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Around Tinsel Town
Behind ‘Writing with Fire’: Three women and their thirst for truth in Oscar 2022 entry
Oscars 2022: After a year away, award nominees celebrate together
Bollywood
Alia Bhatt to make Hollywood debut with Gal Gadot’s Netflix film ‘Heart Of Stone’
Pravin Tambe biopic starring Shreyas Talpade to release on Disney+ Hotstar
Shekhar Kapur to direct series adaptation of Amish Tripathi’s Shiva Trilogy
Sanya Malhotra to play a cop in her next Netflix film ‘Kathal’
Hollywood
‘Peaky Blinders’ Season 6 to release on Netflix in June
Renee Zellweger to headline World War II drama series ‘Avenger Field’
Japanese filmmaker Hikari to direct Netflix dramedy ‘Beef’
Pamela Anderson to debut on Broadway with ‘Chicago’
Will Smith, Michael B Jordan working on ‘I Am Legend’ sequel
Amazon set to acquire ‘God of War’ series
Regional cinema
Suriya: Vetri Maaran said he gave up smoking after watching ‘Vaaranam Aayiram’
IFFK: women directors contribute major share in ‘International Competition’
Fahadh Faasil, Keerthy Suresh to headline Mari Selvaraj’s next film ‘Maamannan’
Malayalam web movie ‘The Identity’ narrates a homemaker’s fight to prove her mettle
Pondicherry on an iPhone: How Marathi filmmaker Sachin Kundalkar captured the town and its characters
Web series ‘Qubool Hai?’ to explore both the tehzeeb and underbelly of Hyderabad
Naveen Shankar talks about ‘Hondisi Bareyiri’: From landline to smart phones
How the Sindhi community made Bengaluru their home post-Partition
New in streaming
New on Netflix: Ryan Reynolds stars in The Adam Project, docu-series The Andy Warhol Diaries, Leighton Meester’s The Weekend Away, and more
New on Amazon Prime: Vidya Balan’s Jalsa, the second season of Upload, Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas’ thriller Deep Water, and more
New on Disney+ Hotstar: Marvel’s Moon Knight, a documentary on Olivia Rodrigo, the story of Elizabeth Holmes in The Drop Out, etc.
Essential reading
1) Malavika Mohanan on ‘Maaran’: Working with Dhanush was like an acting workshop
>> The actor on what being part of star-driven films has taught her about commercial cinema here
2) Konkona Sen Sharma on the method behind her acting and her preference for unconventional roles
>> The star on her latest outing as a lesbian Dalit factory worker in short film Geeli Pucchi here
3) The Adam Project’s human story
>> Shawn Levy talks about the long shadow of childhood in his latest sci-fi adventure starring Ryan Reynolds, here
4) The BAFTA validation for promising creators
>> Ajitpal Singh and Prateek Vats get candid about being part of BAFTA Breakthrough India honourees for 2022 here
5) Masaba Gupta and co on closing the gap behind the camera
>> At Netflix’s latest roundtable, a discussion on the streaming landscape’s impact on female storytellers here
6) Is Telugu cinema set for a change of scene?
>> All about the plans for the Telugu film industry to relocate to Visakhapatnam from Hyderabad here
7) Simon Racioppa on ‘The Boys Presents: Diabolical’: ‘Not a bridge in terms of narrative’
>> Into the world of the animated anthology series of shorts here
What to watch
1) A shallow story and lacklustre screenplay make Radhe Shyam a colossal bore
2) In Jhund, Amitabh Bachchan drops his mannerisms and baritone to play a determined football coach
3) Suriya’s well-intentioned family film Etharkkum Thunindhavan is jaded
Trailer of the week
The trailer of Vidya Balan and Shefali Shah’s Jalsa has been released.
The film also stars actors like Rohini Hattangadi, Surya Kasibhatla, Manav Kaul, Kashish Rizwan, Shafeen Patel, Vidhatri Bandi, Mohammad Iqbal Khan and Ghanshyam Lalsa.
