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After dabbling in non-fiction all his career, creator Nishant Nayak harboured a dream of making a fiction show. He says it took him and his team almost five years to bring the show to screen. The Amazon Prime Video series Do You Wanna Partner, starring Diana Penty, Tamannaah Bhatia, Jaaved Jaaferi, Nakuul Mehta, and Shweta Tiwari, among others, was, he shares, a product of the pandemic. In conversation with mid-day, Nayak discusses how he and Mithun Gangopadhyay developed the idea, did intense research of the beer industry, and how much the script changed from start to finish. Excerpts from the interview. What made you move from non-fiction to fiction?To be honest, I haven’t moved. It was just something that I wanted to try out. I still work as a non-fiction director. Actually, I wrote t...

The Toronto Blue Jays clinched their first American League East Division title since 2015 with a win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday, but a screenshot shared online of a supposed Truth Social post from Donald Trump suggested the U.S. president wasn’t on board with the Jays’ playoff run. The post, written in all-capital letters, says the United States will be investigating the “un-American” Blue Jays as they attempt to “steal” the World Series, and that the team would not be invited to the White House.In fact, the post is a satirical fake, the White House confirmed to The Canadian Press, and does not appear on Trump’s social media feed.THE CLAIM“WE WILL BE INVESTIGATING THE UN AMERICAN BLUE JAYS WHO ARE ATTEMPTING TO STEAL OUR BELOVED WORLD SERIES,” reads a screenshot of what appears to b...

Helming the second season of Sixer was an opportunity Divyanshu Malhotra was only too happy about. There was only one hitch. “It was about a topic that I didn’t know much of,” he says of the series that revolves around a group of local cricketers navigating interpersonal relationships and politics.  As he joined the MX Player drama led by actor and writer Shivankit Singh Parihar, Malhotra knew he had to dive deep into cricket. Only then would he be able to amp up the drama. He shares, “Shivankit and Harish [Peddinti, writer] had elevated the second season. These people breathed cricket, while I was a casual viewer. So, for the next few months, I kept watching matches and my wife was puzzled, saying, ‘You’ve never loved cricket so much. What’s happening?’” Divyanshu Malhotra Eventually, t...

Bad Bunny will bring his Latin trap and reggaeton swagger to the NFL’s biggest stage next year: The Grammy winner will headline the Apple Music Super Bowl halftime show in Northern California. The NFL, Apple Music and Roc Nation announced Sunday that Bad Bunny will lead the halftime festivities from Levi’s Stadium on Feb. 8 in Santa Clara, California.The Puerto Rican superstar’s selection comes amid another career-defining run: He’s fresh off a historic Puerto Rico residency this month that drew more than half a million fans and is leading all nominees at the Latin Grammys in November. He has become one of the world’s most streamed artists with albums such as “Un Verano Sin Ti,” an all-Spanish-language LP.Bad Bunny will host “Saturday Night Live” on Oct. 4. ...

One person whose face was never revealed on the Netflix show The Ba***ds of Bollywood was the actress who played Ghafoor`s daughter. Ghafoor, essayed by Arshad Warsi, played a pivotal role in moving the narrative forward. In the series, Ghafoor kidnaps leading man Aasman Singh (Lakshya) so that his daughter, a fan, can meet him and share her script. Yes, Ghafoor`s daughter is an aspiring filmmaker. Meet Ghafoor`s daughter Ghafoor`s daughter is always seen in a burqa, her face covered. While viewers never get to see the actress on screen, they do hear her voice. Now, it has been revealed that the role was played by Kanchan Khilare in Aryan Khan’s debut directorial. Amid the show’s success, Kanchan took to Instagram on Monday to share a video about her experience working on the project. S...

By Gregory Strong The Canadian Press Posted September 30, 2025 10:24 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size TORONTO – The Toronto Blue Jays’ regular-season finale — a 13-4 rout that clinched the division title — was a ratings home run for domestic rights-holder Sportsnet. Toronto’s victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday averaged 2.36 million viewers on television and via streaming, Sportsnet said, making it the network’s most-watched Blue Jays regular-season broadcast ever.Alejandro Kirk homered twice as the Blue Jays secured the American League East crown for the first time since 2015. ...

Dolly Parton has postponed her first Las Vegas residency in 32 years due to “health challenges.” The country music icon, 79, announced the news in a post on Instagram on Sept. 28, telling fans that she wanted them “to hear directly from me that, unfortunately, I will need to postpone my upcoming Las Vegas concerts.”“As many of you know, I’ve been dealing with some health challenges, and my doctors tell me that I must have a few procedures. As I joked with them, it must be time for my 100,000-mile check-up, although it’s not the usual trip to see my plastic surgeon!” she wrote.“In all seriousness, given this, I am not going to be able to rehearse and put together the show that I want you to see, and the show that you deserve to see. You pay good money to see me perform, and I want to be at ...

A gripping crime story demands edge-of-the-seat twists, a solid cast, and an auteur to weave it all together. The upcoming yet-untitled romantic thriller seems to tick all those boxes. Set to stream on JioHotstar, the series marks the Hindi streaming debut of Bengali filmmaker and politician Raj Chakraborty, and stars Parambrata Chatterjee, Sumeet Vyas, Aditi Pohankar, and Priyanshu Painyuli in key roles. Raj Chakraborty and Priyanshu Painyuli The series, shot across Kolkata and Darjeeling, has wrapped filming and is now in post-production. “The series revolves around a relationship tested by betrayal and hidden motives, set against the shifting social and political undercurrents of Kolkata and the hills of Darjeeling. The team has shot several key sequences in Kolkata’s older neighbourh...

The biggest sign of a show’s success is it being renewed for a second season. Rumours are rife that the creative team of Alien: Earth, the Ridley Scott-backed sci-fi series that premièred on August 12, has begun work on its second edition. Not just that, Adarsh Gourav, who plays Slightly in the show that explores humanity’s encounter with the xenomorph threat in 2120, is expected to reprise his role.    While Gourav is tight-lipped about whether the Noah Crawley-directed series’ next season has been greenlit, he is vocal about his enthusiasm to return to its world. The actor said, “The creators have built such a rich world that as an actor, it’s a privilege to contribute to a story of this scale. I would gladly return for as many future seasons as they’d like me to be part of. Projects li...

Rihanna and A$AP Rocky are celebrating the arrival of their third child, daughter Rocki Irish Mayers. The Love on the Brain singer, 37, shared the news in a social media post Wednesday, featuring an image of herself holding her daughter swaddled in a pink blanket and another photo of pink boxing gloves.“Rocki Irish Mayers Sept 13 2025,” Rihanna captioned the post.“MY LIL LADIES,” Rocky, 36, commented on the post.Rocki Irish Mayers Sept 13 2025🎀 pic.twitter.com/ibHGXxegTN— Rihanna (@rihanna) September 24, 2025 Story continues below advertisement The couple announced their pregnancy during the Met Gala in May, where Rihanna appeared in a pinstripe look and a huge hat, her baby bump on display. Rocky, who served as a gala co-chair, told reporters, “It’s time that...