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Vikramaditya Motwane to back Radhika Apte's directorial debut
March 08, 2025
|The New Indian Express Kochi
RADHIKA APTE is set to make her directorial debut with the action-fantasy film Kotya. It will be produced by Vikramaditya Motwane.
IN NADAANIYAN, Ibrahim Ali Khan Pataudi and Khushi Kapoor ask a chatbot, "What do people do in love?" Ibrahim's Arjun Mehta points out the irony: "Now, a robot is going to teach us what 'real' people do in love?" Such a scene in a Dharma film is like a warning bell. Even those who once-upon-a-time presented love in all its mushy glory have run out of ideas.
Both love and storytelling seem AI-generated in this Netflix rom-com. The plot feels like a first draft of any American teen show. Every character seems like a prototype without any nuance or depth. The actors seem to state the dialogues rather than emoting them. Its visuals, to quote a YouTube comment, feel like "a Close-Up ad." The problem is that Nadaaniyan isn't even trying to present an original story, to offer some romantic charm, or to be anything more than a star-kid launch vehicle.
Pia Jaisingh (Khushi) is a student at the Joharesque Falcon High. It is filled with Delhi's rich brats whose therapy bills—we are told in a voiceover—"might be more than the school fees." The school's principal is Ms Briganza (Archana Puran Singh), a modern, unimaginative take on the iconic character from Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998). The new Miss Briganza is obsessed with learning Gen Z lingo (for her, FU is 'fauran utho' (quickly get up)), and this quirk of hers is played for comedic effect. It invokes as much laughter as you expect from a person typing ROFL.
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Trump to Hamas: Accept Gaza peace deal by Sunday or suffer more attacks
U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that Hamas must agree to a proposed peace deal for Gaza by 6 PM Eastern time on Sunday and threatened the group will suffer more attacks if it doesn't.
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India's disease burden will reduce by a third if PM2.5 level is cut by 30%
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'Innovation, not cronyism': Rahul showers praises on Indian auto companies
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1 min
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US Senators question TCS’ hiring practice
TWO US Senators have shot off a letter to the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), raising concerns about its hiring practices in the US and questioning its rationale for filing thousands of H-1B visa petitions after allegedly laying off local staff.
1 min
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Scrapped comps to be donated to govt schools
THE Centre has found a way to reduce the stash of old computers and laptops in government offices, as the usable machines declared scrapped will be donated to state-run schools and other educational institutions.
1 mins
October 04, 2025
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REGULAR TRAINING CAN STEM ROT IN JUDICIARY
N an exemplary intervention, the Supreme Court recently directed two judicial officers in Delhi to undergo a week-long training, flagging serious lapses on their part in granting bail in a fraud case.
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Coconut picker blacks out atop tree, friend’s heroics come to rescue
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TJS, THAT LEGEND DOWN THE CORRIDOR
THERE are journalists, and then there are journalists who get that rare prefix, 'legendary'.
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October 04, 2025
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Coop society in every panchayat by '29, says Shah
UNION Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Friday said that by 2029, every panchayat in the country will have a cooperative society.
1 min
October 04, 2025
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One of two victims in UK synagogue attack likely killed by police bullet
ONE of the two men killed in a car and knife attack on a synagogue in Manchester appears to have been killed by a bullet fired by a police officer as worshippers tried to stop the attacker getting into the building, law enforcement authorities said Friday.
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