This is also the time when South Indian films started doing well, commercially and critically, on a Pan-India scale.
He may be young but Devi Sri Prasad has most of the top stars dancing to his tunes.
Taken together, it looks like Devi Sri Prasad has decided to bow down to the pressures of a commercial entertainer, and come up with an album that's a lot of sound, fury and (borrowed) tunes.
The singer lends her voice to the Hindi rendition of Namo Namah Shivaya from the Naga Chaitanya and Sai Pallavi starrer Thandel.
Kubera is a well-intentioned addition to Shekar Kammula's cinematic universe that drags on but never loses its prescient quality, notes Arjun Menon.
glimpses from the Modi&US event hosted in Prime Minister Narendra D Modi's honour by the Indo-American Community of USA at the Nassau Coliseum on Long Island, New York, on Sunday, September 22, 2024.
'After meeting him, I learned what brother from another mother actually meant,' Suriya said, looking fondly at Bobby.
Naga Chaitanya and Sai Pallavi's competent performances barely elevate this romantic drama, which prefers patriotic thrills, observes Arjun Menon.
'I should make a Rs 1,000 crore film with you.'
The producers of Pushpa 2: The Rule are leaving no stone unturned to build excitement among Pushpa Raj and Srivalli fans.
'The more popular, the more work, the more money.'
Pushpa 2 is a badly misjudged, doubtful sequel that can't capitalise on the wealth of the story world set up in the first film, observes Arjun Menon.
What makes Pushpa 2 float is Allu Arjun's magnetic performance. The actor really goes an extra mile to deliver the wildfire he promised, observes Mayur Sanap.
Allu Arjun is the first Telugu actor to receive a National Award for Best Actor.
Here's some sizzle from the IIFA Utsavam night, which was dedicated to the south film industries of Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada.
Subhash K Jha gives us the lowdown on what's going on in showbiz.
Film folk were in a celebratory mood, as they prepared to attend the 69th National Film Awards ceremony.
'He is a phenomenal guy.' 'The clarity with which he does his work and the way he wants to present it to the rest of India, I'm amazed at it.'
Hard core glamour and entertainment were the highlights of the second edition of the Pinkvilla Style Icons Awards, held in Mumbai over the weekend.
Devi Sri Prasad has a reputation for sticking with his regulation format of tunes and here too, you can see it pop up at certain places but there's also a departure from the usual, mostly an influence of Kamal Haasan in both lyrics and music.
Dhanush teams up with Shriya Saran in the Tamil film Kutty, a remake of Allu Arjun's Arya. Kutty is directed by Mithran R Jawahar who earlier directed Dhanush in Yaradi Nee Mohini.
Devi Sri Prasad on composing the music for the Tamil movie, Kandasamy starring Vikram and Shriya Saran.
Every Vijay movie has created an electric buzz, and in combination with Prabhu Deva, with whom he's delivered Pokkiri, a blockbuster, its only to be expected that Ayngaran International's Villu, their next project with Nayanthara in tow, will be productive of keen interest.
The award ceremony was held in Hyderabad.
There are many dramatic twists in the film, yet itlacks the depth, intensity and sentiment that we have come to expect from Sasikumar.
Nagarjuna hosts a star-studded reception for his son and daughter-in-law.
After the singer's son S P Charan performed the funeral rites amid Vedic chants by priests, 24 police personnel gave a gun salute and later the body was lowered into a deep pit and buried.
Pictures from the glittering IIFA Utsavam awards.
Joker, Thithi, Maheshinte Prathikaram and Pelli Choopulu bag the big awards of the night!
A lowdown on what's happening in the Tamil film industry.
The film is a slow-paced family drama with all the elements of a commercial entertainer.
Suriya's charisma and director Hari Gopalakrishnan's brilliant screenplay make Tamil film Singam 2 a joyful experience.
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