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What to know about the so-called Tom Cruise of Bollywood's sordid legal history

The court also fined him 10,000 rupees, or $154.

NEW DELHI -- He's known as the Tom Cruise of Bollywood, with millions of dollars riding on his films and, now, he's been sentenced to five years in jail. Salman Khan was convicted on Thursday for allegedly killing an antelope.

Khan, one of India ’s biggest movie stars, was found guilty by a court in the Western Indian state of Rajasthan, for shooting a blackbuck -- an endangered Indian antelope -- 19 years ago.

The actor allegedly killed two blackbucks, while shooting the 1998 film "Hum Saath Saath Hain." Four other co-stars, who were also charged with the offense, have been acquitted.

"The way the accused killed two innocent black bucks in violation of the wildlife laws... he is a film star, people emulate him... there has been a rise in poaching incidents, so leniency is not justified," said Chief Judicial Magistrate Dev Kumar Khatri, while delivering the judgment.

The 52-year-old is one of Bollywood’s biggest celebrities, starring in hundreds of films, and he has a massive fanbase. He's been in legal trouble in the past but has so far skirted punishment. Here's a look at the infamous Bollywood bad boy's past legal woes.

Hit and run

In 2015, Khan was cleared in a 2002 hit-and-run case in which his Toyota Land Cruiser had crashed into men sleeping on the pavement in Mumbai, killing one and injuring four others.

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During his trial, Khan argued that his driver had been behind the wheel, though the judge concluded it was Khan who had been driving under the influence of alcohol.

Later, the court acquitted him. It said that the key evidence, which included testimony from a police officer who had died, was not reliable.

Last year, another court in Rajasthan acquitted him in a separate poaching case. It ruled that there was no proof that Khan had killed an endangered deer.

What's next

Khan's lawyer, Anand Desai, said in a statement Thursday that he respects the decision of the honorable court.

As per law, Khan's entitled to approach a higher court with the bail petition, which will allow him to be out on bail, after getting a physical copy of the judgment. The court will then decide on a date to hear the bail petition.

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Tom Cruise visits India's iconic Taj Mahal

Hollywood star Tom Cruise says his visit to India this week follows a lifelong desire to see the country.

He said while touring the iconic, white-marble Taj Mahal mausoleum in Agra that he is "very excited" about being in the country for a fan screening of his latest action-thriller, "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol," days ahead of its world premiere on Wednesday.

Cruise joins Bollywood star Anil Kapoor for the red-carpet screening Sunday in Mumbai. The film sees Cruise reprise his role as secret agent Ethan Hunt, while Kapoor plays an Indian business tycoon.

Cruise told Press Trust of India on Saturday, "I wanted to come to India my whole life, so I am very excited."

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Tom cruise speaks hindi in a viral interview clip promoting ‘mission: impossible - dead reckoning part one’, winning the hearts of indian fans..

Tom Cruise rode a bike off a cliff, fought on a moving train, hung from a plane and now, the Hollywood superstar has proved he can speak in Hindi as well.

In an interview with Canadian news outlet ETalk, the 61-year-old actor was praised by the journalist for fluency in various languages in his movies, especially the "Mission: Impossible" franchise.

"Is there anything you cannot do? Is he going to speak in Hindi with me?" asked the Indian-origin journalist.

Cruise was more than willing to test his Hindi speaking skills as he said, "If you want me to speak in Hindi with you, I will. Let's try it."

The journalist then asked The Last Samurai actor to say, "Namaste. Aap kaise hain?' (Namaste, How are you?)".

Much to the fans' delight, Cruise aced the pronunciation in first attempt as he repeated the sentence with folded hands.

The clip from the interview, which was part of the promotional campaign for "Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One", has gone viral on social media.

Several Indian fans found Cruise's accent "cute".

"He is so cute while speaking ‘namaste aap kaise ho’ & Is there anything he can't do," a user said on Twitter.

"Tom Cruise wins the hearts of all Indians with his Hindi. His humility is on another level. God Bless him," another user said.

"Wow.... He spoke Hindi very well," read a post.

Another fan wrote, "He said Namaste on his own, shows how aware he is of India and Indian fans."

"Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One", directed by Christopher McQuarrie, is the seventh instalment of Cruise's long-running spy franchise "Mission: Impossible".

The movie also features Hayley Atwell, Pom Klementieff, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby and Henry Czerny.

