Randhir Kapoor says he likes to watch sex comedies, but is not open to that genre as an actor.

Asked if he would like to be associated with a sex comedy like "Grand Masti", he said: "No, I wouldn't. I like to see them, but I won't like to do a film like that. I prefer films like 'Super Nani' because I can connect with it."

The veteran actor also shared about his experience of working with the forthcoming film's director Indra Kumar, popular for films like "Dil", "Ishq" and "Grand Masti".

"Well, I connect Indu with 'Beta' and 'Dil' even though he went into different films after that. 'Super Nani' is a family entertainer. I am happy working with Indu because the role is good and so is the money," said the actor.

The film also features Rekha and Sharman Joshi.

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who has been given the tag of 'Shahenshah' of Bollywood by his fans from across the globe, is humbled by the love and respect he received, but says stars are just human, "not some divinity ... we seek humaneness".

The 72-year-old took to his blog srbachchan.tumblr.com Friday to talk about celebrity deification where he also ponders "why this does occur".

"The love respect and affection that comes, comes without any incursion from other quarters ... I am embarrassed and lulled into thought, why this does occur ... and am needing to think that even if I desired an answer I would never get one ...

"Answer or no ... it is the deifying that is getting uncomfortable! The worth that they seek is invisible, unknown and certainly unattainable ... this they must be given in somewhat large doses of capital tabulation," he wrote.

"But the tragedy is that one refusal or acceptance gives rise to an extent which is even greater than before.

"Better to accept then that it is undeserving and not worthy of any attention .. let them that do, figure its irrelevance and misdeed ... I am but a tool that can be used and missed ... used would suit me fine, given my not so attractive credentials ... missed because the smell of the fresh flowers can never be...

"And so we exist … and so we perish … much like most others ... We are human, not some divinity ... we seek humaneness," posted the 72-year-old who stays connected with his fans via blog and Twitter, where he amassed 11 million followers.

Meanwhile he has wrapped up shooting for "Shamitabh" and is currently busy with his upcoming movie "Do".

“Gour Hari Dastaan - The Freedom File” is poet, novelist and journalist C. P. Surendran’s first shot as a screenplay writer. He says that the biopic is different because "it is biography of an unknown Indian".

In recent times, biopics on sports stars like Milkha Singh and Mary Kom rocked the box office.

"Biopics are difficult to make. What is crucial conflict point, you have to get into that. There has to be a central struggle around which you can spin the story. 'Gour...' is a biopic with a difference because it is biography of an unknown Indian," Surendran told IANS on phone from Mumbai.

Directed by Ananth Mahadevan, the movie is based on the life of Odia freedom fighter Gour Hari Das and is made on a budget of approximately Rs.6 crore.

“This is my debut screenplay. The theme they gave me was of freedom fight and I didn’t like it. So, initially I declined the offer," Surendran told IANS on phone from Mumbai.

"After sometime, they approached me again with a file of documents. And Ananth said let’s meet Gour," he added.

Vinay Pathak will be seen as the freedom fighter, while Konkona Sen Sharma plays his wife. The cast also features Ranvir Shorey and Divya Dutta.

To ensure that audiences don’t get bored, the film which shows Gour's struggle in two phases -- one against the Britishers and the other against the Indian bureaucracy - has a contemporary touch to it.

“It is an old fight in new tones...My media experience has gone into making the film. The movie also includes issues like women’s rights, man-woman relationship, my personal experience of a son to my father...all have figured in the screenplay,” he said.

Biopics are the current flavour of the season, but Surendran says the success of such movies depends on a lot of factors such as budget, publicity and the importance of the person on whom the film is based.

“Milkha is an icon himself... In 'Bhaag...' you have so many special effects. There is repetitive slow motion too. Huge amount of money went into it. And they made the biopic of an accepted hero,” he said.

And the biopic that he worked on has no such ingredient.

Though it is yet to hit the screens, the movie seems to be on the right track as it has already been selected for the upcoming International Film Festival of India and the International Film Festival of Kerala.

The makers are looking at an early 2015 release.

Subhash Ghai’s film production company Mukta Arts completed 36 years Friday and the filmmaker is happy that he has been able to offer entertainers like “Karz” and “Pardes” to movie buffs.

“36th anniversary today (Friday) of MUKTA arts produced 41 films with 15 films directed by me going still strong. My gratitude to all In mukta years,” Ghai tweeted.

