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Entertainment Popular Korean actor Jung Eun-woo died on February 11, 2026, at the age of 39. He was known for popular dramas such as Welcome to Waikiki 2 and Bride of the Sun. Read on to know more. Famous South Korean actor Jung Eun-woo died on February 11, 2026, at the age of 39. He was known for popular dramas such as Welcome to Waikiki 2 and Bride of the Sun. The news of his sudden demise has deeply shocked the Korean entertainment industry and K-drama fans around the world. His family has not disclosed the cause of his death and has appealed for privacy. His death has left the industry in shock. Entertainment Who was Jung Eun-woo? Jung Eun-woo’s real name was Jung Dong-jin. She started her career with KBS’s youth drama Sharp 3 in 2006. In a career spanning nearly 20 years, he worked in several TV dramas. He has appeared in shows like Bride of the Sun, One Well-Raised Daughter, My Only One, and Welcome to Waikiki 2. Though he mostly appeared in supporting roles, his acting was always appreciated. He also got international recognition through Welcome to Waikiki 2. Entertainment Jung Eun-woo’s last social media post His Instagram post, made a day before his death, is now going viral on social media. In the post, he shared a picture of himself with late Hong Kong actor Leslie Cheung and British singer Amy Winehouse. He wrote, “Missing jealous sorry… PIR. BG.” Fans are coming up with different interpretations of this strange message. Some believe that this was a kind of farewell message, because both Leslie Cheung and Amy Winehouse also died at a young age. Some fans also said that reading “PIR.BG” upside down creates “GB.RIP,” which might be a sign of goodbye. Check out the post here: A few days before his death, Jung Eun-woo had also posted a picture of the red moon. He wrote, “Red Moon. Whether it’s hanging there or suspended, it’s going to fall anyway… ” which means, the red moon, whether hanging or hanging, has to fall one day. Now, after his death, people are looking at this post with a very emotional eye. Many fans say that this line now looks very scary and mysterious. Check out the post here: Entertainment Jung Eun-woo’s funeral details According to reports, Jung Eun-woo’s funeral will be held on February 13. His body will be kept at the New Goryeo Hospital Funeral Hall in Gimpo, Gyeonggi Province. In his career, he may have played fewer speaking or supporting roles, but his acting has always been impressive. Don’t Miss Out on the Latest Updates. Subscribe to Our Newsletter Today! Read More

Entertainment BTS World Tour ‘Arirang’ Live Viewing will feature the band’s shows in Goyang, South Korea, and Tokyo Jimin, J-Hope, Jin, Jungkook, RM, Suga, and V (from left) of BTS perform at the Grammy Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas in 2022. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for the Recording Academy If you’re bummed you missed out on tickets for BTS‘ upcoming Arirang world tour, you’re in luck. Two of the concerts will be streamed live in theaters around the globe. BTS World Tour ‘Arirang’ Live Viewing will take place in April, with shows in Goyang, South Korea (April 11), and Tokyo (April 18). Tickets go on sale Wednesday, Feb. 25. “Trafalgar Releasing is very proud to bring one of the year’s most significant cultural moments to cinema audiences worldwide,” Marc Allenby, Trafalgar’s Chief Executive Officer, said in a statement. “Presenting two full-length concerts from Goyang and Tokyo, these events offer audiences around the world the opportunity to come together and experience the tour on the big screen.” The feverishly anticipated Arirang world tour, named after their upcoming album, Arirang, spans 34 cities and 82 shows, kicking off in Goyang on April 9. They’ll hit cities in the U.S. — from Tampa, Florida, to Chicago — as well as various countries. The trek wraps on March 14 in Manila. Arirang marks the group’s first release since 2020’s Map of the Soul: 7, and it arrives on March 3. In addition to the livestreamed concerts, they’ll also release a live comeback performance and documentary. According to BTS, the album title derives from a traditional Korean folk song. “Drawing on the emotional depth of ‘Arirang’— its sense of yearning, longing, and the ebb and flow of life, the band ultimately chose the title for its strong resonance with their current journey,” they explained in a press release. “The new release explores universal emotions of longing and love and will resonate with the worldwide audience as a timeless legacy across generations and cultures.” From Rolling Stone US. Read More

