Will Vijay will go the most successful MGR/Jayalalithaa way, or that of Vijayakanth, Seeman or Kamalahaasan, or end up as another Rajinikanth who cries wolf at the last minute and quits the scene......
Two years ago this day, Astad Deboo, dancer extraordinaire, passed into the ages.A new exhibition Breaking Boundaries remembers the pioneer who redrew the margins of Indian dance. IMAGE: Astad......
The BJP continuing to look at the Dravidian polity through the religious prism has not worked in Tamil Nadu whereas it has yielded political and electoral results across much of the rest of the......
The aftermath of Mani Ratnam's Ponniyin Selvan has led to an argument that there was no religion as Hinduism in Chola times.Instead, there was only Saivism, Vaishnavism, etc, and that the Cholas......
More than his monumental achievements and the Brihadishwara temple in Tamil Nadu's Thanjavur that he constructed which still draws lakhs of devotees annually, the mighty Chola emperor Raja Raja's......
'I am always rocking.''I am a rockstar.''That's the way the world will always see me.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Madhoo/Instagram Madhoo was among the leading heroines of the 1990s, starring in......
'You don't have to be screaming and making faces to be evil.' IMAGE: Manisha Koirala as Mallikajaan in Heeramandi. "The experiences of life contribute to a performance. I have a bank of emotions......
'The world needs Gandhi now more than any other time in history.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Pratik Gandhi/Instagram Nothing succeeds like success. Ask Pratik Gandhi whose career received a boost......
'Padmini and I are very different people.''Our acting styles are very different. She's from a different era.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Tejaswini Kolhapure/Instagram Despite her film outings with......
IMAGE: S Shankar and his wife Easwari with the bridal couple, Aishwarya and Tarun Karthikeyan, and Rajinikanth. Photograph: ANI Photo One of Tamil cinema's top film-makers, S Shankar, hosted a......