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Tejasswi Prakash is the winner of Bigg Boss 15. She defeated co-contestant Pratik Sehajpal. The actress lifted the trophy and also Rs 40 lakh cash prize. Not only this, Tejasswi has also bagged Ekta Kapoor's supernatural fantasy thriller Naagin 6 . The sixth installment of the Naagin franchise was announced long back, and the makers had locked in Tejasswi, while she was inside the house. Shamita Shetty and Karan Kundrra got evicted in the fourth and third position respectively. Former contestants Gautam Gulati, Rubina Dilaik, Gauahar Khan, Shweta Tiwari and Urvashi Dholakia were in the house with a briefcase that contained Rs 10 lakh from the winning cash prize. Nishant Bhat chose to walk out of the house taking the briefcase which has Rs 10 lakh. by FP Staff

Crypto adoption in India has grown due to various national and global macroeconomic developments. Millennials and Gen Z are increasingly investing in this new digital asset, with the average age of a crypto investor being less than 28 years. It is no surprise then that India was ranked second in the Global Crypto Adoption Index by Chainalysis in August 2021. India’s demographic is not only young but also tech-savvy — a foundation laid, in part, by the government’s Digital India initiative equipping younger generations with technological know-how that makes them future-ready for a digital age, characterized by digital assets, blockchain technology, and Web 3.0. There is an unmatched growing pool of talent interested in working with blockchain technology — the technology that powers crypto assets — and driving innovation in crypto and Web 3.0 in India. It is crucial to tap into this emerging workforce and engage them. Regulatory vacuum Despite the growing popularity of crypto assets a

Ben Kingsley in Gandhi (1982) : Richard Attenborough’s biopic! Need anything more be said? …. Director Attenborough and actor Ben Kingsley as Mahatma Gandhi did what no Indian filmmaker or actor has ever done for the Mahatma. The film made him a household name. Take a bow again, Mr. Kingsley. However Sir Ben was not happy to rest on his Gandhian laurels. In an interview with me, he had said, “I feel having portrayed one character (Gandhi) so effectively, I need not use the same set of muscles to portray other characters. Luckily, directors and producers like to stretch me and offer me a variety of roles. I owe my variety of roles to American and British filmmakers. However, I was pretty versatile even before I worked on Gandhi. I had done 17 Shakespearean characters before. So variety for me is not an unusual thing. It's amazing how beautifully the cards fell for my career." Darshan Jariwala In Gandhi My Father (2007) : Gujarati actor Jariwala is poignant and body-perfect

Actor Kajol on Sunday said she has tested positive for COVID-19. The 47-year-old actor took to Instagram and shared a picture of her daughter Nysa, writing that she was too embarrassed to show anyone her red nose, due to cold, like the fictional Rudolph reindeer. "Tested positive and I really don't want anyone to see my Rudolph nose so let's just stick to the sweetest smile in the world! Miss you @nysadevgan and yes I can see the eye roll," she captioned the picture. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kajol Devgan (@kajol) Kajol was last seen on the 2021 Netflix family drama feature Tribhanga .  She will be next seen in The Last Hurrah which is a family drama by actress-director Revathi. On Saturday, Mumbai reported 1,411 fresh COVID-19 cases and 11 fatalities due to the coronavirus infection, taking the tally to 10,44,470 and the toll to 16,602. With 3,547 patients being discharged, the total number of recoveries in Mumbai rose to 10,12,921,

After facing a huge setback in 2020, the Hindi film industry was working hard to get back on track. It managed to achieve its original charm with many new projects being announced and long-delayed films such as Akshay Kumar's Sooryavanshi and Ranveer Singh-starrer 83 finding space on the big screen. However, when it started feeling normal, the new variant of coronavirus made it difficult and many states started shutting cinema halls. Many celebs, such as John Abraham, Ekta Kapoor, Prem Chopra, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Arjun Kapoor, Rhea Kapoor, Delnaaz Irani, Nora Fatehi, Mrunal Thakur, and Drashti Dhami, caught the virus. While on one hand, the releases have been pushed, including that of Jersey, Prithviraj, Brahmastra , and more. But, recently, Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar , who was one of the first stars to release his film  Bell Bottom  in theatres after the second wave of COVID-19 in 2021, announced that  Bachchan Pandey  will release on 18 March in cinema halls. Aamir Khan’s p

