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By all means, Predator: Killer of Killers had no business being as exhilarating as it is. On paper, the premise read like the (very real) sandbox fantasies of a twelve-year-old freshly chancing upon a dusty DVD with the cool, gun-toting muscle-man on the cover: What if the Predator fought a Viking? Or a samurai? Or…
S. D. Sundaram, who made a splash with his very first play, Kaviyin Kanavu | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Tamil theatre’s history is delightful with many stalwarts having created works that have stood the test of time and inspired generations of actors and directors. Today when established and amateur troupes are experimenting with new subjects…
New Delhi: After making a striking debut at the Cannes Film Festival this year, Janhvi Kapoor is once again making headlines as a video from her London vacation goes viral. The rumoured couple, Janhvi Kapoor and Shikhar Pahariya, have taken over the internet with their adorable moment. In the viral video, the Homebound actor is…
Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan at the premiere of Aamir Khan’s ‘Sitaare Zameen Par’ Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan hosted a grand premiere of his latest release, Sitaare Zameen Par, in Mumbai on Thursday (June 19). The event was attended by Aamir’s girlfriend Gauri Spratt, his son Azad Rao Khan, and many celebrities and friends,…
Surya Vashistta, Ritu Varma and Shiva Kandukuri in the web series | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement In the first few minutes of the Telugu web series Devika & Danny, streaming on Jio Hotstar, Devika Nandan (Ritu Varma) discloses that she has lived her life within a 25-kilometre radius. She teaches music at a nearby village…
Actor Roshan Mathew’s sophomore directorial play Bye Bye Bypass, co-written with actor Shruti Ramachandran and screen writer and creative director Francis Thomas, is about a set of cousins of the Athimootil family, who lose their ancestral home to the construction of a bypass. The Malayalam play has been inspired by Roshan’s own, similar experience, which,…
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….
A poster of ‘ACE’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Traitors S1 – New episodes – June 19 The gripping reality series The Traitors follows 20 celebrity players in the ultimate game of deception and betrayal. In the previous week, four players were eliminated, including innocents – Karan Kundrra, Sahil Salathia, Lakshmi Manchu and the traitor…
Nimisha Sajayan and Atharvaa in stills from ‘DNA’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A man lost to the winds of life and a mentally-challenged woman give life a second chance and get married. A young woman, whose sensitivity is mistaken for incapacity, fights a lonely battle when she believes her newborn baby was swapped with…
Preethi Athreya in Rubber Girl | Photo Credit: G5A Movement is any dance’s motor. But when it comes to cabaret, a theatrical form that also features music, song, recitation or drama, a dash of oomph is also a requisite. This weekend at the Black Box, a unique black-chair multi-functional space that seats around 165, G5A…
A still from ‘The Sandman’ Season 2 | Photo Credit: Netflix Streaming giant Netflix on Tuesday (June 17) unveiled the trailer of the second and final season of The Sandman, the fantasy drama series based on the DC comics series by Neil Gaiman. Following the events of the first season, Dream of the Endless (Tom…
A still from ‘The Accountant 2’ | Photo Credit: IMDb An assassin, Anaïs (Daniella Pineda), walks into a bar to meet Raymond King (J.K. Simmons), a former Treasury agent. He tells her he needs help finding a missing Salvadoran family and is then killed in the ensuing shootout. Treasury agent and King’s protégée, Marybeth Medina…
Mumbai: Bollywood superstars Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan were seen together at the special screening of Aamir Khan’s upcoming film Sitaare Zameen Par in Mumbai on Thursday evening. The event, held ahead of the film’s release, drew several big names from the industry. In a video that is now going viral online, SRK is…
In Khalid Rahman’s Unda (2019), a police officer from Kerala, played by Mammootty, who is given the responsibility of leading a team of officers to ensure that elections are conducted smoothly in Maoist-hit areas of Chhattisgarh, says to a tribal boy, “This is your land, do not die”. Kerala has a strong, eventful, and often…
Stills from Battle for Brooklyn | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Destiny and Division were the two scions that ushered in a golden age of the live service looter shooter genre. I remember countless hours spent in The Division’s missions to net better gear in the Dark Zone, the very first “extraction” shooter. A sequel was launched…
A scene from the play Miss Sadarame | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Samashti, a Bengaluru-based theatre group celebrates its silver jubilee with a three-day theatre festival in Bengaluru, between June 3 and 5. It will stage three of its popular comedies at Rangashankara. The three plays to be staged are Neeru Kudisida Neereyaru, Mukkam Post…
