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The world of <keyword id="143" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Bollywood">Bollywood</keyword> is dynamic, and for every moment you spend not keeping an eye on what’s happening there, you miss out on an interesting scoop. This is why we have come up with this new section where in we would tell you the news from Bollywood, hot and quick like your evening snacks.

Bollywood Insider: From Farah-Jackie collaboration to Priyanka Chopra’s Holi tweet

The viral video starring <keyword id="598" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Deepika-Padukone">Deepika Padukone</keyword> is the third in line for the <keyword id="2785822" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Vogue-Empower">Vogue Empower</keyword> campaign by <keyword id="214428" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Vogue-India">Vogue India</keyword>. The first two videos for the campaign had a sense of connection attached with them, which was why we were really looking forward to the third instalment. 
 
‘Going Home’ starring Alia Bhatt and directed by Vikas Bahl got us thinking about a perfect society where a woman is not afraid of asking for a lift from a group of strangers in the late hours of the night. 
 
Similarly, ‘Start With The Boys’ starring Madhuri Dixit and directed by Vinil Mathew touched the right chords when it asked the parents to raise boys who don’t make women cry, instead of raising boys who don’t cry. 
 The third video by <keyword id="27704" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Homi-Adajania">Homi Adajania</keyword> however, talks about the same old topic of liberating women from the cages that our society has created for them. The idea behind the video was to show 99 women in from different walks of life in a 2-minute video. As far as that is concerned, the video looks okay, like many others that have been made on or around the same topic, but if you listen too closely, the video wouldn’t make much sense to a common Indian woman. 
 The video starts with a sans-makeup Deepika and her frizzy hair, talking about the spirit that can’t be bound in clothes, and the many faces of privileged women dancing contemporary. We also see some known faces, like Adhuna Akhtar, Zoya Akhtar, Scherezade Shroff and <keyword id="6366186" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Nimrat-Kaur">Nimrat Kaur</keyword>. 
 
The makers have talked about women voicing their choice for equality, be it social, political, economic, sexual, and it sounds acceptable if we don’t go in the details, which unfortunately we have to because of Deepika’s constant voice-over in the background without which the video is nothing but a collection of some 90 portraits. 
 
Talking of the details, she demands the equality of having sex without marriage, outside of marriage or not having sex at all. 
“Just because you are a woman doesn't mean you can make choices that please you without caring a zilch about people around you. We have never taken responsibilities to protect and provide off men's shoulders so this whole freedom of choice to women just because they are women is nothing but asking freedom to do things that have always been labelled "wrong" when done by men. The effort seems to compete with men at any cost possible. Men and women are differently equal and never completely equal. Choices come with responsibilities. Hope young women realize that. Sex outside marriage isn't a choice but a mockery of relationship you "chose" to get into,” says Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj, a young journalist and independent movie maker associated with the issue of fake charges under Section 498A, and we couldn’t agree more. 
 
While we appreciate the sentiments behind women independence, we believe that the video could have actually featured women from all walks of life, and focusing on real problems rather than the controversial demand that we discussed above. To add the portraits of 3-4 tribal women to hint their involvement (and approval) in the demands put forward in the video is misleading to say the least. 
 
Deepika has been winning hearts recently, with her powerful performances on screen and acceptance of suffering from depression in real life. In this video too, she has looked and spoken good, which was all she could have done on her part. Whatever lacks in the video demands a better attempt from the makers the next time, if not an explanation of sort for points like the ones we discussed above. 
 
You can watch the video here 
 
 
 
(The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the organisation)

The Deepika Padukone Video: Vogue Or Vague?

