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Taposh receives International Ratna Award

Taposh receives International Ratna Award

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-10-07 18:42:36

Kaushik Hossain Taposh, managing director of Gaan Bangla, has earned the International Ratna Award in India for his contribution to Bengali music. The renowned music director received the honour in H...

Netflix to edit out phone number from Squid Game

Netflix to edit out phone number from Squid Game

-- 2021-10-07 12:21:51

Netflix says it will edit out a phone number that appears in its hit series Squid Game after a woman said she was deluged by calls to her mobile phone. The gory South Korean drama sees cash-s...

Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) Phase 4: What's on the Table?

Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) Phase 4: What's on the Table?

Shafkat Tanjeem Ahmad 2021-10-06 19:48:00

Following the death of Iron Man in Avengers: Endgame (2019), the year's most anticipated film, many Marvel fans were left wondering as to how the MCU will look with Captain America also exiting. Howev...

YouTube drops R&B singer R. Kelly's official channels

YouTube drops R&B singer R. Kelly's official channels

-- 2021-10-06 13:24:20

Alphabet's YouTube said it has removed R&B singer R. Kelly's channels from its video platform, distancing itself from the singer who was convicted of sex trafficking last month. R. Kelly was conv...

Russian actor blasts off to attempt a movie in space

Russian actor blasts off to attempt a movie in space

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-10-06 09:07:08

A Russian actress and a film director blasted off for the International Space Station on Tuesday, beating Tom Cruise in the race to shoot the first movie in space. The Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft is set t...

Listeners, musicians weigh in on the debate

Listeners, musicians weigh in on the debate

Morium Kulsum 2021-10-05 13:18:48

People who are not professional musicians may find it difficult to define what a remix song technically is. But they can surely tell the difference between an original song and its remix version when...

Squid Game’s ‘botched’ subtitles change show’s meaning, Korean fans say

Squid Game’s ‘botched’ subtitles change show’s meaning, Korean fans say

-- 2021-10-05 11:12:35

Squid Game's "botched" subtitles have changed the show's meaning for English-speaking viewers, some Korean-speaking fans say. The Korean-language drama is about an alternative world where peo...

Munshigiri: The Chanchal- Amitabh actor-director duo is back

Munshigiri: The Chanchal- Amitabh actor-director duo is back

Shadya Naher Sheyam 2021-10-04 18:33:10

Based on Shibarata Barman's novel ‘Mriterao Kotha Bole,’ celebrated director Amitabh Reza Chowdhury presents a first-of-its-kind detective mystery to Bangladesh with his debut web film for...

Shah Rukh's son Aryan arrested over cruise rave party case

Shah Rukh's son Aryan arrested over cruise rave party case

-- 2021-10-03 20:09:27

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) of India on Sunday afternoon following an interrogation over the cruise rave party that the agenc...

Shang- Chi: A lush visual marriage of Marvel-ism and Wuxia epics

Shang- Chi: A lush visual marriage of Marvel-ism and Wuxia epics

Shadya Naher Sheyam 2021-10-03 18:47:47

Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, Shang- Chi fits into marvel packaging with the reinterpretation of the difficulties of living two separate versions of oneself through the perspective of Asian-Ame...

Shah Rukh’s son Aryan interrogated over drugs on cruise ship

Shah Rukh’s son Aryan interrogated over drugs on cruise ship

-- 2021-10-03 17:09:19

Aryan Khan, the son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, is one of eight people being questioned by India’s Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) after a raid at a party on a cruise ship off the coas...

Netflix’s gory survival drama ‘Squid Game’

Netflix’s gory survival drama ‘Squid Game’

Rassiq Aziz Kabir 2021-10-03 15:27:43

Squid Game is a recent South-Korean production which has amassed an immense fandom. The show was released on the 17th of September, 2021 on Netflix. Since then, it has been one of the most popular an...

Netflix sued by South Korea broadband firm

Netflix sued by South Korea broadband firm

-- 2021-10-02 11:01:13

South Korean Internet service provider SK Broadband has sued Netflix to pay for costs from increased network traffic and maintenance work because of a surge of viewers to the US firm's content, a...

Youth showcase talent in cultural classicist event

Youth showcase talent in cultural classicist event

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-10-01 18:12:55

Cultural Classicists is one of the largest youth platforms in Bangladesh with more than 800,000 audiences. The platform arranges diversified events and international carnivals that fetch both nationa...

Netflix faces lawsuit in South Korea after traffic surge from 'Squid Game'

Netflix faces lawsuit in South Korea after traffic surge from 'Squid Game'

-- 2021-10-01 17:09:18

South Korean Internet service provider SK Broadband has sued Netflix to pay for costs from increased network traffic and maintenance work because of a surge of viewers to the US firm's content, an SK...

