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High Court stays decision to cancel Zayed Khan’s candidacy

High Court stays decision to cancel Zayed Khan’s candidacy

-- 2022-02-07 16:11:08

The High Court has issued a stay order on the Bangladesh Film Artistes Association’s decision to cancel the candidacy of actor Zayed Khan for the group’s general secretary post amid allega...

Reaction to Lata Mangeshkar's death

Reaction to Lata Mangeshkar's death

-- 2022-02-06 21:02:30

Lata Mangeshkar, a singer who embodied music and melody for generations of Indians, died on Sunday after being hospitalised for COVID-19 last month. She was 92. Top Bollywood personalities and politi...

Thousands gather in Mumbai to pay respects to Lata Mangeshkar

Thousands gather in Mumbai to pay respects to Lata Mangeshkar

-- 2022-02-06 19:08:12

Thousands of people have gathered in Mumbai to pay respects to Lata Mangeshkar, the beloved singer who defined music and melody for generations of her countrymen, according to bdnews24.com. India&rsq...

Bob Marley: A life in search of peace and harmony

Bob Marley: A life in search of peace and harmony

Iftekharul Islam 2022-02-06 13:23:46

The 1960s was a tumultuous time to live. Shrouded in the Cold War, many crises like the Vietnam War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Proxy wars in Africa were going on.  Many musicians were protesting...

Lata Mangeshkar passes away

Lata Mangeshkar passes away

-- 2022-02-06 11:28:39

Legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar, known for lending her voice to numerous Indian films, has died at the age of 92, bdnews24.com reports citing PTI. The singer was admitted to the Breach Candy Hospita...

Zayed loses post, Nipun regains shine

Zayed loses post, Nipun regains shine

-- 2022-02-05 22:58:04

Actor Zayed Khan, who was elected general secretary of Bangladesh Film Artists Association last month, has lost his post amid allegations that he paid members to vote for him. An appeals board declar...

Anime women then and now - breaking the stereotypes gradually

Anime women then and now - breaking the stereotypes gradually

MEHENAZ SULTANA 2022-02-05 16:48:51

A woman with a weapon is inspiring and unique - disrupts the stereotypes of girls being as fragile as a flower. However, only wielding a sword does not suffice if a fighter relies on their counterpart...

Iranian director Farhadi ready for awards season

Iranian director Farhadi ready for awards season

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-02-05 08:54:09

Asghar Farhadi, an Iranian Oscar-winning director, is expected to win the awards this year. Farhadi won the Oscar for his best foreign-language film "The Salesman," but boycotted the ceremony because...

Coraline - a beautiful children’s film with horror elements

Coraline - a beautiful children’s film with horror elements

Iftekharul Islam 2022-02-02 12:30:39

Humans are social beings; they crave attention and validation like everyone else. Teenagers often get frustrated when they don’t get their wanted attention.  But what happens when they fin...

Lionel Richie cancels European tour shows

Lionel Richie cancels European tour shows

-- 2022-02-02 09:08:44

US singer Lionel Richie said on Tuesday he was cancelling his upcoming European summer tour concerts due to the ongoing spread of COVID-19, Reuters reports. "As Covid and its variants continue to imp...

Tremors: Underground monsters of the Hollywood cult

Tremors: Underground monsters of the Hollywood cult

Iftekharul Islam 2022-01-31 14:46:05

Hollywood had an array of monsters portraying from humanoid Frankenstein in 1931 to natural predators of Jaws in 1975. All of them had one thing in common, opposing humans.  In 1990, Ron Underwo...

17 film organisations demand BFDC MD's removal

17 film organisations demand BFDC MD's removal

-- 2022-01-30 18:59:03

Seventeen film organisations on Sunday demanded the removal of the managing director (MD) of Bangladesh Film Development Corporation (BFDC) as they were not allowed to enter it during the much-hyped 1...

Actress Kajol tests positive for Covid-19

Actress Kajol tests positive for Covid-19

-- 2022-01-30 17:30:23

Actor Kajol on Sunday said she has tested positive for Covid-19.      The 47-year-old actor took to Instagram and shared a picture of her daughter Nysa, writing that she was...

Liam Neeson's 'Taken' has a separate fanbase

Liam Neeson's 'Taken' has a separate fanbase

Iftekharul Islam 2022-01-30 13:01:54

Human trafficking is a severe problem in the modern world; millions of people become victims of it each year.  But what happens when the daughter of an ex-CIA operative gets abducted for traffic...

Joni Mitchell joining Neil Young in protest over Spotify

Joni Mitchell joining Neil Young in protest over Spotify

-- 2022-01-29 17:50:42

Joni Mitchell said Friday she is seeking to remove all of her music from Spotify in solidarity with Neil Young, who ignited a protest against the streaming service for airing a podcast that featured a...

Ilias Kanchan elected new president of film artistes' body

Ilias Kanchan elected new president of film artistes' body

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-29 11:30:57

Veteran actor Ilias Kanchan has been elected as the new president of the Bangladesh Film Artistes' Association. Actor Zayed Khan, on the other hand, was re-elected as the general secretary in the 17t...

