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Rapper Hanumankind. | Photo Credit: hanumankind/Instagram Rapper Hanumankind, who is currently making waves with hit songs, has confirmed his track in Jana Nayagan,the final film of Tamil star Vijay. The movie is directed by H Vinoth and produced by KVN Productions. “I have sung a great rap song for Thalapathy Vijay for Jana Nayagan. It…
Same hero, new villain, bigger scale is a formula that often works for a new Bond enterprise or a fresh leap that our Tiger takes. This week, director Raj Kumar Gupta applies the rules of larger-than-life heroes to the new chapter of the unsung Income Tax officer that he created seven years ago. As the…
In a scene from HIT: The Third Case, a character describes Arjun Sarkaar’s (Nani) actions as “classy”. Arjun retorts that this time, he intends to show his true self — stepping away from the image of refinement often associated with him. In another moment, when someone warns him that he “cannot survive here”, he responds,…
Nawazuddin Siddiqui in ‘Costao’. | Photo Credit: Zee5/YouTube Costao Fernandes, the ex-officer from Marmagoa Custom House, hid in the jungle for a day after accidentally killing Alvernaz Alemao, brother of former Goa chief minister Churchill Alemao. With his body battered with multiple wounds, Costao faced an immense struggle to stay alive. Only after he surrendered…
With Thunderbolts* (the asterisk denotes a little something that’s worth ceasing all phones at early screenings), Marvel Studios offers a strange something. Not a new beginning, not even an end, but a reluctant middle piece to its dwindling self-worth nearing the conclusion of Phase-5. After a decade-plus of spandex operatics, cosmic showdowns, and multiversal migraines,…
Sudhakar Reddy in a scene from ‘Muthayya’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Watching director Bhaskhar Maurya’s Telugu film Muthayya, now streaming on ETV Win, feels like shedding the trappings of urban life and settling into an unhurried rural setting, surrounded by affable characters. The story centres on a 70-year-old man from a village in Telangana,…
Emma Mackey | Photo Credit: @emma.mackeytr/Instagram Sex Education star Emma Mackey is set to step into the magical world of Narnia as she has been roped in to play a key character in filmmaker Greta Gerwig’s highly anticipated adaptation of author C S Lewis’ classic book series. Mackey, who earlier collaborated with Gerwig for the…
Bollywood seldom tells stories of Dalit assertion. It mostly sees the marginalised as victims who need the compassion and cover of an upper caste saviour. Perhaps, that’s why the inspirational story of Jyotirao (Pratik Gandhi) and Savitribai Phule (Patralekhaa) remained off the radar of commercial filmmakers. Known to pick up challenging subjects, this week, writer-director Ananth…
That David F Sandberg, the director of Lights Out and Annabelle: Creation, is returning to horror should pique your interest. But the hype behind his latest film adaptation of the Until Dawn video game had to be studied. Having not played the original game, it was only right that I researched what the deal was…
A still from ‘Gangers’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Two clips from recent promotional interviews went viral for the most ironic reasons. A Telugu producer asserted that there’s no nepotism in their film industry, and closer home, Sundar C, while promoting his movie Gangers, said his films never have double-meaning dialogues or suggestive sequences. Of…
