The Amy invasion
Actor Amy Jackson talks about her Hindi and Tamil films, shedding the foreign tag and making India home.
View ArticleVamshoddaraka review: a charity you have to send back
Vamshoddaraka (Kannada)Director: Aditya ChikkannaCast: Vijay Raghavendra, Meghana Raj, Lakshmi, Rangayana Raghu, Sadhu Kokila, Vinaya PrasadVishwa (Vijay R...
View ArticleActor Ajith to undergo knee surgery
The actor was injured during the climax sequence of forthcoming 'Vedalam'.
View ArticleEtcetera
When a ghost comes calling Vaibhav and Karunakaran play important roles in debutant director Baskar’s Hello Naan Pei Pesuren, produced by Sundar C. Karunakaran says, “I play...
View ArticleAmbikapathi (1957)
Ambikapathi was directed by Pa. Neelakantan, who also wrote the dialogues along with Ma. Lakshmanan. Another version of the same film in 1937 was directed by Ellis R. Dungan and with M. K. T...
View ArticleDespatches from Mumbai
The MAMI Mumbai Film Festival, this year, seemed revitalised, and attracted much international attention
View ArticleI’ll risk everything for Kamal, says Gibran
Even the symphonies that Ghibran painstakingly recorded have been made to sound electronic to suit Thoongavanam’s overall mood.
View ArticleHotel Translyvania 2: Drollery in diversity
The funny thing about plurality is that in most cases, even those of us who are outwardly willing to embrace it in our personal lives will occasionally look for reaffirmation of our cultural ident...
View ArticleSado-masochist fans to self-pitying heroes
Thoughts from a few days when Fassbinder rubbed shoulders with Rajinikanth and Guru Dutt...
View ArticleTrisha Leda Nayanthara: Holiness of male bias
What surprises or even shocks you initially about G.V .Prakash’s Trisha Leda Nayanthara (TLN) is the bluntness with which it comes across as an adult comedy. The maker gives you a sol...
View ArticleHe Named Me Malala : An inspirational biopic
Fusing the personal with the political with great dexterity, Guggenheim gives us a biopic that educates and amuses in equal measure.
View ArticleWrecker: A ‘thriller’ with no thrills
The road less travelled is fraught with perils, and many filmmakers have milked the thriller potential of this genre for commercial and critical success. Steven Spielberg did it with more than a t...
View ArticleHappy to be back as Prem: Salman
Maine Pyar Kiya, Hum Aapke Hain Koun and Hum Saath-Saath Hain — all superhits of Salman Khan produced by Rajshri Productions, but the 49-year-old actor believes his latest coll...
View ArticleControversial Sanskrit film selected at IFFI
Sanskrit film Priyamanasam, which was rejected by the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) for allegedly promoting Hindutva ideology, is all set to open the Indian Panorama 2015 sect...
View Article‘Even those who are not will become Ajith's fans’
Ajith’s 'Vedalam' releases this Tuesday. The film’s director ‘Siruthai’ Siva assures vishal menon that it going to be a ‘Thala’ Deepavali
View ArticlePodiums, forums can be used to register dissent: Kamal Haasan
"The National Awards were given to me not by this or that party-run government but by an eminent jury of 12 members. Giving back the awards would be like insulting the jury and I won’t do it,"
View ArticleGood, but not easy: Jolie on working with husband
Actress Angelina Jolie says it was good working with her star husband Brad Pitt on their latest film By The Sea, but it wasn’t easy.Comparing the film to their 2005 movie Mr. and...
View ArticleAlia, Kangana are fantastic, says Sonakshi
Most oft-told tales of cat-fights instead of friendship make way out of the world of glitz and glamour. But Sonakshi Sinha has no qualms in appreciating her fellow counterparts. The actress says h...
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