Things We Learned From Bollywood In 2016

Wear your pregnancy like a statement necklace

Outside Bollywood, it’s not uncommon for a pregnant woman to go about her routine life without making a big deal, but when a top leading lady does the same thing, it’s radical.

Can you blame us?

Actors are known to be obsessively secretive about such things. Except Kareena Kapoor Khan marked a refreshing change flaunting her glorious baby bump on magazines, red carpets and studios.

She and hubby Saif Ali Khan are now proud parents to baby Taimur.

Coincidentally, her ex-Shahid Kapoor also turned daddy a few months ago after wife Mira delivered a baby girl. They’ve named her Misha, a combination of the first half of their names.

Never resist the urge to give in a good fight

Everything’s fair in war and love, it seems. Nobody believes this more strongly than Bollywood.

And so Kangana Ranaut and Hrithik Roshan crossed swords over a romantic liaison most of us weren’t aware of, until it reached its ugly conclusion over obsessive emails and interfering daddies to the point of lawsuits and wild disclosures from forgotten boyfriends.

Meanwhile, fiery filmmaker Anurag Kashyap gave censor chief Pankaj Nihalani an earful over the Udta Punjab’s 89 cuts controversy. Then its print also leaked out right before release but made money at the box office.

Ajay Devgn and Karan Johar’s big Diwali confrontation with Shivaay and Ae Dil Hai Mushkil got downright dirty after Kamaal R Khan accused of K Jo paying his Rs 25 lakh to tweet negatively about Devgn’s action drama.

If KRK ever held any credibility at all, he lost every bit of it after this nasty episode.