Watch : Tamil cinema in 2024: Dull first half, a star-studded second half?

Watch : Tamil cinema in 2024: Dull first half, a star-studded second half? In 2024, Tamil cinema has been experiencing a slowdown, with a dearth of successful star-vehicles and good content-driven mid-budget films. Industry insiders, including actors, producers, and theatre owners, explain the delays in producing these big-budget films and discuss whether the rising popularity…

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Payal Kapadia: Living with nostalgia

Payal Kapadia, the 38-year-old whose movie All We Imagine as Light won the Grand Prix — the second most prestigious award at Cannes Film Festival — sees herself as a melancholic person, and this melancholy sets the tone for her movies. Ms. Kapadia, hailing from Mumbai but having spent more time outside the city, says…

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Xochitl Gomez joins horror short film ‘Hive’

Xochitl Gomez | Photo Credit: MARIO ANZUONI Actor Xochitl Gomez, best known for playing Marvel heroine America Chavez in the studio’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, is shooting Hive, a horror short film from rising Colombian-American filmmaker Felipe Vargas, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Vargas wrote and directed Hive, which stars Gomez as…

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‘Masters of Music’ brings the original ‘Shakti’ violinist L. Shankar back to India

The old Shakti band – Vikku Vinayakram, John Maclaughlin, Zakir Hussain and L. Shankar. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Although violinist L. Shankar and ghatam maestro Vikku Vinayakram were associated with the 1970s Indo-jazz band Shakti, their partnership goes back many decades, when they used to perform Carnatic concerts. “In 1973, when I was in…

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Sookshmadarshini: Nazriya Nazim’s comeback Malayalam film, also starring Basil Thomas, goes on floors

The first-look poster of ‘Sookshmadarshini’. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The first-look poster of Sookshmadarshini, directed by MC Jithin and starring Basil Joseph and Nazriya Naseem, has been released. The film is produced by Sameer Tahir, Shyju Khalid and AV Anoop under the banners Happy Hours Entertainment and AVA Productions. The film’s story is written…

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