Presented by Paramount Pictures and Skydance, the film will be released in theatres in India on July 12.

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The need for speed: why China and India are fast-tracking their own Top Gun remakes

State of the art tech, exciting action sequences, swaggering young heroes … it’s no surprise that the world’s new superpowers have fallen for blockbuster air force films. But can they be anything more than military propaganda?

I n an era of rising global tension, there are a few status symbols the self-respecting global superpower can’t do without. Nuclear weapons? Sure. A space programme? Natch. But the latest geopolitical must-have is superficially more niche: a supersonic, hyper-nationalistic blockbuster air force film. There wasn’t a soul on the planet who failed to notice the media sonic boom as Tom Cruise passed overhead with Top Gun: Maverick in May 2022, while its Chinese counterpart Born to Fly came out a year later. And this month India gets in on the game with its own flyboy extravaganza Fighter, starring Hrithik Roshan, whose quiff alone qualifies as some kind of national monument.

In the surest sign of its geopolitical decline, Russia has yet to make one. But China and India are on the up, propelled by rulers with autocratic bents who want the full soft-power furnishings. The US went through a similar jingoistic spurt in the 1980s, wallpapered by a set of militaristic movie hits: the original Top Gun , the second and third Rambo films, Commando, Red Dawn and more. China has been flexing its cinematic muscles for a decade now, with actioners such as the Wolf Warrior franchise and Operation Red Sea, not to mention a raft of historic films with patriotic overtones. Narendra Modi’s India has been less able to manhandle its film industry into line, with sporadic bellicose output like the Pakistan-cuffing Baaghi 2 and Uri: The Surgical Strike. But Fighter, released for the country’s 75th Republic Day and featuring Roshan emerging from a chopper with a billowing Tiraṅgā, as the Indian tricolour is known, in tow, suggest pressure may be mounting.

The air force flick remains the ne plus ultra of military film-making; pure cinematic surface, those gleaming Ray-Bans and pristine contrails breezily aestheticising the modern superpower’s elite capability. It’s not hard to see why China and India want a Top Gun: at the same time as being 1986’s top-grossing film and launching Cruise as an American icon, the movie also functioned as soft-power projection of hard power, and recruiting advert for the US military to boot. Shot by ad man Tony Scott with the swaggering back-lit glamour of a sportscast, it made warfare look like a blast. Intentionally so: the script was approved by the Department of Defense, in return for access to the military equipment and locations without which the film couldn’t have been made. A single F-14 fighter, the plane flown by Maverick, was worth $38m – more than twice the film’s entire budget. Top Gun is – to put it straight – propaganda.

With Born to Fly, China found that pulling the same stunt isn’t so easy. Focusing, like Top Gun, on a group of trainee pilots, the mission objective is chiding the unspecified foreign powers displaying a lamentably casual attitude to Chinese airspace, such as the two interlopers who declare, with American accents, in the intro: “We can come and go whenever we want.” It is also there to put the country’s J-20 stealth fighter in the shop window. Director Liu Xiaoshi was a company man, having made films for the Aviation Industry Corporation of China for 15 years. But it seems that in the wake of Top Gun: Maverick’s mammoth $1.5bn run (none of which was earned in China, where the film was never cleared for release), Beijing got cold feet about engaging with the enemy. Born to Fly was pulled from release in 2022, just prior to the country’s National Day on 1 October, supposedly in order to overhaul its sub-par special effects. The film belatedly came out last year to earn $117.3m; peanuts compared to the Wolf Warriors’ huge grosses.

But the real inferiority is in the cockpit, with the film’s human element. Compared to Top Gun’s Maverick, with his inverted, middle-finger diplomacy, its protagonist Lei Yu (played by boy band singer Wang Yibo) is hopelessly bland. Top Gun operated under a form of opt-in censorship, with Hollywood trading script approval for kit; Chinese directors are subject to the compulsory kind, with every script vetted. And in Born to Fly, it shows in the neutered portrayal. There’s no question of fraternisation between soldiers on any level, let alone the kind of blazing gay subtext leapt on by Quentin Tarantino. Job thrills in the Chinese air force apparently consist of occasional dumpling nights with your superiors, a strange obsession with the intricacies of parachute-folding, and the masochistic ethos – with an emphasis on suffering for the collective good – that features in all Chinese state-sponsored military films.