Entertainment Harry Potter himself on navigating child stardom, working with Tracy Morgan, and the joys (and tears) of fatherhood Daniel Radcliffe is dallying on his lunch break from a Broadway rehearsal, but he’s not concerned about being late. “I’m literally the only person in this play,” says the actor, 36, on a phone call from Manhattan’s Theater District. “They can’t start without me.”  It’s the third day of rehearsals for Every Brilliant Thing, beginning Feb. 21, a one-man show that sees Radcliffe’s character create a list of reasons life is worth living in an effort to help his suicidal mother. The performance requires some audience participation, which Radcliffe calls “very much outside of my comfort zone.” Not that he minds. “Not really knowing what’s going to happen,” he says, “that’s always a very enticing prospect for me.”  At the same time, Radcliffe is starring in a very different project: the NBC sitcom The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, where he plays a filmmaker trying to rehabilitate a disgraced football star, played by Tracy Morgan. “I’m naturally pessimistic about a lot of things, so I never want to lean too much into unbridled optimism,” Radcliffe says, “but it would be awesome if this show can go for a few years. It would make me very happy.” In an interview for Rolling Stone‘s Last Word column, Radcliffe discusses his career highlights, transitioning from drama to comedy, monster trucks, and more. What’s it been like working with Tracy Morgan on The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins?Tracy, he’s one of the funniest people on the planet. Every day, you’re going to hear him say five of the craziest things you’ve ever heard a human being say. And also he’s incredibly generous and capable of having very emotional conversations as well. So he’s a real pleasure to work with. We’re very different, but the thing we overlap on is that we both really, really love our job and feel very lucky to be able to do it. I’m going to a Knicks game with him. I’ve never been to a basketball game, and I’m also aware that Tracy’s, like, the mayor of MSG. It’s going to be an interesting experience. You’ve described Every Brilliant Thing, where your character makes a list of reasons to live, as “a very funny play about depression.” What would be on your list?Most of mine at the moment would probably be about my son — all the bizarre pronunciations he has for things. I took him to [the live monster-truck show] Monster Jam, and there’s a truck that’s a unicorn, and it shoots confetti out of its horn. The truck is called Sparkle Smash, if you’re interested. I heard him telling that story later, and he referred to the confetti as “spaghetti.” Also, his godfather gave him a little toy-car model of a Lamborghini, which he has remembered as “zucchini.” So there’s any number of just incredibly sweet things that he says. I’d also say the music of Joanna Newsom or Tom Lehrer. I could do a list of a thousand brilliant things that were just records. And there’s one in the show that I love, which is “Waking up late with someone you love.” That is a brilliant thing in life. You’ve been performing in Broadway productions for over two decades now. Do you still get nervous onstage?Oh, my God, absolutely. There’s a myth that actors don’t get nervous. Maybe some don’t, but honestly, if I was backstage with somebody before a first show or preview and I was like, “Are you nervous?” and they said no, I would immediately distrust them or think that they were either lying or about to screw up. A little bit of nerves is healthy — you’re walking out on stage in front of 900 people.  There’s always the first moment when the rubber meets the road, when you do it with a new show for the first time, that’s both terrifying and thrilling. As the show goes on, you get more and more used to doing it. But when I was doing Merrily [We Roll Along], I was pretty nervous every time, just before I did “Franklin Shepherd Inc.” There was never a time when I was like, “Ahhh, yeah, this is chill and easy!” What did it mean to you to win a Tony for Merrily We Roll Along?It was amazing. It was very special to win it as part of that show. And it was a genuinely great night. I don’t drink anymore, so I’m not a person who parties till 6 a.m. very often, but I did that night, and it was awesome. There was a moment in the night where we were at this hotel and somebody was playing “New York, New York” on the piano, and [my co-star] Jonathan [Groff, who also won a Tony that night] was singing along. I was just like, “What is life? This is so impossibly perfect and lovely.” You played “Weird Al” Yankovic in the 2022 biopic about him. Did you learn anything in particular from him?You just take lessons from Al in the way that he lives. The accepting of and leaning into his own weirdness — the things that brought him joy and made him laugh led to a career of immense variety and longevity and an incredible amount of joy put out into the world — I think anyone can take inspiration from. While you first found fame in a dramatic role, you keep surprising audiences with lighter parts. Was that an active decision for you?It was sort of inevitable. The stuff I got obsessed with in my teenage years, very little of it was big, intense movies. I was watching half-hour comedies. 30 Rock. The Office, both the English and American versions. And then in the U.K., there was a show called The Day Today, which is where the character of Alan Partridge came from. If you were to witness a conversation between me and Matthew Lewis [who played Neville Longbottom] from the Harry Potter films when we were, like, 16, I’d say 50 percent

