Joker, Thithi, Maheshinte Prathikaram and Pelli Choopulu bag the big awards of the night!
As Amala Paul gets ready for the big day, we look back at the beautiful brides of the South film industry.
The latest updates from the Tamil industry.
Rekka or Remo? Which film are you looking forward to this weekend?
These Malayalam films failed to impress the audience.
Members from several TV unions came together on April 15 to register their protest against the trend by popular TV channels to telecast dubbed Hindi and Korean serials.
The New Year brings with it a new slate of movie announcements. The stars update us:
'Earlier, it was four songs and four fights, and some story. That was enough.' 'Maybe we are in a box then and the audiences were not prepared for anything new.' 'Now we have got bigger scope.'
Get your lowdown of what's happening in Tamil cinema!
Why is the BJP upset about the dialogues in a Tamil movie, wonders A Ganesh Nadar.
The actor, who plays the role of Kattappa in the movie, clarified that he was not against Kannada people.
With the Delhi administration announcing a closure of cinema halls, producers of the Shahid Kapoor-starrer Jersey, which was to release on December 31, have decided to postpone it indefinitely.
Rajinikanth's visible electoral strength is his constant mouthing of the term, 'aanmiga arasiyal', or 'spiritual politics', without he having to explain what it is. By implication, it is all that what Dravidian politics is not about. It may imply anti-corruption, being against Periyar's forgotten anti-god, anti-Brahmin dictum, but also ends up covering 'Tamil pride', which begins with Tamil language where, as a Maratha from Karnataka, he has more to defend himself. However, in the contemporary national context, aanmiga arasiyal is seen as a front for Rajini to market his brand of 'soft Hindutva' but identified even more with the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in political terms, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Sukanya Verma lists everything you can look forward to on OTT this week.
With coronavirus cases on the decline, the Tamil Nadu government on Thursday withdrew restrictions such as night curfew and Sunday lockdown while permitting schools to reopen on February 1 for classes 1 to 12.
Rajinikanth is the third cinema personality after the late thespian Sivaji Ganesan and the late director K Balachander, also Rajinikanth's mentor, to have been chosen for the award from Tamil Nadu.
Lovingly made, heartfelt stories that speak the truths about our lives.
The latest updates from the Tamil film industry.
It's comeback time for many Bollywood stars. With the OTT platform opening up, quite a few actors, who had taken a break, are getting ready to be seen again!
"There was absolutely no need or necessity to mount a visceral attack on the religious beliefs of the Hindus. It was unwarranted and utterly unrelated to the occasion. That is what makes it deliberate and malicious," Justice G R Swaminathan of Madras High Court said.
'It's time to change this system of randomly giving stars and the right to bad critics to run down our products.' 'Two films, even if both get three stars, are very different from each other.' 'I can understand if these stars indicated a level of enjoyment or engagement, but the current rating system is flawed because there are no parameters.'
'He's always been an all-inspiring kind of director that nobody can surpass,' R Madhavan tells Subhash K Jha about Mani Ratnam.
The cinema industry is staring at a loss of at least Rs 5,000 crore at the box office over the next six months if Omicron proves to be a spoiler.
As Rajinikanth turns 69 on December 12, his family and friends took to social media to wish him. They posted pictures of the superstar and wrote touching notes.
'The cross-pollination between the states has always been happening.' 'It's only over the past one or two years that all this talk about South versus Bollywood has been happening.'
As we enjoy his thrilling The Night Manager series, Deepa Gahlot looks at 10 Anil Kapoor films on OTT that shows off his versatility and star power.
Dominic Xavier captures the uncertainty among theatre owners and movie watching public as the big screen once again promises a magical mystery ride.
Rajini's call may now force other political parties, including the DMK and the Congress, who are in alliance talks already, to come up with water proposals of their own in their poll manifesto. In a way, this may be a 'tactical victory' for Rajinikanth, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
The latest updates from the Tamil film industry.
Disney-Star is positioning IPL as a "big-screen experience" where families and friends can come together over a game of cricket, much the way football is consumed in Europe and other parts of the world.
Zwigato urges viewers to think critically about the kind of unethical behaviour that food delivery workers have to put up with on a daily basis because of insensitive customers, observes Chintan Girish Modi.
Looking back at Rajinikanth's film journey.
'I couldn't sleep for a couple of nights due to stress, wondering if I could do the role...' 'I am still enjoying my work and that is a huge pat on my back.' 'But I haven't done much work because I am lazy and choosy.'
With some variations, all regional political formations, whether in power presently or out of it, share some common features: Tight family control of the political apparatus, key members in elected or appointed positions, obvious wealth but not quite known sources of income, and family factionalism, sometimes open and bitter, notes Shreekant Sambrani.
'I am a slave to my instincts.' 'My instincts are determined by how impactful the script has been on my soul.'
The latest updates from the Tamil film industry.
As new OTT release Bawaal tackles the lives of a terribly unhappy couple, and Satyaprem Ki Katha about a young wife with a tragic secret is a box-office success, here's pick of ten (out of a considerable number) of relatively recent films about troubled marriages.
'Just because a subject is uncomfortable for some and doesn't suit their political ideology, should a film not be made?'
'He is busy building an image on the social media as an anti-right-winger.' 'But remember: An actor is only good at what he was born to do,' observes Subhash K Jha.
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