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Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Kennedy’ screens at NYIFF | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Anurag Kashyap’s Kennedy continues its strong run on the festival circuit, drawing a standing ovation and sold-out screenings at the 2025 New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF). The neo-noir thriller, headlined by Rahul Bhat, has been steadily building momentum since its Cannes premiere, where…
Kavya Ganesh began her performance with Sage Patanjali’s ‘Shambhu natanam”. | Photo Credit: Pari S Jindal The beauty of the Bharatanatyam margam lies in its structured format. Yet, it allows the artistes to reimagine and present it in their own distinct way. This was evident at the recent performance of Kavya Ganesh, for the HCL…
Surya Vashistta, Ritu Varma and Shiva Kandukuri in the web series | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement In the first few minutes of the Telugu web series Devika & Danny, streaming on Jio Hotstar, Devika Nandan (Ritu Varma) discloses that she has lived her life within a 25-kilometre radius. She teaches music at a nearby village…
Aishwarya Balasubramanian | Photo Credit: Iyappan Arumugam Aishwarya Balasubramanian is a well-rounded dancer whose performance shows her growing maturity as an artiste. Starting with an interesting Pushpanjali in ragamalika in Adi, composed by violinist Easwar Ramakrishnan, and visualised with offbeat usi sollus that were intoned perfectly by nattuvanar Jayashree Ramanathan, she displayed her good sense…
Meera Sreenarayanan performing at The Music Academy | Photo Credit: K. Pichumani The understanding between a singer and a dancer, where both respond and resonate to each other’s manodharma, results in a performance high on aesthetics. Meera Sreenarayanan’s recital at The Music Academy’s dance festival was one such. From the first piece, the viruttam addressed…
Manasa Sriram. | Photo Credit: S.R. Raghunathan Manasa Sriram, a disciple of Mahalakshmi Ashwin, began her recital at the Pongal Dance Festival 2025 with the invocatory hymn from the Thirumanthiram, ‘Ainthu karathanai’, in praise of Ganesha. She then moved to a Ganesha Alarippu set to Tisra Nadai Adi tala, showcasing the essence of Bharatanatyam’s rhythmic…
Spoorthi Rao, Vocal at Parthasarathy Swamy Sabha, Vidya Bharathi, in Mylapore on Tuesday…. Photo: SRINATH M/ THE HINDU | Photo Credit: SRINATH M Spoorthy Rao easily won the hearts of the audience with her rich and melodious voice that covered all the octaves up to the tara panchmam. Spoorthy commenced her concert for Sri Parthasarathy…
