In carving his own professional journey, the legendary NT Rama Rao, the late actor and Andhra Pradesh chief minister, who'd have turned 100 today, touched many lives and remains a force to reckon with. Here's a look at his life, family, politics and 18 career-best films.
The remaining half of 2023 and next year will see the return of some highly-anticipated shows.
Manav Kaul’s new Hindi play by Aranya Theatre, titled 'Tumhare Baare Mein' premieres at Mumbai's National Centre for the Performing Arts this weekend.
Actor Sunny Leone’s Charlie laughs her way into Indian cinema lore with her transitionary role in Anurag Kashyap's neo-noir thriller, ‘Kennedy’, starring Rahul Bhat in titular role.
Co-producer Siddharth Anand Kumar ascribes ‘Agra’, which premiered this week in Director’s Fortnight, to writer-director Kanu Behl’s vision and courage to tell a story yet untold, and viewed by ‘cinema-educated’ audience at the 76th Cannes Film Festival.
‘Scam’-director Hansal Mehta returns with ‘Scoop’, a family drama amid a police-crime-journalist nexus show, releasing on June 2 on Netflix, and says he’s developed greater empathy for reporters and journalists who are often trivialised, demonised.
Indian Ocean band's guitarist Nikhil Rao, an engineer turned musician, spoke about what took the band almost a decade to come up with their eighth album ‘Tu Hai’, their work in film music, and the importance of live performances.
How Apple TV’s series 'Pre-Historic Planet 2' redefines the nature documentary, dino dramas and our imagination of the mighty raptor.
Satori-5, brainchild of Quinn Halleck, opens the door for AI in filmmaking, new possibilities for content creation, production and exhibition in the global entertainment industry.
With footfalls growing 1.6 times post-Covid, the company has seen strong revenue growth and plans to add two new parks, in Chennai and Odisha. These should be operational in about a couple of years.
IPL 2023 has surpassed the previous IPL record of 18.7 million viewers set in 2019. More than 13 matches this season have exceeded the peak concurrency benchmark of 18 million.
Punit Goenka, ZEE CEO, mentioned that the team is taking all necessary steps within the boundaries of the law to ensure there are no further hindrances in the merger approval.
According to the BARC data, CNN-News18 beat Republic TV, Times Now and other competitors in the segment.
With the home and away format making a comeback after three years and the franchise this year playing more than seven home matches at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad with a capacity of over 1,30,000, the team is recording high ticket sales.
The current CEO, Anil Dua's resignation will be effective from the close of business hours on August 22, 2023.
Director Apoorv Singh Karki tells a David and Goliath story simply and well. It streams on Zee5 from May 23.
Joshy Joseph’s non-fiction film ‘Laparoscopic Cinemascapes’ was a companion piece to Aribam Syam Sharma’s classic ‘Ishanou’, which returned to the Cannes Film Festival, and spotlights Meitei culture.
Malian director Souleymane Cissé, one of Africa’s boldest and most pioneering auteurs, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest African filmmakers of all time, was conferred this year’s Carrosse d’Or (the Golden Coach) award at the 76th Cannes Film Festival.
BV Nandini Reddy talks about her latest film 'Anni Manchi Sakunamule', making family dramas, and being a female director in the male-dominant Telugu film industry.
Pune-born director Dheeraj Akolkar's new documentary film, 'Liv Ullmann — A Road Less Travelled', premiered in Cannes Classics, at the 76th Cannes film festival
Nagesh Kukunoor's renewed series 'City of Dreams' returns for a third season on Disney+ Hotstar. A freewheeling conversation with the show's actors Sachin Pilgaonkar, Priya Bapat and Eijaz Khan.
Pedro Almodovar's second English language film, Kore-eda Hirokazu's new movie, Wim Wenders' portrait of an artist and Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Kurdish drama garner attention in the opening week of the 76th Cannes film festival.
While platforms like Zee5 are scaling up their content portfolio, experts note that the next 6-12 months are critical for the over the top platform (OTT) sector as platforms strive to balance monetization and profitability against content investment.
Hollywood veteran Michael Douglas, on Thursday, visited the India Pavilion at the ongoing Cannes Film Festival where he was felicitated and invited to the 54th International Film Festival of India, to be held during November 20-28 in Goa.
Aribam Syam Sharma’s ‘Ishanou’, written by Northeast’s literary stalwart MK Binodini Devi, returned to Cannes after 32 years as a world classic, screened on May 19, turning the spotlight to culturally evolved Manipur and its writers and artistes.