Pankaj Tripathi. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Pankaj Tripathi breaks the mould as he turns producer with the recently released comedy-drama series, Perfect Family. There is a Zen-like composure in his voice as we have a telephonic conversation and Pankaj says that he understands what it is like to produce a project. “It is like…
The film festival will open with the Dutch film, ‘Memory Lane’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Hyderabad will host the 30th European Union Film Festival (EUFF), from December 5 to 14. The EUFF comes to the city following its earlier editions this year in New Delhi and Bengaluru. The Hyderabad edition will open with the…
Shahid Parvez lets his music to 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…
Diljit Dosanjh in the first look from Border 2 | Photo Credit: tseriesfilms/Instagram A new poster of Diljit Dosanjh from the upcoming war-actioner, Border 2 was unveiled by the makers on Monday, December 1, 2025. Directed by Anurag Singh, who has earlier helmed Kesari, Punjab 1984, Jatt & Juliet and Dil Bole Hadippa!, the film…
A.R. Rahman | Photo Credit: PTI The 99th annual music festival of the Music Academy at Chennai, scheduled to begin on December 15, 2025, will be inaugurated by music composer and Oscar Award winner A.R. Rahman. “He is an icon of music. We decided to invite him because he is a renowned music composer and…
Nageswaran Temple, known as ‘Kudanthai Keezhkottam,’ at Kumbakonam in Thanjavur district | Photo Credit: R. Vengadesh An overwhelming silence prevails in the inner precincts of the Nageswaran Temple, known as ‘Kudanthai Keezhkottam,’ at Kumbakonam in Thanjavur district. Sung in praise by the Saivite saints, the temple, together with the karakoil designed like a chariot, stands…
A.R. Rahman | Photo Credit: PTI The 99th annual music festival of the Music Academy at Chennai, scheduled to begin on December 15, 2025, will be inaugurated by music composer and Oscar Award winner A.R. Rahman. “He is an icon of music. We decided to invite him because he is a renowned music composer and…
Going into Left-Handed Girl with the aftertaste of Anora’s clean sweep still clinging to Sean Baker’s name gave me a brief, involuntary flinch. But thankfully, the dissonance fades quickly. Taiwanese-American filmmaker and long-Baker collaborator, Shih-Ching Tsou’s voice floods her directorial debut with an eye-level empathy that shrugs off Baker’s recent excesses and shields the film…
Miles Teller in the film | Photo Credit: A24/YouTube There are different parts of David Freyne’s Eternity that can pull viewers out of the film. The first is the question of why everyone looked young and happening in the afterlife. That was quickly explained by the AC (afterlife coordinator). People apparently choose to appear as…
In 1974, he had to jump over a wall to listen to singer M.S. Subbulakshmi in his native Ernakulam. Barely 10 years later, he was her regular mridangist. For almost five decades now, Krishnan Visweswara Prasad, this year’s Sangeetha Choodamani awardee from Sri Krishna Gana Sabha, has been a steady and dignified presence in the…
