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Daily Quiz: On Animation 1 / 7 | Name the Padma Shri-winning Indian artist known as ‘father of Indian Animation’ 2 / 7 | Which animated film, that saw the acknowledged debut of Mickey Mouse, was the first cartoon to use fully synchronised sound? 3 / 7 | In 1991, which work became the first animated…
Palat…Palat…Palat! If you get this — you have officially watched DDLJ an unhealthy number of times. (Like the rest of us). Thirty years on, iconic Saanen bridge in Switzerland still pulls tourists in droves, earning the nickname Palat Bridge. Bollywood tourism maybe a micro trend in the realm of film tourism but it has seen…
Beavis and Butthead run around doling out headshots to soldiers with cat heads, then break out into viral TikTok dances. We are not talking about Fortnite or Call of Duty, but a first-person shooter with great mechanics for military campaigns and modes, making its latest entry in the Battlefield series. After a successful beta, Battlefield 6 offers…
A molecular biologist from Madurai, our quizmaster enjoys trivia and music, and is working on a rock ballad called ‘Coffee is a Drink, Kaapi is an Emotion’. @bertyashley Quiz | Easy like Sunday morning: Starry starry night! Although we depict sunlight as yellow, and it is classified as a ‘yellow-dwarf’ star, what colour is the…
Golconda by René Magritte | Photo Credit: Wikiart Some of you art enthusiasts and literature lovers might already be familiar with the term “Avant-Garde”. Others may have seen it here and there, with the word looking a bit intimidating. Like many words in English that are often borrowed from other languages, avant-garde comes from French….
It was late in the evening and this was the last rubber at the club for the night. Celebrating the holiday season, South had been enjoying the club’s excellent eggnog, with some especially good “nog” in it. He picked up the lovely South hand in today’s deal and excitedly opened two clubs. South got a…
On August 28, director Dominic Arun had already left for Dubai when word began to spread about his second feature, Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra. The film, headlined by Kalyani Priyadarshan, slipped quietly into theatres worldwide that morning, jostling for Onam footfalls against heavyweight releases starring Mohanlal and Fahadh Faasil. When the crew gathered in Dubai to…
