been handled better,” the captain shared during a joint interview with Rachel on WWHL in January 2021. “But I’ve seen a lot worse behavior from other chefs that have been on board my vessels. Well, I didn’t condone it. Like I said, I’ve seen way worse.”
Rachel, for her part, stood by her decision while filming the series. “For me, grudges mean that I would actually have to care and give significance to that issue or that individual. I don’t,” the TV personality, who returned for season 9, exclusively told Us Weekly in October 2021 about her feud with Eddie. “Also if you work in restaurants and in kitchens, my behavior is nothing different than anybody else’s. It’s just a little bit extra emphasized.”
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You might be surprised to learn that gut health is the latest buzzy topic on TikTok. Under hashtags like #guttok, #guthealth and #guthealing, influencers and every day users alike are posting thousands of videos, sharing stories about their gut health struggles and remedies. And they’ve […]
HealthYou might be surprised to learn that gut health is the latest buzzy topic on TikTok.
Under hashtags like #guttok, #guthealth and #guthealing, influencers and every day users alike are posting thousands of videos, sharing stories about their gut health struggles and remedies.
And they’ve raked in a little over a billion views.
Like with anything that skyrockets on TikTok, gut health’s popularity on the app can be attributed in part to the ease with which content creators can churn out quick and relatable videos about topics like how to reduce bloating or prevent symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome.
Another factor is that as users are looking to become more informed about their health on the app, they’re also looking for solutions—and the gut health community is offering them up.
For example, this year, a cleaner and easier way to get gut health information was launched by Thorne, science-driven wellness company that supports healthy aging, and went viral.
Testing your gut health typically requires pooping in a bucket or on a piece of paper, then scooping a sample of your own stool into a container to ship it to a lab. “You get a lot of information from doing these gut health tests, but one issue is that the collection process just isn’t the greatest experience,” says Nathan Price, chief scientific officer at Thorne.
Thorne’s TikTok-famous test offers an alternative—a microbiome wipe, which is used just like toilet paper after going to the bathroom. You place the wipe in a container, send it off and you’re done.
“It’s just like what you do every single day,” Price says. “We just thought that is the simplest way we can possibly think of that you can collect a microbiome sample.”
The simplicity of the test, plus the actionable steps provided with the results, really resonates with creators and followers on TikTok.
But the sheer amount of information, advice and remedies on social media can be a lot to wade through. There is so much coming your way that you may not be able to distinguish the myths from the facts, or even understand why gut health is so important in the first place.
Thankfully, we spoke to a gastroenterologist about what exactly gut health is, how it affects other parts of your body and how you can improve it. Here’s what he had to say:
Gut health is a term used to describe how the gut interacts with the rest of the body and overall health, including how you digest and absorb substances, according to a 2011 study in BMC Medicine.
The key to all things gut health is the microbiome, according to Christopher Damman, a gastroenterologist at the Digestive Health Center at the University of Washington Medical Center, and chief medical and science Officer at Supergut. You could think about the microbiome as the ‘tamagotchi of our gut,’ Damman says.
“You have to keep the tamagotchi happy to keep your whole body happy,” Damman says.
The microbiome is filled with microbes, and there’s a very important reason why they live in your gut, Damman says. He encourages you to think about microbes as a nutrient factory that makes the things your body needs, using the food we eat. Many of those nutrients aren’t present in the food itself.
You have to keep the tamagotchi happy to keep your whole body happy.
Christopher Damman
Gastroenterologist, Digestive Health Center at the University of Washington Medical Center
“They’re not just there as innocent bystanders, but they’re actually conspiring towards our health and we’re conspiring towards their health. We have a mutual relationship with them,” he says.
Here are some things that your microbes do for your body, according to Damman:
When your gut health is imbalanced, it can affect the rest of your body as well, he says. And it’s not always the usual suspects like diarrhea, constipation or abdominal discomfort.
“Skin can be tied back to gut health. Your mental health, and neuroinflammation is the cause of that, can be tied back to gut health. The list goes on and on,” Damman says, “Sleep even, and mood.”
Research shows that there are also health benefits of having a diverse microbiome, which can be affected by your diet, he says. Unique microbiomes were associated with healthy aging and increased survival rates, according to a 2021 study published in Nature Metabolism.
Some experts would argue that tests like Thorne’s, while effective, are unnecessary. Your body will likely tell you when your gut health is imbalanced by way of a number of symptoms including digestive problems, acne, brain fog and lower moods.
Fortunately there are easy, natural things you can do to support or improve the balance of your gut. Most important is improving your diet, and for this, Damman encourages you to consider these four:
Fiber is what he recommends above all else because it is the preferred food source of microbes of the gut.
