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BOLLYWOOD BUZZ

Our Bollywood spies bring you the latest on industry gossip and celebrity tidbits

skinned meant TWITTER LIGHTS UP
that you were less
attractive. It was Salman Khan’s film Tubelight
a notion he was will now light up Twitter! The
only able to break movie and popular social media
after moving to platform have collaborated to create the first
Los Angeles for character emoji of a Bollywood film. The emoji, of
further studies. There, his dark skin made him more Salman as Laxman, will appear every time you use
attractive. But in India and other parts of Asia, people a hashtag related to the film, such as #Tubelight
are still obsessed with the colour of their skin, and not or #TubelightkiEid. This popular marketing trend in
discussing the more important issues of caste, religion, the west is definitely catching on, and we can surely
corruption and poverty. He makes a fair point that each look forward to further Twitter-type marketing
BOLLYWOOD IN CANNES one of us has to unite to make a diff erence, whether we moves in the Hindi film industry too.
are Bollywood actors, journalists or news anchors.
Bollywood’s three leading ladies gave us couture ATUL SHOCKS US ALL
in abundance at the recently held Cannes Film AKSHAY KUMAR’S FIRST
Festival. Deepika Padukone, Aishwarya Rai The Marathi fi lm industry
Bachchan and Sonam Kapoor appeared (in that Finally getting his fi rst is in shock. One of the
industry’s producers, Atul
order) on the famed red carpet as L’Oreal’s brand national award for
ambassadors. Deepika looked gorgeous as she Best Actor for his fi lm Tapkir committed suicide
debuted as an ambassador for the beauty brand, Rustom (2016), Akshay and died. The fi lm producer
looking radiant in her interviews and red carpet Kumar couldn’t posted a long message on
appearances. Aishwarya also appeared stunning as contain his excitement before the award ceremony Facebook, explaining that
usual, experimenting with bold colourful makeup and posted a video of himself on Twitter saying so. he felt he had no choice.
looks. This 43 year-old actress didn’t let last year’s His family, including wife Twinkle Khanna and son, He described how he and
negative remarks about her lilac lips dissuade her, accompanied him to the ceremony. Also spotted was his wife, Priyanka, had been arguing for the past few
and bravely wore turquoise eyeliner and bright Sonam Kapoor, who was given a Special Mention months, following the losses he had been facing with
orange lipstick. This time, nobody was complaining! award for portraying Neerja Bhanot in the 2016 fi lm his fi lm Dhol Taashe (2015). He added that she wasn’t
Also present were Shruti Haasan, Mallika Neerja. Neerja was supportive of his work and their arguments reached
Sherawat and Nawazuddin Siddiqui. also awarded Best a point when she threw him out of their house and
Hindi Feature Film. lodged a complaint against him. Her abusive hurls at
Her parents, Anil and him and his family, in front of the locality, forced him
ABHAY SPEAKS OUT AGAIN
Sunita Kapoor, looked to make this fi nal and fatal decision. He said he had
Abhay Deol has lent his voice to the Hindustan Times’ elated at the ceremony. proof of the abuse on a thumb drive. His last wish
campaign called Let’s Talk About Racism. “The words President Pranab Mukherjee presented the awards. was that his father takes care of his children, and not
‘fairer is lovelier’ were all around me,” he wrote as a Congratulations to both actors for being appreciated his wife. With that, he drank poison and said he was
child, when he was made to believe that being darker for their brilliant work! relieved that he could now be with his late mother.

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