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Ranveer Singh, director Shankar and Dr. Jayantilal Gada

‘Anniyan’ Hindi remake: Shankar, Ranveer Singh join hands

The Hindu Net Desk The original 2005 Tamil version, starring Vikram as a frustrated everyman developing multiple personality disorder to take on the system, was a massive blockbuster

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Sunita, Pugazh, Sivaangi, Manimegalai, Sarath and Bala during an episode of ‘Cook with Comali’

The genius of ‘Cook with Comali’

Srivatsan S A fan pictures together the experience of ‘discovering’ the much-loved cooking show that reinstated joy and happiness during a period of uncertainty, ahead of the finale

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Serena Williams signs programming deal with Amazon Studios

AP Williams has not played since she lost in the Australian Open semifinals in February to Naomi Osaka.

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Vishnu Vishal and Jwala Gutta to get married on April 22

The Hindu Net Desk The celebrity couple got engaged in September last year, and will tie the knot in a private ceremony in Hyderabad

Movies

‘Court’ actor Vira Sathidar passes away, due to COVID-19 related complications

PTI Apart from ‘Court’, which was India’s official entry to Oscars 2016, Sathidar went on to feature in two more short films

Movies

Kubbra Sait interview: On gratitude, acting, writing a memoir and more

Praveen Sudevan ‘Gratitude’ is atop her list of three secrets to success, followed by ‘challenging yourself’ and ‘getting good sleep’

Movies

‘Searching For Sheela’: Netflix docu-film on Osho Rajneesh’s former aide premieres in April

PTI Ma Anand Sheela, who shot to global fame with the documentary ‘Wild Wild Country’ on controversial spiritual guru Osho Rajneesh, will be back to the screen

Multimedia

Meet the team behind 'Pagglait'

(from left) Kalki Koechlin, Tahira Kashyap and Surveen Chawla

Watch | The women at Netflix

(clockwise from left) Shweta Basu Prasad, Kalki Koechlin, Surveen Chawla, Amruta Subhash, Sayani Gupta, Neena Gupta, Mithila Palkar, Masaba Gupta, Kirti Kulhari, Guneet Monga, Monika Shergill, Inayat Verma, and Divya Dutta

At the Netflix roundtable...

Watch | Pooja Bhatt and Alankrita Srivastava talk about ‘Bombay Begums’

Movies

Oscar-winning producer Guneet Monga receives second highest civilian French honour

PTI

Actor Hank Azaria stopped voicing Apu Nahasapeemapetilon on The Simpsons in the wake of a controversy over the character’s portrayal in the show. | File

International

‘The Simpsons’ actor Hank Azaria feels he needs to apologise to every Indian for voicing ‘Apu’

PTI Mr. Azaria told podcast hosts Dax Shepard and Monica Padman that he took time to learn more about what people were feeling.

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Telugu cinema Movies

Nani’s ‘Tuck Jagadish’ postponed, NTR-Koratala Siva announce pan-Indian project

Special Correspondent The rising COVID-19 cases have prompted Nani-starrer ‘Tuck Jagadish’ to postpone its theatrical release

Movies

Sanu John Varghese: The camera is an extension of my personality

Shilpa Anandraj The cinematographer-turned-director discusses his directorial debut 'Aarkkariyam'

Interview Movies

Nivetha Thomas: Enacting Pallavi in ‘Vakeel Saab’ came with responsibility

Sangeetha Devi Dundoo Nivetha Thomas talks about reprising Taapsee Pannu’s part from ‘Pink’, in the Telugu remake ‘Vakeel Saab’, and pulling off the courtroom meltdown scene in one take

Music

The rapper, whose real name is Earl Simmons, had struggled with drug addiction since his teenage years.

