With a career spanning over 30 years and having acted different shades of characters including dark and comic roles, or a common man struggling against the system, actor-director Pankaj Kapur believes he hasn't done enough and wants to explore more.
"There are millions of people in the world, I have only played a few of them. And I don't think I have done enough, I would like to explore more.
"So I look forward to doing many more characters, as long as I am fit and alive. I enjoy playing different kind of people," Kapur told PTI in an interview.
Be it the villainy personified Abba ji of "Maqbool", or the envious shopkeeper Nand Kishore Khatri of "The Blue Umbrella", for Kapur there are no favourite characters, only the wish to be known for the "sum total" of his work.
"All the characters I have played were difficult. There is nothing that comes easy. I don't have any single character that is my favourite because I would like to be known for the sum total of my work and not for an ...

I haven't done enough acting: Pankaj Kapur

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A long-standing fight over the legal rights to the Mrs India South Africa pageant has ended with a high court ruling that the current owners of the title had forged the signatures of the original creator.
Anusha Bisaal, who established the pageant in 2005 to give married, divorced and widowed women a chance at pageantry, initiated legal action against Annulutchmee Thaver and Deon Ganas, who had taken over the running of the pageant a few years ago.
After Bisaal discovered that the company she had originally registered to run the pageant, with herself and her husband Roshan as the owners, was transferred into Thaver's name, she decided to investigate the matter.
"It was proven by a handwriting expert that my company, Mrs India South Africa, was fraudulently transferred onto Thaver's name by means of copying and pasting my and my husband's signatures," Bisaal said, adding that she or her husband had never transferred their membership interests to Thaver or Ganas.
Bisaal had instructed a 

South African Mrs India Pageant fight ends with high court ruling

"Tigers Are Not Afraid" director Issa Lopez is helming a "werewolf-Western" film with Guillermo del Toro attached to produce.
Lopez has revealed she wrote the script for the new project, which is currently with the Oscar-winning director, who also became the "champion" of her recently released horror fantasy film.
"I have a movie with Guillermo del Toro, who not only became a champion of that movie but said, 'What are you going to do next? Let's do something!'
"I could not believe that. So, we're prepping a werewolf movie, a supernatural Western. It's a werewolf-Western. I'm super excited. He has the script, I wrote it, he loves it, and we're gearing up to make it," she told Entertainment Weekly.
Lopez added werewolf films have been far few in between with "An American Werewolf in London" as the big one, so it's time to revisit the narrative.
"It's about revisiting the essence of what it is, which is trying to contain the beast in you. It's as simple as that, and I think that's ...

Issa Lopez collaborating with Guillermo del Toro

Julianne Moore is set to star in upcoming memoir "Mothertrucker", to be directed by Jill Soloway.
"Transparent" creator Soloway will also adapt the book by Amy Butcher, which follows her friendship with Joy Mothertrucker (Moore), an Instagram celebrity and female ice road trucker.
Soloway will also produce along with Andrea Sperling through Topple Productions as will Moore.
The director said she is looking forward to working with Moore who is bringing her remarkable talent to the screen in the role of Joy.
"I'm honoured to tell this deeply resonant story about two women finding meaning and strength as they face an epic challenge in one of the most punishing and beautiful landscapes on the planet," said Soloway.
Soloway is also directing "Red Sonja" after she replaced Bryan Singer following multiple sexual assault and misconduct allegations against him.
The fifth and final season of "Transparent" starts streaming on Amazon next month.
Moore was last seen in arthouse hit "Gloria ...

Julianne Moore to feature in Jill Soloway-directed 'Mothertrucker'

Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone will head the jury of the upcoming Zurich Film Festival (ZFF).
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the filmmaker will chair the judging panel includes Colombian director Ciro Guerra, Italian director Laura Bispuri, German actor Sebastian Koch and Swiss producer Tiziana Soudani.
ZFF co-directors Nadja Schildknecht and Karl Spoerri said they are overjoyed to have Stone return to the festival.
"Stone has been a friend of our festival for 12 years now. He was recipient of the 'A Tribute to ...' award during our third year, and our first major Hollywood guest.
"He has also been an invaluable advocate for the ZFF in Los Angeles. We are doubly thrilled that he is doing us the honour of returning to the ZFF for our last year as its operations directors," said Schildknecht and Spoerri in a statement.
Stone will also present a restored version of his 1991 biopic "The Doors" and his documentary series "The Putin Interviews" at the 15th edition of the ...

