‘My script is my star’
As Abhishek Kapoor adapts “Great Expectations”, the director tells how he has added value to the classic.
View ArticleWill Smith, wife to boycott Oscars
Will Smith says he will not attend the Academy Awards next month, joining his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, and others in protest against two straight years of all-white acting nominees. Smith said Th...
View Article‘Star Wars: Episode VIII’ to release in December 2017
Disney has announced that it will be pushing back the release of Star Wars: Episode VIII to December 2017, seven months later than the original intended release date. Though the company did not cite ...
View ArticleJugni: a shared passion for music
Jugni is a fabulous idea, but only on paper. A mercurial, tempestuous, free bird of a talented young musician Vibhavari (Sugandha Garg) leaves her mechanical urban bearings to search for fresh, orga...
View ArticleAmitabh Bachchan reaches 19 million fan following on Twitter
‘Wazir’ star Amitabh Bachchan has become the first Bollywood celebrity to have 19 million followers on popular micro-blogging site Twitter. The 73-year-old megastar beaten his contemporaries Shah Ruk...
View ArticleDhanush’s ‘Kodi’ to be wrapped up in February
Actor Dhanush’s next Tamil outing Kodi, which went on the floors earlier this month in Pollachi, will be wrapped up in a jiffy by February. “The principal shooting will be completed by February 21....
View ArticleLavanya Tripathi: I didn’t have a plan B
High on delivering back-to-back hits, Lavanya Tripathi reveals her journey from Uttarakhand to Telugu cinema
View ArticleOnce smitten, twice try
Last week, a group of friends dragged me, kicking and screaming, to the theatre to watch Premam. Again. My resistance, of course, didn’t have much to do with the film itself; I had fallen in love...
View ArticleTo Netflix or Notflix?
Netflix, the international streaming giant, launched in India recently, bringing film and television content on to people’s computers, and generally hampering everyone’s productivity. Netflix is a...
View ArticleStrings of success
Violinist Ganesh talks about his upcoming concert that will feature film songs.
View ArticleDrama, with no intervals
M. George has been directing and writing stage plays for over four decades
View ArticleIndian elements in American art
Art historian Gail Levin on the influence of Indian art and culture on American art and artists
View ArticleMoondram Ullaga Por: An imaginative premise, that’s about it
First-time director Sugan Kartthi is ambitious – perhaps too much so.
View ArticleA sprawling mana in the city
A mana in Edappally is almost a mathematical improbability, especially in a congested part of the area, Ponnekkara. Armed with cynicism I set out looking for it. The brief for the column is that the...
View ArticleHe loves love stories
Director Dasaradh on his soft corner for love stories and why the titles of his film are always with ‘S’.
View ArticleA shift in focus
Five women who made their directorial debut with films that defy stereotypes speak about breaking the mould.
View ArticleKya Kool Hain Hum 3: Neither funny nor cool
Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3 tries to legitimise an old genre of filmmaking in Bollywood by giving it a new name: ‘porn-com’. It’s a different matter that it neither titillates nor elicits a good laugh to...
View ArticleNot the glamour route
Get prepared to see a new Bhumi Pednekar in her upcoming film “Manmarziyan”
View Article‘Gethu’ producer moves HC for tax exemption
Alleging that the State government had “mechanically” accepted the recommendations of the Viewing Committee which has decided that the film title ‘Gethu’ is not a Tamil word and thereby denied...
View ArticleRicky: Love in the time of conflict
Ricky (Kannada) Direction: Rishab Shetty Cast: Rakshit Shetty, Haripriya, Achyut Kumar Taking up a major socio-political issue for his or her debut venture is a risky proposition for a...
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