Entertainment How Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett grew closer together in grief and emerged with the band’s most powerful album Gorillaz co-founder Damon Albarn looks a bit bleary-eyed as he sits in his home in the U.K. battling a bleak British winter. “It’s very hard to believe that the sun exists at the moment. This is our annual act of faith in existence, really,” he amusedly tells Rolling Stone India.  You can sense from even offhand comments like that that the artist’s mindspace is quite existential these days. After all, he and fellow creative collaborator Jamie Hewlett have drawn from dread, grief and the joys of life on their ninth studio album The Mountain, out on Feb. 27, 2026 via their own label Kong. Wearing a black cap and white t-shirt adorned with necklaces (including what looks like a mala), Albarn lightens up at different points of our hour-long conversation. “I feel like Murdoc’s sort of exploring sadhu chic at the moment. Whatever that means,” he says with a smile.  Gorillaz on the cover of Rolling Stone India’s January-February 2026 cover. Artwork: Gorillaz Picturing the band’s irreverent, skeezy bassist as a wide-eyed, somewhat enlightened ascetic on the ghats of the Ganga is not something any Gorillaz fans would’ve ever imagined. More so for fans in India, this was a crossover that no one saw coming.  The band’s India lore first kicked off in a 2023 post, in which the virtual members – Murdoc Niccals, 2-D, Noodle and Russel Hobbs – escaped the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) by getting fake passports and jetting off to Mumbai.  The journey that Albarn and Hewlett undertook to create The Mountain – reflected across the virtual band’s mythology over 15 tracks – was one beset with loss and reflection. At the end of 2022, Hewlett was rushing to get his Indian visa and fly to Jaipur from Serbia after his mother-in-law suffered a stroke and went into a coma while she was in the capital of the desert state of Rajasthan with his wife.  They ended up spending two months in Jaipur, trying to find a way to fly her home to Paris, even as ICU visits and bouts of infections continued. “It was a very, very traumatic experience, as I’m sure you can imagine, being in a different part of the world with a family member in a coma, trying to get them home. But despite that, I fell in love with Jaipur,” Hewlett admits.  “I said to Damon, if we can make an album about death that makes people feel less afraid of the concept of it, wouldn’t that be an amazing gift?” Jamie Hewlett Wearing a faded blue t-shirt and a backwards black cap, he smiles often when I ask him about India and the impression it left on him. “I mean, I should have come back saying, ‘I’m never going to India again after this experience.’ But of course, it was nothing to do with India. It was just that it happened there,” he says.  When he got back to London, he spoke to Albarn. “I told him we have to go to India to do a Gorillaz project. And he was like, ‘Yeah, absolutely.’”  They then took their first trip to India together in May 2023, “just discovering and traveling around, trying to imbibe as much of the culture and have as many experiences as possible,” according to Hewlett.  Both Albarn and Hewlett have some familiarity with India — as you might expect of British artists, given that generations of Indian diaspora made the U.K. their home in the aftermath of colonial rule. Out in Leytonstone in East London, where Albarn grew up and went on to gain worldwide fame with rock band Blur, he says they lived next to an Indian family and his father often collected and played Indian classical music at home. “My dad used to play me Ravi Shankar [records] from [when I was] a baby […] I felt very at home when I arrived in Mumbai,” Albarn recalls from his first visit.  Damon Albarn (left) and Jamie Hewlett (right) on a boat ride through the Ganga river in Varanasi. Photo: Blair Brown There wasn’t a clear theme just yet. After returning to London to further pursue this newfound direction, tragedy struck again when Albarn’s father passed away. Ten days later, Hewlett lost his father. In the coming months, he also lost his mother-in-law, following a prolonged period of illness. The India experience still fresh in their minds, the idea for the next Gorillaz album had taken root – it was about death and the loss of loved ones, not from the “Western perspective” but through the more comforting lens of reincarnation they learnt from Eastern philosophies like Hinduism. Hewlett says, “I said to Damon, if we can make an album about death that makes people feel less afraid of the concept of it, wouldn’t that be an amazing gift?”  