Bollywood actor Ananya Panday arrived in Qatar along with her dad, Chunky Panday to enjoy the world's biggest sporting event. The Pandays who flew to Doha for the FIFA World Cup Semifinals were accompanied by Shanaya Kapoor and her father, actor Sanjay Kapoor. Interestingly, she was also spotted with her rumored boyfriend, Aditya Roy Kapur. The 'Gehraiyaan' star, who also happens to be a true-blue football fan, has been sharing glimpses of her fun time in Qatar on social media. Let's take a look at Ananya's 'FIFA diaries'.
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Amid protests against 'Pathaan', SRK talks about 'negativity' on social media and how it is driven by 'narrowness of views'. In his address at the inauguration ceremony of the 28th Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) in Kolkata, he said that the collective narratives in recent times have often been shaped by social media, which is often driven by a narrowness of views that limits human nature to its baser self. "This sense of negativity often increases the social media consumption and such pursuits often enclose collective narrative and makes it more divisive and destructive," said Shah Rukh Khan, who is also the brand ambassador of West Bengal.
He said that cinema now has a more important role to play in spreading that message of collective narrative. "I hope that festivals like KIFF and the city like Kolkata can emerge as the beginning of this positivity at this point of time," the Bollywood superstar said.
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Actor Hrithik Roshan spoke at length about his career, his charitable work and the professional relationship he has with his father, director Rakesh Roshan at the ongoing Red Sea Film Festival. "My father was against me coming into films because of the struggle that he had to go through," said Roshan when asked if his father supported his choice to venture into acting. "He struggled very hard for 20 years and did not want me to go through what he went through. But I think there was something inside me that was really determined," reports Variety. "I wanted to prove myself because I grew up with a really bad stutter and this was my one chance to look and feel normal," he continued, telling the audience how the exclusion and isolation he felt due to his childhood stammering led him to set up a charity foundation with the aim of helping children with special abilities. "What this did for me was equalize every one of us in my head. I see myself in every single human being I meet, which makes me able to connect with people very easily. It makes me very empathetic, very tolerant and patient. I wouldn't wish this upon my children or the children of the world," he said of the correlation between success and self-esteem experienced by many people in the industry. "I'd rather they grew up with enough self-worth, to be okay with or without the success and then yearn for bettering themselves as human beings or actors or whatever career they choose."
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