‘The Godfather’ (1972), ‘The Godfather Part II’ (1974) and ‘The Godfather Part III’ (1990) — will be re-released in select theatres in India. American cinema icon Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather trilogy will return to cinema halls across India in a 4K restored version, PVR INOX announced on Tuesday. The landmark films — The Godfather…
The second State conference of actor-turned-politician Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam at Parapathi on the outskirts of Madurai on August 21, 2025 drew huge crowds, mostly his fans, from across Tamil Nadu. The political spectacle evoked memories of a similar show of strength in Madurai nearly two decades ago, when another actor-turned-politician, Vijayakant (then spelt as…
One of the initial sequences of Namathu Chinnam? (Our symbol is?) is set in Puthuvalasal village in Pudukottai district, where the residents have decided to boycott the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, following the absence of any action to improve their lives, such as transportation and access to clean drinking water. A young resident takes a…
Stills from Rewritten | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Damsels in distress are characters from fairytales. The slumbering princess, awaits the arrival of ‘Prince Charming’ to awaken her. However, Rewritten by Yara Nisam, which premiered in the Malayalam Non-Competition Short Fiction category at the 17th International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSFFK), looks at…
Poster of ‘Jugnuma’. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Raam Reddy’s directorial Jugnuma, featuring Manoj Bajpayee in the lead role, is set to release in theatres on September 12. Described as “magical realism drama”, the film is presented by Guneet Monga Kapoor and Anurag Kashyap. The film’s international title is The Fable. Set in the late…
More than 120 voices from Poland’s Concerto Glacensis Choir and Chennai’s MMA choir resonated through the auditorium at Museum Theatre in Chennai. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Western classical music has always occupied an unusual space in Chennai. In a city, where the December Season dominates headlines and Carnatic music shapes its identity, the strains…
Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of Congo, in a sequence from the documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d’etat. One can’t take the eye away from the screen for even a moment during Johan Grimonprez’s documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d’etat, for the countless intercuts and juxtapositions fly thick and fast. For that matter, one…
‘Haiwaan’ will star Saiyami Kher, Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan. Actor Saiyami Kher has joined Bollywood stars Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan in Priyadarshan’s film Haiwaan. The film recently went on floors in Kochi. Expressing her excitement about joining the project, Saiyami in a press note said, “Walking onto the set of Haiwaan…
Ravi Mohan and Yogi Babu at the launch of the former’s production banner ‘Ravi Mohan Studios’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Actor Ravi Mohan, who ventured into film production earlier this year, announced on Tuesday (August 26) that he is all set to make his directorial debut with a film starring Yogi Babu. The actor…
Season 4 of Greg Daniels’ techno satire, Upload, with just four episodes feels like a gift for fans. And since one is not in the habit of looking gift horses in the mouth, we dived right into the proceedings. Upload is set in 2033, (which seems closer than it did in 2020 when the show…
