The World Nature Photography Awards 2026 celebrated breathtaking images of wildlife and nature, with Australian photographer Jono Allen winning the top prize of $1000 for his rare shot of a white humpback whale and her mother.
Hollywood is officially out of ideas. So feels Paul Schrader, the writer-director best known for screenplays like Taxi Driver and Raging Bull. Which is why he's now making a Bollywood movie. Quoted in The Hollywood Reporter as saying the US film market has become 'barren,' Schrader confirms that he will make a Bollywood actioner called Extreme City -- and that it will not be a masala movie.
'Great western directors have been making films in India for the last 40 years,' Hollywood script Paul Schrader says.
India is shining, although I will argue that it is a temporary acceptance until India once again makes a mega-successful film like RRR or another beautiful, moving, documentary like The Elephant Whisperers, notes Aseem Chhabra.
It is the first Indian film in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 30 years.
Never before in history have Cannes and its sidebars found space for eight Indian, or India-themed, films.
'I chose the colour pink and I looked like a doll in it.' 'I worked on the pink gown single-handed and it took me one month...'
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Meel Patthar is, both by theme and design, a tragedy of inertia, observes Rohit Satish Nair.
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