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Quick Comment | From outlaw to hero: How Ishan Kishan’s brutal hundred solved India’s No. 3 crisis and possibly threatened Sanju Samson’s opening spot | Cricket News

Quick Comment | From outlaw to hero: How Ishan Kishan’s brutal hundred solved India’s No. 3 crisis and possibly threatened Sanju Samson’s opening spot | Cricket News

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5 min readUpdated: Jan 31, 2026 09:39 PM IST The celebrations when he reached his hundred showed its significance. Ishan Kishan removed his helmet, raised his bat, sprinted towards point, leapt in the air, and fell into Hardik Pandya’s embrace. He completed a stirring redemption arc—from outlaw to outsider to hero. His streak of form is a blessing on several levels. He is the buccaneering T20 No. 3 India never had; he could open when Tilak Varma returns without disturbing the team’s balance. Whether he is upgraded to opener is another question, and the team has a week to contemplate. But he is arguably the most postmodern one-drop batsman India ever had, even though he is only four games old in this role. As recently as the South Africa series, India was confused about their number three’s characteristics. They were caught up in the Virat Kohli-Shubman Gill mould—an accumulator rather than pure aggressor. Suryakumar Yadav was tried, but a lean patch intervened. India tried Tilak Varma and Sanju Samson, but neither inspired confidence. Ishan turned …

Army subedaar turned outlaw, killed 9 to avenge wrong, was denied water and left to die; film on his life got Irrfan Khan his only National Award | Bollywood News

Army subedaar turned outlaw, killed 9 to avenge wrong, was denied water and left to die; film on his life got Irrfan Khan his only National Award | Bollywood News

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Cinema can be a compelling medium that inspires people to take drastic steps in life — but it’s also a two-way street. Just as films draw from real life, some lives are so extraordinary that they deserve to be told on the big screen. Such was the life of Paan Singh Tomar, an Army Subedar turned seven-time national steeplechase champion who later became a feared dacoit; his story brought to life by the inmitable Irrfan Khan. Paan Singh Tomar was born in Bhidosa, on the banks of the Chambal River in Madhya Pradesh. He hailed from the same notorious region as Phoolan Devi, the Bandit Queen, whose life inspired Shekhar Kapur’s National Award-winning film. Like many from the region, Tomar joined the Indian Army as a Subedar, but his exceptional running skills were soon noticed and he became an athelete. He represented India at the 1958 Asian Games in Tokyo, Japan. However, he couldn’t perform well because he was given new shoes just two days before the tournament. Tomar was a contemporary of Milkha Singh …

Broadway’s Andrew Durand, who plays a corpse in ‘Dead Outlaw,’ reveals the secret to stillness | Hollywood

Broadway’s Andrew Durand, who plays a corpse in ‘Dead Outlaw,’ reveals the secret to stillness | Hollywood

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NEW YORK — One of Broadway’s more impressive performances this season is by Andrew Durand, who is a kinetic force in the first half of “Dead Outlaw” and absolutely motionless in the second. For some 40 minutes, he’s a corpse, standing in a coffin. Broadway’s Andrew Durand, who plays a corpse in ‘Dead Outlaw,’ reveals the secret to stillness “Some nights I want to scream. Some nights I want to rip my skin off — that pressure that you can’t move starts to get to me. And so there are nights that it is very challenging,” says the actor. Durand stars in the musical as Elmer McCurdy, a real-life alcoholic drifter-turned-failed bandit who was shot dead in 1911 but whose afterlife proved to be stranger than fiction. His embalmed body becomes a prized possession for half a century, transported across the country to take part in carnival sideshows, wax museums, Hollywood horror movies, roadside attractions and, finally, a prop at an amusement-park ride in the 1970s. “You watch him have this successful career as a …