A still from ‘Relay’ | Photo Credit: Bleecker Street From the first scene on the neon-lit streets of New York City where a man is being followed by a hooded figure, to the heart-stopping climax in a warehouse with freight trains shrieking like distraught banshees, Relay, David Mackenzie’s 11th feature film, offers super-smart thrills. Ash…
Actor Lakshmi Manchu. File | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL Telugu actor Manchu Lakshmi appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) at its Basheerbagh office in Hyderabad on Wednesday (August 13, 2025) for questioning in connection with the alleged promotion of unauthorised online betting platforms. The summons issued to her is part of an ongoing investigation under…
Anirudh Ravichander. File | Photo Credit: B. Velankanni Raj The Madras High Court on Friday (August 22, 2025) directed the organisers of film music composer Anirudh Ravichander’s Hukum World Tour concert at Seekinamkuppam near Kuvathur on East Coast Road (ECR) in Chennai on Saturday (August 23) to strictly comply with the conditions imposed by the…
The famed globe outside AVM Studios at Vadapalani in Chennai. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Archives We take a deep dive into famous film shooting spots and locales across Chennai that have been etched in the memory of the masses through the celluloid world. The AVM Studios at Vadapalani has been the eternal muse…
Pawan Kumar is an enterprising man. In 2012, when Kannada cinema was in dire need of a next-wave movement, he made the crowd-funded psychological thriller Lucia, which inspired several filmmakers to break the tried-and-tested formula in the industry. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Pawan launched the Filmmakers United Club (FUC). During a period when…
Madhav Suresh | Photo Credit: Instagram page Actor Madhav Suresh, son of Union Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas and actor Suresh Gopi, was taken into police custody in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, on Thursday (August 21, 2025) night following a road rage altercation that also involved a Congress leader. According to the Museum police,…
Acclaimed actor and activist Rajshri Deshpande, who also heads the Nabhangan Foundation, takes us through her extraordinary journey — quitting advertising to pursue art, finding freedom of choice after Angry Indian Goddesses, and consciously avoiding typecasting post-Sacred Games Source link
A scene from the Palestinian anthology film ‘From Ground Zero’ One of the thoughts that constantly runs through the mind while watching From Ground Zero, an anthology of 22 short films and documentaries by Palestinian filmmakers, is on whether all those whom we see on screen are alive now. Going by the data of over…
Filmmaker Shonali Bose with her friend Chika Kapadia in a sequence from the documentary ‘A Fly on the Wall’. An infectious energy pervades the screen every time Chika Kapadia appears on it with his share of wit and wisdom. It is hardly believable that this man, so full of life, is just a few days…
I vividly remember my late father calling me every time a Rajinikanth song played on TV. Somehow, even though much from that age is a blur, I recollect the excitement with which I would run to pick up a black coat with big white buttons on it — that was the closest I had to…
