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Singing in turns: The A-Z of Antaakshari

Also known as antyakshari, it is a game which involves one team (or player) singing a song that starts with the last letter of the previous song. This game challenges your memory of songs, melody, and how quickly you can respond. This has been played across generations in India — from the king’s courts to…

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Singing in turns: The A-Z of Antaakshari

Also known as antyakshari, it is a game which involves one team (or player) singing a song that starts with the last letter of the previous song. This game challenges your memory of songs, melody, and how quickly you can respond. This has been played across generations in India — from the king’s courts to…

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‘DDLJ’ turns 30: Mumbai’s Maratha Mandir continues its love affair with romance classic

Mumbai’s iconic single-screen theatre, Maratha Mandir, has remained the permanent home of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge for 30 years and it will continue to do so as long as audiences keep coming, says the theatre’s executive director Manoj Desai. Opened in 1952, the 1,107-seater cinema has screened numerous iconic films, including Mughal-E-Azam and Pakeezah. Yet…

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‘Dominic And the Ladies’ Purse’ movie review: Needless flab turns Gautham Menon-Mammootty film into average fare

Mammootty in a still from ‘Dominic And the Ladies’ Purse’ Private eye Dominic, like all wannabe Sherlocks, has a habit of making quick deductions about other people just from their appearances. But, unlike in most other films, the protagonist of Gautham Vasudev Menon’s Dominic And The Ladies’ Purse gets it wrong in the opening sequence…

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