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New movie alert! Prime Video has announced the start of filming for the action-drama original movie, Subedaar. Led by the legendary Anil Kapoor in the titular role, Subedaar also features Radhikka Madan in a key role of his daughter Shyama, along with an exciting ensemble cast. The acclaimed director of Jalsa and Tumhari Sulu, Suresh Triveni, directs this adrenaline-fueled action-drama.

Set in the Indian heartland, the powerful action drama follows Subedaar Arjun Maurya as he grapples with the challenges of leading a civilian life, navigates a strained relationship with his daughter and confronts societal dysfunction. Once a soldier who fought for the nation, Subedaar must now battle enemies within, to protect his home and family.

Directed by Suresh Triveni, Original movie Subedaar, is produced by Vikram Malhotra, Anil Kapoor and Suresh Triveni and is written by Suresh Triveni and Prajwal Chandrashekar, with dialogues by Suresh Triveni and Saurabh Dwivedi.

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Whether you like him or hate him, you can’t ignore M. Night Shyamalan. Yeah, it’s certainly a cliched thing to say, but wouldn’t you agree that this man is a force of nature? Naturally, everything he does, good or bad, automatically becomes an event. Of course, his bad outweighs the good in recent times, but his latest, Trap, did seem like a winner ever since the trailer dropped. The whole premise of a concert masquerading as a trap for a serial killer is cool as hell, even if it sounds quite ludicrous. Shyamalan is famous for coming up with ideas like this, and in Trap, he has almost pulled it off. The first half is so good that it almost makes you forget all the terrible things he’s been putting out for the past decade or so. But then the inevitable happens, and we end up in Shyama-land,...

New Delhi, June 19 (Ians) The Board of Control for Cricket in India (Bcci) announced on Monday that Shyama Dey Shaw and V.S. Thilak Naidu have been appointed to fill the position of one vacant selector in the Senior Women’s Selection Committee and Junior Cricket Committee, respectively.

In its statement, the Bcci said its Cricket Advisory Committee (Cac), comprising Sulakshana Naik, Ashok Malhotra, and Jatin Paranjape, screened applications for the vacant position in the respective committees after advertising for the same in January this year and have unanimously recommended Shyama and Naidu for the said positions.

Shyama, a left-handed batter and medium-pace bowler, represented India in three Tests and five One-Day Internationals. She first represented Bengal in domestic cricket from 1985 to 1997 and then Railways from 1998 to 2002.

Following her playing career, she served as a Bengal selector for two terms. She will replace fellow Bengal player Mithu Mukherjee, also a former India cricketer,...

Goa, Feb 27 (Ians) As many as four Indian pairs qualified for the main draw of the men’s and women’s doubles in the World Table Tennis (Wtt) Star Contender Goa, being played at the Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Indoor stadium, here on Monday.

Suhana Saini and Yashaswini Ghorpade and Poymantee Baisya and Anannya Basak, were the two pairs who made it in the women’s doubles. In the men’s doubles Manush Shah and Snehit Suravajulla made it through to the round of 16 along with lucky losers Jeet Chandra and Ronit Bhanja.

Four mixed doubles pairs had already made the main draw in the morning session of day one of the two-day qualifiers. Day two on Tuesday, will see a fight for eight spots each in the men’s and women’s singles at the tournament hosted by Stupa Sports Analytics.

Among Indians who won their round one men...

The 53rd edition of the International Film Festival of India, Iffi, got off to a rousing start on Sunday, November 20, at the Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Indoor Stadium in Goa. The Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Youth Affairs and Sports, Anurag Singh Thakur, inaugurated the annual festival in the presence of L Murugan, Minister of States, in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Pramod Sawant, the Chief Minister of Goa, Governor P. S. Sreedharan Pillai and Secretary of Information and Broadcasting, Apurva Chandra. Iffi continues till November 28.

The opening ceremony followed by the screening of opening film Alma & Oskar at Inox theatre, saw a houseful of audiences at Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee auditorium.

With its philosophy of ‘Vasudhaiva Kitumbakam’ (The World is One Family), the annual film fest has been easing boundaries in art and cinema. Speaking on occasion, I & B Minister, Anurag Singh Thakur, asserted, “Iffi presents unique opportunities...

From a prominent family of actors, he initially considered a career in science before following his father and elder brother into the film industry, but faced a tough time with his first 18 films tanking. It was then he reinvented himself to portray a new brand of hero, inspired by both James Dean and Elvis Presley.

In the process, Shammi Kapoor not only laid the way for a host of dancing male leads, from Joy Mukherjee and Jeetendra in his own heyday, and then, down the decades, Rajesh Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan, Mithun Chakraborty, Govinda, Shah Rukh Khan, and his own great nephew Ranbir Kapoor, but also transformed the very paradigm of the Hindi film hero, and in a way, Hindi films.

