Sunil Gargyan. | Photo Credit: SRINATH M Sunil Gargyan, endowed with a clear voice that moved effortlessly across registers, opened his concert at the Indian Fine Arts Society with a Pantuvarali varnam by Sadkala Narasayya. H.S. Sudhindra’s resonant kappi mridangam, marked by brisk and assured strokes, set an energetic tone for the evening. Margazhi and…
In this year-end conversation, filmmaker and critic Sudhish Kamath speaks with producer and movie blogger Sethumadhavan N (MadAboutMoviez) about the Top 5 defining trends in Indian cinema in 2025 — a year where films stopped behaving, tones wobbled, and audiences stopped consuming quietly. From politically incorrect characters and impulsive, morally messy narratives to the rise…
‘Pan-India’ is now a real term, with audiences from across the world lapping up good cinema, irrespective of where it comes from. What else explains the sweeping appeal of films like Kantara: Chapter 1, Lokah and Coolie? As expectations rise for stories that are rooted and yet have global sensibilities, actors are sharpening their craft. With…
Actor Mohanlal with his mother (file) | Photo Credit: VIPIN CHANDRAN Actor and Dadasaheb Phalke Award winner Mohanlal’s mother, Santhakumari, died in Kochi, Kerala, on Tuesday (December 30, 2025). She was 90. The death occurred at the actor’s residence at Elamakkara. She had been ailing for some time owing to neurological disorders. The death was…
December 31, 2024: When the clock struck 12, actor Shree Nandu, director Varun Reddy and the team of the Telugu film Psych Siddhartha continued their shooting schedule in Shaikpet, Hyderabad. “We knew there would be fireworks and the skies would be lit up in colours. We used this backdrop for a sequence. Rather than buy…
Since the OTT boom during the COVID-19 pandemic, film industry pundits have defined the distinction between a small or medium-budget film and a big-ticket film to mostly align with what’s now considered a ‘theatre-worthy film’ and what’s dubbed as a “film best suited for OTT.” While this has proved to be true in some cases,…
Ashwath Narayanan accompanied by mridangam vidwan Umayalapuram Sivaraman, B.U. Ganesh Prasad on the violin and B.S. Purushottam on the kanjira. | Photo Credit: K. Pichumani The contemporary concert hall is a space of mixed interests and multiple distractions. To hold an audience in thrall today, a musician needs not merely talent, but intelligence as well….
Presentation: Srinivasa Ramanujam, Poorvaja Sundar, Bhuvanesh Chandar, Shreyas Pande, Vivek MV Editing: Thamodharan B., Ravichandran N Camera: Thamodharan B. Ravichandran N, Gautam Doshi Production: Shikha Kumari Published – December 30, 2025 04:12 pm IST Source link
Last Updated:December 30, 2025, 14:24 IST While Indian media outlets promoted the film as showing Indian soldiers bravely defending their territory, Chinese users pushed back against this narrative. Battle of Galwan is set for release in April 2026. China’s state-run newspaper Global Times has strongly criticised the Salman Khan-starrer Battle of Galwan, just days after…
Rhea Raj’s day in Chennai begins at 5am. “I think I am still a bit jet-lagged,” she laughs. “I get to have a nice long morning. I sit with my grandfather, have two cups of chai back-to-back and pick up a book to read. I went to the beach yesterday, and it was so rejuvenating,”…
