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3rd Tamil Nadu Film Festival calls for entries Submit your film (Narrative Feature, Documentary, Animation, Short Film or Music Video) to the 3rd Tamil Nadu Film Festival (TNFF), 2025. * Films can...
Chhava, Review: Vicky Kaushal has arrived, and how! A new word for many cine-goers, Chhava means a lion’s cub or an elephant’s young one. It was an epithet given to Chhatrapati Sambhaji, son of...
SuperBoys of Malegaon, Trailer launch: The new Mollywood Utter the word Malegaon and a sleepy small town, in Nashik, 270 km from Mumbai, population 8,00,000, comes to mind. Some two decades ago, a...
Calling entries for FIPRESCI Grand Prix for the best film of 2024, 70 minutes and more FIPRESCI extends this invitation to you to film-makers to submit films (70 minutes and above) for the...
LoveYaPa, Review: The mobile phone as Pandora’s Box Those who are uninitiated might not realise that the title is a variation of siyapa, which means chaos or jiggery-pokery, and that siyapa itself...
Srilankan film The Other Half, Review: Death, despair and despondency In the opening titles, the carries a long message about Srilankans dying of kidney failure, caused by the wide use of...
Saudi Nights, A Report: The ecstasy and the agony If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain, goes the adage. Since Saudi Arabian films were not coming to India, I...
Deva, Overview: Different, not distinguished It is different. Though the central character is an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), and a tough nut at that, the film has a modest littering of...
Ilu Ilu 1998, Review: Too many luse ends A good 38 years ago, in a Hindustani hit film titled Saudagar, lyricist Anand Bakhshi coined a sensible nonsensical term in one of its songs, which began...
FICCI FRAMES 2025, 01: Ayushmann Khurrana appointed brand ambassador Calling him the Face of the Media and Entertainment Industry of India, FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and...