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Malala Yousafzai is one of creative leaders honored for Variety’s 2022 Power of Women presented by Lifetime. For more, click here.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai is comparing herself to the monster from “Stranger Things” as she shows off her double-jointedness. “I am Vecna,” she declares while bending her fingers way back, emulating the slimy talons of Jamie Campbell Bower’s dastardly overlord of the Upside Down.

Yousafzai may be a messenger of peace, globally recognized for her work campaigning for girls’ education, but she’s also lost a lot of sleep devouring the stunningly violent fourth season of the hit Netflix series, which she binge-watched with her new husband, Asser Malik. Growing up in Swat Valley, Pakistan, the TV enthusiast watched shows such as British sitcom “Mind Your Language” and ABC’s “Ugly Betty” to improve her English and decipher Western culture. Now, inhaling the latest TV programs is technically her job.

Veteran actor of Marathi and Hindi films Viju Khote, who was popular for his Kalia character from the 1975 cult classic "Sholay" is no more. He was 78.

Viju passed away early on Monday, family sources said. He is survived by his actor sister Shubha Khote, who was elder to him by five years. Their father Nandu Khote was a noted stage actor too, and he worked in movies during the silent era.

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Viju Khote made his big screen debut with "Ya Malak" in 1964 and went on to do some of the most remembered characters in the Hindi film industry.

In a career spanning almost six decades, Viju worked in over 300 films, including "Phir Hera Pheri", "Andaz Apna Apna" from the modern era besides some television shows and ads.

Renowned for comedy roles, Viju was famed for the evergreen reply to Gabbar Singh's "Kitne Aadmi The?...

It’s the classic time travel question – would you kill a dangerous killer in their crib, before they’ve actually done anything? Well, what is you weren’t sure the baby was going to do anything? What if you were asked to…

Kill The Moon

By Peter Harness

Directed by Paul Whilmshurst

Clara speaks to the entire Earth – they run the risk of the Earth being destroyed if they don’t kill an innocent being. “The man who normally helps” is nowhere to be found, and a decision must be made. Flashing backwards, we learn that Coal Hill student Courtney Woods has not reacted well to her brief run on the Tardis. The Doctor told her she “wasn’t special”, a comment she’s taken to heart. Clara asks him to apologize; he instead offers her a chance to be the first woman on the Moon.

Alas, all is not well there.

The BBC's cutting of racial insults from a repeat of The Germans has brought the integrity of the hit comedy show into question. But the words are clearly used to satirise English upper-class bigotry

Rivalled only by Dad's Army as Britain's most-loved sitcom, Fawlty Towers seems an unlikely candidate to merit comparison with the movies of Quentin Tarantino. But the BBC has cut from a repeat of the episode The Germans (screened many times since it was first seen in 1975) a speech in which the blimpish hotel resident Major Gowen uses two outlawed racial insults while reporting on a trip to see an England v India cricket match at the Oval.

It is impossible to discuss properly the censored dialogue without quoting the line. Very sensitive readers should stop now and it should not be assumed that I, the Guardian – or, indeed, John Cleese and Connie Booth, the show's writers...

The Bollywood actor's early films are fondly remembered because, in their day, they offered a triumphant alternative version of what it meant to be Asian

I was probably 12 years old the first time I saw an Amitabh Bachchan film. It was the early 80s and video players were relatively rare. My family did not own one so my father would, like many Asians at the time, hire a machine, which he would pick up on a Friday evening and return on Sunday. The cost of the video hire was, I recall, £5, and my dad and I would also select three or four films to watch on the Friday and Saturday evening. Invariably, these films would star Amitabh Bachchan.

Bollywood movies – especially those released in the 70s and 80s – are today often viewed as gaudy kitsch, but the pleasure I derived from titles such as Coolie, Naseeb and Sholay was entirely unironic.

Fish fingers and custard.

Now there's a combination you won't find in your average fine dining restaurant. Hordes of students up and down the country swear by this sort of food, especially when they find that the budget's plummeted to zero at the end of the month. Result? Raid the fridge and the food cupboards and fill your belly with unusual if unappetising recipes.

