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Actor Kriti Sanon is back as a small-town girl in her next, Arjun Patiala, which is set to hit theatres this Friday. The actor has said that after consecutively playing a small-town character, she now wants to play a glamourous role and go abroad for the shoot. Talking about how she was flooded with offers of small-town characters post her 2017 film, Bareilly Ki Barfi, Kriti told Bombay Times in an interview, “I recently told someone, ‘Yaar, main shooting ke liye kaafi time se baahar nahi gayi hoon, I am doing the rounds of Lucknow, Gwalior, Mathura, and Chandigarh. I would love to shoot a film with a great script abroad, in which I get to wear hot pants and look glamourous. That’s not happened in a while for me.” Kriti also spoke about female actors not being given enough credit for the success of the film. Talking about how male actors are named in headlines, she said, “Even if you didn’t like my performance or want to criticise me, please write about it. I would love that

Los Angeles: Director James Cameron congratulated Avengers: Endgame Monday for beating his film Avatar to become the highest-grossing movie of all time. Marvel's superhero blockbuster ended the 10-year reign of Avatar Sunday after its global box office haul rose to $2.7902 billion. "Oel ngati kameie, I see you Marvel," Cameron wrote, using a greeting in the fictional Na'vi language of the alien moon Pandora of Avatar. "Congratulations to Avengers Endgame on becoming the new box-office king," he added in a tweet showing an image of Marvel's Iron Man hero surrounded by Pandoran "woodsprite" plants. Check out James Cameron's post Congratulations, @MarvelStudios ! pic.twitter.com/DWZDX0uDVi — Avatar (@officialavatar) July 22, 2019 Avatar, released in 2009, made $2.7897 billion, including its original theatrical run and various re-releases It smashed a record previously set by Cameron for Titanic 12 years earlier. Marvel Studi

In a run-up to the release of the film, the makers of Saaho have unveiled yet another poster from the action flick. Featuring Prabhas and Shraddha Kapoor, the new poster indicates that the film will also focus on the romance between the protagonists. The poster depicts the duo gazing into each others' eyes. Shraddha Kapoor took to Instagram to share the poster. Recently, the makers of Saaho altered its release date to avoid a box office clash with Akshay Kumar's Mission Mangal and John Abraham's Batla House. Earlier slated for 15 August, the multilingual action film will now hit cinemas on 30 August instead, and will clash with Sushant Singh Rajput and Shradhha's upcoming comedy Chhichhore.  Set to release in Hindi, Telugu and Tamil, Saaho also stars a bevy of Bollywood actors, starting from Shraddha as the female lead, and Jackie Shroff, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Mahesh Manjrekar, and Mandira Bedi as the antagonists. Other actors in the cast include Arun Vijay, Murl

Actors Disha Patani and Tiger Shroff are rumoured to be dating since many years but the two are yet to confirm it. The two continue to call each other a friend despite getting regularly spotted on lunch and dinner dates. Disha recently opened up about Tiger and how she is yet to impress him. Disha is currently busy with the promotions of her next film, Bharat and didn’t mince words on being asked about her relationship with Tiger during her interview with Bollywood Hungama. Disha took a question from a Twitter user who asked, “Why don’t you both accept your relationship? People love you both as a couple.” Disha confidently replied to the question, “I’ve been trying for so long, it’s been so many years and I’ve been trying to impress him. Now I’ve done this film Bharat where I’m doing all these stunts and I thought maybe he’ll get impressed but no luck. Yeah, we go to eat but that doesn’t mean he’s impressed, not like that like the crush impressed; but he likes everybody’

As the quintessential king of glamour and candyfloss romance, Karan Johar, turns 47 today, wishes have been pouring in from his friends in Bollywood. The director, who has already jetted off to New York to celebrate the special day, gave a surprise visit to veteran actor Rishi Kapoor, who is undergoing treatment there. Kapoor was the first one to wish The Student of the Year director on Twitter. “This is wishing Karan Johar a very Happy Birthday. God Bless! You are such a riot to sit with and listen. Enjoy New York!,” he wrote. Karan’s favourite, actor Alia Bhatt also wished him. “Happy-Birthday-My-Family,” she captioned the picture. Katrina Kaif also shared an Instagram story for him.

Speculation about Malaika Arora’s rumoured wedding with Arjun Kapoor refuses to die down but the two actors don’t let it limit their respective worlds. While Arjun is busy with the promotions of his new film, India’s Most Wanted, Malaika is busy chilling with her friends. She shared a new picture with besties Karisma Kapoor, sister Amrita Arora, Seema Khan (actor Sohail Khan’s wife), Maheep Kapoor (actor Sanjay Kapoor’s wife) and socialite Anu Dewan. Karisma also shared the same picture and wrote in the caption that they were out for lunch together. The ladies are all dressed in casual chic — short summer dresses, denims and comfortable tops. On Thursday, Malaika was spotted at the screening of India’s Most Wanted, where a host of other celebrities were also present. Actors such as Ranveer Singh, Janhvi Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Kartik Aaryan, Vaani Kapoor among others were spotted. In some of the pictures, Arjun can be seen wrapping his arm around Malaika’s waist. The r