Darshan in ‘The Devil’. | Photo Credit: Saregama Kannada/YouTube The makers of The Devil have released the trailer for the movie. Starring Darshan, the Kannada actioner is directed by Prakash Veer. The movie is set to hit the screens on December 11, 2025. The Devil is set for a grand opening even as Darshan remains…
The poster of Four More Shots Please! | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The fourth and final season of Sayani Gupta and Kirti Kulhari’s comedy-drama series, Four More Shots Please! will be released on Prime Video on December 19, the makers announced on Friday, December 5, 2025. The series has been directed by Arunima Sharma and…
Netflix has struck a deal with Warner Bros Discovery to buy the legacy Hollywood giant’s studio and streaming business for $72 billion. The acquisition, announced on Friday (December 5, 2025), would bring two of the industry’s biggest players in film and TV under one roof. Beyond its namesake television and motion picture division, Warner owns…
Aneet Padda (left) and Ahaan Panday (right) | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Saiyaaraactors Ahaan Panday and Aneet Padda are India’s most popular stars of 2025, trailed by Aamir Khan, Ishaan Khatter, Rashmika Mandanna and Triptii Dimri, as per online movie database IMDb. Ahaan and Aneet claimed the top two positions while director Mohit Suri ranked…
In 2025, Lord of Mysteries turned into the rare Chinese donghua that broke through everywhere at once. Adapted from Cuttlefish That Loves Diving’s hit web novel, the series streamed on Crunchyroll in more than 190 countries, drawing in both anime viewers and readers who had never touched Chinese web fiction. The story follows Zhou Mingrui,…
SCIFF festival director Syed Sultan Ahmed “Children are our toughest critics,” says animators Ketan Pal and Megha Kulkarni, following the screening of their animated short films at the School Cinema International Film Festival (SCIFF). The eighth edition of SCIFF which ran from November 14 to 30, saw entries from over 25 countries around the world…
Recently, the Bangalore Creative Circus at Yeshwantpur held a Sound Healing Session featuring instruments such as the didgeridoo and Tibetan singing bowls. While guitars and pianos are commonly taught, there are many unusual and lesser-known musical instruments that artistes, teachers and communities in the city perform with. A look at a few of them: Digeridoo…
Ranveer Singh in Dhurandhar | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement As Ranveer Singh’s much-awaited action-thriller, Dhurandhar was released in theatres today (December 5, 2025), the makers unveiled the release date of its sequel in the post-credits sequence. Dhurandhar 2 will be released in theatres on March 19, 2026. Written and helmed by URI: The Surgical Strike…
A still from ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 2’ | Photo Credit: Universal Pictures There is something inherently cheerful about a horror film in December. After Emma Tammi’s Five Nights at Freddy’s (2023) was a gargantuan hit despite being savaged by critics, the possibility of a sequel was strong. Based on Scott Cawthon’s eponymous video game…
Bhadra Rajin with Dr Divya S Iyer | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT As she joins the list of singers who have turned composers with ‘Sakhi’, a soulful track, Bhadra Rajin says it happened because “several small things came together”. The first was raag Thilak Kamod, which she learnt from her guru, Ustad Faiyaz Khan. “I…