And of the TikTok crazes, kombucha, yogurt and apple cider vinegar are the only ones slightly backed by evidence because they’re fermented foods, he adds.
Having a diet rich in fermented foods correlated with a more diverse microbiome and a decrease of inflammation, according to a small 2021 study done by researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine.
But it’s important to be mindful about choosing fermented foods with low sugar. “For kombucha specifically, there’s a lot of sugar in it. Sugar is probably one of the things that’s contributing to poor gut health,” Damman says.
Damman also warns you to be careful of Keto diets because while they may help you lose weight, they typically don’t include enough fiber and can put stress on your liver and kidneys.
“Shift back to a truly healthy diet which has more balance to it,” Damman says. “The balance that we’ve been missing is whole foods and fiber, and I think that’s where supplements can really fill a nice niche on the backend.”
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Karan Johar feels the reports of Bollywood’s death are greatly exaggerated. In a recent interaction, the filmmaker reacted strongly to perceptions about Bollywood being ‘finished’, calling it “rubbish”. In the last year or so, many big-budget Hindi films have bombed at the box office even […]
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Karan, who has directed some of the biggest Bollywood blockbusters like Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, says even though it has become a challenge to ensure audience footfall in theatres, good films will always work.
In an interaction with news agency PTI, when asked to comment about claims that Bollywood is finished, Karan said, “It’s all nonsense and rubbish. Good films will always work. Gangubai Kathiawadi and Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 have done huge numbers. We have done numbers on Jug Jugg Jeeyo as well. Films which aren’t good can never work and they’ve never worked.”
The filmmaker’s own production, Jug Jugg Jeeyo, starring Varun Dhawan, Anil Kapoor, Neetu Kapoor, and Kiara Advani, managed to earn over ₹84 crore following its release last month. Alia Bhatt-starrer Gangubai Kathiawadi, on the other hand, made almost ₹180 crore at the box office while Kartik Aaryan’s Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 made over ₹250 crore at the ticket window. However, several big-ticket Hindi films like Salman Khan’s Antim, Ajay Devgn’s Runway 34, Akshay Kumar’s Samrat Prithviraj, and Ranbir Kapoor’s Shamshera had disappointing runs.
In addition, films from the south easily dwarfed the figures of the hits from Bollywood. Both RRR and KGF: Chapter 2 crossed ₹1100 crore while Vikram and Pushpa: The Rise earned over ₹350 crore each.
Karan said he is hopeful that the coming line-up of films from Bollywood, which comprises titles headlined by superstars Aamir Khan, Akshay Kumar and Salman Khan, will light up the box office. “Now we have many big films coming up. We have Laal Singh Chaddha, Raksha Bandhan, Brahmastra, then there is Rohit Shetty’s film and finally, we are ending the year with a Salman Khan film. There’s so much to look forward to. We have all the love, we just need to create the right content to create it,” he added.
The filmmaker, who is returning to direction after six years with Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani, believes it isn’t an easy task to live up to the expectations. “To get the audience inside a cinema hall is not easy anymore. You’ve to make sure your film, trailer, campaign is exciting to manage to get those numbers. You’re living up to your own reputation. Is it a stress? Could be. But it’s more of a challenge and I like taking challenges,” he added.
Rocky Aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani, which stars Ranveer Singh, Alia Bhatt, Shabana Azmi, Dharmendra, and Jaya Bachchan, releases next year. Karan is currently hosting the seventh season of his popular talk show Koffee With Karan, streaming on Disney+ Hotstar.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito mocked prominent figures around the world, including Prince Harry and outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, for speaking out against the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. In what appeared to be his first public comments since the decision was […]
World Breaking NewsSupreme Court Justice Samuel Alito mocked prominent figures around the world, including Prince Harry and outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, for speaking out against the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
In what appeared to be his first public comments since the decision was handed down last month, Alito dismissed criticism from the British pair, as well as from French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
He was delivering the keynote speech at a conference on religious liberty in Rome last week that was hosted by the Notre Dame Law School. The speech was only posted online by the school Thursday.
Alito, who authored the argument overturning the landmark ruling that enshrined the right to an abortion in the United States, condemned the global figures for weighing in on “American law.”
“I had the honor this term of writing, I think, the only Supreme Court decision in the history of that institution that has been lambasted by a whole string of foreign leaders — who felt perfectly fine commenting on American law,” Alito said, prompting laughter from the crowd.
“One of these was former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, but he paid the price,” he joked, appearing to reference Johnson’s decision to step down as prime minister amid domestic scandals and widespread criticism of his leadership from within his own Conservative Party.
“But what really wounded me — what really wounded me — was when the Duke of Sussex addressed the United Nations and seemed to compare the decision, whose name may not be spoken, with the Russian attack on Ukraine,” Alito said, referring to Harry.
