Bollywood star Preity Zinta recently shared a precious memory from her early days in the industry on Instagram. The post featured a snapshot from her very first photoshoot at the age of 20.
In the caption, Zinta confessed to feeling clueless about posing for the camera back then. She wrote, “was going through some old stuff n found this photo! OMG!!! My first photo shoot ever… I was all of 20 & I thought I knew everything I needed to know about the world … except how to pose for a photo shoot.” Her candid reflection resonated with fans, who appreciated her honesty and humility.
Since her debut in the 1998 film ‘Dil Se,’ Preity Zinta has captivated audiences with her charm and talent. Alongside her successful acting career, she is also known for her philanthropy and advocacy work.
Indian actress Sonam Bajwa and Pakistani actor Ahsan Khan grabbed everyone’s attention in an ad for a clothing brand called Mushq. The ad was for their special lawn collection named ,’Te Amo’, or My Love, in Italian .
The internet loved the shoot, seeing the two heartthrobs together, looking absolutely stunning. The Mushq ad itself is wonderful, shot on location in dazzling sunlight and undulating greenery. It shows Ahsan as an artist who is fascinated by Sonam’s beauty. They’re shown walking and dancing together, with Sonam wearing lovely outfits from the collection. The ad, along with their playful video, has made them hot favorites on social media, and fans want to see more of them. Maybe a Pakistan-India collaboration in the future?
Here are some fans reactions:
I don’t know about you guys but i’m proud of what our British Asian Actor Ahsan Khan has accomplished. He’s brought the two countries together and simultaneously collabrated with the Pakistani/Indian dream. pic.twitter.com/hx5dbryhQJ
Nice to see Pakistani film actor Ahsan Khan with Indian actress Sanam Bajwa. Is it a film shoot? @bajwasonam speaks very lovely Punjabi and @Ahsankhanuk speaks beautiful English. It will be great to see Ahsan speaking Punjabi and Sonam speaking English in a film. pic.twitter.com/mdZkEeHPWK
Pakistani actor Ahsan Khan and Indian actress Sonam Bajwa have appeared together on stage. Recently, a video of Pakistani actor Ahsan Khan and actress Sonam Bajwa has been circulating on social media.
In the viral video, both artists expressed excitement about working together. Sonam Bajwa said she didn’t feel like it was the first time she was working with a Pakistani team. The Indian actress and Ahsan Khan are working together for a photo shoot for a fashion magazine.
A Lithuanian photographer took home a prize in a Nikon photography competition for his remarkable shot of an ant’s face. Wildlife photographer Eugenijus Kavaliauskas presented his highly magnified ant photo at the 2022 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition.
His submission was one of the 57 selected “Images of Distinction”. The picture of the ant’s face, magnified five times under a microscope, won one Nikon item valued at $35. The goal of the competition is to showcase the craft of microscopic photography while encouraging participants to record minute details that the human eye cannot notice. The picture of the ant has gone viral on social media, with many terming the ant’s face “demonic” and something straight out of a horror movie.
The ant in the close up had red eyes and what appeared to be golden fangs .The photographer said that there are no horrors in nature.
Meanwhile, the top place for this year’s photography competition went to an image of the embryonic hand of a Madagascar gecko, taken by Grigorii Timing of the University of Geneva.
Actress Meera is known for her candour in interviews and press interactions, she always manages to land herself in a controversies. Now an old interview of Meera with Times of India is resurfacing on social media in which the Nazar actress made revelations about Bollywood director Mahesh Bhatt.
The Main Sitara actor claimed that because of Mahesh Bhatt she had to leave Bollywood and when she tried to come back, he did not even allow her to return. She was quoted saying, “Working with Bollywood was a great experience. I got a lot of love from the Indian audience. But the journey of Bollywood was not easy for me. There were many difficulties but I did not give up. In the early days Bollywood was completely new to me. I didn’t know anyone in Mumbai except Mahesh Bhatt. It took a long time to get to know people. Mahesh Bhatt introduced me to the industry. I used to respect Mahesh ji a lot. He was my mentor and mentor. I will also give the credit of my success to him.”
Further in the interview, Meera told that when she entered the cinema world with the film Nazar, I got offers from many famous directors like Ram Gopal Varma, Mani Ratnam, Subhash Ghai. They wanted to work with me but Mahesh Bhatt did not want it. Bhatt wanted me to work only with him. Further, Meera told that one night when she met Subhash Ghai and she told this to Mahesh, he got very angry, shouted at her, and slapped her 2-3 times.
Talking about the time when Bhatt slapped her, she revealed “I got offers from many famous directors like Ram Gopal Varma, Mani Ratnam, Subhash Ghai who wanted to work with me. But Mahesh Bhatt did not want me to work with anyone other than him. One night I met Subhash Ghai. When I told this to Mahesh ji, he got very angry, shouted at me, and slapped me two-three times.”
The Naagin star also alleged that Mahesh used to call her his ‘special one’ and told her she was like ‘worship’ to him. However, the filmmaker had denied all such allegations and called Meera ‘bizarre’. Mahesh Bhatt also opined that Meera was a vulnerable person who was going through a vulnerable phase back then.
This time the Baaji diva has been trending on social media for an Eid special interview, that she did in 2017 with famous media personality, Sohail Warraich. The Baaji actress confessed in the interview that when she went to India for her film Nazar’s shooting, she was proposed to by the Murder 2 actor, Emraan Hashmi, which she declined.