The influx of OTT platforms has changed the narrative over the last few years. While the audience binge-watched some of the most compelling dramas online, there was an undercurrent to have the industry's biggest names on the platforms. And the wait seems to be finally over. Well, 2022 will be bigger and better because the leading men of the Indian Film Industry are all set to make a splash with their digital ventures. Here's looking at actors who will make their OTT debut this year: Aditya Roy Kapur Off late, the handsome hero Aditya Roy Kapur is making noise with the news of him joining forces with The Night Manager remake. The brilliant actor will step into Hrithik Roshan's shoes to headline and play the title character in the acclaimed British miniseries. Varun Dhawan Following the lead, Varun Dhawan will also star in the remake of an international project, Citadel . The show, helmed by Anthony and Joe Russo, starred Priyanka Chopra. The Hindi adaptation will have

Indian cinema enjoys playing with the concept of love. Over the years, filmmakers have come up with a different take on romance. Our screens have lit with passionate love sagas to nuanced love triangles to new-age digital romance. But as conventional as the subject is, our industry has seen some of the most beautiful, unconventional, and extraordinary love stories by a few filmmakers. These master storytellers have given the audience cinematic gems that presented 'love' with a new lens. Here's listing directors and their work below one must watch for a refreshing take: Shoojit Sircar While Shoojit Sircar has diverse filmography, his representation of love in October has a different fan base. The idea of slow and undefinable romance between two individuals was hauntingly beautiful. Imtiaz Ali Imtiaz Ali has given many modern-age classic love stories. His bubbly tale of romance with Jab We Met and the intense saga of passion with Rockstar seems to top the list. Vin

"Good food is like music you can taste, color you can smell." Ratatouille gets us. In this series 'Food for Film,' we pick food films/shows that make our mouths water and our souls richer. * Like people and places, snatches of a song, the whiff of a perfume or a loving caress, taste can also be an abiding memory, everlasting association, and a potent trigger for nostalgia. There are flavours — of meals that are more often simple than lavish — that can be gratifying enough to linger on. Call me a misanthrope but a quest for such mislaid meals and forfeited flavours is infinitely more rewarding than searching for lost love, more so in our shared pandemic reality. One such momentous spread I had was on 3 September, 2019, at Hangawi restaurant in New York, a two-minute walk from Empire State Building in Koreatown. Yes, I discovered Korean food late in life but a wee bit earlier than getting introduced to Korean Dramas.  I am an experimental eater within the limits of

In #TheMusicThatMadeUs, senior journalist Lakshmi Govindrajan Javeri chronicles the impact that musicians and their art have on our lives, how they mould the industry by rewriting its rules and how they shape us into the people we become: their greatest legacies. * Everything about Jethro Tull is unusual. Starting from its flummoxing name to being a pioneering rock sound centred on the flute, the British band helmed by Ian Anderson is an anomaly that has continued to inspire over 50 years since its inception.  What started as a predominantly blues band in 1967, featuring vocalist-flautist-guitarist Anderson and fellow guitarist Martin Barre, has over half a century morphed into a revolving-door band member experience, along with a whole host of drummers and bassists who have made their mark, or not. Yet at the core has been Anderson’s vision for this collective, spearheading a progressive movement that combined witty and incisive storytelling on a tapestry of intricate musical arra

The most agreeable part of watching three immeasurably beautiful women take centre stage in three very different films, in three different languages is that there is no sense of self-congratulations in the endeavour. Satyajit Ray had once confessed that when he made the exceptionally beautiful Charulata he was trying to be a young progressive artiste who understood the sensitivities of a lonely wife. I saw not an iota of self-consciousness in the way the Telugu star Nani rescues the doomed Devdasi, Sai Pallavi in the hugely engaging costume drama Shyam Singha Roy . This is as flawless and passionate a love epic as I have witnessed since Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Devdas . Please note I say, ‘witnessed’ not ‘seen’. This is the film that incites ornate poetic descriptions of simple human activities such as eating, sleeping and courtship…Everything is done with a captivating old-world charm that’s rare to find in cinema today. Cinema today, reminds me of how lamely the film starts. When w

