A | Vicky Kaushal is currently enjoying a personal high as he steps into fatherhood with wife Katrina Kaif. 2025 has been a year of many milestones for the actor. With his film Chhaava becoming one of the year’s highest-grossing film and welcoming his baby boy, he says that nothing compares to the joy of becoming a father.
In a candid interview with GQ India, Vicky shared that welcoming his baby boy in November has been the defining moment of his year. “Becoming a father is my biggest moment of 2025. It is a magical feeling,” he said. He went on to add that the experience has grounded him in ways he never expected. He admitted he always imagined he would react with overwhelming emotion, but instead found the transition deeply steadying and transformative.
The actor married Katrina Kaif in a beautifully intimate ceremony at Six Senses Fort Barwara in December 2021. He has been visibly glowing during public appearances. Riding on this high, Vicky greeted the paparazzi with folded hands at a recent awards event. He even hinted that the couple will reveal their son’s name soon.
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Vicky and Katrina’s love story began with a brief, playful interaction at an awards show that unexpectedly blossomed into a private romance. After years of keeping their relationship low-key, they tied the knot in 2021. Earlier this year in November, the couple shared their happiness with fans through a heartfelt announcement welcoming their “bundle of joy.
Vicky remains busy on the work front. After delivering the blockbuster Chhaava, which earned over ₹807 crore worldwide, he is now filming Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Love & War, co-starring Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt. The passion-driven drama is slated for a 2026 release.
Vicky also has Mahavatar in the pipeline. This project is shaping up to be an ambitious mythological epic in which he is expected to portray Lord Parashurama. Initially scheduled for Christmas 2026, the film has now been pushed to 2027.
Also Read: Vicky Kaushal Reveals Sunil Grover Introduced Him to Katrina Kaif。 London, Oct 18 (UNI) "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida" by Sri Lankan Shehan Karunatilaka, a supernatural satire set amid a murderous civil war in the island nation, has won the Booker Prize.
The novel is about a photographer who wakes up dead, with a week to ask his friends to find his photos and expose the brutality of war, BBC and other media reported.
Camilla, the Queen Consort, presented the prize, and the author said it had been "an honour and a privilege" to be on the shortlist.
Karunatilaka said as he accepted his prize: "My hope is that in the not too distant future... Sri Lanka has understood that these ideas of corruption and race-baiting and cronyism have not worked and will never work."
The writer said he decided in 2009 to write "a ghost story where the dead could offer their perspective" after the end of the Sri Lankan civil war, "when there was a raging debate over how many civilians died and whose fault it was".
"I hope it's in print in 10 years... if it is, I hope it's written in a Sri Lanka that learns from its stories, and that Seven Moons will be in the fantasy section of the bookshop, next to the dragons, the unicorns and will not be mistaken for realism or political satire," the BBC reported
He added that he had "self-censored" a couple of short stories after author Salman Rushdie was stabbed in August, having faced years of death threats for his novel "The Satanic Verses", which some Muslims see as blasphemous.
"I was in the process of publishing a collection of short stories when this incident happened, and I discovered a couple which I don't think was offensive to any religion," Karunatilaka said.
"But my wife said, can you not do that? You've got two young kids. This story is not that good. Just leave it out."
He added that "this is something that hangs over all of us if we're writing in South Asia, especially writing about politics or religion", the BBC said.
Head judge Neil MacGregor praised the "scope and the skill, the daring, the audacity and hilarity" of the novel, calling it an "afterlife noir" which "takes the reader on a rollercoaster journey through life and death".
He said the judges' decision had been unanimous, adding all of the shortlisted books were "all really about one question, and that is what's the point of an individual life?"
The prestigious £50,000 prize, for a single work of fiction published in the UK in English, also gives the other five writers on the shortlist £2,500 each.
"The Seven Moons of Maali" is Karunatilaka's second novel, having previously won awards including the Commonwealth Book Prize for his debut book Chinaman, which was called the "second best cricket book of all time" by cricketers' almanac Wisden.
Born in 1975, the writer has also worked as an advertising copywriter, and his songs, scripts and stories have been published in Rolling Stone, GQ and National Geographic.
MacGregor, a former director of London's National Gallery and the British Museum, added that the judges read all 170 books put forward for the prize, then whittled them down to 30. They then re-read those, before deciding on the final six, which they read for a third time, the report said.
The other nominees were: "Glory" by NoViolet Bulawayo, "The Trees" by Percival Everett, "Treacle Walker" by Alan Garner, "Small Things Like These" by Claire Keegan and "Oh William!" by Elizabeth Strout.
The Booker-winning novel tells the story of the photographer of its title, who in 1990 wakes up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. With no idea who killed him, Maali has seven moons to contact the people he loves most and lead them to a hidden cache of photos of civil war atrocities that will rock Sri Lanka, the Daily Mirror reported.
The judges were unanimous in their decision to award the prize to Karunatilaka, according to the chair.
Receiving his prize, Karunatilaka addressed the people of Sri Lanka in Tamil and Sinhalese. He summarised what he said in English: “I write these books for you… Let’s keep sharing these stories.”
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is published by the independent press Sort of Books. This year is the first time a book by the publisher has been longlisted for the prize.
Karunatilaka has become the second Sri Lankan-born author to win, following Michael Ondaatje, who won in 1992 with "The English Patient".
In his Guardian review, Tomiwa Owolade said the book’s “scenarios are often absurd … but executed with a humour and pathos that ground the reader”. He added: “Karunatilaka has done artistic justice to a terrible period in his country’s history.”
Karunatilaka, was born in Galle, Sri Lanka, in 1975 and grew up in Colombo.
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