Midnight Misadventures with Mallika Dua
She is confident, innately kind, privileged, misinformed, graceful, unapologetic, well dressed, glamorous and a graceful. Her style is on point, money beyond belief. Meet Shalishka- a sassy princess from TlC’s new show Midnight Misadventures with Mallika Dua.
In the backdrop of midnight super chill and comfort setting, Mallika Dua as Shalishka is all set to get into interesting, relaxing and deeply emotional 2 AM conversations with celebrities like Tanmay Bhatt, Vicky Kaushal, Badshah, Rajkumar Rao and others.
In each episode, Shalishka and one of her close friends will began their adventure armed with whatever they muster from the fridge. She’s a kind of ‘food heiress’ as her culinary arts has been running in her family for generations. Shalishka will develop new recipes; mixing never before mixed ingredients followed by cooking; gossip, healthy conversations and a good face stuffing session over comfort food.
“I love the concept and I am co-developing it with the team especially because I am not a talk show host. I am an actor first and playing Shailishka gives me an opportunity to merge both fiction and nonfiction characters. On the other hand, we will also have real life guests coming in each episode. My character is completely different from the reality and it allows me to act and also to chat with a new celebrity each time and spill the beans of all their food related secrets. lots for the senses and at the same time complete non-sense too," Dua says.
Catch all the food fun on Midnight misadventures with Mallika Dua coming soon on TlC and uncut videos of the shoot on its official YouTube page Rise BY TlC.
New show on Aladdin
The Sony SAB gears up to take viewers on an adventure with the launch of Aladdin: Naam Toh Suna Hoga. With a generous dose of magic and mystery, this show is based on the age-old fantasy of a 20-year old boy, Aladdin, and his trysts with love and fate. This show premieres on August 21, Monday to Friday at 9 PM only on Sony SAB.
Produced by Nissar Parvez and Alind Shrivastava of Peninsula Pictures, Sony SAB’s Aladdin will retell the legendary folklore in a grander avatar, action packed, yet amusing scenarios with a contemporary twist. Neeraj Vyas, Business Head, Sony SAB, PAl, Hindi Movies and Music, said: “Aladdin is Sony SAB’s latest offering, keeping up the channel’s promise of providing happiness to its viewers. This show will bring to life Aladdin’s age-old yet always refreshing tale, dotted with characters that we have been familiar with during our growing-up years. Aimed at setting new standards of television programming, the show will entertain viewers with its grand sets, storytelling with a contemporary twist and superior production quality. I am confident that Aladdin will soon develop a loyal SAB fan following.”
New CINTAA office in delhi
The CINTAA (Cine & TV Artistes’ Association), the oldest artist association in India looking after the welfare of over 8000 actors working in the Media and entertainment in the Hindi Film Industry, has expanded its reach in North India with the opening of its branch office in Delhi. Situated in the premises of Giant Rocket Media & Entertainment (P) ltd at Okhla Phase-III in Delhi, the office was inaugurated by General Secretary of CINTAA Sushant Singh along with senjor joint secretary Amit Behl and our Executive Committee members Ayub Khan and Suneel Sinha.
This will encourage and nurture acting talent in Delhi and enable CINTAA to look after the welfare of actors.
Premiere of The Big Short
For the first time on Indian television, Movies Now, India’s favorite English movie channel, premieres the celebrated biographical film The Big Short. Adaptation of a book on the book ‘The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine’ by Michael lewis, the film & book is based on a true story of a handful of investors who bet against the US mortgage market in 2006-7. It portrays three separate but concurrent stories starring Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell and Marisa Tomei, amongst others.
Directed by comedy veteran Adam McKay, the film won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and received nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Christian Bale), and Best Film Editing.
The movie will premiere on Sunday, August 19 at 1 pm and 9 pm on Movies Now.