MUSIC-ENTERTAINMENT
Punjabi pop singer Aastha Gill: ‘Don’t ask me to make content’
MC Exclusive: Aastha Gill talks about her new single 'Nazar', her idol Sunidhi Chauhan, Auto-Tune, bro-zoning Badshah and Raftaar, going solo, judging music show with Amit Trivedi and whether Punjabi female singers get gang threats
ENTERTAINMENT
Thalaivettiyaan Paalayam Review: This superb Tamil remake of Panchayat is a subversive revisit to the rural utopia
Thalaivettiyaan Paalayam web series review: The Viral Fever (TVF) produced and Naga directed Tamil remake of the very popular 'Panchayat' Amazon Prime Video series, stays faithful to the original with subversive tweaks, and stars standup comic Abishek Kumar in the lead role of the panchayat secretary.
ENTERTAINMENT
Sajitha Madathil: ‘I thought only young women got inappropriate requests in the film industry until it happened to me’
Malayalam actress and playwright and Women in Cinema Collective co-founding member Sajitha Madathil, who's held official positions in Sangeet Natak Academy and Kerala Chalachitra Academy, talks about the Hema Committee report's impact, her own experiences in the film industry, and the Cinema Code of Conduct.
MOVIES
TIFF 2024 | Lakshmipriya Devi: ‘My film Boong is the last documentation of the unity Manipur had’
2024 Toronto International Film Festival: Bollywood assistant director Lakshmipriya Devi, from Manipur, talks at the world premiere of her debut film as a director, 'Boong', about how a Kuki-Zo boy plays the Meitei lead and how her film will be the last document of Manipuri society before ethnic violence gripped and changed it.
ENTERTAINMENT
Mumbai has a date with Oscar awardee Giuseppe Tornatore at a festival of Italian classics
Mumbai's Regal Cinema will witness a three-day Italian film festival, from September 27-29, where the 'Cinema Paradiso' director will be present to give an award, followed by a retrospective of his classic films, and cult movies of other Italian legends, including Federico Fellini, Vittorio de Sica, Sergio Leone and Luchino Visconti.
LIFESTYLE
Delhi Contemporary Art Week: Young South Asian artists tell stories of home, weave memories in textile
The seventh edition of Delhi Contemporary Art Week at Bikaner House sees the coming together of six leading galleries of Delhi, showcasing over 100 artistes from India and neighbouring countries.
ENTERTAINMENT
MC Exclusive | Azmeri Haque Badhon: ‘Sheikh Hasina pushed Bangladeshi people away from Bangabandhu’
Moneycontrol gets to the heart of the student agitation that rocked Dhaka through the eyes of Azmeri Haque Badhon, who was the first Bangladeshi actress to walk Cannes red carpet with an officially selected film and who acted in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Bollywood film 'Khufiya'.
LIFESTYLE
MC Exclusive | Raghavendra Rathore Jodhpur turns 30: ‘Diljit Dosanjh allows us to explore new dimensions in fashion, connect with Gen Z’
In an exclusive interview, fashion designer Raghavendra Rathore talks about his roots, his label turning 30 years old this year, the enduring legacy of the bandhgala, dressing up global icons and guests at Anant-Radhika Ambani wedding, marrying technology with fashion, what's in-vogue and how men can revamp their wardrobes.
ENTERTAINMENT
Malayalam film industry double whammy: Siddique quits AMMA, Ranjith quits Kerala Chalachitra Academy amid sexual abuse claims, after Hema committee report release
Justice Hema committee impact: Two big, powerful names in the Malayalam film industry quit Kerala's film bodies. Senior actor Siddique stepped down as the General Secretary of Association of Malayalam Movie Artists and veteran director Ranjith resigned as the chairman of Kerala Chalachitra Academy, as sexual harassment accusations against them gain steam.
ENTERTAINMENT
25 years of Kriti Film Club: How the non-profit made Delhi watch documentary movies
Kriti Film Club Silver Jubilee: Kriti Film Club, part of non-profit Kriti development praxis and communication, founded by Aanchal Kapur, uses documentary films to engage 'the unconverted' in conversations of social change. To celebrate its 25-year journey, despite no funds, the club is organising monthly screenings and workshops.
ENTERTAINMENT
Uorfi Javed’s Follow Kar Lo Yaar Review: A wannabe Kardashian in a tedious reality show
Follow Kar Lo Yaar web series Review: Uorfi Javed’s nine-episode docu series, an appeal for more followers, that streams on Prime Video, took her brief way too seriously, in making her show look and feel just like 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians'.
ENTERTAINMENT
Salim-Javed’s Angry Young Men Review: Diplomatic Salman Khan & frank Honey Irani in a wholesome not holistic documentary
Angry Young Men Review: Salman Khan Productions, Excel Media Entertainment, Tiger Baby produced three-part Salim-Javed docu-series, on Prime Video, covers the duo's rise to the top, delivering 22 (of 24) blockbusters, and fall. They were the stars, they were the brats.
