Kaouther Ben Hania holds a picture of Hind Rajab on the red carpet during arrivals for the screening ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ in competition, at the 82nd Venice Film Festival | Photo Credit: REUTERS Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Voice of Hind Rajab made history at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday night, receiving a…
The poster and team behind Dalit Subbiah — Voice of the Rebels | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Dalit Subbiah — Voice of the Rebels, a Tamil film by MKP Gridaran has won the Best Long Documentary at the 17th edition of the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK) last week. Any viewer…
Tamil stand-up comic Alexander Babu | Photo Credit: Shivaraj S; Location: I Conventions, Adyar “I did not have a choice,” says funnyman Alexander Babu, rather pensively. He is referring to his recent plan to launch an OTT platform of his own (Anba TV), a move that was done after approaching several OTT players with the…
At a performance by the Madras Guild of Performing Arts (MGPA) | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Atul Isaac Jacob, the conductor of the Madras Guild of Performing Arts (MGPA), says that the Shortz or the children’s wing of their choir cannot be messed with. It is why he has entrusted the choreography of their upcoming…
A still from ‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’. | Photo Credit: Sony Pictures Entertainment/YouTube Expanding upon the world created by Danny Boyle and Alex Garland in 28 Years Later – but turning that world on its head – Nia DaCosta directs 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. The makers released the movie’s trailer on…
Anushka Shetty, whose Telugu film Ghaati releases on September 5, marks 20 years in cinema this year. She recalls her first day on the sets of the 2005 film Super: “Nagarjuna sir, Sonu Sood and I were filming at Annapurna Studios, and during the break, Supriya Yarlagadda (the studio director and Nagarjuna’s niece) walked in…
Chidakash Kalalay students performing at Samvatsar Katha | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement “’Marga Natya’ is not a form of dance, but a process by which any art practitioner is trained on self-awareness and explores the attributes of — geetham, sangeetham, vadyam, nrityam and natyam — all based on Bharata’s Natyashastra,” says Piyal Bhattacharya, theatre director…
A still from the Hindi movie ‘Nishaanchi’. | Photo Credit: MGM Studios India/YouTube Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap unveiled the trailer of his upcoming film Nishaanchi and described it as a story that carries everything he loves about Hindi cinema. Starring debutant Aaishvary Thackeray alongside Vedika Pinto, Monika Panwar, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, and Kumud Mishra, the Amazon…
Sohaila Kapur. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement For centuries, doubt and faith have shared an uneasy relationship. Khalil Gibran once said: “Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.” As the two continue to spar, noted theatre practitioner and actor, Sohaila Kapur, brings playwright John Patrick Shanley’s celebrated work — Doubt: A…
Sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar’s life and legacy comes alive onstage through Gowri Ramnarayan’s biographical play, Enchantment, which premiers on September 12 at the Museum Theatre in Chennai. This evening of music, dance and drama presented by JustUs Repertory, will be in support of REACH, (Resource Group for Education and Advocacy for Community Health), a…
