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‘You won’t even get character roles’: Sushmita Sen’s manager quit when she became a mom at 24 | Bollywood News

‘You won’t even get character roles’: Sushmita Sen’s manager quit when she became a mom at 24 | Bollywood News

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5 min readMumbaiMay 28, 2026 09:50 AM IST Sushmita Sen adopted her elder daughter Renee Sen just four years after making her Hindi film debut with Mahesh Bhatt’s 1996 psychological thriller Dastak. At the time, she’d just delivered a hit in David Dhawan’s comedy Biwi No 1 opposite Salman Khan in 1999, and at 24, she decided to be a single mother. In a new interview, Sushmita shared that after she decided to adopt, her manager left her as he said that she wasn’t serious about her career. ‘Can’t represent someone who’s a mother at 24’ “My manager ran away. He said, ‘You’re not serious about your career, and I can’t represent someone who’s a mother at 24. Character roles bhi nahi milenge aapko (You wouldn’t even get character roles),’” Sushmita recalled in a chat with NDTV. “He ran away, and I was like, good riddance to bad rubbish. I was quite okay with it. And you won’t believe it – after I became a mother, I gave my biggest hits,” she added. She could subsequently …

Lakshya Sen’s All England title miss has a silver lining – it keeps him driven for those elusive titles in the future | Badminton News

Lakshya Sen’s All England title miss has a silver lining – it keeps him driven for those elusive titles in the future | Badminton News

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4 min readMar 15, 2026 08:30 AM IST It’s not a mere faint silver lining to a cloud. This is a complete dazzling rettai pettu Kanjeevaram double border golden lining to that dark, dimming cloud of losses in sport. Lakshya Sen losing his second All England final can get dissected in many ways. But the best way to look at it would be that Sen will remain hungry to prove himself, driven to make more finals and cross the threshold, keep working on his game and not for a moment think he has arrived. Because Indian badminton needs its top names to get hardy and high viz at big events, and not rest on whatever laurels they’ve accumulated. Perhaps the most heartbreaking of medal losses at Paris Olympics was that of Vinesh Phogat’s. But what also cut deep, a close second, was Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty’s. India returned without a badminton medal from Paris, but every loss, by denying them what they thought was due to them, has prolonged the motivation to dust up …

Lakshya Sen’s coach Vimal Kumar says muscle fatigue cost him; asks ward to take inspiration from Ivan Lendl

Lakshya Sen’s coach Vimal Kumar says muscle fatigue cost him; asks ward to take inspiration from Ivan Lendl

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Ahead of his 2024 All England when he was struggling to qualify for the Paris Olympics, Lakshya Sen had insisted on getting himself a 10-year visa for the United Kingdom. Coach Vimal Kumar had jokingly asked how many titles he planned to win playing for a decade, when Sen told him, “I’ll win at least 3-4, and make the finals minimum 8 times.” With two finals under his belt, and a week to remember, Sen wasn’t jesting. “The All England will be his one day,” Vimal insists, even if Sunday ended in a 21-15, 22-20 loss to Lin Chun-Yi of Taiwan. The foot blister was painful, and his movement not the most fluent after Sen had played 91 minutes more than his opponent in 4 tallied matches (316 as compared to 226 minutes of Chun-Yi.) But what deterred his counter-punching, that was a feature of his four previous wins, was muscle fatigue in his shoulder, the coach informs. “The shoulder was gone, there was no punch in his smashes,” he said. AS IT HAPPENED | …

Who is Lin Chun-Yi, Lakshya Sen’s opponent in the All England final? | Badminton News

Who is Lin Chun-Yi, Lakshya Sen’s opponent in the All England final? | Badminton News

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First the fitness update: Lakshya Sen is in good spirits, and though the 97-minute semifinal was an absolute wringer where his feet cramped and hobbled, he has some of the best recovery-aiding personnel by his side, and should turn up ready to face Taiwanese Lin Chun-Yi. “He will deal with what bothered him yesterday, everythingwill be sorred out perfectly,” coach Vimal Kumar said cryptically. The Commonwealth Games final that Sen won in Birmingham, had his on-site and long term trainer Heath Matthews raving about his diligence in recovery, including the ice-baths. This time he had fever a fortnight ago, successfully overcame a glutes issue, and after 317 minutes on court through 4 matches, played through a toe blister. “We can’t complicate it too much, or be too concerned. Lakshya showed what his mind is made of,” Vimal would add. Sen overcame intense discomfort of cramps and knees put under immense shock-load when he needed to leap to smash against Victor Lai. But driven to nail that elusive title, his body will follow suit, the coach …

The mind behind Lakshya Sen’s All England run | Badminton News

The mind behind Lakshya Sen’s All England run | Badminton News

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Nimrod Mon Brokman doesn’t believe in easy. The Israeli sports psychologist, who works with athletes at his Behavioral Foresight facility, has been accompanying Lakshya Sen at the All England — and his methods are anything but conventional. The latest: cycling at a heart rate of 160-170 under hypoxic conditions, where arterial oxygen saturation drops below 90 percent. “I use different, unconventional technologies and methods. This was about cognitive overload — forcing him to deal with two challenges at once,” says the Bangalore-based Mon. “Most athletes won’t like it. Lakshya says, ‘Bring it on.’ Even on match-days.” That attitude, Mon says, is rare. Working with Sen since mid-2025, he sees in the Indian shuttler a quality he has otherwise encountered only in elite military units. “I see very little fear in him when it comes to hard stuff. He laughs in the face of these challenges — that kind of temperament, I’ve seen it only in Special Forces or 9 Para.” It’s why, Mon believes, Sen is in the All England semifinals. The work between them …