Mukta Arts produced its first film “Karz”, starring Rishi Kapoor, in 1978 and after that came out with "a big range of movies" - "Hero", "Karma", "Khalnayak", "Pardes", "Taal", "Yaadein", "Iqbal", "Joggers' Park", and "Aitraz".

“Mahurat of every movie by MUKTA arts took place on 24 oct only, which happened to be a day when I got married with Mukta Rehana. Blessed,” he added.

Ghai tasted huge success, but his recent projects like "Yuvvraaj" and "Kaanchi" failed to click with the audience.

There are quite a few stories about new friendships blossoming or relationship turning sour in Bollywood every now and then. Singer Mohit Chauhan, who dedicated his new song "Aisee waisee dosti nahin" to friendship, feels such bonding is "not the real deal" in showbiz.

"Friendship formed in the glamour industry comes with mutual benefits, which is nice, but it is not the real deal," Mohit told IANS over phone from Mumbai.

"It is a kind of professional friendship to a certain extent," he added.

So what's the dealmaker for him?

"The real deal is when you are friends with someone said since ninth standard or college days. The person who has been with you through your struggle and stayed with you through thick and thin," said the 48-year-old singer.

The "Masakali" singer feels lucky to be still in touch with his special friends from school and college.

"There are so many memories. I grew up in Himachal Pradesh and still have school as well as my college friends there. In fact, I went for a concert in Kullu recently and some of my old friends drove down to meet me there.

"The get-together was amazing... we shared old memories again. That kind of feeling is priceless," he said.

Part of a short film "#No1 Yaari", directed by Anupam Mishra, the song "Aisee waisee..." captures the soul and essence of friendship.

He says that the song is "dedicated to friendship where agenda, profit or fame do not play any role."

"It's about a relationship, which we form over a time period starting from our childhood. For me, it is about people who I met during my journey towards success," he said.

He definitely relived the memories while singing the song composed by Rajeev Bhalla.

"The makers have shoot the song's video in Himachal, which brought back all the memories of the time gone by. I was watching the video while singing and felt nostalgic," he said.

The singer was a part of the band Silk Route and became a known name in the music industry after his hit song "Dooba dooba".

He is balancing both - songs for films and for his new collection of songs.

"I am singing several songs for films and I am also working on my songs as well. But I am not sure that whether I will release them as a part of my second solo album or as singles," he said.

Mohit, who has given several soul stirring songs like "Tum se hi" and "Sadda haq", is taking inspiration from life and everything around him for his new collection of songs.

While young fans of legendary singer Manna Dey took to social networking sites to commemorate his first death anniversary Friday, a Kolkata-based gramophone record collector paid tribute to the artist by tuning into a priceless prayer song sung by Dey and written by Mahatma Gandhi.

Manna Dey died in Bangalore Oct 24 last year following prolonged illness. He was 94.

Collector Susanta Kumar Chatterjee witnessed Dey perform live at his college function in the 1970s. He later met the great singer at his residence.

But little did he know that down the decades he would be an audience to a truly rare piece of music and history.

"The CD of the record 'He Namrata Ke Samrat' (Lord of Humility) was given to me by music collector Suresh Chandvankar, secretary of the Society of Indian Record Collectors.

"Gandhiji is credited as the lyricist (in the 1930s) and it was set to tune by music composer Vasant Desai in 1969 for a special record as part of the Maharashtra government's celebrations to mark Gandhi's birth centenary," Chatterjee told IANS.

It credits Manna Dey and Chorus' as the artist, said Chatterjee. It was not released publicly on a large scale by The Gramophone Company of India Ltd.

"Today (Friday), I am listening to that record and this is my way of paying tribute to Dey," Chatterjee said.

While Chatterjee travelled back in time through the record, regulars at Kolkata's famed intellectual hub, the Coffee House on College Street, were overcome with nostalgia at the sight of the freshly-garlanded portrait of the singer.

Thirty years back, Dey recorded the iconic "Coffee Houser sei addata aaj ar nei" (The chat sessions at the Coffee House have faded away) capturing the 'golden late afternoons' spent by seven friends at the joint and the successes, frustrations, tragedies and disappointments that they experienced in their later lives.

Thousands of others shared songs and videos on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook to express their love for the artist.

From creating playlists of his hits (including some of his Marathi songs) to participating in opinion polls, music buffs relived Dey's hypnotic voice.

Meena Meenaxi tweeted. "My fvrt singer Manna Dey ji Death Anniversary (sic)."

