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Dharmendra always had Devdas in his sights. He was a lad of 20 when his idol Dilip Kumar played the ill-fated eponymous lover. He saw the 1955 Bimal Roy film repeatedly, preparing himself mentally for the role. In the mid-1970s, Gulzar cast Dharmendra against type in his version of Devdas. The poet-lyricist-filmmaker knew, and Dharmendra…
The viral hit song ‘Monica’ from Rajinikanth’s upcoming film Coolie where actor Pooja Hegde and Soubin Shahir shine in a high-energy performance plays at Antara, a brand new cinema screen at the revamped KG Cinemas. “This is the first time I am watching ‘Monica’ on the big screen,” says Lokesh Kanagaraj, the film’s director while inaugurating the…
The cover of Fans Talkies by Mridul George | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Writer Joseph Annamkutty Jose in his preface to Fans Talkies, a collection of Malayalam fanfiction (fanfic) short stories by techie-scenarist Mridul George, reminisces about how his older brother, rather nonchalantly ruined for him the happily-ever-after of the Malayalam film Aniyathipravu. They left…
M.K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar. | Photo Credit: SREE RAMASEVA MANDALI The 116th birth anniversary of M.K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar, widely regarded as the first superstar of Tamil cinema, was observed today in a special Guru Pooja ceremony. The Tamil Nadu government recognised this occasion as a state event, reflecting Bhagavathar’s immense contributions to both the film industry…
A 16-foot long memorial of 3,000-odd film technicians, primarily actors, who have traversed the Malayalam film industry since the first Malayalam film, Vigathakumaran, in 1928, to the present, sounds like hyperbole which stretches the imagination. And then I see it at the Aluva home of former insurance employee-turned-artist Javan Chacko and his wife, Reena. Resting…
Christopher Nolan loves cinemas. So much so that even during a global coronavirus pandemic, the London-born 50-year-old filmmaker has been insistent that Tenet — his epic time-bending espionage movie, akin to a sci-fi Bond film — will only release in theatres. Even though many cinemas aren’t operational. And the ones that are, are working under…
Black Widow, the newest Marvel movie starring Scarlett Johansson, is out this week in theatres globally as well as on Disney+ with Premier Access in most Disney+ markets. It was supposed to hit Indian cinemas at the same time, but COVID-19 had other plans and now a release date for India is unclear. And it…
