BJP Barking Up The Wrong Tree In Tamil Nadu

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......

Were The Chola Kings Hindus Or Not?

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......

Filmmaker's remark on Chola king triggers row in TN

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......

Kalki: The Revolutionary Writer Behind PS 1

Gowri Ramnarayan explores the world of Kalki Krishnamurthy whose magnificent novel Ponniyin Selvan has inspired Mani Ratnam's latest film PS I. IMAGE: Director Mani Ratnam, third from right, with......

'Aishwarya took her Miss World image very seriously'

'There was one sequence in Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya where her character exuberantly runs up to Bobby Deol, piggy-backs on him.''Aishwarya told me she couldn't do the sequence because people would not......

Why Aishwarya Is Bollywood's Golden Girl

When a person is blessed with as much beauty as Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, it's hard to notice anything else. But in her two-and-a-half-decade-long career, the former Miss World and Cannes red carpet......

Priyanka, Kareena, Bhumi Light Up MAMI

The Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival kicked off on October 27 with the who's who of Bollywood, television and OTT coming together to make a spectacular evening at the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural......

10 Gangster Shows On OTT

The Web series Bambai Meri Jaan has put the spotlight back to the dark days when the underworld overran Mumbai. The gangster saga is a popular subject with film and serial makers, particularly when......