The versatile genius is said to have sung over 3,500 songs in various languages including Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Assamese and Bhojpuri.

From the 1950s to the 1970s, Dey was one of the most sought after singers.

His songs like "Laaga chunri mein daag, "Ae mere pyare watan", "Zindagi kaisi hai paheli" and the iconic Bengali classic "Coffee Houser shei addata aaj aar nei" have survived the onslaught of modern genres.

The 8th edition of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival (ADFF) began at the Emirates Palace here.

The film festival, which started Thursday evening, will continue until Nov 1 with plans to screen 194 films from 61 countries, including nine feature-length world premieres.

Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, the United Arab Emirates' minister for culture, youth and community development, attended the opening ceremony.

The film festival started with a domestic film, showing Ali Mustafa’s film “From A To B” in the slot usually reserved for big budget Hollywood films. Ali Mustafa’s film is the first Emirati feature to open the festival in its near-decade of operation.

For festival director Ali Al Jabri, Thursday night was only the beginning. "It’s not so much change, as it is trying to bring something new. This year, what’s new is opening with an Emirati film," he said.

Attending the festival were Sheikh Shakhbout bin Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Nora Al Kaabi, CEO of the Abu Dhabi Media Free Zone 'Twofour 54', the granddaughter of film legend Charlie Chaplin, Carmen Chaplin, and other stars of the cinema.

French-Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb and American producer Edward Pressman were presented with the ADFF’s Career Achievement Awards during the opening ceremony.

Veteran actor Randhir Kapoor, who is playing a grandpa in his forthcoming film "Super Naani", says that he is thinking of directing a film next year.

"Direction is on my mind and I would direct a film next year. I don't want to reveal anything in advance," the 67-year-old, who has earlier directed films including "Henna", "Dharam Karam" and "Kal Aaj Aur Kal", told reporters in a group interview.

The veteran actor also says that he is thinking of providing great films thrugh their famour banner R.K Studio in days to come.

The banner has produced some of the classic films of all time.

"We have to grow by making great films from this studio but I am extremely sorry that for last few years we have not been making films. I assure that you we will provide you will some great films in future," said the actor.

Directed by Indra Kumar, "Super Naani", also featurs evergreeen diva Rekha, Sharman Joshi and Shweta Kumar. The film is coming out Oct 31.

Talking about the film, the veteran actor says after a long time he has come across a good script.

"After a longtime, I have liked a script. It's a wholesome family entertainer. It's a clean family drama and I hope that the audience will also like it," he said.

"One will take away an important message form this film and youngsters should learn a lot form this film." he added.

From Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia's flute recitals, the Sabri Brothers' souldful Sufi music and qawwali's to performances by Bollywood singers like Sukhvinder Singh, Rekha Bharadwaj and Ankit Tiwari, an eclectic mix of tradition and modernity will be witnessed at the forthcoming Lucknow Mahotsava.

The fortnight-long annual cultural bonanza will begin November 25, officials said Saturday.

Titled "Shan-e-Awadh, Jashn-e-Lucknow", the event will start with a performance by Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt's 'mohan veena' followed by singer Ankit Tiwari who will perform at the event.

Also efforts have been made to ensure that one enjoy the "right mix" of the traditional and modernity at the event.

One will also see the performance of Bollywood singers like Sukhvinder Singh, Rekha Bharadwaj and Ankit Tiwari apart from act of ghazal maestro Bhupender Singh and his singer wife Mitali Singh.

Sabri Brothers will also perform at the Lucknow Mahotsava Nov 29 while the rock band Euophoria would be performing Dec 2. BJP MP and famous Bhojpuri singer Manoj Tiwari will be at the event for a show Dec 4.

A dash of comedy will be introduced to the event by comic duo Krishna-Sudesh.

"An art exhibition, an evening with poets - the Kavi Sammelan and Mushayara will also be organized. The Mahotsava, which also witnesses participation of many artisans, handicraft stalls and other major brands trying to tempt visitors into shopping, will conclude by Pt Hari Prasad Chaurasiya's flute recital," an official told IANS.

Massive security arrangements are being done for the event and traffic arrangements are being made to ensure hassle free visit to the one of the biggest cultural show in Lucknow, held every year.

Police officials said that drone camera's will also be deployed for monitoring.

Hollywood-based Indian actress Freida Pinto-starrer “Trishna” will release in India Jan 26, 2015.