ENTERTAINMENT
Aattam Movie Review: Anand Ekarshi’s National Award winner is an unapologetic stare at male hypocrisy
National Film Awards Aattam Review: Rarely does an Indian film, made by a man for other men, centre the muting of a survivor. Anand Ekarshi's debut Malayalam independent film is that rare gem.
ENTERTAINMENT
Why National Award for Aattam and Justice Hema committee report’s release are silver lining in our dark times
70th National Film Awards: Anand Ekarshi’s debut Malayalam indie 'Aattam: The Play' won three National Awards as the Justice Hema committee report, on women’s working conditions in Malayalam film industry, released to reveal dark, ugly truths of the Malayalam film industry.
ENTERTAINMENT
Manorathangal Review: Fahadh Faasil talks to a cat; the Mammootty, Mohanlal and Parvathy starrer MT Vasudevan anthology has more misses than hits
Manorathangal Zee5 Anthology Review: The highly anticipated 'Manorathangal' features the best of creative talents in Malayalam film industry, prominent filmmakers, actors, technicians and actor Kamal Haasan introduces the nine stories of the anthology, based on the stories written by MT Vasudevan Nair, an epitome of Malayalam literature.
ENTERTAINMENT
Stree 2 Review: Shraddha Kapoor and Rajkummar Rao’s ghostbusters are back and how; a terrific franchise is born
Stree 2 Sarkate Ka Aatank horror comedy review: A new demon is in town. Stree 2, from India's MCU, aka Maddock Supernatural Universe, released in theatres on August 14, is poised to be a superhit, and carries the first film's charms, with surprise cameos, and a gaffe.
ENTERTAINMENT
Thangalaan actor Daniel Caltagirone: ‘India has still got cinema whereas we’ve lost cinema in the West’
British actor Daniel Caltagirone, whose Tamil debut 'Thangalaan' releases on August 15, on 'India's Spike Lee' Pa. Ranjith, on Roman Polanski the artist vs person, SS Rajamouli's 'RRR' changing West's image of Indian cinema and how streaming killed films in the West.
LIFESTYLE
Rana Safvi: ‘When narrative and popular history is written, misinformation reduces’
The historian-novelist on her debut fiction novel ‘A Firestorm in Paradise’ on Bahadur Shah Zafar’s Delhi and the 1857 uprising, how Shahjahanabad was not Purani Delhi, and inaccuracies in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Heeramandi’
ENTERTAINMENT
Ulajh Review: Gulshan Devaiah shadows Janhvi Kapoor in this dull spy thriller that takes a dig at nepotism
Ulajh spy thriller review: Sudhanshu Saria's political thriller on diplomatic missions, which released in theatres on Friday, also starring Roshan Mathew, Meiyang Chang and Rajesh Tailang, shows that saving the nation can be done minus the jingoism, but, true to its title, the film's writing is confused.
ENTERTAINMENT
Christo Tomy: Even after I said Urvashi and Parvathy lead Ullozhukku, I’d still be asked ‘but who is the male star?’
Malayalam director Christo Tomy, known for Netflix true crime docu 'Curry and Cyanide', talks about shooting 'Ullozhukku' in a makeshift flood, bringing Urvashi and Parvathy together on the big screen for the first time, and why it is difficult to mount female-led films.
LIFESTYLE
Jayasri Burman: ‘I won’t paint a lehenga after Radhika Ambani’s, I won’t be able to reproduce a second like that’
Painter and sculptor Jayasri Burman talks about hand painting Radhika Merchant's Shubh Aashirwad lehenga, her student days at Santiniketan’s Kala Bhavan, feminist iconography in her work, and artist FN Souza in his birth centenary year.
ENTERTAINMENT
Remembering Uttam Kumar: 12 must-watch Bengali films of Bengal’s superstar
On Uttam Kumar’s 44th death anniversary today, here is a list of films of Bengal’s matinee idol, aka Mahanayak, that you cannot afford to miss.
ENTERTAINMENT
Meet Rohit Gupta whom AR Rahman called to make a film on Nagaland's music, now set for world premiere
AR Rahman produced 'Headhunting to Beatboxing', a musical documentary on Nagaland directed by 'The Creative Indians' co-maker Rohit Gupta and announced at Cannes Film Festival will premiere at Indian Film Festival of Melbourne in August.
MOVIES
‘Chinatown’ at 50: Did Roman Polanski-Robert Towne’s cult movie influence these Indian films?
Chinatown turns 50: Screenwriter Robert Towne, who won the watershed film's only Oscar, passed away this month. There are echoes of 'Chinatown' in 'Manorama Six Feet Under', 'Raat Akeli Hai' and 'Pune 52' but not all the makers agree.
