Showing posts with label Mizoram. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mizoram. Show all posts
Sunny Deol, Mithun Chakraborty, Sanjay Dutt, Jackie Shroff shoot music video for Baap
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Upala KBR (MID-DAY; September 3, 2026)
Put Mithun Chakraborty, Sunny Deol, Sanjay Dutt, and Jackie Shroff in one frame, and you can expect an action extravaganza. That’s exactly what Baap promises. Now, producer Ahmed Khan has also woven in an element of dance in it.
While the movie’s principal shoot was wrapped up in April 2025, mid-day has learnt that Khan and director Vivek Chauhan recently filmed a music video with the four leading men and Johny Lever.
Think of it as a stylised promotional track that will highlight the heroes’ action set-pieces from the movie.
A source from the creative team revealed, “A peppy dance number featuring the four actors, and another track celebrating their camaraderie were to be shot last year. However, only the latter was filmed in the jungles of Mizoram and in Film City, Mumbai. The dance track was finally shot in June. A set depicting a mill was created at Madh Island for the purpose.”
Considering Baap is high on stunts designed by action directors Parvez Shaikh and Ravi Varma, Zee Studios as well as Khan felt portions of it should be incorporated in the single. The source added, “It’s intercut with different action set-pieces. For instance, one sequence has Sunny and Sanjay fighting on top of a Boeing plane; it may make the cut.”
For Khan, it was wonderful to see the four stars shake a leg together. “It was great fun to have the true action heroes dancing and doing dialoguebaazi,” he told mid-day, while the director added, “Seeing these macho icons together in one frame is a cinematic feast!”
We are not ‘Simmba’ or ‘Singham’. We are normal human beings, we don’t have antennas, says Nirbhaya case officer on Delhi Crime
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December 16, 2020, was the eighth anniversary of the Nirbhaya incident. Chhaya Sharma, on whom Shefali Shah’s Vartika Chaturvedi was modelled in Delhi Crime – speaks about the show, police portrayal on screen, what has changed in the country post Nirbhaya and more
Niharika Lal (BOMBAY TIMES; December 18, 2020)
Delhi Crime, based on the investigations that went into the brutal gang rape of Nirbhaya on December 16, 2012, leading to her subsequent death, won the best drama series at the 48th International Emmy Awards, last month.
Ever since the series has been released, Chhaya Sharma – former DCP South Delhi, who led the special investigation team that cracked the case and on whom the character of Shefali Shah’s Vartika Chaturvedi is based —has been getting calls from curious people from across the world, who have many questions for the police officer. One caller even wanted to know “if she’s for real”, while another wanted to hear just how she sounds. Yesterday — the eighth anniversary of the Nirbhaya incident — Sharma, currently posted as Director, Central Vigilance Commission in Delhi, spoke to us about the show, Delhi Crime and more.
Chhaya Sharma was not very keen on meeting (the writer-director Richie Mehta) for the show, but it was her former boss, former Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar, who convinced her.
She says, “I was initially not very keen. When I spoke to Richie for the first time, he was quite excited about the project and was ready to come to Mizoram (where she was posted then). But I told him that we’ll meet in Delhi when I’m there. Incidentally, the next time when I went to Delhi, he was there and when I met him, I found that he meant business, and he was quite serious about the project.”
Sharma says that she wasn’t initially convinced “that many would believe that it’s a positive police story of how the police detected and investigated a sensational case. However, Richie was open and was willing to tell the story from a different perspective.”
She adds, “Most of the people working on films or documentaries about the police system aren’t aware how police departments actually work and that’s why I used to tell Richie that he should go to police stations, just sit and observe how things work. I think he went to all the spots and police stations. In fact, he even went to meet doctors and visited the hospital.”
‘IT IS VERY IRRITATING TO SEE A CHARACTER IN WRONG POLICE UNIFORM’
Sharma had seen the unedited versions of Delhi Crime. She says, “Stories on police officials should be shown as how they are in real life, which is almost never the case in films. We are not ‘Simmba’ or ‘Singham’. We are not larger than life. We are not super humans. We are normal human beings, we don’t have antennas. Whatever detective skills we have, we acquire it (while working). And with due credit to Richie, he has shown the investigation right. I was also very happy that he chose Shefali for the role because she is an actor whose work I have followed,” adding, “Richie told me, ‘I chose Shefali because your eyes are similar’ (laughs).”
Not just Richie and Shefali, who sought her inputs, the costume team members of the show also used to send her photos of the police uniforms to check if they got them right. She says, “I told them that it’s the police uniform, be careful. It is very irritating to see a sub-inspector in a DIG’s uniform and a DIG in a sub-inspector’s uniform.”
‘I TOLD RICHIE TO TELL THE ACTUAL STORY’
Richie had interviewed every member of the Special Investigation Team, from the former Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar, who was also a consultant for Delhi Crime, to the sub-inspectors and constables. Sharma says, “He took my version, my ACP’s version, my inspector and sub-inspectors’ versions, and then he came with the first draft. He asked me if I wanted to have a look at it, but I was busy with my work. So I broadly told him that you have got all the versions, now tell the story as it is. I told him that this is a positive story and it should be told as such.”
