Shruti Haasan takes us through her lockdown diaries, the changing trends in music, finding comfort in staying alone and more

In the two movies that essentially had to condense 3,500 pages worth of richly-imagined historical fiction, Mani Ratnam’s Ponniyin Selvan had a lot riding on ta

“We might be two commandos, but Nandu is a full battalion,” Kamal Haasan describes his deranged brother in a telling line to his NSG commandos and the audience

Susheela (Madhoo) waits for her train at the Egmore railway station, her eyes searching for someone, when Gautami walks in wearing a gorgeous tulle ensemble, he

AR Rahman’s ‘Mallipoo’ plays out very intrinsically in Gautham Vasudev Menon’s Vendhu Thanindhathu Kaadu. It is a normal night at the Essaki parotta shop. The m

Dhanush and Nithya Menen's sprightly coming-of-age film Thiruchitrambalam tries to give us the answer to an age-old question that's been prodding humans off and

A man leading a quiet life is forced to revisit his dark secret when the violent past comes knocking on his door. This is a premise as old as time itself, but D

Tamil cinema’s prominent musicians and composers Govind Vasantha, Chinmayi Sripada, Leon James and Shakthisree Gopalan join us in a webinar to speak about the massive changing trends in the industry...

35-year-old Saravanan’s maps are also helping assess the damage from rising sea levels.

Danish Siddiqui and Adnan Abidi were part of the Reuters team that won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography announced on Monday.

Actor Shiva is back to send up Tamil cinema’s most overused plot devices in the sequel.

At the recent audio launch of Pathu Thala, Silambarasan TR began his speech to a frenetic crowd of 8,000 odd fans with what seemed like a simple gesture of than

Ashwin Saravanan loves his horror. Kaavya Ramkumar loves her romcoms. Ashwin is at peace in the dark. And Kaavya thrives in light, bright spaces. The writing ta

Seconds after the ring, I hear a characteristic voice greet me with a "vanakkam" and a smile on the phone. Actor Kaali Venkat is on his way home by ca

Friends of Police (FOP) is one such entity that has been on its feet ever since the lockdown was announced.

During the annual season, sabha canteens offer innovative dishes such as watermelon rasam to draw a larger crowd.

Lakshmipriyaa Chandramouli has always been drawn to a role in a film not by its length, but by its purpose. "Whatever role I play should take the story for

Eager faces were being ushered in at 6.12am, with a young man hurrying his friend to get in. “Seekram poda. Padam arambichira podhu,” he hollered. Fans at Victo

Anjali Menon’s Bangalore Days celebrates a landmark anniversary this year — it has been ten years since Malayalam cinema’s most popular cousins (Dulquer Salmaan

While Santhanakrishnan came up with the idea way back in 2016, he revisited it last October, to come up with a prototype, along with his wife Preetha

What explains Atlee’s 100 percent hit record? Apart from a host of reasons, we argue that it is his ability to write the best flashbacks of recent Indian cin...

With the release of Ponniyin Selvan 2 just around the corner, here's a video essay that can brush your memory up and help you be better prepared for what is ...

How do you think a boy forced to join school after a long holiday at home would feel, asks Ramkumar, a Vijay fan who runs a mobile shop in Kanchipuram, with a t

Lokesh Kanagaraj has always been a gambler. He put machine guns into the hands of his idol, reviving his career as an action hero at 67 in Vikram. He pulled peo

With Maamannan, Mari Selvaraj returns to tell a pinching human drama for the third time, but this time through the lens of a father-son relationship — shared po

Shilpa Mitha wants to prove that Indian cuisine is much more than the curry.

In a quietly beautiful scene in Bharathiraja’s classic tragedy Muthal Mariyathai (1985), we see vignettes of what it is to fall in love when Malaichami (Sivaji

The pint-sized actor steals the show in Garth Davis’s 2016 movie, based on Saroo Brierley’s ‘A Long Way Home’.

The Telugu Film Industry still makes some of the best mainstream blockbusters but its regressive gender politics is quite apparent. Where do the gender dynam...

Nursing superintendent Jeba Saron Joseph recollects the first time she had to test a patient for novel coronavirus at the isolation ward of Chennai’s

The Tamil screen icon’s dark complexion, which saw him typecast as a villain in his early years, has now become a matter of pride.

‘Return of Crazy Thieves’ is the latest sidesplitter from the Tamil playwright and movie dialogue writer.