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Here's some huge casting news from the Bollywood world – megastar Amitabh Bachchan has been set to star alongside Deepika Padukone in the long-planned Hindi remake of The Intern. Bachchan will play the Robert De Niro role, which was previously set to be played by Rishi Kapoor before he died suddenly in April 2020…

EXCLUSIVE: Bollywood mega-star Deepika Padukone, who made her English-language debut as the female lead in xXx: The Return of Xander Cage, has signed with ICM for representation in all areas. One of India’s leading actresses, in 2018 Time magazine named Padukone one of its 100 Most Influential People in the…

Confirming longstanding rumors, actress Deepika Padukone will team with Baahubali actor Prabhas in a forthcoming untitled Nag Ashwin-directed film. The news on the project was revealed on the actors’ social media profiles on Sunday. Prabhas welcomed Padukone with a simple statement: “We are very excited to have…

Mumbai-based Azure Entertainment and Warner Bros India are teaming to jointly produce a Hindi-language remake of Nancy Meyers’ 2015 comedy/drama The Intern. Rishi Kapoor and Deepika Padukone will take on the roles originally played by Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway. Padukone and Sunir Kheterpal will produce under…

Amid escalating tension surrounding Bollywood epic Padmavati, India’s extremist Rajput caste group Karni Sena has threatened to burn down any British cinema that screens the film. This comes as the Deepika Padukone-starrer continues to face angry sentiment and threats against cast and crew. In another development on…

Since it began in 2008, the Indian Premier League cricket season has seen lines increasingly blurred between the sport and Bollywood, both of which are among the biggest cultural passions in the massive country. Six weeks long, and with a brand value of some $3.2B, the IPL has similarities to both the U.S. Super Bowl…

Bollywood star Aamir Khan has officially outdone himself. His holiday season release PK already held the record for the biggest-ever North American bow of a Bollywood film, and as of last weekend was the market’s top foreign-language title of 2014. At the end of its second week, the Rajkumar Hirani-directed…

Bollywood stars have been having a good run at the international box office over the past year, from Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif‘s current release Bang Bang to Salman Khan in Kick this summer. Next up is arguably the best-known global Bollywood hitmaker, Shah Rukh Khan, in Happy New Year (see trailer below). Set…