Imtiaz Ali accepting his Best Director award at the IIFA Digital Awards on Saturday, March 8, in Jaipur. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Filmmaker Imtiaz Ali’s Netflix film Amar Singh Chamkila and the third season of Prime Video’s hit series Panchayat emerged on top at the Sobha Realty IIFA Digital Awards 2025, which were handed … Read more
Madhavan with Kangana Ranaut; from the sets of their next | Photo Credit: @kanganaranaut/Instagram Bollywood actor-politician Kangana Ranaut has wrapped up shooting for her upcoming thriller with actor R Madhavan. The film, directed by AL Vijay, marks the two actors’ reunion after almost a decade since their 2015 hit, Tanu Weds Manu Returns. The actor … Read more
Sobhita Dhulipala and Naga Chaitanya from their vacation to Amsterdam and Mexico | Photo Credit: @sobhitad/Instagram Actor Sobhita Dhulipala posted a glimpse of her vacation with actor-husband Naga Chaitanya on her Instagram handle on Friday. The pictures have now gone viral. The star couple, who got married in December last year, are vacationing in Amsterdam. … Read more
Bollywood actor Bobby Deol addresses a press conference on the first day of the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards in Jaipur, India, Saturday, March 8, 2025; first look of Vijay’s ‘Jana Nayagan’ | Photo Credit: AP Photo/Deepak Sharma and @actorvijay/X Bollywood star Bobby Deol on Saturday said Tamil superstar Vijay, his co-actor in the … Read more
Manohara K., director of Mikka Bannada Hakki, receiving the award at the valedictory function of BIFFes in Bengaluru on Saturday. Theatre personality Arundhati Nag received the Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of Shabana Azmi. | Photo Credit: K. MURALI KUMAR Humans in the Loop, a Hindi film that blends the themes of AI and humanity, … Read more
Anurag Kashyap’s first-look from Kannada sports drama ‘8’. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Popular Hindi filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, who recently told The Hindu that he has left Mumbai, is set to make his Kannada debut. Kashyap will star in the sports drama 8. Kashyap, the director of the Gangs of Wasseypur movies, had said that … Read more
Madhuri Dixit and Guneet Monga | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement At the ongoing IIFA awards in Jaipur, veteran actor Madhuri Dixit and Oscar-winning producer Guneet Monga sat down for a free-wheeling chat about the evolution of women in Indian cinema. Apart from sharing their personal stories on how it was to make it to the top … Read more
Bollwood actors Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor Khan during a press conference ahead of the IIFA Awards, in Jaipur, Saturday, March 8, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Bollywood fans were in for a surprise at the IIFA 2025 press conference in Jaipur on Saturday, as former co-stars and ex-lovers Kareena Kapoor and Shahid Kapoor were … Read more
As the world customarily deliberates on a woman’s place in society this week, writer-director Jayant Somalkar shows us the mirror through a deceptively simple take on the patriarchal roots of the traditional matchmaking process and the attendant social churn in our villages. Structured like a coming-of-age story of a village girl struggling to find her way out … Read more
Indian cinema has witnessed several woman technicians, challenging gender biases in the film industry. These technicians, across fields of editing, cinematography and production design, have not only inspired several women to pursue careers in films but have also significantly contributed to several blockbusters. On International Women’s Day, here is a look at 10 Indian film … Read more
Sudha Kongara, Shuchi Talati, Nandini Reddy, Payal Kapadia and Roopa Rao | Photo Credit: The Hindu/ Reuters For far too long, Indian cinema has predominantly been defined by the male gaze, but a new wave of women filmmakers have been rewriting that narrative with some of the boldest, most personal, and culturally rich stories to … Read more
Bollywood actor Ajay Devgn. | Photo Credit: PTI Bollywood star Ajay Devgn on Friday announced the launch of Prismix, an AI-driven media company focused on generative storytelling technologies. Devgn said Artificial Intelligence (AI) can enhance storytelling. “With Prismix, we are stepping into the future of storytelling. AI is not just a tool but a creative … Read more
Actor Radhika Apte. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Actor Radhika Apte is set to make her directorial debut with the action-fantasy film Koyta (Sickle), according to Variety. The film is produced by Bollywood filmmaker Vikramaditya Motwane. Motwane previously worked on Black Warrant, which marked the debut of Ranbir Kapoor’s cousin Zahan Kapoor. The news was announced … Read more
A week before the theatrical release of the Telugu film Court – State Vs A Nobody, debut writer-director Ram Jagadeesh is excited but equally nervous. “If I can, I will finetune it some more. My team tells me it’s high time I stop,” he says with a laugh. Ram speaks with pride about his film, … Read more
Actor Gene Hackman died of heart disease a full week after his wife died from hantavirus in their New Mexico hillside home, likely unaware that she was dead because he was in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s disease, authorities revealed Friday (March 7, 2025). Both deaths were ruled to be from natural causes, chief medical … Read more
