TALENTED Indian actor Ashish Sharma has shown off his versatility in a wide array of projects and in the process won over fans around the world, including across the Middle East.
Rima Mohammad from Jordan, Ghizlan Hadire from Morocco and Tahreer Hamoudi and Doha Hussein from Iraq run a fan club dedicated to the actor. Eastern Eye caught up with them to find out more.
What made you set up the fan club?
We became huge fans of Ashish Sharma after watching Rab Se Sohna Isshq and Rangrasiya. When the Ashish fan base started to extend in the Arab world, we decided to set up the page on Twitter to post everything about him for his fans.
Tell us about your fan club.
We post everything on Ashish including about his shows, his achievements and to encourage voting for him when polls happen. It is also a portal to reach the love of Arabs to him, which we could do thankfully.
What has been your most memorable moment from the club?
There are many. The first time we realised Ashish knew about us was in his birthday segment last year and he thanked us. When Ashish answered our question on his radio interview with Raj Baddan. Also when he replied to us and encouraged our Ashish Sharma library initiative recently.
What do you like best about Ashish Sharma?
Everything. His modesty and professionalism. We love him as an actor and as a person. And how he inspires everyone with his love to do good for others.
What is your favourite work he has done?
Rangrasiya, and now we are so excited to watch him as Prithvi Vallabh.
Tell us an interesting fact about Ashish.
He is so considerate regarding his fans worldwide and appreciates them. He tries to dedicate some time for them as much as he can.
What is your definition of a true fan?
A true fan is someone who is supportive, loving and respects the limits of their favourite star’s private life.
Everyone is saying it: Diane Keaton is gone. They will list her Oscars and her famous films. Honestly, the real Diane Keaton? She was a wild mash-up of quirks and charm; totally stubborn, totally magnetic, just all over the map in the best way. Off camera, she basically wrote the handbook on being unapologetically yourself. No filter, no apologies. And honestly? She could make you laugh until you forgot what was bothering you. Very few people could do that. That is something special.
Diane Keaton never followed the rules and that’s why Hollywood will miss her forever Getty Images
Remembering the parts of her that stuck with us
1. Annie Hall — the role that reshaped comedy
Not just a funny film. Annie Hall changed how women in comedies could be messy, smart, and real. Her Oscar felt like validation for everyone who had ever been both awkward and brilliant in the same breath.
2. The nudity clause she would not touch
Even as an unknown in the Broadway cast of Hair, she had a line. They offered extra cash to do the famous nude scene. She turned it down. Principle over pay, right from the start.
3. The Christmas single nobody saw coming
3.At 78, she released a song. First Christmas. Not for a movie. Not a joke. Just a sudden, late-life urge to put a song out into the world.
4. The wardrobe — menswear that became signature
Keaton made ties and waistcoats a kind of armour. She was photographed in hats and wide trousers for decades. Style was not a costume for her; it was character. People still imitate that look, and that is saying something.
5. Comedy with bite — First Wives Club and more
She could be gentle one moment and sharp the next. In The First Wives Club, she carried the ensemble effortlessly, landing jokes while letting you feel the heartbreak beneath. Friends who worked with her spoke about her warmth and how raw she stayed about life.
6. A filmmaker and photographer, not just an actor
She directed, she photographed doors and empty shops, she wrote. She loved the weird corners of life. That curiosity kept her working and kept her interesting.
7. Motherhood, chosen late and chosen fiercely
She adopted Dexter and Duke and spoke about motherhood being humbling. She was not pressured by conventional timelines. She made her own map.
8. The last practical act
Months before she died, she listed her Los Angeles home. A quiet, practical move. No drama. It feels now like a final piece of business, a woman tidying her own affairs with clear-eyed calm.
9. The sudden end — close circle, private last months
Friends say her health declined suddenly and privately in recent months. She kept a small circle towards the end and was funny right up until the end, a friend told reporters.
10. Tributes that say it plain — “trail of fairy dust”
Stars poured out words: Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, Ben Stiller, Jane Fonda, all struck by how singular she was. They kept mentioning the same thing: original, kind, funny, utterly herself.
Diane Keaton’s legacy in film comedy and fashion left a mark no one else could touchGetty Images
So, that is the list.
We will watch her films again, of course. We will notice the hats, laugh at the delivery, and be surprised by the sudden stab of feeling in a small, silent scene. But more than that, there is a tiny, stubborn thing she did: she made permission. Permission to be odd, to age, to keep making mistakes and still stand centre screen. That is the part of her that outlives the headlines. That is the stuff that does not fade when the credits roll.
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