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Salman Khan says he does not want any controversy around ‘Sikandar’

Mumbai: Bollywood actor Salman Khan during the trailer launch of the upcoming film ‘Sikandar’, in Mumbai, March 23, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Bollywood superstar Salman Khan is gearing up for the release of his much-awaited film Sikandar. While promoting the movie, Salman opened up about various aspects, including controversies and fan expectations. While speaking […]

Mohanlal’s ‘L2: Empuraan’ writer Murali Gopy on right-wing backlash: ‘Let them fight it out’

New Delhi: Malayalam film actor Mohanlal with actor and director Prithviraj Sukumaran during a press meet for their upcoming film ‘L2: Empuraan’, in New Delhi, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. The much-hyped Mohanlal-starrer, ‘L2: Empuraan’, directed by Prithviraj Sukumaran, received an overwhelming response in theatres on its opening day on Thursday, followed by raging controversies on […]

‘The Studio’ series review: Seth Rogen’s meta-comedy cameo-fest is an absolute riot

Hollywood loves nothing more than making movies about itself, but if we’re being perfectly honest, often more than not, those projects play like self-indulgent fever dreams (not you Babylon, we love you) — a dozen limp, inside-story, behind-the-scenes snooze fests that assume the audience actually cares about the daily torments of powerful people with infinity […]

‘Manada Kadalu’ movie review: Yogaraj Bhat delivers a love triangle with philosophy in his latest offering

Sumukha and Rashika Shetty in ‘Manada Kadalu’. | Photo Credit: D Beats Music World/YouTube Yogaraj Bhat revived the romance genre in Kannada cinema with Mungaru Maleand Gaalipata. In his prime, the director wrote love stories with great emotional depth. Once the law of averages caught up with him, Bhat experimented with concepts(Panchatantra) but lost his […]

‘Black Bag’ movie review: Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender light up Steven Soderbergh’s sleek espionage thriller

Cate Blanchett, left, and Michael Fassbender in a scene from “Black Bag.” | Photo Credit: CLAUDETTE BARIUS This is the season of Michael Fassbender. Just as he lights up our little screens in the excellent espionage thriller The Agency, on the big screen, he is George Woodhouse in Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag. George, a British […]

Meet Dino Mukk: This AI-generated dinosaur town in Kerala goes viral

Dino Mukk | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement “Idhu, Palakkadu jilla-yile Dinomukku” (This is Dinomukku in Palakkad district), announces the narrator in a familiar, almost nostalgic tone. The visuals unfold: rolling green hills, misty fields, and the quiet charm of rural Kerala. It could be a scene from an old episode of Krishi Darshan on Doordarshan. […]

Payal Kapadia developing two films post ‘All We Imagine as Light’: all different pieces, set in Mumbai

Payal Kapadia. File. | Photo Credit: AP Filmmaker Payal Kapadia says she is planning two films in the follow-up to All We Imagine As Light, her surrealist drama that was one of the most celebrated films of 2024 and won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. The two projects, along with All We […]

Screen Share | Films that smell like fresh greens and expensive cologne

Christian Bale as Michael Burry in The Big Short | Photo Credit: Jaap Buitendijk/Paramount Pictures A Redditor’s post on luckily cashing in ahead of the recent downturn in the Indian stock market pushed me into a philosophical spiral. The fantasy of a bear market prediction scoring a fortune, even at the cost of millions losing […]

‘MAD Square’ movie review: A middling film with a few outrageous laughs

A scene from ‘MAD Square’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement In late 2023, when director Kalyan Shankar’s campus comedy MAD introduced the audience to the three protagonists after whom the Telugu film takes its name, their antics forged an instant connect with the student community and anyone who wanted to reminisce campus fun. It worked […]

‘Robinhood’ movie review: Nithiin, Sreeleela’s action-comedy is a misfire

Nithiin and Sreeleela in ‘Robinhood’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement It is one thing to not take yourself too seriously when you are making a comedy and another when the irreverence serves as a mask to camouflage a lazily-written and a casually-executed film. To make up for a shallow plot and the limitations of its […]