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Britney Spears is a proud mom to two sons, Sean and Jayden. Learn more about the pop icon’s kids here. 

Paige DeSorbo is always trying to elevate her nighttime routine. And a key element of this routine is an ultra-hydrating overnight lip mask.
“I’m very passionate about lip masks,” says Paige, but…
 

The show, which marks Styles’ first full-length concert in nearly three years, releases on Netflix Sunday. 

The now-former Secretary of Homeland Security is dedicated to her family. Learn more about her personal life and her past role as governor of South Dakota. 

There is something undeniably stirring and faintly amusing about watching Anil Kapoor storm through Subedaar like an ageing Rambo who has swapped jungle warfare for small-town corruption. At 69, Kapoor moves with astonishing conviction, throwing punches, absorbing blows and delivering stern glances as though retirement were merely a bureaucratic inconvenience. The film, truth be told, leans heavily on his presence. Strip away Anil Kapoor and you have a fairly standard action template; keep him, and you have gravitas, nostalgia and sinew holding the enterprise together.
Arjun Maurya, the retired Subedaar at the centre of the story, returns home expecting peace but finds rot. A sand mafia runs the town with brazen entitlement, and Arjun’s attempt at quiet domesticity proves short-lived. Yet the more compelling struggle is internal. Years of military discipline have left him emotionally rigid, particularly with his daughter Shyama, played with admirable determination by Radhika Madan. She does everything asked of her, be it wounded resentment, steely confrontation or gradual thaw, and she does it without melodramatic excess. Their fractured relationship lends the film its emotional ballast, preventing it from collapsing into mere fisticuffs.
The antagonistic trifecta gives the drama texture, if not always nuance. Aditya Rawal, currently enjoying a rather visible run, plays Prince as a swaggering, one-note mafia heir. He is volatile, loud and unapologetically entitled, less layered villain, more combustible presence. Still, Rawal commits fully, and that commitment counts. More surprising is Faisal Malik as Softy, a softer-spoken yet calculating operator within the criminal machinery. Malik underplays beautifully for much of the film, only to deliver a sharp turn in the final act that genuinely catches you off guard.
Presiding over this murky ecosystem is Babli Didi embodied with composed authority by Mona Singh. She understands that true power lies in networks and patience rather than theatrics. If Prince is bluster and Softy is strategy, Babli Didi is structure, the spine of the operation. Together, they form a layered, if occasionally schematic, opposition to Arjun’s old-school honour.
Dependable as ever, Saurabh Shukla offers warmth and reliability, grounding the narrative with his familiar ease. One does wish the film had afforded more space to Khushbu Sundar, who plays Arjun’s late wife. She exists largely in memory and flashback, yet her presence — tender, dignified — provides the emotional echo that softens Arjun’s otherwise granite exterior.
Director Suresh Triveni, who clearly loves Westerns, keeps the tone earthy and largely restrained, favouring grounded action over stylised spectacle. Thematically, the film nudges at questions of ageing masculinity, post-retirement identity and the cost of patriotic duty, though it wisely wraps these musings in satisfying confrontations and unapologetic heroism.
Is it groundbreaking cinema? Hardly. Is it enjoyable? Absolutely. It’s a good, old-fashioned actioner that believes in its hero without irony. And if Sunny paaji can continue to defy cinematic gravity, why shouldn’t Anil? The closing moments all but wink at a sequel, hinting that this may well be the beginning of a franchise. One suspects Arjun Maurya may not be hanging up his boots just yet and frankly, neither should Anil Kapoor. The film is streaming on Amazon Prime Video currently.
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Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses created the half-hour series, which also features Charly Clive, Phil Dunster, Danielle Deadwyler and John C. McGinley. 

Whispers of a possible firing circulated online after Noem faced the House Judiciary Committee. 

After the global buzz around Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar, actor Taha Shah Badussha is stepping into a far more unsettling narrative with Paro. The film explores the disturbing reality of bride trafficking, where women are stripped of identity and collectively called “Paro.” During an exclusive conversation with Filmfare, Shah reflects on confronting ideas of masculinity and male privilege, researching the lives of trafficked brides through documentaries and interviews, and why the film, backed by actor-producer Trupti Bhoir, aims to spark awareness and dignity for thousands of women who have long remained invisible.

What did you have to unlearn about power, male privilege and masculinity before stepping into the world of Paro?
First of all, an awareness was built where I had to understand the plight of these women. I had to understand what they were going through. Also, my mother has been a single mom she has been taking care of us. So, a lot of it resonated with me because of some of my mother’s experiences as a single mom. I could understand Trupti Bhoir’s take. She is the actress and the producer of the film. She has undergone a lot of research and took interviews of some of the women as well. I was very moved when I saw that. I realised that the only right choice after Heeramandi would be this. It should do something good for me and I should utilise my acting abilities to send a message across which may help all these women.
We are so lucky that we could take this project to places. In fact, 60,000 of the women who are in the community of Paro are going to be getting identification. They are going to get the respect that they deserve. It’s a win. So it has definitely changed me. It has made me get in touch with my more vulnerable side. I am knowing my empathetic and compassionate sides as well.
What does Paro mean?
Paro is the community of white slaves. They are known as Paro. There are hundreds in some village. Everyone is called Paro. They have no name, which is extremely sad. This is the fight to give them the honour of having their own name.
Did you engage yourself with real accounts of bride trafficking? How did the research go?
The research was mostly all the documentaries and a couple of interviews, which were shot by Trupti extensively. And more than that, there was a documentary made on BBC. We watched that. We are also all aware of things from different films and the news too. We know about enslavement or trafficking too. But then getting trafficked, getting married to a man and still being called a Paro, then not having the rights over your children, over your family or over your earnings – it means you are basically a slave. But you are a bride slave. That is next level of horror.

How did Trupti’s performance affect the way you approached your character?
I think it’s always a give and take. It depends on how we perform each scene and what the director tells us to do. But as performers, we feed off each other mostly.
How was the response at film festivals?
When a film ends at least film festivals, people start clapping. But after Paro was shown, we saw that people just went very numb. It took a while for everyone to snap out of it. That kind of reaction means that we have shaken something from within. When we were promoting the film in Chicago, we saw many shed a tear or two as well. That says something.
There is often a pressure to package social films in accordance with global validation and what global audiences would like. How did Paro resist that?
I think it’s an honest story. And the subject is very hard hitting. It hasn’t been spoken about. It is going to build awareness. It is not just a movie for entertainment purposes, it is also something which leaves a message and a moral. It travels through languages and barriers.
Also Read: EXCLUSIVE: Taha Shah on Heeramandi, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, and more

The classic red lip is officially making a comeback on the red carpet. Yet, this iconic makeup look can be incredibly intimidating. The question plaguing our makeup nightmares is: How do I choose…
 

Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Paul Mescal will also take the stage at the Academy Awards, set to be hosted by Conan O’Brien.