<ul><li><strong>Netflix's <keyword id="1272587" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sacred-Games">Sacred Games</keyword> Season 2 is nominated in the ‘Best Dramas’ series.</strong></li><li><strong>Another Netflix India show,<em> Lust Stories,</em> received a nomination for Best TV Show/Mini series. </strong></li><li><strong>Amazon Prime's The Remix is also nominated for the ‘Best Non-Scripted Entertainment Show’.</strong> </li></ul><br />Three Indian dramas -- Sacred Games Season 2, The Lust Stories and The Remix -- have received nomination for the International Emmy Awards 2019. <br /><br />Netflix's Sacred Games Season 2 -- starring Saif Ali Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Pankaj Tripathi, Surveen Chawla, Kalki Koechlin and Ranvir Shorey is nominated in the ‘Best Dramas’ series. <br /><br /><br />
	
	
	
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<br />"What a day. 3 Emmy Nominations . 1 lust stories (best miniseries) 2.Sacred Games (best Drama) 3. Radhika Apte(best actress-Lust Stories),wrote Anurag Kashyap on Instagram. <br /><br />Another Netflix India show,<em> Lust Stories,</em> received a nomination for Best TV Show/Mini series. Lust Stories is a collection of four short stories by Anurag Kashyap, Karan Johar, <keyword id="36968" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Zoya-Akhtar">Zoya Akhtar</keyword>, Dibakar Banerjee, showing the different perspectives women have towards their troubled sex life. <br /><br />Emmy International 2019 has also nominated bollywood star Radhika Apte for ‘Best Performance by an Actress’ for her role in Lust Stories. <br /><br />Amazon Prime's The Remix is also nominated for the ‘Best Non-Scripted Entertainment Show’. <br /><br />There are 44 Nominees across 11 categories and 21 countries. Winners will be announced at a black-tie ceremony on November 25, 2019 at the Hilton New York Hotel, read the official Emmy website. <br />

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<img class="gwt-Image" src="/photo/49013572.cms" /><br /> It is said that acting can’t be learned, and rightly so, because if it could be, that would be the only degree that one would ever require to make a living. However, acting is a natural talent which can only be polished under supervision, which is why we see people from all sections of the society entering <keyword id="143" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Bollywood">Bollywood</keyword> after acting courses or theatre experiences.<br />
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While nepotism is highly prevalent in the Hindi film industry, because of which we see many star kids not getting college degrees and entering Bollywood, there are people who believed in earning a degree before entering Bollywood, keeping a door open in case luck doesn’t favour them in this very unpredictable glamour world.<br />
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Given are the names of some of the most qualified Bollywood celebrities, including engineers, MBAs and investment bankers, who could have given anyone corporate leader a run for their money had they decided to enter the corporate world.<br />


These Bollywood Celebrities are qualified engineers, MBAs and investment bankers!

