Aamir Khan's Sitaare Zameen Par , the spiritual sequel to his 2007 blockbuster Taare Zameen Par , premiered in theaters on June 20. The film, which minted Rs 88.9 crore on its opening week, has now crossed the Rs 125 crore mark. On Day 11 (June 30), Sitaare Zameen Par earned Rs 3.75 crore at the ticket counter, reported Sacnilk . With this, the movie's total box office collection now stands at Rs 126.40 crore. The sports drama witnessed an overall Hindi occupancy rate of 14.36 percent on its second Monday, added the report. Sitaare Zameen Par received the highest footfall in the evening shows, recording 16.76 percent. It was followed by the night shows, which registered 15.92 percent. The afternoon screenings comprised 14.8 percent of audience attendance, with the lowest being in the morning, as it stood at 10.69 percent. On June 30, film critic and trade analyst Taran Adarsh shared a post on X, calling Sitaare Zameen Par “unstoppable.” He wrote, “ Sitaare Zameen Par ...
A fact-check has indicated that an agency report about parents putting padlocks on graves of their daughters in Pakistan to save them from a rising spate of necrophilia was incorrect. Many news sites, including NDTV, ran the report of news agency ANI that has been fact-checked by AltNews. NDTV had sent a mail to ANI late this evening. A response is awaited. The report of ANI was based on Daily Times article, and a viral tweet by Harris Sultan, an ex-Muslim atheist activist and the author of the book "The Curse of God, why I left Islam". In the tweet, he had shared photos of a padlocked grave and accused Pakistan of creating a "sexually frustrated society", where "people are now putting padlocks on the graves of their daughters to prevent them from getting raped". AltNews fact checker Mohammed Zubair tweeted that the photograph in question, showing a green painted grille, was from Hyderabad. The reason grilles are used is to stop people from burying bod...