Considering Gorillaz’s affinity for globe-trotting, surreal adventures, and collabs to back them up, it’s easy to imagine them ending up in India. But not like this. When you hear the opening title track, anchored by Ajay Prasanna’s transportive flute, Anoushka Shankar’s sitar and Amaan and Ayaan Ali Bangash’s sarod, you immediately get the impression that The Mountain is rooted in something quite real for a virtual band.  “I was going to get there at some point,” Albarn says, pointing out how Gorillaz, as well as his other standalone projects, have often drawn from music in African countries like Ethiopia, Mali, Nigeria, Morocco and Congo. “I’ve worked in Damascus, Syria and Algeria […] These journeys don’t start for no reason. There’s a lot of emotional energy that builds up before you embark on a journey like the one that The Mountain depicts,” he explains. Hewlett, for his part, reels off how many places he’s traveled to within India, including New Delhi, Amritsar, Mumbai, Rishikesh and an ayurvedic retreat in Kerala. He and Albarn also later visited Varanasi

Entertainment Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie turn Emily Brontë’s Gothic novel into a hyperventilating drama filled repression, revenge, and sex. Lots and lots and lots of sex Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff and Margot Robbie as Catherine in ‘Wuthering Heights’ Warner Bros. Pictures. She’s a sly one, that Emerald Fennell! The actor turned filmmaker starts off her Wuthering Heights — the gajillionth take on Emily Brontë’s swooning Gothic novel, yet somehow the first one to feature Heathcliff sniffing his true love’s fingers after catching her in onanistic interlude — with the sound of heavy breathing and rapid moaning. The screen is black. The average viewer imagines all sort of carnal activities happening, titillated by what might appear onscreen once the visuals kick in. What greets us is the sight of a public hanging. That panting isn’t ecstatic. It’s a series of last gasps. A mass of men, women, and children watch as the hooded figure twitches and jerks on the end of a rope. Several boys point out that the convict has a “stiffy” as he prepares to shuffle off this mortal coil. A stern nun shushes them. Once the prisoner ceases his danse macabre, the crowd goes wild. No sooner has this public execution ended than we cut to a couple getting extremely hot and heavy right by the gallows. They may be fucking around, but Fennell is not. She’s planting a flag. Two minutes in, and the dual forces of sex and death are already forever intertwined. Here, there is no petite mort or grande mort, just Thanatos and Eros high-fiving each other on the Yorkshire Dales. Once you’ve unleashed the forces of one, the film suggests, the other won’t be far behind. There are better adaptations of Wuthering Heights, and there are far, far worse adaptations of Wuthering Heights. Yet you will certainly not find a hornier version of this material than Fennell’s fast-and-loose spin on the torrid tale of Heathcliff and Catherine, childhood pals turned paramours who can never truly be together and genuinely can’t keep their hands off each other. It may in fact be the horniest literary adaptation ever made. (All apologies, Brokeback Mountain.) Stopping at the mark in which their doomed love story reaches its natural climax, the Saltburn writer-director excises the more ghostly attributes associated with the book’s back half, while keeping all of the ghastly ones intact. The cruelty exercised by these lust-driven denizens of a crumbling country estate is the point here. So is the sense that repression, revenge, and a ridiculous amount of irony must inevitably give way to sex. Lots and lots and lots of sex. A long time ago, young Cathy (Charlotte Mellington) lived with her wastrel of a father, Mr. Earnshaw (Martin Clunes), and her companion Nelly (Vy Nguyen) at the manor known as Wuthering Heights. One night, Earnshaw goes out for his evening’s gambling and degeneracy and returns the next morning with a new resident for the household. He had been aghast to see a young boy being beaten in the street (“This isn’t Liverpool!” the old man exclaims. “Or Bristol!”), and has brought the child home to live with them. This urchin (Adolescence’s Owen Cooper) has no name. Cathy calls him “Heathcliff,” after her late brother. Mr. Earnshaw wields his charity like a cudgel with the lad, and occasionally beats him with much less metaphorical blunt instruments. But the two youngsters couldn’t be closer. Until they grow up to be Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, at which point they’ll spend the rest of the movie striving to be much, much, much closer. Casting two of the most smoldering contemporary actors on the planet clearly stacks the deck, and carries on the long tradition of