The festival will showcase some of Kareena’s most iconic performances on the big screen, featuring beloved characters such as Poo from Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, Geet from Jab We Met, and her title role in Chameli. A trailer for the festival, highlighting these memorable roles, has already been released, with more details to follow soon.

Kareena expressed her gratitude on Instagram, sharing her excitement for the tribute. In her heartfelt post, she wrote, “The blood in my veins, the magic on screen… my job I love… the fire within… here’s to the next 25 . Thank you to @pvrcinemas_official & @inoxmovies for curating this beautiful festival… so humbled.”

Having made her debut with JP Dutta’s Refugee in 2000, Kareena has starred in over 50 films, including Chameli, Omkara, Heroine, 3 Idiots, Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Udta Punjab, and Laal Singh Chaddha. Fans can look forward to seeing her next in Rohit Shetty’s Singham Again, alongside Ajay Devgn.

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An ivory hand-embroidered kurta and a chikankari dupatta, adorned with sparkling sequins, pearls, and stones, comprise this ensemble on Kareena Kapoor Khan. Gianvito Rossi shoes and Rare Heritage jewellery, which has tasteful hints of jade green, finish the ensemble.

A month ago, Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla unveiled their collection, which included opulent materials and elaborate chikankari embroidery. Asal Bride honours tradition with a contemporary elegance, and The Regal Groom of Mard has ostentatious menswear with strong borders and intricate embroidery. At the Hyundai India Couture Week, Wamiqa Gabbi and Taha Shah sparkled as show stoppers for Asal & Mard by Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla.

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Veere Di Wedding is a movie that excited the Bollywood fans and enthusiasts much before its release. The anticipation was mainly because the movie marked the comeback of Kareena Kapoor and also because of the all female lead cast in the film. But as soon as the official trailer launched, the movie received flak on social media and attracted controversy. The argument of public dissing on the movie was that, Veere Di Weeding reduces women empowerment and feminism to women drinking, cussing, smoking and openly talking about sexual desires. Many even wanted to boycott the movie for it’s wrong depiction of women empowerment.

So finally during an interview with Anupama Chopra for film companion the cast opened up and addressed the double standards and hypocrisy towards the female led movies in Bollywood. When Anupama asked, is there danger of reducing women empowerment is to behaving more like men or to smoking, drinking, this is how the Sonam Kapoor and Swara Bhaskar replied

Sonam Kapoor jumped right in and made herself clear. She said:

“It’s completely misconstrued what feminism and women empowerment is. It’s a choice. The choice is that we are all four different characters and we all have different ways of behaving.”

Then Swara Bhaskar took over and said: “It’s taken 105 years for mainstream Bollywood to make a film about four girlfriends and none of them are falling in love with the same guy.”She added, “No one asks Anurag Kashyap why his characters swear this much?”

Sonam later talked about how Pyaar Ka Punchnama a highly misogynistic movie was widely celebrated. She added,

“Pyaar Ka Punchnama was very misogynistic. Nobody has said, “don’t you think you’re being misogynistic by portraying women in a certain way or men as commitment phobic?”

Watch the full interview here.

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Veere Di Wedding with its official trailer release on April 25th 2018 earned enough buzz to get the B-town and got Bollywood enthusiast talking. The trailer showed four friends drinking, swearing, discussing sex and love in a fearless abandon and promised a coming of age tale in a true female centric light.  The movie promotion hit the media and press with a trending hashtag, #ImNotAChickFlick. This indeed was a strong move to shatter the box fitted concept of “chick flick” which goes against the values of feminism. The cast including Kareena Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Swara Bhaskar, Shikha Talsania and the producers including Ekta Kapoor, Rhea Kapoor went ahead and explained how Veere Di Wedding is not just a movie for the female audiences but anyone.

The movie hit the big screen on June 1st 2018. The critics everywhere unanimously agreed the movie trailed to be flat and shallow. So what went wrong?

Here is the simple plot: four women trying to come in terms with love, life and commitment and that is pretty much it. The movies makes a run through each of their lives but fails explore their character in depth. The audience watching the film can understand about complexities of their situation but somehow cannot become a part of their journey. The movie which is set on friendship, lacks moments of true camaraderie. This is exactly what Sneha May from Film Companion encapsulates in her remark, “the movie is half baked”.

Further, the movie nowhere discusses the ambition or career of the women in the movie. All throughout the movie we do not get to know about their careers except for Avni (Sonam Kapoor). It is ironical how the writers have failed to show the professional side of the women, in a movie which is intended to be “women empowering”.