Based on Thomas Hardy's novel 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' and also starring Riz Ahmad , 'Trishna' tells the story of a woman whose life is torn between love and circumstances.

The story revolves around Trishna (Freida) meeting a wealthy young British businessman Jay Singh (Riz) who has come to India to work in his father's hotel business. After an accident destroys her father's jeep, Trishna goes to work for Jay, and they fall in love.

The official trailer of the film will release Oct 29 and it will release Jan 26, 2015, said a statement.

Directed by Michael Winterbottom, the film has been produced Sunil Bohra, Anurag Kashyap, Guneet Monga , Winterbottom and Melisaa Permenter.

The co-producers of the film are Ajay Dhama, Sanjeev Singh Pal and Alok Arbind Thakur.

A fire broke out at the Killick Nixon studio in Chandivili, Friday night where the shooting of the TV show "Yeh Hai Mohabbatein" was underway. However no casuality was reported.

However it is said that the enitre set of the show has been damaged.

The cast and crew of the show was shooting at the studio when the fire emerged but the actors are safe, said a source from the team of the TV show.

"The cast of 'Yeh Hai Mohabbatein' were shooting for an important scene when the fire caught the sets but, nothing to worry everybody is fine," said a source.

The source further added that five to six fire engines were rushed to the studio.

Divyanka Tripathy, the lead actress of the show, also tweeted: "Everyone including the artists and the crew member's are safe".

The show airs on Star Plus.

Ashwika Kapur, a 26-year-old science and natural history filmmaker from West Bengal, has won the Wildscreen Panda Awards also known as the Green Oscar for her film on a Kakapo parrot named Sirocco.

Kapur won the award at a ceremony in Britain's Bristol city Friday in the Wildscreen Festival for her 15-minute film "Sirocco - How a Dud became a Stud".

Kakapos are critically endangered bird species native to New Zealand. It narrates the "rags-to-riches" story of Sirocco, the Kakapo parrot, so popular that the New Zealand government made it the country's official spokesbird for conservation.

"The wondrous has happened!! I'm coming home with that Green Oscar," Kapur posted on her Facebook page Friday.

Kapur graduated in science and natural history filmmaking from the University of Otago, New Zealand, after her schooling and college in Kolkata.

The documentary is a solo endeavour with Kapur managing the research and development of the entire project single-handedly.

She won the coveted honour in the Icon Films Newcomer Award category that had two other nominees.

The film festival received 488 entries from 42 countries this year. According to the organisers, "This category brought together different films. But in the end we chose this film ('Sirocco') as it had all the hallmarks of a strong storyteller."

"There are so few Kakapo parrots surviving on earth, that all of them have names.

"And one among them is a house-hold name in New Zealand. Sirocco, a bird so popular, that he landed a government job. This is the bizarre story of his rise to stardom."

Wildlife filmmaker and conservationist Mike Pandey, the Bedi Brothers (Ajay and Vijay) and Rita Banerji and Shilpi Sharma have won the Green Oscar earlier. Kapur is the youngest recipient from India.

Film: "Roar - Tigers of the Sundarbans"; Cast: Abhinav Shukla, Achint Kaur, Nora Fatehi, Ali Quli Mirza and Subrat Dutta; Director: Kamal Sadanah; Rating: **1/2

If you're looking for a rewarding cinematic experience with a coherent plot and well-rounded characters, then "Roar" may just prove a bore that you'd probably abhor.

But if you're the sort (like me) who grants leeway to movies for stretching its neck out beyond the domain of the conventional, then "Roar" has quite some visual swagger and splendour to it.

Consider this. It's shot entirely in the dense Sundarbens forest. Now the dilemma that debutant director Kamal Sadanah must have faced is...should he make a documentary about the tigers of Sunderbans (which would get no audience) or a fictional story set in the tiger sanctuary (which hopefully would attract an audience).

Regrettably, "Roar" suffers from an over-written, excessively punctuated plot that groans and heaves forward wheezing with baggage fatigue.

The narrative, underlined by an insistent background score (fortunately no songs), strains so hard for effect that you fear for its life-force. Moreover, the editing is abysmal. Scenes written to highlight the irreconcilable differences between Man and Nature meander to an incomplete full-stop.

Stunning shots of the natural beauty of the Sunderbans cannot compensate for the lack of consistency and logic in the plot about a bunch of adventurers's revenge on a white tiger, which finally lurches to a whimper rather than a roar. The characters are all written for the sake of creating a shock effect as one by one, the plot's populace pops off the face of majestic map.

