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"Jo aurat ka dard nahi samjhta... usey bhagwan mard nahi samjhta!".   This is a dialogue from the upcoming film , Phullu which is about a man’s story to help women embrace sanitary napkins, It is film that’s daring to disclose what India keeps hush-hush about even in 2017: Menstruation. The taboo around menstruation in India is so deep that women are still considered ‘impure’ when they have their period. However, India’s patriarchal and sexist systems have never been challenged so much as they are being now – with campaigns like #LahuKaLagaan, #HappyToBleed, #IAmNotDown and #TaxFreeWings storming the internet. At such a time – the trailer of Phullu has piqued a lot of curiosity and will hopefully break open the conversation even further, into our living rooms and schools. It looks like the story of one man fighting to ensure access to sanitary pads for the women in his village, while the elders look open-mouthed and openly disapprove of his ‘immoral antics’. Foodi

  Ingredients 1/2 kg boneless chicken 4 potatoes - small size, boiled 2 capsicum 3 onions 1 cup plain flour 1 tsp cornflour oil to fry 1/2 tsp red chili powder 1 tsp ginger-garlic paste salt as per taste tomato ketchup Skewer or Chopsticks   Method Boil chicken ,Cut chicken and potatoes in 1" cube pieces (it should be 16 pieces each). Cut 24 square shape pieces of onions and capsicums. Take a bamboo stick and skewer the chicken (2 pieces) and potato (2 pieces), altering with onion and capsicum pieces. Repeat for other sticks also ,Take a bowl and mix flour, corn flour, the spices and salt. Add warm water to make a thick paste. Coat the sticks with the flour paste and deep fry in medium heat. Heat a clean frying pan and add tomato ketchup. Stir fry the sticks for a minute. Serve hot Chicken Shashliks

  Ingredients   1/2 kg mince meat (beef or lamb) 1/2 tsp red chilli powder 1/2 tbsp roasted whole coriander seeds 1/2 tbsp roasted coriander seeds, coarsely ground 3 green chillies, chopped finely 1/4 tsp black pepper powder 1/2 tsp jeera powder 1 onion, finely chopped 1/4 cup finely chopped spring onion 1 1/2 cup finely chopped coriander leaves 1/2 cup finely chopped mint leaves salt as per taste 1 egg oil for shallow frying   Method   Mix well all the ingredients in the mince except oil. Keep aside for 1/2 hour. Roll the mixture in round balls, approx (1 1/2 tbsp of mixture for each ball) Flatten (press by palms) the balls Heat oil for shallow frying Shallow fry the kababs till golden brown from both the sides Serve hot with naan or parathas.

Ingredients 1 cup kabuli chana (white chick peas) soaked overnight 1 large tomato chopped 1 large onion chopped fine 1 small onion sliced into rings 1 tsp. garlic grated 1 tsp. ginger grated 3 green chillies chopped 1 tbsp. coriander chopped 1/2 tsp.each cumin & mustard seeds 1/2 tsp. dhania (coriander seed) powder 1 tsp. red chilli powder 1/2 tsp. garam masala 1/4 tsp. turmeric powder 1/4 tsp. cinnamon clove powder 3-4 pinches asafoetida 2 tbsp. tamarind extract 2 tbsp. oil 1 tbsp. ghee Method Pressurecook the chana till soft. (Approx. 4-5 whistles) Heat oil in a heavy saucepan add seeds, allow to splutter. Add asafoetida, ginger, garlic, chopped onions, fry till lightly browned. Add all dry masala, except clove-cinnamon powder. Stir well, add tomatoes, cook till oil separates. Drain chana, add to pan, stir well. Add tamarind. Mix. Cook till fairly dry. Keep aside. In a small pan, heat ghee, add clove-cinnamon

