A Rainy Day Check-List for Chennaiites

If only you had thought ahead, you would have stocked snacks and biscuits, bread and cake, and vegetables suited for Amma or pondatti to make your favourite bajji and pakoda, observes N Sathiya......

How June 25, 1983 Changed India Forever

That win gave us something no other victory ever would: It gave a young nation hope. It gave us the will to dream, notes Abhishek Mande Bhot. IMAGE: Kapil Dev holds aloft the World Cup on the......

'I see this film as part of a larger conspiracy'

'What The Kerala Story is trying to do is take the fake hate propaganda which we saw earlier only on WhatsApp to the big screen now.' 'Uncovering the truth that was kept hidden' so say the makers......

BJP shouldn't give Oscar win credit to Modi: Kharge

Cutting across party lines, Rajya Sabha MPs congratulated the makers of Naatu Naatu, the breakout hit from the action film RRR, and the documentary The Elephant Whisperers on Tuesday for......

Ranneeti: Balakot And Beyond Review: India Shines Again

Ranneeti: Balakot And Beyond veers between intriguing and boring, observes Deepa Gahlot. Had Ranneeti: Balakot And Beyond been a film running in a theatre, some of the Pak-bashing dialogue would......

Aavesham: The Psycho As Self-Designated Guardian

Watching Aavesham is like sprinting through the whole history of our mass-masala movies and seeing it in a new light, notes Sreehari Nair.And this, incidentally, is the story of Fahadh Faasil's......

'Ekta Kapoor has become even more combative'

IMAGE: Mouni Roy in Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2. Fourteen years after Love Sex Aur Dhokha, Dibakar Banerjee returns with its sequel. The director of films like Khosla Ka Ghosla and Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!......

What Makes Malayalam Cinema So Distinctive?

The reasons are too private to be discussed at a round table, listed out during a seminar, or uncovered in an academic course.A proud but insomniac connoisseur murmuring in his sleep may do a......

'Kohli said pitch was two-paced but it never looked like one with the way he batted'

IMAGE: Virat Kohli struck his first ton of the season in vain as RCB fell to their fourth loss. Photograph: BCCI Virat Kohli reckoned that the Jaipur track was two-paced making strokeplay......

He's just an absolute weapon: Watson hails Boult's devastating opening spell

IMAGE: Trent Boult rocked the Mumbai top-order with a devastating spell. Photograph: BCCI Trent Boult's skills with the new ball make him a real asset for Rajasthan Royals, former Australia......

Zaheer Khan exposes India's batting weaknesses

'With bat, a lot of work to be done': Zaheer Khan on India's performance in 2nd Test IMAGE: Rohit Sharma is under fire for his performance with the bat. Photograph: BCCI Former speedster......

IPL Auction: GT's Hardik replacement quest and more...

Photographs: Kind Courtesy IPL/X The mini auctions of IPL have always been intriguing because of high demand-short supply ratio of players, especially, quality Indian talent. There could be some......

3rd T20I: Can Tilak Varma impress before Iyer returns?

India aim to seal series as Tilak Varma looks for quality batting time IMAGE: Tilak Varma wouldn't mind some quality batting time before his possible exit from the playing eleven. Photograph:......