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A still from ‘Baramulla’. | Photo Credit: Netflix India/YouTube Usually, films based on the Kashmir conflict are told through characters in army fatigues. In Baramulla, director Aditya Suhas Jambhale, who made Article 370, for a change, infiltrates into the local Jammu & Kashmir Police to find DSP Ridwaan Sayyid, who is torn between duty and distrust. His colleagues…
As thousands of Nepali youth — Gen Z (and the powerful extras) — captured government buildings in Kathmandu, assaulted the former prime minister and sitting foreign minister in their homes, and set ministries, court, and a media house on fire — smoke felt like a new sky, and someone wrote to me: “Gen Z’s protest felt like White Sun’s…
Pawan Kalyan wraps climax shoot for ‘Ustaad Bhagat Singh’ | Photo Credit: Instagram/ @mythriofficial Actor and Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan has completed the climax shoot for his upcoming Telugu action film Ustaad Bhagat Singh, the makers confirmed on Tuesday. Despite his active political commitments, the actor has been juggling cabinet responsibilities and…
Vetrimaaran in conversation with Baradwaj Rangan at The Hindu Huddle. | Photo Credit: K. Bhagya Prakash Tamil filmmaker Vetrimaaran, known for dealing with political themes and social commentary in his films, said cinema cannot escape politics. Speaking at The Huddle by The Hindu, Vetrimaaran opined every film makes a political statement, directly or indirectly. “Man is…
Vetrimaaran at The Hindu Huddle | Photo Credit: K. Murali Kumar How do you define a political film? At a session titled ‘Let’s Get Gritty: Indigenous Cinema in a Mainstream Environment’ at The Hindu Huddle 2025, film director, producer and screenwriter Vetrimaaran says that every film makes a political statement because man is a political…
Kavignar Muthulingam | Photo Credit: B. Thamodharan The run-up to the 1977 Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu was filled with fierce speeches and the air was heavy with political intrigue. After all, former friends M. Karunanidhi of the DMK and M.G. Ramachandran of the AIADMK were clashing head-on, and no one knew what would happen….
Sovan Kumar’s painting May First at Marina Beach | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The truck is pink this time, Fluorescent, absurd, A joke rolling through the streets, On its back, Men made of stone, Green and cold, Push against the air, Their muscles taut, frozen in the eternal effort To move what will not move. …
