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Two cases have been filed against popular film actress Mahiya Mahi and her husband – on charge of “defaming police” after going live on Facebook and alleged involvement in extortion and assaulting a businessman. Rokon Mia, sub-inspector of Bason Police Station, filed a case under Digital Security Act against Mahi and her husband Rakib Sarkar while Ismail Hossain, a businessman, ...

Ekushey award winning actor Zeenat Barkatullah was admitted at a hospital in the capital. The internationally renowned dance icon has been in the intensive care unit (ICU) for the last five days due to brain hemorrhage and lung infection. Her daughter renowned actor Bijori Barkatullah confirmed this news via a Facebook post. She was infected with coronavirus a couple of ...

Ke Huy Quan was a child star in two of the biggest movies of the 1980s, but gave up on acting when Hollywood gave up on him. Now he has made a remarkable comeback by winning an Oscar. “They say stories like this only happen in the movies,” a tearful Quan told the Oscars as he accepted his award for ...

Oscar winners announced Sunday: Best picture: “Everything Everywhere All at Once” Best actress: Michelle Yeoh, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” Best actor: Brendan Fraser, “The Whale” Best supporting actor: Ke Huy Quan, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” Best supporting actress: Jamie Lee Curtis, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” Original song: “Naatu Naatu” from “RRR” Film editing: “Everything Everywhere All at ...

Japanese Film Festival 2023 was held from March 9 to 12 under the initiative of the Embassy of Japan and Japan Foundation, in collaboration with the Institute of Modern Languages, University of Dhaka, and American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB). The film destival was inaugurated at the Institute of Modern Languages (IML), of the University of Dhaka, on March 9 and continued ...

The best actress category at the 95th Oscars is full of great awards season drama, from the surprise nomination of Andrea Riseborough to the potential history to be made if Michelle Yeoh wins, which AP’s film writers predict will happen. All will be celebrated during Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony, which airs live on ABC beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern. There’s ...

Popular actress Azmeri Haque Badhon, popularly known as a model and television actress in Bangladesh, has been awarded as the best actress for the film titled ‘Rehana Maryam Noor’ in the National Film Awards-2021. Badhon, who won the National Film Awards for the first time, also participated in many film festivals for the film across the world. The film festival ...

French singer Marcel Amont, a music-hall star known for hits such as “Bleu, blanc, blond”, died on Wednesday at the age of 93, his family said. The whimsical showman, who had a 75-year career, died at his home in Saint-Cloud, on the outskirts of Paris, according to a statement from his family, AFP reports. Born on April 1, 1929 in ...

When marine biologist Maxim Chakilev flings open the door of his ramshackle Siberian hut in the Oscar-nominated short documentary “Haulout” to find 100,000 honking and heaving walruses, the effect is breathtakingly cinematic. For almost two minutes, the screen is crowded with jostling animals, their guttural snorts filling the soundtrack and putting the viewer right in the middle of an astonishing ...

“Everything Everywhere All At Once” continued its awards sweep at the Film Independent Spirit Awards on its path to the Oscars next weekend. The multiverse-hopping adventure collected awards for best picture, directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, actors Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Stephanie Hsu, screenplay and editing. “Thank you to everyone who makes crazy, weird independent movies,” Scheinert ...