The nominations for the 23rd edition of the International Indian Film Academy and Awards, popularly known as IIFA, were announced on Monday. 'Brahmastra Part One: <keyword id="33379" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="shiva" source="Orion">Shiva</keyword>', 'Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2', 'Darlings' and are leading the pack with ten, five and five nominations, respectively.<br /><br />'Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2', 'Darlings', 'Drishyam 2', '<keyword id="8223714" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="gangubai-kathiawadi" source="Orion">Gangubai Kathiawadi</keyword>' and 'Vikram Vedha' have made it to the nomination list of the Best Picture category.<br /><br />Top picks for the Direction category are 'Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2', 'Brahmastra Part One: Shiva', 'Darlings', 'Gangubai Kathiawadi', 'Monica O My Darling' and 'Rocketry: The Nambi Effect'.<br /><br />The nominees for Performance in a Leading Role (Female) are Yami Gautam Dhar for 'A Thursday', Tabu for 'Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2', Alia Bhatt for 'Darlings', Shefali Shah again for 'Darlings' and Alia Bhatt for 'Gangubai Kathiawadi'.<br /><br />Kartik Aaryan ('Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2'), Abhishek Bachchan ('Dasvi'), Ajay Devgn ('Drishyam 2'), Rajkummar Rao ('Monica O My Darling'), Anupam Kher ('The Kashmir Files') and Hrithik Roshan ('Vikram Vedha') are the nominees for Performance in a Leading Role (Male).<br /><br />The nominees for Performance in a Supporting Role (Female) are Sheeba Chadha ('Badhaai Do'), Mouni Roy ('Brahmastra Part One: Shiva'), Nimrat Kaur ('Dasvi'), Tabu ('Drishyam 2') and <keyword id="133292" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="radhika-apte" source="Orion">Radhika Apte</keyword> ('Monica O My Darling').<br /><br />For the Performance in a Supporting Role (Male) category the nominees are Abhishek Banerjee for 'Bhediya', Shah Rukh Khan for 'Brahmastra Part One: Shiva', Vijay Raaz for 'Gangubai Kathiawadi', Anil Kapoor for '<keyword id="10488529" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="jugjugg-jeeyo" source="Orion">Jugjugg Jeeyo</keyword>' and Sikander Kher for 'Monica O My Darling'.<br /><br />Pritam ('Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2' and 'Brahmastra Part One: Shiva'), Sanjay Leela Bhansali ('Gangubai Kathiawadi'), Oaff and Savera ('Gehraiyaan'), Tanishk Bagchi, Pozy ('Niranjan Dhar'), Kanishk Seth and Vishal Shelke ('Jugjugg Jeeyo') have bagged the nominations for Music Direction.<br /><br />Jonita Gandhi for the song 'Deva Deva' ('Brahmastra Part One: Shiva'), Shreya Ghoshal for 'Rasiya' ('Brahmastra Part One: Shiva') 'Jab Saiyaan' (Gangubai Kathiawadi), Lothika for 'Doobey' ('Gehraiyaan') and Kavita Seth for 'Rangi Sari' - traditional/folk song ('Jugjugg Jeeyo') are in the race for Playback Singer (Female) category.<br /><br />The nominees for Playback Singer (Male) are Arijit Singh for 'Kesariya' and 'Deva Deva' ('Brahmastra Part One: Shiva'), Mohit Chauhan for 'Gehraiyaan' (reprise), Kanishk Seth for 'Rangi Sari' - traditional/folk song ('Jugjugg Jeeyo') and Aditya Rao for 'Behney Do' ('Rocketry: The Nambi Effect')<br /><br />Furthermore, the nominees for Best Story (Original) are Akshat Ghildial and Suman Adhikary for 'Badhaai Do', Ayan Mukherji for 'Brahmastra Part One: Shiva', R. Balki for 'Chup', Jasmeet K. Reen and Parveez Shaikh for 'Darlings' and Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri for 'The Kashmir Files'.<br /><br />The nominees for Best Story (Adapted) are Aamil Keeyan Khan and Abhishek Pathak for 'Drishyam 2', S.Hussain Zaidi and Jane Borges for 'Gangubai Kathiawadi', <keyword id="4186994" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="yogesh-chandekar" source="Orion">Yogesh Chandekar</keyword> for 'Monica O My Darling', R.Madhavan for 'Rocketry: The Nambi Effect' and Pushkar-Gayatri and BA Fida for 'Vikram Vedha'.<br /><br />The nominees for Lyrics are Varun Grover for the song 'Atak Gaya Hai' ('Badhaai Do'), Amitabh Bhattacharya for the song 'Kesariya' ('Brahmastra Part One: Shiva'), A.M. Turaz for the song 'Jab Saiyaan' ('Gangubai Kathiawadi'), Ankur Tewari for the song 'Gehraiyaan' ('Gehraiyaan') and Raj Shekhar for the song 'Behney Do' ('Rocketry: The Nambi Effect').<br /><br />Global voting will go live on Tuesday, December 27, 2022. The 23rd edition of IIFA will be held at Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, on February 9, 10 and 11, 2023.<br /><br /><b>SEE ALSO:<br /></b><a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/entertainment/news/what-india-watched-on-netflix-in-2022-korean-dramas-rrr-alia-bhatt-movies-in-the-list/slidelist/96455203.cms"><strong>Korean dramas, RRR, Alia Bhatt &amp; more - These kept India hooked to Netflix in 2022</strong></a><b><u><strong><br /></strong></u></b><a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/entertainment/news/first-time-on-screen-pairings-in-2023-in-bollywood/articleshow/96447413.cms"><strong>From SRK-Taapsee to Ayushmann-Ananya: First time on-screen Bollywood pairings in 2023</strong></a><b><br /></b>

'Brahmastra', 'Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2', 'Darlings' lead in IIFA nominations

