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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Aamir Khan told Kiran Rao one line from Laapataa Ladies, convincing her: ‘Was struggling as a Laapataa Lady myself’

Laapataa Ladies was undoubtedly one of the most talked about films of the year 2024. Starring newcomers Nitanshi Goel, Sparsh Shrivastava and Pratibha Ranta, along with seasoned actors Ravi Kishan and Chhaya Kadam, the film marked Kiran Rao’s second project as a filmmaker 13 long years after her directorial debut Dhobi Ghat. Co-produced by superstar and Kiran’s ex husband Aamir …

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3 weeks, 3 days ago

The lives of Old Delhi's dhobis

Live Mint

In the 1970s, Subhadra Mitra Channa, a Delhi-based scholar of social anthropology, was looking for a topic for her PhD when her husband and fellow anthropologist, Vardesh Chander Channa, came up with an unusual suggestion. “In those days, the reality of working with an ‘untouchable’ community like the dhobis was tough," Channa says on a video call while speaking about …

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1 month ago

Dhobi Ghat impractical, say laundry workers in Tamil Nadu's Srirangam

New Indian Express

TIRUCHY: Over 200 laundry workers living at Srirangam are not excited about the Tiruchy corporation's plan to construct a 'Dhobi Ghat', an exclusive washing arena for them. The corporation recently sanctioned about Rs 56 lakh for constructing the facility at a vacant space behind the Science Park in Srirangam in order to enable the launderers to do their work without …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Dhobi Ghat in SCB to be new sporting hub

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: The Dhobi Ghat Ground in Secunderabad Cantonment is set to transform into a new centre for sporting activities. This was announced after a site inspection on Friday by minister Ponnam Prabhakar, local MLA Sriganesh Narayanan, and Secunderabad Cantonment Board CEO Madhukar Naik. During the inspection, Sriganesh pointed out that the state is keen to strengthen sports infrastructure, a priority …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Elevated corridor to ease traffic woes in Sec-bad cantonment: Ponnam

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: An elevated corridor from Paradise Junction near Gymkhana Grounds in Secunderabad to Outer Ring Road Junction near Shamirpet on Rajiv Rahadari State Highway would ease traffic congestion. The foundation stone for the elevated corridor was laid with an aim to ensure hassle-free journey to motorists, said Backward Classes Welfare Minister Ponnam Prabhakar here on Friday. Stating that the State …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Payal Kapadia on Laapataa Ladies being India's Oscar pick: I've been a fan of Kiran Rao since Dhobi Ghat

Hindustan Times

For Payal Kapadia, director of All We Imagine As Light, awards don’t define the value of a piece of work. Speaking to us ahead of her film’s theatrical release on November 22 in India, Kapadia says awards are a “bonus” and not the measure of how a film is liked. Though she does know that “it is because of the …

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2 months ago

Kiran Rao: Championing Diverse Storytelling in the Film Industry

India Today

Kiran Rao, a celebrated director and producer, speaks about her journey in the film industry. She discusses the importance of empowering women in the industry and making cinema that can spark conversations. Laapataa Ladies, her most recent film, became India's official entry to the 97th Academy Awards. She also emphasizes the need for more diverse storytelling and encourages a more …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Kiran Rao says she sees Laapataa Ladies' box office performance as ‘failure’

Hindustan Times

What Kiran said “In some ways, both these films haven't done great at the box office. Ten-15 years later, Laapataa Ladies didn't do that much more than Dhobi Ghat. I do feel responsible that the film didn't do that well at the box office. I'm sure most creative people have to face that sense of failure a lot when they …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

When Imran Khan called Aamir Khan 'political': 'You can make money by acting but you point out injustice in society...'

