Vilayath Budha: The Sandalwood Survival, an open-world mobile game released in February, has many firsts to its credit. Not only is it possibly India’s first movie-inspired open-world game (for mobiles), it is also a first-of-its-kind collaboration between a production house, Urvasi Theatres, and gaming company, Offline Human Studios. It also features Prithviraj Sukumaran, one of…
Actor Priyanka Chopra. | Photo Credit: TOM NICHOLSON Days after headlining the international film The Bluff, actor Priyanka Chopra on Friday (March 06, 2026) was announced as one of the presenters for this year’s Oscars ceremony. Expressing happiness over this honour, Priyanka took to Instagram and shared this exciting update with her fans and followers….
A still from ‘Beef’ Season 2. | Photo Credit: NETFLIX The makers of Beef Season 2 have dropped the trailer of the series. Created by Lee Sung Jin and produced by A24, the show will return to Netflix on April 16. The second season introduces a fresh conflict centred on two couples whose lives become…
Nana Patekar in the show | Photo Credit: Amazon MX Player Veteran actor Nana Patekar is set to make his streaming debut with Prakash Jha’s upcoming political thriller, Sankalp, the trailer of which was unveiled by the makers on March 5, 2026. The series also stars Sanjay Kapoor, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, Neeraj Kabi, Kubrra Sait…
The poster of Local Times | Photo Credit: Prime Video On March 6, 2026, streaming service Prime Video announced the premiere date of the upcoming Tamil comedy-drama series, Local Times. It will be released on the platform on March 13. Directed by Naveen George Thomas, the show stars Rishikanth, Abdool Lee, Maurish Dass, Adwitha Arumugam,…
Written and directed by Gowri Ramnarayan, What She Said explores the stories of six women from The Ramayana. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement It is quite symbolic to watch a play by women actors directed by a woman playwright on International Women’s Day. Written and directed by Gowri Ramnarayan, What She Said provides a voice…
In cinema logic, sharks, especially great whites, make excellent characters in animation. From Bruce in Finding Nemo to Mr Shark, the master of disguise in The Bad Guys, these apex predators turn their great gummy mouths with many pointy teeth into jolly good fellows. In Hoppers, the 30th animation film from Pixar, there is a…
A goth-punk feminist revival of Mary Shelley refracted through noir fatalism, vaudevillian spectacle, and a lovers-on-the-run romance that echoes the outlaw mythology of Bonnie and Clyde sounds like the sort of delirious cinematic cocktail that could only thrive under the watch of a filmmaker eager to test the limits of studio indulgence, and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s…
Viineet Kumar Siingh in the show | Photo Credit: Netflix At this point, The Viral Fever’s (TVF), never-ending competitive exams storytelling has become so laboriously quantitative that there is little new to say that hasn’t been echoed before. The production house has begun to function as the same mass-producing entity it has vociferously stood against…
It’s way past 10 p.m., and the Kadri jaathre (mela) is on in Mangaluru, Karnataka. There’s a nip in the January air, and people walk into the more-than-1,000-year-old illuminated Manjunatha temple painted a vivid blue. Suddenly, there’s an echo of percussion sounds — the night’s Yakshagana has begun. People take their seats as Shri Sai Kala Yaksha…
