Rajinikanth showed up to pay respects to AVM Saravanan after the veteran producer died from age-related health problems at 86, and he got pretty emotional talking about their connection. The superstar mentioned working on nine hits under the AVM banner, and he credited Saravanan for a big chunk of their success while calling him out as someone who helped during rough patches in his career.
The actor talked about major films like Murattu Kalai from the eighties and Sivaji from the 2000s that Saravanan produced on massive budgets. They were apparently planning another collaboration for the 2020s that never came together before the producer passed away just a day after his birthday.
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Sobhita Dhulipala posted about hitting the one-year mark with husband Naga Chaitanya, sharing wedding content where they both dressed up in traditional South Indian gear. She got all poetic about feeling refreshed after a year of marriage back in the Deccan region.
Meanwhile, Naga Chaitanya's ex-wife, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, just married filmmaker Raj Nidimoru at the Isha Foundation's Linga Bhairavi Temple in Coimbatore. The two apparently met during filming of The Family Man 2, and Samantha showed up in a red silk saree with gold details while Raj wore a white kurta with a cream Nehru jacket for the ceremony.
Shaam just dropped a music video he directed himself called Varum Vetri, and Kichcha Sudeep handled the vocals for the track. The Tamil actor produced the whole thing through his company SIR Studios with actress Neera appearing alongside him, while Amrish did the composition work and Sridhar Master choreographed everything.
T-Series picked up the album for worldwide distribution. Shaam wrapped filming on The Trainer, where he plays a cop in an action thriller inspired by the Tamil Nadu police's Kaavalan app that focuses on women's safety. Srikanth stars as a dog trainer with a trained dog named Lee playing a major role, and the story centers on a criminal gang controlled by some acupuncture doctor.
Sonam Kapoor threw up a throwback pic from when Anand Ahuja proposed to her in New York, and she's marking eight years since she agreed to marry him. The two got hitched back in 2018 and already have one kid named Vayu, plus another baby on the way, based on her recent announcement.
Her last movie was Blind from 2023, which was a crime thriller remake of a Korean film about a blind cop chasing down a serial killer. She was supposed to star in Battle for Bittora, which her sister Rhea Kapoor was producing, but that project has been stuck in development hell for years.
Priyanka Chopra posted about Nick Jonas getting his Hollywood Walk of Fame star with his brothers, and she basically gushed about how hardworking he is. The actress was there when the Jonas Brothers got their ceremony, and she made it clear she was super proud of the whole thing.
She's currently working on a film with Mahesh Babu that SS Rajamouli is directing, plus she landed a role in Krrish 4, where Hrithik Roshan will be making his directorial debut. Chopra also has The Bluff coming up, where she plays a Caribbean pirate from the 1800s.
Randeep Hooda posted a video where he was chilling in a forest stream, talking about how a tiger probably drank from that same water earlier that morning. The actor seemed pretty hyped about the whole nature experience.
He and his wife, Lin Laishram, recently announced they're expecting their first kid after two years of marriage. They got hitched in a traditional Meitei ceremony in Manipur and have always been big on wildlife stuff.
Hooda's next project is Operation Khukri, a military drama he's producing and starring in. The film covers a 2000 hostage situation in Sierra Leone where 233 Indian soldiers got trapped by rebel forces, and he'll be playing the officer who led the rescue mission through some intense jungle warfare conditions.
Shhyamali De posted on Instagram, thanking people for their kind messages after her recent wedding announcement, but she made it clear she's dealing with something way more serious right now. Her Jyotish guru got diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer that spread to multiple organs and the brain, which is where her focus needs to be at the moment.
She mentioned she practices Twin Hearts meditation and believes the positive energy she's getting back is just what she's been putting out into the world. De also shut down anyone hoping for drama or interviews, saying she has no PR team and is handling everything herself while managing this difficult situation.
Things got messy on Bigg Boss 19 when Farrhana Bhatt and Tanya Mittal went at each other pretty hard just before the finale wraps up. Farrhana called out Tanya for supposedly saying she was the strongest player before switching up her strategy, and she accused her of using sketchy moves to get ahead in the game.
Tanya fired back by saying that circumstances shift over time, which made Farrhana even angrier. The whole argument kept getting louder with both of them talking over each other until Farrhana basically told Tanya to get lost. The season ends on December 6, and six people are still competing for the win, though word is Malti Chahar might get eliminated during a mid-week episode.
Shafali Varma and some other players from the India Women's Cricket Team showed up on Kaun Banega Crorepati with Amitabh Bachchan, and the host tried to convince their coach, Amol Mazumdar, to let them eat pizza after their recent victory. Big B asked if they could have junk food during tournaments, and Shafali joked that they should ask the coach about it. Her teammate Sneh Rana backed her up by saying the coach even makes them diet, which got everyone laughing.
Bachchan kept pushing the coach to allow pizza for a whole year since the team won the World Cup, but Mazumdar shut it down pretty quickly. The quiz show airs on Sony Entertainment Television and follows the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire format, where contestants answer...
