Shilpa Rao still remembers the first time she heard ‘Tose Naina’ (Anwar, 2007),her first break in Bollywood as a playback singer. Mithoon sang it to her on a harmonium, without arrangements or embellishment. “When a song can be stripped of everything and still sound beautiful, you know it has something honest in it,” she says….
Tiruttani Swaminathan rendering ‘Tirumarai Isai’ at the 68th annual Music festival of Tamil Isai Sangam. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Archives Fourteen-year-old Sarangapani dropped out of school after class eight due to financial constraints at home. It did not bother him as he was inclined towards music. One day, vocalist Madurai Somu’s father-in-law heard him…
Ponies is a charming Cold War era spy thriller starring Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson as Bea and Twila, two embassy wives in ‘70s Moscow. When their CIA agent husbands die under mysterious circumstances, they convince the Moscow station chief to let them be spies as no one will consider “ponies” (person of no…
Bad Bunny performs during the halftime show of Super Bowl 60 between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots in Santa Clara, Calif., Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026 | Photo Credit: REUTERS US President Donald Trump slams Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl LX halftime show, calling the performance “absolutely terrible” and “disgusting” in a series of posts…
Paul Thomas Anderson claimed the top honor at the Directors Guild of America Awards on Saturday night, winning Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for One Battle After Another. The ceremony was held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel and marked Anderson’s first DGA victory after multiple previous nominations. The win is a significant milestone…
Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny on Sunday (February 8, 2026) turned the Super Bowl into a giant street party, delivering his hits on one of the world’s biggest stages — and becoming the first-ever halftime show headliner to sing only in Spanish. Anticipation was high for the 31-year-old’s set, amid rampant speculation about whether he…
An over-reliance on references from past hits often signal a dearth in creativity. But in Ashakal Aayiram, the references that fly thick and fast, all of it aimed at evoking the heydays of Jayaram in the 1990s, appear to be acts of fondness. Until the makers start over using it to the hilt, especially towards…
Raj B Shetty in ‘Rakkasapuradhol’. | Photo Credit: Anand Audio/YouTube The runtime of the Raj B Shetty-starrer Rakkasapuradhol mirrors the film’s highs and lows. At two hours and seven minutes, you expect a taut thriller. Director Ravi Saranga’s film is far from that. There are portions that unfold more slowly than they should. Yet, the…
Across rugged mountains and long stretches of parched land, White Snow, directed by Praveen Morchhale, follows a mother’s journey, who travels from village to village across the Himalayas to screen her son’s banned short film. The 82-minute-long Urdu film, set in and around Kashmir, tells the story of a young filmmaker, Ameer, whose work is…
A poster for ‘Mirzapur: The Movie’ | Photo Credit: YouTube/ Excel Movies One of India’s most influential streaming franchises is heading to cinemas. Mirzapur: The Movie, the big-screen continuation of the hit Prime Video series, will release in theatres worldwide on September 4, the makers announced on Thursday. Amazon MGM Studios and Excel Entertainment confirmed…