Oliver Stone to lead Zurich Film Festival jury

"Peaky Blinders" star Sophie Rundle is set to star opposite actor Martin Compston in BBC One's new thriller show "The Nest".
Described as an "emotional thriller about love and money", the five-episode show attempts to explore the "price of being able to buy whatever you want".
Nicole Taylor, the writer of hit British drama "Three Girls", has penned the show.
Rundle and Compston play a wealthy couple, Emily and Dan who are crazy about each other and live in a huge house in a beautiful location just outside Glasgow. However, their lives are incomplete without a baby and they have been trying for years.
"Through a chance encounter they meet Kaya (Mirren Mack), an 18-year-old from the other side of the city, whose life is as precarious at theirs is comfortable.
"When Kaya agrees to carry their baby, it feels like they were meant to meet, but was it really by chance?" the show's official plotline on the BBC website read.
The series will also feature Shirley Henderson, Katie Leung, David ...

Sohpie Rundle, Martin Compston to lead BBC One's 'The Nest'

Janhvi Kapoor is set to headline "Gunjan Saxena - The Kargil Girl", a film based on the life of India's first Air Force woman officer who went to war, the makers announced Thursday.
Then a Flying Officer, Gunjan Saxena was the first woman combat aviator to fly into a war zone 20 years ago during Kargil War.
Presented by Zee Studios and Dharma Productions, the film is slated to be released on March 13, 2020.
Producer Karan Johar took to Twitter to make the announcement.
"She was told ladkiyan pilot nahin banti (girls don't become pilots), but she stood her ground & wanted to fly! Gunjan Saxena - #TheKargilGirl releasing on 13th March, 2020," Karan wrote.
Sharing two posters from the film, the filmmaker also tweeted, "With unabashed courage and bravery, she made her domain in a man's world"
The film also stars Pankaj Tripathi, Viineet Singh, Angad Bedi and Manav Vij.

Janhvi to star in Karan Johar's 'Gunjan Saxena - The Kargil Girl'

Naomi Harris is joining Jude Law in limited series "The Third Day".
The six-episode series is set on a mysterious island off the coast of Britain and revolves around Sam (Law) who encounters the island's secretive inhabitants and their strange rituals.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Harris will play another outsider who comes to the island seeking answers.
The show will be divided into two parts -- 'Summer', one half following Law's character and 'Winter', the other revolving around Harris.
Marc Munden will direct the 'Summer' episodes, while Philippa Lowthrope will helm the 'Winter' chapters.
Kit de Waal and Dean O'Loughlin are attached to write.
The drama is the latest original collaboration between HBO and Sky and comes after the critical success of "Chernobyl".

Naomie Harris on board 'The Third Day'

The University of Texas at Austin has appointed Hollywood star Matthew McConaughey as a professor of practice in the Department of Radio-Television-Film.
The 49-year-old actor will continue to teach the "Advanced Producing: Script to Screen" class at the Moody College of Communication he helped develop three years ago.
The official Twitter page of the Moody College of Communication shared the update on Wednesday.
"In recognition of his professional pedigree and personal investment in student success, Matthew McConaughey has been appointed a #TEXASMoody professor of practice.
"@McConaughey will continue to teach the #UTScriptoScreen class in @UTRTF," the tweet read.
The account also shared the Oscar winner's photograph with a class of students and faculty.
In a statement acquired by Complex, McConaughey, said he wished he would have had a chance to attend such a class when he was in film school.
"Working in the classroom with these students gives me a chance to prepare them. Making ...

Matthew McConaughey named professor at University of Texas

Sarah Hyland is joining hands with "Big Sick" co-writer Emily V Gordon for a comedy, in which the "Modern Family" star is also attached to feature.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the project is set at ABC with a put-pilot commitment, to be produced by 20th Century Fox TV.
The series will be a multicamera comedy based on the lives of Hyland and Gordon.
Both will serve as executive producer, with Gordon set to write.
Things will start rolling once the production on the final season of "Modern Family" is complete next year.
"This Is Us" showrunners Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger will also exec produce the untitled comedy.

Sarah Hyland, Emily V Gordon team for ABC comedy

Chin Han and Hiroyuki Sanada are set to star in the upcoming "Mortal Kombat" reboot.
According to Variety, Han is being tapped to play Shang Tsung, while Sanada is gearing to portray Scorpion.
The duo join Joe Taslim, Mehcad Brooks, Ludi Lin, Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Tadanobu Asano, Sisi Stringer and Lewis Tan.
Shang Tsung is one of the few original characters, who debuted in the first "Mortal Kombat" arcade game as the final boss.
A powerful evil warlock and shapeshifter, he is the arch-nemesis to Liu Kang (Lin). Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa played the Shang in the original film.
Whereas, Scorpion is another classic character from the game, who is an undead ninja warrior seeking revenge from the person who killed him.
The project is based on the classic 1990s arcade game that centred around a massive roster of character fighters from different realms in a fictional universe battling for supremacy.
The reboot is set to be helmed by first-time directed Simon McQuoid. Greg Russo penned the 

