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Celebrity MasterChef: Tejasswi Prakash’s Total Earnings 433% Higher Than Thecha Queen Nikki Tamboli! ( Photo Credit – SonyLiv )

In a classic turn of events, Gaurav Khanna lifted the trophy of Celebrity MasterChef India, and Tejasswi Prakash, who was expected to win the show as per speculations, finished third! The second spot was claimed by Nikki Tamboli, the official Thecha Queen of the cooking reality show.

While Tejasswi could not win the trophy, she won a personal meeting with Chef Sanjeev Kapoor, who encouraged her to fulfill her dream of owning a restaurant and winning a Michelin star for the country!

Tejasswi Prakash’s Total Earnings Till Grand Finale

While earlier, it was reported that the actress was charging 3 lakh per week for the show, a Filmibeat report suggests that the former Bigg Boss winner earned as high as 8 lakh per week! This makes her total earnings from the show as high as 88 lakh.

Starring Kareena Kapoor Khan, Hansel Mehta’s The Buckingham Murders also sees celebrity chef Ranveer Brar in a pivotal role. In this special interview with Subhash K Jha, Brar talks, becoming an actor, working with Kareena, cooking Hansel Mehta and more.

Ranveer Brar can’t get over the experience of shooting with Kareena Kapoor Khan in Hansal Mehta’s The Buckingham Murders. “Sir, it is something else! I mean at first everyone scared me so much. So I was very intimidated at first, you know, in awe. And then, I think she has this very calming presence around her. She puts you at ease, she put me at ease. So after the first scene, I lost that intimidation. And then I settled in easily. Also, I learned a lot from her. I think the ability to switch on and off, the knack of how to compose yourself before a scene.

Filmmaker Hansal Mehta, who has directed ‘Shahid, ‘Aligarh and the runaway hit streaming series ‘Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story, is quite active on social media these days.

After sharing a video with celebrity chef Sanjeev Kapoor on the latters birthday, the director on Wednesday walked down memory lane as he shared throwback pictures from the sets of his first film ‘Jayate.

In the pictures, Hansal can be seen briefing his actors and being consumed by creative and technical processes. What makes the photos interesting is the classic 1990s rendering of the photos and Hansal sporting a beard and a moustache.

Taking to his Instagram, the director shared an array of pictures as he wrote in the caption, “Again centuries ago from the sets of my first film…Jayate”.

However, Hansal has only one regret and it’s about the habit of smoking which he picked up during his mid...

Filmmaker Hansal Mehta, who is known for directing ‘Aligarh’, ‘Shahid’ and the hit streaming series ‘Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story’, recently took to his Instagram and shared a post featuring celebrity chef Sanjeev Kapoor.

Hansal has directed the landmark Indian cooking show ‘Khana Khazana’ which featured the iconic chef simplifying the method of cooking for the masses back in the 1990s, and the ladies went gaga over the show more so, the memorable line by Sanjeev, “Bilkul wahi swad, jo mujhe bahut pasand hai (the same taste that I like)”.

On the occasion of Sanjeev’s birthday, Hansal uploaded a clip on his Instagram from a dinner meet-up at the chef’s place where the two men could be seen gorging on a delicacy and saying, “Bilkul wahi swad, jo mujhe bahut pasand hai”.

‘Khana Khazana’ is the show which changed the landscape of Indian television as it introduced...

Mumbai, Feb 5 (Ians) Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, who is known for films like ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’, ‘Gulaal’, ‘Ugly’ and several others, recently revealed that his friend and director Sudhir Mishra is very conscious about his health.

The filmmaker was talking to YouTuber Samdish Bhatia about his friend circle and the people he is close to.

The filmmaker said: “Sudhir ji hypochondriac hain. Wo abhi bhi mask laga ke baithate hain, kabhi kabhi toh 4 mask laga ke baithate hain. Aap ke saath baithenge toh bahut door baithenge.”

When asked what is it that they generally talk about, Anurag said: “We talk about everything under the sun but yes majority of the conversations are around food.”

He then shared that ‘Shahid’ director Hansal Mehta is a very good cook. While people majorly know Hansal as the director of ‘Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story’, he is also the one who directed the Indian...

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, who is known for films like ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’, ‘Gulaal’, ‘Ugly’ and several others, recently revealed that his friend and director Sudhir Mishra is very conscious about his health. The filmmaker was talking to YouTuber Samdish Bhatia about his friend circle and the people he is close to.

The filmmaker said: “Sudhir ji hypochondriac hain. Wo abhi bhi mask laga ke baithate hain, kabhi kabhi toh 4 mask laga ke baithate hain. Aap ke saath baithenge toh bahut door baithenge.”

When asked what is it that they generally talk about, Anurag said: “We talk about everything under the sun but yes majority of the conversations are around food.”

