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- Anand Deverakonda on Epic – First Semester: I want a better strike rate at the box officeFrom ‘Epic – First Semester’ to ‘Thakshakudu’, Anand Deverakonda reflects on his career, his choice of characters and what lies ahead
- Can artistes stay ahead of the algorithm?At CultureCon 2026, held recently at Mumbai’s National Centre for the Performing Arts, musicians and cultural leaders debated what technology can replicate and what remains distinctly human
- Remove ‘Shoorveer’ song from ‘Mirzapur The Movie’: Rajasthan BJP leader writes to censor boardHe also urged the board to ensure that songs, symbols and references associated with historical personalities are not used in a manner that could hurt public sentiments.
- Hyderabad’s Prangan is a new space where art, Nature and community come togetherFrom exhibitions and clay workshops to artist residencies and cultural events, Prangan is creating a new ecosystem for art and creative exchange in Hyderabad
- Get a glimpse of Pt. Ravi Shankar beyond the sitar as Enchantment returns to BengaluruWritten and directed by Gowri Ramnarayan, the play traces four stages of the legendary musician’s life, exploring his doubts, struggles, vulnerabilities and his determination to take Indian classical music to the world
- A tie-dye parai: Chennai scientists colour Tamil Nadu’s traditional drumA team at CSIR-Central Leather Research Institute has developed a technique to colour the parai, create tie-dye patterns and make its buffalo-hide surface more resonant and durable — potentially taking the traditional Tamil percussion instrument from the performance stage to homes and museums
- Gondwana Art Project brings Gond, Bhil and Warli artworks to HyderabadMŪL - The Origin reimagines tribal art with contemporary aesthetics for an exhibition at Spirit Connect
- ‘Carrie’ trailer: Mike Flanagan brings Stephen King’s horror classic into the social media ageThe new trailer for Mike Flanagan’s ‘Carrie’ gives a fuller look at Summer H. Howell’s tormented teenager and the telekinetic fury building towards prom night
- ‘Digger’ final trailer: Tom Cruise plays an oil tycoon who must save a world he helped destroyThe new trailer for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s dark comedy gives a fuller look at Tom Cruise’s bizarre transformation into billionaire Digger Rockwell
- ‘Silo’ Season 3 review: Memories and murder collide as Rebecca Ferguson races to uncover the truthThe penultimate season of Graham Yost’s adaptation of Hugh Howey’s sci-fi trilogy builds on the strengths of the previous seasons to present a chilling, thrilling tale of control and the unstoppable force of curiosity
- ‘Remain’ teaser: Jake Gyllenhaal and Phoebe Dynevor find a supernatural mystery in M. Night Shyamalan’s new romanceThe first teaser for M. Night Shyamalan’s’ Remain’ begins as an intimate love story before sending Jake Gyllenhaal’s grieving architect into a supernatural mystery
- ‘The Gentlemen’ Season 2 review: Theo James anchors Guy Ritchie’s style over substance gangster sagaEnjoyable and instantly forgettable, this tale of aristos growing marijuana to fund their estates sees Theo James’s Eddie attempting to extricate himself from increasingly complicated situations with ducal panache
- How Pt Vinayak Torvi created a space for Hindustani music in BengaluruMarking his 78th birthday, Bengaluru’s Dharohar festival celebrated not only Pt. Vinayak Torvi’s artistry but also his efforts to train generations of musicians and cultivate discerning audiences.
- ‘Udta Teer’: Ayushmann Khurrana and Sara Ali Khan’s comedy-drama gets new release dateThe film has been written and directed by Akash A Kaushik in his directorial debut.
- Jaya Jaya Devi, featuring Lalgudi Jayaraman’s memorable score, returnsTo be staged after three decades, the production choreographed by guru Rhadha, will be presented on September 19 in Chennai.
- ‘Drishyam The Conclusion’ trailer: Ajay Devgn protects family from Jaideep Ahlawat’s enigma in crime-thrillerThe film also stars Tabu, Shriya Saran, Jaideep Ahlawat, Prakash Raj, Rajat Kapoor, Ishita Dutta, Mrunal Jadhav and Kamlesh Sawant
- Beatles, Clapton and beyond: Chennai’s Bay 146 hosts a British Invasion soiréeRaise your glasses to a magical evening filled with music, trivia and good cheer, as Squirrels in the Attic is set to bring the best of British Invasion music to the stage in a lively tribute
- Hesham Abdul Wahab interview: On composing for ‘Epic’, ‘Once More’ and the war zone of film deadlinesAhead of Aditya Haasan’s ‘Epic - First Semester’, composer Hesham Abdul Wahab opens up on his choice of singers and why ‘Manasa Vacha’ might be a surprise
- Sarvabhutatma Sri Krishna: A Sattriya exploration of Krishna using the PanchabhutaConceived by Krishnakshi Kashyap with music by Bhaskar Jyoti Ojah, the production engages Assam’s devotional heritage through the Panchabhuta, evoking Krishna as cosmic consciousness.
- Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem’s ‘Bunker’ gets 15-minute standing ovation at VeniceAfter the screening of the Florian Zeller directorial, both Penelope and Javier were seen getting emotional with the overwhelming response
- ‘Artificial’ trailer: Andrew Garfield plays Sam Altman in Luca Guadagnino’s OpenAI dramaThe first trailer offers a dark first look at Luca Guadagnino’s film about the 2023 crisis that briefly saw Altman removed as OpenAI CEO
- ‘Lust Stories 3’ trailer: Siddharth, Aditi Rao Hydari sparkle in third outing of anthology filmThe Netflix film also stars Radhika Apte, Konkona Sen Sharma, Radhika Madan, Sana Thampi, Vijay Varma, Abhishek Banerjee, Ali Fazal and Gurfateh Pirzada
- Konkona Sen Sharma on the method behind her acting and her preference for unconventional rolesKonkana Sen Sharma’s latest outing as a lesbian Dalit factory worker in Netflix’s short film Geeli Pucchi has won critical acclaim, and an award
- How did Netflix's 'Lust Stories' Lust come about?The quartet of filmmakers behind Bombay Talkies reunite for a set of shorts centered around the primal instinct
- ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ trailer: Godzilla faces a terrifying new threat as Ghidorah loomsThe new trailer for Takashi Yamazaki’s ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ teases the possible arrival of King Ghidorah while bringing Godzilla back for another devastating rampage
- ‘Declassified: Operation Sindoor’ on Discovery is an inside look at what happened over those 88 hoursThe two-part documentary pans in on the 88-hour military operation by India in response to the killing of tourists at Pahalgam in Kashmir
- The ‘Saami Padam’ is back: Tamil cinema rediscovers its oldest heroesAs a slew of devotional films are set to return to theatres across India, we look into the factors that lead to the revival of the ‘Saami Padam’ in Tamil cinema
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