Hindustan Times

Former Pakistan cricket captain and politician Imran Khan was in India for Agenda Aaj Tak 2015, and also met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. At the event, he sat in the audience during Aamir Khan's session and told the actor what he thought about his choices, by giving the example of Dhobi Ghat. More about Dhobi Ghat Set …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Kiran Rao had 'lot of miscarriages for 5 years' before son Azad's birth

India Today

Kiran Rao has revealed that she had been trying for a child for as long as five years before Azad came to her and ex-husband Aamir Khan’s life. In an interview with a portal, Kiran Rao said, “The year that ‘Dhobi Ghat’ was made was the year that Azad was born. Obviously, all I wanted to do was raise my …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Faded fingerprints fail dhobis at PDS shops in Tamil Nadu

New Indian Express

TIRUCHY : It’s a hot summer day in Alagiripuram by the banks of Kollidam river in Tiruchy. The discharge of untreated sewage into the stream and fewer job opportunities for their children are the other pressing issues the dhobis deal with year in, year out. Over 300 dhobi families live at Alagiripuram, a place resembling collective penury, as almost all …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Hyderabad: Dhobis Set High Standards of Water Conservation

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: On World Water Day it would be worthy to pay a tribute to the practitioners of a profession whose livelihood revolves around the use of water and yet they set standards when it comes to water conservation — the friendly washerman. Most of them wash clothes at ghats like Musi and at Lower Tank Bund and hardly use HMWS&SB …

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10 months, 1 week ago

‘Laapataa Ladies’ movie review: Kiran Rao lifts the veil on patriarchy with a sharp social satire

The Hindu

After leaving us awash with her sentimentality in Dhobi Ghat, director Kiran Rao returns to check the social pulse of the Hindi heartland and lifts the veil on deep-seated patriarchy. Set in the fictitious Nirmal Pradesh that shares cultural boundaries with what the political journalists call ‘the cow belt,’ the insightful narrative beautifully captures the angularity of the region where …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Interview | Kiran Rao on ‘Laapataa Ladies’, her comeback film as a director

The Hindu

In Kiran Rao’s latest directorial venture Laapataa Ladies, a slip-up sets many things right. Releasing on March 1, Laapataa Ladies, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2023, is Rao’s second feature film, after 2010’s Dhobi Ghat. Edited excerpts from an interview: Interview with filmmaker Kiran Rao on her new movie, ‘Laapataa Ladies’ You are supposedly “back” in …

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1 year ago

Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court Annual Digest 2023: Part I [Citations 1-150]

Live Law

Nominal Index: Gulshan Nazir Vs Union of India 2023 LiveLaw 1 M/S Aisha Construction Vs JKCA 2023 LiveLaw 2 Manzoor Ahmad Mir Vs UT of J&K 2023 LiveLaw 3 Godrej Consumer Products Limited Versus Union of India 2023 LiveLaw 4 Mst Zaiba Vs Ghulam Ahmad Zargar & Ors 2023 LiveLaw 5 Zahid Nabi Khan Vs UT of J&K 2023 LiveLaw …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Mumbai doctor celebrates slice of life with surgical accuracy

Hindustan Times

MUMBAI His photo of a same-sex couple on the Marine Drive promenade looking into an uncertain future was picked up by the BBC to accompany the reportage on the Supreme Court ruling. A doctor by training, and a natural at capturing life around him, Dr Rahul Baxi, a diabetologist, will open his first solo exhibition of photographs, ‘Unseen Mumbai’, at …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Telangana govt to provide free electricity to Muslim dhobis

India TV News

Telangana: Free electricity will be provided to washermen belonging to Muslim community by the Telangana government. Under the scheme, at least 250 units per month will be given free to Dhobi Ghats and laundry shops. Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao immediately ordered extending the benefit to Muslim dhobis for their Dhobi Ghats and laundry shops. Accordingly, a Memo was issued …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Aamir Khan Kiran Rao 'Laapataa Ladies’ Film Release January 5

ABP News

New Delhi: Aamir Khan Productions' ‘Laapataa Ladies’ directed by Kiran Rao left everyone impressed when it got screened at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8. This is indeed an overwhelming thing for the two brilliant minds behind ‘Laapataa Ladies’, Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao who are totally filled with absolute bliss after looking at such an amazing response. …

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1 year, 3 months ago

KCR extends free power sop to Muslim washerfolk

Deccan Chronicle

HYDERABAD: Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao, in the run-up to Assembly polls, announced a scheme to provide free electricity of up to 250 units to dhobi ghats and laundry shops owned by Muslim washer-folk in the state. The orders stated that Hyderabad Lok Sabha member Asaduddin Owaisi made a representation to the government that there were groups of Muslim washerfolk …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Bandi Faults KCR for 250 Units of Free Power to Muslim Dhobis, Laundry Shops

