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Immigration, abortion and the eternal search for the American Dream make up the ingredients of “La Cocina,” a new film that examines the United States’ most divisive issues through the microcosm of a New York restaurant kitchen. The tense, claustrophobic drama stars Oscar nominee Rooney Mara (“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”) as an American waitress at a bustling Times ...

Will the real Timothee Chalamet please stand up? Even the Hollywood star’s most convincing doppelgangers, gathered in New York for a look-alike contest, did a double-take when the man himself swung by their festivities Sunday. Around 20 young men, complete with chiseled jawlines and distinctive waves of walnut-colored hair, had gathered along with a massive crowd of spectators in New ...

The dead body of Moni Kishore, a popular singer of the 90s, has been recovered from his Rampura residence in the capital. Police recovered the body at about 11:30PM on Saturday from his house behind Rampura TV centre. Rampura Police Station SI Khan Abdur Rahman said, “At 10PM, owner of the house called national emergency service 999 and after that, ...

Bollywood star Alia Bhatt’s latest film “Jigra” earned Rs 4.55 crore net on its opening day at the domestic box office, the makers announced on Saturday. Released in theatres across the country in Hindi and Telugu on Friday, the movie is directed by Vasan Bala, known for “Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota” and “Monica, O My Darling”. It is produced ...

Ekushey Padak-winning television and theater actor Engineer Jamal Uddin Hossain has passed away. He was 81. The veteran actor breathed his last at a hospital at Calgary in Canada at about 8:00pm on Friday (local time and 8:00am Bangladesh time), according to family sources. Jamal Uddin Hossain, a member of the Nagorik Natya Sampradaya, started acting in theater in the ...

Muhammed Shahed Rahman :   Baul Shah Abdul Karim Folk Festival-2024 was held in London with the participation of more than half a hundred artists in a splendid atmosphere. It was organized for the first time by Aryan Film and Globe TV at the Brady Arts Center in London. The program was hosted by UK BD TV cultural director and ...

  “A Tupperware of Ashes” at the National Theatre is a moving and thought-provoking exploration of family, identity, and South Asian heritage. Written by Tanika Gupta and directed by Pooja Ghai, the play stars the remarkable talents of Meera Syal (Queenie), Shobna Gulati (Indrani) Zubin Varla (Ameet) who breathe life into this poignant story about the complex relationships between British ...

Lady Gaga knew the recipe to keep her Las Vegas shows electric: start in the studio. Before each residency performance this summer, she and a group of talented musicians clocked hours-long recording sessions, capturing that spark. The energy from their studio time flowed into Gaga’s performance and fueled the creation of her new album “Harlequin,” out Friday. The superstar was ...

  The RSC and Wise Children’s ‘intoxicating, five-star’ (Times) production of The Buddha of Suburbia transfers to the Barbican from 22 October for a limited 4-week season only. South London in the late seventies. High unemployment, high inflation, food shortages and strikes. But despite the winter of discontent, 17-year-old Karim’s life is about to explode into glorious technicolour as he ...

New York’s prestigious Metropolitan Opera will open its season Monday with “Grounded,” a work that explores technological evolutions of war against the backdrop of motherhood. Commissioned by the Met and based on a one-woman play by George Brant, the piece kicking off the opera’s 2024-25 season first opened at the Washington National Opera last year, AFP reports. The opera, scored ...