Veteran playwright and actor Girish Karnad died in Bangalore, June 10, of a prolonged illness. He was 81. He is survived by his wife Saraswathi and son Raghu Karnad.

Karan Johar has reportedly teamed up with BBC India to host a dating talk show for Netflix. It is being speculated that “What The Love? will start filming in 2020 after Johar finishes his next directorial project “Takht."

Achyutanand Dwivedi's three-minute film, “Seed Mother,” has won the third prize in the international section of Nespresso Talents at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival, May 17. 

Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone and Sara Ali Khan have won Instagrammers of the Year awards, which recognize most engaging community members on the social media platform across the nation.

In “Kalank,” a lavish Bollywood melodrama, people talk in mysterious ways. “Some relationships are like debt,” the hero says, gazing into the heroine’s dark eyes. “They cannot be redeemed. They must be repaid.”

Director Praveen Morchhale’s “Widow of Silence” won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature, while Sandhya Suri’s “The Field,” won the award for best short, at the recently concluded Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles.

Mira Nair is said to be teaming up with Ranveer Hooda after a gap of 19 years for the eight-episode adaptation of Vikram Seth’s novel “A Suitable Boy.”  Hooda and Nair last worked in the 2001 film “The Monsoon Wedding.”

Anupam Kher says his latest film “Hotel Mumbai” is about the resilience of people in the face of terror and stresses the importance of humanity. “It’s a courageous film; it’s heartening and heart-warming,” he told India Abroad. “It shows us that religion of humanity is much more important than anything else.”

Bollywood superstars Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt won the best actor awards for their roles in the films "Sanju" and "Raazi" respectively at the 64th Filmfare Awards 2019 on Saturday.