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Hindustan Times
an hour ago
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
‘I felt naked': Moushumi Chatterjee reveals breaking down in tears over a backless blouse in movie
Veteran actor Moushumi Chatterjee has been making headlines for her candid confessions regarding her work experience in the Hindi film industry lately. With a career spanning more than two decades, Moushumi in a recent interview, revealed how she always stood up for her values and insisted on maintaining personal boundaries. (Also read: Moushumi Chatterjee 'pities' Amitabh Bachchan, calls him a victim of his image: 'He is always performing') One such value was not wearing short and revealing clothes. Moushumi married Jayanta Mukherjee before entering the films and started her career at age of 16. In an interview with Filmfare, Moushumi talked about her early days in filmdom, maintaining that she had decided that she would not wear anything apart from sarees. While working on Raj Khosla's 1973 film Kucche Dhaage, which also starred Vinod Khanna and Kabir Bedi, Moushumi described her costume that shocked the wits out of her. She said that Mani J Rabadi gave her backless blouse with just strings and short ghaghra which made her cry. "Seeing those clothes, I felt as if I had become naked. I started crying and made a call to my husband that please send me back to Kolkata. I don't want to work here. They have taken away all my clothes. And he came running and made me understand that it was alright and then I completed the film." Moushumi also disclosed that she had said no to Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Guddi as she was asked to wear short skirt in it. The film later went to Jaya Bachchan and became a cult classic. Moushumi recently returned to the big screen after a hiatus with Bengali film Aarii. Written and directed by Jiit Chakraborty, the story explores the sacrifices and emotional bond between a widowed mother and her caregiver son. The film, which also stars Yash Dasgupta and Nusrat Jahan, was released in theatres on 25 April. Her last film with Amitabh Bachchan, Piku, was also re-released in theatres on 9 May.
Hindustan Times
4 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
With 'Atmosphere,' Taylor Jenkins Reid leaves the Evelyn Hugo-verse behind and travels to space
Taylor Jenkins Reid recalls a moment writing her new novel, 'Atmosphere: A Love Story,' set against NASA's robust 1980s shuttle program, where she felt stuck. She went, where she often goes, to her husband to talk it through. 'I said, 'I can't write this book. I don't know enough about the space shuttle. I don't know what happens when the payload bay doors won't shut and you have to get back within a certain amount of revs, but they can't land at White Sands. They have to land at Cape Kennedy.' And he's like, 'Just listen to yourself. You know so much more than you knew a couple months ago. Keep doing what you're doing.'' 'Atmosphere," out Tuesday, follows the journey of astronomer Joan Goodwin, an astronomer selected to join NASA's astronaut program. She and fellow trainees become like family and achieve their dream of going to space — until tragedy strikes. The story unfolds in two timelines: One when Joan first joins the NASA program and the other in December 1984 when a mission goes terribly wrong. The duo behind 'Captain Marvel,' Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, are adapting the book into a film with a theatrical release in mind. Reid knew that she had to do more than just her average six to eight weeks of research. Research and rabbit holes, by the way, are Reid's jam. She's written blockbuster novels set in the golden age of Hollywood in 'The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo," the 1970s rock scene in 'Daisy Jones & the Six," 1980s surf culture in 'Malibu Rising' and professional tennis in 'Carrie Soto is Back.' With 'Atmosphere,' though, it took extra time, reading and understanding. 'It feels like a fever dream now when I think about it," Reid told The Associated Press. "It was a very intense period of time.' For this endeavor, she needed assistance. 'I had to reach out to people, complete strangers that I did not know and say, 'Will you please help me?'" Reid was surprised at how many people said yes. One of the most important voices was Paul Dye, NASA's longest-serving flight director. 