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Time of India
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
'Baaghi 4' teaser out: Tiger Shroff hunts Sanjay Dutt amid blood and chaos
'Baaghi 4' teaser showcases Tiger Shroff as Ronny, facing off against Sanjay Dutt's villain. The intense teaser features brutal action, including fierce female combat. It draws comparisons to Animal and Marco. Written by Sajid Nadiadwala and directed by A. Harsha, the film releases September 5. On Monday, the eagerly awaited teaser for 'Baaghi 4' made a grand debut. Tiger Shroff returns as the iconic Ronny, stepping up against a formidable new adversary played by Sanjay Dutt . Known as the most intense and brutal installment yet, the teaser has left many viewers drawing comparisons to films like 'Animal' and 'Marco'. Watch the teaser here: Teaser opens with a thought-provoking note and glimpse of villain The teaser opens with Tiger considering the distinction between what's necessary and what's essential. Then, fans catch a brief glimpse of the villain Sanjay Dutt, before Tiger boldly declares his mission to take him down. In a refreshing twist, the female leads, Sonam Bajwa and newcomer Harnaaz Sandhu, also showcase fierce combat skills, dismantling enemies with deadly precision. A special moment shows black-clad masked figures sprinting down a narrow alley, evoking strong memories of a scene from Ranbir Kapoor 's 'Animal'. Official logline highlights Ronny's fierce new avatar The official logline for 'Baaghi 4' reveals Shroff's return as Ronny, showcasing his wildest and most ruthless persona to date. The synopsis reads: "Tiger Shroff returns as Ronny in his most savage avatar yet. It is fueled by vengeance, armed, and driven by a rage that leaves no enemy breathing." Release date Sajid Nadiadwala wrote the story and screenplay for the film. Directed by A Harsha, 'Baaghi 4' will come out in theaters on 5 September.
NDTV
a day ago
- Entertainment
- NDTV
Baaghi 4 Teaser: Brutal Tiger Shroff Locks Horns With Cigar-Smoking Sanjay Dutt
Mumbai: Bollywood actor Tiger Shroff is set to return to his popular character of Ronny with the upcoming film Baaghi 4. The teaser of the film was unveiled on Monday, and it promises a Tiger's savage avatar of Ronny. The teaser tells that the fourth installment of the Baaghi is going to be unhinged, unrelenting, and more ferocious than ever. The teaser tears through the screen with a brutality you can't look away from. The film also stars Harnaaz Sandhu, who was crowned the Miss Universe in 2021, as the female lead. Fierce and fearless, she brings raw emotion and grit to the screen with intense action sequences that challenge stereotypes. Joining her is the magnetic Sonam Bajwa, who steps into the Baaghi universe post Housefull 5. Sonam is known for her captivating screen presence and effortless charm, Bajwa brings a refreshing mix of glamour and strength, proving she can hold her own in the middle of high-octane chaos and adrenaline-pumping combat. Senior Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt delivers a spine-chilling performance as a deranged antagonist. He is menacing, unfiltered, and terrifyingly unpredictable. His screen presence is monstrous, his madness contagious. This is Dutt like you've never seen him before completely unleashed. With story and screenplay penned by Sajid Nadiadwala, and helmed by director A Harsha, Baaghi 4 promises bone-breaking action, explosive drama, and a showdown soaked in blood, fury, and chaos. Baaghi 4 is set to release in cinemas on September 5, 2025. The first film in the series, Baaghi, was released in 2016 and was directed by Sabbir Khan, followed by its sequels, Baaghi 2 (2018) and Baaghi 3 (2020), both directed by Ahmed Khan. Baaghi produced by Sajid Nadiadwala under Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment.
