Kakuda Review {3.0/5} & Review Rating Star Cast: Riteish Deshmukh, Sonakshi Sinha, Saqib Saleem Director: Aditya Sarpotdar Kakuda Movie Review Synopsis:KAKUDA is the story of a wife trying to rescue her husband. The village of Rataudi is haunted by a midget ghost called Kakuda. The ghost roams in the village every Tuesday at 7:15 pm. All villages have two doors – one for normal-sized adults and a small one for Kakuda to enter. The villagers need to keep the smaller door open at 7:15 pm on Tuesday. If they fail to do so, Kakuda attacks the owner of the house....
What inspired a professor from Germany to study Sangam literature?
Eva Wilden did her PhD in vedic rituals from the University of Hamburg. She later studied classical Tamil under S.A. Srinivasan. When she was a researcher at the French Institute, in Puducherry, she studied under Tamil scholar T.V. Gopal Iyer. Since 2017, she has been a Professor of Classical Tamil and Manuscript Studies, University of Hamburg. Eva Wilden also heads the Tamilex project in Hamburg. She has won the Presidential award ‘Kural Peetam’, for her outstanding foreign contributions in the field of classical Tamil. This award was instituted by the Central Institute of Classical Tamil, functioning under the aegis of Ministry of...
Tumbbad Box Office: Sohum Shah’s film has a superb Week 1 :Bollywood Box Office
It was a superb Week One for Tumbbad as Rs. 13.44 crores came in. These are by far the best ever collections for a re-released film in the modern era. There was Rockstar that made waves a few months back and then recently Laila Majnu did well too. However, their lifetime score stayed under Rs. 10 crores mark. However, given the manner in which Tumbbad is currently doing, it will easily go past the Rs. 25 crores mark in its lifetime. What has really worked for this fantasy horror film is the fact that Sohum Shah treated this like a...
Wanted To Make It As Real And Natural As Possible
In his new film Queer, Daniel Craig sheds his suave 007 persona for the loneliness and anguish of a drug-addicted gay man, in a love story based on the William Burroughs novel. Containing graphic sex scenes and emotional highs and lows, the love story between two men packs an “emotional thump”, Daniel Craig said ahead of the movie’s world premiere Tuesday at the Venice Film Festival. The film, directed by Italy’s Luca Guadagnino, is one of 21 vying for the top Golden Lion prize at the prestigious festival, which will be awarded September 7. On the red carpet ahead of...
SARFIRA tells an inspiring story in an engaging manner
Sarfira Review {2.5/5} & Review Rating Star Cast: Akshay Kumar, Radhikka Madan, Paresh Rawal Director: Sudha Kongara Sarfira Movie Review Synopsis:SARFIRA is the story of a man and his impossible dream. The year is 1998. Vir Mhatre (Akshay Kumar) lives in the village of Jarendeshwar, Maharashtra, that too at the outskirts. Rani (Radhikka Madan) visits him for an arranged marriage. Vir tells her that it’s his dream to start India’s first low-cost airline. However, he has been unsuccessful since no bank is willing to loan him a huge amount. Rani is interested in Vir but makes it clear that she’ll...
Manju Mehta, the woman behind India’s popular music festival, passes away
Manju Mehta | Photo Credit: The Hindu Archives Manju Mehta was not only a fine sitar artiste belonging to the Senia Maihar tradition, but she was also one of India’s most respected patrons of music. Co-founder of the country’s largest music festival, the 13-day-long Saptak, which was launched in 1980. Through this event, Manju Mehta gave back to the world of classical music what she gained from it as a practitioner. Born on May 21, 1945, in Jaipur, Manju belonged to a family of musicians. Her parents were Hindustani vocalists. Both her brothers — Shashi Mohan Bhatt was proficient...
Kareena Kapoor Reveals Karisma Kapoor’s Most Annoying Habit, Leaves The Latter Completely Shocked
Karisma Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor Khan became B-town’s favourite sister duo back in the early 2000s. Over twenty years may have passed since then, but they hold that title to this day. Surprisingly, despite establishing themselves as stellar actresses and having a super close bond, Karisma and Kareena have never actually starred in a film together. Nevertheless, fans will have the opportunity to spot them on screen together on October 12 in Netflix’s The Great Indian Kapil Show. Kareena Kapoor spills the beans on Karisma Kapoor’s most annoying habit The promo for the upcoming episode featuring the Kapoor sisters appears...
HINDUSTANI 2 has its share of mass moments
Hindustani 2 Review {1.5/5} & Review Rating Star Cast: Kamal Haasan, Siddharth, Rakul Preet Singh Director: Shankar Hindustani 2 Movie Review Synopsis:HINDUSTANI 2 is the story of a national hero. Chitra Aravindhan (Siddharth), based in Chennai, runs a YouTube channel called Barking Dogs along with his friends through which they expose wrongdoings in the society. Though they try their best, their efforts prove futile in eliminating corruption. This is when Chitra starts a #BringBackIndian campaign on social media, hoping that it would reach Senapathy (Kamal Haasan) and he would return to rescue the country. As luck would have it, Senapathy,...
Gendered politics of Gaanewali’s ghazals
Mumbai-based O Gaanewali delves into the history of ghazals with their performances Source link
Yudhra Box Office: Action entertainer does well on National Cinema Day, hold from here is the key :Bollywood Box Office
Yudhra did well on Friday as quite a few shows, especially in the evening and night, went houseful for the film. It’s always a pleasant sight to witness full houses for a film, especially when it’s not a star driven affair, and that makes it all the more heartening for Yudhra. A film like this needs all the push on the very first day so that word of mouth can be generated and then it can do well on the basis of content and entertainment it has to offer. Hence, it’s indeed a blessing when the release is timed with...