Bet it leaves a funny taste in the mouth though – in fact, hindsight leaves a bittersweet taste in the mouth too. Especially if you're a picky, over-perfectionist reviewer who's poring over past analyses of Doctor Who stories. In 2010, I reviewed the whole of Matt Smith's first season, and scribbling my thoughts pretty much on the trot and working on first impressions. Looking back at those reviews, you'd have thought that I'd have stumbled across a brand new Golden Age of Doctor Who. Yes, even stories such as The Beast Below,...

When a fan of Anushka Sharma claim to have a big crush on her from the days of ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’, Anushka’s ex-flame Ranveer Singh got fired and had a scuffle with the fan. A source revealed, “This guy walked up to Anushka and told her that he had a crush on her when he saw ‘Rab Ne…’. She took it in the right spirit and jokingly askedif he still had a crush on her. The guy hesistantly admitted that he did. Though Anushka was enjoying the chat, Ranveer, sitting beside her got really angry. He told the guy, “Mind your language. She is my girlfriend. I will break your nose.” Anushka&...

The Inbetweeners: The Movie sees Will, Simon, Neil and Jay transported, in all their puerile glory, to Crete. But do the writers and cast realise this is the end?

The feature film-of-the-sitcom is one of the less heralded genres in cinema. Forty years ago, when Hollywood's vision of a low-budget hit was the cool and radical Easy Rider, the British film industry couldn't have been eulogising a less glamorous form of transport, when Hammer brought the sitcom On the Buses to the big screen.

That first On the Buses film made more than a million pounds, and sparked a gold rush. 1973 saw nine films based on sitcoms, including Love Thy Neighbour, Father, Dear Father and even For the Love of Ada. By the end of the decade, though, the notoriously thin quality of the adaptations meant the genre had become irrevocably tarnished.

But in 1997, the astonishing success of Bean,...

New Delhi, July 8 – It’s time to grab your popcorn, lie down on the couch and watch the three seasons of popular comedy serial ‘Zabaan Sambhal Ke’ (Zsk) on DVD’s and Vcd’s with your family members.

After receiving overwhelming response to season one on DVDs, Shemaroo Entertainment has released Zsk season two and season three on DVDs and VCDs.

Each season has 24 episodes of the show that once aired on Dd Metro in the 1990s.

‘Zabaan Sambhal Ke’ (Mind Your Language).

Sarfraz Manzoor meets the family who have become Channel 4 stars since opening their home to the cameras for a new fly-on-the-wall reality show

George and Mildred. Terry and June. Richard and Judy. Television has thrown up many memorable married double acts but there has been no one quite like Arvinder and Sarbjit Grewal. They are the unlikely stars of Channel 4's fly-on-the-wall documentary series, The Family, which features the British-Asian couple, their three children, two in-laws and one granddaughter. Oh, and two dogs.

In the programme, Arvinder and Sarbjit, married for more than 30 years, live in a five-bedroom pebble-dashed house and communicate mostly through insults and abuse: he demands a cup of tea; she grunts contemptuously. He wistfully remembers when she was slim; she says she can recall when he still had hair. In the rare moments when they are not bickering, Arvinder works as a coach driver and Sarbjit...

New Delhi, Nov 13 (Ians) Television actress Tanaaz Currim was Friday evicted from reality show ‘Bigg Boss’ through public voting.

Tanaaz, best remembered for her role in comedy show ‘Zaban Sambhal Ke’, the Indian version of ‘Mind Your Language’, was nominated for eviction along with her husband Bakhtiyaar Irani, but got more votes in her name.

Tanaaz had a tough time dealing with her ‘Bigg Boss’ co-contestants due to her temperament. She also had constant arguments with Bakhtiyaar.

She hugged Bakhtiyaar while leaving the ‘Bigg Boss’ house and told him.

Television actress Tanaaz Currim was this week contestants to get evicted from the Bigg Boss House. She was nominated along with her husband Bakhtiyaar Irani. She got maximum votes than her husband and finally got eliminated this Friday. Tanaaz was in constant public glare for her hot temperament and shared a sour relationship with many contestants. She also had argument with her husband Bakhtiyaar.While leaving the house, she hugged Bakhtiyaar and told him to be good. Tanaaz enacted in many television serials and best remembered for her comic role in the serial, 'Zaban Sambhal Ke', the Indian version of 'Mind Your Language'.  Taanaz ...