The Courier
2 days ago
- General
- The Courier
Inside the stunning Newport converted church apartment on sale for £450k
An apartment in a stunning church conversion on Newport's waterfront has gone on the market for £450,000. Apartment 8 in Trinity Free Church, has three bedrooms spread across two levels, is up for sale. Located on Boat Road looking over the Tay, the church sits next to the Newport Inn. Trinity United Free Church dates from 1881 and was designed by architects Charles and Leslie Ower. Its foundation stone was laid by Admiral Maitland-Dougal of Scotscraig Estate. The church opened in 1882 after being built at a cost of £3,000. At the opening ceremony a sealed bottle containing copies of The Courier, the Dundee Advertiser, the Scotsman and the Daily Mail was laid in the foundations. Trinity Church closed its doors for the final time in 2016. In 2017 it was put on sale for offers over £280,000. It was sold to a developer who turned it into luxury apartments that were completed in 2019. Occupying part of the ground and first floors, Apartment 8 has 175sqm of living space, making it bigger than the average four-bedroom detached house. This translates into huge, airy rooms that give a wonderful impression of space. A beautiful arched doorway opens into a vestibule with a bench and coat hooks. A reception hall has a magnificent stained glass window and a glass staircase. Without doubt the finest space in the house is the amazing open plan living/dining/kitchen area. This enormous space has a vaulted ceiling and a mezzanine level. On the ground floor there is a modern German kitchen and an impressive dining area. A set of stairs leads up to the mezzanine living room, which has a glass balustrade. Huge arched windows give fantastic views across the river. The main bedroom is on the ground floor. It has three arched windows and an en suite shower room. A second double bedroom is located on the ground floor and also enjoys Tay views. There's a family bathroom and a utility area at ground floor level. On the upper floor there is a family bathroom, another double bedroom, a home office and a door that opens into the mezzanine living room. Many of the B listed church's original features have been refurbished and retained when the building was converted into flats. As well as arched windows and stained glass the ceiling showcases exposed timber beams. The walls, meanwhile, are made of 600mm thick solid stone. Gas central heating helps keep running costs low. Apartment 8 is owned by Ronny and Keeley Bogani, who have lived there for the past five years. Ronny, 50, is from Florida and spent 20 years working as a trial attorney before moving to the UK in 2018. He now works in Artificial Intelligence, specialising in AI and children's rights. He's completing a PhD at Edinburgh University. He works with the Turing Trust, a charity that supports education in Africa, and social enterprise NPACT. 'Basically I made my money in America as a trial lawyer and now I'm turning against the organisations I used to defend,' he smiles. 'I've dedicated the rest of my life to human rights.' When Ronny and Keeley bought Apartment 8 in Trinity Free Church it was on sale as an unfinished shell. They worked with the builders to complete the apartment to their specification. 'We spent an extra £40,000 getting the spec we wanted,' Ronnie continues. 'We put in a German kitchen and speciality cast iron radiators. My favourite place to go on vacation is the Graylyn Estate in North Carolina. The bathrooms have these amazing showers with six or eight nozzles that blast water at you from all directions. We had one of those showers fitted in our en suite.' Separation has led to Ronny and Keeley putting their flat in Trinity Free Church on the market. 'It was too big for me on my own,' Ronny says. 'I now live in a flat on Thistle Street in Edinburgh, which is fantastic – although it's dangerously close to the best French restaurant.' Apartment 8, Trinity Free Church, Boat Road, Newport is on sale with Brikk for offers over £450,000.
Indian Express
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Dhadak 2: Shazia Iqbal destroys ancient Bollywood Dharma in the best Karan Johar production since Jigra
Something that Quentin Tarantino said recently rings true for director Shazia Iqbal's Dhadak 2. In an interview, he explained why he admires the controversial blockbuster film Joker, despite the divisive reactions that it opened to. Tarantino said that the movie pulled off 'subversion on a massive level', when it got audiences across the globe to root for a madman to shoot a celebrity in the face on live TV. These were all civilised people, Tarantino said. And yet, for around 10 minutes, they were hungry for blood. It's an unusual comparison to make, but Dhadak 2 has more in common with a billion-dollar-grossing Hollywood movie than you'd imagine. In an alternate universe, Siddhant Chaturvedi's character in the film, a Dalit man named Neelesh, could have very easily turned into a vengeful anarchist. In the film's climactic showdown, after escaping from the clutches of a malevolent Anton Chigurh-type assassin played by Saurabh Sachdeva, Neelesh turns his attention to the film's main antagonist, a Brahmin guy called Ronny who's been harassing him for months. He grabs a hold of Ronny, drags him onto the street, and pummels him into the ground. Like Sunny Deol, he uproots a metallic gate, and prepares to bash Ronny's face in with it. In that moment, there is nothing more that you, as a member of the audience, can desire more than for Ronny to be murdered in the most brutal manner imaginable. Also read – Jigra: Vasan Bala weaponises Alia Bhatt in one of the best Hindi films of the year; Karan Johar better have his back This is 'subversion on a massive level' – to get seemingly civilised people to briefly think like wild animals. Comedians do this all the time. Joker did it as well. Directed by Todd Phillips, the movie pointed fingers at polite society for turning a blind eye to the mentally ill. Their ignorance, the movie suggested, is what compels folks like Arthur Fleck to take matters into their own hands. In Dhadak 2, Neelesh experiences many of the same indignities that were directed at Arthur in Joker. He is humiliated in public, kicked while he's down, even urinated on. Dhadak 2 could've been the origin story of a mass-murdering criminal; had Neelesh transformed into a lunatic killer, you'd 100% understand why. But Dhadak 2 isn't a comic book movie. It is, however, one of the most daring examples of what can be achieved in mainstream Hindi filmmaking. There are elements of exploitation cinema — Tarantino's favourite genre — in Dhadak 2 as well. But the