Pricey Reader,
How can we react to the information of Bappi Lahiri passing away inside 10 days of Lata Mangeshkar’s demise? In February 2022, we have been bombarded with heartbreaking information, one after one other. Lata Mangeshkar left us on February 6, and Bappi Lahiri breathed his final on the evening of February 15. Bengali singing legend Sandhya Mukherjee additionally handed away on the identical day. How far more can one take? An period of golden music in cinema simply got here to an finish. What stays are their innumerable songs and anecdotes from their lustrous profession. And a lingering, piercing feeling of loss in our hearts.
Farewell, Bappi Da!
From this level on, there’s really nothing that we are able to say to raise your or our temper. We’ve got an inventory of recent reveals and movies on OTT, a bunch of pleased movies in our One thing To Make You Smile part, a recipe, a ebook, and a collection of memes that Deepika Padukone, Ananya Panday and Siddhant Chaturvedi’s Gehraiyaan impressed.
However, we’re achieved. Executed making an attempt. Executed preventing. Now, we’re merely surrendering to the melancholia. Nothing extra from us this week. Keep wholesome, and should you get an opportunity, maintain the one you love shut, tighter than you usually would.
We are going to see you subsequent week when the solar shines once more on this gloomy evening.
WHAT’S TRENDING?
This wasn’t maybe the most effective week that one would wish to embrace with open arms because the nation misplaced two gems from the music world Bappi Lahiri and Sandhya Mukherjee.
File picture of Bappi Lahiri from Getty Photographs.
Bappi Lahiri handed away in Mumbai on February 15. The singer and music composer was recognized with Obstructive Sleep Apnea and recurrent chest an infection. Legendary Bengali singer Sandhya Mukherjee died after she suffered a large cardiac arrest. The demise of each the veteran singers despatched shockwaves throughout the nation and left scores of followers in a state of grief.
Additionally, it was a dismal begin to the week for buyers because the share market gyrated in volatility, triggered by escalating tensions between Russia and the West over Ukraine, and as banking shares prolonged their decline.
In the meantime, folks appeared just about obsessive about Gehraiyaan. Was it for the precise motive? Properly, you determine. The Deepika Padukone starrer, which launched final Friday on Amazon Prime Video, remained the purpose of dialogue on social media.
After I purchase books though I do know my tbr pile will hang-out me endlessly!
I did what I needed to #Memes #Gehraiyaan #GehraiyaanOnPrime pic.twitter.com/snWcDaA6Bb— Sameeksha (@sameekshamaner1) January 27, 2022
The movie opened to blended evaluations with some appreciating how maturely director Shakun Batra offers with difficult relationships whereas others highlighted the anomaly within the movie. The movie trended massive time on Twitter as folks shared their views whereas memes on Gehraiyaan additionally went viral.
SOMETHING TO MAKE YOU SMILE
For all those that take pleasure in watching web sensation Kili Paul’s movies, right here’s a brand new clip that you’ll absolutely love. The Tanzanian boy danced to the AajTak tune within the video that went loopy viral on social media.
We additionally cherished this video of a meteorologist who was left teary-eyed after her boyfriend stunned her with a wedding proposal on digital camera. The video is so heartwarming.
DON’T FORGET TO WORK OUT
Get your dose of health motivation this week from Sara Ali Khan. On her Instagram tales, Sara had shared a clip from her health club session as she exercised below the steering of her coach Namrata Purohit. She did Pilates as properly.
WHAT’S ON MY PLATE?
Hen 65. (Picture credit score: Amiya Shrivastava)
Hen 65 is likely one of the hottest snacks amongst non-vegetarian lovers. The spicy dish is fast and straightforward to make and we now have the recipe of it so that you can strive over this weekend. By the way, the dish was invented in 1965 at Buhari Resort in Chennai and that’s the way it acquired its title. You’ll be able to learn extra about this right here.
HOW TO MAKE CHICKEN 65?
To make Hen 65, you’ll need- 500 grams of rooster reduce into bite-sized items, 2 tablespoons of rice flour, 1 tablespoon of ginger-garlic paste, lemon juice, 2 tablespoons of coriander powder, 4 tablespoons every of yoghurt, mustard oil, 4 inexperienced chillies chopped, 1 pinch purple chilli powder, half a teaspoon of turmeric, 1 tablespoon of curry leaves, 1 tablespoon every of chopped ginger and garlic, and salt to style.
Marinate the rooster within the spices, yoghurt, lemon juice, ginger-garlic paste and salt for 4-5 hours. Subsequent, add rice flour and corn flour to the rooster marinade and coat evenly. Deep fry the rooster items in oil until cooked from either side. Subsequent, warmth some oil in a pan and add the garlic, ginger, curry leaves and chillies. Add purple chilli powder and sauté. Add the cooked rooster items. Serve sizzling with a lemon wedge.
