Arjun is my best friend
MALAIKA Arora says her heart is fuller than it has ever been before. Her reality show, Moving in with Malaika, is a reflection of her evolution in her personal space, as she drops her guard on delicate matters, including her divorce. While invasive chatter about her separation from ex-husband Arbaaz Khan is still prevalent, she tells mid-day that she has come a long way since the split. “I am far more calm now. I used to be irritable and angry, and was easily triggered. I am not that person anymore. I am able to channelise my energy better. In the past, I couldn’t accomplish half of the things I sought out in a day, but now I can utilise my 24 hours well. I feel I have a lot in me to give, as a person,” she says, adding that finding company in a sensitive partner like Arjun Kapoor has aided her evolution.
“He is a progressive, and sensitive human being and that reflects his upbringing, and his growth, as a person. I am lucky to have someone who understands me. More than anything else, he is my best friend.”
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Mid-day
MICHAEL Giacchino will make his big-screen directorial debut on a remake of Them!. The 55-year-old composer, who won an Academy Award for his work on the 2009 animated film Up, is working on a reboot of the 1954 sci-fi monster movie for Warner Bros.
Michael is meeting with writers in the hope of starting production on the project in the near future.
The original movie was helmed by Gordon Douglas and the plot centres around the discovery of a huge nest of irradiated ants in the New Mexico desert.
The critters become a national threat when two young queen ants and their consorts escape to set up new nests, with the national search that follows culminating in a battle in the storm drains of Los Angeles.
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