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A still from ‘The B***ds of Bollywood’. | Photo Credit: Netflix Social media might have bridged the distance between Bollywood stars and the common man, but the curiosity of fans and trolls to look at the view behind the camera remains unsatiated. Over the years, directors Farah Khan, Zoya Akhtar, and Karan Johar have used…
(left) Ilaiyaraaja. Ajith Kumar from ‘Good Bad Ugly’. Tamil superstar Ajith Kumar’s blockbuster film, Good Bad Ugly, has been removed from the streaming platform Netflix in India. This comes just ten days after the Madras High Court restrained the film’s production house Mythri Movie Makers from using Ilaiyaraaja’s songs in the film. On September 17,…
A still from ‘Bad Girl’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement If movie reviews were instruction manuals, I’d command you to take a pause and give the film Bad Girl by debutant director Varsha Bharath some hours of your time. This refreshing coming-of-age Tamil film centred around Ramya (played by Anjali Sivaraman) sets out to achieve exactly what…
Vetri Maaran | Photo Credit: MURALI KUMAR K Acclaimed filmmaker and producer Vetri Maaran announced on Monday (September 1) that the upcoming film Bad Girl, directed by Varsha Bharath, will be the last film produced under his Grass Root Film Company banner. The director blamed the immense pressure he faced as a producer on Bad…
The Bad Guys are back! In the sequel to the charming 2022 animated heist comedy, The Bad Guys 2 finds Wolf, Shark, Piranha, Webs and Snake getting involved in yet another caper even as they are trying to stay on the straight and narrow. Like the original, the sequel retains the handcrafted-animation look. “The style…
Stills from ‘Angammal’ and ‘Bad Girl’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The upcoming edition of the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne is all set to feature a stellar line-up of Tamil titles, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. The line-up is led by Vipin Radhakrishnan’s film Angammal, starring Geetha Kailasam, Saran, and Thendral Raghunathan. The…
Watch: FOMO Fix: The good, the bad and the ugly on film and TV this week What do Ajith Kumar’s Good Bad Ugly, Black Mirror’s terrifying tech futures, and a sex-positive show about cancer have in common? They’re all part of this week’s FOMO Fix — where we break down the most hype, most trippy,…
Poster of ‘Good Bad Ugly’ Adhik Ravichandran’s Good Bad Ugly is on track to become the highest-grosser for actor Ajith Kumar. According to trade website Sacnilk, Good Bad Ugly has raked in ₹84.50 crores in the domestic market and has breached the ₹150 crore mark globally. According to Mythri Movie Makers, the producers of the film Good…
A still from ‘Good Bad Ugly’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Given the reception Ajith Kumar and Adhik Ravichandran’s Good Bad Ugly has garnered in the last 48 hours, it’s no surprise that it’s breaking records. The makers have officially confirmed the film’s first-day collection. According to Mythri Movie Makers, the producers of the film, Good…
Who knew that a character sending a specific someone’s photo on a WhatsApp group would make for one of the ‘massiest’ sequences we have seen in recent times? Director Adhik Ravichandran, who, over the last ten years, has gotten us used to his use of bright colours, dutch-angle shots and quirky humour, takes it up…
