Vishal Menon

Director Mari Selvaraj's Tamil film Manjanathi was formally launched earlier on September 7, with legendary composer Ilaiyaraaja inaugurating the event. The film is produced by Navvi Studios and Fortune Entertainment.

File Pic: Aditya Sarwate KOCHI: There is a sense of deja vu around Kerala 's spin department ahead of the Ranji Trophy season.

The Soori film, which releases tomorrow, explores a sport that is centuries old set in Coastal Tamil Nadu, says its director Updated on

When Vijay Velukutty first tried to become an assistant director, as a means to an end to direct his own film one day, he was sent away because he did not have any skills. For this, he joined a one-month course — just for the certificate — but ended up falling in love with editing in the process.

PS Mithran's sequel to 'Sardar' loses momentum in the second half, sinking into generic territory with its overblown plotline Updated on

Every time an actor admits to something utterly ordinary in an interview — like putting ghee on their paratha or skipping the gym for a week — the interviewer then gasps audibly, and a headline about how refreshingly ‘human' they are, soon follows.

Bearded, unkempt, brash, and smoking, the Tamil film hero is no obvious object of desire—they get sloppy drunk; you see them waking up hungover; they romance reluctantly, and then recklessly; their lips are cracked, their skin discoloured; if you kiss them, your skin might scrape off; grooming is unbecoming.

Nikkhil Advani's exhausting eight-episode drama revolves around a group of armed revolutionaries trying to dethrone the British Raj in the 1910s.

If there were a world in which simply “Why?” could pass off as a professional film review, I'd happily live in it. But here I am instead, wondering how to do my job, after 164 minutes of precisely the kind of movie that makes Bollywood everyone's favourite punching bag. Priyadarshan's

Director Shahad and his writers, PS Subramanian and Vijesh Thottingal, give us a nerve-wracking hyper-realistic procedural that doesn't allow us any time to rest.