As a reviewer, one sometimes likes to be surprised and sometimes is happy knowing what is coming. Gen V falls in the latter category, where you are primed to be shocked out of your skull by extreme violence (including eye trauma, sigh), graphic sex, salty language, cutting social satire and edgy humour, and are suitably…
Is man the most heinous animal of all? That’s the thought that arises as you watch Thandakaaranyam, director Athiyan Athirai’s emotionally heavy and extensively told social drama. In his sophomore film, theIrandam Ulagaporin Kadaisi Gundu director juxtaposes the dreams, naivety, and helplessness of his tender-hearted characters with the unjust and gruesome reality they are forced…
Uttara Chousalkar | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement It has been nearly a decade since Thane-based classical and Baul musician Uttara Chousalkar last performed in Hyderabad. Understandably, she is elated to return for two concerts in the city. Organised by Tatvaa Arts, the programmes — Swar Sandhya and a morning concert as part of the Gayan…
Lakshya as Aasman Singh and Raghav Juyal as Parvaiz in ‘The Ba***dS of Bollywood’. | Photo Credit: NETFLIX Lakshya, Raghav Juyal, Sahher Bambba and Anya Singh — the young leads of The Ba***ds of Bollywood — are industry outsiders who have all struggled for close to a decade before getting to do Aaryan Khan’s much…
On August 28, director Dominic Arun had already left for Dubai when word began to spread about his second feature, Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra. The film, headlined by Kalyani Priyadarshan, slipped quietly into theatres worldwide that morning, jostling for Onam footfalls against heavyweight releases starring Mohanlal and Fahadh Faasil. When the crew gathered in Dubai to…
Among Tamil and Malayalam films, the share of A-rated titles was under 7%. | Photo Credit: TH India’s censor boards certified nearly 18,000 films between 2017 and 2025, and the ratings reveal sharp contrasts across film industries. Among the major ones, Malayalam cinema emerged as the most “family-friendly” in this period, with the largest share…
Bollywood actors Saurabh Shuklam, Akshay Kumar, Arshad Warsi, and others during the trailer launch of their upcoming film Jolly LLB 3. | Photo Credit: ANI The Bombay High Court on Wednesday (September 17, 2025) dismissed a plea against Akshay Kumar and Arshad Warsi’s courtroom drama “Jolly LLB 3” alleging mockery of judges and lawyers, noting…
Singer-songwriter Jonita Gandhi. | Photo Credit: joniamusic/Instagram After two editions in Mumbai that broughtover40,000 people together, Nykaaland is landing in Delhi-NCR from November 7-9for its third edition. The event is co-produced by Nykaa and BookMyShow Live. In a release, the organisers said that the three-day festival at NSIC grounds, Okhla, Delhi NCR, will bring the…
Vishnuvardhan, whose 75th birth anniversary falls on Thursday, is celebrated as the “Sahasa Simha” (brave lion) of the Kannada film industry by his fans. The monicker, however, does not quite capture the wide range of roles he played. His last few movies, before his death in 2009, prove that his talent was not on the…
First look poster of ‘Maa Vande’, the biopic on Prime Minister Narendra Modi | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Malayalam actor Unni Mukundan will play Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the latter’s biopic Maa Vande, directed by Kranthi Kumar CH. The announcement was made on Wednesday (September 17), coinciding with the 75th birthday of the Prime…
