Cinema

Rajinikanth’s pro-BJP and RSS leanings are a cause of concern for the Tamil political class as most Tamils support the Dravidian parties.

Movie: Do Behnen (1959) Singer: Lata Mangeshkar. Lyricist: Ramchandra Baryanji Dwivedi (Kavi Pradeep) Music Composer: Vasant Desai. Stars: Rajendra Kumar, Shyama and Chand Usmani

Indians have reasons to dislike Abdali but Afghans have equally good reasons to consider him the Father of the Nation.

October 25 (PTI) - Shah Rukh Khan has always counted his blessings and the Bollywood superstar wants people to have faith in the power of dreams, just as he did. The 53-year-old Delhi-born actor was all nostalgic in his city. He was here for the closing ceremony of the city's iconic cinema complex, PVR Anupam. India's first multiplex, PVR Anupam...

The film, an exploration of masculinity and femininity in the sexually repressed Pakistani society, is to be premiered in the August-September 2019 Venice Film festival.

July 23 (TheVerge) - Just over a month ago, Avengers: Endgame fans conceded defeat to James Cameron’s 2009 Avatar, acknowledging it would remain the biggest movie of all time. Last night at San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige announced that’s no longer true. Endgame, the culmination of a 22-movie arc started by Marvel in 2008, will officially surpass Avatar as the highest-grossing movie of...

July 17 (Eastern Eye) - Netflix is one of the biggest OTT platforms and has many series being streamed on it. Recently, Netflix announced five Indian originals and two of them will be produced by Shah Rukh Khan and Anushka Sharma. Apart from being actors, SRK and Anushka are also successful producers. Shah Rukh Khan’s Red Chillies Entertainment is already...

July 17 (CNBC) - Did your favorite TV show nab an Emmy nomination? It’s time to find out. The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ 71st annual Emmy Awards will be presented Sept. 22 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, but who will be in the running? On Tuesday, Ken Jeong ( “Community”) and D’Arcy Carden (“The Good Place”)...

June 10 (Hindustan Times) - Salman Khan’s box office success story has continued with Bharat, which surpassed the Rs 100 crore mark at the Indian box office on the fourth day of release itself, making it the actor’s 14th back-to-back film in the Rs 100 crore club, say trade experts. Bharat has also helped Salman add another feather to his...

Colombo, May 5 (Oshitha Narangoda) - It was a rainy day in 2012 when I headed to the cinema to watch The Avengers, directed by Joss Whedon, for the first time. That day and the movie itself are two things I'll never forget in my life. Seeing an epic superhero ensemble in the cinema for the first time was such...