'He spent hours of time with me," Reid said. "He helped me figure out how to cause a lot of mayhem on the space shuttle. He helped figure out exactly how the process of the connection between mission control and the space shuttle work. The book doesn't exist if he hadn't done that.' In an interview, Reid also talked about astronomy, social media and yes, the latest on 'The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo' movie at Netflix. Answers are condensed for clarity and length. —- REID: I'm really into astronomy. Last Thanksgiving my family took a road trip to the Grand Canyon. I routed us through Scottsdale, Arizona, because I wanted to go to a dark sky park. Because of light pollution, we can only see the brightest stars when we go out and look at the night sky in a major city. Whereas when you go to a dark sky park there is very limited man-made light. So you can see more stars. We got there and it was cloudy. I was beside myself. The next night we got to the Grand Canyon and all the clouds had disappeared and you could see everything. I stood there for hours. I was teary-eyed. I can't emphasize enough: If anyone has any inclination to just go outside and look up at the night sky, it's so rewarding. REID: I didn't realize how much social media was creating so many messages in my head of, you're not good enough. You should be better. You should work harder. You should have a prettier home. You should make a better dinner. And when I stopped going on it, very quickly I started to hear my own voice clearer. It was so much easier to be in touch with what I thought, how I felt, what I valued. I was more in touch with myself but also I'm going out into the world and I'm looking up at the sky and I am seeing where I am in relation to everything around me and I starting to understand how small my life is compared to the scale of the universe. REID: Yes. It's the only time I've been starstruck. I was in my bones, nervous. I had to talk to myself like, 'Taylor, slow down your heart rate.' The admiration I have for her as an athlete but also as a human is immense. The idea that I might have written something that she felt captured anything worth her time, is a great honor. And the fact that she's coming on board to help us make it the most authentic story we possibly can, I'm thrilled. It's one thing for me to pretend I know what it's like to be standing at Flushing Meadows and win the U.S. Open. Serena knows. She's done it multiple times. And so as we render that world, I think it is going to be really, really special because we have Serena and her team to help us. REID: There's not much that I am allowed to say but a lot of times I think people mistake me not saying anything as a lack of interest or focus and that's not the case. Everyone is working incredibly hard to get this movie made and everyone knows that there is a lot of pressure to get it exactly right. We're all hard at work. We're taking it very seriously and I give Netflix so much credit because they have such an immense respect for the readership of that book. They want to make them happy.
Los Angeles Times
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
10 books to read in June
Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles, fiction and nonfiction, to consider for your June reading list. Reading is a versatile summer activity: A book can educate you, entertain you and occasionally even do both of those things. Our selections this month include literary fiction about a parent's blurry past, Manhattan diaries from the Reagan era and a politically relevant road-trip novel. All of those and more promise to float your boat — or should we say your beach tote? Happy reading! Atmosphere: A Love Story By Taylor Jenkins ReidBallantine: 352 pages, $30(June 3) It's the 1980s and astrophysicist Joan Goodwin is part of a coed NASA group training as astronauts — a process defined by fierce competition and persistent sexism. The narrative moves between Joan's ascent through the ranks, including a love story as explosive as a rocket launch, and a mid-decade disaster reminiscent of the Challenger tragedy. Space nerds and romance fans alike will love it. Flashlight: A Novel By Susan ChoiFarrar, Straus & Giroux: 464 pages, $30(June 3) Choi's new book began as a 2020 New Yorker story. Louisa's father Serk is Korean, while mother Anne hails from Ohio. Louisa was just 10 when, in the book's harrowing first chapter, Serk