pairing a dashing figure of brooding handsomeness (Laurence Olivier, Ralph Fiennes) with a breathless screen beauty (Merle Oberon, Juliette Binoche). When filmmakers have tried to skew slightly earthier, as in Jacques Rivette’s 1985 version, the result is a sort of grungy take on traditional Gothic tropes. Other versions, like Andrea Arnold’s brilliant 2011 stab at adapting Brontë’s parable, push the book’s racial aspects and class divide to the forefront. Fennell’s interpretation is all about channeling pleasure — the sexual pleasure of abandoning yourself to amour fou, of course, with a strong emphasis on the fou. But aesthetic pleasure above all. So much depends on the way a red dress falls across an equally radiantly red floor, or the manner in which the billowing train of a white wedding dress trails behind Cathy as she crosses the moors. The squish of strongly kneaded dough is amplified in a way to make palms sweat. Sight and sound are all extra-ribbed for your you-know-what, but the movie is sensual in a way that aims to engage not just eyes and ears, but all of the senses at once. Broken eggs placed in bed as a prank are an excuse for Heathcliff to let the goo drip suggestively across his calloused hand. A slug symbolically leaves glistening slime on a window. Wallpaper is crafted to replicate a young woman’s skin, complete with freckles. Did we mention the finger-sniffing? It’s all in the service of arousal — theirs, yours — and when Fennell and her performers mash all the right buttons at once, the effect is purposefully overwhelming. When we talk about this Wuthering Heights years from now, we may dutifully note the fleeting look that passes across Robbie’s face when she hears Heathcliff joke about taking a woman in town as a wife. Or mention the manner in which Elordi somehow defies basic physics and lifts Robbie up by her corset strings. Or reference the shot in which the scruffy young man first reappears as a Harlequin romance-novel cover star emerging from the northern mist, clad in a gentry’s finery and rocking a gold tooth like he was the world’s sexiest buccaneer. Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie in Wuthering HeightsWarner Bros. Pictures But what will inevitably be first in the conversation is the sequence in which two servants engage in rough role-play in a barn. The stablehand puts a bridle in the housemaid’s mouth, then ties her wrists. Cathy peers down

Entertainment “Hip-hop does not belong in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, nor does opera or symphony orchestras,” says the Kiss singer. “How come the New York Philharmonic doesn’t get in?” Gene Simmons Ronald Martinez/Getty Images Longtime Rock & Roll Hall of Fame critic Gene Simmons — who was inducted as a member of Kiss back in 2014 — has once again blasted the organization for honoring hip-hop acts. “It’s not my music,” he told the LegendsNLeaders podcast. “I don’t come from the ghetto. It doesn’t speak my language. And as I said in print many times, hip-hop does not belong in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, nor does opera or symphony orchestras.… How come the New York Philharmonic doesn’t get into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? Because it’s called the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.” “Ice Cube and I had a back and forth,” he continues. “He’s a bright guy, and I respect what he’s done.…He shot back that it’s the ‘spirit’ of rock and roll.… So Ice Cube and Grandmaster Flash and all these guys are in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. I just want to know when Led Zeppelin’s going to be in the Hip-Hop Hall of Fame? Music has labels because it describes an approach. By and large, rap, hip-hop is a spoken-word art. Then you put beats in back of it and somebody comes up with a musical phrase, but it’s verbal. There are some melodies, but by and large, it’s a verbal thing.” This is far from the first time such an argument has been put forth. And when N.W.A were inducted into the Hall of Fame back in 2015, Ice Cube told Rolling Stone why the notion is so wrongheaded to him. “Rap is a piece of rock & roll, but there’s also a piece of soul, a piece of R&B, a piece of blues — all of that music that comes before it,” he said. “I think rap captures the spirit of rock & roll just like rappers and guys who do rock & roll capture the same spirit, but they might go in different directions with it. But it’s the same spirit.” Simmons also believes that rock & roll is dead. “There will not be another Beatles,” he told Rolling Stone in 2017. “You can play the game, 1958 until 1988 is thirty years, Elvis, the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Madonna, Prince, Jackson, U2, AC/DC, maybe Kiss, and from 1988 until today, give me the new Beatles.” We attempted to tell him that groups like Pearl Jam and Radiohead found tremendous success after 1988. “If Thom Yorke walked down the street in Pasadena, what would happen?” he asked, before balking at our notion that people would notice. “I think you’re delusional. I’ve been with Dave Grohl when he was walking down the street, and nobody knew, and he’s a big star. No, that’s not what a star is. Prince was a star. You could see him coming from a mile ahead. There are successful artists. Pearl Jam, by any standard, is very successful.