AR Rahman hit with court order over ‘Veera Raja Veera’ song in copyright row with classical singer

[ad_1] A R Rahman | Photo Credit: PTI The Delhi High Court on Friday directed renowned music director and composer A.R. Rahman, along with the co-producers of the film Ponniyin Selvan–II, to deposit ₹2 crore with the court registry over an alleged copyright infringement related to the song Veera Raja Veera featured in the 2023 […]

‘Ne Zha 2’ movie review: Breathtaking Chinese epic is a mythic reckoning of stupendous scale

[ad_1] In Ne Zha 2, the demon child is back, and this time, he’s already eaten Pixar for breakfast. Chinese director Jiao Zi returns to his animated juggernaut with a sequel so overstuffed and committed to outdoing itself that it might as well have come with a motion sickness warning. That it also contains some […]

New on Amazon Prime Video this week: ‘Superboys of Malegaon’, ‘Crazxy’, ‘Veera Dheera Sooran Part 2’, and more

[ad_1] Superboys of Malegaon – Now Streaming Superboys of Malegaon is a film based on the life of Nasir Shaikh, an amateur filmmaker from the town of Malegaon. Written by Varun Grover, Amazon MGM Studios’ Original movie features a highly talented and versatile ensemble cast including Adarsh Gourav, Vineet Kumar Singh, and Shashank Arora in […]

Ground Zero movie review: Emraan Hashmi paramilitary film is a conflicting watch

[ad_1] Emraan Hashmi in ‘Ground Zero’ The release of Ground Zero has been coloured, inescapably, by the deadly terror attack in Pahalgam, which claimed at least 26 lives and has escalated tensions in the subcontinent. Although the film, drawn from real events, is set in Kashmir in the early 2000s, its climactic showdown — a […]

Rima Kallingal on winning Best Actor award at Kerala Film Critics Awards, acting in Anjali Menon’s film and being a dancer

[ad_1] Gratitude. Rima Kallingal sums it up with one word when I ask her what she is feeling. Winning the Kerala Film Critics Awards for the Best Actor, praise for her Sree Kanya in the segment Backstage, directed by Anjali Menon, part of the coming of age anthology Yuva Sapno Ka Safar and the astounding […]

‘Sarangapani Jathakam’ movie review: Mohanakrishna Indraganti and Priyadarshi’s film is laughter therapy

[ad_1] Roopa Koduvayur, Priyadarshi in the film | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Oscar Wilde’s semi-comic tale Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, published in 1891, follows an aristocrat’s absurd efforts to commit a murder before marrying his fiancée — purely because a palm reader foretells it as his destiny. Writer-director Mohanakrishna Indraganti reimagines this premise within the […]

‘Jewel Thief – The Heist Begins’ movie review: Saif Ali Khan struggles in a generic, juvenile thriller

[ad_1] Saif Ali Khan in ‘Jewel Thief’ | Photo Credit: MANAS GODARA With the OTT platforms investing more energy and intensity into the long form, feature films are languishing like one-day cricket. Rehan (Saif Ali Khan), a rakish thief, is hired by Rajan Aulakh (Jaideep Ahlawat), a criminal in the garb of an art collector, […]

‘Heinous loser’: Pedro Pascal slams JK Rowling’s anti-trans views

[ad_1] Pedro Pascal | Photo Credit: GARETH CATTERMOLE Hollywood actor Pedro Pascal has called out famous author J.K. Rowling for her latest trans tweets, calling her a “heinous loser” in a comment on Instagram. The actor, who was recently seen in the critically acclaimed episode two of The Last of Us season 2, was responding to a […]

Aamir Khan skips ‘Andaz Apna Apna’ screening after Pahalgam attack, says he was ‘badly affected’

[ad_1] FILE: Bollywood actor in New Delhi, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. | Photo Credit: Manvender Vashist Lav The heinous terror attack in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir that left 26 people dead and several injured has shaken all of India, and many entertainment shows, concerts, and film events have been cancelled. Now, on Thursday (April […]

All bark no bite: The toothless critiques of Hollywood’s anti-capitalist media

[ad_1] Overcoming the one-inch tall barrier that most vernacular language films get buried under, Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite took home four Oscars at the 92nd Academy Awards in 2020, including Best Picture, becoming the first non-English film to do so. The lockdowns that followed soon after restricted the masses to the four walls of their houses as […]