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2020 was especially cruel to our entertainment industry. One by one, we lost Irrfan Khan, Rishi Kapoor, (music composer) Wajid Khan, Basu Chatterjee, Sushant Singh Rajput, Saroj Khan, Jagdeep, S. P Balasubramaniam, Soumitra Chatterjee, and Nishikant Kamat.

Nishikant Kamat’s going; I took it personally. Though I had never met him, we shared a certain bonding. Whenever he called, he would speak in that soft, respectful voice and tell me that I should not mind if he doesn’t respond to my messages immediately as he travelled a lot.

I first reached out to Nishikant after I saw his directorial debut, that exceptional Marathi film Dombivali West in 2005, which was quickly remade into Tamil as Evano Oruvan with Madhavan in the lead. Nishikant quickly became a successful director in Bollywood. But he hardly had any friends in the Mumbai film industry except John Abraham, with whom he did the successful Force and Rocky Handsome.

RohitVerse

Rohit Shetty has created his own Universe, should we call it RohitVerse? The last scene of Cirkus brings a wide smile and takes you back to Rohit Shetty’s claim to fame ‘Golmaal’ franchise. How I wish if he can come up with a film based on this (you have to watch the last scene). Coming back to what you are here for and that is yet again a part of the RohitVerse with most characters that you have seen in previous Rohit Shetty films probably leaving aside just the two leading ladies (Pooja Hegde and Jacqueline Fernandez). After Ajay Devgn, it seems we will get to see Ranveer Singh too as a fixture in RohitVerse.

Cirkus

Set in the late 1960s and said to be inspired from Shakespeare’s ‘The Comedy of Errors’, which was earlier adapted by Gulzar as Angoor (1982) featuring Sanjeev Kumar and Deven Verma in double roles.

It seems actress Aamna Sharif has found a great friend in her co-star Parth Samthaan.

On Sunday, Aamna took to Instagram and posted pictures with other actors, including Parth and Karishma Tanna.

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"Characters we play are temporary but relationships we make are permanent. Love them," Aamna captioned the post.

Aamna's husband Amit Kapoor and actor Uday Tikekar are also seen exchanging smiles with Aamna in the images.

On the work front, Aamna is a part of "Kasautii Zindagii Kay 2", which will soon go off air. She played the role of an iconic character Komolika.

The show also features Parth Samthaan, Erica Fernandes, Sahil Anand and Shubhaavi Choksey.

As the show is coming to an end, Sahil got emotional and...

Rohit Shetty’s fourth installment Golmaal Again recently went on floors in Mumbai at Yash Raj Studios.

Well, now Sanjay Mishra (Babli), Johny Lever (Pappi) and Mukesh Tiwari (Vasooli bhai) have joined the gang for the shoot!

Golmaal Again stars Ajay Devgn, Arshad Warsi, Tusshar Kapoor, Shreyas Talpade, Kunal Khemu, Tabu, Parineeti Chopra, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Sanjay Mishra, Johny Lever, Ashwini Kalsekar, Mukesh Tiwari, Murli Sharma, Vrajesh Hirjee, Sachin Khedekar, Uday Tikekar and Prakash Raj.

Rohit Shetty’s fourth installment Golmaal Again goes on floors today at Yash Raj Studios.

The film has an eclectic cast starring Ajay Devgn, Arshad Warsi, Tusshar Kapoor, Shreyas Talpade, Kunal Khemu, Tabu, Parineeti Chopra, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Sanjay Mishra, Johnny Lever, Ashwini Kalsekar, Mukesh Tiwari, Vrajesh Hirjee Sachin Khedekar , Uday Tikekar and Prakash Raj.

The cast and crew met earlier this week at a suburban hotel for the narration of the film except Ajay Devgn who was busy shooting for his film ‘Baadshaho’ in Jaisalmer and will join the cast on March 11th.

The team was seen bonding and catching up before the narration. Rohit Shetty was keen that the cast members meet each other before the shoot began.

For Parineeti, Tabu and Neil this was a first of its kind experience and Parineeti admitted how memorable this narration was for her.

After the first schedule in Mumbai, the...

Rohit Shetty begins shooting for his next film ‘Golmaal Again’, which is the fourth film in the industry’s most popular comedy series ‘Golmaal’. The film has a massive cast – Ajay Devgn, Parineeti Chopra, Tabu, Tusshar Kapoor, Arshad Warsi, Prakash Raj, Shreyas Talpade, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Sanjay Mishra, Johnny Lever, Kunal Khemu, Ashwini Kalsekar, Mukesh Tiwari, Vrajesh Hirjee, Sachin Khedekar and Uday Tikekar.Read More

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Rocky Handsome

Starring: John Abraham, Nishikant Kamat, Nathalia Kaur, Diya Chalwad, Sharad Kelkar

Directed by: Nishikant Kamat

Rating: ****(4 stars)

Is John Abraham’s Kabir Ahlawat, alias Rocky, alias Nowhere Man the finest performance of his career so far? Well, yes. It would have to be a toss-up between Shoojit Sircar’s excellent political thiller Madras Café and now Nishikant Kamat’s Rocky Handsome.

It is unequivocally evident from the start of this dark gripping thriller about damnation and tentative redemption that Kamat is a director who understands John’s physicality as well as his emotional strengths. Kamat uses both the qualities to create a man doddering on the edge of self-destruction. At mid-point when John in shirtless splendour is required to display his heroic swagger by a camera that loves beauty as much the ugliness of existence, we know what Rocky doesn’t.

Heroes are born out of necessity.

Kabir...