Bollywood actress Swara Bhasker is one of those women who never shy away from talking their minds. The actress recalled her #MeToo experience when she revealed how a director harassed her at a workplace. Swara was present at a panel discussion on the life of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein at &PriveHD’s Prive Soiree where actors Dia Mirza and Anand Patwardhan were also part of the discussion.…

Stories of Karisma Kapoor’s remarriage doing the rounds on the internet are completely false. According to a close family friend of the Kapoors’, “Karisma is very happy being a single parent. She is completely taken up with bringing up her children. She is happy with her friendship with (businessman) Sandeep Toshniwal. But there is no marriage on the cards. Just because Karisma’s…

Actor Sidharth Malhotra, who has turned 34, says he has no plans to get married in the near future. In the past year, Bollywood actors like Sonam Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Priyanka Chopra, Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone tied the knot. When Sidharth, an eligible bachelor in the film industry, was asked if he has any plans to get married, he told the media here: “I don’t have any plans…

A Dhaka court granted permanent bail to actress Quazi Nawshaba Ahmed, who was behind the bars in a case filed under ICT Act on charge of spreading rumor during the road safety protests in Aug, 2018. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Didar Hossain passed the order after a hearing held by lawyer Imrul Kawsar on Tuesday (Jan 15). Besides, March 3 was fixed for submission of the investigation report.…

Farzana Chumki and Bonna Mirza, two very popular faces in the country’s showbiz, are going to feature in two different television commercials (TVC) for IFIC Bank. The duo has worked as models in the TVCs for the promotion of the bank’s ‘Amar Account’ under the direction of Syed Apon Ahsan. The shooting of both TVCs was completed recently at a shooting house in the capital’s…

Popular small screen actor Ziaul Faruq Apurba and lustrous model-actress Safa Kabir will be seen sharing screen together in an upcoming Valentine’s Day tele-drama titled ‘Tumi Bolley’. The tele-drama is directed by Mahmudur Rahman Himi. Interestingly, the story of this romantic tele-drama is written by Nazia Hasan Aditi, wife of actor Apurba. Here, Apurba has portrayed the character…

National Film Award winning actress Dilara Hanif Purnima has involved herself in a unique awareness campaign called ‘Chhorai Bhalobashar Ushnota’ launched by PRAN UP, a soft drink from the PRAN RFL Group. During the campaign from January 24 to 30, people will be asked to collect and deposit used bottles of PRAN UP in the winter booth located in 20 branches across the country. One can also…

Actor Arshad Warsi, who plays a conman in “Fraud Saiyaan”, says it’s exciting to play a character like that with a romantic streak. In the movie, Arshad plays the character of Bhola Prasad Tripathi who tricks a number of women into marrying him for their riches until one day he gets caught and falls into a fix. This is not the first time that the actor has essayed a conman on-screen.…

Busy in the acting industry, popular actor AKM Hasan has paired up with newbie actress Sushmita Sinha, also known as Konna of Shan’s ‘Konna Re’ song. The duo will be appearing in two drama serials, ‘Kisti Kader’ and ‘Dengu Naser’. Under the direction of Masud Karim Sujon and written by Pappu Raj, both the tele-dramas have been produced by Daar Kaak media.…

From Dhallywood star Siam Ahmed to American singer-songwriter Miley Cyrus, the year 2018 saw a good number of celebrities hitting the wedding bell worldwide. With 2018 now ending, Banglanews offers you to sneak peek into the local celebrity wedding once again! Iresh Zaker Power couple Aly Zaker-Sara Zaker’s son Iresh Zaker tied the knot with his longtime girlfriend Mim Rashid in early 2018.…

Amid all sorts of misinformation about Kader Khan’s funeral being tossed in sections of the media, his son Sarfaraz on Thursday clarified that Khan was laid to rest on Wednesday. “My father was laid to rest on Wednesday at the Meadowvale Cemetery in Mississauga (Canada). It was attended by us — his family of three sons, relatives and fans who got to know of his passing,” said…

The three-day-long ‘Bangla Utshab 2019’ is scheduled to kick off today at the Nazrul Mancha in south Kolkata, India. The theme of the festival is ‘Dui Bangla: Seemana Bhule, Ek Sur-e’. Attending the festival, eminent singers Fahmida Nabi and Bappa Mazumder from Bangladesh will be performing together for the first time in Kolkata. DhakaLive has news that Bappa Mazumder is currently…

Actor Rani Mukerji recently found herself in a tricky situation when her comments on the #MeToo movement did not go down well with the moviegoers. The Hichki actor had expressed herself at the actresses’ round table conference hosted by film critic Rajeev Masand and was trolled on the social media for the same. She had said, “I think as a woman you have to be that powerful within yourself,…