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A dark comedy dealing in the disturbing subject matter of domestic violence is taking audiences by storm in India and beyond.
Darlings, which began streaming on Netflix globally a week ago, has had the highest global opening for a non-English Indian film, with audiences spending more than 10million hours watching it in its opening weekend, according to a statement released by the streaming service to the BBC.
It is also “currently trending in the top 10 in 16 countries in the Americas, Africa and Asia including in the UAE, Singapore, Malaysia, Kenya and Trinidad and Tobago.”
The film is directed by Jasmeet K Reen and stars Bollywood actress Alia Bhatt, Shefali Shah and Vijay Varma in the lead roles. The narrative sees a young couple fall in love before he begins to abuse his young wife until, after a while, the tables are turned.
The film has enjoyed attention, not least because of actress Bhatt’s popularity, plus its backing by the production company of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan.
Prior to release, the film also found itself in a media storm with with men’s rights activists accusing Darlings of promoting violence against men and calling Bhatt “the Indian Amber Heard” – a reference to the Hollywood actress who recently lost her domestic violence case against ex-husband Johnny Depp.
The BBC reports Save Indian Family Foundation, a men’s rights group, posting on social media that “thousands of male victims of domestic violence were traumatised after watching the trailer” and called for a boycott of Alia Bhatt and her films.
Director Reen told the BBC, “Domestic violence is not a gender thing, it happens to men too. It’s a very serious issue and we have looked at it with sensitivity and with empathy.”
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Ryan Giggs is potentially facing a possible retrial after a jury failed to reach verdicts in his domestic violence trial.The former Manchester United footballer had been on trial for four weeks but following more than 20 hours of deliberations, the jury of seven women and four men, having lost one juror to illness, failed to reach any verdicts. Lawyers will now have to consider the public interest of a retrial but any further trial would only take place many months from now. Giggs, 48, had denied controlling or coercive behaviour over a three-year period towards his ex-girlfriend Kate Greville, 38.
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's Yve and Mohamed are going their separate ways, after a cheating scandal and domestic violence allegations rocked their relationship.According to a police report obtained by , on August 15, Yve was charged with Battery and Assault Against a Household Member by the Albuquerque Police Department, stemming from an alleged altercation with her now-estranged husband. Yve's reps are denying all allegations of abuse, calling them «false» and made up by Mohamed in an effort stay in the U.S. and avoid deportation.«What Mohamed did is he created these false accusations so that just in case Yve wasn't going to stick around he would have a backup plan which was the U-Visa.
“The Gray Man.” Netflix will also be rolling out classic contemporary romantic comedies starring some of TV’s biggest names.As one of the greatest recent romantic comedies, “Bridget Jones’s Diary” is coming back to Netflix this month. Renée Zellweger’s Bridget Jones has become such an important fixture in popular culture as one of the many reinterpretations of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.” As the “imperfect” protagonist, Zellweger develops Bridget from the pages of Helen Fielding’s book onto the screen.
Matt Altman is speaking out following his wife’s arrest on felony domestic violence charges.
Matt Altman is breaking his silence after his wife Johanna was arrested for felony domestic violence.
Bad Sisters. But trust me, it’s not as malicious as it sounds because it’s entirely obvious the only way Eve could murder you is with a good time, fueled by Guinness…unlike her latest character, who would actually murder you. “The first episode is when you have to introduce the characters, introduce the world, and blah blah blah, but it gets so bonkers as it goes on. There were so many days where we were almost peeing our pants laughing,” she adds, speaking to me via Zoom from her New York abode.Bonkers is the tone of the day, in fact.
Matt Altman, a real estate agent on Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing, is speaking out after his wife was arrested and charged with domestic violence earlier this month.
star Matt Altman's wife, Johanna Altman, was arrested earlier this month and charged with felony domestic violence.The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department told ET on Wednesday that Johanna, 40, was arrested at 9:30 p.m. on Aug. 4.She posted bail, which was set at $50,000, and was released from LAPD Valley Jail in Van Nuys the following morning.
Million Dollar Listing: Los Angeles‘ Matt Altman‘s wife is facing some legal trouble.
Million Dollar Listing star Matt Altman’s wife, Johanna Altman, was arrested for felony domestic violence earlier this month. Specific details of the alleged incident were not made public.
By The British-Indian actor Alia Bhatt is . The 29-year-old comes from a family of filmmakers (her dad, the Hindi film director Mahesh Bhatt, gave her her first acting job at just 5 years old), and has starred in more than 25 films during her two decade-long career.But Bhatt is just getting started.Despite her extraordinary achievements, she’s still a bit lesser known in America.
K.J. Yossman Disney+ is giving fans a first look at upcoming U.K. original series “Wedding Season” in a new trailer.Not to be confused with the recent Netflix film, Disney+’s “Wedding Season” is a “genre busting” eight-part dark comedy that sees a bride’s new family poisoned on the night of her wedding.The Maze Runner franchise’s Rosa Salazar plays Katie, who meets Stefan (Gavin Drea of “Vikings: Valhalla”) at a wedding.
What happens when you cross Hitchcock with high school? When you mix budding friendships crossed with grand gestures of revenge? Well, you get Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s “Do Revenge” starring “Stranger Things” actress Maya Hawke and “Riverdale” star Camila Mendes. Robinson, along with co-writer Celeste Ballard, planned to make a thrilling high school comedy, taking inspiration from movies such as “10 Things I Hate About You” and “Jawbreaker.” READ MORE: ‘Someone Great’: Gina Rodriguez Shines Brighter Than Neon In The Hilarious Netflix Comedy That Is Doomed To Be Forgotten The American director is best known for movies such as co-writing the recent Marvel hit “Thor: Love and Thunder,” and the 2019 movie “Someone Great” starring Gina Rodriguez. “Do Revenge” will see popular sweetheart Drea (Camila Mendes), whose sex tape was leaked by her boyfriend, and transfer student Eleanor, who was outed in her last school, come together to deal with each other’s bullies and dish out some much-deserved revenge. Speaking to ELLE.com, Robinson said: “I think there are different points where everyone’s the villain, and everyone’s the hero in this story.
The trailer for Netflix‘s new “subverted Hitchcock-ian dark comedy” film, Do Revenge, has just debuted online.