Eyecatchers of the week
There were many contenders for the 'Least Expected Indian Celeb at Cannes' honour this year. There was Pooja Batra and Jackky Bhagnani. But it was Balika Vadhu child star and Sasural Simar Ka actress Avika Gor who walked away with it.
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There were many contenders for the 'Least Expected Indian Celeb at Cannes' honour this year. There was Pooja Batra and Jackky Bhagnani. But it was Balika Vadhu child star and Sasural Simar Ka actress Avika Gor who walked away with it. At Cannes as creative director of the short, Ankahee Baatein, presented in the Short Film Corner, she also managed to catch Xavier Dolan's critically slammed but Grand Prix-winning movie It's Only the End of the World.
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Aditya Rawal, son of actors Paresh Rawal and Swaroop Sampat, is following the family into theatre. His play, The Queen, premieres off Broadway in New York in June. "With Aditya's playwright skills, the family is now complete," says Sampat, last seen in Ki & Ka.
Anil Kapoor has single-handedly taken on the taskof making TV-watching inIndia cool again. Even as the 60-year-old actor wraps upSeason 2 of 24, he hasbought the rights for another American action drama, Prison Break. In Kapoor we trust.
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Bond man Daniel Craig's India visit will include a charity football match with B-town boys like Ranbir Kapoor and, we hear, a chai pe charcha with PM Narendra Modi.
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From security guard to scriptwriter, and now with ex-boss's son, Raam Reddy, a National Award-winner and Locarno fest star for the Kannada film, Thithi, that's the story so far for Eregowda. Save the date, the film releases on June 3.
Ayushmann Khurrana has proved before he is not averse to playing the dorky hero (Dum Laga Ke Haisha). Now you'll see him in a photo wearing a Chaplin mooch for the forthcoming film, Meri Pyaari Bindu. It's all good, dude.