Starting the promotions of her maiden Hollywood film 'Baywatch' from India, Global icon Priyanka Chopra said after some amazing scripts, she chose 'Baywatch' as it is a big global movie and playing the character of a villain was something she found challenging. "People didn't know me well, the kind of stories that came to me were quite interesting because of 'Quantico'. After Quantico, it was really nice that I got some amazing films. Out of the films that were offered, I liked Baywatch the most because one - it was huge big global movie and I was a Baywatch fan, when I was growing up and second - I was playing the villain in the film. So I liked the idea that in my first film, I'm doing something different. I have always tried to make my career little bit on the left on a different path, that's what excited me. And after Alex Parrish, I wanted America to have something completely different. Alex was such a positive character, so completely bad was really fun," said Priyanka.

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Responding to all the criticism surrounding his winning a National Award for his performance in 'Rustom', Akshay Kumar recently said that after working for 25 years in Bollywood if people still think he doesn't deserve the honour, they can take it away.The 'Jolly LLB 2' star, who was present at an event by Movie Stunt Artistes Association for the insurance of all the stunt artistes who work in Hindi films, said, "I have been seeing it for the past 25 years that whenever someone wins, there's bound to be a discussion on it. So it's not something new. Someone or the other creates a controversy that this person should not have got it.I have received a National Award after 26 years; take it back if you want to," said Akshay.

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The title track of Sushant Singh Rajput and Kriti Sanon starrer has been released. Earlier a teaser video was launched by the makers in which Sushant and Kriti were watching a video and both were awestruck with the beauty and the hotness of the star. It was published on Facebook account of the film. After that, we saw the first look of Deepika in the song and now the song has been released. Deepika in the video surely sets the pulse racing and heatwave is soaring in the track. She is definitely redefining the hotness. The title track of the movie is a re-created version of 'Raabta' song from the movie 'Agent Vinod' which was directed by Sriram Raghavan and produced by Dinesh Vijan, who is donning the director's hat with 'Raabta' for the first time.

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The Maharashtra police on Thursday registered an FIR against Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty and her husband Raj Kundra in Thane's Bhiwandi police station in a cheating case. The case revolves around the duo allegedly duping a textile firm owner of Rs 24 lakhs.

“FIR has been registered in Bhiwandi police station against Shetty and Kundra under sections 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 420 (cheating) of IPC,” Deputy Commissioner of Police Manoj Patil was quoted as saying. The FIR was filed after a Bhiwandi textile unit owner alleged that the couple collected the amount on his behalf but did not pay him, a police official said. "Big Deals, a company in which Shetty and Kundra are directors, collected money from customers for sale of bedsheets on behalf of Malotia Textiles through TV ads, but did not (allegedly) pay Malotia Textiles the proceeds,” the official said.

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Veteran Bollywood actor, politician and former union minister Vinod Khanna passed away in Mumbai on Thursday morning following prolonged illness. He was 70. His funeral took place at a crematorium in Worli, Mumbai, in the evening which was attended by a number of his contemporaries, including Amitabh Bachchan, Rishi Kapoor, Ranjit and many others. Lokvani Team expresses deep condolences on the passing of the great actor.

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