Superstar Aamir Khan's longtime assistant Amos passed away on Tuesday after suffering a massive heart attack. He was 60.
Amos, who had been working with Aamir for the past 25 years, was taken to the Holy Family hospital where he breathed his last.
Aamir's close friend and "Lagaan" co-star Karim Hajee said Amos collapsed in the morning and was rushed to the hospital by the actor, his director-wife Kiran Rao and their team.
"Amos worked with a superstar but was endearing and simple. He was like this to not just Aamir but everyone. He put everyone at ease and was a wonderful person. He had a wonderful heart, was so bright and a hard worker," Karim told PTI.
"He had no major illness, his death is shocking. He died with his boots on. Both Aamir and Kiran are devasted. Aamir had sent us a message and said it is an irreplaceable loss. We were so numb, we will miss him," he added.
Karim said Amos had recently turned grandfather and his death is a huge loss to everyone who knew him.
Amos is ...

Aamir Khan's longtime assistant dies of heart attack

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Sudip Sharma says that through his upcoming Amazon original series "Paatal Lok", he has tried to understand the country better.
The neo-noir series, which Sharma has written and created, features actors Neeraj Kabi, Jaideep Ahlawat, Gul Panag, Swastika Mukherjee and Abhishek Bannerjee
Sharma said it was his endeavour to explore the multiple faultlines that runs across in the Indian society.
"It's always been on my agenda to try and understand this country better; and even in my forties, it continues to fascinate and yet disturb me. When you think about it, you realise there are multiple fault lines that run across the country; be it because of economy, class, rural and urban divide etc. - we can deny it, but they do exist," the creator said in a statement.
The series has been inspired by the ancient realms of Swargalok (heaven), Dharti Lok (earth), and Paatal Lok (netherworld).
The story is about a cop who lands the case of a lifetime when four suspects are nabbed in the assassination 

India continues to fascinate me, says 'Pataal Lok' creator Sudip Sharma

Several Bollywood celebrities, including Ayushmann Khurrana, Kajol, Dia Mirza and Madhuri Dixit, on Tuesday expressed their gratitude to the nursing community on International Nurses Day for working tirelessly amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Ayushmann said people should "salute" the nurses for being frontline warriors as he called them the "real heroes" of the battle against pandemic.
"We will be forever in debt to the nurses, the medical fraternity across India and the world for putting themselves on line and coming to work when they could also be staying safe with their families. I only want to say thank you to them and their families from the bottom of my heart," the actor said in a statement.
Kajol took to Twitter and said nurses as the heroes behind a mask, who are "saving the world in silence."
"Thank you to all those heroes, thank you to the nurses," she tweeted.
Madhuri said one should be grateful to the nurses who are working round-the-clock amid the pandemic.
"Along with all .

Bollywood celebs salute medical staff on International Nurses Day

Big ticket releases such as Amitabh Bachchan's Gulabo Sitabo may bypass theatres and premiere directly on digital platforms, being seen as a potential saviour for the film industry in a year marred by the COVID-19 pandemic and uncertainty over when cinemas will open.
Faced with the question of going direct to digital or waiting for theatres to open after the situation improves, many filmmakers and production houses are exploring the option of heading to streaming platforms, industry insiders said.
Shoojit Sircar's Amitabh-Ayushman Khurrana starrer Gulabo Sitabo, Anu Menon's eponymous biopic on math genius Shakuntala Devi, with Vidya Balan in the title role, as well as Chehre, another Amitabh film, are among the films likely to be released soon on a streaming platform.
"The deal of releasing 'Gulabo Sitabo', a quirky  comedy set in Lucknow, and 'Shakuntala Devi' on Amazon Prime Video has been locked. The official announcement for both the films is most likely to be made this week," a ..

Lockdown impact: Big ticket films likely to skip theatres and go direct to digital'

Indian American star Senthil Ramamurthy, who plays a charismatic but dead father to the lead in Mindy Kaling's "Never Have I Ever", says his daughter his mortified by his "hot dad" tag after the series aired.
Playing tennis loving Mohan, whose story unfolds through flashbacks and dream sequences, was gratifying for Ramamurthy.
"It's been overwhelming and totally surprising," Ramamurthy, 45, told Entertainment Tonight in an interview.
"I don't think anybody thought that it would have this kind of response... It's blown me away."
The actor said his daughter loves the show but she is euqally mortified by all the reaction on the internet about the Netflix show.
"That is not the reaction that I was really expecting at all. Literally, that is the last thing, not even the last thing that I would've thought, you know? This is the first time I've played a dad and I thought, 'This'll be really cool'.
"I have a 15-year-old daughter and I was like, this is awesome because I think she's really ...

