When the mood is dark, watching an inspiring and uplifting movie may help dispel the gloom. Deepa Gahlot picks 10 films hit the spot.
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10 Happy Movies You Must Watch
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Akshay Kumar is hopeful about Hera Pheri 3 amid Paresh Rawal`s exit
Bollywood actor Paresh Rawal shocked Bollywood and its fans after he announced his decision to quit Priyadarshan’s Hera Pheri 3. As much as his decision shocked fans, it was also heartbreaking news for his co-stars Akshay Kumar and Suniel Shetty. His exit was followed by a string of controversies. The matter even took a legal turn when Akshay Kumar`s company, Cape Of Good Cinema, reportedly sued Rawal for Rs 25 crore. And now, Akshay Kumar has broken his silence on the matter.
Akshay Kumar breaks silence
During a recent interview with Pinkvilla, Akshay was asked if there are any new and recent developments with regards to Hera Pheri 3. Akshay replied, “Whatever is happening is happening in front of you. Keeping my fingers crossed. I hope everything goes well.” He went on to reassure fans by saying, “Everything will go well only. I know, for sure.”
His voice says it all he`s genuinely looking so sad regarding whatever things happened with #HeraPheri3 recently but still he`s hopeful that everything will go well in the end. pic.twitter.com/Sx68jVJjG0
— Shivam (@KhiladiAKFan) June 17, 2025
Earlier, Paresh had told mid-day, “I know it came as a shock to many. We three make a great combination with Priyadarshanji directing us, but the fact is that I opted out because today I don’t feel like a part of it. It is final for the time being. I always say never say never for anything. One cannot predict what happens in the future.”
He added, “I love Priyadarshan and have great respect and faith in him as a director. We have done wonderful movies together in the past and will continue to do so. There were no creative differences, nor is there a possibility of having any with him. No amount of money compares to the love and respect of my audience. Right now, I just felt that it is a role I don’t want to do, that’s all.”
Akshay Kumar about making four films in a year
In the same interview, Akshay Kumar, also addressed the criticism against him for doing four films in a year. He stated that he doesn`t see any reason why he shouldn`t continue, adding that he genuinely enjoys playing diverse characters.
Akshay stated, “I like it. I enjoy playing different characters—and why not? Some people complain about me doing four films a year, but I don’t see the reason why I shouldn’t. If I`m getting work, I’m doing it. Some movies work, and some don’t. A person has to work and go to the office every day; he can’t just sit at home and say, `Ab main thoda ruk jaata hoon.` I want to work. Because I do 4 films, I want to play different characters, and it gives me a lot of happiness.”
“I want to get into and try and play those characters, to get to work with so many directors and tell stories that haven`t been told. I’m very happy I got to tell the story of C. Sankaran Nair. Before that, there were Sky Force, Sarfira, and many more films. I always try to get as close as possible,” he added.
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‘F1 the Movie’ Is a Perfect Brad Pitt Vehicle
There’s a sturdy formula at work in Joseph Kosinki’s hugely entertaining F1 The Movie, and it has nothing to do with the intricate Formula One racing regulations. The idea of the aging athlete, thief, or cowboy who has one last fill-in-the-blank left in him is at least as old as Sam Peckinpah’s magnificently bloody—and deeply moving—1969 western The Wild Bunch, and probably older. You can argue that there’s a double standard at work here: aging actresses usually get the far less glamorous, and far less proactive, fading starlet roles. Even so, there’s something touching about a storyline that involves an aging guy making one final, desperate grab for that big bank job, that high-stakes bounty, that shiny, emblematic trophy. Their egos are just as big as ever, but their bodies are failing them in ways they never could have imagined at age 20. These types of roles are great consolation prizes for male actors as they age out of straightforward leading-man roles; sometimes they represent an actor’s best work.
