For Telugu cinema, 2025 was a year of split screens with glittering highs at the box office on one side, and a shadowy underworld of leaks, hacks and digital theft on the other. While some films soared and others sank, the real plot twist unfolded far away from theatre halls. Behind the scenes, a coordinated,…
A still from ‘Supergirl’ | Photo Credit: Warner Bros Warner Bros. and DC Studios have released the first trailer for Supergirl, giving audiences their first full look at Milly Alcock’s take on Kara Zor-El ahead of the film’s June 26 theatrical debut. The trailer positions Alcock’s Supergirl far from the polished optimism often associated with…
The screening of Rajinikanth’s ‘Padayappa’ in Rohini Silver Screens, Koyambedu | Photo Credit: Srinivasa Ramanujam December 12 has always been a special day for fans of Rajinikanth. This year, it is extra special. For, even as the Tamil superstar turns 75, his 1999 blockbuster Padayappa has re-released to packed houses. At Chennai’s Rohini Silver Screens,…
For almost the entirety of Kaathirippu, the protagonist David, played by Jitheesh Raichel Samuel, is repairing what appears to be a radio — tightening its screws, setting its parts into grooves, cautiously mending a once-functional machine. David’s workshop is filled with trinkets like these, which may have once been deemed working. He devotes his days…
Kunal Nayyar in ‘Christmas Karma’ | Photo Credit: True Bit Entertainment/YouTube Christmas jumpers are all I can remember of this film. As this reimagining of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol dragged on with sickly-sweet sentimentality and song, my eyes constantly tried to work out whether those snowflakes and reindeer were printed on the jerseys or,…
A still from the film | Photo Credit: Netflix/YouTube One’s enjoyment of Man vs. Baby is directly proportional to one’s fondness for that specific brand of Rowan Atkinson humour. If one enjoys his bumbling social awkwardness, then this sequel to 2022’s Man vs. Bee, following the further adventures of hapless house-sitter Trevor Bingley (Atkinson) will…
Shahid Parvez lets his music speak for him. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan had his audience totally hooked at his recent concert in Delhi. In the audience was Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, his senior by a decade. This concert was different — from an incredibly precise five-note ‘meends’ and fast ‘taans,’…
Lionel Messi and Shah Rukh Khan | Photo Credit: teamshahrukhkhan/Instagram Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan on Saturday met Argentine footballer Lionel Messi, who is currently in India for his “GOAT Tour”. The player is set to visit four cities, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Mumbai, and Delhi, during his tour. In the videos circulating on the internet, Shah…
Radhika Apte in ‘Saali Mohabbat’. | Photo Credit: ZEE5/YouTube Some stories are best left short. Making her directorial debut, actor Tisca Chopra turns her piquant short film Chutney (2016) into a full meal, but after the initial bite and aesthetic garnishing, this simmering noir tastes flat. Those who watched Chutney would remember that it is about an ordinary woman’s…
Veteran flautist C.A. Sreedhara. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement C.A. Sreedhara is a renowned musician (flautist and vocalist), composer, writer, researcher, art historian and musicologist. He was born to musicians C.S. Satya Lakshmi and C.K. Anantharamaiah on October 6, 1961 in Chilkunda village near Mysuru. His grandfather, flautist and Vedic scholar C.T. Sreenivasamurthy Muralidhar, was…