Senthil Ramamurthy's daughter mortified with his 'hot dad' tag post 'Never Have I Ever'

British actor Rory Kinnear has revealed that his sister Karina has passed away after a brief battle with coronavirus.
In a column for The Guardian, the 44-year-old actor said that Karina died in a hospital after testing positive forCOVID-19 last week. She was 48.
Due to the social distancing guidelines, Kinnear said the family bid their goodbyes to her over FaceTime and the telephone.
"Iplayed Karina one of her favourite songs and told her how proud I was to have been her brother and what gratitude I felt for what she had taught me about life.
"We had wanted to be with her together as a family and, under lockdown conditions  and knowing my mother's strengths lie in areas other than navigating Zoom meetings  it was as good as we could have hoped," he added.
Kinnear said Karina battled health problems since her birth when she was left severely disabled after suffering a lack of oxygen that caused severe brain damage.
She became paralysed from the waist down aged 19 following a ...

Actor Rory Kinnear's sister dies from coronavirus

Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain's guitar that he played during the band's "MTV Unplugged" performance is set to be auctioned, with a starting estimate of USD 1 million.
The 1959 Martin D-18E featured in the group's performance in November 1993, five months before Cobain's death at the age of 27.  '
According to Rolling Stone, the guitar is the headline item for the Music Icons event to be hosted by Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills in June.
This important guitar has earned its rightful place in Rock 'N' Roll history as the instrument played by one of rock's most influential musicians and icons in one of the greatest and most memorable live performances of all time," said Darren Julien, President of Julien's Auctions.
The guitar comes with the original hard-shell case decorated by Cobain with a flyer from punk rock band Poison Idea's 1990 album Feel the Darkness'.
The guitar was previously owned by Cobain's daughter Frances Bean Cobain, who reportedly gave it up during an acrimonious ...

Kurt Cobain's 'MTV Unplugged' guitar to be auctioned

Actor Michael Madsen has opened up about his experience of working with Harvey Weinstein, revealing that the disgraced movie producer never wanted him to be a part of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino's films.
Madsen is one of the frequent collaborators of Tarantino, having worked with the filmmaker on movies such as "Reservoir Dogs", "Kill Bill" series and "The Hateful Eight".
Talking to The Independent, the 62-year-old actor said Tarantino fought with Weinstein whenever he was casting him in a movie.
"Harvey never liked me. I don't know if he ever liked anybody, but I know for a fact he didn't like me. He never wanted me in any of Quentin's movies. I think I'm only in them because Quentin stood up for me every single time and said I'm going to use Michael whether you like it or not," Madsen said.
"You think about people's dreams, you know, because Hollywood is a dream factory. The malevolence of it is the darkest part about it  taking advantage of somebody's dream. It's monstrous," he ...

Weinstein never wanted me in any of Quentin Tarantino's movies: Michael Madsen

Dan Harmon, creator of hit TV series Community, has teased that a movie based on the show can happen in future.
The series, which attained a cult status after its six seasons run between 2009 and 2015, followed an eclectic group of students at a community college.
In an interview with The Wrap, Harmon said the team is already discussing about the film and the team may share some details about the project in coming months.
I can tell people for sure that the enthusiasm for Community' both for all of this time and the resurgence of it (on Netflix), there's always an aspect of that (that) affects the marketplace. And when the marketplace gets affected, conversations happen. And when conversations happen, things happen," Harmon said.
"I mean, when you're part of the Community family, you learn never to raise expectations, keepem nice and low and then be pleasantly surprised. So I can say that there are conversations happening that people would want to be happening and that I'm very, very .

There are conversations about a Community' movie: creator Dan Harmon

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan on Tuesday said his iconic hit "Don" had evoked discouraging reactions from distributors who weren't happy with the title at the time of its release on May 12, 1978.
Directed by Chandra Barot and written by Salim-Javed, the 1978 film featuring Bachchan in a double rolethat of a mafioso and a simpleton went on to become a blockbuster with its racy music, iconic dialogues and pulsating action.
In his official blog, the actor recalled how many had confused the title with name of an undergarment brand.
"When Chandra and Salim-Javed announced the name of the film as 'Don', no distributor was willing to accept the title. They all thought it to be named after the Dawn underwear, a popular brand during those times. The film 'Godfather' was just making a mark in film circles. The word Don was unknown till then," Bachchan wrote.
The 77-year-old actor said the producer of "Don", Nariman Irani, who had also shot the film, tragically died in a freak accident much before ..

