FIE: Music Maestro Ilaiyaraaja during a press conference regarding the announcement of ‘Ilaiyaraaja 50’ to support Music for Meals, in Bengaluru, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. | Photo Credit: SHAILENDRA BHOJAK Legendary music composer Ilaiyaraaja will be conferred with the Padmapani Award at the upcoming Ajanta-Ellora International Film festival (AIFF) 2026, the organisers have said. The…
Internet Movie Database. | Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons A beautiful, radiant Friday night. For you and your friends, it is known by another name – “Horror movie” night. This time though, all of you have run out of horror film suggestions. What to watch? Let’s surf the internet. By Google’s kindness, some fresh titles come…
Two years ago, when I joined this organisation as a rookie still trying to earn his chops, the idea of devoting an entire column to an unassuming melancholic fantasy anime felt a little absurd. Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe’s lesser-known Japanese series about a couple millenia-old elf processing grief through detours and half-remembered conversations hardly…
Gowri Ramnarayan during the workshop ‘From Page to Stage: How to Write a Play’ at The Hindu Lit for Life 2026 in Chennai on January 18, 2026. | Photo Credit: Umesh Kumar Playwright, theatre director and journalist Gowri Ramnarayan was unexpectedly pleased when 30 people turned up for her workshop titled, ‘Hands on: Write a…
The Song of the Clay Pot: Sumana Chandrasekhar in conversation with Akhila Krishnamurthy at The Hindu Showplace, Chennai on January 18, 2026. | Photo Credit: M. Srinath Ghatam player, researcher, writer and author of the book ‘Song of the Clay Pot’ Sumana Chandrashekar said here on Sunday that just by virtue of being a ghatam player,…
Wildlife photographer and filmmaker Kalyan Varma directed Wild Tamil Nadu | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Wild Tamil Nadu begins with the soothing bass voice of Arvind Swamy, who introduces the film’s concept to the audience. “More than 2000 years ago, scholars wrote poems about a land where the natural world intertwined with the human spirit,”…
Kangana Ranaut and A.R. Rahman | Photo Credit: PTI, THG Actor, filmmaker and politician Kangana Ranaut has publicly criticised composer A.R. Rahman, alleging that he declined to meet her to discuss music for Emergency and dismissed the film as “propaganda.” Ranaut shared the accusations on social media following remarks made by Rahman in a recent…
FILE: Music director AR Rahman performs at the ‘Yuva Dasara’ event, in Mysuru, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. | Photo Credit: – Noted music composer AR Rahman shared a video post on his social media on Sunday, addressing the backlash following his comments in one of the recent interviews and said the intentions can “sometimes be…
A still from ‘Greenland 2: Migration’. | Photo Credit: Lionsgate Movies/YouTube Watching Greenland 2: Migration, one almost feels as though one is in a time capsule watching all those big disaster movies from the ‘90s, in single-screen theatres that looked like palaces with velvet curtains and chandeliers. It was the time of slides saying “chatterboxes…
Ajay Devgn in ‘Dhamaal 4’. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Dhamaal 4, featuring Ajay Devgn, Riteish Deshmukh and Arshad Warsi, will release in theatres on June 12, the makers said on Saturday. Directed by Indra Kumar, the film promises to be a laugh riot, and will also star Sanjay Mishra, Jaaved Jaaferi, Sanjeeda Shaikh, Anjali…
