Vidya Balan has confirmed her reunion with Saif Ali Khan in Ritesh Batra’s upcoming dramedy, Long Years Ago, ending weeks of speculation over the casting. The actress expressed excitement about reuniting with Saif nearly two decades after their debut film together, Parineeta (2005).

Manoj Muntashir has defended the songs of Adipurush after a report compared them to Ramayana's latest track, Mangal Rang. Acknowledging the film's flaws, he maintained that its songs had devotion, dedication and poetry, and said he did not write qawwalis