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Kannada actor Darshan is yet again in the news for the same reason that once haunted him. Nearly three years after the infamous incident, wherein he was jailed for a month for assaulting his wife Vijayalakshmi, the Kurukshetra actor is being dragged into another controversy. Some of the reports on social media regarding the Challenging Star beating his wife went viral on Saturday. They suggested that Darshan assaulted his wife and mother-in-law in their apartment, based in Banasankari, Bangalore. Upon witnessing these reports, his wife Vijayalakshmi took to her Twitter handle to react to the above rumours. She wrote, "All the rumours doing rounds are baseless..." - (sic) Though the star wife herself brushed these rumours off, reports are still suggesting that the actor did get violent with his partner. The forwards on social media said that Vijayalakshmi visited a hospital for treatment following the incident and even reported the issue at the local police station. All the rumours … [Read more...] about Darshan’s Wife Vijayalakshmi Reacts To Rumours Of Assault! Fans Console Her

Shah Rukh Khan has recently shared his opinions on the 'Me Too' movement. He said that as an impact of the movement, when someone misbehaves with a woman hereafter, it won't go untouched. The 'Me Too' movement originally started from the West. It then started becoming viral in many countries, giving women an opportunity to throw light on their perpetrators. Regarding this, the 'Dilwale' actor said, "It started from there... in the West and it gave voice to women to come out and talk about something that may have happened some years back... It gave them enough support to come out with their stories. The greatness of this movement is that in the future, we have to accept that people do mistreat women in most fields than not, it has been a conversation everywhere." He quoted this in his interview with a BBC journalist and Host Tom Brook. When asked if 'Me Too' movement has been touched by commercial films in Bollywood, SRK feels that while mainstream cinema has not delved deep into the … [Read more...] about Shah Rukh Khan On ‘Me Too’ Movement: When Someone Misbehaves, It Won’t Go Unnoticed Now

Malaika Arora gets angry and wants to slap these guys; Know here| FilmiBeat Malaika Arora featured in several superhit special dance numbers from Chaiyya Chaiyya to Munni Badnaam Hui and Anarkali Disco Chali and in a recent interview with Anupama Chopra, she revealed she's not comfortable with people calling her special performance as 'item number' and stated that she'll slap anyone who calls her dance in cheap names. I'll Slay Anyone Who Call My Dance 'Item Number' "I've always had a problem with it being called ‘item song'. Imagine someone calling me, ‘yeh kya item hai' (what an item), I'd turn around and slap that person," Malaika Arora said to HT. I Did The Songs At My Own Will "Whenever I did a song I did it on my own accord, I never did it under any duress. I was comfortable. If I felt like I was not OK with something, I'd voice my opinion. I'd say, ‘no I don't like that step'. If I felt like I was being objectified, I'd say it, and I'm not stupid." When … [Read more...] about Malaika Arora Gets FURIOUS, Says ‘I’ll SLAP Anyone Who Calls My Dance An ‘Item Number’

But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilise me and I can’t stand it. I been there before.               – Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn The Dead didn’t get it going Wednesday night at Winterland, and that was too bad. The gig was a bail fund benefit for the People’s Park in Berkeley, and the giant ice-skating cavern was packed with heads. The whole park hassle – the benefit was for the 450 busted a few days before – had been a Berkeley political trip all the way down, but the issue was a good-timey park, so the crowd, though older and more radical than most San Francisco rock crowds, was a fine one in a good dancing mood, watery mouths waiting for the groove to come. The Airplane were on the bill too, so were Santana, the Act of Cups, Aum, and a righteous range of others; a San Francisco all-star … [Read more...] about Good Old Grateful Dead

LONDON — Jimi Hendrix is dead at age 27. The exact nature of the death is still vague, and a coroner’s inquest is to be held in London September 30th. Police, however, say it was a drug overdose. They say he took nine sleeping pills and died of suffocation through vomit. According to Eric Burdon [The Animals, War], Hendrix left behind for the girlfriend in whose apartment he died what Burdon called a “suicide note” which was a poem several pages in length. The poem is now in the possession of Burdon, the last musician with whom Hendrix played before he died. Said Burdon: “The poem just says the things Hendrix has always been saying, but to which nobody ever listened. It was a note of goodbye and a note of hello. I don’t think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to.” Burdon went on BBC television September 21st – three days after Hendrix’s death – to say Jimi “killed … [Read more...] about Jimi Hendrix: 1942-1970