Hopefully, Fighter will be more fun and at least bring in some Bollywood bombast. Unsurprisingly, it has been produced in co-operation with the Indian armed forces, filming partly at the air force academy in the southern Indian city of Dundigal. So it probably won’t be some hard-hitting exposé of military inculcation methods, with Roshan not quite having the superstar immunity that has allowed the actor Shah Rukh Khan to make statements in his films that cut across the grain of pro-Hindi nationalism. The title of his recent patriotic covert-forces hit, Pathaan, is the Hindi word for the Afghan Pashto ethnic group, which provides his character’s origin story; a pluralistic twist on the Jai Hind blockbuster.

Fighter, like its gung-ho 1980s American models, may lack this kind of subversive intent. But that doesn’t mean it won’t employ any guile whatsoever – if it has learned its lessons well. This is the great tactical advantage of the US soft-power model: wrapping propaganda in fluent entertainment. However proselytising Top Gun may be, it is simultaneously massive fun, sweating out attitude and sexual tension – at two ends of the spectrum, apparently – from every pore. And the franchise is emotionally adept too: the sequel manages to turn the “talking points” apparently stipulated by the military into a resonant contemporary story about waning US influence, via our nostalgia for the cocksure Maverick.

Both films have a studied neutrality, taking place largely in training academies, and their vaguely outlined climactic confrontations happening in international waters and an unnamed Middle Eastern country respectively. Hollywood stays a safe distance from real-world precision, all the better to maximise its global box office appeal. But propagandist intent is behind all these careful script decisions, the guiding hand of hard power at the heart of Hollywood coordinated by one nondescript military liaison office on Wilshire Boulevard.

Call it stealth propaganda: when audiences swallow the politics – or at least object less to them – because they are cloaked. China and India can feel the need for speed all they like, but they won’t be packing the same box-office firepower unless they learn to go in under the radar.

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Tom Cruise goes to Indian restaurant and orders chicken tikka masala twice

Bollywood stars have enjoyed Indian food at Asha's over the years, including Anil Kapoor, Shahrukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra and Amitabh Bachchan. Chef Heston Blumenthal and boxer Amir Khan have also visited the restaurant, where the chicken tikka masala sets you back £19.45 (for one).

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Monday 23 August 2021 14:40, UK

Tom Cruise took a break from filming Mission: Impossible at the weekend and visited an Indian restaurant where he enjoyed the chicken tikka masala so much he ordered it twice.

The restaurant, Asha's, posted a picture of Cruise, 59, outside its Birmingham branch and said it was "an absolute pleasure to welcome Tom Cruise".

"Tom ordered our famous chicken tikka masala and enjoyed it so much that as soon as he finished, he ordered it all over again - the greatest compliment," the restaurant said.

It was an absolute pleasure to welcome Tom Cruise to Asha's Birmingham yesterday evening 🌟 Tom ordered our famous Chicken Tikka Masala and enjoyed it so much that as soon as he had finished, he ordered it all over again - The greatest compliment 😋 pic.twitter.com/gemd7QJUEg — Asha's (@Ashas_UK) August 22, 2021

Cruise has been seen in several different British spots this year, including Warner Bros Studios Leavesden in Hertfordshire, as well as North Yorkshire, filming the seventh instalment of the Mission: Impossible franchise.

Last week, an audacious stunt from the set in Derbyshire was captured, featuring a train plunging into a quarry .

Cruise has also enjoyed himself at Wimbledon, the Euros and at Silverstone for the Formula One this summer.

But he wasn't the first famous diner at Asha's.

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Bollywood stars have travelled far and wide to experience the food at Asha's over the years, including Anil Kapoor, Shahrukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra and Amitabh Bachchan.

Chef Heston Blumenthal and boxer Amir Khan have also visited the restaurant, where the chicken tikka masala sets you back £19.45 (for one).

The new Mission: Impossible film is expected to be released in 2022 and stars Vanessa Kirby and Simon Pegg.

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Top Gun: Maverick India OTT Premiere: Tom Cruise-Starrer to Release on Prime Video on December 26

Top gun: maverick will be available in english, hindi, tamil, telugu, kannada, and malayalam on the platform..

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Top Gun: Maverick was first released in cinemas on May 27 this year

• Top Gun: Maverick is touted as the highest-grossing film of 2022
• It is directed by Joseph Kosinski
• The film was earlier available to purchase or rent online on Prime Video

Top Gun: Maverick, starring Tom Cruise, will start streaming in India on Prime Video from December 26. The Paramount Pictures film, which is the sequel to Cruise's 1986 classic hit Top Gun, will be available in India in English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam on the platform.