Sachin: A Billion Dreams   Is Inspiring, Intriguing And Impressive!   Sachin: A Billion Dreams, made by documentary filmmaker James Erskine, remains one of the most awaited biopic of the year and had made all cricket fans eager for the release. A sports-docudrama, the film has also been dubbed in Tamil and Telugu. The film is based on the life of the legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and revolves around the extraordinary career of the batsman, who retired from international cricket in 2013 and also touches upon his personal life. Making such a film on such a personality is a difficult decision in itself.   So, the director James put Sachin on the chair and tells the story with complete reverence and insight. The Master Blaster himself reveals certain aspects of his life that were never heard of before. The film captures the minutest aspects of Sachin’s life in fantastic detail. The duration of the film is two hours and 19 minutes. The film resumes with the birth of

  Sonu Nigam has quit Twitter weeks after his azaan row and has mentioned Paresh Rawal and Abhijeet Bhattacharya among the reasons for leaving Twitter. The singer says that Twitter is a great platform but has become a place where everyone expresses their anger instead of discussing issues. He is all for a “balanced” approach, he says. He also mentioned Paresh Rawal and Abhijeet Bhattacharya in a series of tweets in which he explained why he was leaving Twitter. Talking about singer Abhijeet whose Twitter account was suspended after offensive tweets, Sonu wrote, “One Could disagree wth Abhijeetda’s language but isn’t Shehla’s accusation tht BJP has a Sex Racket, Provocation enough to Supporters? If His account is deleted, why not Her?”   He also marked Paresh Rawal and his offensive tweet against Arundhati Roy, “A woman can endorse a picture of Gautam Gambhir in the front of the Army Jeep, & Paresh Rawal, Criticized for doing d same to someone else. Accepted Arun

After two failed romances with actresses Isha Shravani and VJ/actress/model/ Ramona Arena it has proved third time lucky for ex Indian cricketer Zaheer Khan who got engaged to actress Sagarika Ghatge on Tuesday. To make their engagement official, the duo hosted a grand engagement ceremony for their cricket and Bollywood pals. Anushka and Virat arrived hand-in-hand for the reception. Besides Anushka and Virat the other celeb guests included Sachin Tendulkar and wife Anjali, Bobby Deol, Arshad Warsi and wife Maria Goretti, Yuvraj Singh, Raveena Tandon and Anil Thadani, cricketer Rohit Sharma and wife Ritika, Mandira Bedi, Prachi Desai, attended the ceremony.     Zaheer Khan and Sagarika Ghatge had earlier announced about their engagement with an adorable post on Twitter. Zaheer had shared the big news saying, “Never laugh at your wife’s choices. You are one of them!!! Partners for life. #engaged @sagarikavghatge.” In his post, he also shared a picture of both of them

Half Girlfriend   Is Just Another Run Of The Mill Yawn Fest. Director Mohit Suri's film Half Girlfriend is based on Chetan Bhagat's book with the same title. If Chetan Bhagat’s original book was bad its screen adaptations is no better or maybe just worse. The film defies logic and relies heavily upon its six music directors to make the film convincing Half Girlfriend has as many as six music directors. The album has around ten tracks that cover a good chunk of the film’s running length of 135 minutes. The generic sad-love Mithoon ballads can’t drown out the shiny, half-witted and aspirational Bollywood-ness of Bhagat’s writing.   His ideas of Bihar, small-town dreams, privilege, poverty, class divides, sports, elitism, sex, romance, education, separation, relationship dynamics, dysfunctional families, feminism and domestic violence seem to be ripped out of an eighteen-year-old Miss World contestant’s rehearsed speech waxing lyrical about World Peace and

