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When Anil Kapoor was offered a lead role in the Hindi adaptation of UK drama series The Night Manager, his first thought was how he could apply what he’d learned while making the Indian version of U.S. crime drama 24.

Kapoor plays the role of an international arms dealer, played by Hugh Laurie in the original English-language series, based on the John le Carre novel, while Aditya Roy Kapur has been cast as the solider turned hotel night manager infiltrating his circle, played by Tom Hiddleston in the original show.

After being approached by Disney+ Hotstar content chief Gaurav Banerjee to play the role, he started watching the English series, which had been broadcast by BBC and AMC in 2016 and streamed by Amazon Prime Video in India. “I was impressed by the original, but we had some very strong writers and talent attached to the remake from an early stage,...

Warning: Spoilers for The Crown Season 5Mohamed Al-Fayed (Salim Daw) was introduced in The Crown season 5, episode 3, and here's how rich the Egyptian billionaire is in real life. Mohamed, or "Mou Mou" as his friends call him, is the father of Dodi Fayed (Khalid Abdalla), who is destined to become Princess Diana's (Elizabeth Debicki) lover and to die in a Paris car crash with the Princess of Wales on August 31, 1997. The Crown season 5 devoted an entire episode to Mohamed Al-Fayed, a rare occurrence for a non-member of the royal family that signifies Mou Mou's importance.

The real-life Mohamed Al-Fayed is a billionaire whose net worth in 2022 is 1.9-billion, according to Forbes. By comparison, Forbes listed the net worth of Queen Elizabeth II (Imelda Staunton) in 2022 at 426 million. As The Crown season 5 depicts, Mohamed purchased The Ritz Hotel for 30 million n 1979.. His money also financed the Academy Award-winning film for Best Picture,...

Timothy Leary, the rock-star professor of 1960s acid-head mysticism, had a grin that said a lot about him. He was quite handsome, with that mane of silver-dark hair, the jutting chin and Irish eyes, that gleaming wall-of-teeth smile. He looked like a Kennedy brother who never was — a counterculture guru who could have doubled as a politician. The smile is part of what made Leary such an effective Pied Piper. He always seemed to be saying, “I’m tripping my brains out and having the time of my life!” Yet you didn’t have to look long to register that the Leary grin seemed inordinately pleased with itself. It flashed on and off (it was always on for the cameras), and he had a way of beaming that was more than a little unctuous, à la Liberace. Leary never stopped talking about how LSD was going to free everyone, but...