Prime Video shared the release date for Top Gun: Maverick announcement on its official Twitter page Friday.

"All set to take-off on a new adventure and a nostalgia ride like never before. #TopGunMaverickOnPrime, Dec 26," the streamer said in the tweet.

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all set to take-off on a new adventure and a nostalgia ride like never before #TopGunMaverickOnPrime , Dec 26 pic.twitter.com/39V5wUxXBt — prime video IN (@PrimeVideoIN) December 16, 2022

The action spectacle is set over 30 years after the events of Tony Scott-directed Top Gun and sees Maverick training a group of Top Gun graduates for a specialised mission.

The follow-up features Cruise reprising his role as US Naval aviator Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell along with Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Charles Parnell, Bashir Salahuddin, Monica Barbaro, Jay Ellis, Danny Ramirez, Greg Tarzan Davis with Ed Harris and Val Kilmer.

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Directed by Joseph Kosinski, Top Gun: Maverick is touted as the highest-grossing film of 2022, grossing reported earnings of $1.488 billion (roughly Rs. 12,500 crore) worldwide. In terms of box-office collections, it was reported to be the 12th biggest movie of all times. It also received numerous accolades, including nominations for the Golden Globe Award for best motion picture — drama and the Critics' Choice Movie Award for best picture.

The film was previously available to purchase or rent online on Amazon's Prime Video. Top Gun: Maverick first released in cinemas on May 27 this year.

Top Gun: Maverick

• Release Date 27 May 2022
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• Genre Action, Drama
• Cast Tom Cruise, Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller, Jon Hamm, Val Kilmer, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris
• Director Joseph Kosinski
• Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison

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Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick to release on Amazon Prime Video on this date

Top gun: maverick is set over 30 years after the events of tony scott-directed top gun and sees maverick training a group of top gun graduates for a specialised mission..

Top Gun: Maverick , starring Tom Cruise, will start streaming in India on Amazon Prime Video from December 26. The Paramount Pictures film, which is the sequel to Cruise’s 1986 classic hit Top Gun, will be available in English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam on the platform.

Prime Video shared the release date announcement on its official Twitter page Friday. “All set to take-off on a new adventure and a nostalgia ride like never before. #TopGunMaverickOnPrime, Dec 26,” the streamer said in the tweet.

Top Gun Maverick, OTT debut on Amazon Prime India – 3 days to go! pic.twitter.com/5eb71u9aLK — LetsCinema (@letscinema) August 21, 2022

The action spectacle is set over 30 years after the events of Tony Scott-directed Top Gun and sees Maverick training a group of Top Gun graduates for a specialised mission. The follow-up features Cruise reprising his role as US Naval aviator Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell along with Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Lewis Pullman, Charles Parnell, Bashir Salahuddin, Monica Barbaro, Jay Ellis, Danny Ramirez, Greg Tarzan Davis with Ed Harris and Val Kilmer.

Directed by Joseph Kosinski, Top Gun: Maverick is touted as the highest-grossing film of 2022, grossing reported earnings of USD 1.488 billion worldwide. It also received numerous accolades, including nominations for the Golden Globe Award for best motion picture – drama and the Critics’ Choice Movie Award for best picture.

The film was previously available to purchase or rent online on Amazon’s Prime Video.

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Tom Cruise has reportedly broken up with girlfriend Elsina Khayrova. Here's why

T hings are over between Hollywood star Tom Cruise and his Russian girlfriend Elsina Khayrova. Reports suggest that it was because of Elsina’s over-enthusiastic ex-husband who wouldn’t stop talking about Tom. 

Tom who is usually reserved about his personal life, was perturbed with Elsina’s ex-husband’s recent interview where he spoke to Daily Mail about his marriage with Elsina, warning Tom Cruise to “keep his eyes and wallet wide open.” 

Elsina’s ex-husband is an international diamond trader, Dmitry Tsvetko.

Why did Tom Cruise split with Elsina?

The article worried Tom and his PR team. “He’s filming and can’t be shooting and have her husband saying stuff every time he is mentioned in the press. They just didn’t want to deal with the ex-husband coming up with something nasty to say every few weeks," a source close to Tom was quoted as saying by some publications.

