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Caroline Jurie, the reigning Mrs. World, has given up her title after her involvement in an incident that resulted in the alleged physical harming of Mrs.

The very public row between Mrs World and the new Mrs Sri Lanka took another twist when police arrested the reigning ‘Mrs World’ on charges of assault.

The craziest beauty pageant story in years is NOT over yet!

Mrs. Sri Lanka beauty pageant on Sunday.During the ceremony, which was broadcast on national TV, Jurie, who won Mrs.

A bitter row broke out when a beauty queen claimed she was left badly injured when her crown was pulled off her head.

This is unbelievable!

The winner of the Mrs. Sri Lanka pageant is allegedly recovering from a head injury after a last-minute struggle over her new crown on Sunday, when another beauty queen ran up on stage and tried to strip her of her victory.

Mollie King has spoken of starting the wedding-planning process after she and fiancé Stuart Broad were finally reunited this week.

In a first for its Indian operations, Amazon Prime Video will act as co-producer on upcoming Hindi movie Ram Setu, which will be led by superstar Akshay Kumar.

Shalini Dore Features News EditorDeepa Mehta’s had her fair share of tough shoots. “Water” had to be moved from India following protests and lensed in Sri Lanka, but she never had one that was affected by a pandemic.“Funny Boy,” released by Ava DuVernay’s Array, is streaming on Netflix.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorOne of the first conversations cinematographer Douglas Koch had with director Deepa Mehta was about his using a handheld camera in shooting “Funny Boy,” a coming-of-age story set during the civil war in Sri Lanka.The plan was to allow complete flexibility as Koch worked with two actors — Arush Nand and Brandon Ingram — playing the role of Arjie from boyhood to adolescence as he discovers his sexual identity.

Mollie King has announced her engagement to boyfriend Stuart Broad.

The creators of “Funny Boy” have been forced change the film’s submission for the 2021 Oscars after it did not meet the Academy’s eligibility requirements for the International Feature category due to the amount of English dialogue which it contains.

England fans could be denied the opportunity to watch next year’s crucial Test tour to India as a domestic TV deal for the four-match series has yet to be agreed.

Guy Lodge Film Critic“Don’t mess with the grand diva,” says 8-year-old Arjie, usually in private or under his breath, to a world determined to mess with him from all sides.

The American singer and actress campaigned for years to get Kaavan out of the Marghazar Zoo. Along with U.S.

Manori Ravindran International EditorDeepa Mehta’s latest film, an adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai’s Sri Lanka-set coming-of-age novel “Funny Boy,” has been picked up by Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Releasing, and will land worldwide on Netflix this December, Variety can reveal.The Oscar-nominated “Earth” and “Midnight’s Children” director wrote the screenplay for the film alongside Selvadurai, whose debut 1994 novel is set in Sri Lanka during the 1970s and 1980s and was ground-breaking in its

Naman Ramachandran Popular Tamil cinema actor Vijay Sethupathi (“96”) is set to star as iconic Sri Lankan cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan in upcoming biopic “800.”With 800 wickets in test match cricket and 534 in one day internationals, Muralitharan is the bowler with world records for the highest number of wickets in both versions of the sport.

Naman Ramachandran Video streaming giants, Amazon Prime Video and Netflix have stepped up their efforts to penetrate the Tamil-language market by announcing release of anthology films in the language by leading filmmakers.Tamil is one of the dominant film, TV and streaming markets in India and content in the language is also consumed in Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, U.K., U.S., Canada, the Middle East, Western Europe and Australia, where there are significant segments of Tamil

LONDON -- The sea voyage that changed Peter Padfield’s life more than six decades ago started with an act of chance. In 1956, Padfield was third officer aboard a British cruise liner in Sri Lanka when he stumbled across a magazine in a ship wardrobe.A story inside introduced Padfield to a new sailing ship dubbed the Mayflower II, a replica of the square-rigged English merchant vessel that carried a group of dissatisfied Protestants across the Atlantic Ocean in 1620.

Shalini Dore Features News EditorIndo-Canadian helmer Deepa Mehta has a long history with the Toronto Intl. Film Festival, where nearly all of her films have premiered, starting with “Sam and Me” in 1994.

M.I.A. has shared a new track called ‘CTRL’ – you can listen to it below.The English-Sri Lankan artist posted the song to her OHMNI.com website today (September 9), and has confirmed it is a standalone release.“CTRL! A SONG FOR 2020… This is not a song from M.I.A’s upcoming highly anticipated IIIIIIth LP.

Ed Meza @edmezavarSwitzerland’s Cognito Films has re-teamed with German shingle Elemag Pictures on a human drama about a group of pit workers coming to terms with the closure of Germany’s last coal mine.“Once We Were Pitmen” accompanies five miners on a bittersweet journey against the backdrop of climate change, Germany’s energy transition away from fossil fuels and even gender identity.

Manchester Evening News today as the nation observes the 75th anniversary of VJ Day.Robert Gerrard Curry trekked across Sumatra, part of Indonesia, with a group of Army soldiers to the west coast, where he was pickedup by an Australian ship and taken to Ceylon, now Sri Lanka.He was 32 at the time in early 1942, three years before Japan surrendered, ending the war.Mr Curry survived his ordeal and returned to work at the Admiralty to help with preparations for the D-Day landings of 1944.He ended

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated Girl With A Pearl Earring writer Olivia Hetreed is to adapt Shankari Chandran’s debut novel Song Of The Sun God for Synchronicity Films, producer of Jenna Coleman-fronted BBC drama The Cry, and Australia’s Dragonet Films.Hetreed is working on a six-part series based on the 2017 novel, which is a family saga that brings to light an untold story of the conflict in Sri Lanka during the country’s two-decade-long civil war.The novel is set

cleared his name after being accused of battering the notorious playboy son of a government official while working abroad.James Casserly, from Shotts, Lanarkshire, has spent £20,000 on travel and legal costs since a rammy with Malaka Silva and his entourage at a nightclub in Sri Lanka in 2014.The former engineer, 48, was hailed a hero for standing up to Silva, who is famous for his partying and run-ins with the law on the south Asian island.But Silva lodged a counter claim of assault against

spent £100,000 on the family of her toyboy Sri Lankan husband, who was later shot dead after a bigamous marriage to a local woman, wants her money back.Diane Peebles, 61, from Edinburgh, was lucky to escape Sri Lanka alive after armed men turned up looking for her at the hotel she was staying in just before flying back to Scotland.Now, having had time to weigh up being married, abandoned and exploited, she has decided to take legal action to try to get some of her assets back.Diane spent £60,000