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Expectations had peaked when the team of Kishkindha Kaandam announced their next project. And they did not disappoint with ekō, the slow-burn thriller set in the wild with dynamic characters and their complicated power dynamics. When I caught up with two key names behind the movie, director Dinjith Ayyathan and cinematographer-scriptwriter Bahul Ramesh, happiness was…
In the 1970s, Ramesh Shotham made news as a drummer of the Bengaluru rock-band Human Bondage. He later learnt the Carnatic percussion instrument thavil, before moving to Cologne, Germany. The Chennai-born musician has now recorded his new album ‘Weirdly In Time’, set to release on November 28 on Papercup Records. Two singles — ‘Morsing Madness’…
Ramesh Sippy, director of the 1975 Bollywood classic Sholay, reminisced about the making of the film and said he ‘cannot make another Sholay as he delivered the Satyajit Ray Memorial Lecture at the 31st Kolkata International Film Festival. “Sholay started as a two-line idea, probably a four-line idea… it’s a film that Salim-Javed put on…
Delhi has woken up choking yet again this week, and so have I. The air tastes like the inside of an old battery, and every laboured breath feels like the start of an argument with the conspirators of this hellscape — those self-appointed defenders of tradition who’ve turned the city into a live demonstration of…
Vishnu Vishal makes a statement as he walks in for the promotions of his upcoming film. His T-shirt reads, in bold letters, “Not Ratsasan”. There is a reason for that: it is to announce that his next, Aaryan, despite being a crime thriller, will be different from his 2018 superhit (Ratsasan ), also a crime…
About 60-odd years ago, Prabhu G Dorairaj, founder-conductor of the Lutheran Men’s Voice (LMV) began his musical journey as a treble in his church choir, the Adaikalanathar Lutheran Church located on the bustling Tana Street in Purasaiwalkam. At 24, he along with friends Premkumar Immanuel, Selvaraj and D Prabakhar went across to sing as a youth group at the Tamil Methodist Church,…
Fifty years after it first swept the nation, Sholay remains a sensory experience like no other. Like the inebriated Veeru (Dharmendra) shouting from atop a water tank in the weary lanes of Ramgarh, its story brims with drama, emotion, and action — this Trioka has made mainstream Indian cinema a global force. The 4K restoration amplifies every…
At Home in Sittilingi is an exhibition of embroidered textile art created by 10 women artisans from the Lambadi community. The works are stitched on organic cotton and draw from memory and immediate surroundings — trees that surround them, stories heard from elders, birds marking seasonal change, millets grown in their fields, and the intricacies…
My entry into the world of performative art and storytelling started when I was 10 years old. And that was solely because of my grandmother, who would watch three movies over a weekend. And, I was her main accomplice. Post-dinner, we had these storytelling, singing, dancing and performance sessions for the kids [we all lived…
Director Vetri Maaran, actor Samuthirakani and Madurai MP Su. Venkatesan releasing a documentary film on CPI(M)‘s former general secretary Sitaram Yechury at the 24th party congress in Madurai on Friday. | Photo Credit: G. MOORTHY “The learnings and the experience gained through the process of filmmaking of my recent film ‘Viduthalai’ had me made a…
