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The Hindu — MoviesIndiaDurga Puja in Bengali cinema: How Satyajit Ray and Rituparno Ghosh portray the goddess From Devi and Parama to Utsab and Antarmahal, Bengali filmmakers have used Durga’s image to explore women’s agency, patriarchal control, family tensions and the contradictions between the goddess’s…
The Hindu — MoviesIndia‘Jailer 2’: Why Moorthy Anna is our spirit animal Thanks to his one-liners and antics, Namo Narayana’s Moorthy in ‘Jailer 2’ has already become an internet sensation, with memes calling him the spirit animal we all need to take inspiration…
The Hindu — MoviesIndiaTiger Shroff shooting: Gulshan Kumar to Salman Khan, past attacks on Bollywood celebrities Celebrities, including Rakesh Roshan and Gulshan Kumar, have been the victims of targeted attacks over the years.
The Hindu — MoviesIndia‘Little Thomas’: How Kaushal Oza found the right tone while telling a wondrous story of a kid Director Kaushal Oza talks about his feature debut ‘Little Thomas’, why he found it difficult to get the tone right, the difficulties in pitching newer ideas to producers and more.
The Hindu — MoviesIndiaSony Pictures acquires rights to release A24’s ‘You Can See Everything’ in India The film became the highest-rated feature film of all time on Letterboxd, reaching an average rating of 4.8 out of 5 following its theatrical release in the US
The Hindu — MoviesIndia‘Clayface’ interview: James Watkins, Tom Rhys Harries, Naomi Ackie and Max Minghella on the horrors of losing your face As the DC Universe ventures into body horror, the filmmaker and cast of ‘Clayface’ discuss scientific hubris, Hollywood’s beauty-industrial complex, and the existential terror of no longer…
The Hindu — MoviesIndia‘Turtle Walker’: Zoya Akhtar-backed documentary pays tribute to Satish Bhaskar’s life and legacy The film is a stunning deep dive into the life of turtle conservationist Satish Bhaskar, who walked nearly every inch of India’s coastline to discover the nesting beaches of sea turtles so that they…
The Hindu — MoviesIndia‘Garividi Lakshmi’ movie review: Anandhi leads a compelling biopic Director Gowri Naidu Jammu’s debut Telugu film spotlights Andhra Pradesh burra katha artist Garividi Lakshmi with a strong story and rooted music, but the old-school treatment limits its…
The Hindu — MoviesIndiaHow the gaana tag overshadowed Deva’s melodic genius Despite Deva’s songs becoming chartbusters, it caused him immense grief that the very listeners celebrating those tracks never realised that he was the composer behind…
The Hindu — MoviesIndia‘The Diplomat’ Season 4 review: Keri Russell and Rufus Sewell continue their diplomatic dance Sharp suits and sharper intrigue mark the season as three power couples navigate connections, conspiracies and crises in the corridors of power
The Hindu — MoviesIndiaP Sheshadri serves up another political satire with ‘Panchayati’ P Sheshadri’s latest film, ‘Panchayati’, scheduled for release by the end of 2026, explores the complex political realities of rural India
The Hindu — MoviesIndia‘Amruthavarshini’: When Deva gave Kannada cinema an all-time hit with a soulful album Music composer Deva’s work in the 1997 Kannada film, directed by Dinesh Baboo, showcased a soulful side of his repertoire, even as he was known for high-energy…
The Hindu — MoviesIndiaMax Richter in India: On the melancholia of ‘On the Nature of Daylight’ and the art of making audiences weep Ahead of his first live concert in India, the Oscar-nominated composer reflects on the tear-jerking legacy of ‘Arrival’, making sense of Shakespeare with Chloe Zhao, and the fruitful collaboration…
The Hindu — MoviesIndiaThe gift of elegance in ‘Thenisai Thendral’ Deva’s music At once accessible and appealing, Deva’s music has the ability not merely to please listeners, but to draw them closer to sound and the emotions it conveys
The Hindu — MoviesIndiaThe dialectics of Night City: How ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ anticipated our hypercapitalist dystopia William Gibson’s ‘Neuromancer’ bequeathed cyberpunk a future in which capital colonises every frontier.
The Hindu — MoviesIndia‘You Can See Everything’ becomes Letterboxd’s highest-rated feature film of all time with 4.8 rating Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s documentary about former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has climbed to the top of Letterboxd’s feature-film rankings following its theatrical…
The Hindu — MoviesIndiaWhy India is falling for C-dramas Chinese dramas are inching ahead of stereotypical K-dramas with its flawed leads, empowered women, lived-in cities and everyday lives. And its fans are growing…
The Hindu — MoviesIndia‘Ranabaali’ movie review: Vijay Deverakonda, Rashmika Mandanna anchor a history-rich but overstuffed Rayalaseema drama Director Rahul Sankrityan’s Telugu film uses Burra Katha and the 1876-78 famine to give the narrative a fresh look, but some portions struggle under the weight of history, devotion and…
The Hindu — MoviesIndia‘Jailer 2’ movie review: Rajinikanth’s flourishes elevate Nelson’s rousing herogasm Nelson betters the ‘Jailer’ template with a well-calibrated sequel that knows when to let Rajini loose and fills the in-between stretches with riotous humour and narrative…
The Hindu — MoviesIndiaAlbert Theatre: the fading of Rajini’s fortress in Madras Time flies, empires crumble, theatres vanish, and love wanes: these are eternal truths. But when Albert and Baby Albert turned deathly quiet amid a Rajini film release, it marked a shift in the…
The Hindu — MoviesIndiaTelangana CM Revanth seeks film stars’ help to prepare people for El Nino challenges The idea, according to Telangana CM, is to keep people informed about the possible impact of El Nino on a regular basis rather than wait until shortages become…
The Hindu — MoviesIndiaWriter of the Malayalam series ‘Eyes’, Anjana Nayar, on how she came to create it Anjana Nayar speaks about writing the story of Eyes, and colloborating with her husband Sanjay, of the writer duo Bobby-Sanjay
The Hindu — MoviesIndiaRoundglass Sustain’s short film A Spring Against All Odds to be showcased at international film festival The film, one of 48 films selected for Film SouthAsia (FSA), an international documentary film festival to be held in Kathmandu from November 27–29, 2026, is based on a script by Radhika Raj and has…
The Hindu — MoviesIndia‘12 12 12’ trailer: Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan lock horns in Apple TV’s heist thriller Apple TV’s eight-episode series ‘12 12 12’ has Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan playing a former FBI agent and a globe-trotting criminal respectively
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