Entertainment News

Nikki Galrani tests positive for COVID-19

The Hindu Net Desk The actor shared the news along with a small note, addressing the stigma around the pandemic

Toronto Film Festival to honour Anthony Hopkins, Mira Nair, Chloe Zhao

PTI The ceremony will be broadcast on September 15 during the 45th edition of the prestigious movie gala.

Dwayne Johnson occupies top spot on Forbes highest-paid male actors list

Reuters Ryan Reynolds, who co-stars with Johnson in ‘Red Notice,’ came in second in the Forbes ranking of male stars

Movies

Ankith Koyya and Esther Anil in the film

‘Johaar’ review: A commendable attempt

Sangeetha Devi Dundoo

Other States

IFFI 2020 as scheduled in November

Special Correspondent But films will be screened online with theatrical screening ‘subject to then prevailing conditions’

The focus might have been trained on the three main leads, but the show also benefited immensely from its supporting characters

‘It’s Okay to Not Be Okay’ Part 2 review: A fitting finale to the acclaimed K-drama

S. Poorvaja While the first eight episodes focused largely on setting the stage for the characters and the beginnings of their arcs, the second half made us willing spectators to their journeys of healing and acceptance

Cast and crew members of ‘Bharathi Kannamma’ preparing to shoot a scene

Variety | This is how Tamil TV serials are being shot in the COVID-19 era

Pradeep Kumar As TV soaps start airing fresh content, we go behind the scenes of Star Vijay’s ‘Bharathi Kannamma’ to observe how different shooting content is in the time of COVID-19

‘Little Voice’ review: A pleasant-ish romance, elevated by a great soundtrack

Aparna Narrain Created by Grammy-winner Sara Bareilles and Jessie Nelson, the Apple TV+ series tells the story of Bess King, a young singer-songwriter who tries to find her authentic voice and make it in New York City

Music

Pinwheel arts festival takes off virtually on August 14 with crowdfunding

Neeraja Murthy

Homing In The songs that rest in India’s indie rock history

Sweta Akundi In this week’s Playlist, post modern rock band Aswekeepsearching’s bassist Robert Alex recalls the songs that charted India’s love affair with the indie rock scene

Kochi band’s musical experiment with a new sound

Shilpa Nair Anand Kochi-based Wooden Shield releases a single, ‘Dreams’ which marks the band’s debut with a new avant garde sound

A musical tribute to Suresh Wadkar on the occasion of his 65th birthday

P.K. Ajith Kumar The Hindu pays a tribute to one of the last singers from the golden age of Hindi film music

Singer-composer Sanjeev Thomas’ lockdown playlist for you this monsoon

Harikumar J S Appreciate the rains with singer-composer Sanjeev Thomas. For your weekly Playlist, he lists his top five songs to listen to, this monsoon

Dance

Amala Shankar’s world of Kalpana

SUNIL KOTHARI

Talk on the dynamics of Bharatanatyam

Gita Jayaraj As a recent social media dispute showed, Bharatanatyam is yet to come to terms with its multi-layered history

Kuchipudi guru and author Munukuntla Sambasiva who died after testing positive for COVID-19 on July 10

Tribute to Kuchipudi’s unsung hero

S B Vijaya Mary Munukuntla Sambasiva, who wrote books, guided dancers and supported researchers, has passed away too soon

The araimandi debate in Bharatanatyam

Rupa Srikanth Does the posture that defines Bharatanatyam cause injury or does it prepare the body for performance?

A move away from Krishna in Nangiarkoothu

Sreevalsan Thiyyadi As Kerala observes the Ramayana month, Kalamandalam Sindhu is eager to retrieve her Sita-inspired project from the lockdown woes

Art

Self-portrait on the mirror by Divya Baid

Animals spell out COVID-19 precautions and protest draft EIA 2020 in Pune-based artist’s work

Gowri S Pune-based wildlife illustrator Rohan Dahotre’s works sport detailing in technique and purpose in content

Theatre

Team Sutradhar at an earlier staging of Siyaah Haashiye

Preview Theatre

Manto’s musings on Partition

Sangeetha Devi Dundoo Sutradhar theatre group will present a live dramatised reading of Sadat Hasan Manto’s ‘Siyaah Haashiye’ on August 14

Ebrahim Alkazi with Roshen Alkazi and Amal Alkazi, 1952

Life & Style

Ebrahim Alkazi: A tribute from his daughter

Amal Allana Ebrahim Alkazi (1925-2020) let work coexist with his family life, because for him, art was life

Theatre

Bangalore Little Theatre’s digital series kicks off on August 8 with Arundhati Raja

Aparna Narrain Let’s Talk Art is a series of public engagements and will feature people from different artistic fields

TV

‘Little Voice’ review: A pleasant-ish romance, elevated by a great soundtrack