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Britney Spears’ father agrees to step down from conservatorship

AP Jamie Spears said that he is planning to step down from the conservatorship that has controlled the music icon’s life and money for 13 years

Vijay and M.S Dhoni meet in Chennai, catch up years after CSK association

The Hindu Net Desk The actor was shooting for ‘Beast’ when he ran into the CSK cricketer at Gokulam Studios in the city

A still from ‘Impeachment: American Crime Story’

‘Impeachment: American Crime Story’ trailer: How the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal raised hell

The Hindu Net Desk The series stars several A-listers such as Clive Owen, Beanie Feldstein, Sarah Paulson and Annaleigh Ashford

‘The Kissing Booth 3’ movie review: Fairly satisfying conclusion to teen romance trilogy

Mini Anthikad Chhibber The final chapter in Elle, Noah and Lee’s teenage lives arrives with tears, pop songs, flash mobs and a live-action Mario go-kart race

Filmmaker-author Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

Movies

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s autobiography is steeped in secularism

Anuj Kumar The memoirs of the filmmaker who gave us Rang De Basanti 15 years ago, a heady tale of idealistic youth fighting a second freedom movement

Movies

Sidharth Malhotra: Why ‘Shershaah’ matters

Gautam Sunder The Bollywood actor talks about his upcoming war drama, building a real-life character for the screen, and shooting in Kargil

Music

Justin Bieber leads nominees for 2021 MTV Video Music Awards

AP The pop star is followed closely by Megan Thee Stallion, Billie Eilish, BTS and Doja Cat among others

Divya Kala Bhavani If there is one movie you watch in 2021 and you want it to be a feel-good one, let it be Sundance-winner ‘CODA’ for its inclusivity of the deaf community, a love for music and its coming-of-age wonder

Reviews

‘Shershaah’ movie review: A well-made war drama bathed in familiarity

Srivatsan S A biopic on the Kargil War hero Captain Vikram Batra, ‘Shershaah’ is not entirely a bad film but is plagued by the ordinariness of the war films we have been accustomed to

First look of Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ series

Movies

Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ series to shift from New Zealand to UK

Reuters New Zealand’s mountains, meadows and forests were made famous by the ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and the ‘Hobbit’ film trilogies shot in the country by director Peter Jackson

Movies

Netflix’s ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ live-action series finalises main cast

The Hindu Net Desk Actors Gordon Cormier, Kiawentiio, Ian Ousley, and Dallas Liu have come on board, along with Albert Kim as showrunner

Music

Patriotic songs became an integral part of Pattammal’s repertoire

How Pattammal became the voice of freedom

Sriram V.

Entertainment

Britney Spears’ father agrees to step down from conservatorship

AP Jamie Spears said that he is planning to step down from the conservatorship that has controlled the music icon’s life and money for 13 years

Karan Kaul, Aditya Mohanan and Aviraj Kumar of ‘Midhaven’

Music

metal Indian metal band Midhaven is back with a Shiva-inspired concept album

S B Vijaya Mary Blending Indian strains with progressive metal, the seven-track album ‘Of The Lotus & The Thunderbolt’ is a homage to Shiva as Mahakaal

Music

Justin Bieber leads nominees for 2021 MTV Video Music Awards

AP The pop star is followed closely by Megan Thee Stallion, Billie Eilish, BTS and Doja Cat among others

Music

Kayan: ‘As long as I have something to express, I will have inspiration for music’

Gautam Sunder ‘Cool Kids’ singer-songwriter Ambika Nayak on finding fame and following during the pandemic, dabbling in different avenues, and more

Dance

Evoking the navarasa

Rupa Srikanth

Dance

The significance of multidisciplinary approach to classical dance

Aranyani Bhargav Expanding the movement vocabulary will enrich the body, mind and practice

Online breaking battle has b-girls also in the fray

Dance

Dancers in Kerala to raise funds for COVID-19 relief

Athira M Funds raised from an online breaking battle and a workshop to be handed over to the Chief Minister’s Distress Relief Fund

Dance

Manodharma in abhinaya

N.C. Srinivasaraghavan Spontaneously innovative abhinaya, Balasaraswati’s forte, is a fading art today and something that is only superficially understood

Dance

The bond between Annamayya and Kuchipudi

Pujita Krishna The lyrical beauty and wide range of Annamayya’s compositions offer immense choreographic possibilities

Art

Exhibition of Balthazar Solvyns’ paintings on colonial Bengal

Deepa Alexander

Telangana Ethnic Arts Exhibition is an ode to the indigenous tribal and folk arts

Neeraja Murthy

Artist Ganesh Doddamani on his series ‘A sense of the land’

Ruth Dhanaraj

Malayali artists unite to explore the digital world of NFT

Shilpa Nair Anand

Event Art

The essence of Hyderabad in images

Sangeetha Devi Dundoo Photography exhibition ‘Hyderabad in Bordeaux’ captures the architecture, people and vibrancy of a city

Theatre

Event Art

Students to put up a unique theatre show at the University of Hyderabad

Neeraja Murthy For their Actors Individual Performance Project, the budding theatre artists from University of Hyderabad hope to focus on the opportunities than the limitations created due to the pandemic

Kathputhli Colony puppeteers rehearsing scenes from ‘A Timeless Tale of the Turbulent Twosome.’

Theatre

FOLK ARTS Indian puppets perform to Mozart and Puccini compositions

Nahla Nainar Traditional Indian puppets perform Western classical pieces in ‘A Timeless Tale of the Turbulent Twosome,’ a show by vocalist Maya Bajaj of KM Music Conservatory

Theatre

Kottakkal Sivaraman redefined the female role in Kathakali

Achuthan T K In his 60-year-long career, Kottakkal Sivaraman claimed a rightful place for the female characters in Kathakali. The thespian’s death anniversary was on July 19

TV

Movies

Netflix’s ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ live-action series finalises main cast

The Hindu Net Desk Actors Gordon Cormier, Kiawentiio, Ian Ousley, and Dallas Liu have come on board, along with Albert Kim as showrunner

Movies

Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ series to shift from New Zealand to UK

Reuters New Zealand’s mountains, meadows and forests were made famous by the ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and the ‘Hobbit’ film trilogies shot in the country by director Peter Jackson

New on Apple TV+: ‘Mr. Corman’ and ‘CODA’

Movies

New on Apple TV+: ‘Mr. Corman,’ ‘CODA’ and more

The Hindu Net Desk A new drama from Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the Sundance Grand Jury Prize Award winner are the highlights of the platform this week

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