08022023-LSTL-01.qxd 2/7/2023 11:05 PM Page 1 c m y b TRIBUNE Salma Hayek was considered ‘too sexy’ for comedy genre Wrap up Actress Pooja Hegde has wrapped up action thriller Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan. She is playing the lead role opposite superstar Salman Khan. TMS LUDHIANA | WEDNESDAY | 8 FEBRUARY 2023 Perfect Proposal It’s the week of love. On Propose Day, we look at how these celebs expressed their feelings Sheetal V ALENTINE’S week kick-started with Rose Day on Monday and as the week progresses, social media feeds will be inundated with lovers’ posts and romantic gestures. As we celebrate Propose Day today, here’s knowing how these celebs expressed their love. Meghan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly were on a vacation together in Puerto Rico when the unique proposal came about. The couple went overboard and sealed the union by drinking each other’s blood! They got engaged last year on January 13. The rapper also gave a unique ring. WINNING HEARTS Musician Travis Barker’s beachside proposal to Kourtney Kardashian won many hearts on the internet. While Travis was against recording the proposal, it was on Kris Jenner’s persistence that he gave in, but on the condition that no camera should be spotted by him or Kourtney. BIRTHDAY SPECIAL RANBIR KAPOOR AND ALIA BHATT Richa Chadha and Ali Fazal recently got married. Ali hadn’t gone overboard with his proposal to Richa, but yet made it a special moment for it was on her birthday. The couple was celebrating Richa’s birthday in Maldives in 2019. Ali had planned a dinner on a small, secluded island. While the actress thought it was simple birthday dinner, she never thought Ali would ask her hand in marriage. Ali did not bend on his knee or present a fancy ring to her, but Richa revealed how he took a tenminute nap on the sand ‘that’s how stressed he was about the proposal’. Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas have given couple goals to many, and also shown that age is just a number. Nick had proposed on July 19, just a day after Priyanka’s birthday in 2018, just to keep the two special days separate. Nick popped the question at midnight with a Tiffany & Co engagement ring. That’s funny! Salma Hayek revealed in a recent interview that Hollywood had blocked her from starring in a comedy for nearly 20 years because she was deemed too sexy for the genre. Although Hayek acted in romantic comedies such as 1997’s Fools Rush In (opposite Matthew Perry) and Breaking Up (opposite Russell Crowe), she said it wasn’t until I was 2010’s Grown-Ups that she got the chance to star in a traditypecast for a long tional comedy movie. Hayek time. My entire life I credited Adam Sandler with wanted to do comedy finally giving her the chance and people wouldn’t to be funny. give me comedies. “I was typecast for a long time. My entire life I wanted to SALMA HAYEK do comedy and people wouldn’t give me comedies. I couldn’t land a role until I met Adam Sandler, who put me in a Grown Ups, but I was in my forties then. They said, ‘You are sexy, so you’re not allowed to have a sense of humour’. —IANS LOVE KNOWS NO BOUNDS PRIYANKA CHOPRA AND NICK JONAS KOURTNEY AND TRAVIS the same city, while she was shooting for An Evening in Paris. Saif proposed to Kareena in a bar and later at the Notre Dame Church. Around the same time in 2008, Saif also got Kareena’s name tattooed on his forearm. Apparently, Kunal Kemmu also asked Saif’s sister Soha Ali Khan for marriage in Paris, which wasn’t in their Europe trip plan! But Kemmu added it intentionally just to make a proposal to Soha in the most romantic city in the world. EVENING IN PARIS SOHA ALI KHAN AND KUNAL KEMMU ALI AND RICHA Saif Ali Khan had proposed to Kareena Kapoor in Paris, not once but twice. His late father Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi had proposed to his mother Sharmila Tagore in SURPRISE, SURPRISE Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt’s proposal moment was captured and posted by Alia’s mother Soni Razdan online, although later she MEGAN AND MACHINE GUN KELLY deleted it. Ranbir swept Alia off her feet with his proposal in Maasai Mara, Kenya. Alia also talked about it on the show Koffee With Karan. She said, “In terms of his (Ranbir) planning, he totally blew my mind away because I was not expecting it. We were not even talking about it… He didn’t tell anyone.” Being a very private couple, Vicky Kaushal and Katrina haven’t revealed it themselves, but the buzz is that he had packed the special message with a ring in dark chocolate brownies ordered from Katrina’s favourite baker. He gave it to her like it was a regular box. And Kat, although stumped, said yes! Kantara 2 will be a prequel This is no gossip… RIP, Rizvi Rishab Shetty is basking in the success of Kantara and while there have been news of another part, now it’s confirmed that Kantara 2 will be a prequel. Earlier, Homabale Films founder Vijay Kiragandur had shared the same news, but now director-actor Rishab has himself spoken about it at a recent event. The film is in the process of scripting and will release next year, and will be made on a huge budget. This is unlike Kantara 1, which was made in just 16 crores. Rishab said, “We are very pleased and thankful to the audience who had shown