Prathibha Joy

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Like any Royal Challengers Bengaluru fan, Kannada rapper, composer and actor Chandan Shetty too wanted to be a part of the team’s maiden IPL victory. For Chandan, who had written the 2025 season anthem for the team, We Own the Night, it would be a special moment and when he reached out to the event organizers of the RCB victory parade, he was asked to get to Gate 3 of Chinnaswamy Stadium.

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Almost two decades ago, when Diganth Manchale broke in to the Kannada film industry, he was seen as a talent to look out for. He had good looks and could act well too, with a decent sense of comic timing to boost. And yet superstardom evaded him, which, Manasaare actor Diganth admits is partially his doing too. While promoting his next release, Edagaiye Apagathakke Karana, Diganth admitted that some of his choices impacted his career.

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D Satya Prakash is only three films old as a filmmaker, but he’s won accolades at the state and national level, none of which came in handy when he began the idea of his latest film X&Y, which will be in theatres on June 26. Left with no more doors to knock on, Satya Prakash decided to pool in all available resources and make it himself.

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Edagaiye Apaghatakke Karana’s Diganth: Diganth lost an eye during the shoot of Ticket To Bollywood, after Amyra Dastur threw a stiletto at him as ‘improv’ during a scene. Diganth has only 20% vision in one eye now. Kannada actor Diganth (Gaalipata 2, Laughing Buddha) doesn’t talk about the injury he sustained to his eye during the shoot of a Hindi film in 2017 very often. But it is an instance that he says he would change if he could go back in time. Who wouldn’t?

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The French Open 2025 women’s singles semi-finals play out today. In the first match of the day at the Phillipe-Chatrier centre court, defending champion Iga Swiatek, who is on the hunt for a fifth title on the clay court of Roland Garros, will take on Aryna Sabalenka. Only two women are ahead of Swiatek with more wins at the French Open, namely Steffi Graf with 6 and Chris Evert with 7.