Rapper-actor DMX dead at 50

Interview / music Music

Cross-cultural collaboration: Lucky Ali and Eliezer Botzer release their second single, ‘Amaraya’

S B Vijaya Mary Lucky Ali and Eliezer Cohen Botzer hold forth on their latest single ‘Amaraya’ and the spiritual harmony that binds them

Album Music

Vivek Venugopal’s latest album Reveries, Op. 7: Notes of contemplation

Neeraja Murthy Composer Vivek Venugopal discusses why it is the musician and not the composer who adds flavour and life to a piece of music

Varkey (Arun Varghese) and Gopikrishnan S Kurup in the video

Music

‘Chiri Paatu’ is an ode to friendship

Athira M Composed by Varkey and directed by Goutham Soorya, the music video brings together a group of friends and capture their smiles

Music

Pakistani rock band Strings call it quits after 33 years

PTI The group took to social media on Thursday evening to announce their decision to disband, saying that the members will share an “inseparable bond”

Dance

Medicos Naveen and Janaki turn Instagram favourites with their rocking dance number

Saraswathy Nagarajan

Dance

This Korean dance-fashion show is where tradition meets modernity

Gowri S Dance-fashion performance Fever hopes to revisit Korean traditions with a contemporary outlook

Team Bollymadras: Sindhuja Hari and Priyanka Nair

Dance

The ‘Dreamum Wakeupum’ girls: Priyanka and Sindhuja on their viral Instagram Reel

Gautam Sunder The Chennai dancers’ choreography for the popular Bollywood number has garnered over 15 million views, and is a social media superhit

‘Ahuti’, a Chitrasena Dance Company-Nrityagram production

Music

Art across the Palk Strait

Meera Srinivasan The rich cross-border collaboration and exchange between Sri Lanka and India has been halted by the pandemic

Theatre

How dancer Anuradha Venkataraman interpreted Dante through the ‘Mahabharata’

Ruth Dhanaraj Sometimes East can meet West as VIDEODANTE a dance production by Instabili Vaganti proves

Art

A piece inspired by (late) artist Anjum Singh’s artwork

Of bonds, art and hope: Aaradhana Jhunjhunwala and the late artist Anjum Singh’s collaborative project

Neeraja Murthy

Pandemic shaped art

Four artists from Kerala are on all-India trip to explore and capture the sights on their canvas

Four Kerala artists on an all-India trip to discover the country

Saraswathy Nagarajan

The Artist Spud holds first solo exhibition

Ruth Dhanaraj

Art

Putting Alappuzha on the global art map

PRIYADERSHINI S Behind the scenes at Lokame Tharavadu, the biggest festival of Malayali artists coming up in the land of houseboats and coir warehouses

Theatre

This iconic Hyderabad family theatre group is taking an online streaming route

Neeraja Murthy Theatre group, Sri Venkateswara Surabhi Theatre, Hyderabad, is moving online with a month-long programme

Theatre

Sthaayi theatre brings out its latest Tamil play 'Hayavadana' in Coimbatore

Susan Joe Philip The play is directed by Thirunavakkarasu and is a tribute to Girish Karnad and BV Karanth

Theatre

How dancer Anuradha Venkataraman interpreted Dante through the ‘Mahabharata’

Ruth Dhanaraj Sometimes East can meet West as VIDEODANTE a dance production by Instabili Vaganti proves

TV

Entertainment

The genius of ‘Cook with Comali’

Srivatsan S A fan pictures together the experience of ‘discovering’ the much-loved cooking show that reinstated joy and happiness during a period of uncertainty, ahead of the finale

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International

‘The Simpsons’ actor Hank Azaria feels he needs to apologise to every Indian for voicing ‘Apu’

PTI Mr. Azaria told podcast hosts Dax Shepard and Monica Padman that he took time to learn more about what people were feeling.

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Movies

Justin Timberlake to star in ‘Confessions of a Dangerous Mind’ series for Apple

PTI The actor-singer is set to play American host Chuck Barris in an hour-long drama series

Cut me no cuts

The voyage of discovery

A European dominance

A beginner’s guide to the fantastic beasts and the films that embraced them

Thumbnails from Thiruvananthapuram

The Mission of Silence