TRENDS
A start-up that's all for shehnai-sitar-tabla wedding tunes, and why Indian Classical music has always been wedding chic
Indian Classical Music at weddings is not a thing of the past. A Dubai-headquartered Indian startup is connecting families and musicians to bring the sitar, shehnai, tabla, piano and vocals back into wedding functions.
ENTERTAINMENT
Kakuda review: Riteish Deshmukh rescues fun moments from a grumpy ghost in this horror comedy
Kakuda movie review: Aditya Sarpotdar's latest horror comedy after Munjya and Zombivli is a solid can-watch. Don't expect jump-out-of-your-skin horror or ROFL comedy from the Sonakshi Sinha, Riteish Deshmukh starrer, though. Rating: 3 stars.
TRENDS
How to solve the problem of deepfake pornography? Code Dependent author Madhumita Murgia says regulation is key
'Code Dependent' author Madhumita Murgia explains that regulation will have to be a big part of how we respond to deepfake photos and videos globally. Plus, the responsibility must be shared between governments and tech companies - with the latter holding much of the data, infrastructure and knowhow around AI systems.
ENTERTAINMENT
Bollywood classic Chaudhvin ka Chand review: Re-watching Guru Dutt movies on OTT in 2024
Legendary filmmaker Guru Dutt special | As auteur Guru Dutt's centenary year begins, a look back at one of his most commercially successful films - Chaudhvin Ka Chand - which is streaming on Prime Video India.
ENTERTAINMENT
Netflix's The Imaginary review: Beautifully mounted Japanese anime for children, and grown-ups
Japanese anime The Imaginary review: Studio Ponoc's The Imaginary on Netflix renders entire worlds from the imaginations of children - both the beautiful and boundless as well as the fearsome.
ENTERTAINMENT
Mirzapur 3 ending explained: Post-credits scene, and how Kaleen Bhaiya, Guddu Pandit, Gajgamini Golu Gupta hurtle towards an explosive end
Mirzapur Season 3 ending and post-credits scene: Mirzapur 3 ends with murder, mayhem, and an important realisation. Don't miss the post-credits scene - it hints once again that the future Baahubalis of Purvanchal could indeed be the women.
TRENDS
How the Madras Movement redefined modern Indian art
Madras Modern: Regionalism and Identity, an exhibition at the DAG (previously Delhi Art Gallery) in central Delhi, revisits the works of modern masters from KCS Paniker and J Sultan Ali to SG Vasudev, RB Bhaskaran, C. Douglas and K. Muralidharan who engaged with questions like what is modern Indian art and what it should and shouldn't look like.
ENTERTAINMENT
'People find India very fascinating': Goodness Gracious Me actress Nina Wadia
Goodness Gracious Me and East Enders actor Nina Wadia on playing Mother Fate in Sandman 2 on Netflix and voicing 'The Grand Indian Hotel' documentary on BBC Player on Prime Video Channels.
TRENDS
Myth of Mughlai, tyranny of tandoor & curse of curry are a blight on Indian food history: Pushpesh Pant
One of India's foremost food critics, Pushpesh Pant explains why there's no such thing as a traditional Moradabadi biryani, which is better - pulao or biryani, how Mughlai food was a post-Mughal invention in India, what delicious things vegetarians cook up and eat across the country and how Indian food is like Indian languages.
ENTERTAINMENT
'Rautu Ka Raaz' review: Nawazuddin Siddiqui finds the perfect partner-in-crime-solving in actor Rajesh Kumar
Rautu Ka Raaz movie review: Nawazuddin Siddiqui plays a sleepless inspector in a sleepy town in 'Rautu Ka Raaz'. His performance in the Zee5 movie is one of the reasons to watch the film on OTT. Other reasons include its portrayals of police and disabled people on screen.
ENTERTAINMENT
Sharmajee Ki Beti movie review: Tahira Kashyap Khurrana's directorial debut is a feel-good ode to girlhood
Sharmajee Ki Beti review: Finally, an ode to girlhood and Indian women's aspirations that doesn't feel weighed down by its message. Tahira Kashyap Khurrana's debut film as a Bollywood director is a must-watch.
TRENDS
Arvind Panagariya: 'Galwan Valley incident persuaded me that China could no longer be fully trusted as a trading partner'
Economist Arvind Panagariya in an exclusive interview to Moneycontrol explains why liberalization of imports will bring net benefit to India, why and how India should revise its trade relationship with China, and why FTAs with the UK and EU are so important.