… How about this: More people would know Mötley Crüe walking down the street than Radiohead.” Kiss have largely been on hiatus since they played the final show of their farewell tour in December 2023. But they played a couple of non-makeup gigs at the Kiss Kruise Land Locked in Vegas fan event in November 2025. The three surviving founding members made a rare public appearance at the Kennedy Center Honors the following month. In typical Simmons fashion, he shattered the goodwill just weeks later by saying that Kiss drummer Peter Criss didn’t actually write “Beth,” his signature song. “Peter had nothing to do with that song,” he told YouTube’s Professor of Rock. “He sang it.… The mythology of ‘Beth’ is exactly that: mythology. The real story is Peter was lucky enough to be in the same place at the same time as a guy who wrote a song called ‘Beth.’” Criss fired right back. “Gene wouldn’t know how the song was originally written because Gene wasn’t there from the conception of the song in the late ‘60s and he wasn’t there for the completion of the song with Bob Ezrin,” the drummer told Billboard. “Gene’s statements are ridiculous and very uncalled for; he talks about things that he doesn’t know about.” From Rolling Stone US. Read More

Entertainment It is confirmed. Finally, a biopic on Bharat Ratna, the Tamil Carnatic singing legend M. S. Subbulakshmi is happening. To be directed by Gowtam Tinnanuri, the long-awaited biopic will star the very natural Sai Pallavi in the titular role. Sai Pallavi to play M S Subbulakshmi in her biopic While the official announcement is yet to made, it is reliably learnt that Sai Pallavi has started taking lessons in Carnatic vocals in preparation for what would no doubt be the greatest challenge of her career. “While Gowtam is completing his research on the subject, Sai is watching all the footage she can lay her hands on to get to know the great singer,” a source informed this writer. The project goes on the floors later this year. Also Read: Is Sai Pallavi replacing Deepika Padukone in Kalki 2898 AD sequel? BOLLYWOOD NEWS – LIVE UPDATES Catch us for latest Bollywood News, New Bollywood Movies update, Box office collection, New Movies Release , Bollywood News Hindi, Entertainment News, Bollywood Live News Today & Upcoming Movies 2026 and stay updated with latest hindi movies only on Bollywood Hungama. Read More

Entertainment The Delhi High Court on Wednesday, February 12, took up Bollywood actor Rajpal Yadav’s bail application in connection with a long-pending cheque bounce case and directed the complainant to file a response. The development comes days after the actor surrendered at Tihar Jail following the dismissal of his last-minute plea for relief. Rajpal Yadav bail plea: Delhi High Court seeks complainant’s reply, makes strong remarks on actor’s conduct During the hearing, counsel appearing for Rajpal Yadav informed the court that a formal bail application had been moved on the actor’s behalf and requested that the opposing party be asked to submit its reply. The lawyer also told the bench that he had been unable to establish contact with Yadav and sought additional time until Monday, assuring the court that he would “work out something.” He further requested a brief adjournment in the matter. Taking note of the submissions, the bench presided over by Justice Swarna Kanta Sharma directed the complainant to file a response to the bail plea. The court subsequently adjourned the matter to Monday when the application will be considered after the reply is placed on record. However, the hearing was not without sharp observations from the court. The bench reportedly remarked on Yadav’s conduct, noting that the actor had landed in jail after failing to honour commitments made earlier in the case. Rajpal Yadav is currently serving a six-month prison sentence after the Delhi High Court rejected his plea seeking relief in the cheque bounce matter. He surrendered at Tihar Jail on February 5. The case dates back to 2010 when Yadav had borrowed Rs 5 crore from M/s Murali Projects Pvt Ltd for his directorial venture Ata Pata Laapata. The film failed to perform at the box office, leading to financial complications and prolonged legal proceedings. Before surrendering, Yadav had spoken to Bollywood Hungama about his situation, expressing his helplessness. Rajpal said, “Sir, kya karoon? Mere paas paise nahin hain (sir, what to do? I don’t have the money to pay back). Aur koi upaay nahin dikhta (can’t see another way out).” When asked why he did not seek help from influential industry friends, he