Anushka’s game for ‘risky’ projects
Fresh from the success of her production debut NH10, actress Anushka Sharma says she is excited about her new dual role and promises to back films in future regarded as “risky.”
“When I read the script it was like any other film I did. It excited me so much that I wanted to make sure that it happened,” said the 26-year-old who attended the screening of NH10 at the Beijing Film Festival. “It is a wonderful process of transformation from an actress to a producer,” she said giving credit to director Navdeep Singh and writer Sudip Sharma. “In future also we would like to back films that can be considered slightly risky since they don't have song and dance,” she added.
Actress Shabana Azmi will star in BBC One's TV series Capital. Directed by Euros lyn, known for works like Happy Valley and Doctor Who, the series is an adaptation of John lanchester’s critically acclaimed and bestselling novel of the same name. “Here is what I'm filming in london for. Toby Jones Emma Jones Adeel Akhtar all BAFTA nominees. Euros lynn directs (sic),” Shabana posted on social networking site Twitter. The TV drama also stars Toby Jones, lesley Sharp, Wunmi Mosaku, Adeel Akhtar, Rachael Stirling, Robert Emms, Bryan Dick and Radoslaw Kaim.
Irrfan Khan and Deepika Padukone had a blast on the sets ofPiku. The actors played pranks on the entire unit. Recalling an incident, a source close to the unit said, “Irrfan and Deepika were discussing an important sequence, when all a sudden both started yelling at each other. Not knowing what to do the entire crew along with director Shoojit Sircar gathered around the actors and tried reasoning out but to no use.” The actors stormed to their vans and didn’t come out for half an hour. When they were called for the scene, everyone on the sets was tense, seeing their faces both Irrfan and Deepika started laughing.
Another child for BrangelinaIJ
Angelina Jolie and husband Brad Pitt are reportedly planning to adopt a little Syrian girl as their seventh child. The star duo already have Cambodian-born Maddox, Vietnamese Pax, Ethiopian Zahara, biological daughter Shiloh and twins Knox and Vivienne.
A business associate, who has known Pitt and Jolie, was quoted as saying: “She has been moved to tears on several occasions over the plight of youngsters orphaned in the Syrian conflict. Now that she has sorted out her health issues, she and Brad believe the time is right to adopt another orphan from there, most likely a daughter.” The 39-year-old actress had a surgery last month to remove her ovaries and fallopian tubes.