Shivarajkumar in ‘Bail’. | Photo Credit: KVN Productions/YouTube In Bail, Shivarajkumar plays a retired cop, popular for being meek on duty and a henpecked husband at home. Imagine an ex-officer…
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‘Digger’ movie review: Alejandro G. Iñárritu or: How Tom Cruise Learned to Stop Running and Love the Bit
I don’t get it… …is what I periodically muttered to myself as I sat gobsmacked, trying to reverse-engineer what the hell Alejandro González Iñárritu thought he was doing with this…
‘Verity’ movie review: Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson stumble through a corny thriller
Anne Hathaway in ‘Verity’ | Photo Credit: Amazon MGM Studios You know how it is with adaptations. You are invited into a world without the stray pleasures of imagination as…
‘Thella Kaagitham’ movie review: This cautionary take on adolescent love needed more nuance
Thella Kaagitham — a blank piece of paper — is a fitting title for a story dealing with two impressionable adolescents. The success of films like Courtand Little Heartshas thrown…
‘Impure’ movie review: A sharp social satire disguised as a coming-of-age tale
For an industry with such far-reaching influence, Telugu cinema has a relatively notorious track record when it comes to representing modern-day urban women in all their complexity. It is tempting…
‘Avaraachan and Sons’ movie review: Biju Menon makes this old-fashioned family entertainer watchable
Biju Menon in a scene from ‘Avaraachan and Sons’ | Photo Credit: Magic Frames/YouTube Aspirations to be a new-age family entertainer are evident in Avaraachan and Sons, especially in the…
‘Impure’ movie: Varahi Mallipamula’s Telugu-English dramedy addresses patriarchy and virginity
Varahi Mallipamula and lead actor Yashna Muthuluti | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The note from the makers of an upcoming English-Telugu film titled Impure, which is set in Hyderabad and…
Gandhi Jayanti 2026: Gandhi through the eye of the artist
Our artistic imagery of Gandhi mostly begins with the aura of his relentless stamina and determination as he marches towards Dandi, where a man without weapon but a staff for…
Chanakya celebrates goddesses in the everyday and a 40-year milestone
Chanakya International turns 40 and refuses nostalgia: no parade of old collections, no greatest-hits montage of their collaborations with over 50 fashion houses, artists and institutions. Instead, the textile and…