Youth showcase talents in cultural classicist event

Youth showcase talents in cultural classicist event

FE YOUTH DESK 2021-09-30 13:35:42

The ‘3rd International Cultural Classicists Carnival’ started in July and continued throughout August. Aiming to let the youth showcase their talent online, the event had an overwhelming r...

Britney Spears' father suspended as conservator of her estate

Britney Spears' father suspended as conservator of her estate

-- 2021-09-30 12:11:40

A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday suspended the father of Britney Spears from his 13-years-long role as the controller of the singer's business affairs, Reuters reports. "The current situation is not...

Bond star to play 'Macbeth' on Broadway

Bond star to play 'Macbeth' on Broadway

-- 2021-09-30 09:34:17

Bond star Daniel Craig has chosen his next act. The British actor, whose fifth turn as the British secret service agent had its world premiere in London on Tuesday, is to play the ambitious and murde...

Bangladeshi film wins an award at Cannes World Film Festival

Bangladeshi film wins an award at Cannes World Film Festival

Md Zahidur Rabbi 2021-09-27 17:55:53

Bangladeshi animated film ‘Tomorrow' has won the award for Best Animation Film for the month of August 2021 at Cannes World Film Festival. With the victory, ‘Tomorrow' has now qualified t...

Elite: A twistedly stylish teenage drama

Elite: A twistedly stylish teenage drama

RASSIQ AZIZ KABIR 2021-09-27 14:58:51

Elite, a much-talked-about Spanish teen drama, has been renewed for the fourth season this year. As announced in the month of February, a fifth season is on the plate with a few new faces and a much-t...

From the vault of cine maestro Satyajit Ray: A list of films for children

From the vault of cine maestro Satyajit Ray: A list of films for children

Shadya Naher Sheyam 2021-09-26 12:30:28

Satyajit Ray, the legendary Indian filmmaker, is known for his filmmaking brilliance along with subtle art of symbolism and cinematic language portrayed in his films. He made many films planne...

Ed Sheeran, Lizzo and Billy Eilish take part in 24-hour concert

Ed Sheeran, Lizzo and Billy Eilish take part in 24-hour concert

-- 2021-09-26 12:23:02

Ed Sheeran, Lizzo and Billy Eilish are among stars taking part in a 24-hour concert to raise awareness of climate change, vaccine inequality and famine. Over 60 artists are participating in The G...

Cinema returns to Somalia

Cinema returns to Somalia

-- 2021-09-24 09:19:45

Dozens of Somalis posed for selfies and chattered excitedly in rows of red, plush seats as they waited for the start of their country's first movie screening in three decades, Reuters reports. Among...

September’s new track to arrive on October

September’s new track to arrive on October

Zahidur Rabbi 2021-09-22 17:02:26

September, a rock band from Dhaka, has announced the release of their new original track ‘Kaleidoscope’. The album is scheduled to release on 1st October 2021. Their latest original track...

BTS in support of UN’s SDG

BTS in support of UN’s SDG

Md Zahidur Rabbi 2021-09-22 11:20:28

Before the speeches of over a hundred world leaders in the United Nations General Assembly this week, the young generation received a message from K-pop superstars from the boy band named BTS (Beyond...

Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty's husband walks out of jail on bail

Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty's husband walks out of jail on bail

-- 2021-09-21 18:03:40

A day after getting bail in pornographic films case, Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty's husband Raj Kundra walked out of a jail in the Indian city of Mumbai on Tuesday. Raj was arrested on July 19 by...

Rwandan court finds 'Hotel Rwanda' film hero guilty in terrorism case

Rwandan court finds 'Hotel Rwanda' film hero guilty in terrorism case

-- 2021-09-20 19:25:02

A Rwandan court on Monday found Paul Rusesabagina, a one-time hotel manager portrayed as a hero in a Hollywood film about the 1994 genocide, guilty of being part of a group responsible for terrorist a...

Tax crackdown looms for China's richest celebrities, online influencers

Tax crackdown looms for China's richest celebrities, online influencers

-- 2021-09-20 10:18:50

China is set to conduct regular tax investigations into top entertainers including online influencers, promising serious punishment for offenders amid a deepening crackdown on the entertainment indust...

Naomi Campbell joins Queen's Commonwealth Trust as global ambassador

Naomi Campbell joins Queen's Commonwealth Trust as global ambassador

-- 2021-09-18 15:22:30

British model Naomi Campbell is joining international development charity the Queen's Commonwealth Trust (QCT) as a global ambassador to support young leaders. The trust, founded in 2018, supports yo...

Chess icon files lawsuit against Netflix for Queen's Gambit portrayal

Chess icon files lawsuit against Netflix for Queen's Gambit portrayal

-- 2021-09-18 14:00:03

Georgian chess icon Nona Gaprindashvili has filed a defamation lawsuit against Netflix, saying she was incorrectly portrayed in the hit series The Queen's Gambit. The case refers to a sequence in...