Sandhya Mukherjee hospitalised with Covid

Sandhya Mukherjee hospitalised with Covid

-- 2022-01-28 14:38:50

Bengali music legend Sandhya Mukherjee, whose songs stirred up patriotic fervour among Bangladeshis during the Liberation War, has been hospitalised with complaints of breathlessness and lung infectio...

Trump accuser porn star Stormy Daniels testifies her ex-lawyer 'stole from me'

Trump accuser porn star Stormy Daniels testifies her ex-lawyer 'stole from me'

-- 2022-01-28 08:59:30

Adult film actress Stormy Daniels told jurors at her former lawyer Michael Avenatti's criminal fraud trial on Thursday that he "stole from me and lied to me" by diverting proceeds from a book she wrot...

Timeless ‘Before Sunrise’ continues to spread love in the 27th year

Timeless ‘Before Sunrise’ continues to spread love in the 27th year

Iftekharul Islam 2022-01-27 12:55:38

Love is an emotion that many people express and explain in different ways. The concept of love has been attempted to explain by many filmmakers over decades, but ‘Before Sunrise’ stood out...

Tributes to James: A defining character in music arena of Bangladesh

Tributes to James: A defining character in music arena of Bangladesh

AZWAD BIN KARIM 2022-01-26 20:57:16

Innumerable fans affectionately address Faruq Mahfuz Anam as ‘Guru’. The national award-winning rock star is commonly known as James. James, one of the greatest music artists in the count...

Spencer portrays Princess Diana in a never-seen-before way

Spencer portrays Princess Diana in a never-seen-before way

Rassiq Aziz Kabir 2022-01-26 17:04:25

"Diana, they can't change, you have to change"  This line from the movie Spencer probably signifies the life of Princess Diana as a Royal more than anything else.  Constantly trying to fit...

Disney responds to Peter Dinklage's criticism of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs remake

Disney responds to Peter Dinklage's criticism of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs remake

-- 2022-01-26 13:16:48

Disney has responded to criticism of its forthcoming live action adaptation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs made by Game of Thrones actor Peter Dinklage. Dinklage said the remake of the 1937 anima...

Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein - Netflix's most popular Indian drama in Bangladesh right now

Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein - Netflix's most popular Indian drama in Bangladesh right now

Rassiq Aziz Kabir 2022-01-25 13:56:28

Dramas that are based on small-town settings are often capable of having the most twisted setups of all possible genres.  ‘Yeh Kaali Kaali Ankhein,’ Netflix’s recent Indian dra...

Taylor Swift criticises Damon Albarn over songwriting comments

Taylor Swift criticises Damon Albarn over songwriting comments

-- 2022-01-25 12:17:55

Taylor Swift has criticised Damon Albarn, lead singer of Blur and later of Gorillaz, after he said that she doesn't write her own music. Talking to the LA Times, Albarn replied to the intervi...

Shironamhin's sixth album Perfume to be released in April

Shironamhin's sixth album Perfume to be released in April

Mashfiq Mizan 2022-01-24 16:28:12

Shironamhin is all set to release their sixth album ‘Perfume’ on April 14 marking their silver jubilee. The band has already released seven out of eight tracks from the album and has rece...

The Town: Ben Affleck’s another successful directorial venture

The Town: Ben Affleck’s another successful directorial venture

Iftekharul Islam 2022-01-24 13:40:49

The Town is the second film directed by Ben Affleck, which delves into a crime thriller involving bank heist, Irish mobsters and a crime leader torn up between his life of crime and love.  This...

'Spider-Man: No Way Home' earns a record $1.69b globally

'Spider-Man: No Way Home' earns a record $1.69b globally

-- 2022-01-24 10:44:01

Add another notch on "Spider-Man: No Way Home's" long list of box office achievements. Over the weekend, Sony's comic book adventure became the sixth-highest grossing movie in history with $1.69 bill...

Pori Moni, Sariful Razz celebrate their wedding formally

Pori Moni, Sariful Razz celebrate their wedding formally

-- 2022-01-23 16:22:05

Three months ago, actors Pori Moni and Sariful Razz married at a private ceremony out of the public eye. But now the couple held a formal celebration of their union on Saturday with their friends, fam...

Arcane sets the bar high for video game adaptations

Arcane sets the bar high for video game adaptations

Shadya Naher Sheyam 2022-01-23 12:31:13

Understandably, video game film adaptations are typically looked poorly upon. Wave after wave of underwhelming adaptations of gaming classics have hit the big screen, but they have never received crit...

The Royal Treatment: A typical Netflix romp, tad too silly

The Royal Treatment: A typical Netflix romp, tad too silly

Rassiq Aziz Kabir 2022-01-22 19:29:32

If you are just home from a day's work and looking for something light and wholesome to cheer you up, The Royal Treatment on Netflix can literally give you a royal treatment. It’s a movie that w...