Panning on dances in films
Insightful Journey To celebrate 100 years of Indian cinema and to mark ‘World Music Day’, a programme called ‘Centenary of Indian Cinema – A Programme of Music and Dance from Indian Films’, was...
View ArticleTaming challenges
The shoot of North 24 Kaatham is on near a temple. In the scene, Nedumudi Venu, Swati Reddy and Fahadh Faasil, mingle with a small girl. Painstaking silence is ripped apart by the devotional song that...
View ArticleSurveen’s success story
What is it that attracts pretty actresses from the North to south Indian films, particularly Tamil cinema? Talented directors, for one. Realistic stories that give them meaty roles (read glamour), for...
View ArticleBuddy
Movie: Buddy Music: Navneeth Sundar Critic's Rating: ***1/2 If the music of Buddy is anything to go by, debutant composer Navneeth Sundar is...
View ArticleFlying high
Music composer Gopi Sundar is flying high in tinsel town. From the melodious ‘Ethosayana Theerangalil…’ in 10.30 a.m. Local Call to the powerful ‘Sada Sada..’ in Left Right Left and equally hit numbers...
View ArticleBiopics are the current flavour across film industries
With the increasing number of realistic films being made this year, here's a look at some of the stars, who will be seen donning the role of real-life personalities, in the many biopics to look forward...
View ArticleRana Daggubati injured while rehearsing for 'Baahubali'
Tweet Hyderabad, June 29 (IANS) Actor Rana Daggubati faced minor injuries Saturday here while training for some stunt scenes on the sets of upcoming Telugu period-drama "Baahubali". He was rushed to a...
View ArticleAudio beat: Rettai Vaalu - Refreshing tunes
What it is about… Pranav Productions’ Rettai Vaalu tells the story of a mother who is unable to show her affection towards her second son for some strange reason and how this eventually affects the...
View ArticleAudio beat: Ya Ya - Laugh out loud
What it is about… M10 Productions’ Ya Ya, produced by M.S. Murugaraj and written and directed by I. Rajasekaran, is a romantic comedy with music by Vijay Ebenezer and songs by Viveka. Vettri is the...
View ArticleAudio beat: Marumugam - Music for all
What it is about… Entertainment Unlimited’s Marumugam, produced by Sanjay and directed by Kamal Suburamaniam, is a romantic thriller with enough twists and turns to keep the audience hooked. The cast...
View ArticleShakthi back with a bang in Padam Pesum
Actor Shakthi is yet to taste huge success despite hailing from a filmi family. But Shakthi says that the audience should not look at him as ace director P.Vasu's son but give him the...
View ArticleMollywood is on an experimental mode
Innovation seems to the key as far as Mollywood is concerned, with a new wave of new gen filmmakers dealing with bold themes and out-of-the-box subjects. These filmmakers are now ready to go to any...
View ArticleT Congressmen seek solution on AP early
Hyderabad: The Telangana Sadhana Sabha organised by T-Congress leaders on Sunday passed a resolution requesting the party’s central leadership to announce a separate state without any delay. The...
View ArticleReturn of the Roja girl
She’s well known for her performances in Roja and Gentleman. And she was last seen in a film, in 1996. Nearly 17 years after she went on a self-imposed sabbatical, Madhoo will now make a comeback with...
View ArticleReeth clinches another gold
Reeth Abraham bagged yet another gold as she came out with top honours in the women’s 55+ category of the javelin throw competition on the penultimate day of the 34th Masters Athletics Championship at...
View ArticleLove, passion packed in 'Issaq' music (Music Review)
Tweet Film: "Issaq"; Music composers: Sachin-Jigar; Singers: Mohit Chauhan, Prathiba Bhagel, Rashid Khan, Rahul Ram, Sachinn Gupta, Ankit Tiwari, Tarun Sagar, Mamta Sharma, Papon, Kirti Sagathia,...
View ArticleMarquez masterpiece in Tamil now
In the 1940s, Guy De Maupassant was a rage. Pudumaipithan, considered the Bhishma of Tamil short-story writing, modelled his style on the French writer. In the 1980s, Tamil writers came under the...
View ArticleSurveen Chawla in Mysore for Abhimanyu
Surveen Chawla, who is one of the two heroines in Action King Arjun Sarja's trilingual directorial Abhimanyu (which will be called Jai Hind 2 in Tamil and...
View ArticleS. Ve Shekher returns to big screen after five years
Tweet Chennai, July 1 (IANS) Popular playwright and actor S. Ve Shekher, known for films such as "Varumayin Niram Sivappu" and "Payanangal Mudivathillai", will be seen in a prominent role in his...
View ArticleRavi Babu yet to find actress for 'Avunu' Hindi remake
Tweet Chennai, June 30 (IANS) Even five months after he expressed an interest in remaking Telugu suspense-thriller "Avunu" in Hindi, filmmaker Ravi Babu hasn't succeeded in his endeavour to find a...
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