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The newest Netflix release, Black Warrant, has the entire nation on edge. Following the release of this dark and gripping series, netizens are hailing it. Here`s how X has reviewed Vikramaditya Motwane`s thriller. Black Warrant`s X review One user wrote, “#BlackWarrantOnNetflix is a gripping adaptation of life within Tihar`s walls, told through the eyes of a jailer. The cast delivers outstanding performances, bringing their characters to life with remarkable finesse. Hats off to the makers for crafting a binge-worthy show! Thoroughly enjoyed it.” “#BlackWarrantOnNetflix is brilliant and the makers have kept it as real as possible. The seven part series picks the most sensational cases and is worth bingeing. This particular scene is among the many standout ones in the series,” another us...

Ottawa rapper Khalid Omar, who performs under the name TwoTiime, was forced to evacuate his Calabasas condo as wildfires tore through the Los Angeles area this week, leaving the studio where he records in ruins. The 23-year-old says he woke up Thursday to a nightmarish scene as the Kenneth fire began spreading through the West Hills, fanned by strong Santa Ana winds.“It was looking like hell on earth, I’m not gonna lie to you,” he said Friday in a phone call.“There was smoke all up in the air. The sky was red and brown. I thought it was judgment day.”After an evacuation warning was issued, Omar says he fled his home and the thick smoke blanketing the area. He’s currently living in an Airbnb in downtown L.A.The rapper says the studio he records at, a small space in the Palisades belonging t...

Bots — automated programs that can perform tasks online exponentially faster than us poor meatbags — have been a plague on the concert ticket-buying public for decades now. A single bot can buy a thousand or more tickets in less than 60 seconds. There are examples of a couple of bots hoovering up 15,000 tickets in a single day. When a hot show goes on sale, it’s estimated that at least 40 per cent of the traffic to the ticketing site is bots. In some cases, that number has been as high as 96 per cent. Thousands of these things are online, elbowing you out of the queue, snapping up tickets and then immediately sending them to reseller sites with huge mark-ups. They can scoop up “limit four tickets per person” in less time than it takes you to enter your credit card information. Stor...

Actor Rahul Dev finds it “interesting” to start 2025 on a high note with the release of his intense thriller web-series “Griha Laxmi.” Rahul said: "I had a great experience working on this project and it`s interesting to start 2025 on a high with this web series release.” “The date is 16th January for `Griha Laxmi` on EPIC ON. Great cast and great team and I had a blast of an experience working in this one. I hope the audience enjoys watching me in this avatar and continue to shower me with love." Born in New Delhi, Rahul Dev and his actor brother Mukul Dev are sons of Hari Dev who was an Assistant Commissioner of Police. The 56-year-old actor made his acting debut in 2000 with “Champion” starring Sunny Deol and Manisha Koirala. In the film, Rahul played an antagonist. He also appeared...

Sam Moore, the surviving half and higher voice of the 1960s duo Sam & Dave that was known for such definitive hits of the era as Soul Man and ‘Hold On, I’m Comin,’ has died. He was 89. Publicist Jeremy Westby said Moore died Friday morning in Coral Gables, Florida, due to complications while recovering from surgery. No additional details were immediately available.Moore, whose admirers ranged from Al Green to Bruce Springsteen, was inducted with Dave Prater into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.At the Memphis, Tennessee-based Stax Records, Moore and Prater ranked only behind Otis Redding as the label’s biggest stars. They transformed the “call and response” of gospel music into a frenzied stage show and recorded some of soul music’s most enduring hits, which also included You Don...

Nawazuddin Siddiqui returns as Inspector Jatil Yadav to investigate another gruelling case in the sequel of Raat Akeli Hai. The Netflix film, directed by Honey Trehan, will kick off from where it started. The first schedule began on January 9 in Delhi. The second edition will bring back four principal characters, including Radhika Apte, Tigmanshu Dhulia and Ila Arun. Raat Akeli Hai followed the journey of a small-town cop who is asked to investigate the death of a local politician. The film received critical acclaim for its direction while Siddiqui won awards for his performance as a quirky cop. “The sequel will be a fresh crime story. The only connection from Raat Akeli Hai is Radhika [who plays Radha, his paramour], Tigmanshu as senior SP Lalji Shukla IPS and Ila Arun [as Sarita Kumari,...

Shari Franke, the eldest daughter of disgraced mommy blogger and convicted child abuser Ruby Franke, is opening up about the child abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother. Shari Franke’s memoir, The House of My Mother: A Daughter’s Quest for Freedom, was released Tuesday by Simon & Schuster, revealing more about the horrific abuse she suffered from what she describes as a “malignant narcissist.” Story continues below advertisement As she does the press rounds for her book, Shari has shared whether she could ever forgive her mom.“Forgiveness is something I’ve had to study a lot and kind of think about what it means,” she told Good Morning America (GMA) earlier this week. “But for me, forgiveness would look like not letting that consume every moment of...

With each new work, Vikramaditya Motwane seeks to explore a new world. After serving viewers with the cybercrime thriller CTRL, fronted by Ananya Panday,  Motwane takes audiences inside the Tihar Jail to narrate the story of an unlikely jailer in yesterday’s Netflix release, Black Warrant. The co-creator, co-writer, and co-director of the show starring Zahan Kapoor, Motwane brings for fans of prison dramas a screen adaptation of the book, Black Warrant: Confessions of a Tihar Jailer, by journalist Sunetra Choudhury and former superintendent at Tihar Jail, Sunil Gupta.  “It’s a riveting book and tells you something that you have no information about. It was interesting because no one has ever [considered a] jailer’s perspective. All the stuff we have seen about prisons is from movies [alon...

Actor Alec Baldwin has filed a civil lawsuit for malicious prosecution and civil rights violations in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the Western movie Rust. The lawsuit was filed Thursday at state district court in Santa Fe, where a judge in July dismissed a charge of involuntary manslaughter against Baldwin in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.Baldwin also alleges defamation in the suit, saying that prosecutors and investigators intentionally mishandled evidence as they pursued the case.Defendants named in the lawsuit include special prosecutor Kari Morrissey and Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies, along with three investigators from the Santa Fe County sheriff’s office and the county board of commissioners.“Defendants sought at every turn to...

The screening of Vikramaditya Motwane`s upcoming release, `Black Warrant`, took place in Mumbai on Thursday evening and was attended by several celebs from B-town. The prison drama, starring Zahan Kapoor, the grandson of late Bollywood legend Shashi Kapoor, will premiere on Netflix today. Among the attendees was actor Ranbir Kapoor, Zahan`s cousin, who arrived to support his family member. Ranbir posed for photos alongside Zahan and director Vikramaditya Motwane. The `Brahmastra` actor looked dapper in a casual yet stylish denim-on-denim outfit. He wore a classic white T-shirt paired with a denim jacket and matching jeans, completing his look with white sneakers. The event was a star-studded affair with notable celebrities such as Ananya Panday, Pratik Gandhi, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Ali Faz...