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When is the next season coming out? Creator Sudip Sharma often heard this question after the raging success of Paatal Lok in 2020. He admits it left him a tad frustrated. “Filmmaking is a long, tedious process. While we were editing the first season, we started working on the second. But it took a while to put everything in place,” he starts. It may have been a long wait of nearly five years, but it has been worth it. The second season of the Jaideep Ahlawat and Ishwak Singh-led crime thriller has opened to glowing reviews.  For that, much credit goes to Sharma. When Prime Video had approached him to make another instalment, he was certain about one thing—he’d set it in a world far removed from that of the first, which had Delhi-NCR as its backdrop. “I didn’t want to get bored of doing th...

President-elect Donald Trump danced alongside 1970s hitmakers Village People at a rally held in Washington the day before his inauguration. His well-known “Trump dance” began trending online almost immediately, carrying over into Monday morning, the day he’s set to become the 47th president of the United States.Trump brought the group on stage to close out his campaign-style “MAGA Victory Rally” at Capital One Arena on Sunday.He danced alongside the group, clapping his hands, pumping his fists and swaying to the to their classic hit Y.M.C.A., alongside members James Kwong, Javier Perez, James Lee, J.J. Lippold, Nicholas Manelick and Victor Willis.American disco group the Village People made a name for themselves in the late-70s for their chant-along dance-pop hits and their colourful on-st...

Luminate is the watcher of all music consumption in Canada and the U.S. and has just issued its year-end report for Canada after sorting through its 500 verified sources and analyzing more than 20 trillion (yes, trillion) data points. On average, 99,000 new songs are uploaded to streaming music platforms every day (down from an average of 103,500 in 2023), which works out to approximately one million per month. The current universe of available digital songs (and all streamers share the same catalogue) is 202 million, an increase of 18 million (about 10 per cent) from last year. Of that number just 8.2 per cent were provided by major labels, meaning that 92 per cent came from indie musicians.Think about that for a second. More than 200 million songs available to anyone with an internet con...

As “Indian Police Force” completes one year since its release, actress Shilpa Shetty recalled working in the series and said that she enjoyed the action needed to pull off those stunts and that it was worth the pain.  In Rohit Shetty’s thriller series `Indian Police Force`, the actress played the role of the first female police officer in the cop-verse as she played the role of ATS Chief Tara Shetty. "It`s been a year since `Indian Police Force` released, and it makes me realise that time flies by so fast. It feels like yesterday when I was training for my role. I remember the sheer pride to be playing the part of an ATS chief, Tara Shetty will always be special,” Shilpa said. “I enjoyed the action needed to pull off those stunts… Was worth the pain and sweat. It was an amazing experien...

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump announced his plans to make Hollywood “stronger than ever before” on Thursday and named stars Mel Gibson, Sylvester Stallone and Jon Voight “special ambassadors.” “It is my honour to announce Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone, to be Special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.“They will serve as Special Envoys to me for the purpose of bringing Hollywood, which has lost much business over the last four years to Foreign Countries, BACK—BIGGER, BETTER, AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE!”Trump said that the three ambassadors will “be my eyes and ears, and I will get done what they suggest.”“It will again be, like The United States of America itself, The Golden Age of Hollywood,” he added....

There is good news for Marvel fans as `Daredevil` is officially making a return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Disney on Wednesday evening unveiled the trailer for the much-awaited series `Daredevil: Born Again`, which will premiere on Disney+ on March 4 this year.           View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by Matt Murdock (@daredevil) The series marks the reintroduction of Charlie Cox as `Daredevil`, aka Matt Murdock, along with other iconic characters from the original Netflix series. Fans last saw Daredevil in the 2022 Disney+ series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, where he appeared opposite Tatiana Maslany`s Jennifer Walters. He also made brief appearances in Spider-Man: No Way Home and...

The legal battle between It Ends With Us co-stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni continues. In response to Baldoni’s new $400-million defamation and extortion lawsuit against the Gossip Girl star, Lively’s legal team said in a statement, “This latest lawsuit from Justin Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios, and its associates is another chapter in the abuser playbook.”“This is an age-old story: A woman speaks up with concrete evidence of sexual harassment and retaliation and the abuser attempts to turn the tables on the victim,” the statement continued. “This is what experts call DARVO. Deny. Attack. Reverse Victim Offender.”“Wayfarer has opted to use the resources of its billionaire co-founder to issue media statements, launch meritless lawsuits, and threaten litigation to overwhelm the public’s ab...

Reprising the role of Neeti Singh, season on season, in Delhi Crime is a special feeling, says Rasika Dugal. “The show’s intensity always leaves a mark on me,” smiles the actor, who began shooting for the third edition of the Shefali Shah-led police procedural drama in late 2024. While the second instalment focused more on her character’s personal life, the upcoming season will delve into the upright cop’s professional challenges. Currently shooting the Netflix series in Mumbai, Dugal shares, “Neeti is very close to my heart. We filmed the first season in January 2018, and we are now in 2025 as we film the third. It has been such an interesting experience to grow along with the character. It’s not often that one gets to have an experience like this as a performer. I have been following th...

Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag Pratt, once known for their rise to fame on hit reality series The Hills, are back in the spotlight and taking over the music charts. Montag’s 2010 album Superficial has hit No. 1 on iTunes’ all-genre songs and albums charts — 15 years after its release. Her album beat Bad Bunny’s new album Debí Tirar Más Fotos for the top spot on the albums chart, and now she has released her new track, titled Prototype. “Oh, you thought I was done giving you new bops? I’m not!” she wrote on X announcing the new song on Thursday.How did we get here?The track comes after fans of the 38-year-old singer began streaming her music and started a social media campaign to purchase Superficial and help the couple rebuild after they lost their home in the Los Angeles wildfires on Jan...

Actor Abhishek Banerjee, who is known for ‘Stree’, ‘Bhediya’, ‘Stree 2’, and is gearing up for the release of the upcoming edition of his OTT show ‘Paatal Lok’, has penned two episodes from the show’s latest season However, Abhishek hasn’t contributed to the show this time as an actor. Season 2 of ‘Paatal Lok’ packs a punch promising a gripping crime thriller. It is set in the northeastern state of Nagaland, and sees the lead character of Hathi Ram Chaudhary (essayed by Jaideep Ahlawat) teaming up with his ally Imran Ansari (played by Ishwak Singh) to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a migrant worker tied to a perilous drug syndicate. As the case deepens, he unravels a web of secrets, battling systemic corruption and powerful adversaries while confronting his own inner demons. ...