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Duchess Sophie gave a subtle nod to Princess Kate with her fashion choices while performing a key royal task. 

Recently, the Duchess of Edinburgh, as Colonel-in-Chief of The Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, visited two of their Battalions at their headquarters in Tidworth, Wiltshire.

Notably, in one of the appearances, Sophie donned a breezy blue colour dress from the Firm’s favourite designer Emilia Wickstead, alongside some other pieces from designers loved by the Princess of Wales. 

A fashion expert told Hello! Fashion that Duchess Sophie’s new style showcases that she is in her “soft femininity” era. 

Tania Leslau said, “The Duchess of Edinburgh’s style leans into soft femininity.” 

“…something her latest look captures perfectly. Emilia Wickstead, a firm favourite in her wardrobe, strikes that sweet spot between tradition and romance,” she added.

“Case in point: a practical shirt dress silhouette blooming with clustered blue roses, ideal for potentially sweaty, yet chic, summer duties. And naturally, blue blood pairs best with blue Prada pumps,” Tania explained. 

It appears that Duchess Sophie is following in the footsteps of the future Queen by sending a message of support to her with her day-to-day fashion choices. 

Mohanlal, Kajol, Farah Khan congratulate Shah Rukh Khan

On X, Mohanlal said, “Congratulations to all the winners of the National Film Awards. A special salute to Urvashi and Vijayaraghavan on their well-deserved honours for their powerful performances. Warm congratulations to Shah Rukh Khan, Vikrant Massey, and Rani Mukerji on their wins. Also, celebrating the remarkable talents from Kerala, the team Ullozhukku and Pookkaalam. Congratulations once again!”

Taking to her Instagram Stories, Kajol shared a poster of Jawan and wrote, “Congratulations on your big win @iamsrk! #jawan #71stnationalfilmawards.” Farah Khan shared a picture with Shah Rukh in which they hugged each other. She wrote, “Congratulations, my dearest @iamsrk on winning the national award!! This time the shiddat se koshish (striving with passion) really came through.”

AR Rahman, Anil Kapoor, Ananya Panday hail ‘King Khan’

Music maestro AR Rahman took to X and wrote, “Legend, congratulations.” Actor Anil Kapoor hailed Shah Rukh’s performance in Jawan and wrote, “Well deserved! A performance like Jawan was bound to make history. Your first National Award – and what a way to get it!” Ananya Panday said on Instagram, “KING KHAN, best to ever do it.”

Atlee showers Shah Rukh with love

Shah Rukh’s Jawan co-star, Sanya Malhotra, also gave a nod to his National Award win and wrote, “Good to go, chief.” Jawan director Atlee shared pictures with Shah Rukh on Instagram and penned a long note. He said, “Feeling blessed, @iamsrk sir. I’m super happy that you’ve got the national award for our movie Jawan. It feels very emotional and inspiring to be part of your journey. Thank you for trusting me and giving me this film, sir. It’s just my first love letter to you; a lot more to come, sir.”

“This is one of my life’s most important moments; Shah Rukh sir being near you itself is a great blessing, sir. As a fanboy, working with you and making a film and presenting it in a mass mode of SRK, sir, is a pure, pure blessing from God, and finally, God is so kind to give us back the greatest moment in our life. Can’t ask for more, sir. This is more than enough for me; I’m the best fanboy of yours, sir. Love you. Love you. Love you. Lots of love, sir,” concluded his note.

About Shah Rukh winning National Award

On Friday, the winners for the 71st National Film Awards were announced, honouring Shah Rukh with the Best Actor award. In a late-night post, the actor shared his response to the achievement, thanking fans and everyone who has supported him throughout.

A visibly injured Shah Rukh wrote, “Thank you for honouring me with the National Award. Thanks to the jury, the I&B ministry… Iss samman ke liye Bharat Sarkar ka dhanyawaad. Overwhelmed with the love showered upon me. Half a hug to everyone today.”

More about Jawan

Directed by Atlee, Jawan featured Shah Rukh Khan in a dual role as father and son. The film’s cast also featured Nayanthara, Deepika Padukone, Priyamani, Sanya Malhotra, Ridhi Dogra, Girija Oak, Lehar Khan, and Sangeeta Bhattarcharya. It released in theatres in 2023 and remains Shah Rukh’s highest-grossing film at the box office.

Boris Rehlinger may not turn heads on the streets of Paris, but his voice is instantly recognisable to millions of French film-goers.

“I feel threatened even though my voice hasn’t been replaced by AI yet,” he said.