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: BJP national general secretary and MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Wednesday accused Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao of displaying religious bias when implementing a policy to provide 250 units of free power supply to Muslim dhobis and laundry shops in Telangana state. Bandi disapproved of the state government's decision, stating, "I condemn the state government's decision to extend the …

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1 year, 3 months ago

’Laapataa Ladies’: Kiran Rao returns with a comedy of errors

Live Mint

Thirteen years after Dhobi Ghat, Kiran Rao returns to direction with Laapataa Ladies, a comedy of errors that received a standing ovation at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it had its world premiere on 8 September. “I kind of felt like this had the potential to be really entertaining and have a lot of mass appeal but go deep, …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Laapataa Ladies teaser: Kiran Rao returns to direction 12 years after Dhobi Ghat with a tale of lost brides. Watch

Hindustan Times

What's in the teaser? The teaser shows a setting of rural India, where two men are seen complaining to the police that their new brides have gotten lost while they were on the same train. About Laapataa Ladies The official synopsis of the film states, “Set in 2001, somewhere in rural India, LOST LADIES is about the delightful adventures of …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Maharashtra: 8-month-old baby among two killed as building collapsed in Thane

Live Mint

A building on Sunday collapsed in Thane, Maharashtra in which an infant and a woman were killed and five others injured. According to Thane Municipal Corporation's disaster management cell chief Yasin Tadvi, a residential building collapsed shortly after midnight on Sunday. A civic official said that a single-story building having six flats located on Durga Road in Dhobi Talao area …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Mumbai’s tallest SRA project with sea views begins handover

Hindustan Times

Mumbai: In a major SRA housing milestone, Omkar Realtors has commenced the delivery of the first rehab homes in two 42-storey towers, Mumbai’s tallest SRA building, at the iconic Dhobi Ghat in Mahalaxmi. “My family has been washing laundry at Dhobi Ghat for generations, and this part where the rehab towers have come up was the portion where we dried …

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Aamir Khan told Kiran Rao one line from Laapataa Ladies, convincing her: ‘Was struggling as a Laapataa Lady myself’

The lives of Old Delhi's dhobis

Dhobi Ghat impractical, say laundry workers in Tamil Nadu's Srirangam

Dhobi Ghat in SCB to be new sporting hub

Elevated corridor to ease traffic woes in Sec-bad cantonment: Ponnam

Payal Kapadia on Laapataa Ladies being India's Oscar pick: I've been a fan of Kiran Rao since Dhobi Ghat

Kiran Rao: Championing Diverse Storytelling in the Film Industry

Kiran Rao says she sees Laapataa Ladies' box office performance as ‘failure’

When Imran Khan called Aamir Khan 'political': 'You can make money by acting but you point out injustice in society...'

Kiran Rao had 'lot of miscarriages for 5 years' before son Azad's birth

Faded fingerprints fail dhobis at PDS shops in Tamil Nadu

Hyderabad: Dhobis Set High Standards of Water Conservation

‘Laapataa Ladies’ movie review: Kiran Rao lifts the veil on patriarchy with a sharp social satire

Interview | Kiran Rao on ‘Laapataa Ladies’, her comeback film as a director

Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court Annual Digest 2023: Part I [Citations 1-150]

Mumbai doctor celebrates slice of life with surgical accuracy

Telangana govt to provide free electricity to Muslim dhobis

Aamir Khan Kiran Rao 'Laapataa Ladies’ Film Release January 5

KCR extends free power sop to Muslim washerfolk

Bandi Faults KCR for 250 Units of Free Power to Muslim Dhobis, Laundry Shops

’Laapataa Ladies’: Kiran Rao returns with a comedy of errors

Laapataa Ladies teaser: Kiran Rao returns to direction 12 years after Dhobi Ghat with a tale of lost brides. Watch

Maharashtra: 8-month-old baby among two killed as building collapsed in Thane

Mumbai’s tallest SRA project with sea views begins handover