FASHIONABLY YOURS
Lovebirds Shibani Dandekar and Farhan Akhtar are all set to tie the knot on February 19 in Khandala. Whereas we’re ready with bated breath for his or her wedding ceremony footage to reach, this is taking a look at bride-to-be Shibani Dandekar’s eclectic trip wardrobe. On the subject of dressing up, Shibani can safely be included within the record of probably the most trendy divas of Tinsel City. So, on Vogue Friday this week, we check out Shibani’s prime seems to be from her vacation wardrobe that we merely love.
FROM THE BOOKSHELF
THE JOB CHARNOCK RIDDLE by Victor Ghoshe
The Job Charnock Riddle
The pandemic is sort of ebbing and life is slowly resuming to regular. So, why not amp up our studying patterns into one thing fast-paced, like a thriller? Victor Ghoshe’s The Job Charnock Riddle is an ideal union between historical past and the present-day Kolkata. The story, nevertheless, begins from the time when Kolkata was Calcutta and Sir Job Charnock (a senior officer of The East India Firm) set his foot within the metropolis. He buries a secret treasure within the metropolis that has a riddle for a clue for many who search it. Centuries later, the key surfaces, “so highly effective it might probably kill many, so intriguing, it might probably drag many.”
Journey via the pages of historical past together with Eric and Aurin to unearth the secrets and techniques of Sir Job Charnock. The experience will certainly be one to recollect.
MOVIES AND MAGIC
The dying of one other legend, this time Disco King Bappi Lahiri, makes us really feel heavy within the coronary heart. The ever-smiling, pleased Bappi Lahiri, who gave us chart-busting numbers via the 80s and 90s and even after that, handed away on the evening of February 15, on the age of 69. And all we are able to do now could be reminisce the nice ol’ disco days via his music. Farewell, Bappi Lahiri, you true rockstar!
This was proper after information of Bengali singing legend Sandhya Mukherjee’s passing away. Inside 10 days of Lata Mangeshkar’s demise. It has really been a tragic month for cinema.
However, we should transfer on from this sombre information. And onto happier stuff. For starters, there’s Farhan Akhtar and Shibani Dandekar’s wedding ceremony on February 19. Their’s might be a easy shaadi with no taamjhaam, no nikah or conventional Maharashtrian wedding ceremony. Hold studying IndiaToday.in for all that it’s essential to find out about this Bollywood shaadi.
However there’s shouldn’t be the one shaadi this week. Vikrant Massey tied the knot together with his long run girlfriend Sheetal Thakur on February 18. A lot congratulations to the newlyweds on the block.
An excessive amount of data to course of in too little time? Properly, take a step again and begin streaming some OTT content material. We’ve got our eyes on A Thursday and Bestseller. Extra on that within the OTT part.
ON YOUR OTT SCREENS
ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO
What to look at: Bestseller
You’ll prefer it should you favored: Asur
Bestseller stars Mithun Chakraborty, Shruti Haasan, Arjan Bajwa, Gauahar Khan, Satyajeet Dubey and Sonalee Kulkarni. The story revolves round novelist Tahir Wazir who’s coping with a author’s block. He meets a budding author, Meetu Mathur. The story then takes a darkish flip filled with thriller, thoughts video games and extra.
What to look at: The Marvelous Mrs Maisel Season 4
You’ll prefer it should you favored: The Marvelous Mrs Maisel
Everybody’s favorite, Mrs Maisel, is again. Midge is now on the peak of her reputation and books a career-defining stand-up comedy gig. Along with her profession shifting ahead, issues again residence take a success. Prepare for an emotional experience full of laughter.
What to look at: Household Pack
You’ll like this should you favored: Kanchana
After One Minimize Two Minimize, Household Pack is the second movie from Puneeth Rajkumar’s manufacturing home in 2022. The comedy drama, directed by Arjun Kumar, options Likith Shetty, Amrutha Iyengar and Rangayana Raghu in lead roles. The movie follows the story of a boy, who has misplaced hope to dwell. He encounters a ghost who offers him a brand new lease of life. Nevertheless, issues go haywire when the 2 realise how they’re related.
ON ZEE5
What to look at: Mithya
You’ll prefer it should you favored: Typewriter
In Mithya, Huma Qureshi performs Juhi, a Hindi literature college professor. Avantika Dassani performs her pupil, Rhea Rajguru. There’s educational deception resulting in a battle, which spirals right into a devastating sequence of occasions. Mithya takes a darkish flip and threatens to engulf the 2 and everybody round them.
