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Bollywood Actor Irrfan Khan dies aged 53

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Irrfan Khan, one of Bollywood’s most beloved stars who had achieved considerable success in the west, has died aged 53.

He had been admitted to the intensive care unit of Mumbai’s Kokilaben hospital on Tuesday with a colon infection and on Wednesday morning a statement was released confirming his death.

“It’s saddening that this day, we have to bring forward the news of him passing away,” read the statement. “Irrfan was a strong soul, someone who fought till the very end and always inspired everyone who came close to him.”

Despite his status as one of Bollywood’s most celebrated actors, Khan had a reputation for modesty and integrity and news of his death sent India into mourning, prompting actors, fans and politicians from across the world to express their sadness at his death.

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi said that Khan’s demise was “a loss to the world of cinema and theatre. He will be remembered for his versatile performances across different mediums. My thoughts are with his family, friends and admirers. May his soul rest in peace.”

Fellow Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan said Khan’s death left a “huge vacuum”. “An incredible talent, a gracious colleague, a prolific contributor to the world of cinema … left us too soon,” tweeted Bachchan.

“The charisma you brought to everything you did was pure magic,” tweeted Priyanka Chopra. “Your talent forged the way for so many in so many avenues. You inspired so many of us. Irrfan Khan you will truly be missed. Condolences to the family.”

Indian politician Rahul Gandhi described Khan as a “versatile and talented actor” who would be “greatly missed” while Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said India had lost “one of the most exceptional actors of our time.”

In March 2018, Khan revealed he had been diagnosed with a neuroendocrine tumour, but after extensive treatment he recovered well enough to shoot Angrezi Medium, the film that would turn out to be his last, and whose release this March was cut short because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Best known to English-speaking audiences as the police inspector in Slumdog Millionaire and for his roles in Jurassic World and Life of Pi, Khan was a Bollywood mainstay, acting in hits such as Haider, Piku and Hindi Medium.

“I always object to the word Bollywood,” he told the Guardian in 2013. “I don’t think it’s fair to have that name. Because that industry has its own technique, its own way of making films that has nothing to do with aping Hollywood. It originates in Parsi theatre.”

Khan was born Saahabzaade Irfan Ali Khan in Jaipur in 1966, the son of a tyre seller, and went to drama school after failing as a cricketer. He struggled to make headway in the film industry, despite being cast in a small role as a letter writer in Mira Nair’s 1988 Salaam Bombay! – to his frustration he only managed to find regular work in low-grade TV soap operas.

“I came into this industry to tell stories and do cinema and I was stuck in television,” he told the Guardian.

Khan’s breakthrough role came from an unlikely source: the feature debut of then-unknown British director Asif Kapadia, whose low budget samurai-esque tale, The Warrior, was shot in India. Released in 2002, The Warrior was selected for the prestigious San Sebastián film festival and won the Bafta award for best British film. Khan subsequently broke into mainstream Indian films, often playing cops or villains – including the title role of Maqbool, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth set in the Mumbai underworld. More orthodox Bollywood productions followed, such as Rog and the slice-of-life musical Life in a … Metro.

Khan also maintained a parallel career in British-American cinema: he played the chief of police in Michael Winterbottom’s A Mighty Heart, and another police officer in Slumdog Millionaire, which won eight Oscars. In later roles, he became a reliable standby character actor in big-budget Hollywood films, playing a doctor in The Amazing Spider-Man in 2012 and businessmen in Jurassic World (2015) and Inferno (2016). In 2012, he also played the adult version of the lead character in another Oscar-winner: Life of Pi, directed by Ang Lee. Director Wes Anderson said he specifically wrote a small role for Khan in his film The Darjeeling Limited just so they could work together.

Meanwhile, Khan found box-office success with the Indian-produced art film The Lunchbox, in which he played an accountant who strikes up a letter-writing romance with unhappy housewife Nimrat Kaur. Khan also continued his high Bollywood profile with significant roles in the Amitabh Bachchan comedy Piku and Hindi Medium, as a rich businessman trying to get his daughter into a good school.

Khan is survived by his wife, Sutapa Sikdar, and sons Babil and Ayan.

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പ്രശസ്ത സംഗീതജ്ഞന്‍ കെ.ജി. ജയന്‍ അന്തരിച്ചു. 90 വയസായിരുന്നു. തൃപ്പൂണിത്തുറയിലെ സ്വകാര്യ ആശുപത്രിയിലായിരുന്നു അന്ത്യം. ചലച്ചിത്ര താരം മനോജ് കെ ജയന്‍ മകനാണ്. ഇരട്ടസഹോദരനായ കെജി വിജയനൊപ്പം ചേർന്ന് കച്ചേരികൾ നടത്തിയിരുന്നു. 1986ലാണ് വിജയൻ അന്തരിച്ചത്.