added, “Sir, yahan hum sab akele hain (sir, we are all on our own over here). There are no friends. I have to deal with this crisis on my own.” Following his remarks, several members of the film industry have reportedly extended support to the actor, including Salman Khan, Ajay Devgn and Sonu Sood, all of whom have previously worked with Yadav. The matter will now be heard again on Monday, once the complainant submits a response to the bail application, determining the next course of action in the case. Also Read: Radha Yadav opens up on Rajpal Yadav’s case, says the industry has been supportive BOLLYWOOD NEWS – LIVE UPDATES Catch us for latest Bollywood News, New Bollywood Movies update, Box office collection, New Movies Release , Bollywood News Hindi, Entertainment News, Bollywood Live News Today & Upcoming Movies 2026 and stay updated with latest hindi movies only on Bollywood Hungama. Read More

Entertainment Veteran playback singer Udit Narayan faces controversy after his first wife, Ranjana Jha, lodged a formal complaint accusing him and others of serious wrongdoing dating back decades. The complaint was filed on Tuesday, 10th February, at the Women’s Police Station in Supaul, Bihar, alleging that a was carried out without her knowledge or consent. Udit Narayan’s first wife Ranjana files complaint over alleged medical procedure without consent In her written application, Ranjana identified herself as the 61-year-old daughter of Chandrakant Jha, and said she married Udit Narayan on December 7, 1984, under traditional Hindu rites. She claimed that he left for Mumbai in 1985 to pursue his music career and later learned through media reports that he had married another woman, Deepa Narayan. She alleges that he misled her whenever she confronted him about it. The complaint also includes serious allegations related to a hospital visit in 1996. Ranjana claimed that she was taken to a hospital in Delhi by Udit, along with his brothers Sanjay Kumar Jha and Lalit Narayan Jha, where her uterus was allegedly removed “under the pretext of medical treatment” without her knowledge or consent. She further alleged that Deepa Narayan was present at the hospital during the time. Along with this, Ranjana also accused the singer of neglect and mistreatment over the years, claiming she was denied entry into his Mumbai home in 2006 and was insulted by family members during a visit to relatives in Nepal. She added that she had earlier approached the Family Court and the Women’s Commission but felt that her complaints were not properly addressed. Speaking to reporters, Ranjana said, “You all know that Udit Narayan ji repeatedly makes promises but does not fulfil them. I deserve justice.” The police officer in charge confirmed that the complaint is under investigation and that an FIR will be registered as facts emerge. Udit Narayan has not publicly responded to the allegations. Also Read: Udit Narayan in legal trouble as first wife Ranjana Jha files case over property, rights BOLLYWOOD NEWS – LIVE UPDATES Catch us for latest Bollywood News, New Bollywood Movies update, Box office collection, New Movies Release , Bollywood News Hindi, Entertainment News, Bollywood Live News Today & Upcoming Movies 2026 and stay updated with latest hindi movies only on Bollywood Hungama. Read More

Entertainment Toxic continues its unprecedented pre-release march across global and domestic markets, tightening its grip on the Indian theatrical landscape with yet another decisive power move. In a major development that significantly reaffirms the film’s pan-India ambitions, AA Films, one of India’s most influential and battle-tested distribution banners has acquired the theatrical distribution rights for Yash’s Toxic across North India and Nepal, further fortifying the film’s national footprint beyond the southern markets. BREAKING: Anil Thadani’s AA Films comes onboard as distribution partner for Yash’s Toxic in North India & Nepal This strategic alliance marks a reunion of sorts, as AA Films joins forces with Yash after successfully distributing KGF: Chapter 1 and KGF: Chapter 2 two films that didn’t just break box-office records but redefined the very grammar of pan-India cinema. With Toxic, the partnership now scales even greater heights, powered by trust, legacy, and a shared vision of event cinema. The partnership between Rocking Star Yash and Anil Thadani is rooted in a shared history of success. Their collaboration dates back to the original KGF, where they worked in close synergy to pioneer the film’s pan-India strategy. This landmark association redefined regional cinema’s reach and served as a pivotal turning point for the Indian film industry. The acquisition comes on the back of a staggering series of pre-release milestones. Toxic earlier made history by becoming the first non-Telugu film to secure a landmark distribution deal with Sri Venkateswara Creations in the AP–TG market, followed by a massive overseas acquisition