Your background doesn’t matter, it is who you become: Nandini

Anurag Thakur

ranging consultations were held with stakeholders on the Bill.

“This Bill will live up to the expectations of the industry.... This Bill is going to satisfy each and every one without any controversy,” the minister said.

He said there were demands from various stakeholders to take action to curb piracy, on age-based film classification and certain redundant provisions in the existing Act.

A Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill was introduced in the Rajya Sabha in 2019 and the new draft was based on consultations with the film industry and also incorporates the best practices from across the world, he said. Thakur refrained from sharing more details of the Bill and said its provisions would become clear once the draft legislation is introduced in Parliament.

Last week, Information and Broadcasting Secretary Apurva Chandra, at an event in Mumbai, had said that provisions regarding transmission of film content on the internet were being added in the Bill.

“If that happens, it will go a long way in protecting copyright and we will be able to block those websites where pirated content is transmitted. But let’s see how it goes in Parliament and how it proceeds,” Chandra had said. (PTI)

As the daughter of a farmer and a homemaker, Miss India World 2023 Nandini Gupta says she never let her background come in the way of her childhood dream of participating in a beauty pageant.

Gupta, 19, was announced the winner on Saturday night in Imphal, Manipur, where she beat out competition from 29 other contestants.

The newly-crowned Miss India World said she lived a simple life in Kota, Rajasthan, before moving to Mumbai to study business management at Lala Lajpatrai College. In Mumbai, the former Miss Rajasthan started preparing for the Miss India World pageant alongside her studies.

“My father is a farmer, my mother is a homemaker and she helps him too. Your background doesn’t matter, it is who you become. No matter where you come from, life is a journey... That’s why I pol-

Harry Styles, Kate Bush among nominees for Ivor songwriting awards

Singers Harry Styles and Kate Bush are among the nominees at next month’s Ivors, the annual awards honouring songwriters and screen composers.

Kate Bush is being recognised for her 1985 song “Running Up That Hill” which enjoyed a resurgence in popularity last year thanks to Netflix show “Stranger Things”, the UK-based Ivors Academy said on Tuesday evening.

The track will compete against Styles’ mega hit “As It Was” in the most performed work category, which also includes Glass Animals’ “Heat Waves” and two songs by hitmaker Ed Sheeran, “Shivers” and “Bad Habits”.

Sheeran won the category last year with “Bad Habits” and it is the first time the same song has been nominated for the award two years running.

Styles has three nominations overall, including best song musically and lyrically for “As It

Was” and songwriter of the year alongside his collaborator Kid Harpoon.

That category also includes singer Florence Welch, Wet Leg duo Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers, George Daniel and Matty Healy of pop rock group

The 1975 and rapper Central Cee with collaborator Young Chencs.

Album of the year contenders include rock group Arctic Monkeys’ “The Car”, Irish postpunk band Fontaines D.C.’s “Skinty Fia” and Nigerian-born artist Obongjayar’s “Some Nights I Dream of Doors”.

Rapper Little Simz’s album “No Thank You” and music collective Sault’s “11” are also nomi- nated, both with credits for singer-songwriter Cleo Sol and producer Dean “Inflo” Josiah Cover. The duo have three nominations overall. Tom Odell’s “Best Day of My Life”, Katie Gregson-Macleod’s “complex”, Sault’s “Stronger” and Florence + the Machine’s “King” complete the Best Song Musically and Lyrically category.

“The music nominated for an Ivor Novello this year is testament to the power and range of British and Irish songwriting and screen composing,” Tom Gray, chair of The Ivors Academy, said in a statement. “It’s a superlative list.” Box office hit “Avatar: The Way of Water” and psychological drama “Don’t Worry Darling” are among the nominees for best original film score.

Named after the early 20th century Welsh composer, actor and entertainer Ivor Novello, the Ivor Awards were first handed out in 1956. This year’s awards take place on May 18 in London. (Reuters) ished myself in such a way that it made me determined and ambitious,” she told PTI in an interview post her win.

Gupta remembers being mesmerised by former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan while watching “Devdas” at a young age.

That was the beginning of the dream to win a beauty pageant, she said, crediting her mother for inspiring her at the age of 10.

“The crown attracted me. When I saw it in a newspaper, I was like, ‘How do we get this?’ My mother was watching ‘Devdas’ on DVD, I was mesmerised looking at

FIR against actor Sahil Khan for threatening woman at Mumbai gym

The Mumbai Police have registered an FIR against Bollywood actor Sahil Khan and a woman for allegedly threatening a 43-year-old gym-goer and uploading her defamatory posts on social media, an official said on Wednesday.

According to the complainant, a resident of suburban Oshiwara, she had a quarrel with a woman at a gym over money in February 2023. The accused woman and the actor abused the complainant and threatened her, the official said. The accused duo also uploaded defamatory posts on social media against the complainant and her family members, he said quoting the First Information Report (FIR) registered on Tuesday.

A case was registered under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for defamation, threat, and a bid to insult the modesty of a woman at Oshiwara police station.

The official said the accused woman had an affair with the husband of the complainant and had lodged a case against him at a police station. Khan has acted in movies including Style, Xcuse Me, Aladin and Ramaa: The Saviour. (PTI)