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Ponniyin Selvan: ED searches offices of LYCA Productions in Chennai in connection with money laundering case

Reports said the searches started in eight places including T Nagar, Adyar, and Karapakkam.

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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday searched offices of LYCA Productions, which bankrolled Mani Ratnam’s blockbuster hit, Ponniyin Selvan, in Chennai in connection with a money laundering case.

Reports said the searches started in eight places including T Nagar, Adyar, and Karapakkam. The ED officials did not disclose the reason behind the searches yet. However, a few reports said the raid was conducted based on a money laundering case.

A subgroup of Lycamobile, the production house was established by Subaskaran Allirajah in 2014. LYCA Productions bankrolled PS1 and PS2 starring Vikram and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in the lead roles.

The Mani Rantam’s magnum opus earned Rs 480 crore and Rs 100 crore respectively at the box office.

Ponniyin Selvan is not the first film whose makers came under the radar for money laundering. Earlier, the makers of the pan-Indian action film Liger starring Vijay Devarakonda and Ananya Panday were also booked for violation of the Foreign Exchange Management Act.

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Devarakonda was summoned by the ED in Hyderabad for the investigation.

The ED also grilled filmmaker Puri Jagannadh and actor-producer Charmee Kaur on November 17, 2022. The raid was conducted after Congress leader Bakka Judson filed a complaint in connection with the funding of the film. Judson alleged that politicians also invested money in Liger and investors found it a way to turn their black money into white.

Reports said multiple companies invested in the film and the ED asked the makers to provide details of those who bankrolled the film and the mode of their payment to Mike Tyson and the technical crew.

In August 2022, the income tax department conducted raids at some of the leading film production houses in Tamil Nadu. Reports said an income of a whopping Rs 200 crore was detected apart from cash and gold jewellery worth Rs 29 crore.

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Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani turns 10: Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika, Aditya Roy Kapur and Kalki Koechlin reunite

In the first picture, Ranbir Kapoor, who played the character of Bunny in the film, and Deepika, who played the character of Naina, can be seen twinning in black. 

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Ayan Mukerji directorial Yeh Jawani Hai  Deewani completed 10 years of its release on Wednesday, May 31. On this occasion, lead actors from the film, Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, Aditya Roy Kapur and Kalki Koechlin, and the team were seen together celebrating the success of the film. Ayan Mukerji posted two photos from the reunion on his Instagram handle, with the caption:  Last Night with a red heart emoji.

In the first picture, Ranbir Kapoor, who played the character of Bunny in the film, and Deepika, who played the character of Naina, can be seen twinning in black. 

The other photo had Karan Johar, Manish Malhotra, Ayan Mukerji, Pritam Chakraborty, Siddharth Roy Kapur, and Kunal Kapoor among others.

The film, which released in 2013, revolves around the friendship of four friends, who meet on a trek and fall in love.  Soon after the photo surfaced online, it went viral.

Fans went nostalgic and started asking Ayan Mukerji for the sequel of the film. A fan demanded we want another YJHD. Another wondered why the hurry since everyone has grown older now. Others were generally happy and showered their love and affection at the cast and the makers. They  were both loving and excited in the messages posted in the comments after seeing their favourite star-cast together.

Meanwhile on Wednesday, Ayan Mukerji posted a heart-felt note to thank fans of the film for showering love to the film over the years.  He said making the film was the greatest joy of his life and said he hasn’t watched the film from the beginning to the end even now. But he added that he will continue to watch the film over and over at least once a year since a big part of who he was and how he looked at life in 2013 had been captured on film in YJHD.

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Madhuri Dixit , Karisma Kapoor dance together Watch video

A video of the duo Bollywood divas dancing has now amazed their fans gathering praises for their combination.

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Madhuri Dixit , Karisma Kapoor dance together Watch video

Bollywood actors Madhuri Dixit and Karisma Kapoor are again in the limelight but this time two were seen together dancing to the track of  ‘Balam Pichkari’.

A video of the duo Bollywood divas dancing has now amazed their fans gathering praises for their combination.

The video was jointly posted by Karisma and Madhuri on her Instagram handle with caption Dance of envy with a strike over it and the word friendship was written instead.

The dance of envy was an instrumental song from their film Dil To Pagal Hai. Madhuri and Karisma starred together in Dil To Pagal Hai along with Shah Rukh Khan and Akshay Kumar in a cameo appearance.

Comments on video were diverse as ever, along with the fans, friends from the industry also roped in to comment on the video, Karisma sister and Bollywood actor Kareena Kapoor Khan wrote the OG superstars, Bhumi Pednekar wrote icons.

A  Fan wrote the favourite OG’s. Another fan added LOLO and Dhak Dhak girl, while many said only Shah Rukh Khan is missing. Actor Sanjay Kapoor said it be timeless.

The video has till now got 649,108 likes on it.

Madhuri Dixit was last seen in Amazon Prime Video’s Maja Ma last year. She also starred the network series The Fame Game co-starring Sanjay Kapoor and Manav Kaul earlier in 2022

Madhuri Dixit has acted in major hit films such as Tezaab, Devdas, Dil Toh Pagal Hai, Hum Aapke Hai Kaun, Khalnayak, Saajan, Beta, Koyla, Pukar, Prem Granth and many others.

Karisma Kapoor’s last project was Alt Balaji’s web series Mentalhood. She will soon star in a project titled Brown. Her breakout film was Raja Hindustani with Aamir Khan. She featured in several hit films like Dil Toh Pagal Hai, Judwa and Biwi No 1. She also starred in critically acclaimed films like Zubeida and Fiza. Her Last film was in 2012 titled Dangerous Ishq.

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Aamir Khan asks Kapil Sharma why wasn’t he invited to the Kapil Sharma Show?

On Tuesday evening, during the trailer launch of Smeep Kang directed Carry On Jatta 3, Khan and Sharma shared the stage as they attended the event on a special invitation from the makers of the film.

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Aamir Khan asks Kapil Sharma why wasn't he invited to the Kapil Sharma Show?

It was the trailer launch of the film Carry On Jatta 3 in Mumbai, where a simple question by Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan to celebrity comedian Kapil Sharma threw visuals of both hugging each other graciously.

On Tuesday evening, during the trailer launch of Smeep Kang directed Carry On Jatta 3, Khan and Sharma shared the stage as they attended the event on a special invitation from the makers of the film.

On the stage during interactions, Khan said he has been spending more time with his family these days and that he had been watching The Kapil Sharma Show for a long time now. Khan praised Sharma saying he has become a big fan of his comedy. He also shared that he had called Sharma to appreciate his comic work.

Kapil Sharma revealed that he had invited Khan three times, However the actor had been unavailable due to some reason. Sharma replied that it would be his good fortune to invite Khan on the show. Khan then said that he would come to the show 100% but he would not be able to come at the time of a movie release. He would surely come any other time to entertain the audience.

Sharma had no words for the superstar and hugged him showing his love for him. Khan’s last film was Lal Singh Chadha which released in August 2022.

The actor also had a cameo in the film Salaam Venky starring Kajol in the lead role. He is also producing a film titled Champions. Speaking about his upcoming projects Khan said that he will feature in a film when he is emotionally ready. The 3-idiots actor last year parted ways with her former wife Kiran Rao ending 15 years long relationship.

Carry on Jatta 3 is a Punjabi comedy movie which is the third part of the Carry on Jatta.

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