Chunky Panday is being lauded for exploring a grey-shaded character in his first Tamil film titled 'Sardar'.

Indiana [US], July 23 (ANI): Health professionals are increasingly ready for a future in which COVID-19 variations develop, surge, and fade similarly to seasonal flu as the BA.5 omicron variant spreads. The ability to immediately monitor the virus at a "population scale," a task that will need precise and extremely quick testing, will be crucial for keeping up with these changes.

Mumbai Mar 28 PTI Actor Raashii Khanna said she has completed filming for Sidharth Malhotra-led YodhaThe action movie backed by Dharma Productions is being directed by debutant filmmaker duo Pushkar Ojha and Sagar AmbreThe 31-year-old actor took to Twitter on Sunday evening to pen a heartfelt note as she wrapped up the shoot of the film She had begun filming in January r She said working with Dharma Productions has been a dream come true moment for her with YodhaA dream too good to be true having worked with dharmamovies who welcomed me with such warmth and love and made the journey of yodha - our labour of love - so special Its a wrap and here I am with the two main yodhas who have worked so hard to create something amazing Khanna captioned the postThe Madras Cafe actor also tagged Malhotra and said it was wonderful working with himMissed you sidmalhotra Thankyou for being a wonderful co-star Khanna wroteKhanna has been winning accolades for her performance as a psychopath in her digital debut Rudra which is fronted by Ajay DevgnApart from Yodha she will be next seen in her second OTT project with The Family Man director duo Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK The upcoming action-thriller series stars Vijay Sethupati and Shahid Kapoor Khanna also has Telugu romantic-comedy Thank You with Naga Chaitanya and two Tamil movies Dhanush-starrer Thiruchitrambalam and Sardar with Karthi in her kittyYodha is set to release on November 11 PTI KKP BK BK

New Delhi [India], March 26 (ANI): After wrapping night shifts schedule in Chennai for 'Sardar', Raashii Khanna has now begun day shifts for her upcoming film 'Yodha' in Delhi.

Amritsar (Punjab) [India], February 15 (ANI): Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by saying that merely wearing a turban on stage, doesn't make them 'Sardar' (Sikh).

Kapurthala (Punjab) [India], February 12 (ANI): With only a few days left for the Punjab Assembly election, the political parties are leaving no stone unturned in making promises to the Punjab people for a better future. And in the midst of all the promises, the farmers, who are sweating it out in their fields, said that they would not vote as the disappointment from all the governments so far has made them hopeless about the future.

New Delhi [India], February 5 (ANI): After wrapping the shooting for 'Thank You' in Moscow, actor Raashii Khanna has headed to Chennai for the filming of her next project titled 'Sardar'.

Panaji Nov 23 PTI Filmmaker Shoojit Sircar on Tuesday said there is always a connection between him and his films as he has often personally lived the stories of his moviesThe Kolkata-based filmmaker known for critical hits such as Yahaan Vicky Donor Piku and October said often the moments in his movies are inspired by his own experiencesThe films I have made have somehow been associated with me Its never that somebody came to me gave me a script and I made the film Whether it was Piku October or Yahaan I was somehow always associated with the stories of these films Somewhere it was all part of my life Sircar saidCiting the example of October featuring Varun Dhawan and Banita Sandhu the director said he drew some key scenes of his 2018 movie from his real-life experienceOctober is a coming-of-age drama film which follows the life of a hotel-management intern Dhawan who takes care of his comatose fellow intern Sandhu in an unconditional and unconventional manner The film was written by Juhi Chaturvedi and shot by Avik Mukhopadhyay Sircars frequent collaboratorsWith October a lot of the film is part of my life because my mother was in comatose and I was there with her in the ICU for three months So whatever sequences are filmed in the hospital they are inspired by my personal experiencesSo its just personal experiences that you live with and of course not all ideas can translate into cinema Sometimes it takes a lot of time to nurture them he saidSircar was speaking at the masterclass Creating Cinematic Success and Storytelling of Sardar Udham at the ongoing 2021 International Film Festival of India IFFIThe filmmaker said he looks up to the work of cinema masters like Satyajit Ray Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen and also revealed that legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa was a big source of inspiration for his latest film Sardar UdhamThere is one film by Kurosawa The Hunter which was a Japanese and Russian collaboration Not many people have seen it but it was Kurosawas only film made out of Japan So I take inspiration from a lot of big filmmakers he addedSircar said he is not a fan of the filming process of moviesShooting is a process where everyday you have to be really agile and in a positive frame of mind Everything flows from the director and so the shooting situation for a day entirely depends on the mood of the directorI hate shootings as I like to ideate and do scripting As soon as scripting is done and I print my pages then for me my film is done With shooting I dont want to go all over it again While writing the script I lived and made my film Sircars Sardar Udham is based on the life of freedom fighter Sardar Udham Singh who assassinated Michael ODwyer the former Lieutenant Governor of Punjab in British India in 1940 to avenge the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre The movie started streaming on Prime Video in October Starring Vicky Kaushal in the title role the film has been praised by critics and viewers for its intimate portrayal of the revolutionarySircar said there was a lot of debate about whether they should start the film with the Jallianwala Bagh sequence or end with itSome of my team members felt that if we start with the Jallianwala Bagh sequence then they will understand the first part of the film because it was so scattered Theres no singular narrativeBut we thought what is the one thing that we want viewers to take home I just wanted them to take home the horror that unfolded at the Jallianwala Bagh That was my ultimate aim the filmmaker addedSircar said he received complaints about the length of the Jallianwala Bagh sequence which lasted for about 45 minutes The total runtime of the film was 2 hours and 42 minutesI wanted them to take the Jallianwala Bagh home because then they will understand all the moments and revolutionaries of the pre-Independence movement This was the fulcrum of the movement of that time he stressed PTI RB RDS RDS

A 25-year-old man, was arrested in Tamil Nadu on November 2 for raping his minor sister-in-law and taking objectionable pictures of her. The girl’s family is from Basirhat in Bengal, around 120km from Kolkata. The crime took place in the first week of August 2020 and the girl’s father had lodged a complaint in December […]