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Prabhas starrer Saaho lands Independence Day release

Southern superstar Prabhas, who became a household name after the thunderous success of Baahubali: The Beginning (2015) and Baahubali: The Conclusion (201 7), is presently working on his upcoming action entertainer, Saaho. Helmed by ace filmmaker Sujeeth, the movie also features Bollywood diva Shraddha Kapoor.

Today, the makers announced the release date of the much-awaited movie. Earlier scheduled to hit the big screen in March, 2019, the action entertainer will now enter cinemas in August, 2019.


The makers have confirmed that Saaho will roll into theatres on 15th August, 2019, on the occasion of India’s Independence Day 2019. The multilingual flick will release in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu simultaneously.

The movie will be locking horns with two hotly anticipated Bollywood biggies of 2019, namely Mission Mangal and Batla House. Mission Mangal stars Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi Sinha, Vidya Balan, Kirti Kulhari and Taapsee Pannu in lead roles, while Batla House is headlined by John Abraham.

Besides Prabhas and Shraddha Kapoor, Saaho also stars Bollywood actors Neil Nitin Mukesh, Jackie Shroff, Mandira Bedi, Chunky Pandey, Mahesh Manjrekar, Arun Vijay and Murali Sharma.

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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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