Max, Vijay Kartikeyaa’s first collaboration with Sudeep, won big on novelty factor. A one-night story unfolding in minimal locations felt different for a star film. It felt encouraging to see Sudeep experimenting with scripts. The film balanced its unorthodox storytelling with whistle-worthy moments for fans. So, with Mark, the actor-director duo was expected to go…
A glance at 2025 shows that the story for Telugu cinema is not very different from that of the previous year. The industry produced more than 200 films of which only a handful managed to impress at the box office. With a few films, including Champion, Dhandora, Eesha, Shambala and Patang scheduled to arrive on…
Champion, the Telugu period drama by writer-director Pradeep Advaitham, in which the protagonist Michael Williams (Rohan Meka) is chasing his dream of migrating to England, is essentially a coming-of-age story. Sports is just a tool. The fictional story is narrated in the backdrop of the Bhairanpally revolt, at a time when Hyderabad had not merged…
When a filmmaker sets out to tell a story that rides on popular trends, the best he can do is to put his work out at the earliest. The longer the delay, the greater the risk of losing the target audience. Shambhala, directed by Ugandhar Muni, is a desperate attempt to hop on the mystical…
Ananya Panday in ‘Tu Meri Main Tera Main Tera Tu Meri’ | Photo Credit: Dharma Productions/YouTube After making headlines with the Oscar shortlist, Dharma Productions goes homebound with a tourism advertisement for Croatia, interspersed with product placement for the bronzer look of its fair-skinned lead actress. Masquerading as a breezy, feel-good romantic comedy that imparts…
The change in venue for the Bengaluru International Film Festival (BIFFes) has left people divided, with regular participants of the event expressing concerns about the new venue. Shifting from its usual venue of Orion Mall, the 17th edition of BIFFes will be held at Lulu Mall from January 29 to February 06. From an administrative…
Arun Vijay in a still from ‘Retta Thala’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Early on in Retta Thala, the protagonist Kaali (Arun Vijay) recounts how he grew up as an orphan in extreme poverty on the streets of Pondicherry and how it was a fellow destitute named Anthre who saved his life, becoming his family…
The 2025 projection booth has delivered an astonishing range of cinematic offerings that stretch from festival darlings to indie gems to sweeping blockbuster epics. From the mythic scope of Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another and Ryan Coogler’s culturally resonant Sinners dominating discourse and box office alike, to delicious genre work like Zach Cregger’s…
Jack Black, left, and Paul Rudd in a scene from “Anaconda.” | Photo Credit: Matt Grace How many times have we watched 1997’s Anaconda, about a documentary crew going down the Amazon in search of a legendary snake? Alongside Jennifer Lopez (before she became JLo), Owen Wilson and Ice Cube, Jon Voight chewed up the scenery as an Ahab-esque hunter with a bizarre…
In this Margazhi season, vocalist Dr. K. Gayatri begins a special series celebrating four iconic South Indian composers across four languages. In this episode, she speaks about Kannada composer Kanaka Dasa. Source link
