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Fardeen Khan took more than a decade to return to the big screen, but when he did, the actor was showered with immense love. This support helped him secure multiple movie roles, including Khel Khel Mein and the upcoming crime thriller Visfot. To discuss the Kookie Gulati directorial further, Fardeen sat down for an interview with Pinkvilla, accompanied by the film’s producer. During the conversation, Sanjay Gupta shared his first impression of Fardeen.
When Sanjay Gupta was quizzed about his relationship with Fardeen Khan, the Shootout at Wadala filmmaker said that his impression of Khan is more from his dad, Bollywood actor, director, and producer Feroz Khan, than him. To this Fardeen added “That follows me everywhere.”
The filmmaker continued, “I worship Khan saab. All my film is derivative of his work and everything. So, it was a very very natural connect.” Gupta also went back in time and reveal that Sajid Khan used to say that Fardeen is the fourth Khan who only threatens to be a superstar. “Maybe he is just taking his own time,” he added laughingly.
Watch the entire interview below:
In the same interview with us, the producer-director heaped praises on Alia Bhatt’s Gangubai Kathiawadi and Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s direction. The Kaante maker said that the National Award-winning movie took him to Amitabh Bachchan’s 1970s era. “When I saw Gangubai I was like wow. I felt I am watching an Amitabh Bachchan film from the 70s. With her dialogues and the way, the scenes were constructed,” Sanjay stated.
He further spoke about the scene where Alia’s character Gangu sits in the car with her lover, Afsaan. Gupta stated that the way the Jigra actress sat there and performed the sequence was laudable. According to him, some directors in the industry have stopped working hard and they are paying the price for it.
Coming back to Fardeen Khan, he came back to the silver screen with Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s period drama, Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar, earlier this year. He was then seen in Khel Khel Mein with Akshay Kumar, Fardeen Khan, Vaani Kapoor, Taapsee Pannu, Ammy Virk, Aditya Seal, and Pragya Jaiswal.
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Sonakshi Sinha and Zaheer Iqbal have been vacationing in New York for the past few days. From visiting various places and indulging in delicious food to enjoying some exhilarating rides, they’ve experienced it all. Recently, they also represented their country and celebrated unity at this year’s India Day Parade in New York. Sonakshi shared a carousel of images from the fun event, which also featured Pankaj Tripathi.
Taking to her Instagram, the Dabangg actress shares multiple happy pictures with her husband, Zaheer Iqbal. She also shared her delight in the captions and wrote, “Was such an honour representing our great nation and celebrating Unity in Diversity at the India Day Parade this year in New York! Fabulously organized by the @federationofindianassociations, thank you for having @iamzahero and me there.”
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The photo gallery opened with Sonakshi Sinha looking pretty in a golden and white sharara set. She also added a pop of color with a bright orange bandhani saree and wore plain green bangles. Her husband, on the other hand, wore a pair of white pants and a kurta. He layered it up with a colorful jacket.
Among the several images, there was one picture in which the Double XL actress was delivering a speech and Zaheer was lovingly listening to her while being by her side. Out of the eight pictures she dropped, one of them also features Stree 2 star, Pankaj Tripathi. For the celebration, the senior actor donned a white three-piece set.
A couple of months ago, Sinha was in an exclusive chat with Pinkvilla wherein she shared what she wanted to be addressed by others; an actor or a star. Responding to this, the Bade Miyan Chote Miyan actress told us, “I love being called Sona (chuckles). Even when I did start acting, for me from day 1 till now it’s always been about doing good work. Everything else attached to it – the fame… everything that comes in the periphery has not been of that much significance to me.”
Meanwhile, on the work front, Sonakshi Sinha was last seen in Heeramandi followed by Kakuda.
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