disappears. Unable to connect with Anne, even years later when the latter has developed multiple sclerosis, Louisa is challenging and compelling, much like this thoughtful book about families. The Slip: A Novel By Lucas SchaeferSimon & Schuster: 496 pages, $30(June 3) Terry Tucker's Boxing Gym in Austin, Texas, emerges as a vibrant crossroads where people of every age, race and gender meet. When Massachusetts teenager Nathan Rothstein, spending the summer with relatives, disappears, the diverse voices of his fellow gym members — immigrants, an unhoused man, a Playboy bunny-turned-beautician — add depth and intrigue, building toward a wildly original and unexpected conclusion. So Far Gone: A Novel By Jess WalterHarper: 272 pages, $30(June 10) Walter ('Beautiful Ruins') matches cadence to drama, channeling the unhinged narration of Rhys Kinnick, an environmental journalist whose anger over the planet's decline sparks a family rift and his retreat to a remote cabin. One morning, Rhys finds his grandchildren left on his doorstep. From there, the plot hurtles forward: kidnappings, frantic road trips, a festival rave and high-stakes showdowns. Wild as things get, humor and heart remain. Ecstasy: A Novel By Ivy PochodaPutnam: 224 pages, $28(June 17) Pochoda offers a twisty, modern take on Euripides, set at a luxurious 21st-century Greek resort. King Pentheus becomes Stavros, a wealthy, controlling figure married for decades to Hedy, Lena's best friend. When Hedy invites Lena to the resort's opening, the pair discover an all-female group of bacchanalians dancing and drumming on the beach. They join in, losing touch with their unresolved, everyday problems — and that's how tragedy unfolds. The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex By Melissa FebosKnopf: 288 pages, $29(June 3) Febos responds to the question 'What do women want?' with conviction: Women, like everyone else, want pleasure. When she turned 35 and ended a relationship, Febos eschewed her familiar, fall-back comforts of sexual intimacy and instead embraced solitude and celibacy. She discovered that other forms of pleasure — intellectual, sensual and spiritual — were just as meaningful to her as romantic or sexual experiences. How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir By Molly Jong-FastViking: 256 pages, $28(June 3) In 2023, Erica Jong's 'Fear of Flying' turned 50. The same year, Jong was diagnosed with dementia, and her daughter turned into her caregiver. Jong-Fast, an acclaimed journalist, was also faced with her husband's cancer diagnosis and her stepfather's worsening Parkinson's disease. In the tradition of the finest memoir writing, the author spares no one, herself least of all, as she untangles the bad from the good while still allowing for some tricky knots. I'll Tell You When I'm Home: A Memoir By Hala AlyanAvid Reader Press: 272 pages, $29(June 3) An award-winning Palestinian American writer tackles subjects including home, displacement and gestation in this lyrical memoir that explores the trauma of fractured identity. When Alyan ('Salt Houses') finally becomes pregnant via surrogate, after experiencing five miscarriages, she tries to forge a sense of motherhood as her husband leaves to 'clear his head.' The memoir's shifting timeline mirrors the author's own sense of destabilization. The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler's All-Female Concentration Camp By Lynne OlsonRandom House: 384 pages, $35(June 3) Olson's latest centers on four members of the French Resistance — Germaine Tillion, Anise Girard, Geneviève de Gaulle (niece of Charles de Gaulle) and Jacqueline d'Alincourt — all imprisoned in Germany during World War II. Their deep friendship, a source of emotional sustenance, helped them defy the enemy and document atrocities. All survived, forging a sisterhood that endured and resulted in lifelong activism. The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983-1994 By Thomas MallonKnopf: 592 pages, $40(June 3) Mallon, a distinguished man of letters, moved to Manhattan at 32, holding a PhD from Harvard and a dissertation that became his acclaimed 1984 book, 'A Book of One's Own.' Mallon was openly gay and his diaries capture the atmosphere of a city and community reeling from the AIDS crisis amid the material optimism of Reagan-era America. His writing stands out for its honesty and authenticity, offering a vivid, personal chronicle of a transformative era.
