When he rose to fame with his comedy talk show in 2013, Kapil Sharma’s jokes had little conscience. With a sharp rhythm in his delivery and a familiar, middle-class appeal in his personality, Kapil often evoked laughs at the expense of others. The powerless bore the brunt of his antics. Yet, there was something special…
The multifaceted scholar will receive the Musicologist Award for 2025 from The Music Academy, Chennai. Source link
A still from Chopin, a Sonata in Paris A modern trance beat is not something one would expect to hear in the background score of a period movie on a legendary 19th century musician. This choice of music, incongruous with its settings, ushers us into Polish filmmaker Michal Kwiecinski’s Chopin, a Sonata in Paris, which…
While Khatija accompanied by Kalyani Nair’s Indian Choral Ensemble, and the Sunshine Orchestra String Quartet. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement In a world increasingly unsettled by noise and dissonance, composer-singer Khatija Rahman emerges as a voice of solace. Her recent concert ‘The Garden of Echoes’ at The Museum Theatre, Chennai, offered something the audience did…
Echoes of Earth, one of the greenest musical events in the country is back in Bengaluru. Titled Sixth Sense, this eighth edition of the festival centres around the innate ability of all living beings to adapt and survive. To be held on December 13 and 14, Echoes 2025 will see as many as 30 artistes…
For most of his growing years in Los Angeles, Aditya Prakash was the ‘Indian kid’ who sang classical Carnatic music when his peers were discovering pop and hip-hop. When he visited Chennai, every year to study under stalwarts, he was the ‘American boy’ with an accent and appearance that didn’t quite match the expected mould…
Talk about a provocative tale of women hyping women to kick off this year’s International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK). Spanish-Mexican film Ruido (meaning noise) — in the World Cinema category — initially conjures up the small world around its affable protagonist, which later matures into a canvas probing cultural and social subtleties. Lati, played…
How much do I love thee, let me count the ways, and no disrespect whatsoever to the brilliant Ms Browning. Rian Johnson’s third Knives Out mystery, Wake Up Dead Man, is a multi-layered delight. There is the iridescent Daniel Craig as a modern-day Hercule Poirot with his three-piece suit, floppy hair, oversized glasses and strange…
It’s a chill evening and Delhi’s iconic Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium is lit in more ways than one. A girl, in black and silver, gracefully takes her spot on the stage behind a massive drum. Her diminutive stature belies her strength. As she begins to play a passionate beat on the drums, the sound echoes through…
After weeks of shrill, strident films, The Great Shamshuddin Family offers the warmth of a quilt and the taste of ginger tea in a Delhi winter. Nearly 15 years after Peepli Live, Anusha Rizvi returns with a day-long glimpse into the life of a modern Indian Muslim family that is achingly human, steadfastly hopeful, and consistently humorous. Carrying…
