Bollywood meets NYC: Mamdani closes victory speech with 'Dhoom Machale'

'Dhoom Machale...' The exuberant, celebratory track from the 2004 blockbuster Dhoom rounded off Zohran Mamdani's victory speech, more evidence that New York's newly elected mayor embraces his many......

'Vijay Is Playing Politics Over Dead Bodies'

'Vijay is not in the mood to care for the people even now.''Everybody is traumatised but Vijay is not consoling them.' IMAGE: Actor-politician Vijay posted a video on social media on September 30,......

'Judges Don't Descend From Mars Or The Moon'

'The quality of justice is directly linked to the quality of judges -- if that suffers, justice delivery suffers.' Illustrations: Dominic Xavier/Rediff   In the leafy lanes of Golf Links, one of......

'All India Radio Is No Underdog'

'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......

Three CEOs to lead Reliance-Disney media behemoth

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), Viacom18 Media (Viacom18), and The Walt Disney Company announced on Thursday that they have completed the merger of Viacom18’s media and JioCinema......

Reliance, Disney merge to form Rs 70,000-cr JV

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries has completed the merger of its media assets with the India business of global media house Walt Disney and formed a joint venture with a valuation......

Nagarjuna, Vijay Sethupathi Honour Mohanlal For Dadasaheb Phalke Win

IMAGE: Mohanlal, Nagarjuna and VijaySethupathi. Photograph: Rajul Hegde/Rediff The SouthUnbound event brought together Mohanlal, Nagarjuna and VijaySethupathi to promote their respective BiggBoss......

'Audiences Are No Longer Loyal To Language'

'Audiences are loyal to good content.' IMAGE: Kalyani Priyadarshani in Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra. Small and mid-budget regional films drew the attention of moviegoers in 2025, offering stronger......

'Villains Are The Most Interesting To Design For'

'Every film had its challenges, but Mr India, Sadak and Gandhi were the toughest.' 'Mr India needed imagination, Sadak needed sensitivity and Gandhi demanded historical authenticity.' Photograph:......

Yami Slams A Trend That Feels Like 'Extortion'

'This so-called trend of giving money in the disguise of marketing a film to ensure good 'hype' is created or else 'they' will continuously write negative things (even before the film is released)......

I was panicking in T20 World Cup final: Rohit admits

‘I was panicking. I wasn’t comfortable’ ‘I thought we’d let them into the game’ IMAGE: Rohit Sharma opens up on T20 World Cup pressure. Photograph:  ANI Photos In the sweltering......

Kumble backs Samson to deliver in South Africa

  IMAGE: Sanju Samson had scored a century in the third ODI against South Africa in Paarl last December. Photograph: Esa Alexander/Reuters The uncapped trio of Yash Dayal, Vyshak Vijaykumar......

Boucher bowled over by Chakravarthy's magic spell

‘Varun Chakravarthy has come on leaps and bounds’: Mark Boucher reflects on India spinner's display against Proteas in 1st T20I IMAGE: Varun Chakaravarthy picked up three......

'Don't see why he can't succeed in Australia...'

‘His (Yashasvi Jaiswal) technique and hunger for runs will be key, and I do not see why he can't succeed in Australia’ IMAGE:  Yashasvi Jaiswal has been consistent in the current......

Should Pujara get Test recall? Yes, says Uthappa

IMAGE: Cheteshwar Pujara made a strong impact in India's last two tours Down Under. Photograph: Michael Steele/Getty Images from the Rediff.com Archives India will need someone like KL Rahul or......