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Hindustan Times Delhi
|August 24, 2025
...But did you catch the news last week? Movies, movies, movies, music, Miss Universe, the Mercator map, and a 330-million-kroner gamble. Can you guess what happened?
The teaser is out. The Ba***ds of Bollywood is about the flashy, chaotic world of the Hindi film industry.
Masala. Action. Salman Khan, Ranveer Singh and Karan Johar's cameos. Only a nepo kid could pull this off. Think D'YAVOL. On Netflix next month. Whose directorial debut?
Arjun Varma is the vocalist, Aditya Rao the guitarist, Karan Tripathi the drummer, and Viraj Rajan the bassist. Trilok is the band. Achyutam Keshavam is their debut single. Collective Artists Network created them. Move over Velvet Sundown. Trilok is India's first what?
Bengaluru City University was formed in 2017 after the trifurcation of Bangalore University. The Karnataka Assembly passed a bill to name it after a former Prime Minister. The 13th. The fourth-longest serving. Alumnus of Oxford, Cambridge and Delhi School of Economics. His Initials?
This story is from the August 24, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Delhi.
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