“Everybody is obsessed with entertainment. As creatives, we must also educate and provoke thought,” says Nikkhil Advani, whose Freedom At Midnight Season 2 has opened to a tremendous response. “I’m surprised by the emotional outpouring. People told me they usually binge-watch, but with Freedom At Midnight, they paused to read the sources.” After Rocket Boys, Advani was clear…
Once motion-picture was a photographer’s experiment. Decades later, it was a narrative film at the hands of a magician. A century later, it was altered high-definition by engineers. At present, the landmark is IMAX, the brainchild of filmmakers, a businessman, and an engineer. Behold, Image Maximum IMAX stands for “Image Maximum” in a manner reminiscent…
(From left) Kayadu Lohar, Dijo Jose Antony and Tovino Thomas during the shoot of ‘Pallichattambi’. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Tovino Thomas-starrer Pallichattambi, directed by Dijo Jose Antony, is set to hit theatres. The release date announcement was made through a motion poster on social media on Tuesday, featuring the actor in a mass look….
A still from ‘Zootopia 2’. | Photo Credit: Walt Disney Animation Studios/YouTube Disney’s hit sequel Zootopia 2 has hopped onto another milestone, becoming Hollywood’s highest-grossing animated film in history, reported Variety. With a collection of USD 1.7 billion globally, the film has taken over another hit Disney sequel, 2024’s Inside Out 2 (USD 1.69 billion)….
The spy thriller Goodachari and Major, the biopic of Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, saw Sobhita Dhulipala enact brief yet pivotal parts. While she had become a household name with web series and straddled both indie and mainstream film space across languages, an author-backed character in a Telugu film was still a distance away. Understandably, Sobhita speaks…
Mona Singh as Dhanwant Kaur and Barun Sobti as ASI Amarpal Garundi in ‘Kohrra’ Season 2. | Photo Credit: NETFLIX Streaming service Netflix on Tuesday announced that its acclaimed police procedural series Kohrra will return for a second season on February 11. After a critically acclaimed first season that was widely praised for its nuanced…
A still from ‘The Rip’ | Photo Credit: Netflix There is a particular joy in seeing two veterans riff off each other, which The Riptaps into with efficiency. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck clearly had a lot of fun making this lean action movie, and it shows. The movie, based on true events, begins with…
Filmmakers Shoojit Sircar and Vikramaditya Motwane have come on board to present Varun Tandon’s short film Thursday Special. Billed as a tender exploration of love, companionship, and change, Thursday Special is headlined by actors Anubha Fatehpuria and Ramakanth Dayama. It centres on Ram and Shakuntala, an aged couple bound by years of marriage, a shared…
Sujatha Srinivasan and team performing ‘Vivarta: Transformations’. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Sujatha and Shriya Srinivasan’s ‘Vivarta: Transformations’ used the language of Bharatanatyam to bring home the universal concern of climate change. Backed by excellent music composed by violinists Lalgudi GJR Krishnan and Lalgudi VVijayalakshmi and voiceovers, ‘Vivarta’ was about how greed and over-exploitation ruin…
Singers Sai Vignesh and Saindhavi enthralling audiences with bhajan and sufi hits, during a recent ‘Bhajan clubbing’ event in Chennai | Photo Credit: Thamodharan B Rehmat Khubchandani’s hands are up. She lets out a delighted ‘oohoo’ as she emerges from the crowd. The music is upbeat, with a club-style energy, but the song is a…