Time after time, the editing exposes the lack of coherence in the plot. Characters jump into the danger zone and then wait for the script to decide their future. The film was obviously written as the shooting progressed, thereby providing a rationale for the vast expanse of incidents that are crammed into this jungle-adventure story.

The killings in the sinister marshland are well-staged. In fact, the film's cinematography by Michael Watson is so brilliant that it makes you want to shove the characters and their inane prattle out of the way to just savour the magnificence of Sunderbans. Like I said, Kamal Sadanah wanted to tell a fictional story. Wish he had saved the fiction for another day, another location.

The acting is uniformly amateurish with the two female actors Himarsha and Nora Fatehi joining together to create a wildlife cleavage club. They look and speak out of place in the jungles. Attempts to add glamour to the grisly goings-on are downright clumsy. You can almost smell the director's unease and awkwardness in trying to infuse acceptable commercial trappings into the sun-kissed rugged picturesque locales.

One tiger in Ang Lee's "Life Of Pi" signified a comment on the entire relationship between Man and the animal kingdom. Here in "Roar", there are several tigers, plus repeated invocation of snakes and other wild crawly creepy creatures that jump out of nowhere to create more shock than the 'shauq' value that the film purports to validate.

What we get to know finally from this film about the relationship between Man and Nature is, it is one helluva screwed-up alliance.

This could have a brutal avatar of "Born Free". If only it didn't conceal the exuberant computer-graphics in streams of tribal folklore dressed up in swanky clothes. Images from the National Geographic meet "Fear Factor" in this brilliantly photographed adventure saga.

You may not think much of the characters's shallow shindings during the time of exceptional stress. But one thing is for sure. You've never seen anything like this in Hindi cinema. And I don't necessarily mean that in a positive way.

The film claims to have not hurt any animals. But what about the poor audience? There ought to be a parallel SPCA -- Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Audience.

The third season of Dharamshala International Film Festival (DIFF) began with a packed screening of Rajat Kapoor's much-acclaimed directorial "Ankhon Dekhi" here.

The warm domestic drama, starring Rajat himself with Sanjay Mishra, was screened Thursday evening.

It tells the tale of 55-year-old patriarch Bauji, who lives with his family in a cramped building in Old Delhi.

The hall in the Club House at McLeod Ganj was full, and the end of the movie was marked by loud applause by the audience, which included independent filmmakers, critics and movie aficionados.

Talking about the movie, which released in theatres earlier this year, Rajat said that the story idea struck to him four years ago. He believes that the "easy and light" nature of the film allows the audience to understand it in a better way.

Rajat's other directorial outings include "Mixed Doubles" (2005), "Mithya" (2007) and "Fatso" (2009) as well as the National Film Award winning "Raghu Romeo".

Meanwhile, movie enthusiasts at the four-day DIFF are set to be treated to a melange of cinema, including Mano Khalil's "The Beekeeper", Tenzin Tsetan Choklay's "Bringing Tibet Home", Hansal Mehta's "Citylights" and Geetu Mohandas'"Liar's Dice", which is India's official entry for the Oscar in the Best Foreign Film Category.

The list also includes Q's "Nabarun", Pakistani movie "Zinda Bhaag", Avinash Arun's Marathi drama "Killa", and Shabnam Sukhdev's "The Last Adieu".

Actor Sandeep Yadav is all set to direct a film on the life of a woman dacoit and visited here to scout the location to shoot the movie.

Yadav was looking for locations between the Chambal and Yamuna rivers to shoot the film. He also visited Saifai, a village in Etawah district of Uttar Pradesh, from where Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav hails.

After completing courses at the National School of Drama (NSD) and Bhartendu Natya Akademi, he joined films, said Sandeep.

He has acted in several films and TV shows. In Prakash Jha's "Chakravyuh", he played the role of a journalist. He also acted in Aamir Khan's "Peepli Live".

Veteran actors Anupam Kher, Annu Kapoor and Piyush Mishra are seen chasing young girls in their forthcoming offering “The Shaukeens”, but they refuse to tag it as a cheap comedy.

“It is not a sleazy comedy. There are no double meaning dialogues of the film and you can watch the film with family. The treatment is simply comedy. In the end of the film, there is a message also that men shouldn’t be like this,” Piyush told reporters here Friday.

Helmed by “Tere Bin Laden” director Abhishek Sharma, "The Shaukeens" also stars Lisa Haydon and Akshay Kumar.

