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• People keen to see
• ANNE TO STAY SOBER FOR 18 YEARS
THE ACTOR DOES NOT WANT TO BE HUNGOVER WHEN HER SON NEEDS HER MOST
• No kidding Anne quits drinking for son Jonathan, turns 18.
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me fail: Kangana
Kangana Ranaut has battled her way —
facing sexism, harassment and heartbreaks
— to emerge as one of the most powerful • Mumbai is a city of
contemporary leading stars. Though she dreams, says Nawaz
delivered hits and cemented her position, Mumbai is a “city of dreams”
Kangana’s crashing of recent projects Simran that has helped several
and Rangoon were more talked about. “I do outsiders like him pen their
feel there are people waiting for me to fail,” success stories, believes Bol-
Kangana recently said. “That there are people lywood actor Nawazuddin
who are waiting to prove to themselves that Siddiqui. The actor, who has
she’s not a real deal, to make themselves feel done the pendulum shift from
better. My failure is important to them.” playing progressive Urdu
Kangana established herself by playing writer Saadat Hasan Manto
to enacting the role of Shiv
characters dealing with emotional turmoil in Sena founder Bal Thackeray,
her earlier films like Gangster, Woh Lamhe dismissed fears of belonging
and Fashion, before gaining stardom with to a Hindi speaking northern
Queen and subsequently headlining powerful state and living in Mumbai
women-oriented movies. The 31-year-old and said the city welcomed
actor, known to speak her mind, said while a everyone with open arms.
certain section will look at her in a particular “I think Mumbai is a place
light but her world view is extremely positive which has the maximum
number of outsiders. I am
and she wouldn’t change that. “Even though I also an outsider there. Lakhs
can realise or feel, I can never be like them or feel and thousands of people
through them. I understand their cynicism but I have realised their dreams
can never be them. Personally, I’ve never waited in that city... Whoever has
for anyone to fail. That’s why I think I could do come there from the outside
what I did in my life,” she added. “That inherent — someone is a superstar, a
positivity that I have in me. I praise everyone writer, a singer. They have
regardless of who they are or what they think become someone or the
other,” Nawazuddin said in an
of me is actually something I live by. I’m not a interview.
double-faced person.”
WE ALL HAVE
DEEPLY ENGRAVED
Hollywood star Anne Hathaway has
decided to quit alcohol for the next 18 NOTION OF SHAME’
years because she does not want to drink
around her two-year-old son Jonathan. The
36-year-old actor said she does not want to
be hungover when her son, whom she has
with husband Adam Shulman, needs her
during the morning school runs. The actor
and her husband welcomed Jonathan in
April 2016. The actress has revealed that she
quit drinking in October. Right before then,
she had been touring rum bars while visit-
ing Mauritius. Hathaway has decided she’ll
stay sober at least until her 2-year-old son, Swara Bhasker
(In an interview)
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