TRENDS
Book review: Mumbai writer's second Independence era novel is funny and fast-paced
What to read: Set amid India's independence movement, Parashar Kulkarni's 'Darako' explores themes that feel timeless. Despite the weighty subjects, the writing stays light-footed, fast-paced and non-judgemental.
ENTERTAINMENT
Maharaj review: Aamir Khan's son Junaid Khan's Bollywood debut film makes a splash, but for the wrong reasons
What to watch on Netflix: The Gujarat High Court cleared Maharaj for release on June 21. Ironically, the Maharaj controversy is one of two major reasons to watch the film.
ENTERTAINMENT
Kota Factory 3 Review: Jeetu Bhaiya's satya, peak pressure to crack IIT-JEE make Season 3 of 'Kota Factory' gloomier
Kota Factory 3 focuses as much on the teachers—played wonderfully by Jitendra Kumar, Tillotama Shome and Rajesh Kumar—as students Vaibhav, Meena, Uday and others. As IIT-JEE exams approach and the pressure mounts, the original background score by Arpit Mehta and Simran Hora amps up the tension.
ENTERTAINMENT
Interview | How select Berlinale Shorts made it into the Mumbai International Film Festival 2024 programme
Mumbai International Film Festival from June 15-21 is screening 12 short films handpicked from the last five years of the Berlin International Film Festival. Berlinale Shorts curator Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck on how she made the selection for MIFF 2024, and what to watch.
ENTERTAINMENT
MIFF 2024: First-ever Documentary Bazaar, must-see films, special packages and masterclasses at 18th Mumbai International Film Festival
MIFF film festival: Don't miss the retrospective of Jiri Trnka, 'Alien': a documentary about America's H1-B visa and Indian immigrants in the US, and masterclasses at the Mumbai film festival.
ENTERTAINMENT
Bollywood actor Sanjay Kapoor: 'Entertainment doesn't mean naach gana only'
Sanjay Kapoor on being part of a family of producers and actor including brothers Boney Kapoor and Anil Kapoor, doing OTT projects from Murder Mubarak to House of Lies, and working with heroines like Madhuri Dixit Nene, Manisha Koirala and Karisma Kapoor again.
LIFESTYLE
Titan Co managing director: People become used to higher gold prices
Titan MD CK Venkataram on his new book, The Tanishq Story; the mistakes Tanishq made when it launched in the 1990s; designing jewellery at a time when gold prices are skyrocketing; and his tips for Gen Z and Alpha generation workers.
ENTERTAINMENT
Best Netflix romantic comedies starring Glen Powell: Richard Linklater's Hit Man and Anyone But You
Best romantic comedy movies starring Glen Powell, on Netflix: 'Hit Man' on Netflix is inspired by a true story about a fake assassin and 'Anyone But You' is an inspiring story about leaning into what feels right in love and life. Reasons to sign up for a Glen Powell double bill on Netflix this weekend.
ENTERTAINMENT
Gullak Season 4 ending explained: Aman Mishra writes a love letter, Anand Mishra shines at work & Santosh and Shanti Mishra get free Goa tickets
Gullak Season 4 sees the Mishra family bond getting stronger after a major fight in the last episode, after which Aman threatens to leave, Santosh is worried sick, Anand has to drive around for two hours after a long day at work and Shanti is trying to keep it all together.
ENTERTAINMENT
Sanjay Kapoor's 'House of Lies' film on Zee5: Crypto coins & a whodunnit where the butler did it, sort of
Free-to-stream film House of Lies is a murder mystery in the vein of Agatha Christie stories that unfold largely through conversations between an investigator and the murder suspects, usually in a gorgeous but remote location.
ENTERTAINMENT
Panchayat Season 3: Abhishek and Rinki's slowburn romance, a white horse, Banrakas Bhushan's new schemes, gun violence and approaching elections
Panchayat Season 3 feels like an elaborate set-up for elections in Panchayat Season 4. Violence escalates quickly as MLA Chandrakishore Singh's inflated sense of self deepens his conflict with Phulera. On the other hand, love grows slowly as Rinki and Abhishek negotiate what's proper and what is not in this minefield of feelings vs parental and official expectations.
ENTERTAINMENT
Jennifer Lopez's 'Atlas' on Netflix engages with the biggest AI debates of today
Netflix's 'Atlas' film review: Jennifer Lopez saves the world and makes an AI friend in this family entertainer with an intelligent core, but don't expect new ideas or mind-blowing execution from this small yet competent sci-fi drama.