Rehlinger is part of a French initiative, TouchePasMaVF, to protect human-created dubbing from artificial intelligence.

He said that to ensure audiences barely notice that the actor on screen is speaking a different language than they hear, there was a team of professionals, including actors, translators, production directors, dialogue adaptors and sound engineers, hard at work.

Consumer research firm GWI says 43 per cent of viewers in Germany, France, Italy and Britain prefer dubbed content over subtitles.

An Oxford-set college rom-com from the guy behind The Inbetweeners; the return of one of Netflix‘s biggest ever shows; Genndy Tartakovsky’s latest adult animated project; Vanessa Kirby’s return to more intimate dramas about the human condition; a documentary that promised to shed new light on the Jussie Smollett hate crime incident; and a murder mystery film featuring several British and Irish acting icons are some of the highlights among the new films and series hitting Netflix in August.

Kicking off August is the rom-com My Oxford Year, which focuses on the tried and trusted formula of a young American girl heading to stuffy old Europe and finding love with some impossibly handsome and terribly charming guy, so it’s almost guaranteed to find a huge audience. In this instance, Sofia Carson plays Anna, an ambitious American student at Oxford University whose life is changed when she meets impossibly handsome and terribly charming local Jamie played by Corey Mylchreest. The film is directed by Iain Morris (yes, the same guy who co-created and co-wrote The Inbetweeners) and is written by Allison Burnett and Melissa Osborne, based on the novel by the same name by Julia Whelan. The cast also includes Dougray Scott, Catherine McCormack, Harry Trevaldwyn, and Hugh Coles. My Oxford Year debuts on Aug. 1.

Netflix’s big launch this month is season two of the monster hit Wednesday, which premieres Part 1 on Aug. 6. Wednesday season one is amongst Netflix’s most watched shows ever, and the streamer has already confirmed a third season and plans for spinoffs. The sophomore outing for the show sees Jenna Ortega’s kooky Wednesday Addams return for another year at the dark, mysterious and very Gothic Nevermore Academy. The creative team that made season one of Wednesday such a huge hit are all back, including creators/showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar and of course EP and director Tim Burton who gave the show his unmistakable look and feel. New cast additions include Steve Buscemi, Joanna Lumley and Billie Piper and returning castmembers include Emma Myers, Fred Arminsen Catherine Zeta-Jones, Luiz Guzman and Isaac Ordonez.

Genndy Tartakovsky is one of the biggest names in animation, and the man behind Dexter’s Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars and Hotel Transylvania has a new animated feature launching on Netflix on Aug. 13. Produced by Sony Pictures Animation, Fixed sees Tartakovsky in full adult comedy mode, the logline reads, “[the film is about] Bull, an average, all-around good dog who discovers he’s going to be neutered in the morning! As the gravity of this life-altering event sets in, Bull realizes he needs one last adventure with his pack of best friends as these are the last 24 hours with his balls!” The stellar voice cast includes Adam DeVine, Idris Elba, Kathryn Hahn, Fred Armisen, Beck Bennett, and Bobby Moynihan.

The Invisible Woman will be very visible on Netflix in August, with Vanessa Kirby debuting her new film Night Always Comes on Aug. 15. The Oscar-nominated British actress is on a career hot streak at the moment, starring in big budget spectacles like The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Napoleon and Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning as well as critically acclaimed dramas such as Pieces of a Woman, and her latest, which she also produced, is more in the vain of the latter film that scored Kirby an Academy Award nomination. Directed by Benjamin Caron, Night Always Comes is a gritty crime thriller about a desperate woman (Kirby), who over the course of a night risks everything in order to secure her home and her future. The feature is an adaptation of Willy Vlautin’s 2021 novel and is written by Sarah Conradt. The cast also includes Jennifer Jason Leigh, Zack Gottsagen, Stephen James, Randall Park, Julia Fox, Michael Kelly, and Eli Roth.

On Aug. 22, Netflix launches the sure-to-be-controversial and discourse-breaking The Truth About Jussie Smollett? The documentary film purports to tell “a shocking true story of an allegedly fake story that some now say might just be a true story,” casting new light on the absolutely wild incident that involved Empire actor Jussie Smollett who in January 2019 claimed to have been victim of a viscious hate crime. The doc features interviews with police, lawyers, journalists, investigators and with Smollett. The Truth About Jussie Smollett? comes from RAW, the producers behind the viral docs Don’t F**k with Cats and Tinder Swindler.

