Lady Gaga says her fiance Michael Polansky is her ‘best friend’

Los Angeles, Oct 1 (IANS) Singer-actress Lady Gaga has talked about how “everything” changed when she fell in love with fiance Michael Polansky, whom she calls her best friend.She told People magazine: “I just love my fiancé so much. He’s my best friend. He’s my partner, and I just feel like when you are with your best friend, everything changes.”The couple have collaborated on her new record ‘Harlequin’, which is also a companion album to upcoming movie ‘Joker: Folie a Deux’.

The 38-year-old singer said that it “just felt right” for this to be the first project together.

She said: “It’s just the first time that we decided to fully just go into it and do it. It just felt right. We were both so excited. We were all warmed up and ready to go.”Gaga recently said that she thought her businessman beau was joking when he proposed, because he chose to pop the question on April Fool’s Day, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

Speaking on ‘The Graham Norton Show’, she said: “He proposed on April 1st, and I thought he was joking. Then when we went to the Olympics, we were filmed saying hello to the Prime Minister (Gabriel Attal) and I was caught on camera saying, ‘This is my fiancé’. I had wanted to keep it a secret!”In August, a source revealed that Gaga and Michael are “already thinking about wedding plans”.The loved-up couple are actually weighing up the idea of tying the knot in Europe.

The ‘Poker Face’ hitmaker and her beau hope to get married “sooner than later”.A source said: “They are already thinking about wedding plans and talking about possibly having a destination wedding in Europe. They’d love to get married sooner than later and both want to start a family.”

Tabu expresses gratitude as ‘Haider’ turns 10

Mumbai, Oct 2 (IANS) Filmmaker Vishal Bhardwaj’s 2014 political crime thriller “Haider” completed years in Hindi cinema on Wednesday. Actress Tabu, who played Ghazala Meer in the film, expressed her gratitude and celebrated the moment.Tabu on Wednesday took to Instagram, where she shared a video featuring moments from the film, which also stars Shahid Kapoor, Kay Kay Menon, Irrfan Khan and Shraddha Kapoor among many others.She wrote: “#Haider Oct 2 , 2014. A decade of all that followed…Thank you

@vishalrbhardwaj @shahidkapoor @utvfilms @shraddhakapoor @vishaldadlani @kaykaymenon02 @dollyahluwalia.”

“Haider”, which is a modern-day adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragedy “Hamlet”, was set amidst the insurgency-hit Kashmir conflicts of 1995. It is also based on Basharat Peer’s memoir “Curfewed Night”.The film revolved around Shahid’s character Haider, a young student and a poet, who returns to Kashmir at the peak of the conflict to seek answers about his father’s disappearance and ends up being tugged into the politics of the state.

The film marked the third installment of Bhardwaj’s Shakespearean trilogy after 2003’s “Maqbool” and the “Omkara,” which was released in 2006.
The film was first screened at the 19th Busan International Film Festival. Upon its release in 2014, it was a major commercial success at the box-office, garnering attention from the media due to its controversial subject matter.

“Haider” was the first Indian film to win the People’s Choice Award at the Rome Film Festival. At the 62nd National Film Awards, Haider won a leading five awards.Talking about her work, Tabu was last seen on screen in the romantic thriller “Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha” directed by Neeraj Pandey. The film stars Ajay Devgn and Tabu in their tenth film together. The movie also featured Jimmy Sheirgill, Shantanu Maheshwari and Saiee Manjrekar.

The film story follows a couple whose love story spans two decades from 2000 to 2023, delving into the emotional depth and evolving dynamics of their relationship over two decades.