ON NETFLIX
What to look at: The Cuphead Present!
You’ll prefer it should you favored: Discovering Nemo
The Cuphead Present is an enthralling ode to basic cartoons that may stand by itself whereas additionally that includes loads of nods to its supply materials. It releases on Netflix on February 18.
What to look at: House Drive season 2
You’ll prefer it should you favored: House Drive season 1
House Drive Season 1 follows the shaky profession of Basic Mark R Naird (Steve Carell), a four-star chief, who’s unexpectedly assigned the command for a brand new division of America’s navy – devoted to bolstering the nation’s dominance in house and getting astronauts again to the Moon. The present returns with the second season on February 18.
What to look at: Jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy
You’ll prefer it should you favored: The Tinder Swindler
The Netflix movie reveals the rise of Kanye West and was filmed over twenty years. The movie is a three-part sequence which launched on the streaming platform on February 16.
What to look at: Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath
You’ll prefer it should you favored: Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath Half 1
Directed by David Blue Garcia, the story is a few serial killer. It’s reported to be a sequel to The Texas Chain Noticed Bloodbath launched in 1974. The movie stars Sarah Yarkin, Elsie Fisher, Mark Burnham and Jacob Latimore in main roles.
ON DISNEY+HOTSTAR
What to look at: A Thursday
You’ll prefer it should you favored: A Wednesday
Yami Gautam’s A Thursday, which launched lately, might be an ideal weekend watch. She performs the position of Naina Jaiswal, a playschool instructor, who takes 16 college students hostage. It sends shockwaves throughout not solely the Mumbai Police Division however the whole nation.
ON SONY LIV
What to look at: Homecoming
You’ll prefer it should you favored: Insecure
Starring Tushar Pandey, Sayani Gupta, Plabita Borthakur, Soham Majumdar and Hussain Dalal, Homecoming revolves across the story of a bunch of associates who reunite on the event of Durga Puja. What follows subsequent is a melange of reminiscences. The present streams from February 18.
ON APPLE TV+
What to look at: Severance
You’ll prefer it should you favored: Attempting
Severance is a office thriller by Ben Stiller and Dan Erickson. The movie stars Adam Scott, Patricia Arquette, and John Turturro. It premieres on Apple TV+ on February 18.
What to look at: Lincoln’s Dilemma
You’ll prefer it should you favored: Basis
Lincoln’s Dilemma is a four-part documentary sequence about slavery and the complicated journey to finish the apply. It’s based mostly on the well-known ebook Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Instances. The present premieres on February 18.
ON YOUR TV SCREENS
What to look at: The Kapil Sharma Present
The place to look at: Sony TV, 9.30 pm (Saturday and Sunday)
This Saturday, The Kapil Sharma Present might be welcoming the forged of the movie A Thursday. Viewers will see Yami Gautam, Neha Dhupia and Atul Kulkarni gracing the units to advertise their movie. On Sunday, Madhuri Dixit might be seen on TKSS together with The Fame Recreation co-stars Manav Kaul, Sanjay Kapoor, Lakshvir Saran and Muskan Jaferi.
What to look at: India’s Acquired Expertise 9
The place to look at: Sony TV, 8 pm (Saturday and Sunday)
This weekend, India’s Acquired Expertise, might be welcoming its very first movie star visitor of the season. Veteran actor Dharmendra might be gracing the expertise hunt present for the ‘Dharam ji Particular’ episode. The Prime 14 contestants might be seen giving a tribute to Dharmendra by acting on a few of his in style and iconic songs.
What to look at: Hunarbaaz Desh Ki Shaan
The place to look at: Colours TV, 9 pm (Saturday and Sunday)
This weekend, Hunarbaaz -Desh Ki Shaan will welcome Rohit Shetty as a particular visitor. He might be choosing the Prime 12 contestants on the present. Hunarbaaz contestants might be showcasing their performances on the present, which has Parineeti Chopra, Karan Johar and Mithum Chakraborty as judges.
What to look at: SaReGaMaPa
The place to look at: Zee TV, 9 pm (Saturday and Sunday)
This weekend, SaReGaMaPa contestants might be seen paying an emotional tribute to legendary singer-composer Bappi Lahiri, who handed away on February 15. Will probably be an emotional second as throwback movies of him might be performed whereas the contestants might be singing Bappi da’s songs.
(Compiled by Nairita Mukherjee, Raya Ghosh, Tiasa Bhowal, Janani Ok, Shweta Keshri, Srimoyee Chowdhury, Rishita Roy Chowdhury, Grace Cyril, Shubhi Mishra, Samriddhi Srivastava, Tanushree Roy, Anindita Mukherjee, Medha Chawla)
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