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Ankita Lokhande to stage a comeback with Naagin 4?

Popular actress Ankita Lokhande began her acting career on television in 2009. She made her small screen debut with producer Ekta Kapoor’s long-running show Pavitra Rishta. The daily soap clicked with the audience instantly and made Lokhande a household name across India in no time.

The actress played the lead role of Archana Deshmukh for almost five years before bidding adieu to the show. Surprising everyone, she left television to establish herself in films. After a long wait, Ankita Lokhande made her silver screen debut with period drama Manikarnika: The Queen Of Jhansi (2019), co-starring National Film Award winning actress Kangana Ranaut.


But if you missed the talented actress on television all these years, we have an exciting piece of news for you. According to latest reports doing the rounds, Ankita Lokhande has been finalised to play the role of one of the new leads in Ekta Kapoor’s upcoming show Naagin 4.

Lokhande, who has not been seen on any fiction show in the past five years, will return to television with Naagin 4. She will join actress Nia Sharma on the show which is expected to hit the airwaves towards the end of the year. Ekta Kapoor, who is known for working with her actors repeatedly, is officially expected to announce the news in the coming days.

On Bollywood front, Ankita Lokhande will next be seen in Baaghi 3, the third instalment of the super successful action film franchise Baaghi. To be directed by Ahmed Khan, the movie also stars Tiger Shroff and Shraddha Kapoor in lead roles. Lokhande is playing Kapoor’s elder sister in the forthcoming action entertainer.

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What Britain’s ban on strangulation porn really means and why campaigners say it could backfire

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  • Government to criminalise porn that shows strangulation or suffocation during sex.
  • Part of wider plan to fight violence against women and online harm.
  • Tech firms will be forced to block such content or face heavy Ofcom fines.
  • Experts say the ban responds to medical evidence and years of campaigning.

You see it everywhere now. In mainstream pornography, a man’s hands around a woman’s neck. It has become so common that for many, especially the young, it just seems like part of sex, a normal step. The UK government has decided it should not be, and soon, it will be a crime.

The plan is to make possessing or distributing pornographic material that shows sexual strangulation, often called ‘choking’, illegal. This is a specific amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill. Ministers are acting on the back of a stark, independent review. That report found this kind of violence is not just available online, but it is rampant. It has quietly, steadily, become normalised.

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