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Taylor Holmes’s 1915 rendition of Rudyard Kipling’s 1903 poem, ‘Boots’, with its repeated words pounding in one’s brain sets the tone for the film’s delirious beauty. That Kipling wrote it imagining the thoughts of an infantry soldier during the second Boer war and it has been used since for its psychological effects through the World…
French stage artiste Jean-Paul Sermadiras performed a theatrical solo based on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s story, “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man”, at the Alliance Francaise recently. | Photo Credit: S.S. Kumar If trying to transmit to stage the rush of existentialist thoughts ambushing the mind of a character created by one of the great novelists of…
FILE – Tyler Perry arrives at the BET Awards on Monday, June 9, 2025, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File) | Photo Credit: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP An actor who worked on the Tyler Perry-created TV drama “The Oval” has filed a lawsuit alleging Perry leveraged his industry power to repeatedly…
Kamal Haasan in a still from ‘Thug Life’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement When an auteur like Mani Ratnam returns to a genre he is known for, with a maverick multihyphenate like Kamal Haasan, the expectations are naturally high; the worst result one could anticipate is a film that works but doesn’t necessarily redefine the…
Actress and dancer Lauren Gottlieb, who is known for her work in the ‘ABCD’ film series, has made it official with her longtime partner Tobias Jones. The couple tied the nuptial knot on June 11 in an intimate ceremony held in Tuscany, Italy. The wedding ceremony was attended by the couple’s close friends and family….
Park Bo-gum, Kim So-hyun and Lee Sang-yi in Good Boy | Photo Credit: Prime Video Early on in the ongoing Korean police procedural show Good Boy, actor Park Bo-gum is cornered by a group of thugs, each looking more threatening than the other. There is however no fear here; With a manic glint in his…
On Wednesday afternoon, just steps away from the Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London, a small crowd had gathered waving the colours of Palestine and Ireland. At the centre of it stood three young men from Belfast, wrapped in keffiyehs, ready to appear in court, as one of them faced charges of “terrorism”. But in the…
Wes Anderson has always made beautiful cinematic snow globes, immune to external messiness. Minutes into his latest (and perhaps most terminally fussy) confection, it’s clear this isn’t top-shelf Anderson. It might not even be bottom-shelf. It’s as if he’s shredded his greatest hits and glued them back together with unchecked indulgence. Set in a fictional…
From the play Kalavu Nekkiya Padalam staged at Narada Gana Sabha | Photo Credit: M. Srinath Bhavani is a lawyer who doesn’t have many cases coming her way. She is forced to settle for clients who can afford to pay very little. Ramanathan (Bhaskar), on the other hand, is a lawyer who makes money hand…
Poster of ‘Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Harold and Kumar are back! Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, the writers of the Harold & Kumar films and the directors of 2008’s Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, have closed a deal to write and direct a fourth instalment…
Kruthi Vittal-Bhatt with Charulatha Ramanujam (violin), K.U. Jayachandra Rao (mridangam) and B. Rajashekar (morsing). | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement As part of the monthly concert series, Nadasurabhi Cultural Association, Bengaluru, featured Kruthi Vittal Bhatt’s vocal concert with senior accompanists Charulatha Ramanujam (violin), K.U. Jayachandra Rao (mridangam) and B. Rajashekar (morsing). Kruthi handled the stage dynamics…
New Delhi: Actress Rakul Preet Singh, basking in the spotlight with the release of the much-awaited sequel De De Pyaar De 2, is winning hearts not only with her performance but also with her personal charm. In a recent interaction, Rakul Preet Singh shared her unique approach to cooking for her husband, Jackky Bhagnani, something…
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Indie-music has become a global sound, with influences from various genres, including jazz, soul, RnB, and, apart from the Indian classical music and folk. On World Music Day, celebrated on June 21, we spotlight some indie musicians, who are constantly experimenting with sound. Vasundara Vee Swipe, tap and repeat is the new addiction. The highs…
A still from ‘Aabhyanthara Kuttavaali’ The way a filmmaker conceives a single sequence can sometimes reveal the entire thought process behind the film. This is especially true of single-agenda films like Aabhyanthara Kuttavaali, the debut directorial of Sethunath Padmakumar. Sahadevan (Asif Ali), the protagonist who is facing a case under Section 498A over dowry harassment…
From Kaanal Neero, a suspense drama | Photo Credit: SRINATH M For a suspense story to work, nothing should be obvious. It is the ambiguity that sustains interest in such stories. Dummies Drama’s Kaanal Neero (story and dialogues by Sridhar Ramaswamy and direction by V. Sreevathson) is one such story, where you are left wondering…
