'The government should immediately enact an Act to make caste discrimination a criminal offence and lay down a procedure similar to that of the Anti-Ragging Act.' 'Ragging has nearly been eliminated because it is treated as a criminal offence.' 'Similar procedure should be used in case of caste discrimination.'
Alia Bhatt shared posters of her upcoming film, Gangubai Kathiawadi, on social media. It is based on S Hussain Zaidi's book on female gangsters, Mafia Queens of Mumbai, and the story revolves around the real life story of brothel owner, Gangubai Kothewali.
Social media allowed them to connect even more directly with potential clients, and gave them multiple new marketing and outreach channels, explains Devangshu Datta.
The service includes a doll, a double bed, some condoms and lube.
For the first time ever, Alia has scored a Rs 100 crore+ weekend opener, which takes her straight to the superstar league.
Where the larger-than-life villain hogged the show by hurting the hero or throwing hurdles in his path, the role of his female counterpart has evolved from seductive sidekick to she-devil.
Besides their terrific acting talent, of course!
First our knight had to fight the girl's pimps and manager to rescue her. When he did, the cops sent the girl to an NGO saying she was a minor and could not marry of her own will. Then the girl's relatives surfaced from somewhere claiming she cannot marry him because he is a Hindu and she a Muslim
Atique Ahmed is one of the most feared dons of Uttar Pradesh today. There was another don who preceded Atique and had he survived, Atique wouldn't have been around today, recalls Sudhir Bisht.
'There's no point making grand plans all our lives when life itself is so fragile.'
Alia Bhatt and Sanjay Leela Bhansali together could be fire and ice in Gangubai Kathiawadi, feels Moumita Bhattacharjee.
On her 72nd birthday on September 18, Sukanya Verma gives three cheers to the legend and lists 20 of her stellar performances.
'I've spoken to Gangubai's soul.' 'I've had long conversations with her in my mind.' 'I understood her suffering, anger, joys and sorrow.' 'I had to connect to the soul of this amazing woman.' 'I think I did.'
'I knew that since I would be designing for Sanjay Leela Bhansali's film, the aesthetics would have to be correct.' 'He doesn't show poverty in his films.' 'He won't show someone standing on the streets in phate hue kapde.'
'It will be very tough to create an audience for such films after the lockdown ends.'
The actress plays the role of a brothel madam in her latest film Love Ranch, which is directed and produced by her husband, Taylor Hackford.
When a trial for a murder is going on -- with no end in sight -- more than ten years after the crime took place, it will not feel like the murder happened yesterday.
White is pure. White is powerful. And our movies just love to channelise its immaculate energy and enhance a visual's impact.
Wading through the long list of biopics coming up, Subhash K Jha picks the ones likely to make a mark.
Gentle, fiery, magnanimous or disadvantaged, there are many faces of the Bhansali heroine. Sukanya Verma looks at every single one.
Researchers including those from Yale School of Medicine in the United States, said closing down these places of sex work may reduce projected COVID-19 death toll increase in India by 63 per cent post the easing of lockdown measures.
'The idea was to show the simultaneity and coexistence of life in the city.'
Meet the women of Begum Jaan.
Satyajit Ray would have been a hundred years old on May 2. To mark the legendary film-maker's birth centenary, Rediff.com bring you a treasure trove of features from our archives.
'Khaali Peeli has the wits of a kindergarten school play,' sighs Sukanya Verma.
The court refused to pay for a lonely, unemployed man's visits to brothels and purchase of pornographic material.
A round-up of off-beat stories from around the world
Fighting sex trafficking and forced labour became Police Commissioner Mahesh Bhagwat's life mission. The winner of the US State Department's 2017 Trafficking in Persons Report Heroes Award speaks to Rediff.com
There are several women-centric movies set to release post lockdown, and most of them are quite quirky.
Here are some other crazy, questionable ways Bollywood tries to make its villains all kinds of strange.
The Dark Lady who inspired some of William Shakespeare's romantic sonnets may have had a rather unladylike profession, as experts suggest that she may have been a notorious prostitute called 'Lucy Negro' or 'Black Luce,' who ran a brothel in Clerkenwell, London
'I told the lady I was two months pregnant, but that did not seem to bother her.' A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com visits the infamous cages of Mumbai's oldest red light district, Kamathipura, to find out how human trafficking has given India the awful reputation of the nation with the highest slavery rates in the world.
'Love Sonia is a motion picture with the ambitions of a novel.' 'When I walked out of Love Sonia this Monday night, I walked out with a hushed audience that seemed too overcome by the raw power of the film to even pause for applause,' notes Sreehari Nair.
Two talented Indian designers showcased their collections at the ongoing London Fashion Week 2017.
ISI chief Faiz Hameed coerced the Taliban to announce an interim government guaranteed to preserve Pakistan's control over the levers of power in Kabul, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
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