'The largest listenership for Vividh Bharati outside the country is in Spain.' 'The labourers who go there for the tomato-picking season feel cut off from their country and listen to Vividh Bharati to overcome their loneliness.'
There's room for all kinds on OTT this week, as Sukanya Verma tells us.
'Even if I had the backing of a big corporate house, which I don't, in today's market, I wouldn't want the responsibility of making a Rs 300 crore-Rs 400 crore film.'
No author in the Malayalam literary canon has influenced and profoundly changed the way normal people interact with each other than the ever-relevant, eclectic yet elusive body of work left behind by MT Vasudevan Nair, notes Arjun Menon.
Arjun Menon gives us a preview of what the Manorathangal series will offer us.
The Australian actress took home her first-ever Emmy trophy, winning Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Princess Diana in The Crown.
A quick look at the winners of the 82nd Annual Golden Globe awards.
It is said money doesn't buy happiness, and the show proves it -- there is romance, heartbreak, affairs and murder. A place that should be heavenly quickly turns into a hell of misery, observes Deepa Gahlot.
The central theme of Chandamama Kathalu is love and eight different stories portray different aspects of love.
'...despite all his horses, elephants, tanks and swords.' 'A determination to hold fast to Sambhaji Maharaj's father, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's thoughts, ideals, and principles.'
'Not just women, but even men are judged by the colour of their skin and have to fight prejudice every day.'
'Thanks to Chhaava's success, I now have the creative freedom to pick and choose.'
'Mohanlal and Akshay are two actors who trust me implicitly.'
'I had got some offers from the South and most of them were negative roles.' 'I used to think that whatever I would play, the character would stay inside me and corrupt my value system.' 'So I was very scared of getting out of character, especially negative roles.'
Literary adaptations, whistleblower pursuits, kidnapped Santas and South India's biggest stars, Sukanya Verma lists them all on OTT this week.
It is a pleasure to watch talented actresses break out of their comfort zones.
Through Manorathangal, M T Vasudevan Nair makes himself available to a whole new generation of uninitiated viewers, who can familiarise themselves with his rich body of work and hope to learn a thing or two about life in all its messy grandeur and flawed imperfections, notes Arjun Menon.
Sukanya Verma looks at their eclectic career of over two decades as their latest offering Citadel: Honey Bunny, the Indian leg of the Russo Brothers globetrotting spy universe series, drops on Amazon Prime Video on November 7.
Emotions run high more than usual on OTT this week.
Anasuya Sengupta became the first Indian to win the Best Actress award in the Un Certain Regard segment of the Cannes Film Festival.
Sukanya Verma gives you some interesting options.
The top 10 films of the year may not be great by themselves but they stand out amidst the other OTT releases.
A close friend of the actress informs me that she is likely to opt out of The White Lotus Season 3 for personal reasons.
Sukanya Verma looks at all the times Bollywood peddled its treasured ishq our way.
Fast, furious and fashionable, it's all there on OTT this week. Here's the action-packed menu.
Sukanya Verma recommends watching CTRL on a computer for an eerie, immersive, real-time experience.
Sukanya Verma gives you some great options to choose from.
Sharmajee Ki Beti's airy-fairy approach doesn't quite convince. It's like the women are all angels readily accepting any change or transgression while the men are either super supportive or super schmucks, notes Sukanya Verma.
Here's a quick look at the winners of the 81st Annual Golden Globe awards.
It's time India re-visited its Western alliances for the attitude and approach that the West reserves for the nation when it comes to security cooperation of the kind that they might not have visualised outside of China, India's bug-bear, asserts N Sathiya Moorthy.
With the rains pouring down on us, August offers yet another reason to stay home!
Action, drama, romance, comedy -- there's something for every kind of audience on OTT this week.
The nominations for the 81st annual Golden Globes are out, and Barbie and Succession lead the list.
Angry Young Men misses some important elements of the Salim-Javed story including an understanding of the duo's creative process. In fact, the two men do not even appear together in the same space in the series.
There is startling accuracy to Dibakar Banerjee's portrayal, notes Sukanya Verma.
Love Storiyaan comes alive in the courageous and fearless voice of six spirited romantics speaking direct dil se, applauds Sukanya Verma.
Some of her best films are not available on streaming platforms, but Deepa Gahlot looks at her Hindi cinema oeuvre on OTT.
Anthology movies are a strange beast. They can be as monotonous and harmless as munching away a bumper bag of chips -- you eat one, you have to finish the rest. Or they can be like discovering a rare treasure marked by profound insight and offbeat experiences, observes Sukanya Verma.
The 75th Emmys saw a lot of fashion, but even more talent.
A spread of eclectic entertainment on OTT for you.