In the end Veere Di Wedding is a good commercial fluff with Laugh out loud (Lol) moments and decent amount of glam and sparkle. Veere Di Wedding proves that a fun filled entertainer about women made by women could also create the commercial rage, like any male driven movie. If you are ready to break into fits of laughter and not seeking any major life advises and just looking for some fun and relaxed theatre experience then this is the film for you.

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Just like  Sonam Kapoor’s mehendi function a day earlier, her wedding too saw the near and dear ones of the Kapoor family. Arjun Kapoor, Sanjay Kapoor, Boney Kapoor along with daughters Janhvi and Khushi, Mohit Marwah among other family members attended the ceremony. Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan arrived with son Abhishek and daughter Shweta. Other industry celebrities who attended the wedding were Karan Johar, Saif Ali Khan with wife Kareena Kapoor and son Taimur, Karisma Kapoor, Rani Mukerji, Jacqueline Fernandez, Swara Bhaskar, Javed Akhtar, designer Masaba Gupta, Ranveer Singh, Aamir Khan, wife Kiran Rao and elder son Junaid.

Here are some pictures of the big fat Indian wedding

Sonam wore a red Anuradha Vakil lehenga and accessorized her look with stunning jewellery. Anand wore a gold sherwani.

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A quick outfit change and some mandatory photos later, Mr and Mrs Ahuja cut a two-tiered chocolate cake while being cheered on by their families.

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The star-studded wedding was followed by an even more starry wedding reception, where all the famous faces from Bollywood turned up.

Karishma Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Khushi Kapoor, Boney Kapoor and Jhanvi Kapoor

Arjun Kapoor

Madhuri Dixit and Sriram Madhav

Isabel Kaif

Manish Malhotra and Kajol

Raj Kundra and Shilpa Shetty

Rani Mukherji

Varun Dhawan and Natasha Dalal

Sanjay Leela Bansari and Ranveer Singh

Siddharat Roy Kapoor and Vidya Balan

Sidarth Malhothra and Adithya Roy Kapoor

Sources : news18.com

After the celebrations are over, Sonam Kapoor will take over her professional commitments, which begins with an appearance at the Cannes Film Festival. Their honeymoon has reportedly been postponed for some months.

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According to the media reports, Sridevi died due to cardiac arrest or heart attack. But what made the celebrity suddenly feel weak in her health condition, when last week she was seen dancing in her nephew’s wedding in Dubai,  where she looked quite happy. But there is something very fishy about it, how can a healthy adult accidentally drown in a bathtub( according to the recent forensic report submitted)?? And how does a bathtub drown someone, it’s not Atlantic ocean, or is it? Or is it yet another controversial/mysterious death in B-town( Jiah Khan and Divya Bharti, to name a few). It is said that she was brought to the hospital, in a dead state. Another crazy thing to imagine (or coincidental) would be that ‘Jayalalitha’ was born on the same date that Sridevi Died, and coincidentally even Jayalalitha had a very mysterious death in a hospital, which remained unsolved, till it was forgotten. And let’s not miss out on the fact that she died in Dubai, which is 100 multiplied by Bombay in all aspects of charm and power(with unlimited immunity). Let’s not complicate things further, and we don’t want to get politically right or wrong. It’s not our forte..

The legacy and character of Sridevi will never be forgotten, she has done fierce feminist roles, highly expressive and critically acclaimed performances in most of her films which will be cherished by the upcoming generations as well.    She was the undisputed queen of charm, had remarkable comic timing, excellent body language and had the best expressions in Bollywood, with possibly no competition to her style. She created the position for women in the film industry, where for the first time they got importance for their character in the movies, she was the only actress in Bollywood who was paid higher than her male counterparts. She created a revolution for women in the film industry by ruling the big screen at a time when the cinema was dominated by the aggressive male roles. There could be many reasons and culprits for her sudden death, let’s try and understand them all..

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Sridevi underwent laser skin surgery, silicon breast correction, botox, face lifts, body tucks & several facial corrections. She may have looked young, but the question remains is that.. did she put her body through more than what it can handle. There have been reports which say that she was heavily into ‘botox’ to maintain her health and looks. It’s like saying that did she took the Michael Jackson’s road to look all perfect. It’s ironic that Sridevi, who is hailed as the first female superstar of Bollywood, was subjected to sharp criticism about her appearance throughout her career, and now even after her death. Starting her career as a child artist, she was under public scrutiny for a long time. Earlier, it was alleged that she also underwent skin lightening treatment as the change of skin tone was “visible”.

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There are no possibilities in the Indian movies for a Meryl Streep; India is not a country for old women. India wants women on screens who can be lusted for and can be used for commercials; like selling Lux or Fair and Lovely. They will be fantasized and followed but not respected. Even after they bear children, actresses like Aishwarya Rai, Kareena Kapoor, and Kajol must quickly return to their earlier forms to be accepted in reel life. But, do they have a choice? Can they get roles of the kind an older male star gets? Would the average Indian audience, consisting both men and women, appreciate a movie with an elderly actress in a lead role, much like an Amitabh Bachchan? We know the answer.

