Interview | Singer Tanya the Empress: I have always had a vision to bridge the East and the West 

Interview | Singer Tanya the Empress: I have always had a vision to bridge the East and the West 

Singer Tanya the Empress performing | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Singer Tanya Dutt or Tanya the Empress, as she is known on stage, considers herself an allrounder, venturing into various disciplines such as theatre, psychology, voice training and even competitive equestrian sports. Her style of music too, she says, is a blend of everything. “Can you hear the blender in the background? Well, that’s how I would describe my music, it’s a blend of everything,” she says during the conversation over the phone. Tanya, 33, is a graduate in Professional Music from the Berklee College of Music, Massachusetts in the...

Channing Tatum And Jenna Dewan Finalise Divorce 6 Years After Separation

Channing Tatum And Jenna Dewan Finalise Divorce 6 Years After Separation

New Delhi: Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan have finalised their divorce, six years after calling it quits. According to a report in People, both have waived spousal support, avoiding a trial that was scheduled for December. The ex-couple separated in 2018 after nearly nine years of marriage, with Jenna filing for divorce in October of that year. The couple met while filming Step Up in 2006 and got engaged two years later. They married in Malibu in 2009 and welcomed their daughter, Everly, in 2013. ICYDK, the divorce proceedings involved disputes over profits from the Magic Mike franchise, which began...

Sobhita Dhulipala Shares BTS Pic, Says “Gonna Tell My Kids These Were THE AVENGERS.

Sobhita Dhulipala Shares BTS Pic, Says “Gonna Tell My Kids These Were THE AVENGERS.

New Delhi: On September 30, Mani Ratnam’s magnum opus period drama Ponniyin Selvan: I featuring Vikram and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan marked its second anniversary. Actor Sobhita Dhulipala shared a picture with the entire cast on her Instagram, treating fans with the never-seen-before photo. The Tamil action film was also co-written by Mani Ratnam, along with Elango Kumaravel and B. Jeyamohan. The film was a blockbuster that broke box-office records. To mark the second anniversary, the cast of the movie got together and fans were delighted. The picture captures Vikram, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Sobhita, Trisha Krishnan and others posing together. Sobhita...

Psychological Drama Heralds The Arrival Of Ishana Night Shyamalan

Psychological Drama Heralds The Arrival Of Ishana Night Shyamalan

In her directorial debut, Ishana Night Shyamalan crafts a cinematic confluence of Irish folkloric horror and psychological drama. She overlays what emerges from that combination with stylistic norms inherited from her producer-director-screenwriter father whose chequered career has drawn sustenance from unusual conceits and confounding twists. Working with a group of fully clued-in actors who bring an intriguing and contrasting sets of behavioural impulses to the stimuli around them, Ishana Shyamalan conjures up a world reminiscent of the ones audiences have encountered in films such as Signs and The Village, both made over two decades ago. She crafts a dark, eerie...

Ananya Panday On Paparazzi Misrepresenting Her Post-Gym Pics As Breakup Blues, ‘I Hate The Fact…’

Ananya Panday On Paparazzi Misrepresenting Her Post-Gym Pics As Breakup Blues, ‘I Hate The Fact…’

Whether a B-town celeb is at the airport, the gym, or a restaurant, the paparazzi are going to be right there with them snapping away with their cameras. While some celebs, like Ibrahim Ali Khan and Mallika Sherawat are known for having a laugh with the paps, others don’t enjoy the attention quite as much. In fact, Ibrahim’s father, beloved actor, Saif Ali Khan is one of the many stars to voice his annoyance with the paparazzi.  Ananya Panday has now joined the ranks of these stars as she dished on what she disliked about the paparazzi. The Call Me...

Deepika Padukone Can’t Even Wait A Minute For Husband Ranveer Singh To Come Home

Deepika Padukone Can’t Even Wait A Minute For Husband Ranveer Singh To Come Home

New Delhi: Looks like Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone is truly enjoying every moment of motherhood. She recently shared a playful reel on her Instagram stories dedicated to her husband, actor Ranveer Singh. The clip shows her waiting for him at home, beautifully highlighting the warmth and joy of their loving relationship. In the playful video,a little baby runs towards the door and peers out the window with binoculars, perfectly capturing the anticipation of waiting for a loved one. Deepika tagged Ranveer Singh in the post and added a big smiley sticker. The reel was captioned, “Me when my husband tells...

On Navaratri find the Shakti within you

On Navaratri find the Shakti within you

Sikkil Gurucharan, Carnatic vocalist Sikkil Gurucharan. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Several decades ago, as a young boy, when I was asked to sing a kriti for Lakshmi pooja, I sheepishly declared that a school prayer was all I knew, only to be reminded by my teacher that the famous geetham ‘Varaveena’ is on Mahalakshmi. This led me on a path of imbibing the nuances of the lyrics. Students of Carnatic music usually learn a song even before grappling with the concepts of Bhakti and Shakti. The quest still continues, especially when I sing kritis of Muthuswami Dikshitar on Devi,...