Teefa Not in Trouble

This is significant. One of India’s biggest, if not the biggest, film production houses, Yash Raj Films (YRF), has joined hands with our very own Lightingale Productions for exclusive international theatrical distribution of the upcoming and much-awaited Pakistani film, Teefa in Trouble, starring Ali Zafar, Javed Sheikh and Maya Ali.

YRF is run by Aditya Chopra, the director of immensely successful films such as Dil Wale Dulhanya Lejaengey and Muhabbatein and the son of the late filmmaker Yash Chopra. So, it seems, Teefa, after all, is in safe hands.

Cousin’s Permission

Last week, legendary vocalist Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s daughter Nida held a press conference in Lahore to tell the media that she intends to take legal action against all those who have sung, or will sing, her father’s songs without her permission. Another thing that she said was that she will be launching many songs that her father wanted to before his death.

Interestingly, when someone sought Rahat Fateh Ali Khan’s reaction to the issue, he replied he doesn’t need permission to sing his uncle’s songs because he is Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s successor. Now we don’t want to say anything on the subject because it’s now becoming a bit of a family feud. Cousins, be nice to each other, please.

Ranbir not Ranveer

Amitabh Bachchan is a wonderful human being. Despite being a septuagenarian, his playfulness, especially when he’s around the younger lot, never subsides.

These days the actor is busy filming a movie titled Brahmastra with the effervescent Alia Bhatt and the talented Ranbir Kapoor as his co-actors.

Amitji likes to take selfies. So during one of the breathers between scenes, he took a selfie with the two young colleagues and put it on Instagram. But in the caption of the picture, he mistakenly wrote ‘Ranveer’ instead of ‘Ranbir’. Obviously, this didn’t go down well with Ranbir K, though he didn’t say it so. This means, at last, age is catching up with Big B.

They’re an item

Ever since the bromance saga Sonu Ke Teetu Ki Sweety became a critical and commercial hit, its male protagonist Kartik Aaryan is in the news for one reason or the other.

The latest about him is that the actor has just begun dating a Canadian model of Indian descent by the name of Dimple Sharma. Both have been seen together at high-end restaurants and even movie premiers, making no effort to keep their relationship under the hat. Good on you, Kartik A! You’ve finally found your dimpled Sweety.

PC’s koala bear

It’s not yet confirmed whether the dusky Priyanka Chopra and singer-cum-actor Nick Jonas are going out. What’s clear, though, is that they have more than profound admiration for each other.

First, Nick J talked about Priyanka C’s smile after seeing one of her Instagram pics, and now the actress, commenting on a video in which he’s seen with a koala bear in a zoo in Sydney, has called him, in a manner of speaking, cuter than the bear.

Hmmm … We hope he doesn’t turn out to be the grisly kind.

It’s all real, nothing plastic

Supermodel Bella Hadid is one confident gal. Late last month, it was rumoured that the 21-year-old had gone under the knife (read: plastic surgery) to look the way she looks now: stunning. Well, she has rubbished all such rumours in a recent interview given to a magazine.

Bella H reasoned, “People think I got all this surgery or did this or that … And you know what?

We can do a scan of my face, darling. I’m scared of putting fillers into my lips. I wouldn’t want to mess up my face.” We believe you girl, your face is too plastic to be messed up.

Published in Dawn, ICON, June 15th, 2018