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It never rains but it pours – so the saying goes. And the adage came true on Friday the 13th as it saw a couple of <keyword id="406" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="100" keywordseo="Movies">movies</keyword> opening and the release of a third one (<keyword id="1167288" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Lucky-Kabootar">Lucky Kabootar</keyword>) getting postponed due to technical reasons. However, none of the two movies has managed to make the cut at the <keyword id="25892" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="box-office">box office</keyword> after Day 4. 
 
Let’s begin with the most touted of the lot – <keyword id="35955" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="100" keywordseo="jackpot">Jackpot</keyword>. As the name suggests, the story is all about a <keyword id="1978994" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Casino-boat">casino boat</keyword> (in Goa) and crazy <keyword id="4736333" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="con-artists">con artists</keyword> rushing to pinch the <keyword id="1978996" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Jackpot-money">jackpot money</keyword>, interspersed with comedy one-liners, a good dose of skin show and an extremely predictable plot. Starring <keyword id="836886" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Sunny-Leone">Sunny Leone</keyword>, <keyword id="6475049" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Sachiin-Joshi">Sachiin Joshi</keyword> and the veteran <keyword id="6354338" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Naseeruddin-Shah">Naseeruddin Shah</keyword> (the Boss), the <keyword id="1978999" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Comedy-thriller">comedy thriller</keyword> has a total <keyword id="1960834" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="BO-collection">BO collection</keyword> of around Rs 6.4 crore till December 16, and the numbers do not augur well for <keyword id="303" type="POSITION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Director">director</keyword> <keyword id="66915" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Kaizad-Gustad">Kaizad Gustad</keyword>. It’s his fourth film, the earlier ones being <keyword id="276427" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="80" keywordseo="Bombay-Boys">Bombay Boys</keyword>, <keyword id="6366414" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="Boom">Boom</keyword> and <keyword id="1286097" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="Bombil-and-Beatrice">Bombil and Beatrice</keyword>. 
 Critics, too, have flayed the flick unmercifully, mainly due to the absence of wit, thrill and suspense. Subhash K. Jha of SKJ <keyword id="143" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Bollywood">Bollywood</keyword> News has given it no stars and says, “Jackpot is <keyword id="1978997" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Noire-film">noire film</keyword> with twists in the tale.” Reagan Gavin Rasquinha of Times of India has given it 2 stars out of 5 while Shubhra Gupta of Indian Express has decided on a 1/2 star only. Avad M of Bollywood3 has rated the film 1.5/5 and stated that Naseeruddin Shah is the only saving grace of this movie as he is brilliant as the <keyword id="1979011" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="notorious-business-man">notorious business man</keyword>. 
 The music is praiseworthy, though, but the whole exercise puts a big question mark on the theme and the lead actors. Why do <keyword id="1979000" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Bollywood-thrillers">Bollywood thrillers</keyword> have to be inane, completely lacking that <keyword id="23116" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="100" keywordseo="fear-factor">fear factor</keyword> which chills your bones without being explicit? As for Sunny, she has graduated fast from an <keyword id="1978990" type="POSITION" weightage="100" keywordseo="adult-film-actor">adult film actor</keyword> to a <keyword id="25842" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Bollywood-heroine">Bollywood heroine</keyword>, but has a long way to go if she really wants to impress cine lovers. <keyword id="287171" type="POSITION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Entrepreneur-turned-actor">Entrepreneur-turned-actor</keyword> Sachiin has, however, a better exposure here. His earlier two outings – Aazaan and Mumbai Mirror – were big flops. Aazaan, a 2011 action <keyword id="1979002" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Spy-flick">spy flick</keyword> starring Sachiin and South African <keyword id="6355606" type="POSITION" weightage="80" keywordseo="model">model</keyword> <keyword id="167432" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Candice-Boucher">Candice Boucher</keyword>, had a <keyword id="182563" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="BO">BO</keyword> collection of Rs 4.2 crore, against a budget of Rs 37 crore. Mumbai Mirror, a <keyword id="1979001" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Crime-thriller">crime thriller</keyword> released in January this year, was again a disaster at the box office. 
 