ആയിരത്തിലധികം ഗാനങ്ങൾക്കാണ് ഇവർ ഈണമിട്ടത്. ചലച്ചിത്ര ഗാനങ്ങൾ ഉൾപ്പെടെ ഭക്തിഗാനങ്ങൾക്കും ഈണമിട്ടു. 1965ൽ പുറത്തിറങ്ങിയ നക്ഷത്രദീപങ്ങൾ തിളങ്ങി ആയ സിനിമയാണ്.

2019 ല്‍ രാജ്യം പത്മശ്രീ നല്‍കി കെ.ജി. ജയനെ ആദരിച്ചു. കേരള സം​ഗീത നാടക അക്കാദമി അവാർഡ്, ഹരിവരാസനം അവാർഡ് എന്നിവയും ഇദ്ദേഹത്തിന് ലഭിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്.

1934ൽ കോട്ടയത്താണ് കെ.ജി ജയന്റെ ജനനം. ഗോപാലൻ തന്ത്രികളുടേയും നാരായണിയമ്മയുടേയും നാല് മക്കളിൽ ഏറ്റവും ഇളയ ഇരട്ട സഹോദരങ്ങളായിരുന്നു കെ.ജി ജയനും, കെ.ജി വിജയനും. വളരെ ചെറുപ്പത്തിൽ തന്നെ കർണാടക സംഗീതം അഭ്യസിച്ച ജയ-വിജയ സഹോദരങ്ങൾ ഒൻപതാം വയസിൽ കുമാരനല്ലൂർ ദേവീ ക്ഷേത്രത്തിൽ അരങ്ങേറ്റവും നടത്തി. ആലത്തൂർ ബ്രദേഴ്‌സ്, ചെമ്പൈ വൈദ്യനാഥ ഭാഗവതർ, എം ബാലമുരളീകൃഷ്ണ പോലുള്ള കർണാടക സംഗീതത്തിലെ അതികായരുടെ കീഴിൽ പരിശീലനം നേടിയവരാണ് കെ.ജി ജയനും, കെ.ജി വിജയനും. ചെമ്പൈയുടെ കീഴിൽ പരിശീലിക്കവേയാണ് ഇരുവരും ഗാനങ്ങൾ ചിട്ടപ്പെടുത്താനും പാടാനും തുടങ്ങിയത്.

ഇരട്ടസഹോദരനായ വിജയനൊപ്പമായിരുന്നു കെ.ജി ജയനെന്ന അതുല്യ പ്രതിഭയുടെ സംഗീതയാത്ര. 1988 ൽ കെ.ജി വിജയന്റെ അകാല മരണം കെ.ജി ജയനെ ഉലച്ചുവെങ്കിലും ഭക്തിഗാനങ്ങളിലൂടെ ജയൻ ആശ്വാസം കണ്ടെത്തി. ‘ഇഷ്ടദൈവമേ സ്വാമീ ശരണമയ്യപ്പാ…’, ‘ഹരിഹരസുതനേ…’ ‘ശ്രീശബരീശാ ദീനദയാലാ…’ ‘ദർശനം പുണ്യദർശനം…’ എന്നിങ്ങനെ നിരവധി ഭക്തിഗാനങ്ങൾക്ക് അദ്ദേഹം രൂപം നൽകി. യേശുദാസിനെയും ജയചന്ദ്രനെയും ആദ്യ അയ്യപ്പഗാനം പാടിച്ചതും ജയവിജയന്മാരാണ്. ശബരിമലനട തുറക്കുമ്പോൾ ഇപ്പോഴും കേൾപ്പിക്കുന്നത് അദ്ദേഹത്തിന്റെ പ്രസിദ്ധമായ ‘ശ്രീകോവിൽ നട തുറന്നു…’ എന്ന പാട്ടാണ്.
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Viral Christian YouTubers Dude Perfect Receive $100 Million Capital Investment

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Dude Perfect — the five-man crew focused on “giving back, spreading joy, and glorifying Jesus Christ,” according to their website — just earned a whopping $100 million cash infusion.

The five dudes behind the viral YouTube account, Coby Cotton, Cory Cotton, Garrett Hilbert, Cody Jones, and Tyler Toney, have garnered international attention over the years for their trick-shot videos and winsome content.