<ul><li>Irrfan's much-awaited film "<keyword id="7499285" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="angrezi-medium">Angrezi Medium</keyword>" minted ₹4.03 crores on the first day of its release in the country, the makers announced on Saturday.</li><li>The film, directed by Homi Adajania, released across India on Friday barring Delhi, Kerala and Jammu and Kashmir, where theatres are closed till March 31 to help fight the spread of novel COVID-19 virus. </li><li>The producer of the movie, Dinesh Vijan, had said that they will be releasing the movie in Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir and Kerala on a new date. </li></ul> Braving the panic around the coronavirus spread, Irrfan's much-awaited film "Angrezi Medium" minted Rs. 4.03 crores on the first day of its release in the country, the makers announced on Saturday. The film, directed by Homi Adajania, released across India on Friday barring Delhi, Kerala and Jammu and Kashmir, where theatres are closed till March 31 to help fight the spread of novel COVID-19 virus. The producer of the movie, Dinesh Vijan, had said that they will be releasing the movie in Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir and Kerala on a new date. On Friday, it was announced that malls and cinema halls in various parts of Maharashtra, including Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur, as well as Karnataka will go on a lockdown till March end, and that seem to have had an adverse effect on the opening day collection of the film. Starring Irrfan, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Radhika Madaan and Deepak Dobriyal, "Angrezi Medium", is a Maddock Films production, presented by Jio Studios and Prem Vijan.

'Angrezi Medium' earns ₹4.03 crore amid coronavirus scare

Mumbai, Apr 6 () Less than a month after its theatrical release, "Angrezi Medium", starring Irrfan, has premiered on Disney+Hotstar VIP. The actor shared the news on Twitter on Monday. "Hop on to the dreamy roller-coaster ride with this father-daughter duo as we bring to you the World Digital Premiere of #AngreziMedium only on @DisneyplusHSVIP," Irrfan wrote. Actor Radhika Madan, who plays Irrfan's daughter in the Homi Adajania-directed movie, also posted the link on the microblogging site. "Angrezi Medium" released worldwide and in certain parts of India on March 13. The makers postponed the film's release in Kerala, Jammu and Kashmir, and Delhi after governments in these regions closed down cinema halls till March end in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. Soon after other states and union territories also called for a shutdown, a 21-day nationwide lockdown was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 24."Angrezi Medium" also features Kareena Kapoor Khan, Deepak Dobriyal and Pankaj Tripathi among others. SHD RDSRDS

Irrfan's 'Angrezi Medium' premieres on Disney+Hotstar VIP

If you are bored with existing food options and repetitive cooking styles and recipes, a food website may come to your rescue. 
 A <keyword id="2880462" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="new-food-website">new food website</keyword>, <keyword id="2880461" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="eattreatonline">Eattreatonline</keyword>.com, which claims to provide all the information one needs about food and eating joints has raised USD 350,000 funds and is all set for launch in July. 
 
Eat Treat, which started out as a Facebook group last year and has nearly 50,000 members, promises to satiate foodies and aims to bridge the gap between the consumers and the providers. 
 
Co-founder Arjun Sawhney said his main idea was to start a dialogue that would educate and empower the online community about food. 
“The funding raised in this round will be utilised to bring the product to life, build infrastructure and make key hires of relevant and excellent talent. The proprietary content, we will develop, will make us stand apart. The commencement of the platform will see a large database of tested recipes and quality articles covering various topics related to food,” said Sawhney. 
 
The team at Eattreatonline.com would link food with lifestyles and encourage community engagement and dialogue among foodies, and provide them with an aspirational experience of gastronomic proportions. 
 
The website will also help home chefs and professionals in promoting themselves. 
 
In terms of traffic and revenue, the website will aggressively target the Indian and international audience to raise its first institutional funding in the first half of 2016. 
 
The online entity will be operated by Delhi based Egg Communication Pvt. Ltd., and is being backed by a pool of 15 investors including, Divitas Capital, filmmaker Homi Adajania, VOGUE India Fashion Features Fashion Bandana Tewari. 
 
(Image: Indiatimes)

Eattreat raises $3,50,000 from 15 investors

When leading <keyword id="143" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Bollywood">Bollywood</keyword> actress Deepika Padukone decided to star in the 2-minute short film on women equality, she would have barely thought that the film would irk many a people on social media despite being accepted and applauded by some. 
 
However, in a recent event, she broke her silence and said that the film was “the need of the hour.” 
 
"I think the generic reason would be that it is the need of the hour. I don't think we have made this film saying 'this film is for India'. I think we are facing this issue globally. And Homi has given me films like ‘Cocktail’ and ‘Finding Fanny’. He sees me very, very differently,” the actress was quoted saying. 
 