“It has a good story. It is not just song and dance. It is about three 'shaukeens' who are retired and want love from the opposite sex.

"They go to Mauritius to find love as Delhi is not safe for them since they can get caught. The film got a U/A certificate. It is nice that we made such a clean film,” said Anupam.

And the actors feel “proud” to be associated with the project.

They also clarified that the “coming-of-age” comedy has no similarity with the 1982 film “Shaukeen”.

“There is no similarity. The concept is taken from there and Rati (Agnihotri) is in this film too. She was in ‘Shaukeen’ as well. She plays my wife in the new one,” said Anupam.

“The Shaukeens” will release Nov 7.

Veteran actor Anupam Kher has reached out to his son Sikandar on Twitter to wish him a happy birthday and success in life.

Sikander turned 33 Friday.

"Happy Birthday @sikandarbk. May god give you all the happiness, success and peace. Have a great day & a greater life. Love," Anupam tweeted Friday.

Sikandar responded by tweeted: "@AnupamPkher Thank you Dad! Here's to a great day and a greater life."

After having made his Bollywood debut with "Woodstock Villa" in 2008, Sikandar went on to do films like "Summer 2007", "Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey" and "Players".

Actor-director Rajat Kapoor, who is enjoying the environs of Dharamsala, says he's trying to give up smoking again.

"Two wonderful shows of #ankhondekhi last night- at the wonderful Dhramashala International Film Festival...happiness :) @DIFFindia. In other news, I am a non-smoker. Again! Been a good week sans nicotine," Rajat tweeted.

His film "Ankhon Dekhi", which released to a positive response earlier this year, opened the ongoing film fest in Dharamsala Thursday. It was received warmly by the packed hall.

As the Dharamsala International Film Festival (DIFF) continues to screen avant-garde cinema for the connoisseurs and critics, "Nirnay", Pushpa Rawat's directorial debut, comes across as a film that celebrates women's vivacity and spirit.

The 27-year-old debutante is originally from Almora in Uttarakhand and currently lives in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. She was inspired towards filmmaking when she attended a workshop by Anupama Srinivasan in National Bal Bhawan.

Rawat has previously worked on the documentary "Kyon" (2007).

On her inspiration to make "Nirnay", she said: "'Am I wrong, or is it something amiss with the world?' The idea for the film has emerged from this feeling of discontent that in turn has led to a need to question and understand.

"The aim is not to present these women as weak. It is to share with the viewer, their spirit as much a their confusions, in other words, to portray vignettes of their existance and through that, question the norms of the society we live in."

Set in a lower-middle class neighbourbood, the 56-minute documentary explores the lives of a group of young female friends in a corner of Ghaziabad, who are expected to learn to peel onions, come home before dark and wed a husband of their parents's choice.

Educated and in their early 20s, the women feel stymied and helpless when it comes to making major life decisions -- be it about their careers or their marriage. Lata wants to be a singer. Mithlesh is just drifting along is life. Pooja doubts she's ever had any real freedom.

In spite of the fact that their dreams bite the dust, the film commends the ladies's effervescence and soul.

The filmmaker shot the documentary over three years in her own neighbourhood and at its heart lies her own affair with her beau, their families's negotiations and Rawat's courageous documentation of their break-up.

The film, which was also showcased at the Mumbai Film Festival recently this year, got a positive response from the audience on the second day of DIFF. Rawat was overwhelmed by the applause that followed the screening of the documentary.

Actress Evelyn Sharma got an opportunity to learn Thai boxing from champion Sumlock Kamsing while she was shooting in Thailand.

The “Nautanki Saala!” actress was in Thailand shooting for her new show "Life Mein Ek Baar", and during her stay there she got to pick up the sport.

“It was fun. I never thought I can do something like Thai boxing. It is a great way to learn some self-defense. It teaches you some great amount of concentration, dedication and helps to stay fit as well,” Evelyn said in a statement.

“Life Mein Ek Baar” is a reality documentary drama about Evelyn and her friends and about their adventurous vacation and experiences in Thailand. The forthcoming show will capture the personal experience of this trip of Evelyn and her girl gang - Mahek Chahal, Pia Trivedi and Rochelle Rao.

Talking about the show, she said: "It is such an amazing concept. The show gives you freedom and opportunity to try out your most adventurous dreams, and that in a team of your best friends.

"It's like you are working and on a vacation at the same time. Imagine you had to snorkel in the most beautiful ocean for work."