Sobhita Dhulipala in ‘Cheekatilo’ trailer | Photo Credit: Prime Video The trailer of Sobhita Dhulipala’s upcoming Telugu crime-thriller, Cheekatilo was unveiled by the makers on Tuesday, January 13, 2026. Directed by Sharan Kopishetty, who co-wrote it with Chandra Pemmaraju, the film also stars Viswadev Rachakonda, Chaitanya Visalakshmi, Esha Chawla, Jhansi, Aamani, and Vadlamani Srinivas in…
A still from ‘One Piece’ Season 2 | Photo Credit: Netflix Netflix has released a new trailer for Season 2 of One Piece, offering the first extended look at the Baroque Works storyline and confirming the arrival of several major characters as the series heads into the Grand Line. Set to premiere on March 10,…
Last Updated:January 13, 2026, 09:37 IST The film follows Sandhya, played by Sobhita Dhulipala, a criminology graduate and true crime podcaster. Sobhita Dhulipala marks her return to Telugu cinema with Cheekatilo. (Photo Credit : X) After her acclaimed role in the 2018 spy thriller Goodachari, Sobhita Dhulipala is set to make a comeback to Telugu…
Dancer Srinidhi Chidambaram | Photo Credit: Thamodharan B Srinidhi Chidambaram excitedly shows me a video on her phone. It shows her as a sprightly young child dancing in a Madras sabha in the 1970s. Cut to 2026, and she is still at it. Ushering her 50th year in Bharatanatyam, Srinidhi’s busy Margazhi calendar included two…
This festive week for Tamil cinema has been nothing short of a masala fest — but not the usual kind. The scheduled releases of two tentpole films were marked with controversies and last-minute twists, with the silver lining being the coming together of the film industry in support of one of its most loyal sons….
The winners of the 83rd Golden Globes delivered a substantive early bellwether for the 2026 Oscars race with Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another seizing momentum across categories, Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet basking in critical affirmation, and Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent making a compelling case to lead the international conversation. With wins across film,…
Mark Ruffalo, Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall | Photo Credit: AFP Some celebrities donned anti-ICE pins at the Golden Globes on Sunday in tribute to Renee Good, who was shot and killed in her car by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer this week in Minneapolis. The black-and-white pins displayed slogans like “BE GOOD” and “ICE…
Popular films that raise uncomfortable political questions or involve actors with stakes in active politics seem to invariably get caught up in issues related to certification and release. The controversies surrounding the release of two Tamil films, Parasakthi (a historical-fictional retelling of events coinciding with the anti-Hindi agitation in Tamil Nadu in the 1960s) and…
Actor Vivaan Shah is at his optimum zest as we speak to him more than a week after the release of Sriram Raghavan’s anti-war drama, Ikkis. There is a chirpy excitement in Vivaan’s voice as he recalls how he got associated with the film. “It was a stroke of luck,” he says. Vivaan has not…
A still from Watusi Zombie! | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT When debutant filmmaker Cyril Abraham Dennis’s film Watusi Zombie! premiered at the 29th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) in 2024 in the Malayalam Cinema Today category, it was an actualisation of a dream he had since class XII. The feature began as a short…
