Weekend roundup: Bengali celebs who made headlines this week

If you have missed the exciting news, gossips or latest developments that have rocked Bengali cinema this week, here is a weekly roundup for you. Take a look:

We all know Swastika Mukherjee doesn’t hesitate to call a spade a spade and has this reputation to give fitting reply to her trolls with ample dose of sarcasm and the versatile actress did it again. In a recent tweet, Swastika took a cheeky dig at all those speculation and intrusive enquiries about her new hairstyle. She recently came up with series of her one-side-buzz haircut pictures flooding her social media timeline. However, her new hairstyle got the attention of some keyboard warriors as they started to query whether she has been diagnosed with cancer or if she has returned from a rehab. Here's how Swastika replied back to the hypocrite questions with a my-hair-my-rules tweet: "No I don't have cancer (I pray I don't have it ever), No I don't do drugs, I don't smoke weed/hash, No I have never visited a rehabilitation center. It's my head and my hair so I can and will do whatever the hell I want with it. All questions answered?! Now chill."

Work kept Riddhi Sen busy this lockdown. After completing the final works of his directorial debut Cold Fire, the young actor has created a seven-minute long animation film, Thikana (A Day In Time), with his friend, Rajarshi Nag. While the project is written and directed by Riddhi, Rajarshi, a budding animator, completed the animation. Anindya Chatterjee has composed a song that is performed by Surangana Bandyopadhyay. While the song is arranged by Prabuddha Banerjee, Riddhi penned the lyrics.

The consumption of music has gone up manifold, believes Anupam Roy. Speaking about the business aspect of music, in an exclusive chat with ETimes he said, “I am a singer-songwriter. I make music and try to reach out to the listeners through it. If I knew the business so well, I would have been owned a music label by now. But that’s not the case.” Anupam said even if the sale of physical copies of albums has gone down, online stores have come up. “The best part is that today, when I make a song, I know Bengalis sitting in another part of the world are also listening to it as much as the Kolkatans. So, a song is going to the world at the same time,” he said.

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to hit us with shocking news each day and it seems no end to this any soon. As soon as the terrible news of director Raj chakraborty being tested positive for COVID-19 broke it stunned not only his fans and followers but her colleagues from the film fraternity as well. On Monday morning, Raj took to social media to announce the news that he has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. “I have been tested COVID-19 positive. My father has been hospitalized recently, but he has been tested negative both the time. In home quarantine right now. Rest of my family members will be testing for COVID-19 too. These are the trying times,” wrote Raj on his Twitter handle.

A web series, starring Kunal Khemu in the lead, has kicked up a huge controversy after it showed Bengal’s breavheart, freedom fighter Khudiram Bose, as a ‘criminal’ in one of its episode released recently. Netizens were quick to blast the makers of the web series for disrespecting the revolutionary figure Khudiram Bose as they portrayed him as a criminal. In the second episode of the newly released season, the social media users have alleged that the picture of the freedom fighter was seen alongside photographs of other criminals in a police station. Netizens pointed out how disrespectful it feels after seeing such a legendary freedom fighter being shown as a petty criminal.