Dmitry Tsvetko also has been heard talking about his liking for Tom’s films. In the interview, he said that he has seen Eyes Wide Shut some 30 times. He also loves Rain Main and The Firm. Speaking to the UK outlet, he said, “I told the producer that the only actor who could play me is Tom Cruise. We’re about the same height and weight and I would be honoured if that could happen. I couldn’t think of anyone better to play me than Tom. I’m hoping that I’ll be able to meet him one day to discuss this project.”

Tom Cruise is currently busy with the eighth instalment of Mission: Impossible film. While shooting for the film, he was most recently seen running through London for a scene. 

Who is Elsina Khayrova?

Tom Cruise’s former girlfriend is a wealthy Russian socialite and the daughter of a Vladimir Putin ally, Russian politician Rinat Khayrova. 

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When did Tom start dating her?

Elsina and Tom Cruise started dating in December when they were first spotted together publicly at a party in London’s Grosvenor Square.

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Shah Rukh Khan and Tom Cruise have 5 things in common. Can you guess?

Shah rukh khan was recently seen in pathaan. the superstar has 5 things in common with hollywood star tom cruise..

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• Shah Rukh Khan is the superstar of Bollywood.
• On the other hand, Tom Cruise is a big star in the West.
• Both superstars have five things in common.

5 THINGS IN COMMON BETWEEN SRK AND TOM CRUISE

The thunderous comeback.

Shah Rukh Khan and Tom Cruise were both seen in 2018 with their films Zero and Mission Impossible: Fall Out before taking a break from movies. Mission Impossible raked in a total collection of $791.1 million worldwide, against a production budget of $178 million. It became the highest-grossing Mission Impossible film at the time. Zero, on the other hand, failed to leave an impression. Directed by Aanand L Rai, the film was made on a budget of Rs 200 crores and minted Rs 186 crores worldwide.

But when both Curise and SRK returned to the big screens after a gap in 2022 and 2023 respectively- they ensured the wait was worth it. Shah Rukh Khan shattered all the box office records and scripted history with Pathaan. The film proved yet again why SRK is and will always be the Badshah of Bollywood and, in fact, also, the Pathaan of the box office.

WORKED WITH THE SAME STUNT DIRECTOR

Now, the action scenes in Pathaan were something that got everyone talking about it. But what's interesting is that the makers had got on board Hollywood stunt coordinator Casey O’Neill, who has extensively worked with Tom Cruise in films like Mission Impossible and even Top Gun: Maverick. So now here's another similarity that SRK & Tom share between themselves.

RE-RELEASED FILMS

Shah Rukh Khan has been wooing hearts ever since his Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge hit cinemas in 1995. But what came as a treat for SRK fans was when the makers decided to re-release the film in theatres coinciding with the superstar's birthday on November 2. It was a strategic move by the makers before the Pathaan storm took over the ticket counters.

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Young at heart.

From trying out new roles to breaking barriers, Tom Cruise and Shah Rukh Khan may just be 60 and 57 respectively, but they have always ensured they are on top of their games to deliver what their audience wants.

India’s Tom Cruise Shah Rukh Khan May Have Just Saved Bollywood With His Blockbuster ‘Pathaan’

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A comeback hit from one of the country’s biggest movie stars is just what the flailing Hindi-language film industry needed.

Shah Rukh Khan just reclaimed his status as one of India’s biggest butts-in-seats draws after a four-year absence from movies.

Director Siddharth Anand’s action spectacular “Pathaan,” a loosely connected installment in India’s ongoing YRF Spy Universe series, earned $77 million in its first week of global release . The immediate success both reaffirmed Khan’s bankability and provided a much-needed jolt to a struggling Bollywood industry. 

Khan was a name synonymous with Bollywood in the 1990s and 2000s. However, as explained by film critic and pop culture journalist Siddhant Adlakha, he was known more as a romantic lead than as an action hero.

“The comparison is closer to Tom Cruise of the 1980s and 1990s,” argued Adlakha, “when he became a star through films like ‘The Firm’ and ‘Jerry Maguire,’ as opposed to the last two decades during which Cruise has primarily made action flicks like ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ and the ‘Mission: Impossible’ sequels.”

After a four-year absence, some of that obviously related to the COVID-19 pandemic, preceded by some underwhelming releases, this was sold and received as a comeback vehicle. Meanwhile, its existence as a pure actioner qualified as an against-type event for fans of the superstar. The patriotic action spectacle with a $28 million budget, which plays like a pinball-paced mash-up of “Mission: Impossible II,” “GoldenEye” and “xXx: The Return of Xander Cage,” even earned $9.4 million in its Wednesday-Sunday North American launch. 

