Hindi
Court directs attachment of Raghubir Yadav’s propertiest
NEW DELHI: A City Court today directed the DCP East to start attachment proceedings of the properties of actor Raghubir Yadav who has allegedly failed to pay the interim monthly maintenance of Rs 40,000 to his estranged wife.
Metropolitan Magistrate Vandana Jain directed the Police that a warrant of attachment of properties of Yadav should be issued and the default proceedings must be carried out seriously.
The Court gave directions for default proceedings after Yadav failed to comply with the Court orders to pay the maintenance to his estranged wife Poornima Yadav, He was earlier directed by the Delhi Court to pay Rs 20,000 as maintenance to his wife but he had refused to do that as well. Yadav was arrested on charges of non payment of arrears also but had managed to come out of jail after three days by paying a partial amount of the total dues of Rs 1.4 million to 1.5 million dues.
Yadav had alleged that Poornima works as a dance teacher with the National School of Drama (NSD) and earned around Rs 1.2 million per annum. The Court had however rejected Yadav‘s contention saying that it cannot be overlooked that their son was in the custody of Poornima from the time they had separated and that she had been meeting the expenses of his education and maintenance.
Assessing the income of Yadav, Metropolitan Magistrate Sunaina Sharma had held that Yadav is a renowned actor of art movies, TV serials and theatre and is doing well in commercial cinema. After his success in his two latest hits ‘Peepli Live‘ and ‘Gandhi to Hitler‘, his monthly income would have gone up, the court had said, and enhanced the monthly maintenance for Poornima. The court had also ruled that the actor will have to pay the maintenance from the date of its present order till the disposal of the case.
It also asked him to pay her Rs 20,000 from the date of filing of the petition in 2006 till the present order, besides another sum of Rs 20,000 per month for maintenance of his son, now a minor, from the date of filing of the petition till becomes a major.
Poornima in her plea had told the court that she had married Yadav in Jabalpur in June 1988 but he deserted her in 1995. She said she had been living with their son in Delhi, so the Supreme Court had allowed that her case be tried in Delhi.
Hindi
Jio Studios, Sanjay Dutt team up to revive Khal Nayak
Rights acquired for new version, format under wraps as remake plans take shape.
MUMBAI: The villain is back and this time, he’s rewriting his own script. Jio Studios has partnered with Three Dimension Motion Pictures and Aspect Entertainment to revive the 1993 cult classic Khal Nayak, marking a fresh chapter for one of Bollywood’s most iconic anti-hero stories. The original film, directed by Subhash Ghai under Mukta Arts, was a commercial and cultural milestone, with Sanjay Dutt’s portrayal of Ballu becoming one of Hindi cinema’s most memorable performances.
Dutt, along with Aksha Kamboj, has now acquired the rights from the original creators, bringing on board Jio Studios and its President Jyoti Deshpande to steer the project creatively.
While the exact format whether remake, sequel, prequel, or a completely new narrative remains undisclosed, the collaboration aims to reinterpret the story for contemporary audiences while retaining the essence that made the original a defining film of the 1990s.
The move taps into a broader industry trend of reviving legacy intellectual property, particularly characters with strong recall value. “Khal Nayak” was notable for pushing mainstream Hindi cinema into morally grey territory at a time when heroes were largely one-dimensional, making Ballu’s character a standout.
The project also marks the film production debut of Aspect Entertainment, signalling a push towards more technology-led storytelling frameworks. Meanwhile, Jio Studios continues to expand its slate, having built a library of over 200 films and series, with more than 60 titles collectively winning 500-plus awards.
For Dutt, the revival is as much personal as it is strategic, a return to a role that reshaped his career. For the industry, it is another sign that nostalgia, when paired with scale, remains a powerful box-office proposition.
Because in Bollywood, some villains never fade, they just wait for the perfect comeback.
