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Ideas are the new currency: SRK

Superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who will be back on the small screen with TED Talks India: Nayi Soch next month, says it's an initiative to open people's minds to the power of ideas, which he calls the “new cool currency”.

“Ideas are the new cool currency, the new rock n roll. This show is a unique and powerful initiative towards opening people's minds to the power of ideas and encouraging Nayi Soch. An idea can inspire you with limitless possibilities, give you an alternative perspective to look at oneself, one's surroundings and future,” Shah Rukh said in a statement. It’s second phase features the show's host Shah Rukh and stresses on the core premise of ‘ideas'.

‘Personally, I like diamonds, but as of now can't afford to buy them.

And as I mostly go to the gym and other places and don't get a chance to wear diamonds.

I wear what I like and don't like to know much about style and what's going on currently in fashion’

— Disha Patani

Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor says, the release and screening of films should not be curbed in a democratic country. “I don't want to comment on this, it's sad whatever has happened.” He didn't take any names, but amid the ongoing uproar over the release of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Padmavati, it was clear what he was pointing towards. “I feel that (the release of) films in this democracy should not be curbed, please see his film and then pass a comment,” added Kapoor.

Christie turns a villain

Actress Gwendoline Christie of Game Of Thrones fame says playing Captain Phasma, the villainous commander of the First Order's stormtroopers in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, was very exciting.

“The whole new Star Wars world that came to us in The Force Awakens (2015) felt exciting to me. I wondered what they would do with it, like everyone else. I wondered what kind of format it would take,” Christie said in a statement.

“And I was genuinely surprised and happy that it felt like it was more reflective of our modern world. It felt like this was a world where diversity was shown, and it was the first major Star Wars female villain.”