A still from ‘Fallout’ Season 2 | Photo Credit: Prime Video Prime Video has unveiled the new trailer for Season 2 of Fallout, and the wasteland is on the brink of a full-blown civil war. The new footage confirms that the series will head straight into one of the franchise’s most iconic settings — New…
There is no shot of Taj Mahal in Kanu Behl’s Agra. There are no sprawling gardens that dot the city of monuments. Instead, the fearless chronicler of our society’s hidden fractures and fault lines focuses on the cramped spaces, repressed desires, and the incommodious mindscapes in the mofussil town that the city holds beneath its touristy topsoil. It…
More than a decade ago, the Hindi film Vicky Donorsparked conversations on sperm donation, fertility issues and sexual health, and addressed social stigma around these topics with sensitivity. It triggered a wave of films that discussed taboos with a dash of humour — from Good Newwzto Shubh Mangal Saavdhaanand Mimi — spawning a sub-genre of…
Director and writer V. Sekar, whose comedy films portrayed middle and lower-middle class lives and aspirations in Tamil cinema, passed away in Chennai on Friday after a brief illness. He was 72. Mr. Sekar was well-known for capturing the mundane lives of working class and middle-income families in a remarkable manner, casually using comedy to…
Students of Jigyasa Giri performing ‘Kaalam Uruttum Dhaayam’. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Mahal’, a festival by Devaniya School of Kathak, was a celebration of a decade-long pursuit by Jigyasa Giri in promoting Kathak in Chennai. The three-day festival, held recently at Sri Krishna Gana Sabha, featured a range of programmes — Bharatanatyam, Kuchipudi, Kathak,…
Actor Kamini Kaushal, one of Hindi cinema’s earliest female stars who began her career with the classic Neecha Nagar in 1946 and went on to act in a host of films right till 2022, has died in her Mumbai home, a close family friend said. She was 98. Amongst the industry’s highest paid actress in…
Should an artist refine his craft for art’s sake, or can he adapt it to suit audiences who respond with applause and make the work commercially viable? And what happens when that applause begins to blunt the craft itself? Kaantha, the Tamil film written and directed by Selvamani Selvaraj and produced by Dulquer Salmaan and…
Five years after making Mohandas (2021) based on Bolwar Mammad Kunhi’s book Papu Gandhi, Bapu Gandhi Aada Kathe as well as My Experiments with the Truth, filmmaker P Seshadri is busy with Ruby Cube. Based on a short story of the same name and written by his son Pratham Seshadri, it centres around present-day society and…
A still from ‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’ | Photo Credit: Lionsgate Jack Wilder (Dave Franco), the sleight-of-hand specialist, took the words from our mouths and minds when he says the pandemic, AI and other things have created a need for magic. While magicians talk of illusions and deception being their stock in…
There was a sense of comforting familiarity at K-Town 3.0, featuring Taemin, Super Junior D&E, ONEWE, Bang Yedam and JEY. The audience, a mix of GenZ and millennials, knew why it had gathered. After all, this was the music they discussed in school corridors, college canteens, during late-night phone calls, the music that lived on…
