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
Daredevil/Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) in ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ | Photo Credit: GIOVANNI RUFINO There are a lot of mirror images in Daredevil: Born Again, a reboot of the three-season show, which streamed on Netflix between 2015 and 2018. The reflections serve as visual cues to the dual nature of the principals, who are the same, … Read more
Spanish filmmaker Paco Torres, prepping for his second narrative feature, began his career in the pre-digital era a quarter century ago. “I have seen it all — film, Betacam, analogue, digital and after,” he says on the sidelines of the recently-concluded 23rd Pune International Film Festival (PIFF). He is now in the thick of the … Read more
Actor Ramya. | Photo Credit: MURALI KUMAR K Actor Ramya, popularly known as the ‘Sandalwood Queen‘, reacted to the recent backlash received by Pushpa 2 Rashmika Mandanna on social media. Ramya spoke to reporters after speaking in the panel discussion on Women in Cinema: Challenges, Triumphs and the Road Ahead at the 16th Bengaluru International … Read more
The Kerala Police plan to enlist the help of the Association of Malayalam Movie Artists (AMMA) to steer the entertainment industry away from wanton murder and mutilation films, which arguably desensitise youth to the horror of physical violence. The move comes when investigators are still searching for believable psychological clues into the motivations of the … Read more
Park Bo-young and Choi Woo-shik in a still from the show Throughout Melo Movie, movies are all-pervading. It is what drives the lives of its four lead characters, contributing to their joy, grief, frustration and ambition in equal measure. All of this comes blanketed in nostalgia; there are stacks of VHS tapes that the cinephiles … Read more
Abdul Shaikh has sung for the Hindi film ‘Tumko Meri Kasam’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Not every winner of a music reality show secures a breakthrough in playback singing — and not every eliminated contestant fades into obscurity. Abdul Shaikh is an example of the latter. He captivated audiences with his soulful voice on Sa Re Ga … Read more
The scarlet-hued poster of the Telugu film 23, featuring a burning bus, boldly quotes George Orwell’s Animal Farm: “All are equal, but some are more equal than others.” Produced and directed by Raj R, and presented by Rana Daggubati’s Spirit Media, the film is inspired by true events that unfolded in undivided Andhra Pradesh during … Read more
A still from ‘The Recruit’ Season 2 | Photo Credit: Netflix Spy drama series The Recruit, starring Noah Centineo in the lead, has been cancelled by Netflix after just two seasons. The cancellation comes more than a month after the show’s second season premiere on the OTT platform, according to entertainment news outlet The Hollywood … Read more
Team ‘3 BHK’ | Photo Credit: @ShanthiTalkies/X We had earlier reported that actor Siddharth is teaming up with 8 Thottakkal director Sri Ganesh for a film titled 3BHK, which also stars veteran actors Sarath Kumar and Devayani, and actors Meetha Raghunath, Chaithra Achar and Yogi Babu. It’s now known that the film’s shooting has been … Read more
Stills from ‘Khakee: The Bengal Chapter’ | Photo Credit: Friday Filmworks/Netflix Netflix on Wednesday unveiled the trailer ofKhakee: The Bengal Chapter, the latest installment in the Khakee franchise. Produced by Friday Storytellers and created by Neeraj Pandey, and directed by Debatma Mandal and Tushar Kanti Ray, the series premieres on March 20. In the trailer, … Read more
The cast and crew of ‘Mookuthi Amman 2’ | Photo Credit: @VelsFilmInternational/YouTube We had previously reported that 2020’s Mookuthi Amman is getting a sequel and Nayanthara is all set to return as the goddess. Vels Film International, the banner behind the original film, will also be bankrolling Mookuthi Amman 2. While RJ Balaji and NJ Saravanan who directed … Read more
Sean Baker, winner of the awards for best original screenplay, best film editing, best director, and best picture for ‘Anora,’ poses in the press room at the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles | Photo Credit: AP Neon’s unconventional and strategic approach to awards campaigning has once again … Read more