This year, we all collectively wept. We cried, smiled, and had our heartstrings tugged as Ae-sun and Gwang-sik stumbled through life, cared for their children and had their unshakable belief in love tested as the seasons and years went by in When Life Gives You Tangerines. 2025 might have been the year that saw the…
Last Updated:December 29, 2025, 12:20 IST Aaryamann Sethi paid for his own first-class flight to London Aaryamann Sethi flies first class as parents opt to fly business. (Photo Credit : X) Veteran actors Archana Puran Singh and Parmeet Sethi shared a loving family moment recently when their son Aaryamann Sethi chose to fly first class…
2025 was a year of recalibration for Hindi cinema. Massive blockbusters like Dhurandhar and Chhaava reaffirmed Bollywood’s unmatched box-office muscle by refining its mastery of high-octane nationalist spectacles and massy emotional dramas to suit the socio-political climate. The audience responded by showing a shift from strait-jacketed narratives such as War 2 and Sikandar to pick brutal depictions of violence and hate. Star value…
In Episode 13 of Frequently Made Mistakes, we tackle one of the biggest traps in modern action filmmaking: confusing scale for stakes. Explosions get bigger. The threat goes global. But the emotional cost never changes. Using examples from Tiger 3, Casino Royale, Mission Impossible: Fallout, and Bajrangi Bhaijaan, this episode breaks down why raising scale…
Dr. S. Krishnaswamy. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Acclaimed documentary and television filmmaker and founder of Krishnaswamy Associates, S. Krishnaswamy, who produced over 900 non-fiction films including the famed “Indus Valley to Indira Gandhi”, died on Sunday (December 28, 2025) evening at a hospital in Chennai. He was 88. He had been under treatment for…
The Pushkar Lake. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Why does the world descend in Pushkar, for so many years now? Is it for the joyrides on brightly lit-up giant wheels, the festive atmosphere or the buying and selling of livestock, especially camels? Sand art by renowned artists add to the festival’s unique cultural showcase alongside…
Director Raman Nimmala during an interview with The Hindu in Vijayawada. His Telugu short film O’sey Balamma has been selected for the Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. | Photo Credit: G.N. Rao “Working on this project was like revisiting my childhood; the familiar sounds and rhythms of daily life from my village house came…
Internationally acclaimed documentary and television filmmaker S. Krishnaswamy, who produced over 900 non-fiction films including the famed “Indus Valley to Indira Gandhi”, passed away on Sunday (December 28, 2025) evening at a hospital in Chennai. He was 88. He had been under treatment for a heart ailment and had gone to the hospital in the…
‘One Battle After Another’, ‘Dhurandhar’, and ‘Adolescence’. Here is a list of stories that captures the highs, lows and key trends witnessed in movies and entertainment sections across the world in 2025. We feature a list of top 10 Tamil movies, our pick of the best international movies of 2025, an analysis of why it…
French actor Brigitte Bardot poses with a huge sombrero she brought back from Mexico, as she arrives at Orly Airport in Paris, France, on May 27, 1965. | Photo Credit: AP French film legend Brigitte Bardot, a cinema icon of the 1950s and sixties who walked away from global stardom to become an animal rights…