Meera added that Mahesh Bhatt, her film’s producer also presented her with a marriage proposal by Ashmit Patel, who was her co-star in the film. She was quick to mention that her family had issues over their religious differences and she couldn’t go against the will of her parents.
Earlier this year, Meera shared a picture with Indian actor Neha Dhupia from a shoot done over a decade ago. Several people liked the picture, while many trolled the Baaji actor.
Transgender model Anaya Rahimi has hit out at Zartasha Coutoure for not uploading a fashion shoot which featured Trans models.
“Few glimpse of the shoot which me and my fellow trans divas did for the brand @zartashcouture” couture daughter of @hanifjewellers both are transphobic organisations how do I know this is the question well I met the owner and team few people are super cool but the owners aghhh they gave me weird feeling but as i told you all we have to give benefit of doubt in many case,” she wrote while sharing the pictures from the shoot.”
She continued by adding that the fashion brand paid them, “equal to nothing.”
“No contracts nothing it was just like hey we need to shoot the documentary today and shoot will be on this day. We did it leaving everything we were doing we did it because we were so happy that we were given this chance in real it became another disappointment when I came to know that they will not upload this shoot they uploaded the trailer which said coming soon but it never came on their story or any page,” she added.
“I kept asking about the shoot and at one point they stopped replying and then one day i uploaded a story about it suddenly they started calling and texting me asking me to remove the story and all and i did but finally tonight I feel like this work should not be wasted hence here it is.”
Actor Ayesha Omar and cricketer Shoaib Malik teamed up for a magazine’s shoot. The duo, known for their impressive sense of style oozed crackling chemistry together.
Model Waliya Najib recently shot for a clothing brand with influencer husband Faizan Sameer. The pair looked elegant in the pictures however a few netizens consider the shoot to be ‘too intimate’.
In the photo-shoot the influencer-duo allure people with their vibe and charm.
“Mr and Mrs extra,” wrote Hamare Dada Ki Wasiyat star.
She also added: “Had such a great time working with #AsimJofa and the team, especially having my better half @faizan.Sameer next to me! Also, the outfit I wore has my whole heart!”
Pakistani actor Yasra Rizvi shared pictures and messages from a recent campaign on toxic marriages.
The actor posted a picture with the caption, “Shaadi aik social contract hai jisme huqooq aur faraaiz dono fariqain ke hote hain, isse umer qaid ya sazaa-e-moat samajh laina khud apne saath zyaadti hai!” (Marriage is a social contract involving the rights and duties of both sides. Considering it as death sentence or life imprisonment is not fair with your self).
Indian actor, Ayushmann Khurana, liked the picture while Pakistani actor, Ghana Ali, highlighted this under Yasra’s post.
Earlier in August, Actor Yasra Rizvi took to her Instagram stories to hit out at the Lux Style awards after they announced their nominations for their award ceremony.
One of the favourite pastimes in Pakistan seems to be moral policing. We really don’t believe in the principle of ‘live and let live’. No, we have to interfere in others’ lives, we have to comment on others’ life choices, we have to judge everyone around us and we have to somehow make life difficult for others.
Just recently, we saw social media outrage regarding a photoshoot that was deemed ‘obscene’ by senior journalist Ansar Abbasi. Mr Abbasi somehow keeps finding everything ‘obscene’ under the sun, be it a video, an advertisement, a YouTube show, a photoshoot — you name it and Mr Abbasi has seen it. Mr Abbasi tweeted to Deputy Commissioner (DC) Islamabad that the couple must be arrested as they “displayed extreme obscenity in public in the federal capital”. As if on cue, DC Islamabad asked people to share any information they had about the couple and/or photoshoot. Both of them did not think for a second how they could be endangering the lives of the young girl and boy in the pictures. We live in a society that believes in mob justice. But our senior journalists and officials really don’t care, it seems.
The Islamabad police booked the couple for an indecent photoshoot under Section 294 of the PPC, which makes “engaging in obscene acts, or singing, reciting or uttering obscene songs, ballads or words, in or near any public place, to the annoyance of others, an offense punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine, or with both”. The law is so vague that anything can be deemed obscene as there is no clear definition of the word in PPC. And this is why it was used against the kids in the photoshoot.
At around 5:30am on Tuesday (August 24), 10 police officers — one SHO, one ASI, and eight constables — reportedly arrived at the house of the boy, Zulfi, in Lahore to arrest him. They had come to arrest him from Islamabad. The boy’s lawyers got a protective bail from a court so he could not be arrested. But look at the priorities of our state that 10 police officials were sent to Lahore to arrest someone for a photoshoot. A photoshoot!!! Let that sink in. Zulfi is not a terrorist, not a murderer, not a rapist, not a child abuser, but an activist. And the police wanted to arrest him for a photoshoot. We must thank the Islamabad Police for making us feel so safe.
A woman was assaulted by hundreds of men at Minar-e-Pakistan and the police did not come to help her despite calls, another woman was forcibly kissed by a man while sitting in a rickshaw but nobody helped her, but one photoshoot and one tweet by a vigilante journalist and our police can swiftly be seen in action. We hope that our officials would stop moral policing and let people express themselves however they want. There is already so much intolerance around us. Do not make this society more suffocating than it already is.
