The 19-year-old Nandini Gupta from Rajasthan won the title of the 59th Femina Miss India 2023 last night. Delhi’s Shreya Poonja was announced as the first runner-up, and Manipur’s Thounaojam Strela Luwang became the 2nd runner-up.  Among the 30 state winners, these ladies were chosen as the top three.

Nandini Gupta was crowned by the former Femina Miss India 2022 winner Sini Shetty of Karnataka while former 1st and 2nd runners-up Rajasthan’s Rubal Shekhawat and Uttar Pradesh’s Shinata Chauhan crowned Shreya and Thounaojam respectively.

The official Miss India Instagram page posted a picture of Nandini’s winning moment with the caption, WORLD – here she comes! Nandini Gupra has conquered our stage and taken over our hearts with her magnetism, charm, endurance and beauty! We’re so proud and can’t wait to see her on the Miss World stage! We’re so proud of your journey and all the hard work you’ve undertaken to earn the crown to your full credit. May you shine always! Ladies and gentlemen, welcome your new reigning queen, Nandini Gupta, Femina Miss India World 2023.

Femina Miss India 2023 Nandini Gupta will now represent India at the 71st edition of the grand Miss World pageant which will be held in the United Arab Emirates.

Nandini Gupta, who hails from Kota, holds a Business Management degree and considers Ratan Tata the most influential person in her life. In an interview, she said, Ratan Tata does everything for humanity and donates most of it to charity. Loved by Millions and always grounded.

Additionally, Priyanka Chopra is a beauty queen that inspires her because of her innumerable achievements.

Femina Miss India 2023 was held at Indoor Stadium, Khuman Lampak which is located in Manipur’s capital city Imphal. The judging panel consisted of Femina Miss India Universe 2002 & Mentor Neha Dhupia, boxing icon Laishram Sarita Devi, ace choreographer Terence Lewis, film director & writer Harshavardhan Kulkarni and ace designers Rocky Star and Namrata Joshipura.

The event was also graced by performances by Kartik Aaryan and Ananya Panday. The evening’s proceedings were led by the dynamic duo Manish Paul and Bhumi Pednekar.

The war of words between Kangana Ranaut and Karan Johar will not take a back seat anytime soon. After bashing the filmmaker over his planning to murder Anushka Sharma’s career, Ranaut, yet again, lashed at him after an old video of Johar went viral.

In the viral video, Karan Johar, in an interview, argued over Ranaut’s calling him a movie mafia. He wondered if the actor thought he she not giving her work and this makes her mafia.

He then said maybe he is not interested in working with her.

The filmmaker said not giving her work does not make him a movie mafia as it takes a man with an opinion. Further, he said he appreciates that she had a great perspective and everyone applauded her on coming on Koffee With Karan.

The filmmaker added that he was gracious enough to keep everything Ranaut blamed him for on his chat show.

The video was fan-made and was shared on Instagram.

Watch the viral video here:

Kangana Ranaut calls Karan Johar, chacha choudhary

Sharing the video on her Instagram story, Kangana Ranaut called the filmmaker, Chacha Choudhary and thanked him for these frivolous outbursts. She further said she will rub these in his face once she establish herself as a filmmaker and producer.

Take a look at the actor’s Instagram story here:

Earlier this month, Ranaut bashed Karan Johar after an old video of him saying he wanted to murder Anushka Sharma’s career widely circulated on social media. In the video, Johar and Sharma were seen together in an interview wherein the filmmaker said he wanted to sabotage her career as he didn’t find any crux for an actor. However, after watching Band Baaja Baarat, he apologised to Anushka Sharma for thinking otherwise.

The debate of nepotism and the ‘movie mafia’ in Bollywood is ever-lasting. Recently, Priyanka Chopra Jonas also opened up about her being cornered in the industry by filmmakers.

Director Ayan Mukerji is reportedly in talks with Jio Studios to plan a multi-film deal to make his Astraverse bigger. Apart from Brahmastra 2 and 3, he is planning to helm various character spin-offs for digital platforms and animated cartoon series for kids.

After the massive success of Brahmastra in 2022, Ayan Mukerji had recently taken to social media to announce that the sequels, Brahmastra Part Two: Dev and Brahmastra Part Three, will be released in December 2026 and December 2027 respectively, as he will be taking more time to perfect the script and make the films bigger and more ambitious.

Although, earlier this week, it was reported that Ayan might be taking his Astraverse out of Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions. Neither Ayan nor Karan has commented on this report yet.

According to a media house, Disney, who was also one of the major producers of Brahmastra, has decided to give up the film rights. A source close to the development informed that Disney is in the mode of restructuring their content strategy in India and they have slowed down on acquisition for Disney+Hotstar too. They are also taking it easy on film production. After several meetings over the last few months, Disney has decided to take a back seat from the franchise.

Dinsey has now reportedly sold all Intellectual Property rights of the Brahmastra franchise to Ayan. The source added that’s when Ayan decided to take charge. Brahmastra is a franchise dear to him and he didn’t want to let it go of his hands. He has a brought outline ready for the future of his Astraverse and he, along with Ranbir Kapoor, is on the verge of clocking a mega multi-crore deal with Jio Studios for the Astraverse.

Ayan seems to have big dreams for the franchise and apart from the sequels, he plans to make spin-offs on other characters in the format of web series, and independent feature films. He also has an animated cartoon series planned for the kids in his 10-year plan for the franchise.

Ayan will be directing the films, but the spin-offs will be helmed by other filmmakers.  The spin-offs will include Nandi Astra, Pawan Astra, and Gaj Astra for the digital platform, whereas Jal Astra will be made for the big screen.

When the deal goes through, the Brahmastra will be produced by Jio Studios with Starlight Pictures and Astra Verse.