Like 2020, year 2021 was also not one of the great years for people including our Bollywood celebs. While we saw COVID-19 second wave crisis taking a toll on everyone, we lost many celebs to the deadly virus like last year. Like the Covid, Bollywood too made it to the headlines every single day in 2021. From Siddharth Shukla’s demise to Aryan Khan’s arrest to Vicky Kaushal-Katrina Kaif’s wedding to Aishwarya Rai Bachchan getting summoned by ED, below are the biggest newsmakers of 2021 in Bollywood.
Here’s the newsmakers of the year 2021 for Bollywood.
Aryan Khan
Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan’s arrest by the Narcotics Control Bureau in a cruise drugs raid is one of the biggest newsmaker. He was arrested on October 3 and for 26 days he was in jail and grabbed the headlines every single day. He later got bail after a tough legal battle and came out of jail on October 30.
Vicky Kaushal-Katrina Kaif
Katrina-Vicky were in the news when the reports of their roka ceremony broke. Then reports of their destination wedding in Rajasthan started doing the rounds. Finally the couple tied the knot on December 9 at Six Senses Fort Barwara in Chauth Ka Barwara town of Sawai Madhopur. It was an intimate ceremony with only their families and close ones. The pics from their engagement, haldi, mehendi and wedding took the internet by storm.
Siddharth Shukla
Siddharth Shukla’s death sent shockwaves to the entire nation. The Bigg Boss 13 winner passed away in his sleep. Shehnaaz, who was very fond of Siddharth broke down and she equally trended along with Siddharth. Shehnaaz became Google’s Top Searched Female Personality of 2021 and the third most Googled personality in India.
Raj Kundra
Shilpa Shetty’s husband Raj Kundra was arrested in a pornography case. After two months in jail, Kundra was granted bail on a surety of Rs 50,000 with certain conditions. He became one of the biggest highlights of 2021.
Priyanka Chopra
Priyanka sent everyone in a tizzy when she dropped Jonas from her Instagram handle, that led to speculations of her split with Nick Jonas. Later, she quashed all these rumours with a comment on Nick’s workout video. She wrote, “Damn! I just died in your arms….”
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These two Bollywood divas got embroiled in controversies for their alleged connection with conman Sukesh Chandrashekar claiming that he gave them luxury cars, Hermes bracelets and Gucci handbags. Chandrashekhar was arrested in connection with a Rs 200 crore money laundering case and Enforcement Directorate summoned the actresses for questioning.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday (December 20) at its headquarters in central Delhi in a case linked to the 2016 Panama Papers case. She is alleged of money laundering for her involvement in an offshore entity/trust. She reportedly left the ED office after five hours of questioning.
Kangana Ranaut
Controversies and Kangana Ranaut go hand-in-hand. This year the actress’ Twitter account was suspended for violating rules. Kangana stirred up a hornet’s nest when she spoke at a media summit and gave the controversial statement that “India got true freedom only in 2014”. Several politicians, groups have demanded an apology from the actress and also made an appeal to revoke her Padma Shri award.