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Aditi Rao Hydari and Konkona Sen Sharma in ‘Ajeeb Daastaans’

‘Ajeeb Daastaans’ review: Netflix anthology fails to break new ground, but is an earnest attempt

Sayan Ghosh The Karan Johar-produced film does best when its ensemble cast rise to the occasion, emoting authentically on screen, the frustrations of their characters

Filmmaker Roberto Benigni to receive Venice Film Festival’s Lifetime Achievement award

PTI The ‘Life is Beautiful’ filmmaker has been honoured with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 78th Venice International Film Festival

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Sai Pallavi from the ‘Saranga dariya’ song in ‘Love Story’

Rooting for folk in Telugu and Tamil cinema

Sangeetha Devi Dundoo Does the latest film song you’re humming have roots in ancient folk tradition? Explore how rustic melodies are becoming superhits in Telugu and Tamil cinema

Mads Mikkelsen joins Harrison Ford in ‘Indiana Jones 5’

PTI James Mangold is taking over the directing duties from Steven Spielberg, who helmed the first four ‘Indiana Jones’ movies

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Movies

Kani is the winner of ‘Cook with Comali’ Season 2

The Hindu Net Desk Shakeela and Ashwin finished in the second and third places respectively after a celebrity-packed finale

Movies

Shankar responds to ‘Anniyan’ producer: Stop agitating such baseless claims

The Hindu Net Desk The director has replied with a statement saying that the script vests with him, and he is absolutely entitled to exploit the same in any manner he deems fit

Chester Bennington mural painted by Mickey Santiago, with LPI in Chennai

Music

Chennai gets a Chester Bennington mural, thanks to the city’s Linkin Park fan club

Sweta Akundi After the unrelenting, three-year-long efforts of Linkin Park India, a Chester Bennington mural is up in the city

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

From screening reruns of old movies to converting their properties, how single-screen theatres survived the pandemic

Srivatsan S

Movies

New on Netflix this week: ‘The Disciple’, ‘Searching for Sheela’ and more

The Hindu Net Desk Chaitanya Tamhane’s acclaimed Marathi drama and a docu-film on Ma Anand Sheela are among the highlights of the week

Movies

Unnimaya Prasad: Dileesh Pothan gives interesting inputs which make you think as an actor

Shilpa Nair Anand The Malayalam actor discusses how director Dileesh Pothan’s brief helped her understand Bincy’s character in 'Joji'

Movies

‘Them’ review: Amazon’s horror series does not provide the catharsis it is supposed to

Mini Anthikad Chhibber Horror is meant to entertain — so are the makers using black trauma for entertainment? Or using horror as a metaphor?

Sunny Wayne and Gouri Kishan in the film

Movies

The film was destined to be made, says Prince Joy of his debut film ‘Anugraheethan Antony’

Shilpa Nair Anand Debutant director Prince Joy is happy with the response that his much-delayed Malayalam flick, Anugraheethan Antony, is getting at the box office

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

Santanu Hazarika and his world of cyborg queens and laser kings

Sweta Akundi

Rooftop - Streets in the Sky A photograph by Madhu Gopal Rao

Pandemic diaries: The view from within

Neeraja Murthy

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

Art

The Artist Spud holds first solo exhibition

Ruth Dhanaraj A chat with Bengaluru’s anonymous The Artist Spud, whose work has been creating a buzz from busking spots to art galleries

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

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Movies

New on Netflix this week: ‘The Disciple’, ‘Searching for Sheela’ and more

The Hindu Net Desk Chaitanya Tamhane’s acclaimed Marathi drama and a docu-film on Ma Anand Sheela are among the highlights of the week

Movies

Kani is the winner of ‘Cook with Comali’ Season 2

The Hindu Net Desk Shakeela and Ashwin finished in the second and third places respectively after a celebrity-packed finale

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

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