Hindi Medium Is An Impressive Satirical Take On Our Flawed Education System. Every year good English medium schools or private schools in India witness large queues of anxious parents outside their admissions office, waiting to get application forms and secure seats for their tiny tots. For many parents, after all, passing out from a good school is a ticket to future success. For most parents, a choice of school for their children is driven by perception, peer pressure influence, word of mouth (reference from acquaintances and relatives or other parents). Hindi Medium talks about language imperialism and how it influences an individual’s self confidence, ambitions and life. It is a funny take on India's school admission woes which deserves a watch. The film revolves around an Old Delhi couple,   Raj Batra (Irrfan Khan) is a garment businessman based in Chandni Chowk, who deals with original imitations of Manish Malhotra and Sabyasachi Mujherjee’s creations. Raj is a

Ever since Saif Ali Khan and Amrita Singh's daughter Sara Ali Khan started making public appearances in 2016 there has been a lot of conjecture about her Bollywood debut film. For a long time there was a buzz that Sara will debut with Karan Johar’s Student Of The Year 2 opposite Tiger Shroff. There were also reports of Zoya Akhtar casting Sara in her next Gully Boy . Incidentally, Yashraj Films’ Thugs Of Hindostan was one project that Sara was very interested in doing but was rejected by its producer Aditya Chopra after an audition. The Hindi remake of The Fault In Our Stars was another possible launch pad for Sara but nothing actually materialised and the guessing game about Sara’s launch film continues. The current buzz doing the rounds since last week is that Salman Khan apparently approached Sara for the film with which he is planning to launch his brother-in-law Aayush Sharma. Reportedly, Sara has heard the script, a love story, and is expected to come on-board so

The gorgeous Zeenat Aman came, charmed and conquered the box office relentlessly in the past. One thought she was content doing whatever she was doing but she has proved us wrong because she has just made a comeback and a disappointing one at that. The veteran actor Zeenat Aman, who is 65, has made a comeback to entertain her fans through a web series titled Love, Life & Screw Ups . The first episode of the web series made it to the web world earlier this week on the 15 th on Youtube and the second episode went online two days later on the 17th. Zeenat Aman plays a spinster, Joana, who owns a cafeteria and likes to mingle with the youth while dealing with her own messed-up life. The web series Love, Life & Screw Ups comes across as extremely gross and Zeenat Aman is not in her best element. She looks like a misfit in a sleazy drama. Unnecessarily explicit dialogues, out-of-context foul language, forced "coolness" and a visibly struggling-to-act Zeenat

The veteran actress, who is most remembered for her roles as a mother , breathed her last early this morning at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Andheri West. Lagoo was admitted in the hospital at 1 a.m. (IST) on 18 May 2017 after she complained of chest pain. She died at 3:15 a.m. (IST) from cardiac arrest. The Late actress’ body was cremated at the Oshiwara Crematorium in Mumbai at 2 p.m. (IST). Though Lagoo started out with television serials, she was prominently recognised for her roles in both Hindi and Marathi films. She debuted in films in 1979 with the Marathi film Sinhasan .   She first rose to prominence with the Hindi film Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1988) where she played Juhi Chawla's mother. She was seen in a controversial role in Aruna Raje's Rihaee (1988). She then starred in the blockbuster film Maine Pyar Kiya (1989) as Salman Khan's mother and then in Saajan (1991), also a superhit success at the box office. She starred in action drama a

Dangal has taken Chinese box office by storm. The collection of Aamir Khan's Dangal crossed Rs. 300 crore mark at the China box office on its 9th day. With this, the movie has become the second Indian film to surpass Rs. 1000 crore mark after Baahubali 2 . Released in 9,000 screens on May 5, Dangal made record breaking collection at the China box office in its opening week. When everyone thought its dream run might slow down in the second week, the movie surprised by faring better on its second Friday than its opening day. Its performance on the second Saturday in China left the trade analysts and pundits of Bollywood stunned. Dangal showed 119 percent growth and collected $13.66 million (Rs. 87.66 crore) at the China box office on its second Saturday. It is the highest single day collection for any Indian film in the country. Is sensational on Sat... Grosses an  unimaginable $ 13.66 million [₹ 87.66 cr] in a *single* day..." Despite some reluctance fro