<keyword id="1888631" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="What-The-Fish">What the Fish</keyword> in troubled waters We thought this one might have an interesting storyline evolving around <keyword id="2665" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Dimple-Kapadia">Dimple Kapadia</keyword>. Ageing, divorced and suspicious, <keyword id="212966" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Sudha-Mishra">Sudha Mishra</keyword> (Dimple) is too much in love with her <keyword id="761101" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="goldfish">goldfish</keyword> and <keyword id="1979005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Money-plant">money plant</keyword>. And she turns out to be the grumpy old Delhi ‘mausi ji’ you meet almost every day. But when Sudha goes to visit her son for a month and her house is left in the care of her niece and her fiancé, they soon find others to do the chores and those others find some more people and the whole thing goes on… 
 All this is funny at first, as you may guess, but reeking of confusion and extremely haphazard at a later stage as more and more characters flit in and out of the house, all with some personal agendas. There’s no sparkling wit here or the softening grace of humour that makes classic comedy. So it’s no wonder that the BO numbers are really down – just Rs 2.9 crore after Day 4. This is the second flick by director <keyword id="193437" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Gurmeet-Singh">Gurmeet Singh</keyword> after his debut film <keyword id="1872956" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Warning-3D">Warning 3D</keyword>, an underwater movie shot in <keyword id="79116" type="COUNTRY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Fiji">Fiji</keyword>. 
 
What The Fish has opened to some mixed reviews all over. Neha Gupta of Bollywood3 says that this is a novel concept and also lauds Dimple as absolutely brilliant. There are sight gags and a free-flowing style that leaves enough room for irreverent jokes. But the movie still lacks a strong binding thread and spirited performance that could have buoyed up this kind of disjointed comedy sequences. You fail to appreciate the many characters and the entire movie feels too episodic, instead of being a cohesive whole. 
 
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New Delhi, Apr 8 () Civil rights activists Gautam Navlakha and Anand Teltumbde sought more time from the Supreme Court on Wednesday for surrendering to prison authorities in the Bhima Koregaon violence case citing the coronavirus pandemic.Going to jail at the time of the COVID-19 virus is "virtually a death sentence", they said.The apex court on March 16 had rejected anticipatory bail pleas of the activists, saying it cannot be said that no prima facie case is made out against them. It had however granted them three weeks to surrender themselves to the jail authorities.A bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra reserved the order on the plea of the activists after Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the probe agency, said that this was only a mechanism to buy time and both the accused are facing serious charges. The counsel for the accused said however that the activists are old having ailments and they be granted more time to surrender.Earlier, the apex court, while dismissing the anticipatory bail pleas of Navlakha and Teltumbde, had said their petitions cannot be maintained in view of the bar contained in 43D(4) of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), 1967.Section 43D(4) of the UAPA bars grant of anticipatory bail to a person accused of having committed an offence punishable under this Act."The special leave petitions are, accordingly, dismissed. However, since the protection has been enjoyed by the petitioners approximately for one-and-a-half years, three weeks time from today is granted to them to surrender. The petitioners shall surrender their passport forthwith with the investigation agency/officer," the bench had said.Navlakha and Teltumbde had approached the apex court challenging the decision of the Bombay High Court by which it had refused to grant them anticipatory bail in the case.The top court had on March 6 extended till March 16 the interim protection from arrest granted to both the activists.The high court, while refusing to grant anticipatory bail to Navlakha and Teltumbde on February 14, had extended their interim protection from arrest for a period of four weeks to enable them to approach the apex court.The high court had refused to grant anticipatory bail to Navlakha and Teltumbde saying, "On perusal of all the material on record, it can be seen that there is prima facie evidence showing complicity of applicants (Navlakha and Teltumbde) in the crime."The high court, after perusing letters allegedly exchanged between the accused persons, had noted that Navlakha, Teltumbde and other accused like Surendra Gadling, Rona Wilson and Sudha Bharadwaj prima facie had access to and connections with central committee members and leaders of the banned CPI(Maoist).Navlakha, Teltumbde and several other activists have been booked by the Pune Police for their alleged Maoist links and several other charges following the violence at Koregaon Bhima village in Pune district on January 1, 2018. All the accused have denied the allegations.According to Pune Police, "inflammatory" speeches and "provocative" statements made at the Elgar Parishad conclave held in Pune on December 31, 2017 had triggered caste violence at Koregaon Bhima the next day. The police alleged that the conclave was backed by Maoists.Teltumbde and Navlakha had approached the high court seeking pre-arrest bail in November last year after a sessions court in Pune had rejected their pleas. SJK ABA MNL SA

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