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Bharathi S Pradhan

That time when Priyanka Chopra nearly gave it all up and decided to return to Bareilly

After winning the Miss World crown in 2000, Priyanka Chopra was supposed to make her acting debut in a Mahesh Manjrekar film – but something else happened.

Bharathi S Pradhan
· Jun 05, 2018 · 07:30 pm
‘Women have the hots for me? What words you use!’ Vinod Khanna, the sly charmer

He never knew the meaning of struggle, and he faced his share of bumps with dignity, recalls a journalist and long-time friend.

Bharathi S Pradhan
· Apr 27, 2017 · 05:00 pm
The days when movie stars were a phone call away (unless they were bathing)

A veteran chronicler of the scene recalls the days when barriers didn’t exist between film celebrities and the professionals assigned to cover them.

Bharathi S Pradhan
· Sep 11, 2016 · 01:30 pm

Shatrughan Sinha vs Amitabh Bachchan, in the Shotgun’s own words

The two stars were described as arch rivals through much of the 1970s and ’80s. Sinha tells his side of the story in the authorised biography ‘Anything But Khamosh’.

Bharathi S Pradhan
· Dec 14, 2015 · 10:00 am