Hamilton Spectator
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Hamilton Spectator
With ‘Atmosphere,' Taylor Jenkins Reid leaves the Evelyn Hugo-verse behind and travels to space
Taylor Jenkins Reid recalls a moment writing her new novel, 'Atmosphere: A Love Story,' set against NASA's robust 1980s shuttle program, where she felt stuck. She went, where she often goes, to her husband to talk it through. 'I said, 'I can't write this book. I don't know enough about the space shuttle. I don't know what happens when the payload bay doors won't shut and you have to get back within a certain amount of revs, but they can't land at White Sands. They have to land at Cape Kennedy.' And he's like, 'Just listen to yourself. You know so much more than you knew a couple months ago. Keep doing what you're doing.'' 'Atmosphere,' out Tuesday, follows the journey of astronomer Joan Goodwin, an astronomer selected to join NASA's astronaut program. She and fellow trainees become like family and achieve their dream of going to space — until tragedy strikes. The story unfolds in two timelines: One when Joan first joins the NASA program and the other in December 1984 when a mission goes terribly wrong. The duo behind 'Captain Marvel,' Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, are adapting the book into a film with a theatrical release in mind. Reid knew that she had to do more than just her average six to eight weeks of research. Research and rabbit holes, by the way, are Reid's jam. She's written blockbuster novels set in the golden age of Hollywood in 'The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo,' the 1970s rock scene in 'Daisy Jones & the Six,' 1980s surf culture in 'Malibu Rising' and professional tennis in 'Carrie Soto is Back.' With 'Atmosphere,' though, it took extra time, reading and understanding. 'It feels like a fever dream now when I think about it,' Reid told The Associated Press. 'It was a very intense period of time.' For this endeavor, she needed assistance. 'I had to reach out to people, complete strangers that I did not know and say, 'Will you please help me?'' Reid was surprised at how many people said yes. One of the most important voices was Paul Dye, NASA's longest-serving flight director. 'He spent hours of time with me,' Reid said. 'He helped me figure out how to cause a lot of mayhem on the space shuttle. He helped figure out exactly how the process of the connection between mission control and the space shuttle work. The book doesn't exist if he hadn't done that.' In an interview, Reid also talked about astronomy, social media and yes, the latest on 'The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo' movie at Netflix. Answers are condensed for clarity and length. —- AP: How has writing 'Atmosphere' changed you? REID: I'm really into astronomy. Last Thanksgiving my family took a road trip to the Grand Canyon. I routed us through Scottsdale, Arizona, because I wanted to go to a dark sky park. Because of light pollution, we can only see the brightest stars when we go out and look at the night sky in a major city. Whereas when you go to a dark sky park there is very limited man-made light. So you can see more stars. We got there and it was cloudy. I was beside myself. The next night we got to the Grand Canyon and all the clouds had disappeared and you could see everything. I stood there for hours. I was teary-eyed. I can't emphasize enough: If anyone has any inclination to just go outside and look up at the night sky, it's so rewarding. AP: Last fall you left social media. Where are you at with it now? REID: I didn't realize how much social media was creating so many messages in my head of, you're not good enough. You should be better. You should work harder. You should have a prettier home. You should make a better dinner. And when I stopped going on it, very quickly I started to hear my own voice clearer. It was so much easier to be in touch with what I thought, how I felt, what I valued. I was more in touch with myself but also I'm going out into the world and I'm looking up at the sky and I am seeing where I am in relation to everything around me and I starting to understand how small my life is compared to the scale of the universe. AP: Serena Williams is executive producing 'Carrie Soto' for a series at Netflix. Did you meet her? REID: Yes. It's the only time I've been starstruck. I was in my bones, nervous. I had to talk to myself like, 'Taylor, slow down your heart rate.' The admiration I have for her as an athlete but also as a human is immense. The idea that I might have written something that she felt captured anything worth her time, is a great honor. And the fact that she's coming on board to help us make it the most authentic story we possibly can, I'm thrilled. It's one thing for me to pretend I know what it's like to be standing at Flushing Meadows and win the U.S. Open. Serena knows. She's done it multiple times. And so as we render that world, I think it is going to be really, really special because we have Serena and her team to help us. AP: Now for your favorite question. What's up with the 'Evelyn Hugo' movie? REID: There's not much that I am allowed to say but a lot of times I think people mistake me not saying anything as a lack of interest or focus and that's not the case. Everyone is working incredibly hard to get this movie made and everyone knows that there is a lot of pressure to get it exactly right. We're all hard at work. We're taking it very seriously and I give Netflix so much credit because they have such an immense respect for the readership of that book. They want to make them happy.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