The trailer for Ajay Devgn’s digital debut series, Rudra: The Edge of Darkness, has been released by Disney+ Hotstar today, 29 January. The crime drama sees Devgn portray DCP Rudra Veer Singh, a cop on the hunter for a killer. The series is a remake of the British television drama Luther , as per news reports. Produced by Applause Entertainment in association with BBC Studios India, Rudra: The Edge of Darkness was shot in Mumbai. The show is directed by Rajesh Mapuskar of Ventilator fame. Watch the trailer here The darker the world gets, the more at home he feels. Get set to ride to the edge of darkness with #HotstarSpecials #Rudra . Coming soon. #RudraTrailerOutNow #RudraOnHotstar pic.twitter.com/ph2jjADzzl — Disney+ Hotstar (@DisneyPlusHS) January 29, 2022 According to Variety , the six-episode show will see Devgn as a cop and his obsessive tendency to pursue criminals which comes at a personal cost in Rudra’s life. The series will be released in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu,

The trailer for Ajay Devgn’s digital debut series, Rudra: The Edge of Darkness, has been released by Disney+ Hotstar today, 29 January. The crime drama sees Devgn portray DCP Rudra Veer Singh, a cop on the hunter for a killer. The series is a remake of the British television drama Luther , as per news reports. Produced by Applause Entertainment in association with BBC Studios India, Rudra: The Edge of Darkness was shot in Mumbai. The show is directed by Rajesh Mapuskar of Ventilator fame. Watch the trailer here The darker the world gets, the more at home he feels. Get set to ride to the edge of darkness with #HotstarSpecials #Rudra . Coming soon. #RudraTrailerOutNow #RudraOnHotstar pic.twitter.com/ph2jjADzzl — Disney+ Hotstar (@DisneyPlusHS) January 29, 2022 According to Variety , the six-episode show will see Devgn as a cop and his obsessive tendency to pursue criminals which comes at a personal cost in Rudra’s life. The series will be released in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu,

Language: English They could pitch this one at the Guinness records for Longest Fiction Show Title Of The Year In English, if indeed there’s a section for that sort of stuff. There is precious little else worth note or recommendation in The Woman In The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window. We get the idea. It’s a deliberately daft title because the show it introduces is meant to be all about deadpan humour bordering on madness. The intent is to set up a parody that spoofs the archetypal psychological suspense drama of Hollywood — think The Woman In The Window or The Girl On The Train (they’ve thrown in a dash of Scream , too, towards the end). It is a genre that is not often spoofed in films or television, which lends an element of curiosity to the series. The problem however is the show creates little scope for a convincing spoof. There is a lack of ample content, too, to justify eight episodes. At best, this story should have been adopted for the feature film for

In the limited series #DilliDelhi, Devansh Sharma talks to scriptwriters and filmmakers who have explored the city of Delhi, in all its eccentricities, intricacies, and complexities, through their films. * Aanand L Rai left Delhi after finishing school; he insists, however, that the city has not left him. One day, he hopes that the small part of Delhi that resides within him will reunite with its real counterpart; Rai admits, however, that the Delhi of today does not seem very familiar. “I miss the chhat  [terrace] a lot. We used to sprinkle water on it during summers to keep the house cool. Neither that sense of warmth, nor the cool is there anymore,” says the 50-year-old filmmaker. Instead, the Delhi Rai grew up in has now taken shelter in the neighbouring tier-2 cities and small towns. He finds himself gravitating towards the people, who, for him, make the city more than its monuments. “That culture of sitting together, eating together… those people, I find them in a Lucknow,

"Good food is like music you can taste, colour you can smell." Ratatouille gets us. In this series 'Food for Film,' we pick food films/shows that make our mouths water and our souls richer. * I think the real test of a food show is how meticulously a viewer plans a meal around it. The joy of coordinating super slow motion shots of some gelatinous cut of meat stewing away to glory in an unpronounceable country with my vanilla-bland Swiggy order has been one of my personal highlights of the pandemic. Three foreign food shows have passed this test for me: Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown,  a political show compellingly disguised as a food show, David Gelb’s rebranding of chefs as auteurs through five seasons of Chef’s Table, and lastly, BuzzFeed’s Worth It,  a crash course of understanding the internet’s relationship with price point, banter, and food.  That is before Netflix acquired the first season of EPIC Channel’s Raja Rasoi aur Anya Kahaniyan. Written by Rag