Another big movie release for Netflix this month is The Thursday Murder Club, a feature based on the 2020 murder mystery novel by Richard Osman. The film, directed by Chris Columbus, features an all-star cast of British and Irish acting legends including Oscar-winners Helen Mirren and Ben Kingsley, as well as Pierce Brosnan, Celia Imrie, Jonathan Pryce, David Tennant, Richard E. Grant and rising Naomie Akie. The Thursday Murder Club tells the story of four 70-somethings, with unique past lives, who decide to solve a murder in a retirement home. Tapping into some of the ingredients that made films like The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and even Netflix’s own recently released Nonnas a hit, The Thursday Murder Club debuts on Aug. 28.

Movies added to Netflix in August include American Pie, American Pie 2, Anaconda, Clueless, Dazed and Confused, The Departed, Despicable Me, Despicable Me 2, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Groundhog Day, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park III, Megamind, Minions, Rush Hour, Rush Hour 2, Rush Hour 3, Thirteen, Weird Science, Wet Hot American Summer, Wyatt Earp, The Fast and the Furious, 2 Fast 2 Furious, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast Five, Fast & Furious 6, Furious 7 and Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw.

Missed what came to Netflix last month? Check out the July additions here.

Read on for the complete list of titles hitting Netflix in August.

Aug. 1

My Oxford Year
Perfect Match: Season 3
American Pie
American Pie 2
Anaconda
Clueless
Dazed and Confused
The Departed
Despicable Me
Despicable Me 2
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Fire Country: Season 2
Groundhog Day
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jurassic Park
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park III
Megamind
Minions
Pawn Stars: Season 16
Rush Hour
Rush Hour 2
Rush Hour 3
Thirteen
Weird Science
Wet Hot American Summer
Wyatt Earp

Aug. 2

Beyond the Bar (KR)

Aug. 5

Love Life: Seasons 1-2
SEC Football: Any Given Saturday
Titans: The Rise of Hollywood: Season 1

Aug. 6

Wednesday: Season 2 Part 1

Aug. 8

Stolen: Heist of the Century (GB)

Aug. 10

Marry Me

Aug. 11

Outlander: Season 7 Part 1
Sullivan’s Crossing: Season 3

Aug. 12

Final Draft (JP)
Jim Jefferies: Two Limb Policy

Aug. 13

Love Is Blind: UK: Season 2 (GB)
Fixed
Saare Jahan Se Accha: The Silent Guardians (IN)
Songs From the Hole
Young Millionaires (FR)

Aug. 14

In the Mud (AR)
Miss Governor: Season 1 Part 2
Mononoke The Movie: Chapter II – The Ashes of Rage (JP)
Quantum Leap: Seasons 1-2

Aug. 15

The Echoes of Survivors: Inside Korea’s Tragedies (KR)
Fit for TV: The Reality of the Biggest Loser
Night Always Comes

Aug. 16

The Fast and the Furious
2 Fast 2 Furious
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Fast Five
Fast & Furious 6
Furious 7
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

Aug. 18

CoComelon Lane: Season 5
Extant: Seasons 1-2

Aug. 19

America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys
Titans: The Rise of Wall Street: Season 1

Aug. 20

Fisk: Season 3
Rivers of Fate (BR)

Aug. 21

The 355
Death Inc.: Season 3 (ES)
Fall for Me (DE)
Gold Rush Gang (TH)
Hostage (GB)
One Hit Wonder (PH)

Aug. 22

Abandoned Man (TR)
Long Story Short
The Truth About Jussie Smollett? (GB)

Aug. 27

Fantasy Football Ruined Our Lives (IT)

Aug. 28

Barbie Mysteries: Beach Detectives
My Life With the Walter Boys: Season 2
The Thursday Murder Club

Aug. 29

Two Graves (ES)
Unknown Number: The High School Catfish

In a milestone moment that feels long overdue, Shah Rukh Khan has been awarded the National Film Award for Best Actor for the first time in his 30-year career.

The National Film Awards, among the oldest and most prestigious accolades in Indian cinema, have recognised excellence in film since 1954. The Best Actor category has been presented annually since 1967.

The 59-year-old megastar shares the honour with Vikrant Massey, who was recognised for his powerful turn in 12th Fail, while Khan was celebrated for his dual role in the 2023 box office juggernaut Jawan.

The two actors were jointly named Best Actor at India’s 71st National Film Awards, where 12th Fail also walked away with the coveted Best Feature Film prize, and Rani Mukerji took home the Best Actress award.