"The film wasn't my choice. It's sad that we have to sit and talk about gender equality in 2015. It's like a joke. So, any woman who breaks those barriers and lives on her own terms, like Deepika and my over-empowered wife (Anaita), I think that's the sign of it," said the director Homi Adajania, whose wife Anaita Shroff Adajania is the fashion director for Vogue India, the brand for which the video was made. 
 Titled ‘My Choice’, this is the third video in the <keyword id="2785822" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Vogue-Empower">Vogue Empower</keyword> series. The earlier two videos had Alia Bhatt ('Going Home' directed by Vikas Bahl) and Madhuri Dixit ('Start With The Boys' directed by Vinil Mathew) giving out the message of gender equality and were received very well. 
 
The latest reaction on this video has come from Bollywood actress Sonakshi Sinha, who said at an event that “Women empowerment is not always about the kind of clothes you wear, not about who you want to have sex with or stuff like that. It's about employment, strength." 
 
Image Courtesy IndiaTimes

Deepika Breaks The Silence On 'My Choice'

Any movie can be fun when you are watching it with your friends. But if you have no big plans for this <keyword id="6736220" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Friendship-Day">Friendship Day</keyword> or you are sitting miles away from your buddies, we have a plan for you. How about a movie marathon – some Bollywood flicks to be precise – that shout friendship like no other? Here is a list of five great movies that will take you back to your very own Jai-Veeru moments and bring a smile on your face. Watch them and enjoy. 
 
1. <keyword id="6407374" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="100" keywordseo="Sholay">Sholay</keyword> 
Talk about friendship and the first Bollywood movie that comes to your mind is the cult classic, Sholay, directed by Ramesh Sippy. One of the reasons why Sholay is still a treat to watch is the joyful camaraderie between <keyword id="16007" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Jai">Jai</keyword> and <keyword id="127989" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Veeru">Veeru</keyword> – it’s the flavour of all seasons and one of the main themes of the movie. Played by superstars Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra, the friendship between the two became synonymous with all that is selfless, eternal and full of fun and frolic. The partners in crime perfectly complement each other and remain inseparable till death takes tears them apart and leaves us teary-eyed. 
 
2. <keyword id="6609528" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="100" keywordseo="Dil-Chahta-Hai">Dil Chahta Hai</keyword> 
Aakash (Aamir Khan), Sameer (Saif Ali Khan) and Siddharth (Akshaye Khanna) are childhood friends who are out to enjoy their lives. But a lot of unforeseen emotional turmoil changes them forever and give a deeper meaning to their friendship. Directed by Farhan Akhtar, this is a coming-of-age story of three friends whose witty conversation and deep bonding made Dil Chahta Hai one of the best friendship films ever made in Bollywood. 
 
3. Kuch Kuch Hota Hai 
One of the most popular romantic flicks of Bollywood and Karan Johar’s directorial debut, this one focuses on friendship and its many hues, culminating in love. Rahul and Anjali (Shah Rukh and Kajol) are the best of buddies. They argue, they fight but at the end of the day, they are the best friends who eventually become life partners, proving that they complete each other. Love is friendship – that is what the film has endorsed and the lead duo’s on-screen chemistry has brought that phrase to life. 
 
4. Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara 
With ‘seize the day’ as its theme, this film tells the story of three friends who try and overcome their fears in the course of a road trip that is enriching for them and entertaining for the viewers. Director Zoya Akhtar has been applauded for bringing out the ‘bromance’ stupendously on screen. The trio, played by Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar and Abhay Deol, walked away with the laurels for making the audience remember their old friends and the carefree days they spent together. A must-watch film on this Friendship Day. 
 
5. Cocktail 
A good friend and his friendship have the power to transform you. That’s what happened in this Homi Adajania movie as the ‘party girl’ Veronica (Deepika Padukone) undergoes a sea change after meeting the meek and docile Meera (Diana Penty). While Veronica gave shelter to homeless Meera, the latter filled her life with love that was missing from her life. A nice chick flick for the day as you sing Chadi mujhe yaari teri aise... jaise daaru desi! 
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