Shar ma adds, “I was answerable to the victim’s family and the court. I’m not interested whether the story is told or not, but I didn’t want it to be something that it is not. Whatever is presented in a series or a movie creates a perception in the minds of the public. And it is very difficult to tell them, ‘see, it is not like that’.”
‘DELHI CRIME GOT THE ATTENTION IT DESERVED’
Sharma is happy with the way the show has been made. She says, “I was happy to note the way in which our efforts and hard work were highlighted in the series. A lot of respect was shown in the scenes related to the victim. The challenges and travails of some of our smaller teams in the fields were well captured. Some character amalgamations were done for cinematic purposes, but the efforts put in the telling the story – in its nearly original form, yet keeping all sensitivity on track – was amazing. It was a job done well.”
Talking about the characters, Sharma says, “Denzil Smith (who played Shefali’s husband in the show) never met my husband, but he played his role superbly because Richie had done his research well. Adil Hussain was superb in displaying the suave and competent Delhi CP Neeraj Kumar. Rajesh Tailang and Jaya Bhattacharya did equal justice to their characters. Most actors who spoke to me had based their work on Richie’s research and that’s why we can see an equation between characters in the series.” Richie did a careful study of the case and characters for over five years, Sharma adds.
I figured Disha Patani is a cool girl if my brother is spending so much time with her-Krishna Shroff
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Krishna Shroff on bonding with the actress and tiding over lockdown with family but minus dad
Akash Bhatnagar (MUMBAI MIRROR; April 21, 2020)
Krishna Shroff returned to the city with boyfriend Eban Hyams after a two-month trip to Dubai and Mizoram just before the Coronavirus lockdown started. Even though she misses travelling, Jackie and Ayesha Shroff’s daughter admits home is the best place to be. “As long as we have a roof over our head and food on the table, I can’t complain,” she asserts, adding that Eban is staying with her. “It makes the lockdown easier. I hope he can be with his family when restrictions are relaxed.”Meanwhile, her father is stuck at their farmhouse between Pune and Lonavala. “He went there for the weekend just before the lockdown. It has been tough but we are in touch. He is doing well, the farm isn’t a bad place to be stuck in,” she points out, adding that Jackie has his staff for company.
Being at home has brought Krishna closer to her brother Tiger. “I don’t see him as much as I used to before he joined films. Now, we’re bonding more, having dinner together every day. We hadn’t done that in a while. At night, we play board games,” Krishna exults.
She admits her brother is not introverted, as he may appear to others. “We have a typical sibling relationship, with him teasing me all the time. He has the best sense of humour; it just takes time to understand. We try to help our mother with household chores, but aren’t the best at it,” she chuckles.Recently, Krishna credited Disha Patani for her makeup in a picture. Is the actress living with them? “She isn’t, but she lives close by. We go grocery-shopping sometimes,” Krishna clarifies, saying that they became friends because of Tiger. “He and Disha have been friends for ages. We connected over fitness. Since Tiger is a loner, I figured she is a cool girl if my brother is spending so much time with her,” Krishna signs off.
Rock On 2: Farhan Akhtar's band to rock Mizoram; Titli actor joins the cast?
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Shashank Arora joins the Rock On sequel as a musician from Varanasi who is a champion of Hindustani music
Sanyukta Iyer (MUMBAI MIRROR; August 29, 2015)
Rock On!! ended with Magik, the band, reuniting for a final
performance. The climax of the 2008 rock musical drama had Rob (Luke
Kenny) dying of brain tumour and Aditya (Farhan Akhtar) and Sakshi
Shroff (Prachi Desai) naming their son after him. The other two band
members, Killer Drummer aka Kedar Zaveri (Purab Kohli) and Joe (Arjun
Rampal) went on to start a record company together. "The band members
and their families meet every weekend..." the end credits stated. Seven years later, Magik heads off to Mizoram for a live act. "They will be performing at a week-long music festival from October 10-16 and the live video shot there will be incorporated into the sequel," reveals a source.
Shujaat Saudagar, who has replaced Abhishek Kapoor as the director, will shoot festival-style footage. "This is another exercise in the six-month long tour Farhan had undertaken to prep up for his role. His concerts, Farhan Live, were successful and now the Rock On!! 2 cast will tour together too," adds the source.
And there's a new addition to the band to Part 2 - Shashank Arora, popularly known as Sunny. Born and brought up in Delhi, the actor made a red carpet appearance at the Cannes Film Festival, where his Bollywood debut, Titli, directed by Kanu Behl was screened in the Un Certain Regard section.
"Shashank's character is from Varanasi and will be styled accordingly. His lines will be a mix of Urdu and Hindi and he will be seen playing the sardana," says the source.
Shashank plays the sardana, saroj and sitar for real too and comes from a family of artistes. He has studied music too. "That is one of the reasons he bagged this role. His character is filled with nazaakat and is a champion of Hindustani music," says the source. Shraddha Kapoor is an addition to the cast too. "The film has over eight songs and will draw from the music culture of the North East," says the source.
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