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Fatima Sana Shaikh psyched up about starting her next Bhoot Police

Though her last film Thugs of Hindostan (2018) did not set the box-office on fire and turned out to be a money-losing affair for the makers, actress Fatima Sana Shaikh has some interesting projects in hand to look forward to. After wrapping up renowned filmmaker Anurag Basu’s next film with Rajkummar Rao, the actress is now gearing up to begin work on her next.

Fatima next stars in a horror-comedy titled Bhoot Police. To be directed by Pavan Kirpalani, who has previously helmed critically acclaimed psychological thriller Phobia (2016), Bhoot Police also features Saif Ali Khan and Ali Fazal in lead roles. It is the first time when Fatima Sana Shaikh will share the screen space with Saif Ali Khan and Ali Fazal.

The actress is really psyched up about commencing the first schedule of the film in coming few days. “I am very excited to kick-start the shoot for Bhoot Police. It will be my first horror-comedy, so there will be a lot of learning that will happen on the job. I like this genre personally, and there is so much yet to be explored in this space in terms of filming horror cinema.”

Though Fatima Sana Shaikh is a fan of horror and horror-comedy movies, she does not prefer watching them alone. “I really enjoy watching horror and horror-comedy films but not alone. I get too scared to watch it alone. It is really fun to watch it with friends and family. The entire experience of watching a horror film in a theatre, with great sound and other effects is something else altogether.”

Bhoot Police will roll into theatres in 2020.

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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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