The more than $100 million investment from Highmount Capital marks Dude Perfect’s first external influx of cash, Axios reported, noting the guys, who met as roommates at Texas A&M University and began posting content to YouTube in 2009, have invested their revenue directly into their own expansion. The company stated this year, though, that total profits are expected to exceed $50 million, doubling their revenue from 2022, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Speaking to Axios, Coby Cotton said the group plans to use the money to build out a management team, expand its staff, and bring a CEO on board. Additionally, the Christian guys are planning an international tour and are looking into translating their videos into other languages.

And about a year and half ago, the Dude Perfect cofounders released a plan to build a $100 million trick-shot theme park in the Dallas-Forth Worth area.

“The mission of Dude Perfect is to serve families with the most trusted entertainment on earth,” Coby Cotton told D Magazine. “By partnering with Highmount Capital, we hope to pour gas on the fire and take the Dude Perfect fun that families have witnessed on screens these past 15 years and turn it into real life products and memory-making experiences they can actually touch and feel for themselves.”

David Hawkins, chief investment officer and general partner for Highmount Capital, said his own three sons, ages 5, 8, and 10, are “super fans” of Dude Perfect. As a father, he said he is a fan of their content, too, because he knows he can trust it is family friendly.

“The most valuable thing we’ve done these last 15 years is build trust with families and then … build trust with the brands,” Coby Cotton said.

The cofounder of Highmount Capital, Jason Illian, sees the kind of content Dude Perfect creates as the future of entertainment.

He told The Hollywood Reporter, “When you talk to teenagers and kids and people that watch the Dudes, they’re all being influenced, and three out of four kids said they want to be an influencer and a creator, so I don’t think they’re gonna call this the ‘creator economy’ in the near future, they’re just gonna call it media, because that’s really what it is, and the Dudes are at the front end of that.”

“We thought a significant investment made sense just because, when you look at all the things that they have in front of them, working with sports teams, and retailers, and opportunities for events, we want to make sure there’s enough capital there to do it really well,” he added.
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Caribbean Minister’s ‘Blessings Find Me’ Song Goes Viral with 1 Billion Views: ‘I Am Grateful’

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A Caribbean minister and musician has become an overnight success after creating an inspirational anthem that has gone viral on social media as millions share the song’s message about God’s blessings.

Sherwin Gardner wanted 2024 to look different than previous years. So he decided to write a short affirmation at the end of 2023 called, “Find Me Here (Blessings Find Me),” to encourage himself that it would be a good year.

He thought of the words, “Something good gonna happen in this year. / And I am grateful that I made it here! / Yesterday’s gone and a new day has appeared / And I am grateful that I made it here!”

The worship leader at Bahamas Harvest Church in Nassau told Religion News Service a melody came to him shortly after and he sent it off to a music arranger in Kenya.

A few days later, Gardner had a recorded version uploaded to Instagram and TikTok.

The song with its Afrobeats, reggae influence, and dancehall elements became an overnight sensation.

Just a few hours after posting, Gardner was stunned to find his follower count shot from 999 to 20,000.

“The morning when I woke up, I had 20,000 followers, and the views — started at 8 o’clock, it was 14,000; by 10 o’clock it was 50,000; by 12 (noon) it was over 100,000 views,” he said.

A friend of Gardner told him, “Doctors, lawyers, gangsters, and teachers posted your song on WhatsApp.'”

On New Year’s Day, the 45-year-old returned to the studio to turn the snippet into a song and contacted Tyscot Records to release it.

Tyscot Records in conjunction with Warner Music Group Company have released the song on all major digital music platforms, Trinidad Express reports.

The song has resonated with many including other music artists such as two-time American Grammy Award-winning producer Teddy Riley, R&B singer Alicia Keys, rapper Eve Jeffers, Destiny’s Child’s Michelle Williams, gospel artist Yolanda Adams, and comedian-turned-pastor Kel Mitchell.

“Brother Sherwin Gardner, you’ve created this amazing [song] that I have on repeat and play to remind me that there’s nothing impossible when God got your back,” wrote Riley on TikTok.

The song been played 1,001,158,000 times on TikTok and Bill Carpenter, Gardner’s publicist, said their research indicates Gardner could be the first Black gospel artist to achieve that 1-billion-view landmark.

“This is now become or becoming the anthem for many people and their prayer throughout the whole world,” Gardner said.

The worship leader says although he was intending to bless others, God has truly blessed him.

“It has been totally unexpected and I’m so grateful for the answered prayers,” he said.
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