by Phars Film for its Indian-language versions ranking among the highest overseas deals ever secured for an Indian film. With AA Films now steering the film across the Hindi belt, North India, and Nepal, Toxic is assembling a distribution architecture as ambitious and expansive as its cinematic universe. At the helm of this alliance is Anil Thadani, Founder of AA Films one of the most experienced, influential, and respected distributors in Indian cinema today. A long-time associate and trusted industry force, Thadani brings with him decades of unmatched expertise, having navigated the business from grassroots single screens to elite multiplex circuits, with a deep, instinctive understanding of audience psychology across geographies. Widely regarded as a pioneer who bridged industries long before “pan-India” became a buzzword, Anil Thadani has been instrumental in taking some of Indian cinema’s most culturally defining blockbusters to a national audience. His formidable track record includes landmark titles such as Baahubali, KGF, Pushpa, Kantara, and Kalki — films that shattered language barriers and rewrote box-office history — alongside several massively successful Hindi tentpoles. Confirming the acquisition, Anil Thadani, Founder of AA Films, said, “Toxic is a cinematic world built with rare ambition, conviction, and a goal to bridge Indian and international sensibilities. From the moment we engaged with the material, it was clear that this is a film designed for the big screen, with a scale of visuals, depth of storytelling, and technical finesse that Indian audiences across markets are hungry for today. Yash has consistently elevated the idea of a pan-India star, and with Toxic, he pushes that envelope even further by stepping into a space that feels both rooted and globally resonant. The team behind the film its technicians, creative collaborators, and artists are operating at a world-class level, and the vision is uncompromising. At AA Films, we believe in backing films that have the potential to deliver landmark theatrical experiences, and Toxic has all the inner workings of one. We are proud to bring this film to audiences across North India and Nepal.” Venkat K. Narayana, Producer, KVN Productions, said, “At KVN Productions, we approach cinema with the same seriousness, structure, and long-term vision that one would bring to any institution-building exercise. Toxic is a massive pan-Indian cinematic proposition that demands scale, discipline, and an exceptional distribution backbone. In Anil Thadani and AA Films, we have partnered with someone who understands this responsibility at a fundamental level. Anil Thadani is one of the key architects of the pan-India movement. Long before the industry began speaking the language of nationwide cinema, he was already bridging regions, markets, and audiences through landmark films. His ability to balance ground-level market intelligence with elite national showcasing makes him uniquely positioned to take a film like Toxic to audiences across North India and Nepal. Toxic represents the future of Indian cinema: content-led, technically uncompromising, culturally rooted, yet globally resonant. With AA Films sharing this journey with us, we believe the film will reinstate what Indian stories can achieve when backed by the right vision and infrastructure.” Written by Yash and Geetu Mohandas and directed by Geetu Mohandas, Toxic: A Fairytale for Grown-Ups has been simultaneously shot in Kannada and English, with dubbed versions planned in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and several other languages, underscoring the film’s global ambition. The film boasts a formidable technical lineup, with National Award-winning cinematographer Rajeev Ravi behind the lens; music composed by Ravi Basrur; editing by Ujwal Kulkarni; and production design by TP Abid. The action sequences are mounted on a grand scale, choreographed by Hollywood action director JJ Perry (John Wick), alongside National Award-winning action directors Anbariv and Kecha Khamphakdee. Produced by Venkat K. Narayana and Yash under the banners of KVN Productions and Monster Mind Creations, Toxic is slated for a worldwide theatrical release on 19 March 2026, strategically coinciding with Eid, Ugadi, and Gudi Padwa firmly cementing its status as a high-stakes, cross-cultural cinematic event. Also Read: SCOOP: Anil Thadani attempts to club Toxic showcasing with Border 2; Exhibitors refuse deals due to Dhurandhar 2 More Pages: Toxic Box Office Collection Tags : AA Films, Anil Thadani, Bollywood News, Breaking, Distribution, Geetu Mohandas, Nepal, News, North India, Toxic, Yash BOLLYWOOD NEWS – LIVE UPDATES Catch us for latest Bollywood News, New Bollywood Movies update, Box office collection, New Movies Release , Bollywood News Hindi, Entertainment News, Bollywood Live News Today & Upcoming Movies 2026 and stay updated with latest hindi movies only on Bollywood Hungama. Read More