That Khan, one of the most beloved and influential figures in Indian cinema, is receiving his first National Award after three decades in the industry has sparked both celebration and reflection among fans. But as he made clear in a heartfelt video message, the journey is far from over.

Currently recovering from an on-set injury with his right arm in a sling, Khan took to Instagram to share the message with his fans and peers. “I am overwhelmed with gratitude, pride and humility,” he said. “A National Award is not just about achievement. It’s a reminder that what I do matters.”

The actor, who played both a battle-scarred army veteran and his idealistic son in Atlee’s Jawan, described the recognition as fuel rather than a finish line. “It tells me to keep going, keep working hard, keep creating and keep serving cinema,” he added.

In his message, Khan thanked the Indian Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, the National Film Awards jury, and the directors who shaped his recent body of work — Rajkumar Hirani (Dunki), Siddharth Anand (Pathaan), and, most of all, Atlee, the director of Jawan. “Atlee sir, this is like you say, mass,” he quipped, referencing the filmmaker’s signature style and the film’s unapologetic embrace of action-packed, socially conscious spectacle.

Khan also expressed deep appreciation for his team, family and fans. “To my management team, thank you for putting up with my eccentricities and impatience. To my wife and kids — thank you for allowing me the space to chase this passion, even when it takes me away from you.”

“And to my audience — thank you for all the cheers and all the tears,” he said, signing off with a promise: “I’ll be back on screen soon.”

After Ahaan Panday-Aneet Padda’s Saiyaara, netizens are now going gaga over Triptii Dimri and Siddhant Chaturvedi-starrer Dhadak 2

With their past performances, actors Triptii Dimri and Siddhant Chaturvedi have proven that they are versatile performers who thrive when given the opportunity. For Triptii, it was in films such as Bulbbul (2020) and Laila Majnu (2018), whereas Siddhant left a lasting impression as MC Sher in Gully Boy (2019). So when it was announced that the two are coming together for the first time in Dhadak 2, a college romance where caste plays the villain, audiences were obviously intrigued. Well, their film arrived in theatres this Friday and has already dethroned Ahaan Panday and Aneet Padda’s Saiyaara. At least that’s what early reviews suggest.

After watching a first day show of Triptii Dimri and Siddhant Chaturvedi’s Dhadak 2, a netizen shared, “FACTS: #Dhadak2 will not be a bigger hit than #Saiyaara in terms of Box-office. But Dhadak 2 is a better film than Saiyaara for sure. DHADAK 2 ONE OF THE BEST WRITTEN AND PERFORMED FILM OF THE YEAR,” whereas another Twitter review read, “You cried at Saiyaara? Good. Now watch Dhadak 2 and cry for something real. This is the kind of cinema that actually says something No melodrama. No glam. Just the raw truth of caste, class, and injustice.”

Another impressed fan shared, “#Dhadak2 hits you and how!! I can’t really recall any recent movie which has been this effective in shedding light on a such a sensitive subject and showcase the brutality with such honesty. Amidst the Saiyaara craze, we’ve literally lost a movie that deserves way lot more!!! Plus #TriptiiDimri, in a genre like this where she excels, is the cherry on top. Her outburst scene and the pre climax portion is so well executed ,and its literally a blow to all her haters who’ve been spewing hate for her recent script choices. She’s so good as Vidhi ❤️.”

Ahaan and Aneet-starrer Saiyaara continues to rule the box office. But it looks like the Mohit Suri romance has paved the way for other Bollywood love stories amid the recent surge in action movies, with Dhadak 2 being an example. Are you planning to watch Triptii and Siddhant’s film after reading these rave reviews?

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Work to create a new access road for a football club has been completed in time for the start for the new season.

Mousehole AFC will now have direct access to the nearby B3315, after previously having a small single-lane track which had become pothole-ridden.

The club failed to raise the reported six-figure funds needed to build the road for Interiora Trungle Parc and The Prince of Wales saw a newspaper story about the club’s struggles and set up a consortium of businesses to fund the project in full.

Project lead Simon Taylor said after “months of hard work behind the scenes, and a month of incredible effort” seeing the road completed was “a real pinch-me moment”.

Mr Taylor said: “As a club we could not be more pleased, and I know that the local residents will soon see the benefits of this new access and from speaking to many, I know how much this will change their lives for the better.

“Thank you to everyone who has made this happen, and of course, a special mention to HRH Prince Wales for getting this momentous project underway.”

It’s hoped the new road will reduce congestion in the nearby village of Paul and provide easier access for supporters.

Work has finished and the road will be open for the club’s FA Cup fixture against Bridgwater United on Saturday afternoon.