With 'Atmosphere,' Taylor Jenkins Reid leaves the Evelyn Hugo-verse behind and travels to space
Taylor Jenkins Reid recalls a moment writing her new novel, 'Atmosphere: A Love Story,' set against NASA's robust 1980s shuttle program, where she felt stuck. She went, where she often goes, to her husband to talk it through. 'I said, 'I can't write this book. I don't know enough about the space shuttle. I don't know what happens when the payload bay doors won't shut and you have to get back within a certain amount of revs, but they can't land at White Sands. They have to land at Cape Kennedy.' And he's like, 'Just listen to yourself. You know so much more than you knew a couple months ago. Keep doing what you're doing.'' 'Atmosphere," out Tuesday, follows the journey of astronomer Joan Goodwin, an astronomer selected to join NASA's astronaut program. She and fellow trainees become like family and achieve their dream of going to space — until tragedy strikes. The story unfolds in two timelines: One when Joan first joins the NASA program and the other in December 1984 when a mission goes terribly wrong. The duo behind 'Captain Marvel,' Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, are adapting the book into a film with a theatrical release in mind. Reid knew that she had to do more than just her average six to eight weeks of research. Research and rabbit holes, by the way, are Reid's jam. She's written blockbuster novels set in the golden age of Hollywood in 'The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo," the 1970s rock scene in 'Daisy Jones & the Six," 1980s surf culture in 'Malibu Rising' and professional tennis in 'Carrie Soto is Back.' With 'Atmosphere,' though, it took extra time, reading and understanding. 'It feels like a fever dream now when I think about it," Reid told The Associated Press. "It was a very intense period of time.' For this endeavor, she needed assistance. 'I had to reach out to people, complete strangers that I did not know and say, 'Will you please help me?'" Reid was surprised at how many people said yes. One of the most important voices was Paul Dye, NASA's longest-serving flight director. 'He spent hours of time with me," Reid said. "He helped me figure out how to cause a lot of mayhem on the space shuttle. He helped figure out exactly how the process of the connection between mission control and the space shuttle work. The book doesn't exist if he hadn't done that.' In an interview, Reid also talked about astronomy, social media and yes, the latest on 'The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo' movie at Netflix. Answers are condensed for clarity and length. —- AP: How has writing 'Atmosphere' changed you? REID: I'm really into astronomy. Last Thanksgiving my family took a road trip to the Grand Canyon. I routed us through Scottsdale, Arizona, because I wanted to go to a dark sky park. Because of light pollution, we can only see the brightest stars when we go out and look at the night sky in a major city. Whereas when you go to a dark sky park there is very limited man-made light. So you can see more stars. We got there and it was cloudy. I was beside myself. The next night we got to the Grand Canyon and all the clouds had disappeared and you could see everything. I stood there for hours. I was teary-eyed. I can't emphasize enough: If anyone has any inclination to just go outside and look up at the night sky, it's so rewarding. AP: Last fall you left social media. Where are you at with it now? REID: I didn't realize how much social media was creating so many messages in my head of, you're not good enough. You should be better. You should work harder. You should have a prettier home. You should make a better dinner. And when I stopped going on it, very quickly I started to hear my own voice clearer. It was so much easier to be in touch with what I thought, how I felt, what I valued. I was more in touch with myself but also I'm going out into the world and I'm looking up at the sky and I am seeing where I am in relation to everything around me and I starting to understand how small my life is compared to the scale of the universe. AP: Serena Williams is executive producing 'Carrie Soto' for a series at Netflix. Did you meet her? REID: Yes. It's the only time I've been starstruck. I was in my bones, nervous. I had to talk to myself like, 'Taylor, slow down your heart rate.' The admiration I have for her as an athlete but also as a human is immense. The idea that I might have written something that she felt captured anything worth her time, is a great honor. And the fact that she's coming on board to help us make it the most authentic story we possibly can, I'm thrilled. It's one thing for me to pretend I know what it's like to be standing at Flushing Meadows and win the U.S. Open. Serena knows. She's done it multiple times. And so as we render that world, I think it is going to be really, really special because we have Serena and her team to help us. AP: Now for your favorite question. What's up with the 'Evelyn Hugo' movie? REID: There's not much that I am allowed to say but a lot of times I think people mistake me not saying anything as a lack of interest or focus and that's not the case. Everyone is working incredibly hard to get this movie made and everyone knows that there is a lot of pressure to get it exactly right. We're all hard at work. We're taking it very seriously and I give Netflix so much credit because they have such an immense respect for the readership of that book. They want to make them happy.