Chin Han, Hiroyuki Sanada join 'Mortal Kombat' film

A court here on Wednesday extended till September 9 the interim protection granted to Bollywood actor Aditya Pancholi in connection with a case of rape filed against him by an actress.
Pancholi moved the court seeking anticipatory bail after the suburban Versova police registered a First Information Report (FIR) against him on June 28.
The court granted him interim protection from arrest.
On Wednesday, a lawyer of the complainant woman told the court that her intervention application (opposing bail) was filed in the name of her sister by mistake, and they wanted to amend the application.
Additional sessions judge H B Gaikwad then adjourned the hearing to September 9.
The interim relief granted to Pancholi was also extended till then, said his laywer Prashant Patil.
Police have registered the FIR against 54-year-old Pancholi under sections 376 (rape), 328 (causing hurt by means of poison), 384 (extortion), 342 (wrongful confinement), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 506 (criminal ...

Court extends Aditya Pancholi's interim protection from arrest till Sept 9

The Film Federation of India, an  apex body of producers and distributors of the country, on  Wednesday said it will organise an awards programme in Dhaka  to boost the entertainment industry of India and Bangladesh.
The Federation also wants to extend help in  developing the film industry of Bangladesh and promote Indian  films there, the organisation president Firdausal Hasan said  on Wednesday.
"We want to create an environment where both countries  can do business. The first Bharat-Bangla Film Awards to be  held in Dhaka on October 21 is a step in that direction,"  Hasan told a press conference here.
Indian films, including Bengali releases, are very  popular in neighbouring countries like Bangladesh but do not  have proper release network, he said.
A jury committee, consisting of filmmaker Goutam  Ghosh, actor-minister Bratya Basu, actress Tanushree  Chakraborty apart from a producer and a journalist from here,  will select the Bengali films nominated for awards from here,  Hasan 

Film Federation of India to organise Bharat-Bangla Film Awards

The Maharashtra government on  Wednesday decided to grant exemption from the state Goods and  Services Tax (GST) to Bollywood film "Mission Mangal", which  is about the ISRO's successful 'Mangalyaan' mission.
The decision was taken at a meeting of the state  cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, here.
The film, starring Akshay Kumar and Vidya Balan among  others, is based on the scientists who contributed to India's  first interplanetary expedition, Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM),  launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation in 2013.
The film conveys a "positive message" about science  and to take the message further to common people, the state  government decided to exempt it from GST on tickets, an  official statement said.
In July, the Fadnavis government had exempted the  Hrithik Roshan-starrer "Super 30" from the state GST.

'Mission Mangal' gets GST exemption in Maharashtra

Sriram Raghavan's National Award-winning thriller "Andhadhun" is leading the nominations at the upcoming International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards, including best film and director.
IIFA on Wednesday announced its 11 Popular Category nominations for the 20th edition of the awards, being hosted for the first time in India.
According to a statement, the wacky crime-thriller-comedy has amassed 13 nominations, which also includes best actor male and female for Ayushmann Khurrana and Tabu.
Other films  which also got best picture and direction nods  include Sanjay Leela Bhansali's "Padmaavat" and Meghna Gulzar's "Raazi" with 10 nominations each, followed by Rajkumar Hirani's "Sanju" with seven nods and another National Award winner, Amit Sharma's "Badhaai Ho!" with six.
The nominees for best actor in a leading role (female) include Alia Bhatt for "Raazi", Deepika Padukone for "Padmaavat", Neena Gupta for "Badhaai Ho!" and Rani Mukerji for "Hichki".
Rajkummar Rao ("Stree"), Ranbir ...

'Andhadhun' leads IIFA nominations

Pakistan on Wednesday seized over 50 satellite receivers, dozen DTH and entire cable network of three networks in Punjab province as it intensified its crackdown against illegal Indian devices, the country's electronic media regulator said.
During the operation, illegal equipment has been impounded in just two weeks time, including C-Line Receivers, LNBs, Dish Antennas and other related equipment, thousands in numbers.
"We are successfully running our drive against Indian DTH (direct-to-home), C-Line Equipment, Indian Channels and Indian Content throughout the country.  During the crackdown on Wednesday over 50 satellite receivers, dozen DTH and entire cable network of three networks were seized in Sargodha district of Punjab province," says the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA).
It said during the current spell of crackdown against the Indian DTH and Indian Content, PEMRA regional enforcement teams have carried out operations in various cities across Pakistan, ...

