The curd-sellers of Kennedy Street
It is rather typical of several Mylaporeans to pride themselves on the fact that their area has two streets named after John F. Kennedy. Sadly for them, Kennedy Streets 1 and 2 have nothing to do w...
View ArticleThat fervour of freedom
Nehru Bal Sangh brought back vignettes from the freedom struggle to instil a sense of pride in youngsters
View ArticleGour Hari Dastaan: The Freedom File - Of grit and grace
Genre: Biopic/ Drama Director: Anant Mahadevan Cast: Vinay Pathak, Konkona Sen Sharma, Ranvir Shorey, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Rajit Kapoor An...
View ArticleBrothers: Fraternal fracas
Genre: Action drama Director: Karan Malhotra Cast: Akshay Kumar, Siddharth Malhotra, Jackie Shroff, Shefali Shah, Ashutosh Rana, Jacqueline Fernandez...
View ArticleVaalu: STR makes the film watchable
A man has limited time in which to make a woman fall in love with him
View ArticleA self-help book authored by Upendra
Uppi2 is actually like a two-hour and fifteen minutes-long self-help book. Upendra wonders aloud (and rather loudly, both aurally and visually) about the concept of you or “neenu”, unearths...
View ArticleBiography on actor Amjad Khan soon
Actor Shadaab Khan, son of noted actor late Amjad Khan, said he is working on a biography on his father. “I am working on a book on my father and will start it next year. The book will hav...
View ArticleRaja Desingu (1960)
Gingee or Senji in Tamil Nadu has a rich history that dates back to 200 BC. The main name that crops up in its history is that of Raja Desingu, who ruled the kingdom, though for a short period, but...
View ArticleThe effects of FX
The success of vfx-oriented films such as Baahubali is kicking off a modernisation drive among theatres in South India
View ArticleDark films from the land of the rising sun
Japanese films have changed from being gentle to exploring extreme themes like sadomasochism, incest and gratuitous violence
View Article‘Turning producer has kept me alive’
Paayum Puli is your second film with Suseenthiran in just two years. Why did you choose to work with him again? It might sound like a cliché, but it was the script. He wrote...
View ArticlePushing limits
Akshay Kumar and Siddharth Malhotra talk to archita kashyap about their rigorous routines to prepare for Brothers
View ArticleShaun the Sheep: Fun on the farm
The whiff of farmyard manure wafts all the way through this delightful ee-ya-ee-ya-o romp of a movie. And because this is an endearing stop-motion animation flick, with star billing for an adorabl...
View ArticleBrothers: Unintentionally nostalgic
Brothers is what you could call the classic Bollywood family feud. It’s about two half-brothers torn apart by the murder of their mother (Shefali Shah) by their alcoholic father Gary Fernandes (Ja...
View ArticleBest compliments, from Dubai
Sudhir Srinivasan on what it was like to attend the SIIMA 2015 awards in Dubai.
View ArticleEtcetera: Dhanush, a gangster again?
Once Dhanush completes shooting for Prabhu Solomon’s yet-to-be-titled film, he will begin shooting for Vetrimaaran’s Vada Chennai. “My next film will be a dark film that portrays the flavour of No...
View Article‘I almost decided to quit films’
Vidyullekha Raman believes that in an industry where even heroines get stereotyped, it’s quite a challenge being a character artist and a comedienne. The actress, who’s recently signed her 25th fil...
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