Athish Shetty in ‘Mithya’. | Photo Credit: Paramvah Studios/YouTube In Sumanth Bhat’s Mithya, Mithun, a.k.a Mithya (Athish Shetty), is hesitant to move forward as he stands alone and stares at his new house. The poignant Kannada film, which premiered at MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2023, has several scenes like this that depict the 11-year-old boy’s … Read more
First look of ‘Bison’ | Photo Credit: @mari_selvaraj/X The makers of Bison, filmmaker Mari Selvaraj’s upcoming film with actor Dhruv Vikram, released the first look of the film on Friday, March 7. The film, billed as a sports drama, stars Rajisha Vijayan and Anupama Parameshwaran as the female leads. The first look, unveiled on Mari … Read more
This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Robert Pattinson as Mickey 18, left, and Mickey 17 in a scene from “Mickey 17.” It is well-nigh impossible to celebrate just one aspect of Bong Joon-ho’s adaptation of Edward Ashton’s 2022 novel, Mickey7 — Joon-ho apparently called the film Mickey 17 for the pleasure of killing … Read more
GV Prakash in a still from ‘Kingston’ | Photo Credit: Saregama Tamil/YouTube Another Friday, another Tamil film that squanders its potential and settles for less. Kingstonis yet another horror flick diluted by commercial compulsions, with a loud, distracting score drowning any chance to be transported into its world. And after 2024’s Sorgavaasal, this is another … Read more
It’s been over eight years since the likes of Mirzapurand Sacred Games introduced original long-form content on streaming to Indian audiences. Yet, except for a few hits and misses, it remains an untapped format in most regional languages. With tension building in the theatrical distribution circuits, you expect regional languages like Malayalam, Telugu, and Kannada … Read more
Re-release poster of ‘Highway’ | Photo Credit: @nadiadwalagrandson/Instagram Imtiaz Ali’s directorial Highway, starring Alia Bhatt and Randeep Hooda, re-released in theatres on Friday. Produced by Sajid Nadiadwala under his banner Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment, the film had its original release in 2014. The film will run between March 7 and March 13 across PVR and Inox … Read more
A still from ‘The Monkey’ | Photo Credit: Neon Osgood Perkins’ The Monkey is a characteristically deranged swing at horror-comedy. It’s loosely based on Stephen King’s 1980 short story, but where King’s original felt like a meditation on guilt and inherited doom, Perkins’ adaptation cranks the camp to eleven. In many ways, The Monkey feels … Read more
A still from ‘Picture This’ | Photo Credit: Prime Video Ninth Mandala is a portraiture studio in Hackney run by Pia Jaswani (Simone Ashley) and her gay best friend, Jay (Luke Fetherston), who share a strict distaste for passport photographs. They want to capture light and play with it through the lenses but in a … Read more
Ibrahim Ali Khan, Khushi Kapoor in ‘Nadaaniyan’ A gossamer-thin romantic comedy that comes across as Karan Johar’s latest home assignment for star kids to pass the Bollywood entrance test, Nadaaniyan doesn’t pass muster. Reflecting the armchair sensibility of the Bandra school of filmmaking, the love story strains credibility and tests patience. Its nebulous ideas on … Read more
The Karnataka government announced that the cost of the ticket of each show in all theatres of the State, including multiplexes, will be capped at ₹200. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Karnataka government, in its budget for the year 2025-26, announced that the cost of the ticket of each show in all theatres of the … Read more
Influencer Uorfi Javed and comedian Harsh Gujral host the show ‘Engaged: Roka Ya Dhoka’. During the first episode of 7 Days Live, JioHotstar’s new reality show hosted by Anubhav Singh Bassi, the comedian read out the ‘house rules’ for participants. The show places four digital creators inside a Big Brother-like enclosed space for seven days straight, challenging … Read more
A still from ‘Dupahiya’ Gajraj Rao can act in his sleep. Quite literally. An agreeably slapstick moment in the new Prime Video comedy series Dupahiya finds Rao’s character, a kindly but superstitious school principal, snoring away on a cot, making sweet music with those silly, rumbling, guttural sounds. Rao has the training of theatre, of … Read more
After watching the latest Bollywood blockbuster Chhaava, a viewer in Gujarat tore the cinema screen angered by the torture inflicted by Aurangzeb on Sambhaji. Multiple videos of viewers, including children, crying and shouting slogans, after watching the film, have been circulating on social media. Any film that devotes the final 40 of a total 136 … Read more
Actor Ramya at 16th BIFFes on Thursday. | Photo Credit: SUDHAKARA JAIN Popular actor Ramya lamented the lack of quality female characters in Kannada cinema even as she praised the Malayalam film industry for constantly presenting progressive female roles, while speaking at the panel discussion on “Women in Cinema: Challenges, Triumphs and the Road Ahead” … Read more
“I am deeply, crazily passionate about Lord Shiva,” declares 50-year-old Indian author Amish Tripathi at the launch event of the ‘Legends of Shiva’ series. Narrating his experience travelling to different Shiva temples across India, he says, “Most Indians think they know Shiva, but as you discover through this documentary, actually may be we don’t know … Read more