No distributor was willing to accept the title: Bachchan on 42 years of 'Don'

Filmmaker James Cameron is optimistic that his much-anticipated sequel to his 2009 blockbuster "Avatar" will not be delayed by the coronavirus pandemic.
The filmmaker is simultaneously working on multiple sequels to the film with the one first scheduled to release on December 17, 2021.
Cameron told Empire Magazine that the pandemic, which has halted several productions and delayed many films in its wake, has put a "major crimp in our stride".
"?I want to get back to work on 'Avatar', which right now we're not allowed to do under state emergency laws or rules. So it's all on hold right now. We wereabout to shoot down in New Zealand, so that got pushed. We're trying to get back to it as quick as we can," he said.
However, the 65-year-old filmmaker is confident that "Avatar 2" will arrive on time as things have improved so much in New Zealand.
"On the bright side, New Zealand seems to have been very effective in controlling the virus and their goal is not mitigation, but eradication, ...

James Cameron says 'Avatar 2' has 'good chance' of releasing on time

Actor Lara Dutta says the Hindi film industry is still male-driven and doesn't take women actors and producers seriously.
The actor said it has been over 15 years since she joined movies and the wide-ranging conversations around pay disparity and gender inclusivity have started only recently.
"Our industry has always been male-driven and male-dominated. There have been interesting conversations that have started in the last few years, including pay disparity, more inclusion.
"But as a woman I've faced (not being taken seriously) on many different levels: as an actor and especially as a producer," Lara told PTI.
The actor, who made her debut as a producer with "Chalo Dilli" in 2011, said people in showbiz don't invest their trust in women producers, specifically when it comes to the business aspect.
"No commercial actors were producing their own films when I started. That trend caught on later and today, you have a lot more turning producer, like Anushka (Sharma), Deepika ...

People in industry don't take women actor-turned-producers seriously, says Lara Dutta

Superstar Salman Khan on Tuesday released his latest romantic single "Tere Bina" featuring Jacqueline Fernandez while in quarantine at his Panvel farm house.
The actor, along with close family and friends from the industry, including Iulia Vantur, Waluscha De Sousa, is living in the farm house. This is the second song Salman has released amid the coronavirus pandemic, after "Pyaar Karona."
"About seven weeks ago, when we came to the farm, we didn't know we will be here under a lockdown. So we wanted to do things to keep ourselves busy. That's when we decided to do these songs. We launched 'Pyaar Karona' and now, we are launching 'Tere Bina'," Salman said in a statement.
The song, sung and directed by Salman, is composed by his friend Ajay Bhatia and written by Shab  bir Ahmed.
The actor said he had the song "Tere Bina" with him for quite a while but because it wasn't fitting into any of his film, he decided to release it now.
Jacqueline said she didn't think they would be able to ...

Salman launches second song in lockdown with Jacqueline

British actor Imelda Staunton says she feels "greatly honoured" to get an opportunity to play Queen Elizabeth II in Netflix series "The Crown".
The critically-acclaimed royal drama will conclude after its fifth season which will see Staunton replacing Oscar winner Olivia Colman as the eponymous monarch.
Talking with Entertainment Tonight, the 64-year-old actor said she has to live up to the standards set by her predecessors -- Colman and Claire Foy -- with the role.
"I'm greatly honoured. I don't want to let the air go out of the balloon and I really have to bring it home. I would love to do that for all the people who have gone before me," Staunton said.
Colman, who took over the part from Foy after the first two seasons, made her debut as the Royal Queen with the third season in November last year. She is set to appear in the show's upcoming fourth season.
Staunton is best known for playing Dolores Umbridge in the "Harry Potter" series. The actor has also appeared in movies such as .

Greatly honoured: Imelda Staunton on playing Queen Elizabeth in 'The Crown' S5

"Booksmart" star Noah Galvin has confirmed that he and actor Ben Platt are in a relationship.
Galvin shared the news on "Little Known Facts" podcast with Ilana Levine.
"I asked him this morning, I was like, 'Are we allowed to talk about this?'
"And he's like, 'Don't go into our nitty gritty, but yeah, people can know.' It's still relatively new," he said.
Galvin also said that he is in quarantine with Platt.
Interestingly, both the actors have played the title role in the Tony-winning musical, "Dear Evan Hansen".
About this, Galvin quipped, "I know it's so incestuous. But it makes sense sense, like, we all went through the war together. We all feel very connected.

Noah Galvin, Ben Platt are dating

Actor Elle Fanning says she wanted to work with her sister Dakota for a long time and is glad that it is finally happening with their upcoming film "The Nightingale".
To be directed by French star Melanie Laurent, the movie is based on author Kristin Hannah's 2015 novel of the same name.
The story focuses on two sisters coming-of-age in France on the eve of World War II and their struggle to survive and resist the German occupation of France.
In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Elle explained why she considers "The Nightingale" as her first film with Dakota. They previously featured in Sean Penn-starrer "I Am Sam" but did not share the screen space with each other.
"Technically, in'I Am Sam',I played her (Dakota) at a younger age, sowe weren't really acting together and I was so young, so yeah, this is the first," the 22-year-old actor said.
The "Maleficent" star said it was "exciting and special" to find a script that enabled them to star together.
"I have been looking for ...