Gone was the silent, soft-spoken, upright hero – the meek one like his own elder brother Raj Kapoor, or the brooding one like Dilip Kumar – to be supplanted by a flamboyant,...

Actress Sadaa, who has been part of several blockbuster films in Tamil and Telugu, has now also turned into an avid wildlife photographer.

The actress, who has played the female lead in several blockbusters including Vikram-starrer ‘Anniyan’, ‘Unnale Unnale’ and ‘Jayam’, recently put out on Instagram, pictures of a black panther she had shot in Pench, Madhya Pradesh.

Posting her pictures of the panther called Shyama, the actress said, “She is young, she is bold, she is curious and playful, none other than the young beauty of Pench, Shyama, who’s taken the wildlife enthusiasts’ world by storm.

“She was seen an evening before I reached Pench last time on August 12. Just a couple of days after I finished my trip of four dry safaris and headed back home, she was sighted again.

“I fell in love almost instantly seeing her images. I have always had a softer corner for black cats,...

New Delhi, March 10 (Ians) The Swimming Federation of India (Sfi) has cancelled the upcoming Senior National Championship, which was to start on March 24 in Rajkot, after several states expressed their inability to send teams, said Sfi secretary general Monal Chokshi on Wednesday.

"State units in northern India as well as those from the North East have complained that swimming facilities were yet to open. Therefore, we have decided to cancel the national competition," Chokshi told Ians

The three-day national competition was to be held from March 24-27.

"Rising Covid-19 cases in some of the states is another reason for the postponement of the Rajkot competition. There has been night crew in some parts of Maharashtra while bordering states like Madhya Pradesh are taking precautionary measures to avoid the spread of new coronavirus cases," said a senior coach from Delhi.

According to Chokshi, the Rajkot national meet was part of the...

MollywoodSharing the photo, he wrote, “Rockin some curls!”Digital NativeDulquer Salmaan, one of the hottest stars in the film industry, set the internet on fire by posting a few selfies with his latest hairstyle. The star posted a picture of his look with long curly locks and a beard and the picture has now gone viral among his fans. While captioning it he wrote, “Rockin some curls!” he put out the hashtags: “#nonfilmpost #afterages #lockdownhair #imacaveman.” While Dulquer’s fans are raving about his new look, actor Vikram Prabhu commented, "I was hoping for one with ponytails by Maryam! Next post!." Recently, Dulquer’s father and Malayalam megastar Mammootty had also shared pictures of his workout with the caption: “Work at Home! Work from Home! Home Work ! No other Work So Work Out !” and this too went viral among his fans. View this post on Instagram Rockin some curls ! #nonfilmpost...

Movie ReviewShamzu Zayba’s film tells the story of Ashokan, a short, dark man with a complex, who is hoping for a woman in his life.CrisA wedding, the bedroom decorated for the first night, a song followed by another and then a dream from which a man wakes up. The first few minutes of Maniyarayile Ashokan brings memories of tiresome sequences from past movies, but luckily someone changes the gear and the movie moves on to newer, likeable territory. Not an entirely untested one. Ashokan, played endearingly by Jacob Gregory, is your short, dark man with a complex, who is hoping for a woman in his life. He looks longingly at newly-weds in an it-could-have-been-me manner, and dreams all too often of weddings and twin children. The premise, at the onset, might remind you of Sreenivasan and his famous character Thalathil Dineshan of Vadakkunokki Yanthram. But Ashokan is not a suspicious man.

MollywoodStarring Jacob Gregory and Anupama Parameswaran in the lead, the film is produced by Dulquer Salmaan’s Wayfarer Films.Digital NativeCalling the upcoming Onam festival an exciting one, actor turned producer Dulquer Salmaan released a new poster of Maniyarayile Ashokan, which he is producing along with Gregory, on Wednesday. The film is all set to release on August 31 on Ott platform Netflix. Sharing the poster which shows lead actor Jacob Gregory in a romantic mood, Dulquer Salmaan tweeted: “It is going to be an exciting #Thiruvonam for us at Wayfarer Films as #ManiyarayileAsokan is being released on @NetflixIndia on Monday August 31st. The film is special for a number of reasons and I am super proud of the team that put together this sweet quirky love story.” It is going to be an exciting #Thiruvonam for us at Wayfarer Films as #ManiyarayileAsokan is being released on @NetflixIndia on Monday August 31st.

Ol’ Matt McConaughey gets caught up in a bizarre love triangle involving a fishing boat, Keanu Reeves is a scientist tampering with dark forces beyond mortal control, there’s a new blockbuster based on a popular recreational past time — it can only mean one thing. It’s January at the movies, people! Studios tend to treat the first month of the year as a lull in which they can dispose of their least-profitable properties, and this time-honored tradition is surely still in effect in 2019. But a few pleasant surprises often lurk in this no-man’s-land,...