Traditionally, the year-end holiday season has been the time for two classic Hollywood templates — the Christmas-themed family movie and the old-fashioned romcom. Of these, the former has been delivering diminishing returns across the last decade. The latter, however, is showing signs of recovery after a poor beginning in the 2020s. And the latest symptom…
Musician Asal Kolaar at Snapchat Chennai Creator Connect | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The excitement is palpable at Chennai’s Snapchat Creator Connect. With the place teeming with Gen-Z, the buzz is on how content and social media trends can shape societal narratives. The numbers tell a story: 90 percent of their user base in India…
M. Saravanan. File | Photo Credit: N. Ramakrishnan A glorious era in celluloid wound to a close when producer M. Saravanan, 86, passed away in Chennai on Thursday. For cinephiles, with their collective memories harking back to a storied past right from the 1940s, AVM Productions is a banner that will continue to remain close…
Remembering the composers who enriched the Carnatic music repertoire with their Tamil songs | Photo Credit: Joseph Gnana Sathish During the height of the Tamil Isai movement, when Sabhas, musicians and patrons were daggers drawn and hurling imprecations at each other, the Madras Music Academy invited Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar to deliver a speech under the…
From the play | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement What makes the play Y unique is that it does not have a “story”. The narrative is built by a bunch of actors, who devised their own expression, through months of rehearsals. A devised physical theatre work, Y traces the cycle of life through the memories human…
A Division Bench of Justices directed the High Court Registry to list the present execution petition along with other connected petitions for further hearing of the matter on December 8, 2025. | Photo: The Hindu, X/@StudioGreen2. The Madras High Court has restrained the release of Karthi starrer Vaa Vaathiyar pursuant to a plea made by…
Sitarist Anoushka Shankar. File | Photo Credit: PTI A “devastated and truly disturbed” Anoushka Shankar has said her sitar was damaged on an Air India flight, telling the airline in a social media post that “you’re the country this music belongs to” and this was the first time in 15 or 17 years that this…
The English writer C.P. Snow argued in 1959 that modern intellectual life had split into two camps. Literary intellectuals were arrayed on one side and scientists on the other, separated by what Snow called a “gulf of mutual incomprehension”. He worried that this divide damaged public life because each group dismissed what the other knew…
Indonesian filmmaker Garin Nugroho Acclaimed Indonesian filmmaker Garin Nugroho’s works will be screened under the Contemporary Filmmaker in Focus section at the 30th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK), to be held in the capital from December 12 to 19. Mr. Nugroho is regarded as one of the most influential voices in contemporary world cinema,…
Despite crossing nearly three decades as a musician, veteran singer-songwriter Lucky Ali politely says he has nothing to be proud of, “but be humble about the fact that we have journeyed this far, with a lot of love. It is a gift that I did not deserve, but somehow, I got it.” Celebrating his soulful…
