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NDTV
12 hours ago
- Health
- NDTV
Rakesh Roshan Posts Pic From Hospital After Fresh Health Scare, With A Message For People Above 45
Filmmaker Rakesh Roshan on Tuesday morning informed his fans and followers that last week he underwent a series of preventative procedures when he found out that the carotid arteries to his brain "were above 75% blocked", even though it was asymptomatic. According to reports, the 75-year-old director recently underwent a neck angioplasty. What's Happening Rakesh Roshan, who was diagnosed with early stage throat cancer in 2019, also recently went through a heart CT and a carotid brain artery sonography during a full-body health check-up. In an Instagram post, Rakesh Roshan -- known for films such as Khoon Bhari Maang, Karan Arjun, Koyla, and the Krrish franchise -- said he was back home fully recovered. "This week has been truly eye opening, during a routine full-body health check-up the doctor conducting the sonography for the heart suggested I also do one for the neck. By chance we found out that although asymptomatic, both my carotid arteries to the brain were above 75% blocked. Which if ignored could be potentially dangerous," the filmmaker wrote. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Rakesh Roshan (@rakesh_roshan9) "I immediately admitted myself into the hospital and got the preventative procedures done. I am back home now fully recovered and hope to get back to my workouts very soon. I hope this inspires others to stay on top of their health especially where the heart and brain is concerned. A heart CT and a carotid brain artery sonography (which is often ignored completely) is a must for everyone above 45- 50 years old. I think it's important to remember that prevention is always better than cure. I wish you all a healthy and aware year to you all," he added. Rakesh Roshan also shared his picture from the hospital as he was getting discharged. In A Nutshell Director-producer Rakesh Roshan, who recently underwent a neck angioplasty, also had a heart CT and a carotid brain artery sonography done following which he discovered that both his carotid arteries to the brain were above 75% blocked. He underwent preventive procedures and is now back home after making a full recovery.
NDTV
a day ago
- Entertainment
- NDTV
'Jeetu Bhai, Many Have Been Killed': A Journalist Recounts 2006 Mumbai Train Blasts
July 11, 2006, was a Tuesday, and I had taken a compensatory day off from work because on the previous Sunday, I was on duty. Some miscreants had desecrated the statue of Meenatai, Bal Thackeray's wife, at Shivaji Park. This enraged the Shiv Sainiks, and they went on a rampage. A private bus was set on fire, and the police had to fire tear gas shells to disperse frenzied Shiv Sainiks. On Monday, I was busy doing a follow-up story on the violence. It was only on Tuesday that my editor allowed a day off. I planned for a relaxed evening at South Mumbai's New Excelsior Cinema, where the Hrithik Roshan-starred movie Krrish was being screened. Just as the movie began, my mobile phone rang. "JEETU BHAI!!! A BOMB HAS EXPLODED IN A TRAIN OUTSIDE MY BUILDING! THERE IS CHAOS ALL AROUND. MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED. SEND A CAMERA UNIT FAST.' Odysteven Gomes, the Operations Manager at my news channel, screamed on the phone. Gomes stayed at Khar in a building next to the railway tracks. Being an employee of a news organisation, his immediate response to the event was to alert me. Back then, all mobile phones didn't have cameras, and a camera team had to be instantly sent to the location for the incident's coverage. I hastily left the cinema hall and rang the cops to get more details. Six more bomb blasts had taken place in first-class compartments of different local trains. After informing my office and directing camera teams to reach the spots, I rushed to Matunga Road, one of the nearest blast locations. It started raining midway, and I reached the station entirely drenched. My cameraman was already there. The metal body of the train was completely mangled and its pieces minced with bone, blood, and flesh. Local people gathered to speed up the relief work, but the intensified rains hindered the rescue operation. Targeting Gujaratis Since all the affected trains ran on the Western Railway line, I could apprehend that the conspiracy was another attempt by the terrorist organisations to avenge the Gujarat riots. The Western Railway connects suburbs like Khar, Santacruz, Vile Parle, Goregaon, Malad, Kandivali, Borivali, Meera Road and Bhayendar, which are densely populated by Gujaratis. The bombs exploded after 6 pm, when the Bombay Stock Exchange shuts down and the stockbrokers, mostly Gujaratis, head to their suburban homes. A look at the blasts' chronology showed that everything happened within eleven minutes. The first blast took place at 6:24 pm on the train heading towards Borivali near Khar station. It was the blast that Odysteven Gomes had witnessed and alerted me about. This was followed by six other blasts in trains near or within the premises of Matunga Road, Mahim, Bandra, Jogeshwari and Khar stations. The last bomb went off at 6:35 pm on a Virar-bound local train near Borivali. It took over a week to ascertain the total number of casualties, which turned out to be 209. Over 700 passengers were injured. Among the killed was my favourite Hindi poet, Shyam Jwalamukhi. He was famous for his humorous and satirical poems. Jwalamukhi was not a regular local train traveller, but boarded one that evening to return from Thane after some