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In November 2023, we visited the set of Vikram Motwane’s Black Warrant. The set was a replica of Tihar Jail, modified to depict the harsh realities of prison and create an immersive experience. Production designer Mukund Gupta, of Jubilee (2023) and Jigra (2024) fame scouted several prison facilities with the filmmaker, associate production designer Vahi Shaikh, art director Yogesh Bansode, and a team of set designers before getting down to work. “We officially started designing and building the sets in mid-2023. Given the intense, crime-driven narrative, we knew the environment had to reflect a gritty, high-stakes atmosphere. From there, we worked on creating detailed sets, scouting locations, and building custom elements to bring that vision to life on screen. The entire journey, from co...

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Green Day, never shy to make their politics known, took a jab at Elon Musk during their debut performance in Musk’s home country of South Africa the night before Donald Trump’s inauguration. While performing their iconic 2004 chart topper American Idiot in Johannesburg’s FNB Stadium, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong changed up the lyric, “I’m not a part of the redneck agenda” to “I’m not a part of the Elon agenda,” taking aim at the billionaire, who has formed close ties with Trump in recent months and is tapped to lead the president’s new “Department of Government Efficiency.”Concert footage posted to X, the social media platform owned by Musk, has taken off, and the internet has a lot to sa...

Sharing the screen with talented artistes like Zeenat Aman, Bhumi Pednekar and Ishaan Khatter in one’s second acting job can be daunting. But singer-turned-actor Lisa Mishra believes The Royals has made her a better performer. Not only that, while shooting for the Netflix series, she developed an unexpected bond with co-star Pednekar. “Bhumi’s passion and dedication to her craft is deeply inspiring. Whether we were shooting intense scenes or unwinding during breaks, her energy was infectious. She has the ability to make everyone feel comfortable and valued. For me, working with her feels more like a sisterhood than just doing a job,” says Mishra, who made her acting debut with Call Me Bae (2024). Spending time with Pednekar on set was a learning experience for the actor. Mishra says her c...

Last year, it was all about the battle of Oppenheimer and Barbie in movie theatres and at the 2024 Academy Awards. But this year the focus is on the music with musical Emilia Pérez, Broadway musical adaptation Wicked and Bob Dylan musical biopic A Complete Unknown. The much-anticipated 2025 Oscars nominations were revealed Thursday morning by Rachel Sennott, who starred in Saturday Night, and Saturday Night Live star Bowen Yang. The nominations were pushed back almost a week from their original date amid the ongoing California wildfires.Emilia Pérez, a musical/melodrama/crime-thriller from filmmaker Jacques Audiard, set a new record for the most nominations earned by an international film with 13 nominations, including Best Picture. The film broke the record set by Crouching Tiger, Hidden ...

It’s a homecoming for Sundeep Kishan on the third season of The Family Man. The actor played Major Vikram in the first edition of the Manoj Bajpayee-led spy thriller in 2019. Six years have passed since, but the actor didn’t feel any gap as he returned to the set of the show. “I’ve been fortunate enough to be working with Raj [Nidimoru] and [Krishna] DK since 2010. So, the first day felt like coming back home,” shares the actor, pleased with how seamlessly the makers wove his character back in the story. Filming the Prime Video series became even more special, courtesy his co-star Bajpayee. “The world thinks of him as an incredibly serious actor, but he is one of the most fun and down-to-earth people you can meet. Working with someone as intelligent as him is a constant learning experienc...

It’s a Sunday morning and Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley is sitting on the couch in my Las Vegas Airbnb. As usual, he’s dressed in his punk/metal gear: leather jacket, band shirt, spikey hair and a chain or two hanging from his jeans. He’d driven over from his new place a few minutes away. “I had to get out of L.A.,” he said. “It’s just gotten too crazy. You’d be surprised at how many people — including musicians — have moved to Vegas to get away from what L.A. has become.”Whibley isn’t a big guy, standing about five feet six inches tall and in situations like this, soft-spoken. But as Sum 41 fans know, give him a guitar and put him onstage and he’s a different beast entirely.But that onstage beast is on notice. On this day in early 2023, the conversation turns to how he’s ready to wind things do...

Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, the real-life couple who rose to fame on hit reality series The Hills, are suing the City of Los Angeles and its Department of Water and Power (LADWP) after losing their Pacific Palisades home in the Los Angeles wildfires on Jan. 7. The couple filed the lawsuit Tuesday in California’s Superior Court in Los Angeles County along with more than 20 other property owners and residents who were affected by the Palisades fire. Pratt’s mother, Janet Pratt, is among the property owners listed as a plaintiff.“The Palisades Fire was an inescapable and unavoidable consequence of the egregious failure of the water supply system servicing areas in and around Pacific Palisades, including having an empty water reservoir,” the couples’ lawyer, Peter McNulty, said in a statem...

Rahul Bhat has been on the receiving end of praise for his performance as DSP Tomar in the recently released Netflix series `Black Warrant`. Directed by Vikramaditya Motwane, the series that also stars Zahan Kapoor is based on real life incidents as narrated in the book `Black Warrant: The confessions of a Tihar jailer`.  Rahul Bhat on reaction to Black Warrant Rahul Bhat is amused at the kind of response the show and especially his character is receiving. He essays the role of DSP Tomar who is assigned three newbies to train as jailers. "I think what people like about this character is his own style and the little masala in this character. The character is also unpredictable in the way he behaves. We cannot second guess him whether he`s going to be angry at this line or not. So I think ...

WARNING: This story contains details that may be disturbing to some readers. Discretion is advised. A documentary following an investigation into allegations of abuse and missing kids at the former St. Joseph’s Mission Residential School in Williams Lake has been nominated for an Oscar.Sugarcane is up for the Best Documentary Feature award at the Academy Awards later this winter.Secwepemc filmmaker, Julian Brave NoiseCat, and Toronto journalist, director, producer and cinematographer, Emily Kassie, explore allegations that the priests who fathered children with students at the school sent the infants to be killed in the incinerator.“This film has meant the world to me,” NoiseCat told Global News, explaining his father was born at the school.“The thing that really would hang over me about t...

Actress Gul Panag, who essays the role of the wife of the lead character of Hathi Ram Chaudhary in the streaming show ‘Paatal Lok’, has said that her part in the show is the emotional fulcrum for Hathiram.  The second season of ‘Paatal Lok’ is getting a lot of positive response. Nearly five years after the debut season, the show has not only stood the test of time, but it has also pushed creative boundaries, exploring new depths in storytelling, cinematography, and character development in season 2. Reflecting on her character’s evolution, Gul Panag shared, “Renu is the emotional anchor for Hathiram. Both seasons capture the safety and peace of Hathiram’s family space, and I tried keeping that intact in the second installment. However, with 5 years passing, it was important to embrace ch...