The 43-year-old musician, who won the Oscars for Best Original Music and Best Song for his compositions in Slumdog Millionaire at the 81st Academy Awards, arrived at the Chennai airport from Dubai by an Emirates Airways flight at around 2.30 am.
Sheshadri, who now runs a dance academy in Dallas, Texas, has penned the lyrics, composed music and sung the numbers in the yet unnamed album.
Cashing on the success of celebrity show Big Brother and her last film Metro, the actress is promoting a new production of the musical Miss Bollywood in London.
Deepika Padukone makes Padmavati look even more beautiful.
Justice, revenge, romance, tears, take your pick from Sukanya Verma's OTT recommendations for the week.
The 2013 Grammy winners and highlights at a glance.
Reader Rajesh Dongre has sent us few photographs.
Dylan, 75, was honoured "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," the Swedish Academy said.
Shabana Azmi speaks out against the fatwa issued to A R Rahman.
There is a group of La La Land haters -- especially jazz aficionados who feel the film gives too much importance to a white man who sets out to save the musical genre associated with the African American community, points out Aseem Chhabra.
'We have lost one of music's most revered and prolific visionaries.'
'For all of us at Amazon, it is 'Bharat first'.' 'We are keeping the Indian customer at the centre of what we are doing.'
The silent film picked up seven awards while Meryl Streep picked up the best actress award in a glittering ceremony.
Kolkata Knight Riders' Australian pacer Brett Lee on Monday said his IPL skipper Gautam Gambhir is one of the most brilliant captains he has played under as the Indian backs up good leadership with strong personal performances.
There is a world that Satyajit Ray created in his films that I wanted to be a part of -- as Durga bathed in the rain to Ravi Shankar's music; when Charulata sat on the swing regretting she never had a child; and Aarti stood up in defence of her colleague. Aseem Chhabra shares interesting memoris of Satyajit Ray on the latter's birth centenary on May 2.
Three songs from the film have been singled out for the Original Song category.
A far cry from its reputation of Hollywood's no holds barred night for glamour and glory, this year's Globes was a bizarrely informal affair.
Ace filmmaker Shankar's Enthiran 2.0 has a whopping budget of 350 crore.
Today's doodle, illustrated by Sudeepti Tucker, shows Sarabhai with her signature parasol while her students are dancing on stage.
A R Rahman, landed in a controversy when a Catholic group wanted the word Hossana removed from the song from the film Ekk Deewana Tha.
India's freedom fighter's interest in arts led to setting up several institutions of learning in independent India.
T T Vasu, well-known industrialist and son of late Union Finance Minister, T T Krishnamachari, died in a corporate hospital in the wee hours of Wednesday following brief illness, his family said.
The Hindi-speaking concertgoers reportedly staged a walkout.
A lowdown on all the goings-on in the Telugu film industry.
A lowdown on all the goings-on in the Telugu film industry.
Here's looking at AR Rahman's collaborations with top Bollywood directors.
The Aligarh Muslim University will confer the honour on June 7.
On Sunday morning Eastern US time, four astronauts will zoom into space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. Commanding the spaceflight is Raja Chari, a United States Air Force colonel.
The album in question is the soundtrack to Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa directed by Gowtham Menon.
AR Rahman has been nominated in several categories for his compositions from the Oscar-winning movie.
Joaquin Phoneix (Joker) and Renne Zellweger (Judy) should keep their fingers crossed, says Kumar Abishek.
Celebration time for Slumdog Millionaire's India team.
He was the lone survivor of the crash in which Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika and 11 armed forces personnel were killed.
Rahman has become the first Indian -- and by Indian, we mean born in India, raised in India and based in India -- to make it to the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.
A quick look at the Oscar 2015 nominations.
