Kolkata youth Manik Paul wins India's Got Talent season 6

June 28, 2015

New Delhi, Jun 28: Manik Paul, a 22-year-old self taught gymnast, turned emotional after the win, saying that he wants to buy a home for his mother with the `50-lakh prize money he won along with a Maruti Celerio car.

Manik Paul

Kolkata-based aerial gymnast Manik Paul is the winner of India's Got Talent season 6, the grand finale of which happened on Saturday night. Paul, a 22-year-old self taught gymnast, turned emotional after the win, saying that he wants to buy a home for his mother with the `50-lakh prize money he won along with a Maruti Celerio car.

"My mother is my inspiration. She is the reason I have put in hard work. I have seen her struggle since I was five and now want to make her life easy," said Paul, who spent most of his childhood and teenage years battling utter poverty after his father passed away at a young age. He now wants to start an aerial gymnastic institute for underprivileged children. Ever since the show's season 6 started in April, Paul has regaled with his athletic and graceful moves on the India's Got Talent stage. His skills particularly won him an admirer in choreographer-filmmaker Remo D'Souza, whose latest film ABCD 2 is drawing full houses right now.

When he appeared as a guest on the show to promote ABCD 2, Remo had promised to do some work with Paul in the future. An emotional Paul had then revealed how he had tried setting up an appointment with Remo several times at the latter's office to seek some work, but was unsuccessful.

The grand finale of the popular Colors channel show also saw the likes of Faisal Khan, Elli Avram and rapper Raftaar add to the extravaganza with colourful acts.

Season 6 of India's Got Talent was hosted by noted comedian Bharti Singh along with actors Nakul Mehta and Siddharth Shukla. The season was judged by model-actor Malaika Arora Khan, actor Kirron Kher and filmmaker Karan Johar.

All the three judges had been encouraging Paul all through the season and are extremely happy that he has finally won.

Saturday evening saw a keen battle between six finalists. Paul beat gymnast Yogeshwari Mistry, fusion singer-duo Harmanpreet Kaur and Parry G, hand-shadow artist Prahlad Acharya, and dance groups XIX and Beat Breakers.

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August 2,2020

Mumbai, Aug 2: None of the sim cards that actor Sushant Singh Rajput was using was registered under his name, said the team of Bihar Police, probing his death case, on Sunday.

The team also informed that one of the sim cards that the late actor was using was registered the name of his friend Siddharth Pithani.

"We are now tracking the call detail records (CDRs)," the police said.

The team also said that they will interrogate the family of Sushant Singh Rajput's former manager Disha Salian, who died few days before Sushant's death.

"Even after constant attempts to connect with them on phone, we have failed to establish any contact," it said.

Earlier today, while talking to news agency, the Director-General of Police (DGP) of Bihar Gupteshwar Pandey hinted at the non-cooperation of Mumbai police with his team in their investigation.

"We don't have post-mortem report details, CCTV footage or any information that has been collected by Mumbai Police during probe till now. Our Chief Minister has requested the Maharashtra Chief Minister to ask his police force to cooperate with us," the DGP added.

When asked if Bihar Police want CBI probe into the case, he said, "We are more than capable of doing an unbiased investigation. We hope that Mumbai Police will cooperate with us and we'll conclude the investigation."

Rajput was found dead at his Mumbai residence on June 14. Mumbai Police who was investigating the case had earlier informed that they have recorded the statements of 41 people, including filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, film critic Rajeev Masand, director-producer Sanjay Leela Bhansali, and filmmaker Aditya Chopra so far.

A team of Bihar Police is in Mumbai to probe the actor's death after an FIR was filed by Rajput's father KK Singh against late actor's girlfriend Rhea Chakraborty in Bihar in connection with the death case under several sections including abetment of suicide.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had also registered an Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) in Rajput's death case. ED registered the report after an FIR was filed by his father against Chakraborty.

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June 4,2020

Mumbai, Jun 4: Casting director Krish Kapur, who had worked on films like Mahesh Bhatt's Jalebi and Kriti Kharbanda-starrer Veere Ki Wedding, passed away at the age of 28 due to brain hemorrhage, his family said.

There was speculation that Kapur died in a road accident but his maternal uncle, Sunil Bhalla, dismissed the reports, saying that the casting director fainted at his home in suburban Mira Road here and suffered brain hemorrhage.

According to Bhalla, Kapur breathed his last on May 31.

"He had no medical history. He was healthy and doing absolutely fine. On May 31, he just collapsed and started to bleed. He died of brain hemorrhage," Bhalla said on Wednesday.

Kapur is survived by his mother, wife and seven-year-old child.

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August 7,2020

Mumbai, Aug 7: Bhojpuri actress Anupama Pathak has died allegedly by suicide in Dahisar East, her Mumbai residence on August 2.

The police have recovered a suicide note.

Initially, an accidental death case was registered which was later converted into FIR under section 306 (abetment of suicide) of IPC against a person and a company, the police said.

Further investigation by Mumbai's Kashimira Police is underway.

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