बलेनो ऑन रोड प्राइसWhen director Hansal Mehta set out to make the dark comedy Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar!! the filmmaker had no idea that it would not only cost him his friendship with Manoj Bajpayee, the lead actor of the 2000 film, but also land him in a series of unfortunate situations in the months to come. The film failed to impress audiences and critics, tanked at the box office, and pushed Mehta towards bankruptcy and alcoholism. “I had an inkling that the reviews would be bad, but I didn’t know they would be so bad. It broke my spirit but I learnt my lessons, too. The film didn’t work. We had borrowed money to make the film thinking if it worked, we would be able to repay the loan,” the filmmaker said in a recent interview with Siddharth Kannan.AAP has fallen back on 35-year-old Pathak, who has been its trusted lieutenant since the party contested its first election in 2013. “There are no big challenges right now. The candidates have been in touch with area MLAs… Till the Congress did not announce its candidates, our MLAs and councillors were assigned duties in the four seats that we are contesting in but these duties were not permanent. Now, we are all working towards a common, larger goal, especially after Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest,” said Pathak.Fashion designer Saisha Shinde, earlier known as Swapnil Shinde, shared a note on “feeling more confident” ever since she came out as a transgender woman.