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Shah Rukh Khan’s Darr gets web series reboot

Filmmaker Yash Chopra’s 1993 psychological thriller Darr, which earned superstar Shah Rukh Khan the tag of an ‘anti-hero’, is making a comeback as a web series.

Darr: A Violent Love Story also starred Sunny Deol and Juhi Chawla in the lead roles. The film was about an obsessive stalker Rahul (Khan), who creates havoc in the happy love lives of Kiran (Chawla) and Sunil (Deol).Darr 2.0, backed by Y-Films, an offshoot of Yash Raj Films (YRF), will feature the characters of Rahul, Kiran and Sunil from the original but in an entirely new format, with a modern, original tale of obsession and fear in the age of cyber stalking and digital crimes.

The five-part series aims to hold a mirror to the harrowing environment of online privacy invasion and social media harassment that can take a dangerous and disturbing turn, if unchecked, Y-Film sources said.


Directed by Vikas Chandra, an associate creative producer on YRF’s Detective Byomkesh Bakshy, the series has a storyline by Nikhil Taneja, with screenplay and dialogues written by him and Shubham Yogi. The cast is yet to be announced.

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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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