Over the past few days, the world has been in mourning for Lata Mangeshkar, known as the Nightingale of India, who died on Sunday at the age of 92 after a seven-decades long career in music. Tributes flooded social media and her songs were on the radio all weekend while people across the world shared memories of the Queen of Melody. Mangeshkar was cremated with full state honors in Mumbai on Sunday, a funeral attended by film and music luminaries as well as Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Mangeshkar was born in 1929 into a musical family. She was acting and singing by the age of 5. When she was 13, her father unexpectedly died, and she was thrust into the professional world, first as an actor who also sang, and then, exclusively as a singer who dubbed songs behind the scenes, a profession known as playback singing in India. Mangeshkar was born in 1929 into a musical family. She was acting and singing by the age of 5. When she was 13, her father unexpectedly died, and she was thrust into the professional world, first as an actor who also sang, and then, exclusively as a singer who dubbed songs behind the scenes, a profession known as playback singing in India.
Samantha has come in support of Kajal Aggarwal, who has been battling trolls shaming her for her pregnancy weight. In a bid to address the comments, Aggarwal had shared a note that highlights how pregnant women are bound to gain weight, “develop stretch marks and acneâ€. Samantha responded with a comforting: “You are and will always be beautiful.â€
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Sanjay Dutt is launching production company Three Dimension Motion Pictures with a view to bringing back the golden age of heroism to the industry.Sanjay cites the recent pan-Indian box office success of South Indian film 'Pushpa' and the films of 'Baahubali' filmmaker S.S. Rajamouli as an example of the vanished larger-than-life heroism in Bollywood, reports variety.com. "We're trying to get back what we had, what the South Indian films are doing now," Dutt tells Variety. "When we entered the film industry, we started off with the heroism, the heroic roles, the mass love and everything, and I just saw that stopping. And I am trying to revive that." Sanjay debuted with 'Rocky' in 1981, in an era where leading men of mainstream Indian cinema were written as a complete heroic package. Today, that genre in the Hindi film industry has reduced to a niche, or a "little gap" as Dutt describes it.
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