immense love and support for Kantara. With the blessing of Almighty Daiva, the film has successfully completed 100 days and I would like to take this opportunity to announce the prequel of Kantara. What you have seen is actually Part 2, Part 1 will come next year. The idea flashed into my mind while I was shooting for Kantara because the history of Kantara has more depth to it. Currently, we are in the middle of digging into more details.” — TMS Mystic & marvellous American band White Sun lifted their second trophy at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. The band, which consists of Gurujas Khalsa (singer, songwriter), Harijiwan Khalsa (founder, percussionist) and Adam Berry (producer, instrumentalist) won the Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album for Mystic Mirror. They had won their first Grammy, for Best New Age Album in 2017, for their album White Sun II. “Oh wow my heart is beating so fast, thank you so much to the Academy... I’m going to cry. Thank you to everyone who helped create this album, thank you to our producers... Standing with you guys is such a privilege and honour...With this comes more responsibility to bring love and kindness to planet earth. There is that famous song Love Is Raveena Tandon, in a recent interaction, opened up about issues such as body shaming and gossip columns in magazines as well as newspapers. In fact, she was utterly displeased with the ‘viciousness’ of ’90s journalism and had decided to take a break after her marriage. She elaborated, “During the 90s, gossip magazines were the worst. And some of those women, now I see roaming around carrying the women’s liberation badge over their heads and hearts. They were the worst enemies of women. They bodyshamed women and would do everything possible to bring another woman down. Today they roam around as the biggest feminists…” Shabad from Gurbani are part of Grammy-winning album Mystic Mirror ADAM BERRY, HARIJIWAN KHALSA AND GURUJAS KHALSA All You Need and I think through love and music we can sing the world into a better place,” said Gurujas in her acceptance speech at the Grammys. She along with Harijiwan Khalsa was dressed in their signature all-white ensemble, while Adam Berry was in a black suit. Gurujas RAVEENA TANDON also thanked John Billings and Patrick Moore from Billings Artworks, who have been creating gramophone statues for Grammy over 40 years. The album Mystic Mirror has nine tracks, including Pavan Guru, Narayan and Ma. Three shabads from Gurbani are part of the tracks. The band creates music that uplifts the listeners’ mood. They are working on a Spanish album and looking at many more live shows in 2023. Gurujas and Harijiwan also teach kundalini yoga. “We are thrilled!!! We just won a Grammy for our album Mystic Mirror in the New Age, Ambient or Chant Category. We want to thank the @recordingacademy not only for the beautiful awards ceremony, but also for all the amazing work they do on behalf of music creators. Thanks to everyone who has ever supported our music, our families, our friends, and everyone who participated in our album, our producer Kenya Autie, our mixing engineer, Oscar Autie. Congratulations to all the artists who were nominated in our category...,” read their social media post. —TNS c m y b Controversial film producer Nazim Hassan Rizvi, whose hit film Chori Chori, Chupke Chupke (2001) blew the lid off the Bollywood-Mafia nexus, passed away at a private hospital in Mumbai. Admitted to the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital (KDAH) for certain undisclosed ailments, Rizvi breathed his last while under treatment late on Monday. Producer Nazim Rizvi, of Chori Chori, Chupke Chupke-fame passes away In his early 70s, his mortal remains were taken to his native place in Uttar Pradesh for the funeral. Rizvi had also produced other films such as Majboor Ladki (1991), Apaatkal (1993), Angarvaadi (1998), Undertrial (2007), Hello, Hum Lallan Bol Rahe Hain (2010), Qasam Se, Qasam Se, (2011), and Laden Aala Re Aala (2017). However, he is widely known for the musical hit Chori Chori, Chupke Chupke starring Salman Khan, Rani Mukherjee and Preity Zinta. Nevertheless, the film, which shot him into big league, also made news for other unsavoury reasons. Shortly before its release, Rizvi and another financer Bharat Shah were arrested in December 2000 for allegedly diverting tainted underworld-linked money for the movie production. — IANS Clear speak Prakash Raj calls Pathaan boycott campaign a hoax After Pathaan broke many records at the box-office, actor-director Prakash Raj has spoken at length about the people who were threatening the release of the film through boycott campaigns. Lashing out at the hate-mongers, he called the entire campaign a hoax. Prakash said, “They wanted to ban Pathaan. It’s doing Rs 700 crore business…They are just barking, won’t bite. Sound pollution.” He even went on to criticise Vivek Agnihotri’s The Kashmir Files and said, “It is a nonsense films, but we know who produced it. Shameless. International jury spits on them. The director is asking why he is not getting an Oscar. He will not even get a Bhaskar! I tell you because there is a sensitive media out there. Here you can do a propaganda film. But you can’t fool people all the time.” —TMS