File photo of Actor Gerard Depardieu. | Photo Credit: AP A Paris court on Tuesday found actor Gérard Depardieu guilty of having sexually assaulted two women on a 2021 film set, giving him an 18-month suspended prison sentence. The actor, 76, has been convicted of having groped a 54-year-old set dresser and a 34-year-old assistant […]
A still from ‘Sabar Bonda’ Following its history-making win at the Sundance film festival earlier this year, Rohan Kanawade’s Marathi-language queer drama Sabar Bonda has added another feather to its cap. The film, about a young man returning to his roots in rural Maharashtra, recently won the Audience Choice Award for Best Feature at the […]
Rahul Sadasivan, Chakravarthy Ramachandra, S Sashikanth, and Pranav Mohanlal; poster of ‘Diés Iraé’ | Photo Credit: @allnightshifts/Instagram We had previously reported that Malayalam actor Pranav Mohanlal has joined hands with the team behind Bramayugam, including director Rahul Sadasivan and producers Chakravarthy Ramachandra and S Sashikanth, for an upcoming horror film. Now, on Friday (May 9), […]
“No critic asks me why I name a film set around the Emergency after a Ghalib couplet,” wonders Sudhir Mishra amid an intense conversation. Two decades after Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, a tale of unfulfilled desires set against the Emergency and the Naxalite Movement stirred our souls, director Sudhir Mishra is mounting another drama set against the […]
Poster announcing the box office milestone of ‘Retro’ | Photo Credit: @2D_ENTPVTLTD/X Retro, Tamil superstar Suriya’s latest release, crossed the Rs. 100-crore mark at the worldwide box office on Tuesday, the film’s production banner has officially announced. The film, directed by Karthik Subbaraj, has earned Rs. 104 crores worldwide, a feat it attained in less […]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York | Photo Credit: Mary Altaffer The Met Gala, one of the grandest events in the world of fashion, is underway at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, United States. Often dubbed as “fashion’s biggest night out,” the event is set to raise funds for the […]
Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos speaks at the WAVES 2025 in Mumbai on Saturday (May 3, 2025). | Photo Credit: PTI Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos on Saturday (May 3) softened the blow of his recent statement dismissing theatrical movies as an ‘outdated concept’. Sarandos was in conversation with Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan on the third […]
Ajay Devgn in ‘Raid 2’. | Photo Credit: T-Series/YouTube Raid 2 featuring Ajay Devgn has earned ₹32.76 crore nett at the box office in two days, the maker said on Saturday. Directed by Raj Kumar Gupta, the film released in theatres on May 01, 2025 (Thursday). The movie is a sequel to the 2018 film […]
Welcome back to FOMO Fix, your weekly dose of what to watch — and what to dodge — across film and television. This week, we take a hard look at revisionism in storytelling: the kind that reimagines history with purpose and perspective, and the kind that distorts it to fit an agenda. From the jingoistic inventions […]
A still from ‘Raid 2’ | Photo Credit: T-Series/YouTube Bollywood superstar Ajay Devgn’s Raid 2 faced stiff competition at the box office on the opening day from the Tamil film Retro, starring Suriya, and the Telugu film HIT 3, headlined by Nani. Ajay’s sequel minted Rs. 18.25 crores on Thursday, while Retro earned Rs. 19.25 […]