Lakshya Sen’s grit takes him to another All England final

Lakshya Sen’s grit takes him to another All England final

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It had been a 86-shot rally, at 4-4 in the decider, before it absurdly ended with Victor Lai being faulted because the shuttle allegedly clipped his shirt. Lakshya Sen, playing the All England semifinals and gifted that point, would’ve seen it as just another moment on a marathon see-saw, one he could neither get off from, nor stay on top of. It was only the 72nd minute of a match that went on for a total of 97 minutes. It was a random ridiculous punctuation, in what turned out to be sublime display of endurance, grit, and belief of two players who could either be zen-masters or zombies. At the end, Sen reached the finals of All England a second time post a match for the ages. Sen’s 21-16, 18-21, 21-15 victory over a Groundhog Day retriever – where a dozen 40+ shot rallies went on in a time loop – was an ode, a parting love letter to the 21-point format itself, which is in its last year at All England. In service of …

Coach Vimal Kumar on Sen’s 21-19, 21-23, 21-10 win over NG Ka Long Angus

Coach Vimal Kumar on Sen’s 21-19, 21-23, 21-10 win over NG Ka Long Angus

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How Lakshya Sen goes from leading 17-11, 19-14 to losing the second set 21-23, is in the realms of speculation or snakes-and-ladder on a badminton court. That’s effectively a net 4-11 points from a very advantageous position straight into the ditch. But like a good doctor would tell you, they can’t keep the rains from raining down, they can only arm you with a sturdy umbrella. So what India’s shuttler-in-need-of-Sherlock and his massively varied coaching team have done is try to respond to these familiar lapses by staying solid in the third. NG Ka Long Angus must’ve expected Sen to crumble after one of his usual blunderings took the All England Round 2 into the decider. Because he had slumped at the Olympics (twice), and myriad other tournaments. But Sen played an absolutely laser-focussed third set, to win 21-19, 21-23, 21-10 and defeat the opponent from Hong Kong, aged 31, ranked 29 to reach quarterfinals. On Friday, he plays Chinese Li Shifeng, his batchmate whom he led 7-4 in head to head before All England …

Coach Vimal Kumar on Sen’s 21-19, 21-23, 21-10 win over NG Ka Long Angus

Coach Vimal Kumar on Sen’s 21-19, 21-23, 21-10 win over NG Ka Long Angus

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How Lakshya Sen goes from leading 17-11, 19-14 to losing the second set 21-23, is in the realms of speculation or snakes-and-ladder on a badminton court. That’s effectively a net 4-11 points from a very advantageous position straight into the ditch. But like a good doctor would tell you, they can’t keep the rains from raining down, they can only arm you with a sturdy umbrella. So what India’s shuttler-in-need-of-Sherlock and his massively varied coaching team have done is try to respond to these familiar lapses by staying solid in the third. NG Ka Long Angus must’ve expected Sen to crumble after one of his usual blunderings took the All England Round 2 into the decider. Because he had slumped at the Olympics (twice), and myriad other tournaments. But Sen played an absolutely laser-focussed third set, to win 21-19, 21-23, 21-10 and defeat the opponent from Hong Kong, aged 31, ranked 29 to reach quarterfinals. On Friday, he plays Chinese Li Shifeng, his batchmate whom he led 7-4 in head to head before All England …

All England Open: Why Lakshya Sen’s second round opponent is tricky | Badminton News

All England Open: Why Lakshya Sen’s second round opponent is tricky | Badminton News

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2 min readMar 5, 2026 03:44 PM IST Coach Vimal Kumar had joked that next Sunday could witness Lakshya Sen vs Ayush Shetty in the All England finals, though the younger Indian was found wanting in stamina at the finish, leaving only Sen as the Indian capable of going the distance. Yet, a tricky opponent stands in his path – NG Ka Long Angus. Though the two have not played since May 2023, the Hong Kongese holds a 3-0 h2h advantage over the Indian, built from a very specific style of game. The reason are the 31-year-old’s deceptions which are always lethal for his Indian challenger half a dozen years his junior. “Angus is not easy at all, though Lakshya would’ve recovered from a day’s rest,” Vimal Kumar had said. A prowling cat on the court, Angus maximises his movement with shots that at a sustained level, tend to look like crowding and attacking opponents. He is especially elusive in the deciding sets or the defining second set if he has already won the opener, …

Vipul Shah slams Sudipto Sen’s claim that The Kerala Story 2 based on WhatsApp forwards: ‘I trashed his trashy script’ | Bollywood News

Vipul Shah slams Sudipto Sen’s claim that The Kerala Story 2 based on WhatsApp forwards: ‘I trashed his trashy script’ | Bollywood News

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3 min readChennaiMar 5, 2026 02:30 PM IST The Kerala Story 2 is doing decent business at the box office despite controversies surrounding it. Recently, Sudipto Sen, director of the first film The Kerala Story, criticised the sequel and claimed that the film’s research was based on WhatsApp forwards. Now, the film’s producer, Vipul Amrutlal Shah, who also bankrolled the original 2023 film, has reacted to Sudipto’s claims and revealed that he had absolutely trashed Sudipto’s script for the sequel and instead went ahead with Kamakhya Narayan Singh’s story. ‘Sudipto Sen’s script for The Kerala Story 2 was trash’ Speaking to India Today, Vipul talked about Sudipto Sen’s criticism and said, “I would say grapes are sour. To be very honest, I have never spoken about this, but I would like to put it to rest. He had written a script for The Kerala Story 2, which was absolutely trash. I did not want to make that film, and that is why I went ahead with [The Kerala Story 2 director] Kamakhya [Narayan Singh].” Vipul …