To paraphrase an old and outlandishly sexist women’s hair-color advertising slogan, Brad Pitt isn’t getting older; he’s getting better. In F1, he plays a scruffy, aging driver who trundles from town to town in a van kitted out with life’s essentials—a bunk, a small bookcase, a pull-up bar—answering the call whenever anyone needs some random Joe to man a fast car. This is no way to make a living. As we watch him prepare for the movie’s first race, a small-town affair where his takeaway amounts to just $5,000, he’s a crazy wildflower bouquet of jangled nerves: he does a few desperate last-minute pull-ups, dunks his face in a tiny basin of ice water, and superstitiously slips a playing card into the pocket of his jumpsuit. Then he jumps into a car’s cockpit, and wins. Pitt’s character is Sonny Hayes, a perfect movie name for an almost-has-been if ever there were one. He takes his tiny check and drives off into the sunset—or, rather, to the laundromat, where an old friend and colleague, Javier Bardem’s Ruben Cervantes, locates him after having searched for him for ages. Ruben tries to tempt Sonny into one last…well, you know.
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It turns out that Sonny was a racing phenomenon of the ’90s, a surefire champion, before flaming out in a crash that nearly killed him. In the years since, he’s just been a cool—yet stressed-out—guy tootling around anonymously from race to race. Sonny’s old racing teammate Ruben is now the owner of a failing F1 racing team, APXGP—Apex for short—and though Sonny at first resists his friend’s entreaties, he eventually succumbs, showing up for training in London wearing a rumpled shirt, with uncombed hair and a bag slung over his shoulder. In other words, he’s cooler than anyone—even if, under the surface, he’s also intensely stressed out. His future teammate, the rarin’-to-go hotshot Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris), is unimpressed by gramps. He later tells his mother this new guy he’s being forced to work with is “really old, like 80.”
These two are quite obviously going to clash, perhaps too many times. Kosinski recently directed another older-guy-gets-a-second-chance movie, 2022’s Top Gun: Maverick, and the script he’s working from here—which he cowrote with Ehren Kruger—keeps oldster Sonny and young punk Joshua sparring maybe a little too long. But all the intergenerational drama is really just an excuse for lots of fabulous driving. As an individual who has not been behind the wheel of a car since passing my driver’s test in 1986, I somehow adore racing movies. At one point during F1, as I watched Sonny navigate the twists and turns of a track the way a violinist sails through a tricky movement, I scrawled in my notebook, “It must feel like flying.” The metaphor is so stupidly obvious that it eventually becomes an F1 plot point, but no matter. The F1 Grands Prix races take place in glamorous locales around the world—Abu Dhabi, Monza, Las Vegas—and the organization allowed Kosinski and his cast and crew to film during the actual events, though only during downtime. That’s part of what makes F1 feel so vital, and so fun. Idris and Pitt do their own driving as well, hitting speeds of up to 180 m.p.h. (Pro drivers can go as fast as 220 m.p.h.) If they make race-car driving look incredibly cool and awesome, they also capture how emotionally stressful it must be. The crashes depicted in the movie are unnervingly realistic, multisensory symphonies of screeching tires and seemingly unquenchable flames. No wonder Pitt’s Sonny has so many superstitious rituals.
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F1 is a Jerry Bruckheimer production, with all the attendant glossy, noisy earmarks. (Though Bruckheimer is best known for producing action films like Con Air, Armageddon, and both Top Gun movies, it’s worth noting that his oeuvre also includes pictures like Paul Schrader’s Cat People, the political drama Veronica Guerin, and the soap-opera spoof Young Doctors in Love.) It also benefits from the involvement of people who know what they’re doing: F1 racing champ Lewis Hamilton was an adviser and producer, and he also makes a cameo. There’s also a fine array of actors here: Idris makes a fine cocky young upstart. As the first F1 woman tech director (sadly fictional), Kerry Condon is spikily charming. (She rides a bike to work—the team’s training HQ is in the English countryside—explaining, “My job is wind, so it helps to feel it.”)