work. Overcrowded Buses, Choked Roads With the bombings at multiple locations, the Western Railway became totally dysfunctional. The impact of the train shutdown affected the road traffic. All arterial roads from South Mumbai to the North-Western suburbs were choked. People pushed themselves into overcrowded BEST buses and taxis to reach home. Many clung to trucks and pickup vans. Several people stayed back at their offices or other known residences in South Mumbai that night. The investigations that followed ignited a controversy, with different investigating agencies coming up with different suspects of the bombings. A week after the bombings, a Hindi TV channel received an email from an obscure, never-heard-of-before organisation, Lashkar-e-Qahhar. The organisation owned up to the blasts and threatened more in the future. The Blasts In Madrid And London The Mumbai train blasts were a close replication of the blasts that occurred in Madrid in 2004 and London in 2005. On March 11, 2004, four bombs exploded on different local trains in Madrid within ten minutes, killing 191 people and injuring 1,800. The mass transit system of the capital city of Spain was attacked in the early morning rush hours, when people left home to commute to their place of work. Next year on July 7, 2005, three bombs exploded in London's underground trains, and a fourth one exploded in a double-decker bus. Like Madrid, the mass transport system in London was also bombed during the morning rush. The blasts claimed 52 lives. Who Was Behind The Attack? The Maharashtra ATS claimed to have unearthed the conspiracy a few weeks later and charged 12 people. Reportedly, the conspiracy of the train blasts was engineered at the behest of the Pakistani agency ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) and was executed by Lashkar-e-Taiba, with the help of SIMI (Students Islamic Movement of India). The bombs were put in pressure cookers at slums in Govandi and then planted on the trains. However, there was a twist in the story when, in 2008, the Mumbai Crime Branch arrested Sadiq Shaikh, an alleged member of the terror outfit Indian Mujahideen. As per the Crime Branch, Indian Mujahideen executed the conspiracy and Sadiq, along with others, planted the bombs. Contradicting the ATS, the Crime Branch claimed the bombs were assembled in a flat at Sewri. It led to scepticism over which set of the accused were the actual perpetrators. Did the ATS arrest the wrong people under political pressure to show results? The ATS stood by its story. In 2015, five alleged planters of the bombs arrested by the ATS were awarded the death penalty, seven were imprisoned for life, and one accused named Abdul Wahid was acquitted. (This is an excerpt from Jitendra Dixit's 2022 book Bombay After Ayodhya: A City in Flux, published by HarperCollins India. Only subheadings and paragraph breaks have been added by NDTV for readers' ease. These are the personal views of the author.) Disclaimer: The author and publisher of the book are solely responsible for the contents of the book or any excerpt derived therefrom. NDTV shall not be responsible or liable for any claims arising from the contents of the book including any claims of defamation, infringement of intellectual property rights or any other right of any third party or of law.
Time of India
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
The Impossible Mission of Compressing a Web Novel into 2 Hours - K-Drama Director's Shocking Truth Revealed
Still from fantasy action film ″Omniscient Reader″ BLACKPINK Jisoo, The scene where Jisoo holds a gun instead of a knife drew a backlash from the audience. Why Fans Are Furious - Their Beloved Character Became a Completely Different Person Imagine this: A web novel character you've loved for years appears completely different in the movie adaptation. How would you feel if someone made a Ramayana film and suddenly changed Hanuman from using his divine powers to wielding guns instead? This exact scenario is playing out in Korea right now. Fans of the web novel " Omniscient Reader " are in complete meltdown mode. The character Lee Ji-hye , played by Blackpink's Jisoo, has been changed 180 degrees from the original. This character, who was originally a master swordsman, has become a sniper in the movie. Even more shocking is that the character's core setting - the "constellation sponsor" (basically receiving protection from a divine being) - has been completely erased. It's like making a Krrish movie where suddenly Krrish only uses martial arts instead of his superpowers. No wonder fans are reacting with "What the hell is this nonsense?" by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Gold Is Surging in 2025 — Smart Traders Are Already In IC Markets Learn More Undo Director's Excuses - The Classic "We Didn't Have Enough Time" Cliche Director Kim Byung-woo faced reporters at a Seoul cafe to explain himself. His excuse was the same tired line every adaptation director uses worldwide: "We didn't have enough time." "We thought it was more efficient to only include elements directly related to the events in the film," he said. But the truly shocking revelation was what he disclosed next: this movie only covers a mere 10% of the original work. 10%? This is like trying to make the entire 7-book Harry Potter series into one movie while only covering part of the first book. It was an impossible challenge from the start. Regarding Ji-hye's sponsor setting, the director also made excuses, saying it "wasn't changed, just postponed." He claimed "we can address it in a sequel," but from fans' perspective, the reaction