Noted actress Shabana Azmi has been diagnosed with swine flu during a routine check-up for cough and cold. She is recuperating in the hospital.
However, she is using the time for productive pursuits. "Rarely, do I get a chance to lie back and introspect. This is an enforced break for me," said Shabana.
"I have not been in contact with any swine whatsoever. But I am in hospital recovering fast," she said.
Richa Chadha's comment about the film industry's 'silence' over Rajkumar Hirani's #MeToo allegation, as published in India TV, didn't go down well with a journalist, who on Friday called out the actress on Twitter.
Actor Jason Shah, who has roots in the US and UK, feels the Indian entertainment industry has always typecast people with white skin.
Actress Divya Dutta, whose "Fanney Khan" will air on the small screen on Friday, says sometimes a film gets lost in the crowd, but then a TV screening can sometimes give people a chance to see it with a different perspective.
Singer-actor Diljit Dosanjh was bowled over by the viral egg photograph which has reality TV star Kylie Jenner's face superimposed on it.
Writer-director and actor Ayushmann Khurrana's wife Tahira Kashyap, who was diagnosed with breast cancer and is going through preventive mastectomy, has gone bald. She says it is liberating and feels good.
Rajkumar Hirani is among the most decent people in the Hindi film industry, veteran writer-lyricist Javed Akhtar has said in support of the filmmaker, who has been accused of sexual misconduct by a woman.