One can see loose parallels between 57-year-old Khan’s return to form in a big-budget action vehicle like “Pathaan” and 60-year-old Cruise roaring back to the top of Hollywood’s movie star mountain with “Top Gun: Maverick.” A key difference is that Khan’s respective film industry was even more explicitly associated with its top-draw matinee idol. 

Shah Rukh Khan’s sabbatical coincided with Bollywood’s decline 

“Khan was so tied to Bollywood financially,” said Adlakha, “because you just don’t have many big hits without movie stars.”

Between 1992 and 2018, Khan starred in between one and seven movies a year, and then after “Zero” in 2018 took a break.

“Furthermore,” Adlakha continued, “the 2018 to 2022 period coincided with Bollywood eventually placing second in market share to Tollywood [the industry based on movies in India’s Telegu language] while the former was seen as being in a creative and commercial rut.”  

As recently as 2019, Hindi cinema, or Bollywood, made up 44% of annual Indian box office earnings with Telugu/Tollywood and Tamil/Kollywood each making up around 13%. By 2020, the combined earnings of non-Bollywood movies surpassed the total for Bollywood and by 2022 Tollywood was in the lead.  

Tollywood’s rise in popularity was appropriated by right-wing muckrakers 

Even while 77% of last year’s Bollywood releases underwhelmed , at least some of that Bollywood slump talk was due to a confluence of offscreen controversies and alleged implicit pressure from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s more right-tilting government .  

As explained by journalist and box office expert Jatinder Singh, the death-by-suicide of actor Sushant Singh Rajput was blamed in some circles on Bollywood itself . The Fatty Arbuckle-type scandal was highlighted by segments of the Indian national media in what became a crusade targeted at Bollywood just as South Indian movies like “RRR” and “KFG 2” were growing in popularity. 

“A narrative grew from right-wing trolls,” said Singh, “that these films were more pro-Hindu, more respectful of India and other bigoted nonsense.” They were taking credit for the softer Bollywood grosses compared to the steadily rising Tollywood earnings.

Think American right-wingers blaming the failure of “Lightyear” on pre-release chatter over its same-sex kiss. 

The otherwise inoffensive “Pathaan” was targeted over its sensual musical number

With “Pathaan,” the controversies centered on a film’s mid-film musical number between Khan and Deepika Padukone. As both Singh and Asian Studies professor Deepak Sarma of Case Western Reserve University told TheWrap, Padukone’s saffron-colored dress garnered accusations that the scene was disrespectful of Hinduism. Noted Sarma, “It elicited negative responses from religious fundamentalists and their Bharatiya Janata Party overlords, who seek to own, control, and dictate Hindu-Indian sentiment and outrage.”

However, continued Sarma, “given the recent news about the banned BBC documentary on PM Modi , such global attention may continue to raise concerns about the rise of religious fascism in India. This is especially problematic and troubling when one of the actors in question is the beloved Khan.”

For intentionally extreme comparison, imagine if absurd QAnon allegations against Tom Hanks both became a mainstream story but something implicitly promoted by the American government. Meanwhile, $77 million and counting later, the pre-release online muckraking was about as successfu l as similar campaigns waged against “ Captain Marvel ” and “ The Woman King .”  

“Pathaan,” like “RRR,” is a sign that Indian cinema can cross borders 

“I do think Indian films are growing their box office globally,” stated Hyde Park Entertainment Group CEO Ashok Amritraj. “However, it remains only for a select few.”

While China’s blockbusters have earned most of their revenue in-country, Indian biggies like the $150 million-grossing and Oscar-nominated “RRR” and “Dangal” — which earned $193 million in China in 2017 – can pull real money outside of their respective home country.  

Speaking of “RRR,” S. S. Rajamouli’s Tollywood spectacular has now, as of last weekend, earned more IMAX revenue in Japan than it did in India. Amritraj expressed hope that the worldwide audience will grow as more consumers become more accustomed to the Indian filmmaking style, while also crediting global streaming platforms for getting such films in front of otherwise unaware eyeballs.  

Sarma added that “These Bollywood crossovers, combined with Indian films produced by Netflix for a global audience, suggest that Indian cinema is being seen in many more contexts and by a more diverse audience. These films are being shown at theaters across the United States, for example, with sold-out shows, and even some non-Indian attendees.”