PEMRA confiscates thousands of illegal Indian devices

Superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who has backed the upcoming Netflix India Original "Bard of Blood", says the team wanted to turn around the image of its lead star, Emraan Hashmi.
The seven-episode series, based on Bilal Siddiqi's bestselling book of the same name, features Emraan as an Indian intelligence agent.
"Initially, we were joking about how Emraan's image is going to turn a serial kisser to a serious kicker. Emraan is a tough guy.
"Kabir Anand's character is that of someone who is not in-your-face tough, but has a macho personality and works with his mind plus there is a physical ability of an action hero and I think that mix perfectly fits Emraan," Shah Rukh said in a statement.
The 53-year-old star believes Emraan is a wonderful actor and said he "likes his zone of being extremely underplayed easy when he does it".
Emraan underwent some rigorous training for the role of a spy who is on a hostage rescue mission.
He will be seen playing Kabir Anand  a man who knows the terrain and ..

Wanted to transform Emraan's image in 'Bard of Blood', says Shah Rukh Khan

The new album by rock band Bon Jovi is titled, "Bon Jovi: 2020", frontman Jon Bon Jovi has announced.
The rocker made the revelation on Tuesday on board the Runaway to Paradise Mediterranean Cruise, reported Variety.
"It's an election year, so why not? I couldn't do any worse," Bon Jovi said.
The singer also explained that he has a "clear vision" about naming the new LP after the release of the band's previous album -- 2016's "This House is Not For Sale".
"'This House is Not For Sale' dealt with personal matters, and now it's behind us. Now I have clear vision moving forward," he said.
Bon Jovi also said the album will focus on more "socially conscious" themes, including songs about veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the recent shootings in Ohio and Texas.
"I'm very happy with it. It's a different record," he said.

Bon Jovi reveals new LP's title

A 24-year-old Marathi actor-  director has been arrested by Pune Police for allegedly  sexually harassing a girl during a photo shoot.
Mandar Kulkarni, the accused, was arrested on August  23, said an official of the Deccan police station.
Kulkarni has acted in some commercial plays and  conducts theatre workshops.
He met the complainant girl, who is 17 years old, at  one such workshop, police said.
"Subsequently, Kulkarni called her to his apartment  on August 16, saying he wanted to cast her in a play. He gave  her some dresses to wear and clicked her pictures," said an  officer attached to Deccan police station.
He then allegedly handed her a bikini, and when the  girl expressed reservations, he showed her pictures of other  girls in that attire, the officer said.
The girl wore the bikini and he clicked some more  pictures. Later the girl told her mother about the incident,  and they approached police, the officer said.
A first information report (FIR) was registered under  section 

Actor arrested for 'sexual harassment' during photo shoot

Taika Waititi maybe heading to the DC Extended Universe, not as a director, but for a role in James Gunn's "The Suicide Squad".
According to Variety, the "Thor: Ragnarok" helmer is in negotiations to star in the follow-up to 2016's "Suicide Squad" set at Warner Bros.
The studio did not comment.
"The Suicide Squad", which is being branded as a relaunch, will be directed by "Guardians of the Galaxy" helmer James Gunn. Gunn has also penned the script.
The film also stars Nathan Fillion and Idris Elba, and will see Margot Robbie, Viola Davis, Jai Courtney and Joel Kinnaman return.
Waititi also played Korg in "Ragnarok" and reprised the role in this year's "Avengers: Endgame". He will also return to direct the fourth Thor film, "Thor: Love and Thunder".
He will next be seen in "Jojo Rabbit", a film about a young German boy (Roman Griffin), who finds out that his mother (Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a Jewish girl in their home.
Waititi, who plays the boy's imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, ..

Taika Waititi in talks to star in 'Suicide Squad' sequel

Netflix's award season hopeful "The Irishman" will have a limited theatrical release in the US, the streamer has announced.
Headlined by veterans of gangster movies -- Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci -- the movie is directed by Martin Scorsese.
The film's official Twitter handle on Wednesday posted that it will release in select theatres in the US on November 1. A few weeks later, the film will start streaming on Netflix.
"Would you like to be a part of this history? 'The Irishman', in theatres beginning November 1st and on Netflix November 27th," read the tweet.
"The Irishman" follows the story of Frank Sheeran (De Niro), a mob hitman and World War II veteran who develops his skills during his service in Italy.
"Now an old man, he reflects on the events that defined his career as a hitman, particularly the role he played in the disappearance of labour leader Jimmy Hoffa (Pacino), his longtime friend, and his involvement with the Bufalino crime family," reads the official ...

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