tone isn't nearly as gnarly as it could've been; for a real glimpse at how far things can be pushed past the boundaries of good taste, you needn't look further than Mari Selvaraj's Vaazhai, an autobiographical drama that he released last year. Incidentally, Dhadak 2 is a remake of Selvaraj's debut film, Pariyerum Perumal. It follows a lower-caste man's tentative romance with a girl from an upper-caste family. In Dhadak 2 — the film has had the misfortune of being retroactively rebranded as a 'spiritual sequel', much like the recent Kesari: Chapter 2 — Neelesh understands that he could get murdered for even speaking to someone like Viddhi, let alone for developing feelings for her. Read more – Stolen: The rare Hindi movie that isn't afraid to insult its own audience, and you know what, we deserve it Chaturvedi plays him with a timidity that is more self-imposed than it is ingrained. He is driven only by one objective: to gain an education for the benefit of the same people to whom it has been denied. Neelesh also delivers a version of the line that made Chaturvedi go viral some years ago, when he told the presumably more privileged Ananya Panday that his dreams end where her struggles begin. In Dhadak 2, Neelesh gains admission into a law college through the SC/ST quota, something that the ingrates in his class never let him forget. They don't understand that for him to even have the opportunity to be seated in the same room as them is essentially a miracle. Instead of celebrating him for swimming against the tide his entire life and challenging an oppressive system by merely existing, they ostracise him. The harassment only becomes worse when he starts dating Viddhi, played by a never-better Triptii Dimri. She happens to be related to Ronny, who threatens to (honour) kill her on several occasions. It's a familiar set-up, but one that has historically been sugarcoated in cinema by class-conflict, socioeconomic differences, and sometimes, plain geographical distance. All of these issues are code for caste. In India, every injustice can be traced back to a single source; it's the disgusting 'nala' that we're all drinking from. Income inequality, hunger, lack of education, denial of fundamental rights… Everything. Read more –Bheed: Anubhav Sinha's movie is a messy, confrontational, and deeply angry response to blasé Bollywood We live in a country where a man can be killed for growing a style of moustache that the upper castes have claimed as their own. India is perhaps one of the few nations in the world where literal laws have to be enforced in order to prevent people from killing their own children. To do the dirty work for them, the cowards hire midwives for the nominal sum of Rs 50. These midwives murder female babies for a living not because they enjoy it, but because they've been subjugated and oppressed for their entire lives; it's a family trade; their daughters will follow in their footsteps. They aren't allowed to do anything else. What sort of society allows this? These uncomfortable truths are rarely, if ever, spoken about inside our homes, let alone in our cinema. The Malayali filmmakers are leading the charge on this front as well, while Bollywood self-combusts at the very idea of discomfort. But, in recent years, there has been a growing wave of Hindi directors who've dared to expose us for who we are. Iqbal is the youngest to join their ranks, and she probably had other barriers to overcome. She's a minority twice over. You can sense her growing pains in the Dhadak 2's odd comic interludes, a needless song-and-dance number, and one-note soundtrack. Collectively, all of it feels like a giant Ormax Media note more than anything else. But her movie has more integrity than the entire filmographies of her colleagues put together. Her voice is bebaak. Dhadak 2 is the best film of its kind since Nagraj Manjule's Jhund, and one that producer Karan Johar should hang forever and ever on his mantelpiece. Post Credits Scene is a column in which we dissect new releases every week, with particular focus on context, craft, and characters. Because there's always something to fixate about once the dust has settled. Rohan Naahar is an assistant editor at Indian Express online. He covers pop-culture across formats and mediums. He is a 'Rotten Tomatoes-approved' critic and a member of the Film Critics Guild of India. He previously worked with the Hindustan Times, where he wrote hundreds of film and television reviews, produced videos, and interviewed the biggest names in Indian and international cinema. At the Express, he writes a column titled Post Credits Scene, and has hosted a podcast called Movie Police. You can find him on X at @RohanNaahar, and write to him at He is also on LinkedIn and Instagram. ... Read More
BBC News
17-06-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Weymouth dad goes from ruptured bicep to World's Strongest Man
"I'm proud of myself but the work's not done", says Shane Flowers who has recovered from injury to become one of the world's strongest father from Weymouth ruptured his bicep and needed to have the muscle surgically 13 months on, he said he "couldn't believe it" after he came 7th in the 2025 World's Strongest Man competition, held in the US last 31-year-old told the BBC he had been inspired to be a "role model" to his new son. Twenty-five of the world's top athletes gathered in Sacramento, California, for the annual showcase of strength which first took place in 6ft 5in, 24-stone giant from Dorset admitted it was "a huge mental game", taking more than just his physical strength to succeed."When it's going on, there's this atmosphere, it's like a do or die type thing, it's pretty intense," Flowers said."At times I thought I was being over ambitious." He suffered food poisoning during the contest but managed to make his way to the final, performing well in events like sandbag throwing, the Hercules hold and the Atlas his top 10 finish, he said, with a smile on his face, "the competitor in me thinks I could have been 5th".But he admitted he was "buzzing" with his success and said: "To be a competitor at that stage already puts you in the upper echelons of the sport."Flowers added becoming a father for the first time also gave him "a different perspective"."I don't care if my son Ronny wants to become a strongman when he's older, I just want him to witness his old man really work hard towards what he's passionate about, and then he witnesses that and use that blueprint in his own journey," he African Rayno Nel became the first African to win the historic contest, narrowly beating last year's winner Scotland's Luke Stoltman by 0.5 points. You can follow BBC Dorset on Facebook, X, or Instagram.