Is Bollywood back for good? 

As summed up by ComScore Movies – India Managing Director Rajkumar Akella, “Bollywood cinema is enjoying a massive resurgence with a global box office performance that reflects the popularity of ‘Pathaan’ and the impressive superstar drawing power of Shak Rukh Khan.”  

Just as the “Top Gun” sequel works as a metaphor for how Hollywood failed so badly at cultivating new movie stars that Tom Cruise still needs to come off the bench to save the day, “Pathan” eventually becomes a parable about loving and protecting a country that – as laid out in the villain’s tragic origin story — does not always love you back. 

“Every industry has controversies,” noted Amritraj, exclaiming that the main takeaway from “Pathan” was the simplest one, that Shah Rukh Khan was still a major movie star. 

After years of struggling amid concurrent socio-political pressure, the right movie star in the right movie instantly showed all parties that Bollywood could rise again. Time will tell if this is an exception to the rule or, to quote that other industry-boosting blockbuster, miracle NO. 1. 

This Top Gun Rip-Off Is A Huge Flop - But It's Flying High On Netflix

"Top Gun" remains an all-time '80s favorite for many, and "Top Gun: Maverick" kept the good times rolling decades later. There may be things in the Top Gun movies that don't make sense , but who needs logic when you have Tom Cruise showing off his piloting skills? However, people won't turn out for every single fighter jet movie, especially if the Hollywood icon isn't involved. This may be why 2024's "Fighter" didn't do too hot at the box office — but it's getting some extra attention now on Netflix.

"Fighter" has remained in Netflix's Top 10 non-English movies for two consecutive weeks, getting over 17 million hours of watch time in its sophomore week. Overall, the Indian film fell well short of the box office-breaking performance of "Top Gun: Maverick,"  only grossing roughly $43 million worldwide. Granted, its budget was estimated to be around $30 million, but one must also consider critical reception. 

"Fighter" holds a paltry 35% rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes , with Vinay Lokesh of The Times of India writing, "The audience has surely come across a number of films based on such storylines that are far more gripping than this one." It may not soar to the same heights as "Top Gun: Maverick," but more "Fighter" movies may still be in store. 

The plan is for Fighter to turn into a franchise

There were high expectations for "Fighter" before it came out in theaters. In 2021, Viacom18 Studios , which helped bring the film to fruition, posted on X (formerly Twitter), "Get ready to witness India's first aerial action franchise #Fighter with [Hrithik Roshan] and [Deepika Padukone]." Even after taking in $43 million at the box office, the plan still seems to involve pushing forward with a prospective "Fighter 2." The outlet Pinkvilla reported that director Siddharth Anand will work on the sequel after wrapping up another movie he has in the pipeline. 

Earlier this year, Anand defended the flick against accusations of being a carbon copy of "Top Gun." The filmmaker spoke with zoom about such comparisons: "I think it's inevitable ... If you make a film on planes, they will call it 'Top Gun' because they have no reference point." On a basic level, both movies are about fighter pilots, but the (ultimately fictional) story of "Fighter" is inspired by real events, including a series of cross-border airstrikes between India and Pakistan in 2019.

"Top Gun 3" is in the works, with Tom Cruise and other stars returning , but if people can't wait until that comes out, they might be able to satiate their craving for aerial action with "Fighter." The question now is whether "Top Gun 3" or "Fighter 2" premieres first. 

Shah Rukh Khan to Tom Cruise: Top 10 Richest Actors In The World

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On top of the list is Tom Cruise, the 'Mission Impossible Star' who has a net worth of $600 million approx.

​Shah Rukh Khan

The King of Bollywood shares the top spot with Tom Cruise, as SRK's net worth is also $600 million approx.

George Clooney

The man who can make any girl feel weak in the knees is number 2 on the list with a net worth of about $500 million to his name.

​Robert De Niro

This Oscar-winning actor enjoys a net worth of about $500 million.

​Arnold Schwarzenegger

The OG Terminator is next on the list of richest actors in the world with a net worth of $450 million.

​Mel Gibson

The 'Lethal Weapon' fame star, whose blue eyes will leave you mesmerized has an estimated net worth of $425 million.

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Here's another Oscar-winning star, who also is known to win billions of hearts with his mere smile - Brad Pitt and his net worth is around $400 million.

