Manorama’s last celluloid work was for Deepa Mehta’s Water, in which she played the leery and vulgar widow who heads a widows’ ashram. Hema Malini, who was ‘tortured’ by Manorama in Ramesh Sippy’s Seeta Aur Geeta, remembers the senior actress fondly. I never forgot that.” A casualty of Bollywood’s heartlessness towards those who are seen as not useful to the …
Actor Huma Qureshi has finished filming the second season of the SonyLIV series Maharani. The first season of the show featured the Gangs of Wasseypur star as Rani Bharti, a village woman who is handpicked to become the chief minister of Bihar. The first season of the Subhash Kapoor-created series was directed by Karan Sharma and also featured Sohum Shah, …
Bihar politics and issues have been fodder for cinema and television for a long time. Well, ever since the series was announced, viewers likened Huma’s Rani Bharti to Rabri Devi. Maharani takes a deep dive into caste issues, violence, corruption and the faults in Bihar’s law and order situation. Inaam Ul Haq’s Parvez Alam becomes Rani’s ally in unearthing the …
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