Skip to content
Search

Latest Stories

Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar set to be postponed again

After being postponed for more than thrice in the past, Yash Raj Films’ much-delayed thriller Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar was expected to hit the silver screen on 1st March, 2019. But if fresh reports are to be believed, the makers are eyeing a solo release date for the movie, and hence it may miss its March 1 release.

Starring Parineeti Chopra and Arjun Kapoor in lead roles, Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar was slated to clash with Sonchiraiya and Luka Chuppi on 1st March. To avoid the direct clash with two big films starring popular actors, the makers at YRF are now looking at an alternate release date for the Dibakar Banerjee directorial.


“It is a fully multiplex film and it is a thriller. It definitely needs a clean release period. Now, two films are releasing on March 1 and both are urban, multiplex films targeting similar theatre-going audience set. It doesn’t make sense to have a three-way clash and YRF is thinking about other release dates for the film. A clean and clear run will benefit the film tremendously and YRF has to look at the release schedule closely to arrive at a decision,” an industry informer reveals.

Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar marks the third collaboration between Arjun Kapoor and Parineeti Chopra after Ishaqzaade (2012) and Namastey England (2018).

An official announcement regarding the new release date of the film is awaited.

More For You

porn ban

Britain moves to ban porn showing sexual strangulation

AI Generated Gemini

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.

Keep ReadingShow less