Trust Nick Jonas to have Priyanka Chopra’s back all the time and he never disappoints. The power couple announced the 2021 Oscar nominations on March 15 from a studio. Post the shoot, Priyanka and Nick were seen leaving in their car where the hubby’s sweet gesture for wifey is winning over fans’ hearts.
In some of the snaps clicked of the duo outside the studio, Priyanka is seen wearing the yellow blazer that Nick sported during the nominations shoot. When they arrived at the venue, Priyanka was seen wearing a grey overcoat with her dress, which was also Nick’s. While leaving, Nick lent his yellow blazer to her.
At the upcoming 93rd Academy Awards, Priyanka Chopra starrer and backed The White Tiger is nominated in the Best Adapted Screenplay Category. Writer-director Ramin Bahrani has done the screenplay of the film.
Along with The White Tiger, the other films that are nominated in this category are Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm, Nomadland, The Father and One Night in Miami.
Indian actor Adarsh Gourav, who starred in The White Tiger has been nominated for a British Academy Film Award (BAFTA) in the Leading Actor category. Adarsh had received critical acclaim in the Ramin Bahrani film which is based on Arvind Adiga’s 2008 Man Booker-winning novel.
Apart from Adarsh, the five other names in the Leading Actor are Riz Ahmed for Sound of Metal, Chadwick Boseman for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Anthony Hopkins for The Father, Tahar Rahim for The Mauritanian and Mads Mikkelsen for Another Round.
The six names in the Leading Actor 🎭🏆 category are🎥 Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal🎥 Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom🎥 Adarsh Gourav – The White Tiger🎥 Anthony Hopkins – The Father🎥 Mads Mikkelsen – Another Round🎥 Tahar Rahim – The Mauritanian#EEBAFTAspic.twitter.com/GfM3ey5km3
The White Tiger has also earned a nomination in the Adapted Screenplay category for writer-director Ramin Bahrani. The Dig, The Father, The Mauritian and Nomadland are the other films nominated in this category. Meanwhile, The Father, The Mauritian, Nomadland, Promising Young Woman and The Trial of Chicago 7 have earned the Best Film nods.
Adarsh played Balram, who goes to dangerous means to fight systemic oppression and open his own enterprise. The White Tiger also stars Priyanka Chopra and Rajkummar Rao in pivotal roles. Priyanka served as an executive producer in the film with Ava DuVernay.
The BAFTAs will be held on April 10 and 11, 2021. The ceremony will be held at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
Miley Cyrus took to social media to cherish some throwback memories from her life and one image features her with her ex boyfriend Nick Jonas as they go on a roller coaster ride. “You just had to be there,” Miley captioned her post.
Nick looks cute as he flaunts his long curly hair. He sports a casual T-shirt as he is seated besides a seemingly excited Miley. Even as Miley’s post brought back fonder memories of ‘Niley’ fans, some questioned why she shared his throwback picture on social media.
Earlier, in 2019, Miley had shared screenshots of direct messages she’d sent to Nick on social media. Nick’s wife, actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas had responded to the post in the comments section and wrote, “Lol. Hahaha.. Hubby is right. These posts r (lit).” This had earned Priyanka much praise from fans as she came across as a understanding wife.
Nick and Miley were rumoured to be dating at the height of their stardom years ago, when she was a popular actor on TV show Hannah Montana and Nick was a musician with the Jonas Brothers.
Years later, while Miley went on to marry and subsequently divorce actor Liam Hemsworth, Nick has settled with Priyanka after their December 2018 wedding.
On the work front, Nick has currently announced that his third solo album, titled Spaceman. The album with 11 tracks is scheduled to hit the stores on March 12.
Nick will perform the tracks from his album for the first time on the popular show Saturday Night Live, besides hosting the show on February 27.
On director Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s birthday, Alia Bhatt shared the teaser of their upcoming film Gangubai Kathiawadi. The one minute-thirty second trailer shows Alia Bhatt as the powerful Mafia queen and attracted rave-reviews for the actress.