Harry described 2022 as a “painful year in a painful decade,” during the speech July 18.
He said the world was “witnessing a global assault on democracy and freedom,” pointing to the “horrific war in Ukraine to the rolling back of constitutional rights here in the United States,” among other global events as examples.
Johnson, meanwhile, had criticized the decision as a “big step backwards.” A spokesperson for Johnson’s office didn’t have anything to add to his remarks.
Harry and Johnson were far from alone, with Macron tweeting that abortion was “a fundamental right for all women” that “must be protected,” while Trudeau branded the decision “horrific,” saying: “No government, politician, or man should tell a woman what she can and cannot do with her body.”
Others, including global women’s health groups, also joined the criticism.
During his address in Rome last week, Alito said that “despite this temptation, I’m not going to talk about cases from other countries.”
“All I’m going to say is that, ultimately, if we are going to win the battle to protect religious freedom in an increasingly secular society, we will need more than positive law,” he said.
Alito also lauded U.S. efforts to protect religious liberty around the world, saying: “Religious liberty is an international problem, but I do think that we Americans can take special pride in our country’s contribution to the development of a global consensus at least on the level of international agreements in support of this fundamental right.”
“Religious liberty is under attack in many places because it is dangerous to those who want to hold complete power,” he said, adding: “It also probably grows out of something dark and deep in the human DNA, a tendency to distrust and dislike people who are not like ourselves.”
Earlier this month, President Joe Biden signed an executive order aimed at protecting access to abortion as part of his administration’s response to the Supreme Court’s ruling.
Biden said the Supreme Court decision was “totally wrongheaded” and “extreme.”
“This was not a decision driven by the Constitution,” he said. “The court has made clear it will not protect the rights of women.”
Chantal Da Silva is a breaking news editor for NBC News Digital based in London.
Even a leisurely swim can burn upwards of 400 calories an hour, over double the amount of walking. The comparative low impact of water activities in contrast to running make them perfect outlets for those nursing minor injuries, as well as the elderly. And it’s […]
HealthEven a leisurely swim can burn upwards of 400 calories an hour, over double the amount of walking.
The comparative low impact of water activities in contrast to running make them perfect outlets for those nursing minor injuries, as well as the elderly.
And it’s not just short-term gains, there’s also lasting benefits to swimming.
While the physical boosts of swimming are widely documented, the mental health benefits of getting into the water are less well-known, yet equally as impactful.
Open water swimming in particular — with its naturally colder temperatures — is increasingly understood to have mental health benefits.
For those willing to brave the chill, the feelgood hormone dopamine is released by getting into cold water, ensuring an endorphin rush that can last hours after drying off.
Just being in a so-called “blue environment,” close to the ocean or a body of water, is known to lower stress responses.
“My first thought as I dove under the surface of the water was that I felt a little more buoyant than usual, likely due to the added pounds brought on by quarantine,” Lieber said.
“But as I continued to glide through the water, my initial concern about weight gain was replaced by a feeling of catharsis, as though the water were cleansing me of the stress that had accumulated during the coronavirus pandemic.
“Stroke after stroke, I could feel my mood lifting, my mind clearing and my body loosening.”
Based in the UK, Mental Health Swims is a volunteer-led peer support community that organizes open water meets up and down the UK.
Having received her mental health diagnosis in 2018, Ashe initially took up running but lost confidence after some frightening slips on ice during the winter.
By the close of the year, she was feeling “really unwell” and “everything was challenging,” yet on New Year’s Day, Ashe — quite literally — dove into a new future.
Braving the ‘Loony Dook’ — an annual event that sees fearless participants take to the freezing waters near Edinburgh, Scotland — Ashe returned to the beach shivering but changed.
Six months later, 30 people joined Ashe for a swim meet and the group’s growth has been exponential ever since, even through the pandemic.
This year, Mental Health Swims will host over 80 swim meets — from Cornwall in the southwest of England all the way up to Loch Lomond in Scotland — led by trained volunteer swim hosts with an emphasis on inclusion and peer support.
Reasons for joining vary. For some, it’s the sense of community, while others search for mindfulness and that post-swim endorphin rush.
Ashe loves the water as an alternative safe space from the more intimidating environment of the gym, a passion that has breathed new life into her mental health.
“I have learned that my differences are a strength rather than something to be ashamed of,” Ashe said. “I never thought I could do the things I do today.
“I will always have a mental illness, but I am much better at looking after myself these days. I still have big feelings, but with medication, therapy, outdoor swimming and healthy, happy relationships, I am doing really well.”
Few are better suited to speak to the physical and mental health benefits of swimming than Sarah Waters, who lives in the coastal county of Cornwall.
Diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis during her time at university, Waters has lived with symptoms of the chronic inflammatory disease for over a decade.
Aggressive treatments and medication proved massively draining, and after returning from traveling and working in Australia, a lump on her neck turned out to be skin cancer.
The physical and emotional toll of operations to remove the cancer and shifting treatments was compounded by the need to shield during the pandemic, but Waters’ fortunes turned a corner when — after a little nudge from her mother — she took up sea swimming.
“She started going and she kept saying, ‘You’ve gotta come in, it really does help with your mental health,'” Waters told CNN.
“When you get out, you get a bit of a rush, almost like you’ve been awakened in a way. I know that sounds really weird, but it definitely does give you that tingly feeling that you’ve achieved something that you never thought you would be able to do before.”
And so began a dogged commitment, even through winter, to swimming two to three times a week — at times, Waters’ only way of leaving the house due to shielding requirements.
For Waters, these physical boosts dovetail with the mental health benefits.
“You always do get the fear feeling, just before going in like, ‘Can you do it?'” Waters said.
“But I do it and then afterward it’s a sense of achievement in a way, for your physical and mental well-being, it definitely does do something.
“With all the meds, you can feel quite fatigued a lot of the time — when you’ve got a day off, you’re just so tired that you don’t feel like you’ve got the energy to do it — but once you’ve done it, it does revitalize you.
“Once you start improving your symptoms of anxiety or depression, it can physically give you benefits as well.”
After finishing his first swim in over a year, Dr. Lieber looked ahead to the start of a four-night stretch working in the hospital’s intensive care unit.
“I usually dread the first of these night shifts,” he said. “But somehow the task seemed more manageable than usual.
“Whatever happens tonight, happens. No matter what, there will always be tomorrow.”
Tyler Perry is a very talented actor and filmmaker who started his career making stage productions. He later got Hollywood famous bringing his character of Madea to life on screen. Unfortunately, his latest films have not sat well with critics, and perhaps because of some […]
Hollywood NewsTyler Perry is a very talented actor and filmmaker who started his career making stage productions. He later got Hollywood famous bringing his character of Madea to life on screen. Unfortunately, his latest films have not sat well with critics, and perhaps because of some of those negative reviews, he’s had a lot of big names turn down roles in his latest movie. Now the Madea director and star is speaking out about those rejections.
Reputation means everything when it comes to being a Hollywood filmmaker. Tyler Perry spoke all about that on the PEOPLE Every Day podcast about how approaching up-and-coming young actors gaining plenty of media attention were turning down his new Netflix movie, A Jazzman’s Blues.
Unfortunately with this film, I went to a bunch of up-and-coming young artists who were getting a lot of attention and I asked them about doing the role. They read the script, they loved the script, but I think there was a reservation or hesitation about working with me in particular on this film, because I guess they didn’t know how it would turn out. Too bad, so sad for them.
The 52-year-old filmmaker claimed on the podcast that actors and actresses have teams that choose to ignore his work and push their young talent away from him. The last Netflix film Perry took part in, A Fall From Grace, received mediocre reviews and got piled on a bit for a number errors that audiences couldn’t help but pay attention to. While it’s understandable from an agent’s perspective, it’s still a shame for the Gone Girl actor to be turned down because he’s made so many movies people enjoy.
Luckily, Tyler Perry is not letting these refusals weigh him down as he’s said how proud he is of the cast that’s in his latest movie. He felt that fresh faces Joshua Boone and Solea Pfeiffer helped make his film exactly the way it was and how important it was to open the doors to new talent. Even if A Fall From Grace did not receive the best reception, it still helped open the doors for The Haves and the Have Nots actress Crystal Fox who was waiting for a break like this for the past 40 years compared to normally playing supporting roles.
Tyler Perry originally started out as an outsider in Hollywood having come from the world of theater. In 1995 when he was in the middle of writing A Jazzman’s Blues, he was hungry, sleeping on his cousin’s couch, and eventually experienced homelessness trying to get his first play out there. Now Netflix has given this big-name filmmaker/actor the chance to show everyone the first movie he’s ever written.
This movie is a departure from Perry’s previous films in that this one is a 1940s period piece about the forbidden love between a black jazz singer and a Holocaust survivor. He originally pictured himself playing the lead with big-name actors like Will Smith, Halle Berry, Sir Ben Kingsley, Diana Ross, Cicely Tyson, and others as part of the ensemble. But as time went on, everyone aged out. But after 26 years, this longtime producer’s dream is coming true in A Jazzman’s Blues coming to Netflix soon.
Tyler Perry concluded his podcast by saying that he can’t wait for the young talent who turned down his movie to finally see it for themselves. We all will get the same chance as them to see it as A Jazzman’s Blues hits your Netflix subscription on September 23rd.