is "Then why didn't you do it right from the beginning?" Director's 2-Year Dilemma - And This is the Result? The most ironic part is that Director Kim took a whopping two years to decide whether to accept this project. He received the offer after his 2018 film "Take Point" but worried about ruining a beloved original work. It's truly ironic that two years of contemplation resulted in this kind of controversy. It's like the Indian film industry spending two years pondering whether to remake masterpieces like "3 Idiots" or "Dangal," only to end up removing the core elements of the original. The director said the message he wanted to convey was "solidarity." He explained it as "a story about Dok-ja, who was always alone, meeting companions and overcoming difficulties together." But ironically, he seems to have completely failed at solidarity with the original fans. Korean Film Industry's Anticipated Work, But a Dangerous Gamble "Omniscient Reader" is attracting attention with its stellar cast including Lee Min-ho, Ahn Hyo-seop, Chae Soo-bin, Shin Seung-ho, Nana, and Jisoo. It's a story about an ordinary office worker who falls into the world of a novel he was reading and must save the world. Set to release on July 23, this film is considered a hopeful project that could revitalize the struggling Korean film industry. However, how much damage the original fans' anger will inflict on the box office remains uncertain. The director said, "Working with such a great original work, I felt a great responsibility not to mess it up." But ironically, that sense of responsibility seems to have become poison instead. This situation isn't unfamiliar in our country either. We face similar dilemmas when adapting Western content to Indian tastes. But the key is adding new charm without damaging the essence of the original. Unfortunately, "Omniscient Reader" seems to have failed to find that balance. The film tells the story of Kim Dok-ja, an ordinary office worker whose reality suddenly mirrors a novel he has read, becoming the only person who knows how the world will end and embarking on a journey to change the story's course and save the world. Despite the controversy, many hope this star-studded adaptation will breathe new life into Korean cinema this summer.
India Today
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- India Today
Rakesh Roshan undergoes neck angioplasty, daughter Sunaina confirms recovery
Filmmaker Rakesh Roshan, father of Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan, is back in the headlines, this time due to a health scare. The veteran director recently underwent a neck angioplasty and is currently recovering in a Mumbai hospital. His daughter, Sunaina Roshan, confirmed the development and reassured fans that there is no cause for to earlier media reports, Roshan was admitted to Kokilaben Hospital in Mumbai on July 16 following a sudden decline in his health. Sunaina later spoke to Amar Ujala, confirming, 'Yes, papa had an angioplasty in his neck, but he's perfectly fine now. There's nothing to worry about. He's resting.'advertisementAs per the latest updates, Rakesh Roshan has now been shifted from the ICU to a general ward, and his condition remains stable. Actor Hrithik Roshan has been visiting his father regularly, often accompanied by his partner, Saba Azad. The veteran actor is known for directing hit Bollywood movies like 'Karan Arjun', 'Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai', 'Koi Mil Gya', 'Krrish', and 'Krrish 3'. He was also a notable actor in the 1970s and 1980s, having appeared in films such as 'Man Mandir', 'Khel Khel Mein', and 'Khandaan'.- EndsTrending Reel
Time of India
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Rekha, Urmila Matondkar and Karan Johar dazzle at Manish Malhotra's mother's birthday celebration
Manish Malhotra celebrated his mother's birthday with Bollywood stars Rekha, Urmila Matondkar, and Karan Johar attending. Rekha dazzled in a stunning dress, and Manish shared photos on Instagram. Rekha will reunite with Priyanka Chopra and Preity Zinta for Hrithik Roshan's directorial debut, 'Krrish 4', filming in 2026. Fashion designer Manish Malhotra recently hosted a glamorous birthday celebration for his mother, drawing a group of Bollywood stars. The event featured notable attendees such as Rekha , Urmila Matondkar , and Karan Johar , highlighting the close connections within the film and fashion industry. Manish Malhotra Wish His Mother Sharing moments from the celebration on Instagram, the designer posted several pictures and wrote, 'Happy birthday mommy dearest…,' accompanied by numerous heart emojis. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Manish Malhotra (@manishmalhotra05) Star-Studded Celebration At the birthday celebration, Rekha turned heads in a beautiful dress, accessorized with sparkling earrings and trendy sunglasses. Urmila Matondkar impressed in an elegant white outfit, while Karan Johar chose a coordinated brown ensemble. Outside Manish Malhotra's residence, Rekha and Urmila posed for photographers, often seen spending time with Manish and sharing a warm connection with his mother. Rekha's Upcoming On the work front, as per a report by Instant Bollywood, Rekha is set to reunite with Priyanka Chopra and Preity Zinta for Hrithik Roshan's superhero saga 'Krrish 4'. Hrithik is set to make his directorial debut with the upcoming 'Krrish' sequel. Though the script details are still confidential, the actor is working closely alongside his writing team and Aditya Chopra to perfect the screenplay. The shooting of the film is expected to start in early 2026.
