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Big B & Taapsee Pannu to come together for Badla

After starring in Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury's socially relevant film Pink, Amitabh Bachchan and Taapsee Pannu might work together once again in filmmaker Sujoy Ghosh's next directorial venture. Tentatively titled Badla, the film is expected to roll in mid-June.

''The film, produced by Sunir Kheterpal, is tentatively titled Badla. A crime thriller, it is expected to roll in mid-June. Mr Bachchan has liked the script but is yet to sign on the dotted line but Taapsee has already committed to the project. The makers have already started work on the prep,'' says a source.


Meanwhile, Amitabh Bachchan will soon be seen in Umesh Shukla's much-anticipated film 102 Not Out. He is currently shooting for Vijay Krishna Acharya's Thugs Of Hindostan, scheduled to release on 7th November 2018. Brahmastra is another big-ticket film in his hand. Taapsee, on the other hand, is working with Abhishek Bachchan in Manmarziyaan.

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Britain moves to ban porn showing sexual strangulation

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

Highlights:

  • 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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