PR industry plays a major role in actors image and promotes the movies through media. Every righteous movie star, director, writer etc, gets away claiming to have made an empowering movie for women. At the same time, they are unapologetic about the movies they had made, acted in, written or produced that may have contradicted their stance( they would have demeaned women). The aggressive promotion of such movies allows the slow poison at a cost of actors image or character. Generations of boys grew up thinking women are to be routinely stalked, harassed and molested, and established rape as a legitimate weapon. The PR strives to prove that only those movies that cater to the lecherous lumpen among the Indian men are successful. It would appear that such Indian men only want to see Katrina Kaif’s midriff; that was their goal and sole purpose of life. They don’t want better movies.

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The fashion industry is also a big cause of the actions taken by the actors. Women, like men, should be free to wear what they want and look the way they want. But when a woman’s look is dictated by the requirements of male approval, especially for commercial reasons, there is a huge problem with that. An air hostess, who wears a short skirt to work, has to follow rules set for her on the job. But she has been placed there to entertain a certain type of Indian male passenger, not difficult to picture, who would travel that airline again and again only for the air hostesses.

Fashion has become an easy tag to justify the misrepresentation of women through narratives of choice. But preferences must be necessarily independent to be authentic. Further, the fashion sizes into which a woman must fit, impose a form that is unhealthy and unnatural

While this debate is raging in the rest of the world, in India, the fashion designers act as if it was a nation of teenage girls, desperate to get into their size-zero dresses. The celebration of choice cannot happen in India because the choice is tightly knit with the male endorsement. Indian fashion, dominated by men, exemplifies this condition.

In the end, however, we are all to blame. A famous Indian poet’s stature is enhanced when he pens a provocative item number that reduces a woman to a cheap, sexual fantasy. The director makes better money if the heroine of the movie is called ‘sizzling’. Respected publications sell because of cleavages, brands sell by showing women in the kitchen, or washing clothes. Men don’t care and women don’t protest in India (and even if they do, they are highly discredited and intimidated). With Sridevi’s death, yet another woman will fade away, only to be remembered that she was once, charming and beautiful.

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KJo’s epic family drama completed 16 years yesterday and we can’t help feeling nostalgic.  Do you feel old already? We surely do. On this Flashback Friday, we bring to you 7 K3G moments we’ll always remember.

1.The dramatic entry of Rahul and all the feels it gave us.

2.Poo redefining FAT by giving us P.H.A.T

3.When Anjali mistook Rahul as Ashfaq miyaan and couldn’t stop laughing about how mazaaki he was!

4.When we learnt Chandu ke Chacha, thanks to Laddu

5.“Oh hello Mrs Sprightley!” “Oh hello Sugar!”

     “Would you like some tea?” “Yes! With a drop of lemon in it.”

     “Oh! And something to go with it?” “Some cookies please.”

     “Cookiesssss, Lovelyyyyyy!“

     “CHADDO!”

     This Conversation!

6.When we learnt vase = gamla!

7.”I don’t like jokes” “I don’t like you” – Kuch kuch hota hai revisited!

Here’s Karan Johar remembering his favourite film.

#I6yearsofK3G….a film that is exceptionally close to my heart….have the most beautiful memories…thank you @SrBachchan @iamsrk @iHrithik @kajol #jayaaunty #kareena #rani for making my experience so special….

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Nostalgic much?! Go on and tell us your favorite moments from the evergreen movie in the comments section below!

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A mere 46 days after giving birth to beautiful baby Taimur Ali khan, Kareena kapoor Khan is just unstoppable. Kareena, who is the face of Lakme´Absolute. She made heads turn as she walked down the ramp in a long off-white gown paired with a beautiful gold jacket with embellishments for designer Anita Dongre, from her Alchemy collection as her showstopper.

The finale, held at the Bandra Fort, saw Kareena sporting a minimal make-up look, by international makeup artist Donald Simrock, whose client list includes popular names like Ashley Judd, Kim Kardashian, Britney Spears, Eva Mendes and Cindy Crawford.

Dongre’s collection was in keeping with the Lakme´ theme, and there were glimpses of fluid silhouettes in glazed gold, reflecting the unique flora and fauna of a securely hidden oasis within the sun-kissed, glistening sands of Rajasthan. The five-day fashion gala, that began on February 1, hosted over 90 designers including veterans like Tarun Tahiliani, Ritu Kumar,Payal Singhal, Falguni and Shane Peacock, and many others showcasing their latest line at the event.

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