Since the trailer released many top stars of Bollywood including Shah Rukh Khan, Ranveer Singh and Priyanka Chopra showered love and praises on the trailer. Shah Rukh Khan, who worked with Alia in Dear Zindagi took to Twitter and wrote, “I always look forward to your work as an actor ‘little one’. And this one seems extremely special….and you….so Gangsta!!! All my love and wishes for the film.”
I always look forward to your work as an actor ‘little one’. And this one seems extremely special….and you….so Gangsta!!! All my love and wishes for the film. @aliaa08https://t.co/ZPIIfWGQYs— Shah Rukh Khan (@iamsrk) February 24, 2021
SS Rajamouli, who directed Alia in RRR also had kind words for her. He wrote, “Gangubai is as fierce as fierce can get! @aliaa08’s avatar as #GangubaiKathiawadi is very impressive. Looking forward to see #SanjayLeelaBhansali’s magnificent work on the screen.”
Alia’s Gully Boy co-star Ranveer Singh congratulated Alia with a line from the film. “Gangu tu chand hai, chand rahegi,” he wrote.
Priyanka Chopra tweeted, “Alia!!!! I’m so proud of you my friend for stepping into complexity fearlessly. I hope you always keep shining. Presenting- Gangubai Kathiawadi! Congratulations Sanjay sir and team (sic).”
Akshay Kumar also took to Twitter to write, “#GangubaiKathiawadi…had found the title itself very intriguing from the day I’d heard it…the teaser only adds to it! @aliaa08 along with #SanjayLeelaBhansali sir bring their A-game again, so looking forward to it.”
Meanwhile, Gangubai Kathiawadi also stars Ajay Devgn in a pivotal role. Popular TV star Shantanu Maheshwari will reportedly be making his Bollywood debut with the film. Gangubai Kathiawadi will release on July 31, 2021 in theaters.
“The Indian entrepreneur has to be straight and crooked, mocking and believing, sly and sincere, all at the same time.”
Balram Halwai (Adarsh Gourav), while continuously breaking the fourth wall through dialogues and gestures, readies us for the ‘dark times’. He asks us to not take the opening of the film on its face value as his story is not what it seems to be.
Director Ramin Bahrani (Man Push Cart, 99 Homes) focuses on the difficult choices made by an ambitious, fast learner and conniving Jharkhand boy in The White Tiger, based on a synonymous book by Aravind Adiga. In the process, he tries to explore the caste and economic divide and how they’re interrelated in modern India, which is not always about the shining module projected to the world. However, most of it fails to fetch any second looks.
Gourav stands his ground against Priyanka Chopra, who is brimming with confidence and a fantastic screen presence, and Rajkummar Rao, who struggles during accent swap. Because the narrator and the central character are one, bringing many sides of the story must have been tedious for Bahrani, but he somehow manages to give the audience a picture of how the rural-urban segregation could have worked during the initial days of liberal economy.
Despite promising a darker tale in the beginning, The White Tiger rarely ventures beyond the obvious. There is no denying that the privileged part of the West might find some portions unsettling, but overall, it doesn’t impact to the level that you begin pondering about the natural progression the story could have followed otherwise. Not comparing with Slumdog Millionaire, but at least Danny Boyle got the shock value to the optimum. Here, Bahrani entangles himself in metaphors that don’t generate any curiosity or are totally lost in translation.
I also have issues with celebrating grimness or justifying poverty or being underprivileged as the ultimate catalyst to crime, which unfortunately is the sole reason behind the bulk of Gourav’s deeds in the latter half. Even if it is not directly about the victim and the predator, you wouldn’t want the makers to cheer for the right person while standing in the wrong court.
Also, because a lot has changed since the release of the book in 2008, some plots could have been read in a new light. One thing that has categorically changed in last 12-13 years is the upliftment of the high aspirational values of the youth, both rural and urban. With the support from the government and some protection by the law, youngsters probably wouldn’t go down the ambiguous path of fraud and crime. It’s debatable though.
The White Tiger,streaming on Netflix in India, keeps feeding the same poor-guy-turned-criminal narrative to its takers. It hardly shows any intentions of scratching beneath the surface. Not intriguing enough.