<keyword id="11032237" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="thrasio" source="Orion">Thrasio</keyword> Holdings Inc, an aggregator of private brands on <keyword id="18635" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Amazon" source="Orion">Amazon</keyword>, on Friday said it will invest Rs 3,750 crore (nearly $500 million) to acquire leading digital-first brands in India.<br /><br />Thrasio started its Indian innings with acquiring Lifelong Online, a leading domestic online consumer brand, for an undisclosed sum.<br /><br />India is one of the fastest-growing regions for Amazon's third-party marketplace, making it enticing for aggregators.<br /><br />"We couldn't be more excited to work with Lifelong Online and, together, take our proven model to India," said Carlos Cashman, CEO of Thrasio.<br /><br />"In addition to acquiring and growing digital-first businesses, we plan to participate in the 'make in India' movement by transitioning the manufacturing for some of our products to the country," Cashman said.<br /><br />Thrasio has acquired more than 200 brands and raised more than $3.4 billion in funding.<br /><br />Lifelong will now be known as "Lifelong, a Thrasio company" and will be well-positioned to engage with India's more than 750,000 sellers.<br /><br />"We are building a technology-first, next-generation consumer goods company," explained Bharat Kalia, CEO of Lifelong Online.<br /><br />Lifelong Online was founded by Atul Raheja, Varun Grover, and Kalia in 2015.<br /><br />"With lucrative exit options for founders, we hope to encourage even more brands and sellers to join the D2C ecosystem in India," he added.<br /><br />According to the most-recent list from Marketplace Pulse, adding all of the Thrasio brands together, Thrasio would be a top-5 seller on Amazon's marketplace.<br /><br />In fact, Thrasio estimates that 1 in 6 US households has already purchased a Thrasio product via Amazon alone.<br /><br />"India is a unique market with hundreds of thousands of motivated entrepreneurs," said Cashman.<br /><br />Founded in 2018 by Joshua Silberstein and Cashman, Thrasio has a portfolio of tens of thousands of products.<br /><br />"We are thrilled to provide brand owners with the opportunity to successfully sell their businesses as well as to give consumers greater access to quality products. This is a major step in our evolution and a huge opportunity for India's sellers," said Cashman.<br /><br /><strong>SEE ALSO<br /></strong><a class="tout-title-link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/reliance-industries-hdfc-bank-mindtree-vodafone-idea-and-other-hot-stocks-on-january-14/slidelist/88888740.cms">Reliance Industries, HDFC Bank, Mindtree, Vodafone Idea and other hot stocks on January 14</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/world/news/russia-warns-it-will-sever-ties-with-the-us-if-it-sanctions-putin-over-ukraine-crisis/articleshow/88884832.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Russia warns it will sever ties with the US if it sanctions Putin over Ukraine crisis</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/health/news/yes-cats-can-get-covid-19-but-theyre-unlikely-to-become-seriously-ill/articleshow/88887140.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Yes, cats can get COVID-19, but they're unlikely to become seriously ill</a><br />

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Mumbai, Jul 15 () Stand-up comedians Aadar Malik, Sahil Shah and Azeem Banatwalla are the latest names to apologise for their years old and "out-of-context" videos and social media posts that have resurfaced online. <p>The comedians said they were sorry if they had offended or hurt anyone's religious sentiments and also requested that their families be spared of online vitriol. </p><p>The development came days after several comics such as Vir Das, Rohan Joshi and Kaneez Surka alleged that their personal contact information and addresses were leaked online, which led to vicious trolling. </p><p>Earlier this week, Twitter users dug out screenshots of jokes of some comics, including Varun Grover, Aditi Mittal, Abish Mathew, which they had cracked in the past. </p><p>These users claim that comedians used Hindu gods in their joke punchlines and started trending #HinduphobicComedyIndustry. </p><p>On Tuesday, private contact details of these comics were shared from an anonymous Twitter account. The account was later suspended. </p><p>Joshi claimed that his family was being targeted with hate messages and announced a hiatus from social media. </p><p>On Tuesday, Malik took to Twitter to apologise for hurting religious sentiments. </p><p>"Some clips of my videos are being shared on social media. I'm really sorry if I've hurt anyone's religious sentiments or if anyone has got offended by these videos. These are eight-year-old videos, and they have been taken out of context and time," he said in the video. </p><p>The comic also claimed that he is getting a lot of hate messages and threats to his family on social media, and requested trolls to take a step back. </p><p>"It becomes a very scary atmosphere to live in. As comedians, we just want to make people laugh... </p><p>"We were learning comedy at that time, trying out new jokes. If I've hurt or offended anybody, I apologise again... Over time, we have matured, become better and have changed. This won't happen again," he said. </p><p>Shah, a member of the East India Comedy (EIC) group, said he was apologetic for cracking a joke on Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj all those years ago. </p><p>The comic said he understood the anger behind his old joke and he has deleted the said video. </p><p>"I should not have cracked a joke on Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj at all. Once again, I'm very sorry. I have deleted that video. Henceforth, whatever comedy I do, I'll do it thoughtfully and responsibly," he added. </p><p>While apologising "unreservedly", Banatwalla said he had temporarily suspended his Twitter account as people had been pouring in the "vilest of Islamophobic abuse to me". </p><p>"It has come to my attention that many people have been upset and offended by tweets I have made many years ago. For that I would like to apologise unreservedly. Many of these were before I even starting doing comedy, but that does not excuse the fact that they were not acceptable," he said. </p><p>"I am willing to accept my mistakes and grow as a person, and I sincerely hope these people can find it within themselves to do the same," the EIC member tweeted. </p><p>Last week, a female stand-up comic was subjected to online rape threats and abuses after a year-old video of her allegedly cracking a joke on Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's statue surfaced. </p><p>She later took down the video and apologised on social media. </p><p>The National Commission for Women (NCW) on Sunday sought immediate action from Gujarat Police against one Shubham Mishra for allegedly hurling abuses and giving rape threats to the said comedian on social media. </p><p>Vadodara Police had arrested Mishra on Sunday for the alleged video. </p>Mumbai Police's Cyber Branch, too, took suo motu cognisance of another alleged threatening video against the comedian and arrested Imtiyaz Sheikh, who used the profile 'Umesh Dada' on YouTube, on Monday. RDS BK RDS RDS

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