Bihar poll: A pot boiler of a movie

Who will walk away into the sunset at the end?The reigning superstar who has given three mega blockbusters in 2005, 2010 and 2015?Or the fresh faced son of a former star trying to make a mark for......

Peter Parker becomes an Indian

Can you imagine Spiderman clad in white dhoti, red kurta, cummerbund, and red jootis? Battling a rakshasa instead of the Green Goblin? Or spinning his web across the Taj Mahal or the Gateway of......

Alert: Pencils to Pixels 2004

Pencils to Pixels2004The Academy Of Digital Arts and Communications has organised a competition, Pencils to Pixels2004, with several scholarships to encourage budding talent in animated films.Those......

How Mahindra developed XUV500. The true story

Bruce Lee, Russell Crowe in The Gladiator, Spiderman, a waterfall, combat helicopters and the cheetah are unlikely to ever be on the same storyboard, not even in a comic book. Yet, they were all......

Mac vs. PC: What you don't get for $699

I'm a sucker for a well-made TV ad. Inspired by the Nike "Just Do It" and "Air Jordan" campaigns of decades past, I mentally mapped out storyboards of the spots I wanted to produce. Nowadays I......

Sachin joins Superman league

India will have a new comic hero. A character based on Tendulkar is set to hit bookstores - games and merchandise to follow. Imagine Sachin Tendulkar as the saviour of the world -- fighting the......

Government allows surrogate ads

The government has lifted the strict restrictions on surrogate advertisements, which did not allow tobacco and alcohol companies to advertise their brands on any medium.It has now allowed tobacco......

Now, Prabhas will play Lord Ram

'Prabhas is just perfect.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Prabhas/Facebook Film-maker Om Raut is getting ready for the screen adaptation of the epic Ramayana in Adipurush, and says he chose Prabhas for......

Why 'Khansaab' did Zero

'Himanshu (Sharma, writer) and I went to Khansaab with the idea and the structure, not the complete bound story.''We wrote that after spending some time with him, understanding him.''In the same......

Guess who turned 80!

Sukanya Verma celebrates the timeless magic of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on its 80th anniversary. Children are a pure audience. They grab on to the simplest of suggestions and turn them into......

'Working on Baahubali was equivalent to doing 10 movies'

Concept artist Viswanath Sundaram tells us how Baahubali came to life. IMAGE: One of the concept arts from Baahubali, designed by Viswanath Sundaram. Photograph:  PTI Photo.......

Coming soon: Biopic on Leander Paes

Leander Paes laments state of Indian Davis Cup, says will take a decade to lift standard Photograph: Kind Courtesy Leander Paes/Twitter Indian tennis icon Leander Paes is pained by the relegation......