But really, Pitt is the guy. His face has weatherbeaten savoir-faire; it’s a map of mistakes and regrets. F1 also does not skimp on the mystique of racers’ gear-and-stuff: the flameproof zip-up jumpsuits, the soft, flat-soled driving booties, the giant helmets that make their bodies look tiny, wiry, and sexy in comparison, Daft Punk-style. Racecar driving is alluring and glamorous, but Pitt’s Sonny shows us another side, too: how a dream can come close to sapping the life out of you. You really need him to win that one last race. How many times have we seen this storytelling convention, and why don’t we get sick of it? It all boils down to the actor, and how good he is at vibing with universal aging-guy feelings, including the realization that your grandest achievements may be behind you. Brad Pitt, at 61, has finally aged into roles like these. And sometimes, as F1 proves, they’re the best thing that can happen to a guy.
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Meet actress, who refused to work with Sushant Singh Rajput, called him ‘TV actor’, later she was cast opposite him in…
Parineeti Chopra refused to share screen space with Sushant Singh Rajput in the 2014 film Hasee Toh Phasee. Eventually, Sushant left the film to sign a 3-film deal with Yash Raj Films. In his first YRF film Shuddh Desi Romance, Parineeti was paired opposite Sushant.
Sushant Singh Rajput with Parineeti Chopra in Shuddh Desi Romance
Sushant Singh Rajput, who died by suicide at the age of just 34 years in 2020, made his memorable Bollywood debut in Abhishek Kapoor’s sports drama Kai Po Che, which also starred Rajkummar Rao and Amit Sadh in the leading roles. Though it is said that Sushant lost out on a few movie roles due to nepotism, many people don’t know the fact that the late actor himself left his second film and ditched the makers for a Yash Raj production. Sushant was set to play the male lead in Hasee Toh Phasee, but the film’s actress Parineeti Chopra called him “a TV actor” and refused to share screen space with him. When she told about him to Aditya Chopra, the producer made Rajput quit the 2014 film and sign a 3-film deal with Yash Raj Films.
Anurag Kashyap, who was one of the producers on Hasee Toh Phasee, revealed how Sushant betrayed them in an interview with the journalist Faye D’Souza in 2020. The Gangs of Wasseypur director said, “He was supposed to do the film (Hasee Toh Phasee) and we had to find an actress and we reached out to Parineeti Chopra. She said ‘I don’t want to work with a television actor’. So we explained to her that who Sushant Singh is, he is doing Kai Po Che, he is doing PK and by the time Hasee Toh Phasee comes out, he will not just be a television actor. And she was doing a film called Shuddh Desi Romance and she must have gone and spoken to YRF, they called him and said ‘Why don’t you come and do Shuddh Desi Romance and not do that film?’ And he disappeared on us.”
Evetually, Sidharth Malhotra replaced Sushant Singh Rajput in Hasee Toh Phasee. Both the films – Shuddh Desi Romance and Hasee Toh Phasee – went on to become commercial successes. Sushant’s second film with YRF was Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! in 2015, that earned a lot of critical acclaim but flopped at the box office. His third film with the production house, titled Paani, was shelved due to the creative differences between its director Shekhar Kapur and Aditya Chopra.
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Glen Powell’s Hulu Football Series ‘Chad Powers’: Everything to Know
Glen Powell as Chad Powers. YouTube/HuluGlen Powell is nearly unrecognizable in Hulu’s football comedy Chad Powers, which marks his return to the small screen.
The half-hour comedy, which stars Powell in the lead role, is inspired by Eli Manning’s 2022 ESPN+ docuseries Eli’s Places, where the former quarterback participated in Penn State’s walk-on football tryouts in disguise as a character named Chad Powers — complete with prosthetic makeup and a wig.
“We’re both diehard college football fans. When we saw Eli as Chad Powers, we knew that was the way into a big, fun story about this world,” Powell and cocreator Michael Waldron said in a February 2024 joint statement. “We’re excited to be part of this team, and can’t wait to get Chad in the game. Think fast, run fast.”
Eli, who serves as an executive producer on the project alongside brother Peyton Manning, previously praised Powell’s portrayal of Chad Powers.
“I thought he looked unbelievable. I mean, he looked terrible, which is hard for Glen to look really bad. He looked bad like I did!” Eli exclusively told Us Weekly in September 2024. “I’ve been talking to him, working with him a little bit in the offseason and to get him ready. And he’s fired up to play quarterback and to play Chad. He’s gonna do a great job. I can’t wait to see him in action.”