Elle Fanning talks about working with sister Dakota in 'Nightingale"

Singer Bryan Adams shared an expletive-loaded rant on Instagram blaming wet market vendors for coronavirus pandemic, which led many on social to call the singer out for being racist.
Lamenting the cancellation of his concerts in the UK's Royal Albert Hall due to the lockdown, the 60-year-old singer said some f****** bat eating people are responsible for bringing the whole world to a grinding halt.
"Tonight was supposed to be the beginning of a tenancy of gigs at the Royal Albert Hall, but thanks to some f****** bat eating, wet market animal selling, virus making greedy b*******, the whole world is now on hold, not to mention the thousands that have suffered or died from this virus.
"My message to them other than thanks a fucking lot' is go vegan, Adams wrote on Instagram alongside a video of himself playing his 1983 hit Cuts Like a Knife" on a guitar.
The novel virus originated in China's Wuhan in December, and some early reports suggested that wet markets in the city were the ...

COVID-19: Bryan Adams blames bat eating' wet markets for putting world on hold

Director-producer Tim Story is in the final negotiations to helm Kevin Hart in the superhero comedy "Night Wolf".
The STX Films project reunites Story and Hart who earlier collaborated on the "Ride Along" and "Think Like a Man" film series.
According to Variety, the actor will also produce the film via his HartBeat Productions.
Described as a "Meet the Parents" kind of a story with a superhero twist, story follows a man meeting his future father-in-law for the first time only to discover he is secretly the superhero known as the Night Wolf.
Story has major studio feature films, including "Fantastic Four", "Fantastic Four: Rise of The Silver Surfer", "Barbershop" and the upcoming "Tom & Jerry", to his credit.
Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit of "Detective Pikachu" fame are on board as screenwriters for "Night Wolf".

Tim Story in talks to direct Kevin Hart-starrer 'Night Wolf'

The shooting of the much-anticipated "Friends" reunion special, which had been suspended indefinitely due to the coronavirus-led production shutdown, is expected to be completed by the end of the summer.
The one-off event for HBO Max was originally slated to be available on the WarnerMedia's upcoming streaming service on its May 27 launch.
WarnerMedia Entertainment and Direct-to-Consumer chairman Bob Greenblatt said they are hoping to get back to production soon.
"At first we thought, shows will be delayed for a month or two at the most, and now it seems like it's going to be far longer than that. We're holding out for being able to get this special done hopefully by the end of the summer, if the stars align and hopefully we can get back into production.
"We do think there's a value to having a big, raucous live audience to experience these six great friends coming back together and we didn't want to just suddenly do it on a web call with, you know, six squares and people shooting ...

'Friends' reunion special likely to film at end of summer

Hollywood star Cate Blanchett has joined the cast of James Gray's upcoming movie Armageddon Times and Adam McKay's next directorial venture, Netflix film Don't Look Up.
According to Variety, it is still unclear when the production on the projects will start.
Armageddon Times will be written and directed by Gray and produced by his Ad Astra partners RT Features.
The story focuses on Gray's own experiences as a student at the Kew-Forest School in Queens. The school's principal will be the central character.
McKay's Don't Look Up was announced in February. The films centres on two low-level astronomers who go on a media tour to warn mankind of an approaching asteroid that will destroy Earth. It also stars Jennifer Lawrence.
The project marks McKay's first film for a streaming platform.

Cate Blanchett boards Adam McKay and James Gray's upcoming projects

"Call Me Kat", a comedy featuring Mayim Bialik in the lead, has been handed out a series order at Fox.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the multicamera show will reunite the actor with Jim Parsons, her "The Big Bang Theory", who is attached as executive producer.
Based on creator Miranda Hart's BBC original series "Miranda", "Call Me Kat" will see Darlene Hunt serve as showrunner.
The new show will follow Kat (Bialik), a 39-year-old woman who struggles every day against her mother to prove that you cannot have everything you want and still be happy. That's why she spent the money her parents set aside for her wedding to open a cat cafe in Louisville, Kentucky.
The project, which was filming in Los Angeles at the time of the industry-wide production shutdown, is a co-production between Fox Entertainment and Warner Bros TV, where Parsons' production banner is based.
"Call Me Kat" also stars Swoosie Kurtz, Cheyenne Jackson, Leslie Jordan and Kyla Pratt.

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