This is a replay of Hindi cinema. Remember how till as late as 2000, Hindi cinema did not really excel in good comedy, and some better-than-average comedies were box-office washouts or, at best, average. The same illness seems to have befallen the Hindi OTT space. But for one âPanchayatâ (just as we had one âChalti Ka Naam Gaadiâ and one âPyar Kiye Jaaâ in the days of yore) last year, comedies on OTT have been a no-no among what are considered the laugh-inducing breaks from the predominant thrillers (of all calibers), romances (another weak area) et al.
And âRunaway Lugaaiâ is the perfect example. It talks about the uber-modern small-town girl Bulbul (Ruhi Singh) who loves to wear scanty dresses and be photographed in them and has ambitions to be a free spirit and a Bhojpuri film actress. She even smokes marijuana (leading to the horrible pun by a character, âmarriage-hua-naââyucks!) and makes her husband Rajnikant smoke it, too
Home News: Miss India Universal Peace and Humanity 2014, Ruhi Singh is essaying an interesting role recently, that of a runaway bride in MX Player’s ‘Runaway Lug.
Twitter withholds account of actor Sushant Singh and then restores it
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Twitter accounts belonging to actor Sushant Singh and iScrew, an anonymous user who posts Gujarat-related COVID-19 information among others, were withheld on Wednesday after it received a legal demand. While Singh’s account was later restored today afternoon, the social media platform has still restricted Indian users’ from accessing @iScrew.
In his tweets, Singh (@sushant says) has been critical of the Prime Minister and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. The Age of Bananas (@iScrew) whose account was also blocked by Twitter, posted regular updates on COVID-19 situation in the state of Gujarat. MediaNama has reached out to Twitter for comments. Their responses are awaited.
By Aihik Sur and Nikhil Pahwa
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has asked social media platforms to take down any content that refers to the term ‘Indian variant of Coronavirus’, Reuters reported yesterday. MediaNama has seen a copy of the letter.
The letter, sent on Friday the 21st of May 2021, signed by Rakesh Maheshwari, Group Coordinator (cyber laws and e-security) in MEITY, said, “It has come to our knowledge that a false statement is being circulated online which implies that an Indian variant’ of corona virus is spreading across the countries. This is completely FALSE. There is no such variant of Covid-19 scientifically cited as such by the World Health Organisation (WHO). WHO has not associated the term “Indian Variant” with the B.1.617 variant of the Coronavirus.