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  • NTR Centenary | How NT Rama Rao, a common man became Telugu superstar & state CM May 28, 2023 03:37 PM IST

    NTR Centenary | How NT Rama Rao, a common man became Telugu superstar & state CM

    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.

  • New seasons of 14 OTT shows to look forward to May 28, 2023 01:59 PM IST

    New seasons of 14 OTT shows to look forward to

    The remaining half of 2023 and next year will see the return of some highly-anticipated shows.

  • Manav Kaul: ‘I write women characters because I really want to meet these women’ May 27, 2023 01:54 PM IST

    Manav Kaul: ‘I write women characters because I really want to meet these women’

    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.

  • Sunny Leone at Cannes 2023: ‘It’s shocking to have feedback where there was silence before’ May 27, 2023 06:11 PM IST

    Sunny Leone at Cannes 2023: ‘It’s shocking to have feedback where there was silence before’

    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.

  • Cannes 2023 | Director Kanu Behl on ‘Agra’: ‘All physical spaces affect sexuality’ May 27, 2023 12:14 PM IST

    Cannes 2023 | Director Kanu Behl on ‘Agra’: ‘All physical spaces affect sexuality’

    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.

  • ‘Scoop’ actor Karishma Tanna: ‘I shadowed a crime journalist to understand body language’ May 27, 2023 10:35 AM IST

    ‘Scoop’ actor Karishma Tanna: ‘I shadowed a crime journalist to understand body language’

    ‘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 on ‘Tu Hai’ tour: ‘We are a band that is best experienced live’ May 27, 2023 10:11 AM IST

    Indian Ocean on ‘Tu Hai’ tour: ‘We are a band that is best experienced live’

    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.

  • Pre-Historic Planet 2 series review: Bye, bye Jurassic Park May 27, 2023 09:05 AM IST

    Pre-Historic Planet 2 series review: Bye, bye Jurassic Park

    How Apple TV’s series 'Pre-Historic Planet 2' redefines the nature documentary, dino dramas and our imagination of the mighty raptor.

  • Satori-5, world’s first AI filmmaker at the 76th Cannes Film Festival May 27, 2023 08:25 AM IST

    Satori-5, world’s first AI filmmaker at the 76th Cannes Film Festival

    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.

  • Wonderla to scale up investments by 4X, plans to add new rides, & a resort in Hyderabad May 26, 2023 04:01 PM IST

    Wonderla to scale up investments by 4X, plans to add new rides, & a resort in Hyderabad

    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: JioCinema breaks record with over 1,500 crore video views in first seven weeks May 26, 2023 03:56 PM IST

    IPL 2023: JioCinema breaks record with over 1,500 crore video views in first seven weeks

    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.

  • Matters remotely connected with company have been addressed, Zee says on Sony merger May 26, 2023 06:06 AM IST

    Matters remotely connected with company have been addressed, Zee says on Sony merger

    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.

  • CNN-News18 emerges top channel in English news genre on Karnataka election counting day May 25, 2023 05:39 PM IST

    CNN-News18 emerges top channel in English news genre on Karnataka election counting day

    According to the BARC data, CNN-News18 beat Republic TV, Times Now and other competitors in the segment.

  • With the biggest cricket stadium as home ground, Gujarat Titans sees high ticket revenues May 25, 2023 09:17 AM IST

    With the biggest cricket stadium as home ground, Gujarat Titans sees high ticket revenues

    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.

  • Dish TV India proposes Manoj Dobhal as CEO after Anil Dua's resignation May 23, 2023 08:25 PM IST

    Dish TV India proposes Manoj Dobhal as CEO after Anil Dua's resignation

    The current CEO, Anil Dua's resignation will be effective from the close of business hours on August 22, 2023.

  • Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai review: Manoj Bajpayee is magnificent in this raw, harrowing tale of justice May 22, 2023 02:48 PM IST

    Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai review: Manoj Bajpayee is magnificent in this raw, harrowing tale of justice

    Director Apoorv Singh Karki tells a David and Goliath story simply and well. It streams on Zee5 from May 23.

  • The rise of Manipur, women, cinema: Ishanou & documentary on Aribam Syam Sharma at Cannes 2023 May 22, 2023 06:20 PM IST

    The rise of Manipur, women, cinema: Ishanou & documentary on Aribam Syam Sharma at Cannes 2023

    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.

  • Who is Souleymane Cissé, awarded Carrosse d’Or at Cannes Film Festival 2023? May 21, 2023 09:27 PM IST

    Who is Souleymane Cissé, awarded Carrosse d’Or at Cannes Film Festival 2023?

    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.

  • Telugu director Nandini Reddy: ‘I don’t know how ready audiences are to watch women-centric films in theatres’ May 21, 2023 04:14 PM IST

    Telugu director Nandini Reddy: ‘I don’t know how ready audiences are to watch women-centric films in theatres’

    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.

  • 76th Cannes Film Festival: How Liv Ullmann became documentary filmmaker Dheeraj Akolkar’s muse May 21, 2023 02:19 PM IST

    76th Cannes Film Festival: How Liv Ullmann became documentary filmmaker Dheeraj Akolkar’s muse

    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

  • City of Dreams season 3 | Sachin Pilgaonkar: ‘Nagesh Kukunoor is an actor’s director’ May 21, 2023 11:33 AM IST

    City of Dreams season 3 | Sachin Pilgaonkar: ‘Nagesh Kukunoor is an actor’s director’

    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.

  • Cannes Film Festival 2023: Youth is the focus of cinematic gaze at the world May 20, 2023 12:39 PM IST

    Cannes Film Festival 2023: Youth is the focus of cinematic gaze at the world

    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.

  • Zee5 lines up more content for 2023 with over 100 titles, up from 90 last year May 19, 2023 09:02 PM IST

    Zee5 lines up more content for 2023 with over 100 titles, up from 90 last year

    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.

  • Cannes Film Festival 2023: Hollywood veteran Michael Douglas receives Palme d'Or, invitation to IFFI at India Pavilion May 21, 2023 02:56 PM IST

    Cannes Film Festival 2023: Hollywood veteran Michael Douglas receives Palme d'Or, invitation to IFFI at India Pavilion

    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.

  • Manipur’s culture takes centre stage with Aribam Syam Sharma’s ‘Ishanou’ at 76th Cannes Film Festival May 19, 2023 08:29 PM IST

    Manipur’s culture takes centre stage with Aribam Syam Sharma’s ‘Ishanou’ at 76th Cannes Film Festival

    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.