Ilaiyaraaja to be honoured with Padmapani Award at Ajanta-Ellora Film Festival

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…

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What is IMDb? – The Hindu

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…

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‘Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End’ Season 2 premiere review: Hello old friend, hisashiburi…

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…

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Kangana Ranaut accuses A.R. Rahman of bias, says composer refused to meet her over ‘Emergency’

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…

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‘Greenland 2: Migration’ movie review: Gerard Butler does all the heavy lifting in limp sequel

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…

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