He then shared that ‘Shahid’ director Hansal Mehta is a very good cook. While people majorly know Hansal as the director of ‘Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story’, he is also the one who directed the Indian cooking show ‘Khana...

As the New Year knocks the door, it is time to welcome new shows, bid adieu to old ones, and enjoy the festivity on the sets of reality series.

If the cooking-based reality show ‘Master Chef India’ is all set to start bringing out some unique and special delicacies for food lovers, the quiz-based reality show ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ is going to enter its finale week. So, just scroll down to see what is there for you to watch in your favourite TV shows.

MasterChef India

Popular chefs Vikas Khanna, Ranveer Brar and Garima Arora are coming back as judges on the 7th season of the cooking reality show ‘MasterChef India’.

Based on ‘MasterChef Australia’, it started in India in 2010 and the first season was hosted by Akshay Kumar, Kunal Kapur, and Ajay Chopra. Apart from Hindi, the show also aired in different languages like Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam,...

Popular chef Vikas Khanna gets candid about his co-judge Garima Arora on the 7th season of cooking reality show ‘MasterChef India’. Ranveer Brar will also be seen among the panel of judges.

Vikas said very few women in the country have gained so much success as a chef like Garima and he also appreciated her creativity in cooking different varieties of food.

He said: “There are very few chefs and even more so very few women chefs who gain the kind of success that Garima has, which only goes to show that her hard work paid off. She was always one to believe in herself and pursue her dreams in earnest. For her, food is an art and so when she plates the food, she is showing the world a piece of herself and presenting to the world her inspiring creativity.”

Garima started her career with journalism and later pursued...

The cast of the upcoming six-part series ‘The Journey of India’ was revealed on Friday to mark India’s 75 years of Independence. In addition to Amitabh Bachchan serving as the show host and narrator, each episode will also feature a leading voice to showcase a key theme in India’s development as a nation.

Bollywood actress Kajol will walk the viewers down the lane of Bollywood’s captivating legacy against the backdrop of an actual film set in action. Telugu star Rana Daggubati, who is also a conservationist, will make the viewers acquainted with India’s successful initiatives in sustainability and conservation in tandem with Indian author and wildlife conservationist, Latika Nath.

Sharing his thoughts on the same, Daggubati said in a statement, “‘The Journey of India’ demonstrates the rich fruit of India’s collective hard work and sheer willpower borne for this nation. Adopting sustainability and becoming consciously aware as a nation is admirable,...

Popular chefs Vikas Khanna, Ranveer Brar and Garima Arora are coming back as judges on the 7th season of cooking reality show ‘MasterChef India’.

Based on ‘MasterChef Australia’, it started in India in 2010 and the first season was hosted by Akshay Kumar, Kunal Kapur and Ajay Chopra. Apart from Hindi, the show also aired in different languages like Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam and the past six seasons were judged by different master chefs including Vikas Khanna, Sanjeev Kapoor, Ranveer Brar, Zorawar Kalra and Vineet Bhatia.

As the new season is starting the judges talk about the changing cooking styles and Indian cuisine. They also spoke about the new season and expectations from the talents coming on the show.

Chef and restaurateur Vikas, who has hosted various cooking reality shows like ‘Twist of Taste’, ‘Throwdown! with Bobby Flay’ among others, said about judging the cooking talents on the show: “I...

Mesmerised by its natural beauty, Bollywood film producers, who are on a visit to Kashmir, on Friday expressed their desire to shoot their upcoming films in the Valley.

A 24-member delegation representing most of the big banners of Bollywood arrived here on Wednesday and visited Gulmarg on Thursday to explore locations for film shoots.

Speaking to the media here, the delegates said that Kashmir can easily be an international film shooting destination.

Popular film producer Aashish Singh, who has already shot movies like 'Jab Tak Hai Jaan' in Kashmir, said the Valley provides a perfect backdrop for the filmmakers and has the potential of becoming the shooting destination for the world.

"We have so much potential here for filmmaking that not only Bollywood, but filmmakers from around the globe can shoot here," Singh said.

He added that many filmmakers want to visit Kashmir and capture its breathtaking visuals.

Is it possible that the biggest competition facing social-media platforms such as Instagram comes from the influencers who use Instagram and other platforms?

That is, if I'm a big-name influencer, and I cut a sponsorship deal with a brand, I'm actually taking money away from the platform where that sponsored video runs. The brand could have just bought ads directly on the platform, but my sponsored video is probably better, probably cheaper, and connects directly with fans in a way that plain old advertising almost never does. Money that comes to me directly is money the platform never sees, and never gets to slice off a share.

What does that mean for the platforms? For one, the platforms have a major incentive to make sponsored posts less prominent, less visible, less lucrative, so that brands will advertise on them directly, and give the platform a cut of the action. And,...