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| | | Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors by Aravind Jayan review – a bittersweet debut | | by Sana Goyal Jun 30, 2022 | | Embarrassing video footage goes viral in this fresh Indian comedy about generation gaps, gossip and the power of the internet “Log kya kahenge?” (“What will people think?”) is a common Hindi phrase in India, a forewarning of public opinion on one’s personal life. Such opinions are generally understood to be overly critical, a judgment on one’s character and moral compass. The phrase hovers over Aravind Jayan’s humorous and heartwarming first novel, Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors, haunting the eponymous protagonists’ families and lives. Amma and Appa live in the Blue Hills housing colony in Trivandrum, Kerala. They’re proudly on the road to a comfortable middle-class life, complete with a white Honda Civic – that marker of success and social mobility – when things fall apart. A clip of their eldest son Sreenath and his girlfriend Anita, caught on camera in “sex-adjacent” activities, has been posted to a porn site and is now circulating far and wide, gathering more momentum and causing more mortification with each passing day. This viral video breaks the internet, severing familial bonds and leaving the reader wondering what the ripple effects will be. Continue reading... | | | | | Denise Richards: 'If there's a lost dog in the neighbourhood, they will always find me' | | by As told to Rich Pelley Jun 30, 2022 | | The Starship Troopers and Wild Things star answers your questions on her canine charity work, being a Real Housewife and the embarrassment of shooting sex scenes Do you reflect on the characters you’ve played once filming has finished? Did Carmen from Starship Troopers live to regret dumping the film’s hero, Johnny Rico, or did she live her happily ever after? RoteHahn I usually think more about what happened off camera and where I was in life at that time. Starship Troopers was pretty much our first movie, we were all unknowns, so it was a wonderful bonding moment. Some of the characters I’ve played have died, so I know what happened to them. But I don’t think Carmen regrets breaking up with Johnny. She probably misses him but it was important for her to grow into a woman. Continue reading... | | | | | Matilda musical movie starring Emma Thompson to open London film festival | | by Catherine Shoard Jun 30, 2022 | | World premiere of the film version of the Roald Dahl-based musical also stars Lashana Lynch, Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough Matilda, Matthew Warchus’s film version of the hit West End musical based on the Roald Dahl children’s story, is to open this year’s London film festival. The musical, which stars Emma Thompson as Miss Trunchbull, Lashana Lynch as Miss Honey and newcomer Alisha Weir in the title role, will kick off the 66th festival on 5 October, two months before its nationwide release. Continue reading... | | | | | |
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