Alia Bhatt recently shared heartwarming insights into the personality of her daughter, Raha. Speaking at the Amrit Ratna 2026 summit in New Delhi on Wednesday, she reflected on her own journey into the film industry and mentioned that her three-year-old daughter is already showing signs of a flair for the performing arts.

When asked by the host if Raha was beginning to follow in her parents’ footsteps, Alia laughed and shared her observations. She said, “She is also meant for the stage, if I can say so myself. She loves many things, I would say. Abhi woh sports mein bhi bahut interested hai (She is interested in sports too). She has a keen interest in sports and activities. Woh filmy bhi bahut hai, gaane bhi achhe se sunti hai (She is very filmy and likes to listen to songs too). She wants to dance. She picks up steps very fast.”

Alia highlighted that while her daughter is clearly “filmy,” she is also exploring a variety of hobbies. She added, “So my little girl is still growing and observing and putting her hand into different things, whether it’s art, dance or sports. But she’s a leader and a thinker in her own way.”

During the discussion, Alia also looked back at her own childhood. She recalled that acting had always been her dream, sharing memories of performing in front of the mirror for hours long before she officially entered the film industry.

This is not the first time Alia has spoken about Raha’s energetic nature. In an earlier interview with Femina, Alia expressed an interest in seeing her daughter explore athletics. She had said at the time, “I wish for her to actually be an athlete. She’s so competitive and she’s so athletic. She’s only three, but she really jumps around like a bee in a bonnet.”

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The controversy surrounding Ranveer Singh and Don 3 continues to make headlines. According to recent reports, the actor has decided to maintain complete silence on the matter and has no plans to address the controversy publicly.

As per a report by a trade journalist, Ranveer is expected to stay away from media interactions for the next 18 months and is unlikely to give interviews until the release of his upcoming film Pralay. The report further claims that neither the actor nor his legal team intends to make any public statements regarding the Don 3 row.

Interestingly, actor Varun Dhawan appeared to react to the development on social media. A Bollywood news page shared the report claiming that Ranveer would continue to remain silent on the issue, and eagle-eyed fans noticed that Varun had liked the post.

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The Don 3 controversy began after reports emerged that Ranveer had exited the highly anticipated film, directed by Farhan Akhtar, shortly before production was expected to begin. The matter escalated when the Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) issued a non-cooperation directive against the actor following complaints related to the project’s disruption and alleged financial losses. Reports suggested that the producers claimed significant losses after his departure.

However, shortly afterwards, the film body withdrew its non-cooperation order following mediation efforts by industry bodies including CINTAA and IMPPA.

The actor’s spokesperson had earlier stated that Ranveer chose to handle the developments with “dignity, maturity and mutual respect” rather than engage in a public back-and-forth.

On the work front, Ranveer is currently focused on Pralay, while fans continue to await clarity on the future of Don 3 and who will eventually lead the iconic franchise.

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There was a time when a cardboard box and an idle afternoon were all a child needed to build an entire universe. Toy Story 5 understands that this time is slipping away, and it builds its entire fifth outing around the anxiety of watching it go. Bonnie has a new tablet called Lily Pad now, voiced with unsettling cheer by Greta Lee, and Woody (Tom Hanks) and Buzz (Tim Allen), along with Jessie, find themselves competing with a screen for a child’s imagination for the first time in the franchise’s history.

What the film gets sharply, almost uncomfortably right is the social mechanics of growing up online. Bonnie’s friends from dance class don’t reject her for playing with toys outright; they make her feel uncool for it, the way an unliked photo or an unanswered message can quietly recalibrate a kid’s entire self-image. The film captures how peer validation has migrated onto a screen, and how instant gratification, that little dopamine ping of being seen and approved of, has replaced the slower, messier joy of actually playing. It is a smarter and more specific indictment of social media than most films aimed at adults manage, let alone one wearing a toy box on its sleeve.

The Buzz character gets its own fresh side quest too. Marooned on an island, dozens of freshly unboxed Buzz figures, all chrome, upgraded with new-age confusion start a new mission to get to star command. It sounds like a gimmick on paper, but watching an army of Buzz Lightyears scamper about in unison, with Tim Allen’s familiar delivery anchoring the chaos, is such a gratifying jolt of old-school nostalgia that you forgive it for not doing much narrative heavy lifting.

Blaze, voiced with terrific warmth by Mykal-Michelle Harris, is the film’s clearest answer to all this. She is tech-savvy and entirely her own person, a kid who doesn’t perform for anyone’s feed and finds her joy in horses, dance parties and old, half-forgotten toys rather than approval. She is the film’s conscience, and easily its most quietly radical character.

The humour, meanwhile, hasn’t lost a step. Conan O’Brien’s Smarty Pants is a genuinely funny creation, all dead batteries and wounded dignity, and the film knows exactly when to undercut its own earnestness with a well-timed gag. Technically, Pixar remains in a league of its own; the texture work on the toys, the lighting in Bonnie’s bedroom, the sheer tactile quality of a thirty-year-old animation house still finding new ways to make plastic feel alive, is a reminder of why this studio still sets the bar.

And yet, for all its insight, Toy Story 5 arrives feeling like a conversation we’ve already had. The dangers of screen addiction, the hollowness of validation-chasing, the slow erosion of real-world play, these aren’t new observations anymore; they’re the stuff of parenting columns and TED talks from five years back. Pixar makes the argument beautifully. It’s just arrived a little too late to feel urgent.

Toy Story 5 has all the imagination, craft and heart you’d expect from this franchise. It just spends two hours catching up to a conversation the rest of us already had.

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