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“Anora”, an explicit and often hilarious story about a New York erotic dancer, won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, which also saw a first-ever win for a trans actress. Director Sean Baker was confirmed as one of the leading voices of American indie cinema with the prize, which also promises to make a star of ...

1. Nancy Tyagi’s Debut Dominates Cannes Red Carpet Nancy Tyagi, a rising star from Uttar Pradesh, stole the spotlight at Cannes 2024 with her breathtaking debut. Her self-designed ensembles, including a stunning powder pink gown and intricately embroidered saree, left spectators in awe, marking her as a fashion force to be reckoned with. 2. Sunanda Sharma’s Elegant Tribute to Punjabi ...

Monowar Hossain Dipjol cannot perform his duty as general secretary of Bangladesh Film Artistes Association (BFAA) for six months, according to the High Court order. The court, at the same time, directed the authorities concerned to investigate the allegations of irregularities and vote rigging in the election brought by actor Nasreen Akhter Nipun against Dipjol. The court issued a rule ...

An early entry in the Cannes film competition has taken Cannes spectators down a dark path of unwanted motherhood to a shop of horrors with a serial killer twist. Swedish director Magnus Von Horn’s “The Girl With the Needle” — one of 22 movies vying for the top Palme d’Or prize — is at times so hard to watch that ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah:   An exhibition of profound historical significance, titled ‘Hunger Burns: The Bengal Famine of 1943’, was inaugurated on 11 May at the Watney Market Idea Store. The exhibition was based on Diya Gupta’s book India in the Second World War, which recovers a global history of the Second World War, revealing two-and-a-half million men from undivided India ...

Actor Nasreen Akhter Nipun has filed a writ with the High Court (HC) seeking cancellation of Film Artistes Association election for the term 2024-2026. She also sought a ban on the committee led by Misha Sawdagar and Monowar Hossain Dipjol from performing its duties. Nipun’s lawyer Palash Chandra Roy submitted the petition on Wednesday with the court of Justice Naima ...

Police have recovered the body of a film director from a house on Moghbazar Dilu Road in the capital early Wednesday. The body of MA Awal,60, was retrieved around 12:30am on Wednesday and sent to the Dhaka Medical College morgue for autopsy. Shah Mohammad Awlad Hossain, officer-in-charge (OC) of Hatirjheel police station, on Wednesday said Awal had been ill for ...

Having shaken four continents, Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour finally brings the biggest pop culture icon of the century to Europe from Thursday, starting with a four-night run in Paris. Swift has broken almost every record in music, and her sixth tour is no exception. The Eras Tour, which began in March 2023, is already the first to sell more than ...

Pop idol Madonna gave it all in Rio de Janeiro as she looked back on her four-decade career in a historic show before throngs of joyful fans jammed onto Brazil’s famed Copacabana beach on Saturday night. The 65-year-old singer walked down an elevated bridge from the Copacabana Palace hotel shortly after 10:30 pm (0130 GMT Sunday) to a massive stage ...

Tollywood movie ‘O Abhagi’ starring Rafiath Rashid Mithila was released at the beginning of last April. Anirban Chakraborty produced the movie based on Saratchandra Chatterjee’s ‘Abhagir Swarg’. Mithila won the best actress award for her performance in this movie. The 14th Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival was recently held in Delhi, the capital of India. In the same film festival, ...