Eli admitted he wasn’t expecting his skit to turn into an entire show.
“Who would’ve ever known?” he noted. “I thought it was a funny idea: ‘Go and try out for a Penn State football team. Have a little fun.’ I hadn’t played football in a couple years, and so [I wanted to] see if I can still throw it and go back out there and compete. And now it’s turning into a show on Hulu. I mean, it’s unbelievable.”
Keep scrolling for everything to know about Chad Powers:
When Will ‘Chad Powers’ Premiere on Hulu?
The 10-episode season is set for release on September 30, 2025. Chad Powers marks Powell’s return to the small screen. He previously got his start playing Chad Radwell in Ryan Murphy’s Scream Queens before transitioning to film with Top Gun: Maverick, Hit Man, Anyone But You and Twisters.
2024 was the year of Glen Powell — period. Yes, Powell has been in Hollywood for years, but nothing solidifies heartthrob status for an actor quite like wearing a white T-shirt while it rains or shotgunning a beer on stage with Luke Combs (a special thank you to the summer blockbuster Twisters for allowing Us to have both iconic […]
What Is the Synopsis of ‘Chad Powers’?
According to the official logline, Chad Powers kicks off when “bad behavior nukes hotshot QB Russ Holliday’s (Powell) college career, he disguises himself and walks onto a struggling Southern football team as the talented, affable Chad Powers.”
How Involved Is Glen Powell Behind the Scenes?
Glen Powell YouTube/HuluPowell not only stars in the show but also cocreated and cowrote the show with Waldron. Powell, Waldron, Eli, Peyton and ESPN are also credited as executive producers on the project.
“The love for Chad Powers has surprised me in spectacular ways,” Eli told Variety in February 2024. “I played 16 years in the NFL, but now when I’m in a restaurant or walking through an airport, it’s not uncommon for fans to scream, ‘Hey Chad!’ I’m so excited to team up with my friends Glen Powell, Michael Waldron and Omaha Productions to continue to tell the Chad Powers story and see what he does next.”
Who Else Stars in ‘Chad Powers’?
Steve Zahn, Wynn Everett, Perry Mattfeld, Quentin Plair and Frankie A. Rodriguez make up the rest of the Chad Powers cast.
Zahn reflected on working with Powell in November 2024, telling Entertainment Tonight that it was “a blast.”
“Glen is amazing in it,” he told the outlet. “He has to sit and get prosthetics on for an hour and a half each morning.”
What Went Into Glen Powell’s Transformation?
Glen Powell as Chad Powers. YouTube/HuluIn December 2024, Hulu released a first look at the series where Powell transformed into Chad Powers complete with facial prosthetics. Powell previously said the role was “one of the hardest” he has ever attempted.
“He’s like, the worst dude on the planet who puts on the mask of the most genial Southern guy you’ve ever seen,” Powell, who played high school football in Texas, told The Hollywood Reporter in May 2024 before noting he consulted with former Top Gun: Maverick costar Tom Cruise about prosthetics and worked with Patrick Mahomes’ quarterback coach.
‘Chad Powers’ Trailer Shows Off Glen Powell’s Transformation
Hulu released a new teaser trailer for Chad Powers in June 2025, showcasing another look at the character’s transformation. In one scene, Powell is seen putting on a mask and face makeup to disguise himself before taking the field.
“Everyone says I’m done with football,” Powell’s character says in the trailer. “If I can’t play as Russ, I’ll play as someone else.”
The trailer also gave several glimpses of Powell on the field in his football uniform as both Russ and Chad. Fans are looking forward to seeing the actor take on the dual role.
“Glen Powell’s charisma will carry this for sure,” one person wrote via X after the latest trailer was released.
“This sounds like a hilarious twist on sports comedies. Can’t wait to see Glen Powell’s performance!” a second X user wrote.
“Glen is the new ‘it’ guy. He’s going places!” a third person commented.