​Jack Nicholson

Though he is retired, the man has got ample green in his pocket. His estimated net worth is around $400 million.

​Jackie Chan

The kung-fu master is next on our list. He enjoys the same spot as Brad Pitt and Jack Nicholson, as according to reports his net worth is $400 million approx.

​Jennifer Lopez

Last but not least, we have J-Lo with an estimated net worth of $400 million.

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Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One advance booking soars in India, likely to be Tom Cruise's biggest opener

Tom cruise's spy thriller mission: impossible - dead reckoning part one is expected to sell over 1.10 lakh tickets in advance booking in india..

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, the seventh instalment in Tom Cruise 's popular spy thriller franchise, is all set to release in Indian cinemas on Wednesday, July 12. The advance booking for the film started on Friday, July 7 and raked in huge numbers within hours. (Also Read: Tom Cruise speaks perfect Hindi during interview, desi fans call him ‘so cute’ )

If the advance booking collection is anything to go by, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One may just turn out to be Tom Cruise's biggest box office openers in India. Tom was last seen in Christopher MacQuarrie's blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick last year.

Advance booking numbers

As per a report in Pinkvilla, as of 3:30 pm on Friday, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One had already sold approximately 28,000 tickets for the opening day and 62,000 tickets for the first weekend in advance booking in India. The estimated number of tickets sold in the advance booking before the release is likely to be more than 1.10 lakh tickets.

Tom Cruise's biggest opener in India?

As per the same report, the box office collection of the opening day, July 12, is likely to be between ₹ 12 crore and ₹ 14 crore. This would make Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One the biggest opener for Tom Cruise in India so far. The last Mission: Impossible film, Fallout, opened to ₹ 9.50 crore in India in 2018. The new instalment is likely to improve on the same.

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Box office competition

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One will enjoy an unrivalled run at the Indian box office for nine days, before Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer and Greta Gerwig's adaptation of Barbie, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, will release simultaneously on Friday, July 21. They're likely to eat massively into the share of the Tom Cruise film, given they're all tentpole Hollywood releases.

About Dead Reckoning Part Two

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part Two, which is set to be released next year on June 28, 2024 and is expected to be Tom’s final chapter as Ethan Hunt.

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Kirsten Dunst says the 'major pay disparity' between her and Tobey Maguire in 'Spider-Man' was so normal she didn't think to challenge it

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• She told BBC News that she didn't think to challenge it at the time. 
• Dunst said that she hopes she's helped change things for other actresses.

Kirsten Dunst said that the "major pay disparity" between herself and Tobey Maguire at the start of her career felt so normal that she didn't think to challenge it — even though was more successful at the box office.

The actor has worked in Hollywood since she was seven but rose to fame playing Claudia, a child vampire, opposite Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in "Interview With the Vampire" in 1994.

But she's better-known for playing cheerleader Torrance Shipman in 2000's "Bring It On" and Mary Jane Watson in 2002's " Spider-Man ."

Speaking ahead of the release of her latest movie, "Civil War," Dunst described how she viewed gender dynamics in her youth to BBC News.

"We grew up in a world where it's mankind, man-made, man this, man that, that's how we grew up. Hopefully the way I carved my path will help other actresses," she said.

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Dunst went on to speak about the gender pay gap in Hollywood and, without naming him, appeared to compare her salary with that of her "Spider-Man" co-star Tobey Maguire.

"I definitely grew up in a time with major pay disparity between the lead actor and myself, even though I had been in 'Bring it On' and he hadn't, you know what I mean?" she said. "I had more success in my box office than he did."

She continued: "I was 17, I was still learning my taste in film. I didn't even think to ask. I didn't even know there was a place to challenge it, that's how it felt at 17."

In 2000, Dunst was the lead in "Bring It On," which made $90 million against an $11 million budget, according to Box Office Mojo .

In contrast, Maguire's highest-grossing movie with him in the lead role at the time was 1999's "The Cider House Rules," at $88 million .

This isn't the first time Dunst has spoken about her "Spider-Man" salary. In 2021, she told The Independent that the disparity between her and Maguire was "extreme."

"I didn't even think about it. I was just like, 'Oh yeah, Tobey is playing Spider-Man,'" she said. "But you know who was on the cover of the second 'Spider-Man' poster? Spider-Man and ME."

Dunst played Mary Jane in all three "Spider-Man" movies directed by Sam Raimi, and the trilogy collectively raked in over $2.5 billion, according to The Numbers .

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